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Survivors(Hostages) in game #215

Open richardschembri opened 11 years ago

richardschembri commented 11 years ago

Human survivors can be one of the characters running towards the camp.. Killing them will make you lose points.

To further expand on it, survivors sometimes trip. The player has to kill the surrounding zombies until the survivors gets up again.

CameronSaliba commented 11 years ago

Once the survivor reaches your base you get rewarded with default points and also occasional random gifts such as ammo, power ups, health etc

Survivor should be made running though I would suggest running at a slightly slower pace than the fast moving zombies so that zombies can catch up to him. This way u'll be forced to shoot zombies down for him to survive. Otherwise the survivor will outrun the zombies and always survive. A survivor should be assigned a word on top of his head same as with the zombies. This way you need to stay alert and make sure you are shooting at the right targets.

Also I would make the survivors spawn somewhere close to the middle so that they are running directly in front of you straight towards you/base ( this would help also since all the zombies are moving towards a central point (you / base) it would be much more probably that they will cross a survivors path. If a zombie catches up to the survivor. The survivor stops and plays a frightened animation/stumbles etc than after the zombies does the hit animation same as it is currently for the player and kill the survivor.

This will further add to the strategy and complexity of the game:

  1. Alternate way of earning bonus points / power ups/ ammo etc
  2. Adding a side mission of saving survivors rather than just killing zombies
  3. Statistics can be displayed on number of survivors saved while playing
  4. Keep the player more focused on whats coming since he would need to distinguish between a survivor and a zombie.
  5. If a zombie catches up to the survivor you loose points... this plays another role on your final score
  6. If you kill a survivor by mistake you loose even more points.
  7. If a zombie catches up to a survivor he is being kept occupied for a short period of time as he is attacking the survivor. So although you lost points it might give you a slightly better chance for your survival.