World War Z mod?

[Halochief89 0]

I just finished reading World War Z last week or so and thinking for awhile I realized that it would be awesome to maybe in the battle of yonkers or other military battles against the dead. Considering during the war the U.S. changed drematically.

They weren't using ACU they used Navy camo why would they like the dead care. As well their weapon was the SIR or Standard infantry rifle which is a mix of the XM8 and the AK47 supposedly looks like this http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d78/Guyver89/S_I_R.jpg

Just like supposedly the battle of Yonkers was this

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums....ers.jpg

Wouldn't it be cool if you could be in famous battles and moments in World War Z?

[abs 2]

It WOULD be cool...but unless you're planning on making it, what's the point of this thread?

Abs

[Halochief89 0]

Well I do know how to model guns I just need a team and my new computer coming in August 26th

[liljb15 0]

The battle of Yonkers was by far one of the coolest segments I have EVER read in a zombie book, If anyone recreates that segment in a missio I swear I will worship the ground you walk on and eat your poo.

Okay maybe I got a little too excited there just to clear things up I won't really eat anyones poo.

[Halochief89 0]

Yea yonkers was collosal compared to any thing the united states has ever seen. Over 200 million dead walking towards you!!! I'd think I'd run!

[Kerry 0]

The battle of Yonkers was by far one of the coolest segments I have EVER read in a zombie book, If anyone recreates that segment in a missio I swear I will worship the ground you walk on and eat your poo.

Okay maybe I got a little too excited there just to clear things up I won't really eat anyones poo.

lol....

[TheReddog 0]

That picture of the SIR you posted just looks silly.

There was really no detailed description of it in the book other than being made to be solid, reliable and accurate with wooden furniture and an action supposedly similar to the AK47. Any conventional weapon layout with wood firniture would do, but that bastardised combining of a G36 and AK in the pic just looks terrible.

[USSRsniper 0]

Mod... you just palce zombies and after they die keep spawning them.

[Halochief89 0]

That would be stupid if this mod were to be made I would see

1.New zombies partially slow zombies maybe new skins

2. New skins for the US soldiers or other soldiers matching the book's description of Navy BDU camo.

3. Maybe not that SIR look but some new rifle designed by the description.

4. New Islands like the coast of Greenland, Yonkers north of new york and even a remodeled sahrani where buildings are stained with blood and such.

5. New civillian looks and even by my extent an old person animation(since some stories in WWZ have old survivors)

6. Somehow when you retreat up to mountains the higher you get the colder it is so that the zombies slow down more and more until frozen solid.

7. The new 5.56 PIE round the SIR rifle had where when the bullet/round hit the target it would partially explode.

8. New skins for strykers and bradleys.

9. Mk. 19 with the bashing rounds with 300 spikes launched from each round producing massive damage.

10. Maybe even use UAVs if ArmA has any.

11. New voices for zombie moments of fear(I'd voice act) Like " Holy s*** I shot him in the head and he didn't die" In which either an automated chain of radio chatter after like "What what! they're f***ing invincible oh god we're doomed"

12. Somehow with the zombie units give them 2 blood colors red and black for the solnum ooze.

So far what I've thought up.

[Halochief89 0]

That picture of the SIR you posted just looks silly.

There was really no detailed description of it in the book other than being made to be solid, reliable and accurate with wooden furniture and an action supposedly similar to the AK47. Any conventional weapon layout with wood firniture would do, but that bastardised combining of a G36 and AK in the pic just looks terrible.

Since its not a G36 you cant really say that since Max Brooks described it with the wood finish since the US didnt have enough time for the composite material M4s and M16s are made out of.

Most things of the SIR rifle are AK47 with the no jamming throw it in mud for 3 days barrel down and it'll still shoot all they did was add the handle of the XM8 rifle. And the Spike bayonet.

So you can say its a AK47 with a M8 grip

[Col. Faulkner 0]

Since its not a G36 you cant really say that since Max Brooks described it with the wood finish since the US didnt have enough time for the composite material M4s and M16s are made out of.

Most things of the SIR rifle are AK47 with the no jamming throw it in mud for 3 days barrel down and it'll still shoot all they did was add the handle of the XM8 rifle. And the Spike bayonet.

So you can say its a AK47 with a M8 grip

Why not just use AK47s then? Surely that'd be even quicker

than redesigning a new rifle. Anyway, whatever; criticising

the rifle design is largely irrelevant since it's just a fantasy

story.

