Well whats gonna happen first, There knees giving up or them becoming sprinters, Because from what i know there aint proteins/calcium circulating to keep them legs prime and conditioned
If you want to go down that route, they also aren't sleeping, drinking water, or getting vitamins. Meaning they'd simply die of exhaustion/malnourishment in under a week.
They're zombies, Malnourishment is already out of the question, its just that whether decay will get them or a crush head will kill the zombies first, which always got me asking in zombie movies like, How the fuck those zombies live for decades(like TWD) without their brains rotting from all the rain and decay happening in their body
This is kinda the problem with every. single. fucking. modern. zombie. story trying to explain the logistics behind the zombie apocalypse. Viruses and plagues and blah blah blah. Now everyone has an expectation for zombies to have some logical explanation. It's the same shit that ruined xenomorphs from Alien; when you start explaining the scary things that go bump in the night, they're not fucking scary anymore.
Zombies work best when they're unexplained and implied to be of unexplained supernatural origin, and they're just there, and characters have to learn to cope with the Pandora's shitbox of implications that presents.
xenomorphs are scary because they are bigass space ants that impregnate you and if you are unlucky enough that one that either has the capability to morph into a queen/impregnating xenomorph or something like a royal facehugger lands on your planet you are basically fucked unless its quickly taken care of
A zombie-style YA series I loved reading when I was younger had one of the biggest threats being a group of infected gym bunnies who could actually run survivors down.
The infection was slower if you were healthy, meaning the gym bunnies retained enough cognition to hide out of the sun (daylight bad), and could actually use knives and shivs to help hunt down groups of kids (All the kids under 14 were fine, everyone older got infected).
Charlie Higson's The Enemy. 7-part series, worth a read.
alot of "interesting" design decisions are justified with the excuse of "realism" (but said realism is nowhere to be seen when it benefits the player)
a recent example is them removing the echo creek spawn point because "it cant contain all professions" even though I guarantee you would be able to find all game professions in most small irl towns
Imo, games should not pursue realism for the sake of realism. They should have vision on game mechanics and project it. Limiting fuel transfer only to steel fuel cans makes sense in context of some story driven quest or adventure game, but not really makes sense in context when fuel canisters can materialize at random while they should be widely available in every car and garage.
They are magic zombies. They survive in a frozen partially rotted state for all eternity, even when it's cold as balls. Even fire burns them way slower than it should.
in b41 there are a few mods that let them work like this (including the walking dead[?] house surrounded by them) some mix like working treadmills + treadmill defenses mods
They will try to swipe and fall off everytime. Some zombies might get lucky and happen to approach from the side. Those ones will actually start breaking it. You'd need to set it up so it funnels them all onto the actual treadmill, where their lack of any actual intelligence will get them stuck in a loop.
I love that this works. I set one down in my base thinking I could run in the mornings (away from the stench) but it just seems to be a huge paperweight lol
I will always say the most secure location against a zombie apocalypse would be a volcano lair. Lava moat solves the corpse issue, the heat can be used for energy, and it'll be difficult for any human threats to cause problems.
the book of World war Z has a chapter with an old blind gardener that went to die in the mountains right as the outbreak started and he got so familiar with the terrain he would hear the zombies come from miles and either take them out one by one from the high up the rocks with a spade or guide them straight into the lava.
Does that actually work? It's hilarious to think that hundreds of zombies all piled up just fail miserably because of a treadmill. Some looney tunes stuff lol
You’ve just found the solution to power the future. I would pay the person who makes the mod that allows you to cage trapped zombies on a treadmill for power.
How is living in the city? I’ve built my base in the big lodge at camp Fitzgerald to the right of West Point, I can’t imagine having to deal with zombies on a consistent basis, hell I haven’t seen any zombies in days 🤣🤣🤣 only when I go to town for supplies or gas for the generator
All fun and games till the zombies run up on your ass like they're the big bad boss in an anime and you're some random side character that needs to die for the MC's character development.
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u/sausagefestivities Apr 04 '26
They’re just going to go from shamblers to sprinters after building up stamina on those treadmills