zombies are pathetic

[CPTANT]

Stunned with one hit
No extra health
extra damage from lasers(?)
Can be cuffed
slow as fuck
regen is horribly slow
mediocre damage
can't use items
Can't kill doors because they shock themselves when the door starts to give.
hurt by shards on the ground

Seriously, how could they suck even more, every security officer with a laser can take out 5 zombies. In the past they were at least somewhat resilient.

They should be at least stun immune and get 1.5 times as much health and regen.

[CPTANT]

I say:

Shard immune
shock immune
stun immune
1.5 times as much health
3 times as much regen.

[wesoda25]

zombies are very far from pathetic

[Ayy Lemoh]

If a zombie starts hitting you in melee and slows you down at all then you're basically dead.

They're fine as they are and aren't meant to be one man armies anyways. They should be in hordes, not 1v1ing.

[CPTANT]

If a zombie starts hitting you in melee and slows you down at all then you're basically dead.

Only if you are unarmed. Any decent melee weapon beats the zombie anyway.

They're fine as they are and aren't meant to be one man armies anyways. They should be in hordes, not 1v1ing.

If a single assistant with a stunprod can incapacity a zombie by hitting them once something is seriously wrong.

zombies are very far from pathetic

Zombies slipping on glass or getting or being unable to break down a door is pretty pathetic. These are thing that don't directly impact their combat strength, these are things that just break the immersion of playing a zombie. The regen is also so pathetic, it isn't even supposed to be a tactical advantage it just takes minutes to heal from a single door shock.

[Dr_bee]

they can easily break down doors, one hit implants a toxin dot that requires surgery to remove, and they have pretty massive health regen. zombies arent supposed to take out people 1v1, they are about attrition and numbers, but even then they have more than enough going for them to be a threat.

[CPTANT]

pretty massive health regen.

This is just a lie, the health regen is minimal. They regen a whopping ONE damage per tick and only if not recently damaged.

they can easily break down doors

No they get shocked as soon as the door takes damage.

[Ayy Lemoh]

If a single assistant with a stunprod can incapacity a zombie by hitting them once something is seriously wrong.

You may have points for everything else however that is not a valid point against someone arguing that a zombie should not win a 1v1. If an assistant can stun a zombie in a 1v1 then that seems normal.

Of course, you are able to stun multiple people obviously, but I feel like multiple zombies would gank the person or not be easily able to just get ganked.

[Kryson]

I did romerol today and we had like half of the zombies go braindead or become friendly and beg for deconversion. The round still ended with a kind of zombie apocalypse after much killing of surviving crew and resurrection of zombies.

Another annoying thing is that zombies can be instantly deconverted with any mutation toxin, they are sadly incredibly easy to manage if the crew are at all competent.

If zombies were stronger i bet people wouldn't ghost or get deconverted so often, they do need some love.

[NoxVS]

It should also be noted stun duration is much lower for zombies. A stun can only stop them long enough to get away, you are unable to kill them in the stun duration. I’m pretty sure by the time you even switch hands they are about to get back up

[terranaut]

I did romerol today and we had like half of the zombies go braindead or become friendly and beg for deconversion.

fucking mega gay

[Tlaltecuhtli]

dont play on stbill or terry then

[teepeepee]

these zombies you complain about sound like hugbox server players, just come to bagil where we play zombies like you're supposed to, hitting everyone on sight once to spread infection and convert before they can all get surgery

[Taylork2]

these zombies you complain about sound like hugbox server players, just come to bagil where we play zombies like you're supposed to, hitting everyone on sight once to spread infection and convert before they can all get surgery

The real big brain plays is to get taken into surgery as a zombie then infect/kill the surgeons, deconverted zombies, and everyone you can.

[CPTANT]

these zombies you complain about sound like hugbox server players, just come to bagil where we play zombies like you're supposed to, hitting everyone on sight once to spread infection and convert before they can all get surgery

The real big brain plays is to get taken into surgery as a zombie then infect/kill the surgeons, deconverted zombies, and everyone you can.

The surgeon has a saw, he will beat you.

[Ayy Lemoh]

these zombies you complain about sound like hugbox server players, just come to bagil where we play zombies like you're supposed to, hitting everyone on sight once to spread infection and convert before they can all get surgery

The real big brain plays is to get taken into surgery as a zombie then infect/kill the surgeons, deconverted zombies, and everyone you can.