[USSRsniper 0]

That would be stupid if this mod were to be made I would see

1.New zombies partially slow zombies maybe new skins

2. New skins for the US soldiers or other soldiers matching the book's description of Navy BDU camo.

3. Maybe not that SIR look but some new rifle designed by the description.

4. New Islands like the coast of Greenland, Yonkers north of new york and even a remodeled sahrani where buildings are stained with blood and such.

5. New civillian looks and even by my extent an old person animation(since some stories in WWZ have old survivors)

6. Somehow when you retreat up to mountains the higher you get the colder it is so that the zombies slow down more and more until frozen solid.

7. The new 5.56 PIE round the SIR rifle had where when the bullet/round hit the target it would partially explode.

8. New skins for strykers and bradleys.

9. Mk. 19 with the bashing rounds with 300 spikes launched from each round producing massive damage.

10. Maybe even use UAVs if ArmA has any.

11. New voices for zombie moments of fear(I'd voice act) Like " Holy s*** I shot him in the head and he didn't die" In which either an automated chain of radio chatter after like "What what! they're f***ing invincible oh god we're doomed"

12. Somehow with the zombie units give them 2 blood colors red and black for the solnum ooze.

So far what I've thought up.

This is not enough for zombie mod, because its not fun just shooting zombies... that don't even fall apart...   Because currently in ArmA you you even need headshots, enough body hits and zombie dies :P What fun about shooting zombies with .50 cal when they dont even lose their limbs... as in the book.... or any other zombie related movie and book..

heh almsot forgot, add Iron maiden music    Don't they listen to it before one of the battles? Can't remember which.. but i think it took place at desert. This battle for some reason reminded em of old style 18th century warfare :P people stading in line and killing each other  

If mod is going to be amde don't just make major battles make up some other mission such as S&R missions for downed pilots, or some recon missions with special forces, evacuating civilians, etc.  

[liljb15 0]

Yonkers took place just north of New york if memory serves me right. But the main thing you need is slow zombies(with good animations) and soldiers in some sort of heavy biohazard suit. Also some missions where you take the role of a civilian is good too It should be pretty easy to make a city look like it's in some sort of state of anarchy.

[Halochief89 0]

That would be stupid if this mod were to be made I would see

1.New zombies partially slow zombies maybe new skins

2. New skins for the US soldiers or other soldiers matching the book's description of Navy BDU camo.

3. Maybe not that SIR look but some new rifle designed by the description.

4. New Islands like the coast of Greenland, Yonkers north of new york and even a remodeled sahrani where buildings are stained with blood and such.

5. New civillian looks and even by my extent an old person animation(since some stories in WWZ have old survivors)

6. Somehow when you retreat up to mountains the higher you get the colder it is so that the zombies slow down more and more until frozen solid.

7. The new 5.56 PIE round the SIR rifle had where when the bullet/round hit the target it would partially explode.

8. New skins for strykers and bradleys.

9. Mk. 19 with the bashing rounds with 300 spikes launched from each round producing massive damage.

10. Maybe even use UAVs if ArmA has any.

11. New voices for zombie moments of fear(I'd voice act) Like " Holy s*** I shot him in the head and he didn't die" In which either an automated chain of radio chatter after like "What what! they're f***ing invincible oh god we're doomed"

12. Somehow with the zombie units give them 2 blood colors red and black for the solnum ooze.

So far what I've thought up.

This is not enough for zombie mod, because its not fun just shooting zombies... that don't even fall apart... Because currently in ArmA you you even need headshots, enough body hits and zombie dies :P What fun about shooting zombies with .50 cal when they dont even lose their limbs... as in the book.... or any other zombie related movie and book..

heh almsot forgot, add Iron maiden music Don't they listen to it before one of the battles? Can't remember which.. but i think it took place at desert. This battle for some reason reminded em of old style 18th century warfare :P people stading in line and killing each other

If mod is going to be amde don't just make major battles make up some other mission such as S&R missions for downed pilots, or some recon missions with special forces, evacuating civilians, etc.

yeah we might do the downed female(though arma doesnt have female soldiers) pilot where when she fell asleep in the tree she had hundreds of zombies.

Yea also the iron maiden music have that as a trigger or something so that when the zombies pass a certain point the music starts then when they're even closer they stop.

As well I thought up a new campaign where maybe you follow a normal U.S. civillian where the 1st mission is to escape the city while zombie overrun it. Then soon in the missions you join the US military and fight at Yonkers. Also considering Yonkers that the line broke and soldiers ran everywhere that would be the most exciting one.

[Halochief89 0]

Since its not a G36 you cant really say that since Max Brooks described it with the wood finish since the US didnt have enough time for the composite material M4s and M16s are made out of.

