Zombies should occasionally carry items.

yobuddd

Not all the time, but sometimes Zombies should spawn with items in their hands.

• Smash a zombie with a pallet to make it drop the item.
• If Nemesis kills the zombie, the item is destroyed as well.
• Because the zombies had the items when they became, err, zombified, the items may have add-ons and may also have some of the charges used.

Decision time for survivors: do you take the time to lure a zombie to a pallet, and then waste the pallet, in hopes that he’s carrying a purple beamer?

McFALLENONE

@yobuddd said:

Not all the time, but sometimes Zombies should spawn with items in their hands.

• Smash a zombie with a pallet to make it drop the item.
• If Nemesis kills the zombie, the item is destroyed as well.
• Because the zombies had the items when they became, err, zombified, the items may have add-ons and may also have some of the charges used.

Decision time for survivors: do you take the time to lure a zombie to a pallet, and then waste the pallet, in hopes that he’s carrying a purple beamer?

I can't imagine this would be useful for any side, for killer your risking a chance of spawning another chest, and for survivors wasting a valuable resource such as a pallet is probably not worth it (Not to mention the killer will know where you are.)

yobuddd

@McFALLENONE said:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/269725/zombies-should-occasionally-carry-items

I can't imagine this would be useful for any side, for killer your risking a chance of spawning another chest, and for survivors wasting a valuable resource such as a pallet is probably not worth it (Not to mention the killer will know where you are.)

Exactly!

Both sides have pros and cons.

• Killer can whip a zombie which denies survivors an item AND increases his power, but he loses an otherwise useful zombie for a while.
• Survivors can potentially get nice items, AND know the type of item depending on what they see in the zombie’s hand, but it costs a pallet and makes noise. Might see more people using Any Means Necessary as a result.
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bjorksnas

@yobuddd said:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2395821#Comment_2395821

Exactly!

Both sides have pros and cons.

• Killer can whip a zombie which denies survivors an item AND increases his power, but he loses an otherwise useful zombie for a while.
• Survivors can potentially get nice items, AND know the type of item depending on what they see in the zombie’s hand, but it costs a pallet and makes noise. Might see more people using Any Means Necessary as a result.
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Zombies killed by nemesis have a shortened respawn time of 12 seconds instead of 45 when killed by survivors he doesn't lose out on that zombie for long

AnneBonny

better idea: let the zombies flashbang survivors

Lochnload_exe

I personally think zombies should move much faster and always injure and contaminate, but give you an option to like, take them out. Make it where if you bait a hit, you have a chance to ######### roundhouse them like RE 4

AshInTheTallGrass

@McFALLENONE said:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/269725/zombies-should-occasionally-carry-items

I can't imagine this would be useful for any side, for killer your risking a chance of spawning another chest, and for survivors wasting a valuable resource such as a pallet is probably not worth it (Not to mention the killer will know where you are.)

I agree with this, but I'd like to add that, from a programming standpoint, I don't think this would work. There're already a lot of lag issues when going against Nemesis. The zombies take up a lot of memory and are also very buggy (running into things, getting stuck, etc.). Adding items to them would only make the problem worse. In a different game, that'd be a great idea.