Swimming: In zombies?

[Stop Mocking Me0]

It's been put off for quite a while but… Could trayarch implement a swimming mechanic in zombies? 

 

There are a few questions with this: 

-Only certain weapons are capable of being fired from under water. Does this mean our beloved wonder waffle will become the most deadly object imaginable? Or that the death machine would become futile? 

-The player's own air is an issue, maybe a diver's helmet like in moon? 

-Should more places be accessible via water travel? (YES!)

-Are zombies slower under water? Are players? 

-Aquatic horrors of the deep? 

 

What are your thoughts on the subject?

[Black Hand Smith]

If I were designing an aquatic map for zombies I would make it so that you have to wear a Diving Suit and there is no swimming. Instead you walk on the ocean floor and you move slower. The Zombies will also move slower which Evens it out. I guess maybe you can jump slightly Higher perhaps even giving you access to new areas. Also you can only stay underwater for a limited amount of time before your Air runs out. perhaps you can upgrade the diving Suit so that it gets an Oxygen upgrade and maybe even a Light attachment so you can go into darker areas such as an underwater cave or the abyss.

 

But swimming seems a bit....ehh. Maybe it could work, maybe it can't. I personally think that swimming would give a player too much space to train and stay safe.Maybe if you could swim in a Close quarters area. 

[Stop Mocking Me0]

So a beach= no but a submarine/sunkenship=yes! Have most of the corridors broken down and waterlogged, there's a way to remove the water and walk around at normal speed, but you couldn't swim to higher areas. 

[Black Hand Smith]

So a beach= no but a submarine/sunkenship=yes! Have most of the corridors broken down and waterlogged, there's a way to remove the water and walk around at normal speed, but you couldn't swim to higher areas. 

 

Sunken ship and submarine sound good. Areas with air and areas without air How about an electric Eel ?

[Stop Mocking Me0]

Dear god is this going to be a reoccurring thing now? 

 

Like the half-life 3 joke except about an electric eel dlc? 

 

God I hope so… 

[Black Hand Smith]

All hail the Electric Eel

[Electric Jesus]

You swim a little in the ghosts campaign, and the black ops one too (a vietnam mission.) That seems easily translatable to zombies. I think you should be able to swim a little by default, but have only like 10 seconds of breath, but can also build / acquire a diving mask.

[Boom115]

I'm sure it could be done, but does it make sense? If we are talking about our run of the mill zombies then I don't think so. From what we have seen they run on the most primal of instincts (except that one time they picked up George A. Romero for what ever reason). They run, swipe, and occasionally do some gravity defying jumps. If we are assuming some zombie realism here, they simply lack the basic motor skills needed to swim. However, that doesn't mean some sort of a boss is outside the realm of possibility.

[Stop Mocking Me0]

You mean like…. 

 

 

Electric eels?…. 

 

 

OR OCTOPUSES! 

OR SHARKS! 

[Black Hand Smith]

You mean like…. 

 

 

Electric eels?…. 

 

 

OR OCTOPUSES! 

OR SHARKS! 

or better yet...combine them all

 

Sharktopeel

[mralways1]

Got it..... All the zombies spawn from the water. New perk is - life saver- which is a life vest. The zombies first move is to drag, push, get you into the water. Life saver would keep you from floating downstream so fast, without it your team would have secs to start reviving or your dead downstream. Could incorporate fishing tools as weapons. And the weather, time of day could play a huge factor!

So it wouldn't be a swimming mode like you stated, but a neat mode regardless! I'm picturing a boat like these sizes maybe bigger then a normal pontoon boat