PC Random Zombies Spawning/Dropping Dead?

[OneManStanding]

Since I started playing the 1.0 update I have noticed on occasion random drop noises (something hitting the floor) and already dead zombies in POIs. I just saw this happen to a streamer in the new Theatre, but he took no notice of it - already dead zombies in the foyer as he went in. I encountered it a little while prior when playing myself in a new mine poi: Heard the drop sound just as the sleepers spawned, went slowly round the corner and there was an already dead zombie amoung the sleepers. The dead zombie then despawned.

Anyone else maybe noticed this happening?

 

[Riamus]

Since I started playing the 1.0 update I have noticed on occasion random drop noises (something hitting the floor) and already dead zombies in POIs. I just saw this happen to a streamer in the new Theatre, but he took no notice of it - already dead zombies in the foyer as he went in. I encountered it a little while prior when playing myself in a new mine poi: Heard the drop sound just as the sleepers spawned, went slowly round the corner and there was an already dead zombie amoung the sleepers. The dead zombie then despawned.

Anyone else maybe noticed this happening?

I haven't noticed dead ones, I don't think.  However, some of the new POI have a lot more zombies than normal and maybe you're hitting the max zombie count, causing some to be killed.  I do hear that sound sometimes but when it happens, I'm walking through a newly killed zombie and I just wrote it off as my kicking the zombie.  But it could be something dying.  I never looked at the console to check for deaths.  Since the sound doesn't happen every time I walk through zombies (usually only after killing a lot at once), it probably is not related to walking through them.

 

[stample]

I've seen it twice, and heard it several more times.  Walking down a street, or in a POI, and hear a zombie just fall over dead.  No barb wire or other traps around.  No pain screams. No animals fighting them.  Just fall over dead in the middle of the road, or in a room I'm not in yet.

 

[binf_shinana]

Zombies seem to die over the course of in-game time. The minimum value is set to a certain extent, so they do not die immediately. The maximum value is unknown, but it is rare for them to survive for more than two days.

Since it is determined by in-game time, shortening the time in a day will shorten the survival time.
(The number of zombies that spawn is also set by in-game time, so extending the day will make it less difficult.)

In addition, entities with the feral tag that spawn at night will automatically die in the morning.