i agree with shifty.

if you strafe into a zombie, he will whack you no matter what you do. the only thing you can do is back up and shoot the damn thing. prefebly with something that will kill it.

besides the fact that alot of people prefer the more deadly choice, it would also be hard to code the paralyze function. besides, would you really want a weapon that *doesnt* blow something off?

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besides, would you really want a weapon that *doesnt* blow something off?

Well, I would first invite it to a cup of tea and biscuits. Then I'd state my arguments why it's not right to eat humans and that there's a way to peacefully coexist. And when it's sufficiently confused, I BLAST ITS FRIGGIN`HEAD OFF!!!

nerve gas grenades: should work (essentially cuts off the electrical signals between brain and body), so could I get some feedback?

Conclusion:

Ok, with the taser, how bout duct taping it to a gun and making that its secondary fire, or just forget it

As for the riot-gun, since the zombies are rotting, it would practically break a zombie in two. Possibly have the choice of loading the riot grenade-launcher with high-explosive, nerve gas, or solid canisters (with the solid ones, lets assume that they were filled with concrete by the resistance members rather than foam rubber)?

Nerve gas- Why dont u just use a fragmentation?

Taser- do i realy have to say anything? ill explain it in one word... stupid.

Riot Gun- wtf.. screw the riot gun use ur m16!

Riot Grenade Launcher- Why. u could just use a normal grenade launcher.

Conclusion-There zombies! who cares about riot weapons! pull out the big guns!

This is just stupid scrap the whole idea

people have to improvise any weapons they can find, right? suppose they find a squad of dead riot policemen at a barricade

yeah if they found a dead riot squad theyd be like "aw fuck, all we got are these shitty riot weapons" nobody wants the damn riot weapons.. why would u want riot weapons when u can have bigger, better weapons.

OMG I found a muffin at this McDonalds..I ...have..urge...to...USE AS A WEAPON!! *throws it at a zombie and watches it bounce of its head*

.....Hey I also found this toothpick > muahahaha

Point is, stick to the BuLlEtS! (Lead)

so far ive understood a riot gun is nothing more then a shotgun with rubber pellets instead of lead. i'll stick with the lead shotguns that we have at the moment.

and nerve gas... well. besides that it affects living things more then dead things, and technically zombies are dead, ya also need to inhale it. i dont think zombies breathe. and besides that, you'd definatly kill anything living in the area too, without destroying the brain (just affecting the nervous system) and that would kinda make them rise up again. so it would be a bad idea.

The point is, a riot gun *will* blow apart a zombie's head and will most definitely splatter their midsection. this crappy pellet pump we got right now just DOES NOT want to register headshots! I have gone up behind a zombie, stuck my shotgun to the back of its head, and it STILL takes two shots to completely blow off its head. A Riot shotgun, or even a slug shotgun, will simply smash its head in. The point of riot guns is like a baseball bat, only with range.

Zombies dont need to breathe. (player zombies die from oxygen loss cos the team didnt mess around with the baseline values for the player in HL. If you'll note, player zombies also dont die from a burst of m16 to the head. And how many places are there where you can actually drown?) Theyre the dead, reanimated corpses - unless you destroy the brain or sever the head theyre unkillable. They dont obey the standard rules of nature - they feed without a real need for it (no digestive tract - well not after you blew it off or the other zombies ate their guts), they can still move around etc without heart lungs etc (which also suggests Zombies dont need to breathe. So i'm guessing nerve gas wouldnt be very effective. And a tazer? Zombies do have a nervous system but I dont think they feel pain, or that you could possibly overload it with electricity (maybe if you pumped em soooo full of electricity they burst into flames or even blew up).

I think the riot shield has possibilities though... used to guard against one, maybe two blows from zombies then it gets batted away until u reselect your shield.