[quote=“vache, post:63, topic:9483”]I think the idea is solid, it fills in a much needed threat category, which is a reasonably avoidable yet credible long ranged threat. Turrets and tanks are okay, but they end up being more like “completely avoid this area” markers, rather than a real enemy. Additionally, their attacks are often so sudden and severe, the player does not have a chance to seek cover after being engaged.
I like that the grenadier zombies force the player to reconsider their strategy and force them to adjust positions. It’s a good counter to the window strategy, though with the spawn locations changed, it sounds like they won’t be in a position to actually do the countering. Thematically it makes the most sense to me as a robotic enemy, but then you’d have them blowing up zombies all the time instead of you. Making them a military bionic enhanced zombie sounds like a good in between.
One thing I don’t like seeing is people complaining how a certain thing is going to ruin the game, usually before they’ve even encountered it for themselves. Granted, there have been some decisions that I’m not a huge fan of, but I would rather see the game evolve and progress to challenge the way I play rather than continue to be able to hit the I WIN button using the same tactics from when I first started playing in 0.6. Great ideas take time to be developed, and shooting down a different way of thinking just because you disagree does nobody any favors.[/quote]
I think the problem lies more in the fact that most of the game mechanics how enemies work is in kind of unknown to most players and theres no good place to read on tactics: most of the time people encounter dangerous enemy, die and ask on forums what they should do in such a encounter.
Tank drones a a good example, they are so rare that you might not even see another one. Now you should somehow know how to handle it. When I encountered one I knew on that second that I should just run (they were faster than players at this point) since I have no knowledge of it and I was pretty sure it had tank equipment. Tank drones have quite indepth notes about how one should handle encounter with tank drone and what it is capable of but most enemies do not have that info.
Game currently tells quite well which enemies are special with coloring, the moment I saw Elite Grenadier Zombie with special colors I knew it has to be dangerous. Turned out it is more of a glass cannon. Dangerous to unprepared survivor but rather easy if you have piston/rifle and molotov. I’d say I like them more than tank drones since tank drone has nasty habbit of catching me off guard and instantly kill me.
