Idea Swords

Well... The wooden sword has like 57 dura? Vs the diamond sword with just over 1500.

 

I agree. There's my much of a difference between the swords you use. If diamond swords did one hit kills, that would be awesome.

 

Diamond swords one hit zombies if you crit.

 

This needs to happen, I'm sick of all swords being 2 shots, 1 if you do a critical hit.

 

It'd be nice if it was normal though. It's annoying to have to crit every time.

 

Jump & strafe zombies. 90% one hits and rarely get hit unless there's 4+ zombies. ez munee ez lyfe

 

I beg to differ. The ONLY weapon a non-donor person has to defend themselves when they first spawn after death is a wood sword (or nail bat, or wood knife, depends on texture pack, but it always is called a "wood sword".)

And they're NOT just for zombies- I've been killed many times by reds (...well, actually, people from all three ranks) with swords, often while I'm, or both of us, are varying degrees of freshly spawned.

I've also used blades against bandits, often when they're not paying attention or AFK. The rule of thumb is that blades are useless against people with guns when they pay attention. However, when they have only a blade themselves or have thier backs turned in or out of game, draw the sword. (Of course, if it isn't the latter, the gun is far better.)

 

Well, true. However, you also have to think about early-game balance as well. Nerfing and buffing the wood, stone, and even iron swords will significantly change how swords are used in early game, and give those with better swords a MUCH better advantage even than they already have.

 

I ahm... I'm not sure how the latter would be done, but the diamond sword buff sounds really good.

Expecially if it could be made to compete with guns, but I'm just dreaming there. There's a reason why the sword lost to the gun in real life.

 

Instead of making swords more powerful, why not weaken zombies?

 

The big problem I have with that is that this is supposed to be a zombie survival game, not a PVP game.

Zombies are already UP compared to bandits anyways.

 

This is true. However, the zombies don't run around with guns, like humans do. Think of TWD. They all kill eachother.

 

True. Very true.

...Then again I have seen zombies with guns in this game (a holdover from zombies holding shovels and swords and whatnot), they just don't shoot.

 

Suggest a zombie health amount that would cause this. Currently zombies have 4 hearts (I've hit them with beans then a diamond sword: death, beans twice then iron sword: death) and that is the only amount of health that would make all swords two-shot. I agree that their health should be lowered (to 3.5 hearts, so diamond is one-hit all others are 2-hit), but we would have to raise zombie health and enchant higher tiers of swords to make this work. Personally I like the idea, but don't see it working well in the server.

 

But that goes against my biggest complaint about zombies.

THEY'RE POPCORN AS IT IS.