If You Could Design an Infected...

D3struction

True... By the way nice avatar broken

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"Their flight has been delayed. Permanently."
-Quote from Dead Air

Moonshadow

[QUOTE=Facemywrath;15901]The Sleeper is very quick, will sleep until you attack it, comes in groups of 5-10, main fire is teleport, secondary fire is put you to sleep, can only teleport 10-20 feet, looks exactly like a survivor, about as strong as a smoker. The sleep attack will make it seem like a hunter is on you, but there isnt and the screen will go black for 10 seconds, because you are asleep.QUOTE]

I like this one. But what if it is in those rooms where you find dead army guys and it PLAYS dead? Then when you get too close to get ammo...BAM! It attacks.

SHUT UP FATTY BOOMER

I really like teh idea of that sleeper it is really good who ever came up with it good on ya nice imagination

Cloudseeker

DeusExVeritas, you practically copied my idea and modified it a bit i.e. charge attack, hard to steer, dies on impact, can't stop when you've started running and so forth. But your version is a bit more thought through, so if I were Valve, I'd go with your version.

Sonris89

Personally I had a few ideas based on countering closet campers and rushers.

My first idea was concerning closet campers. Infected as a general rule have very low health and have to rely on stealth to do anything, but this is nigh impossible in some areas , especially the elevater even in NM, where the survivers will just corner up and spam bash, even worse, some will asign someone ot bash the back wall so you cant even hunter pounce back there, and with claw being the way it is even getting back there isnt as productive as it used to be. So heres one idea.

Think of a tank, that is slower, its arms are giant boney plates, its mouth has mutated into what can be seen as a gun or cannon. Its hands have fused into blades or anchors, but its side and rear are undefended and vulnerable, it has a little less health then a witch and is about the same speed as a boomer, maybe slower or something. It has two modes, mode one it moves around and can swing its blade fists with right click, the blades cut an enemy, causing some bleed damage, converting about 5 health to temporary health, and he does about as much damage I guess as a hunter doing this. his left click causes him to jam his fists into the ground, and allowing him to fire , or spit, at the enemy, the front plates protect him from frontal fire, but he takes extra damage from side and rear when rooted, so a pipe bomb there will kill him and he dies much faster if flanked an shot. The idea is he can hurt survivers when they are cornered, so they have to move to kill him.

I havnt decided what he would shoot, maybe acid, boomer bile, or spikes/teeth. Something to flush people out.

Bringing back smoker smoke damage may help with this though...

Secound idea was a little more out there, was thinking of an infected version of an eng, he throws up fleshy masses they form gurgling piles of fleshy turret things. Maybe give him a toggle to select what he wants to make. A lasher tentcle to damage people that get too close, a club to knock back, a gurgling boomer "mine" that blows up when shot or steped on. Give the infected guy a spit that blinds people or a basic claw for defense.

That was just something I thought would be interesting. I liked the movie, the thing, and that reminded me of it.

CommanderZoidberg

Not to burst your bubble, but with the new DLC comes an update to the current maps, which will eliminate alot of the camping spots and is also going to add alot of depth to the Blood Harvest map. Or so I heard... Or did I dream it...?

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Sonris89

Call me a pessimist put I doubt they can solve all of the camping problems.

As long as there is a corner there is a camping spot. Though some are of course better then others i.e. closet, ramp, pipe, vent, behind the medical cot by elevater. This zombie is just meant to force the player to move, without the do or die mechanic of an explosive zombie. Though the tanking gaining hte ability to hit multiple targets has cured some of these I was thinking of a more consistant zombie, maybe with a lower spawn rate then the rest.

GeoffBotch

Name: Flamer
Description: Ruthless, suicidal arsonist doused in flammable fluid
Abilities: Spawns with a tank of fire (as already placed throughout maps) but the tank can be placed in an area prior to hiding until the survivors approach. Runs out relentlessly to spread the fire and set self on fire, attacking the survivors who ideally (for the infected) should be caught in the flames. Eventually dies due to burns if it is not killed by survivors. Can also knock over tanks of fire and run through fiery areas that are already placed within original maps if more appropriate during gameplay.
Availability: twice per chapter maximum.
Health: Enough to last 10-15seconds in fire and has the health the witch currently has (in order to compensate for fire damage since it'd be easy to kill with just one bullet or two while enduring burn damage)

Was also going to suggest the sleeper until i read some people had mentioned it. good to see a few of us have similar ideas. i was thinking about one resembling the common infected or a random 'corpse' lying around, even the ones which have no legs or other missing limbs. they are easily killed if shot before they begin damage but if a survivor is on its own and disturbs one right next to them then it grabs their legs and pulls them down to the ground. the attacked survivor can shoot them if quick to do so but if not then it's down to your fellows to help you out.

i was also thinking of rabid dogs in packs of three, called Hellhounds because the three of them close together resembles the three-headed dog Cerberus. Causes the damage that three common infected would but can drag survivors with health below 50 away, making it more difficult for fellows to come to the rescue.

let me add that 'the flamer' would not be a 'blatant homosexual' altough it would be rather hilarious if he had a mincey little run and a tight gold shirt...

2tank6

Name: The Rapier
Appearance: Covered in black silk, a silk scarf around his face with bright yellow eyes. 3/4 of forearm is a hard steel.
Special Ability: Is able to move over any terrain (buildings, walls, ceiling, etc.) and attack is repeatedly stabbing survivor in stomach, paralyzing them.
Physical Features: slash does 15 damage and 10 damage over time.

