Suggestion talk:20090408 Contagion

On a related note, I know that it is possible for zombies and survivors to use some of each others actions via the Url and if bite is one of those it should benefit from this for no better reason that it would be funny to do and scare the crap out of any poor sod it happened too ;)

I completely disagree. Infecting biters with free running. --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 18:47, 8 April 2009 (BST)

Yeah but it would be damn rare and I am pretty sure the accuracy is terrible. I hear Kevan took the firearm URL action out of the game so it's probably not possible anyway! --Honestmistake 19:40, 8 April 2009 (BST)

"Accuracy is terrible" - also applies to people who for whom this change is intended to affect. --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 19:52, 8 April 2009 (BST)

Bite is probably the best attack a fresh zombie has to start with as it does slightly more damage per AP than basic claws... Anyone with the option to use an actual weapon is only going to use this for novelty value as I am pretty sure that apart from the infect bonus it would only do 1 damage at about 10% accuracy for the living. It's not really part of the suggestion though as it only confuses the actual idea ;) --Honestmistake 20:12, 8 April 2009 (BST)

Zergers could very easily abuse this: Get one contagious zed, bite a bunch of low-levels zergs and get them killed to trigger the effect (25% is pretty big), and voila! Easy infecting zergs. Anyway, if a survivor is killed and becomes contagious, chances are they're going to still just shamble to a revive point and get a revive. They won't have many other zombie skills (unless they're high-level and have infectious bite already), so they won't be able to do much anyway. --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 18:16, 30 March 2009 (BST)

Zergers can make use of pretty much anything so that always needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. In this case the zerger needs to start a new zed, get revived, get the double infection and die. Having done all that they then have a level one zed with temporary infectious bite at base (20%?) until they die a few times... thats a lot of effort for so little gain--Honestmistake 19:53, 30 March 2009 (BST)