Re: Crowding
Maybe for purely balance related reasons, shockers, spitters, masters, necromancers, and a handful of other “kill this one first” zombies shouldn’t be able to share squares? I’d say any special zombies, but tough, fat, crawler, decayed, etc aren’t really so unique anyone’s going to be targetting them first.
Other than that, I have to say that this will make crowd control, which I generally don’t bother with, much more important! Fire, explosives, etc.
Tangential:
Using this ‘push’ mechanic, could we somehow involve things like “rebar spiked” walls and vehicle plating that zombies could be impaled upon by the weight of zombies behind them? The zombie would then be trapped on that square impaled, still alive (more or less) on metal spikes for the player to deal with later, at their leisure. The walls would be smashable, but with a zombie on it, it armors it against other standard zeds and helps keep the horde at bay, until a Hulk comes smashing through both the crowd and takes out both the wall and the zombie stuck to it at least.
Just an idea! I’ve heard (though I’ve not experienced hordes yet tbh) that the standard method of dealing with one is to just leave and lure it away. Though it should remain really darn difficult, I’d like to see some options for digging in and defending it like a badass.
PS. How do you feel about a player (strength based) “shove” (or kick)? Primarily to push a zombie back one tile (MAYBE further with high strength relative to enemy size) for escape purposes, but also to shove them into impalement obstacles like the one I mentioned above or into pits. Failed attempts get you bit, but the zombie might counterattack the arms with a bite anyway, since you’re essentially presenting them with a tasty limb.
With 7 strength you could try and shove normal human sized Zs, but you’d probably require a significant boost via cybernetics or mutations to shove larger things like zombears. Really large creatures like Hulks, Jabberwocks, etc shouldn’t be shovable, for obvious reasons.
… that got bigger than I was anticipating. Should I make my own thread for these?
