Suggestion:20120809 Blood Trail
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20120809 Blood Trail
A Big F'ing Dog 16:44, 9 August 2012 (BST)
Suggestion type
Skill
Suggestion scope
Zombies
Suggestion description
Here's a social skill idea for zombies, designed to help them stick together and travel in groups.
When a zombie with Blood Trail kills a survivor, they would have the option to "Leave Trail" for 1 AP. The Leave Trail button would only appear immediately after killing a survivor. What this button does is display a tracking message to every other zombie present, giving them your current position whenever they see it. It might appear like this to them:
A zombie left a trail of fragrant fresh blood leading 5w8n.
The idea is that after clearing out a building, a zombie could leave a trail inviting other zombies to join them at a new target. This message would be displayed to zombies both inside and outside the building, so you can reach fellow besieging zombies that weren't able to enter.
Zombies would not need Scent Trail to track you. And unlike Scent Trail the range would be unlimited, allowing zombies to follow you anywhere in the city.
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Keep Votes
- Keep Zombies sticking together means more hordes, and a less lonely zombie experience. What's not to like? And the limitation of only using it after a survivor is slain prevents spam, and makes it likely that higher level zombies with good combat skills are doing the leading. --A Big F'ing Dog 17:36, 9 August 2012 (BST)
Kill Votes
- Weak Kill - If this is a visual trail, it doesn't make sense that the zombies would know where it ends from where they stand. I'm also not a fan of the unlimited range or the fact that it provides no help in following the zombie after the initial message of where they are (i.e. it has no actual trail to follow, like what we see with footprints in the snow every winter in the game). It just feels like it could be improved. —Aichon— 17:48, 9 August 2012 (BST)
- Kill Another zombie tracking skill? If zed want to meet a horde, they metagame. They have done so for a long time and it has worked, seeing as hordes tend to be bigger than survivor groups... -- Johnny Twotoes 00:17, 10 August 2012 (BST)
- You can either 1) Follow the groans, or 2) Scent Death. That's really all there is to tracking large hordes if you're playing a casual zombie. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 18:42, 28 August 2012 (BST)
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