FAF Zombies

Zombies mod for Forged Alliance Forever!

What is this?

An enhanced version of the old Zombies mod created by Zarechaun.

Recommended Settings

• Vampire - 50%
• Zombie Build Rate - 1.25x
• Zombie Speed - Fast - 125%
• Zombie Decay - None

Mechanics

A player slot is designated as the "Zombie". Any units that die in game respawn as zombies for this player, I'll refer to this as zombification.

Zombie players units are zombified by default now. THis means they only die once, instead of twice which was the previous mechanic.

Lobby Options

Due to modding limitations, lobby options are found under the "AI Options" for the lobby.

Player Slot

You can select the player slot for the Zombie. This will designate that player as the Zombie for the entirely of the game.

Vampire

This is built-in mass & energy vampire. When you kill a unit a percentage of that units mass/energy cost is added to your currently stored mass & energy. Say you have vampire set to 50%, this means you receieve 50% the mass/energy cost of what you kill.

Vampire currently applies to both normal players, and the zombie.

Options:

• 0% (Default)
• 25%
• 50%
• 100%
• 125%
• 150%
• 175%
• 200%

Zombie Speed

This changes the movement speed of zombified units.

Options:

• Very Slow: 50% Speed
• Slow: 75% Speed
• Normal: Normal Speed (Default)
• Fast: 125% Speed
• Very Fast: 150% Speed

Zombie Decay

This lets you set a decay rate for zombified units. This causes the units (and buildings) to take damage over time as they "decay". The goal of this is to force the zombie player to be agressive and offensive, and to not horde mass amounts of units.

Options:

• None : No Decay (Default)
• Dynamic: Zombies decay logarithmicly, starts at normal decay speeds
• Very Slow: Decay within 12 minutes
• Slow: Decay within 8 minutes
• Normal: Decay within 5 minutes
• Fast: Decay within 3 minutes
• Very Fast: Decay within 1 minutes

Notes:

• Regen or repair extends the lifespan of units with time-based decay
• Dynamic decay, in practice, will not kill units as the decay rate decreases as the units health decreases.
• This only applies to zombified units. The zombie plyers untis are NOT zombified by defualt, they have to be killed once to become zombies. This is likely to change in the future.

Zombie Player Build Rate

This increases the build rate of the player in the Zombie slot. This buf applies to every Zombie player unit.

Options:

• None
• 1.25x
• 1.5x
• 1.75x
• 2x
• 2.5x
• 3x
• 4x

What's Different?

• Lobby Options
  • Energy/Mass Vampire Options
  • Zombie slot selection
  • Zombie movement speed selection
  • Zombie unit decay selection
• Zombie slot unit death changes
  • Ctrl+K units no longer become zombies
• Welcome message
• Left info slideout (WIP, empty right now)

[Deprecated] Zombie slot unit death changes [Deprecated]

Zombie player units no longer completely die and respawn from where the wreck is. This was the cause of some weirdness such as naval units not coming back till they sunk, and air units spawning on the ground. This also caused some grief to players as move/attack orders would be lost.

This has been changed so Zombie player units, on first death, show an explosion, but keep attacking/moving immediately. Vampire mass/energy and veterancy is handed out appropriately.

This also means that Zombie players fotresses don't fall twice, and chickens don't produce two lightning storms.

Planned Features

• Mass/Energy Vampire Stats in slideout
• Zombies killed stats in sidebar
• Balance
  • Zombie player only Vampire option
  • Prevent some experimentals owned by the Zombie player from respawning after death (other players experimentals still become zombies)?
  • Option to turn off Zombie players zombies? Meaning the Zombie players units are already zombies, so they don't respawn fter death.
• Random Zombie assignment game mode (like phantom)
• Some sort of buffs/nerfs to Zombies/Normies to make the game more dynamic
  • Zombie Speed
  • Zombie unit health decay
  • Zombie Build Speed
• Cheese Mode (Fractal Zombies)
  • Experimentals should split into 1/2 mass equivilant T3 units of their kind
    • CZAR -> Restorers
    • Megolith -> 2x monkeylords
    • Fatboy -> Demolishers
    • ....etc

Credits

Icon credit goes to Roundicons from www.flaticon.com