Balancing Out Infected

So as I am sure you all know Infected has changed a lot since the introduction of the Raygun or Demolisher, whatever you want to call it. Basically Infected consists of two groups, the Zombies / Infected who tend to be the non-donors or newer players VS the donors. The Donors all have Rayguns and sit in places which the infected cannot reach racking up ridiculous scores with no skill involved. This is an example of what I am trying to explain - not saying you have no skill Serine. Infected has become a way that people can boost their stats with no effort or skill required at all and I think this is not what the game should be. The gamemode should be equally balanced so that the Infected have an equal chance of winning as the survivors.

How to fix this:
In my eyes there are a few ways that we can fix this problem and balance out the gamemode:

• My first idea is giving the infected blast protection. This would be a very easy fix to the gamemode which would let the zombies survive a tiny bit longer against the Rayguns and Laws that all the survivors have. I would give them blast prot II, giving the zombies slightly better protection than the Flack Jacket perk which you can buy in the shop (Flack Jacket is broken currently).
• My second idea consists of adding a slight delay to the rate of fire (RoF) of the Demolisher. What I am suggesting is when someone is about to shoot the gun it will take 1-2 seconds to "charge up" before it fires its lazer, kind of like the crossbow but for less time. This would stop everyone from spamming it non-stop into one spot where the zombies come from or at least give them more time in-between blasts to try and kill the person.

 

It is not a major delay, 1 second between shots at the most.

Making zombies two shot ties into my idea of giving them blast protection.

 

Tomahawks do not work for zombies in infected to my knowledge and this would barely help them as often the people using the raygun shoot them from the opposite side of the map where a tomahawk would be of no use to an infected.

 

R.I.P Survivors

 

Frag = Fragmentation, meaning that the grenade splits into smaller pieces of metal / shrapnel which shreds people, not disabling weapons.

 

You make some very good points here, but the nerf I am suggesting for the Ray would hardly make it useless fam. All it would do it allow the zombies a bit more time to get closer to their targets and hopefully kill them.

This would be a great idea but it also defeats the purpose of people buying grenades, sort if. If you think about it grenades are mainly brought for infect rounds and by adding in a feature where all zombies get grenades would stop people from voting, donating and /war buying them a huge amount. What if the root zombie spawned with say 6 grenades? This would let him infect some people easier but not unbalance the game.

 

This and maybe adding in a feature where after say 30% of the people are infected another zombie is randomly given some nades as well? This could shake things up some more.