Zombie Panic!

[scooter-blue]

The public beta for the Zombie Panic Half-Life mod was just released last night/this morning.  

http://www.zombiepanic.org/site/index.php

I played a bit of it last night and ran into X-S-Z in one of the servers.  We and a few others holed ourselves up in some generator room with our crosshairs aimed at the door until some unwitting zombies stopped by and got to find out what buckshot tastes like  

The basic premise of the game is that the humans must with limited ammo fend off a zombie onslaught.  The zombies have only a melee attack and move slowly, but they certainly have the numbers.  Each time a human is killed he becomes a zombie.  That continues until either all the humans are captured or ... uhhh ...  I'm just not sure what the human winning condition is because I haven't seen it yet

Okay, those are the basics.  Now, could somebody explain to me how to not get owned every single time as a human?  I cannot figure the strategy in this game out at all.  I never have enough ammo to kill anything, so the zombies just surround and kill me every round  

[Cartman2b]

Maintain your ammo and stay together as a huge group.

[Clashen]

Maintain your ammo and stay together as a huge group.

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Yep.

Always wigglewalk and strafewalk if you can, even as Zombie, makes you much faster.

[TychoCelchuuu]

Or hope for the bug where you spawn with M16s and Shotguns close by.

[Necrosis]

Anyone know an LM-like server which is running ZP? I don't want to have a long and fruitless search if someone already knows a good one.

Thanks in advance!

[Malevolent]

Anyone know an LM-like server which is running ZP? I don't want to have a long and fruitless search if someone already knows a good one.

Thanks in advance!

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Well, people really just go to the server that has the most people with a resonable lag. The Midpointgaming.com servers are pretty good. Then there's Twilight's and KFDM had one up earlier today.

[Clashen]

Always wigglewalk and strafewalk if you can, even as Zombie, makes you much faster.

I heard some people mention wigglewalking in a server but didn't understand it how they tried to explain it  o_O  How do you do that?  

And strafewalking is strafing against a wall right?

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Yep, strafewalking is strafing against a wall.
Wigglewalking is when you press left and right fast, very fast, when you're running.

[X-S-Z]

I've had nothing but fun with ZP. And I hate to say it, but I usually end up laughing to the point of tears rather than feeling the dread of semi-creeping death bearing down on me.

The best things I (and im sure many of you) have seen are by far some truly amazing (and brutal) last stands. Some with one guy with a shotgun standing on a pile of crates surrounded by 15 or so zombies, others with a group holed up in a room (like scooter mentioned) with the zombies amassing outside waiting to pour in. I love it, and cant wait for future versions.  

[That Annoying Kid]

hmm, I really need to check out zombie panic

I will do that next time I'm on a steamed comp

[fatty]

this is wicked fun.

oh sweet i found a shotgun
yeah die you whores haha this isn't so hard.
uhhh how long do i have to survive.
hey where did fred go he said he was running for ammo real quick.
only 2 shots left and 5 zombies have me cornered!
AHHHHHHHHHH

[Necrosis]

I'll have to try those servers then. Prefer to play with people I know so we can have a laugh, as opposed to complete and utter strangers yelling NOOB and TARD at each other.

[CorvusX]

Very fun <3

Need to see more LM people around there though.  Never seen survivors win, they usually split up.

[Diablus]

got a bit too repetative after awhile, need to play wth LMers

[Clashen]

omg make LunixMonster into a ZumbieMonster!!

[EmperorPenguin]

This looks like fun!  I'm downloading now.  Of course I agree with the rest that we should try and gather the LM folks together in one server.

[Necrosis]

See, everyone knows I'm right. Lets have some lunixzomber.

[Forsaken]

Sounds interesting, I will have to try this when I get home.  Are there different modes of play?

[LowCrawler]

This is going to be some fun i think... from what ive played of it this far its freaking hilarious.

[Malevolent]

Sounds interesting, I will have to try this when I get home.  Are there different modes of play?

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In future releases there will be alternate modes of play. As of now it is just last man standing.

[ThoraX]

this is pretty good fun. alot of times marin-i mean... survivors get slaughtered by the rush of zombies, but the times the survivors win are always a fun thing to watch.

I liked making references to NS while playing, and having others join in as well.

*round starts*
"comm drop me a shotgun!"
"man, eject the comm!"
"watch the vents for skulks..."
"commander, I need ammo"
"my shrink says i need an outlet for my agression"
"OMG ONOS! F4 F4!"

When i played it yesterday i found that singing a song over voicecomm with the entire zombie team while rushing the survivors makes things so much fun and great for laughs. I got the zombies all singing  Bohemian Rhapsody while we rushed some survivors camped in a room. Indeed, the fun in this games comes more from the people you play with rather than the gameplay itself.