How Infection should work, a really cool game type idea

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Today, as I sat contemplating in Infection - I was fed up after my 5th time in a row starting as a zombie (not to mention a 7/8 being-a-zombie-run) I came to a wonderful conclusion.

There should be a playlist option called something like “Tag” where if you’re a zombie, and you kill a survivor, you guys essentially switch places. The survivor becomes a zombie and the zombie turns into a survivor again.

The whole idea is that it’s kinda like “Tag”

When you’re a zombie you’re ‘it’ and when you infect someone else, they are ‘it’ instead of you, so you go back to being a survivor and they become a zombie.

Not only does that actually give you incentive to go out and get zombie kills - but if half the people are zombies and half the people are survivors it could be tons of fun with people running around being a zombie then being a survivor etc.

That would not only get rid of the issues of zombies AFKing or hiding for their KD, but also the frustration of being an original zombie over and over

You could do like Rumble Pit - first to 25 or time limit.
You could also give survivors much less ammo so that way you HAVE to be a zombie to win or just to make it harder?

Also, probably no one would have time to get to a decent camping spot because you’d have random spawning (like Rumble Pit) and limited ammo (more so than regular Infection right now), so eventually you would just run out and be infected even if you do manage to kill a bunch of zombies at first - you could even have red arrows over the survivors to discourage hiding, who knows, but it could be a lot of fun

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i can already imagine the custom games…

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That’s a cool option. I’d play that alongside standard infection. I agree that being a zombie in Infection tends to be frustrating. My simple answer is that there’s no good reason for the zombies to be designed to be sitting ducks. Early Halo 3 Infection (with zombies having energy shields) was a riot.

But I’m also generally in favour of there being more non-zombies Infection gametypes. There are so many options, but the playlist is still “Infection side has only melee attacks, survivors have guns; no powerups, vehicles, or anything.” Tag would be a fun one to add, on top of Speed Halo (if you’ve seen the video for that).

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gee, that’s the best idea for infection i’ve heard in a while,
i’d definitely play it

and i also HATE infection now, the maps are teribad, and they have nothing coustom made, unlike the other playlists

(>_>)
and this is pretty much me, when i’m playing with campers:
Linky

(>_>)