Most things of the SIR rifle are AK47 with the no jamming throw it in mud for 3 days barrel down and it'll still shoot all they did was add the handle of the XM8 rifle. And the Spike bayonet.

So you can say its a AK47 with a M8 grip

Why not just use AK47s then? Surely that'd be even quicker

than redesigning a new rifle. Anyway, whatever; criticising

the rifle design is largely irrelevant since it's just a fantasy

story.

Well for one thing this rifle was more accurate and used the 5.56 PIE rounds which when in a zombie explodes destroying the brain.

Also the different types of the gun used certain amount of rounds. The carbine had 40 as to the sniper had 20 and the normal version had 30 rounds.

[Col. Faulkner 0]

Well for one thing this rifle was more accurate and used the 5.56 PIE rounds which when in a zombie explodes destroying the brain.

Also the different types of the gun used certain amount of rounds. The carbine had 40 as to the sniper had 20 and the normal version had 30 rounds.

Whatever. Like I said, it's a fantasy rifle. One last thing I'd

say, though, is that the XM8 stock design would be hard to

make in wood. Polymer has very different properties from

wood, and an L-shaped butt in wood with the toe of the butt

hanging unreinforced like it is would not be very robust. I'd

opine that it'd be more likely to have a conventional solid

wood stock - much stronger and quicker to make (like the

AK47 has, in fact), or even a metal skeleton one (like those

rubbishy AK74S things, for instance). Anway, it's up to you.

[liljb15 0]

If it's possible you should add in melee weapons for the civilian missions.

[badlymad 0]

I always thought that the SIR would look quite similar to a SL8 in appearance, but with wooden furniture instead of plastic.

Recreating Yonkers would be pretty neat though, though i think the Battle of Hope would be similarly dramatic.

[EvilAndy 0]

I've actually experimented with the zombie mods that have been putt out already and while they are cool... they aren't quite right. You'd either need to make a new zombie mod that was really zombie like or wait for someone else to make one. Also SIR rifles could be however you wanted it since there was no absolute discription of the weapon(like it would even matter it's a book, you don't have to copy the book just be inspired) aslong as it had the properties such as the PIE round. Also playing with the zombie mods it's surprisingly hard to take down one of those things, mutilple headshots and nothing... a better hit detection would also be needed.

I loved WWZ and was planing on making a zombie mod myslef, not exactly like WWZ but something like it. You'll have to let me know how it goes and good luck, although i think neither one of us will have a good Zombie model until the tools are released.

might not want to stick strictly to a WWZ story either it might cross some kind of infringment law or something...

Evil Andy

[-10thMT-Tack-Up 0]

Is this a game, that intised you to think about this mod, because if so i would like to play the game.

[liljb15 0]

Tack-Up @ Aug. 16 2007,04:54)]Is this a game, that intised you to think about this mod, because if so i would like to play the game.

It's a book by Max brooks

[NeMeSiS 11]

I can tell you now: You arent going to get the same feeling as in the book. The battle of Yonkers had several millions of zombies, ever had 300 zombies on your screen at the same time? Yeah, that hits your FPS, and while 300 zombies is alot when they are comming at you, its definately not enough for 'slow zombies', even if you keep constantly respawning them and removing the dead bodies.

[metsapeikko 0]

I can tell you now: You arent going to get the same feeling as in the book. The battle of Yonkers had several millions of zombies, ever had 300 zombies on your screen at the same time? Yeah, that hits your FPS, and while 300 zombies is alot when they are comming at you, its definately not enough for 'slow zombies', even if you keep constantly respawning them and removing the dead bodies.

Hmm, maybe about 100 "active" zombies and they keep spawning until uhm few million zombies have been killed? Yeah, I havent read that book mainly because I just couldnt find it, so I cant tell whats "right and wrong".

(I dont think arma can even spawn so many zombies after all)

[Grinman 0]

I've always thought of the rifle as a cross between an SL9, M14 /Enfield mk4/Garand stock, and slightly a mag similar to an AK mag yet slightly less curved and stubbier, perhaps made of stamped steel or something

[EvilAndy 0]

OK good idea for a mod, but hey do we really have to copy every aspect of the book... use the concepts for a back story and make some really cool Zombie missions.... all these little details like the SIR rifle are all up to you. I'm working on an RPG concept i really think that ARMA has the grounds to be a platform for a killer MMORPG/FPS. Part of the story i'd like for this would also be to include Zombies. I've taken inspiration from World War Z but i think that to copy an idea template would be uncreative... BE inspired thats it

Evil Andy