So maybe I've been watching too much TV...

Death_by_bulletsDeath_by_bullets Join Date: 2004-03-14 Member: 27336Members
<div class="IPBDescription">You guessed it.</div>...but what are the chances of a ZOMBIE MOD. That is Marine players fighting Marine zombies.

And yes, I love The Walking Dead.

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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Haha, I knew it! The walking dead is pretty fun, but seriously needs some more brains in the main characters though, sometimes they are intentionally stupid to make it scary :( (what do you mean off-topic!). This will most likely get modded once NS2 has gone gold... It's probably inevitable :P
  • Heroman117Heroman117 Join Date: 2010-07-28 Member: 73268Members
    Why just marine zombies?

    We must be fair and make Kharaa zombies as well; just imagine the Gorge zombified, it'd still be too dam cute to hurt. Maybe a team of Fades working together to take out a zombie Onos would be cool too.
  • Racer1Racer1 Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9615Members
    Besides model changes, what would a zombie mod entail?

    P.S. I watched WD season 1 and liked it. Starting season 2 the characters/writers got too stupid for me to care about, so I stopped watching.
  • Death_by_bulletsDeath_by_bullets Join Date: 2004-03-14 Member: 27336Members
    edited November 2011
    OT, Walking Dead S2 was slow but the mid-season finale was gold. Can't give anything away, just catch up and watch it.

    In terms of Zombies, I was under the impression the Kharaa were already a "zombie" of sort. Aka, they were once different creatures that were taken over by bacteria infestation and sort of assimilated into a species. I think just having tons of Marines as Zombies against an objective or survival fortress based mode would be pretty sweet. Perhaps both Marine and Kharaa zombies on the same squad, but I feel the Kharaa as Zombies would be pretty boring as it would be little different than just Kharaa bots and similar to combat mode.

    Oh and what would be cooler than an Exosuit Zombie? Can't think of much. (Zombies are too dumb to know how to use JPs)
  • LUSITANERLUSITANER Join Date: 2010-09-19 Member: 74086Members
    why everyone has to put zombies everywhere? they are always the same, and, personally, fighting zombies is boring like hell.
  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    <!--quoteo(post=1889628:date=Dec 10 2011, 03:03 PM:name=LUSITANER)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LUSITANER @ Dec 10 2011, 03:03 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1889628"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->personally<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    indeed personal preference :P
  • ale'ale' Join Date: 2011-08-06 Member: 114689Members
    I want to see a survival game mode which is pretty common in multiplayer fps games. One player starts as a skulk (or a gorge :) ) and the others as marines. When marines die, they become skulks as well. The last marine to survive wins the round.
  • swalkswalk Say hello to my little friend. Join Date: 2011-01-20 Member: 78384Members, Squad Five Blue
    <!--quoteo(post=1889951:date=Dec 12 2011, 06:13 PM:name=ale')--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ale' @ Dec 12 2011, 06:13 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1889951"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I want to see a survival game mode which is pretty common in multiplayer fps games. One player starts as a skulk (or a gorge :) ) and the others as marines. When marines die, they become skulks as well. The last marine to survive wins the round.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That would be pretty unfair for the one skulk :D
    Maybe instead, having equal teams at the beginning, and marines spawning with different weapons incl. rifle, encourages teamwork.
    When an alien gets a kill he will have evolvetime on his next spawn for the next lifeform.
    Last marine standing wins :P
    Anyway it would require someone who know what they are doing, and have to time to do it :P
  • FlayraFlayra Game Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment San Francisco Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 3Super Administrators, NS2 Developer, Subnautica Developer
    Let me just say that I LOVE this idea.
  • BroseidonBroseidon Join Date: 2011-07-18 Member: 110935Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1890413:date=Dec 16 2011, 03:16 AM:name=swalk)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (swalk @ Dec 16 2011, 03:16 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1890413"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->That would be pretty unfair for the one skulk :D
    Maybe instead, having equal teams at the beginning, and marines spawning with different weapons incl. rifle, encourages teamwork.
    When an alien gets a kill he will have evolvetime on his next spawn for the next lifeform.
    Last marine standing wins :P
    Anyway it would require someone who know what they are doing, and have to time to do it :P<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Or how about 20-25% of the players start as skulks/aliens? Will make the games a bit longer And still enough aliens to take down marine, and another one and so on. And honestly with the amazing modding community this game has, only a little spark of interest will make this idea/mod alive :)
    Though that is easy for me to say with no knowledge what so ever about modding :/
  • IeptBarakatIeptBarakat The most difficult name to speak ingame. Join Date: 2009-07-10 Member: 68107Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited December 2011
    A mixture of ns combat and noxious zombie survival would be cool. 20 minute match timer. 25% of players start as aliens.