Health: double smoker hp

razman360

one thing to remember guys on whether you design has a hope of becoming part of the game is that these guys are still HUMAN

x19x JaMmY x88x

Some pretty detailed infected here man nice, hope valve takes a look in haha

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Zavia/GenX

Name: -
Appearance(optional): -
Special Ability(ies):
Ability 1: Smoke Screen. Bigger version of the Smoker's death. Reduces HP 1/Sec. Otherwise, same effects as smoker's smoke (no outlines, coughing, vision loss etc) Lasts 15 seconds, cooldown 20 seconds. Large enough to fill in a room.
Ability 2: Paralyzing Dart. Shoots a small dart thats about smoker's ranger. Target starts limping as if red life. Red life targets fall down and must be helped up, but no effect otherwise.
Slow duration, 7 seconds, cool down is 5 seconds. If you hit, 20 seconds.
Two abilities, left and right click. If possible to code, these abilities are to be placed on the keyboard, leaving the mouse for normal attack.
Availability to Players: All
Health (compare to existing infected): Unsure, smoker maybe?

Strengths and tatics:
The smoke can be placed strategically, like at the elevator in mercy hospitable 4th level, heck if you do it well, inside the elevator as they rush in, causing 15 damage. You can do it in long corridors, hiding smokers or boomers. Actually you can hide boomers well with it, by smoking any given doorway.
With the low damage, and good cooldown, you can walk ahead of them constantly smoking, forcing them to wait and camp giving time to your infected to position themselves, or increasing the risk of a director rush.

The single target slow works well in the smoke, and generally helps the other infected aim them. Great with tanks and when everyone is running their butt off.
If there is two people down, slowing one would mean one of those that are down will stay down that much longer. Im sure you can think of other benefits to slow.
The red life one, since they are ALREADY slow, you technically disable one "gun" for a bit, and a 2nd gun to stop shooting and come back and help.

Summary:
Terrain control, either by forcing them to wait, or to take damage and vision loss.
Slow someone, forcing team to slow down along.

Derek592

Seems Valve was interested in your idea.
They changed the blinding to damage though.

Joe The Zombie

Name: The Stalker
Appearance(optional): Children (7-10) with their hands and feet replaced with sharp stumps.
Special Ability(ies): It can crawl on walls and cielings to be a stealthy infected. But has the advantage of speed and mobility. Can snatch players from the floor and repeatedly slash/stab them.
Physical Features (e.g. exploding boomer and invisible hunter.): Spasms when it dies in a last attack. Flails when it is meleed.
Availability to Players: An alternative to the hunter.
Health (compare to existing infected): Same as the hunter.

C-2-B

Name: Stalker
Appearance(optional): Similar to Normal Infected
Special Ability(ies): Semi-Total-Invisibility (For 30 Second) - Recharge (15 Sec)
Physical Features (e.g. exploding boomer and invisible hunter.): None
Availability to Players: All times
Health (compare to existing infected): Lower than a Hunters

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warmonger256

Name: Dancer
Appearance: Wavy hair, black skin, all orange suit
Abilities: Zombie dance - will make all survivors and infected within range to stop at anything they are doing and dance with the Dancer (30sec); Backup dancers - summons backup dancers to attack the survivors with awesome dancing skills (10 dancers, 40sec cooldown) Child bait - summons Pedobear with children to explode at the survivors (5dmg, 45sec cooldown); Zombie Sing - sings a very powerful verse of a random song he made so that your speakers/headset will be destroyed permanently, together with your hearing (Instant death, 120sec cooldown); Moonwalk - makes a perfect moonwalk and will be completely invincible to anything during this period (15sec duration; 30sec cooldown).
Physical features: fake nose, burned scalp
Available to players: No
Health: OVER NINE THOU SAND
*Note: Any resemblance between Dancing Zombie and any person living or dead is purely coincidental.

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The-Virus

Name: The Gunner
Appearance(optional): Military or police uniform, strange mold-like substance all over body, mold has welded two (random depending on how cruel the AI director is feeling) guns to his hands
Special Ability(ies): It's a zombie with guns, and seeing as they were once in the military or police, they likely have experience with them even in their infected forms.
Physical Features (e.g. exploding boomer and invisible hunter.): Guns cannot be removed and used by players, as they are permanently fixed onto his body by the mold-like substance
Availability to Players: Yes
Health (compare to existing infected): About half of a survivor's health

DTbasketball855

Name: Predator (I'm not good with names)
Appearance: Kind of an over-sized hawk with extra long, yellow teeth
Special Abilities: Swoops down and attacks at the face of a survivor so they can't see and claws at it.
Availability to Players: Yes
Health: about twice as much as a boomer's

Anyone else agree we need a flying infected?

The-Virus

Yeah, but would be better if it actually dragged the survivor into the air, and clawed at him while flying in a circle. Makes it harder to shoot it, and it's a pretty original idea. :3

obstaclezero

Name: The Stripper
Appearance(optional): Tall...Big Legs,
Special Ability(ies): BitchSlap when melees, climbs on your back and starts pulling you down, scratching your back...
Physical Features: when it dies, it screams 4x the witch scream, and u get stunned for a few secs.
Availability to Players: Full availability
Health: between smoker and hunter

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