I liked the way State of Decay did it, you rescued survivors and they joined your group, if your character needed to rest/snuffed it, you'd take control of another member of your group.

Could work in on MMO, if you save an AI bot you can take them home and they stand guard until you need them.

BTW if anyone is reading and posting about zombie games without having played State of Decay they need a wood axe to the cranium.

Didn't know that was 360. If it was PS3 I would be tempted.
Edit @sparkly


Agree with G. No stats at all.
You can judge how long people have survived on how well set up they are. Unless they are murdering cunts, but that would be part of the fun.

That should be sorted through gameplay mechanics. Being a dick should end up with you dead, a lot!
It's easy to blame the dickheads online being selfish but most games reward cuntery.

Difficulty.
You make the game near impossible to survive solo.
Remove rewards for being a dick.

So ***NOOBSKILLZ£!&*** spawns and is helped by a commune.
***NOOBSKILLZ£!&*** decides to kill everyone to have all the stuffs.

Firstly make ammunition rare, ***NOOBSKILLZ£!&*** only has ten bullets and 7 people to kill, he best be accurate. If ***NOOBSKILLZ£!&*** trys to use melee weapons on a human he may find it tricky, humans are fast and come to each other's aid.
Power in numbers.

So ***NOOBSKILLZ£!&*** actually did it, he killed everyone. Night is falling and the Zeds are getting agressive.
***NOOBSKILLZ£!&*** can't take off into the night, it is far too dangerous. Zeds are atracted to the light of torches. He runs around and extinguishes all the Commune lamps but a few zeds have already been made aware. The zeds shuffle towards the camp, it's fortified with some fencing and 2x4s but not much.
***NOOBSKILLZ£!&*** trys to track around the camp watching all the vantage points but the night is long, all the running around is making him tired ands weak.
The zeds find a weakness in the fencing and flood in, too tired to fight, too tired to run ***NOOBSKILLZ£!&*** is a sitting duck.

***NOOBSKILLZ£!&*** is dead, no matter he can respawn. ***NOOBSKILLZ£!&*** finds the same commune again. Who instantly to tell him to fuck right off.

Actually, that Urban Dead thing might be on to something, if you snuff it with a bounty or negative karma or some shit then you have a 24 hour cooldown, no more game for you sonny Jim.

These kind of things are solutions to problems. To avoid people getting bored force them to live as a zombie for a set amount of time.
It is all in the details.
The problem with GTAO is they launched a fucking mess of an experience then had to spend all their time working to make it function while people exploited the shit out of it.

I think making the game insanely hard solo would help a lot. No health bar against a Zed, if it bites you, you are dead, no cure, no 6 or 7 bites to get you, it bites game over. Or at least you will be infected and get to look foward to a slow painful death.
Where as in a group you can watch every angle and gang up on zombies that get too close.
Like I suggested, ammo is scarce, individual Zombies are weak against melee due to their inabilty to evade, humans are strong against melee, can fight back, block and parry. A maruading gang of humans will be powerful but take a risk by being out in the open, making lots of noise, not knowing the defenses of any one commune. A mob could in the end just end up delivering a bunch of resource to a well fortified group.

In terms of easing a player in. Days 1-3 could be a training mode, pure PvE but by the morning of day 4 you should have resource and direction enough to ally with someone.

You can allow for roving armies of cunts. That takes organisation, you make that part of the game. Allow people to behave like twats and you can control it by making it a mechanic.

I'm still not convinced you'd get much further than spawn in the middle of nowhere, struggle to survive for an hour, meet human, die, repeat.

Isn't that the major gripe with DayZ?

It's easy. Anyone with a 'zZ' in their name all get sent to a zZ server. So 'zZgamertagZz' gets shunted into a derp server.

pantyfire wrote:

It's easy. Anyone with a 'zZ' in their name all get sent to a zZ server. So 'zZgamertagZz' gets shunted into a derp server.

A rule for all games.

All this talking dead gave me the push to buy DR3.  Then I read this.

Paul the sparky wrote:

BTW if anyone is reading and posting about zombie games without having played State of Decay they need a wood axe to the cranium.

What were the updates?

Ah brilliant. Always annoyed me that you couldn't do that.

I'm quite interested in it, but need to see more.

Anyway, I like zombies and crafting and all that shit, I'll be keeping an eye on it.

I didn't realise Fortnite would be FTP next year. Wait then.