figmentPez
Staff member
I'd like to see a zombie that causes hallucinations. The trick would be to figure out a variety of effects, so it'd be hard to figure out which one you're experiencing, while making sure that the hallucinations don't encourage too much friendly fire.
- Hearing the wrong zombie noises and music (tanks where there aren't any, boomers where there are hunters, etc.)
- Seeing zombies where there aren't any.
- Illusory health packs, guns and other pick-ups.
- Seeing the wrong path unblocked in multi-route areas.
- Health values and/or inventory incorrectly displayed for self or teammates.
- Phantom teammates calling for help.
and on top of one or more of those, various sorts of visual disturbance as well. Shifting colors, textures melting down the walls, tunnel vision and whatever sorts of fun the designers can have with pixel shaders.
I'd also really like to see bigger games with more survivors and more special infected. I'm not sure how to keep the balance, but it would be great to have more human players involved. One idea I'd love to see playtested would be 8 survivors versus 16 infected. If the extra survivors could handle double their number in infected, it might still work for rotating teams. Most people like to play as infected more anyway, so two rounds as infected and one round as survivors might just work. Games would take even longer, though, so it might have to be limited to certain maps or campaigns.
- Hearing the wrong zombie noises and music (tanks where there aren't any, boomers where there are hunters, etc.)
- Seeing zombies where there aren't any.
- Illusory health packs, guns and other pick-ups.
- Seeing the wrong path unblocked in multi-route areas.
- Health values and/or inventory incorrectly displayed for self or teammates.
- Phantom teammates calling for help.
and on top of one or more of those, various sorts of visual disturbance as well. Shifting colors, textures melting down the walls, tunnel vision and whatever sorts of fun the designers can have with pixel shaders.
I'd also really like to see bigger games with more survivors and more special infected. I'm not sure how to keep the balance, but it would be great to have more human players involved. One idea I'd love to see playtested would be 8 survivors versus 16 infected. If the extra survivors could handle double their number in infected, it might still work for rotating teams. Most people like to play as infected more anyway, so two rounds as infected and one round as survivors might just work. Games would take even longer, though, so it might have to be limited to certain maps or campaigns.