Mutations: skin cancer/brain cancer/intestinal cancer/eye cancer/etc.
They lower your stats, decrease health, cause regeneration penalty (can become negative) and spontaneously mutate into stronger versions.
And variants that metastasize onto other body parts.
-4 str for female characters. For “realism”, of course.
Irradiated zombie scientists who turn into atomic zombie hulks when angry. Atomic zombie hulks are faster hulks with leap ability.
Ability to pacify a zombie by showing it something from its former life, making it regain some mental functions and bringing it to tears.
New Joke Monster: John Cena.
There’s a 1/50 chance he appears after reading ‘101 Wrestling Moves’.
He proceeds to punch your character 420 overmap tiles, teleport to the new position, and then grab you, jump 420 z-levels, and land on top of you.
Nah. Zombie John Cena doesn’t need that. Whatever he faces, whether it be the elephant gun, a speeding truck, or a missile launched from a silo, he overcomes the oddz. Him being in the vicinity will cause a survivor to hear people chanting “Let’s go Cena/Cena sucks”. He also has shirts of varying colors and designs.
Scenario: one hour before the cataclysm. Or hours before the cataclysm. City full of NPCs just doing their own thing, then all hell breaks lose after some time until the point where it’s the cataclysm world we all know and love.