The surgeon has a saw, he will beat you.

Not every surgeon will carry a circular saw in their offhand while using a surgery tool in the other. Some will take a bit longer which the zombie will then easily win assuming he hit the surgeon enough times for slowdown.

[teepeepee]

doesn't matter if you die, you have just infected as many people as you have hit
if they're at least three there won'be enough time for them all to get surgery

[Karp]

zombies used to be immune to tasers stuns and slips, they used to be faster with less hp, they used to have one working hand they could use to stun baton people with, and they used to do more damage as well at one point? The current zombies are literally a result of balancing zombies to not be fucking awful to deal with

[knacker48]

Does turning people into monkeys and back still fix the zombie infection?

[CPTANT]

zombies used to be immune to tasers stuns and slips, they used to be faster with less hp, they used to have one working hand they could use to stun baton people with, and they used to do more damage as well at one point? The current zombies are literally a result of balancing zombies to not be fucking awful to deal with

And it is a classic example of overshooting the goal.

Implementing the changes I suggested leaves them far far less powerful then that. In the past they regenerated so much health that they were almost impossible to kill with melee weapons.

[NoxVS]

Zombies are fine mechanically. We just need to make it so you actually have to act like a zombie though. I often see zombies being friendly which completely ruins the whole point of zombie infestations.

[Shadowflame909]

How to fix zombies. Remove their tongues and make "Brains" intelligible somehow anyways. Snowflake it.

Then we remove their ability to use ME entirely. Get rekt nerds

[Kryson]

Romerol is still fun, but it really feels like a gamble.

The problems i think should be dressed:

1. soybies that in best case ghost or in the worst case beg for deconversion.
2. Even a tiny amount of mutation toxin can instantly deconvert all the zombies.

The problems i just like to whine about.

3. Half the games you buy romerol a miner has a fucking spellblade / katana and often some insane hardsuit and just mows all the zombies down.
4. General inability to eat any competent sec officer, i usually solve this by buying a stechkin for my remaing TC and taking care of them myself.

A tip for traitors who have a hard time getting the zombies flowing is retrieving any decapitated zombies and surgically reattaching the heads, this will revive them after some delay.

[oranges]

I don't like the zombie mechanic at all and I think it should be banished to halloween and stay there.

[CPTANT]

I don't like the zombie mechanic at all and I think it should be banished to halloween and stay there.

Or maybe make it a rare random event? I am not a fan of traitors having romerol either.


Still having them be so weak doesn't really make it any less shit, it makes playing as a zombie very unrewarding just as fighting them.

[Kryson]

I don't like the zombie mechanic at all and I think it should be banished to halloween and stay there.

Have you ever bought the current version of romerol? It is great fun.

[Taylork2]

I don't like the zombie mechanic at all and I think it should be banished to halloween and stay there.

Have you ever bought the current version of romerol? It is great fun.

Well, being killed then romeroled is usually more fun than the equivalent of being stunned, cuffed, looted, then spaced or incinerated. So I think it's existence does make the game better.

[Dr_bee]

I don't like the zombie mechanic at all and I think it should be banished to halloween and stay there.

Have you ever bought the current version of romerol? It is great fun.

Well, being killed then romeroled is usually more fun than the equivalent of being stunned, cuffed, looted, then spaced or incinerated. So I think it's existence does make the game better.

I think the addition of the toxin damage tumor, while nice for making things like a zombie movie, actually made zombies worse.

Half the fun of romerol originally was infecting everyone stealthly so when the first person dies you get an outbreak.

[Kryson]

I don't like the zombie mechanic at all and I think it should be banished to halloween and stay there.

Have you ever bought the current version of romerol? It is great fun.

Well, being killed then romeroled is usually more fun than the equivalent of being stunned, cuffed, looted, then spaced or incinerated. So I think it's existence does make the game better.

I think the addition of the toxin damage tumor, while nice for making things like a zombie movie, actually made zombies worse.

Half the fun of romerol originally was infecting everyone stealthly so when the first person dies you get an outbreak.

The tumour you get from consuming romerol is still quiet so this still happens during quiet traitor rounds.