    Marines have the experience system like ns1 combat mode. To buy personal upgrades and weapons, also being able to drop structures and turrets if enough points.

    Aliens get a point for each kill they make. For upgrades and evolutions. The points are refunded if killed.

    And if a marine dies they join the alien team as a skulk.
  • peregrinusperegrinus Join Date: 2010-07-16 Member: 72445Members
    The marine zombies should be full of infestation...with pustules on them...and only one arm, with a fade claw where the other arm used to be.

    We'd probably need a gore and blood mod to go with this heh heh heh
  • PricePrice Join Date: 2003-09-27 Member: 21247Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1887507:date=Nov 29 2011, 09:14 PM:name=Death_by_bullets)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Death_by_bullets @ Nov 29 2011, 09:14 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1887507"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->...but what are the chances of a ZOMBIE MOD. That is Marine players fighting Marine zombies.

    And yes, I love The Walking Dead.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I love it too because its not only zombie smashing, gee i love this series, its so bad its starting feb. and in germany i guess march or later...
    Such a wonderfull series, americans did very well series :P (also stupid ones hehe).
    Anyway, i guess about that too, but before TWD, the problem is, converting the marine models, because i guess the developer of UWE will not share their marine model with us.

    Some ideas for a zombie mode:


    Idea 1:
    - Just adding zombie bots which are now shown in the score.
    - Creating a ship map, landed on a planet(mars?).
    - adding a survival timer
    - adding food and sleep
    - marines need food, if the food bar is 0 they will lose like 1 health every 5 seconds.
    also with sleep, if a marine don't sleep (right click on a bed, the marine become a animation where he goes into bed, the player see that in third person) he get black fade outs and can't see, also can't walk, after 10 seconds he awake and has 1 minute to find a bed.
    - if the generator destroyed (by zombies) the lights turn off
    - snack automatcs, pressing use will give the player a item (like armory buying weapons) and he can use it with first person animation, this fills the food bar.
    - ressources are made outside the station with a miner gun, just "attack" special rocks outside the ship to gain ressources for the team and yourself.
    - zombies are randomly spawned and have diffrent classes like in l4d2.
    Where did they come from?
    From a old russian space station on mars (the ship is american), you can move to that space station, your missions:
    1. Activate the generator (not important but with lights its even better)
    2. Destroy the welded door to the commandstation
    3. Destroy the commandstation
    4. Start self destruction

    Items/Weapons:
    1. every NS2 marine weapon + welder + explosives (c4?) + TSA salty, default and hot chips (snacks) /TSA yellow, green, blue soda :P + mining gun

    Structures:
    - there is still a commander on the ship (cc)
    - Bed
    - Snack/soda automat
    - armory
    - health station
    - arms lab
    - phasegate?
    - generator (like portable powernodes)
    - radar

    Zombies:
    - they spawn inside the space station on mars and have just like 3 tasks...walk to marine ship + search for enemy + attack enemy
    - if a zombie hits a player, there is a chance of XX% that the player is infected, if a player is infected he has a icon and message like from parasites in ns2.
    After a timeperiod, he will change the model and transfered into the zombie team (the only playable zombie then), he lose all his weapons and has only his fists, but can only die with a headshot.

    Zombie types:
    - slow but big, takes a lot of damage, if explodes he releases spores which infect players, so its very very important to kill that zombie outside the ship
    - fast and skinny, very fast, very weak.
    - tank, this zombie is...you guessed it, like from left 4 dead

    Idea 2:
    see the dead space anime movie ^^
  • SomeMiceDrinkingTeaSomeMiceDrinkingTea Join Date: 2011-06-11 Member: 103818Members
    Due to the Kharaa being single celled organisms that infect other species, I always wondered if the Kharaa would ever infect the occupants of whatever compound, facility or ship they would invade, into zombie-like beings. Could be a cool way of explaining what happens to the occupants of a map before the Frontiersmen arrive.
  • saltybp53saltybp53 Join Date: 2010-07-22 Member: 72675Members
    I'd rather prefer NPC zombies then player zombies, because the latter needs a player count to sustain it. Having both though would be fun :D
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