Random ideas I had that I personally think would be neat. Everyone else seems to shout about what they would like to see so heres my input
-Overall game suggestions-
-More randomness to POI zombie spawns. At the minute its a bit of a rinse wash repeat with each room. Especially when you start the game. Trying to fight off 10 zombies in a small 1 bedroom house with nothing but a stone axe and some plant matter to hide your shame is a pain
-New alarm system that can trigger hordes and nearby zombies. For example, burglar alarms, car alarms, fire alarms etc etc
-Better designed bigger cities with buildings closer together. Imagine this idea and the above idea working together. You are walking through this gigantic city and suddenly you set off a car alarm and then zombies pour out of every building
-Variation in wandering horde sizes. One moment 5 zombies another time 30
-New zones-
-Explorable cave and mine systems that start and end in different places with extensive tunnels and chambers to explore
-Research base POI with more zombies than usual and tougher boss zombies, hinted perhaps to be the central point for the start of the zombie epidemic
-Airport POI with planes, runway etc. I would love to explore a gigantic airport and loot the baggage etc etc
-Military safe zones. Where humans hid once the infected took over. Contains underground bunkers, filled with loot, lots of zombies etc
-Fishing-
-Fishing Rods
-Reels
-Line
-Bait
-Perks
-New modes of transport / getting around-
-Skateboard (Must...gun + skateboard...)
-Zip line
-Boats maybe….maybe not…
-Rocket Skates (Rollerblades with rockets attached)
-New weapons-
-Base mounted, player operated, Gatling type gun
-Katana…
-Throwing Knives
-Boomerang
-Grenades (Normal and frag) For example frag could be something like Gasoline + Nails + Empty Jar + Fuse
-Pitchfork
-Riot Shield, can deflect SOME damage and knock zombies back a little
-Human Decoy..scarecrow type deal with some electrical parts that is thrown out and waddles around making noise distracting the zombies for a few seconds before exploding doing a small amount of damage
-New drugs-
-Methylphenidate : Amphetamine type substance that increases awareness and aids in stamina regeneration
-Opiates : Reduce kickback, calming effect etc
-New enemies-
-The Hunker : Twice the size of the police officers, severely muscular, increased damage, a hard to kill tank
-The Nipper : Small, thin, twice as fast as a feral, lower health, able to jump much much higher and much further than normal
-The Exploder : Fat, runs up to you, glows and shakes and then explodes and acid showers over you as well as damaging nearby blocks
……idk just harder boss types besides the green glowing variations of the normal zombies
To so many of those things, one question: "Why? How would that make game any bettter?"
The idea with car alarms in city sounds nice, getting jumped on like in Left 4 Dead. It would add fun and risk.
Caves used to be there, if i remember correctly?
Research facility is already in game and it is kinda tough. "Boss zombies" don't make much sense to me. After all, this is not Devil May Cry.
Airport sounds pretty neat! Though, might be hard to generate in random world.
Bunkers and military bases are also, in the game.
Fishing is something we ask for for so long time. Would be nice.
Zip lines were promised, boats WILL be NEEDED. Skateboard seems pretty pointless. And rocket skaters? What the hell?
Base mounted weapons sound cool, but Joel already said that it would be hard to make on current engine and it is not fitting into the game.
Katana? Weeb much, mate? How would even katana get there?
Throwing knife - Spears incoming.
Boomerang - Sounds pretty fun, at least if it would work like in How to Survive.
Grenades do sound nice, but i think Pipes are meant to be salvage substitute for grenades.
Pitchfork isn't that practical tho. And, spears incoming.
RIOT shield would be nice, but probably hard to balance between being completely useless / too OP.
Human decoy - Did you know that zombies follow the sound of missed arrows?
Behemoth zombie was promised, so we will see.
You can't really outrun feral nor dogs by now.
So you mean police officer after you damage him?