[2022] A Brief Discussion On Vultures.

Since they’re zombie vultures, they should be attracted to your brains, and distracting sights and sounds. When you get on/in a vehicle though, even before you rev the engine and move, they for some reason want to start attacking you in cases where they didn’t before.

That behavior is counterintuitive at best. I understand the necessity for it on horde night, but the nuisance is unnecessary elsewhere. My hope is that this is a temporary threat, and that once bandits can start attacking vehicles, the (non-horde night) vultures can go back to the scavenger-ish behavior of just attacking players when they’re injured.

Originally posted by Jonnson: I hate them as well. I mean, they are so easy to kill, its like swatting a fly. The problem is, there are nonstop flies. Its the most annoying thing since cliff racers in morrowind.

A better solution would be to implement a range of failures when attempting to use vehicles to escape bloodmoon hordes.

The truck stalls out! You have flooded the engine.
A crack in your gas tank has bled the fuel dry.
The tires are flat!
The peddle just broke off.
The chain skipped off the sprocket.
The batteries dead.
You forgot to fill the radiator!
The belt snapped.
Your stuck in mud!
The transmission dropped.

These are all things that happen, especially when someone panicked by a horde of zombies chasing them, improperly handles their gear, in haste and distraction.

Oof, that’s a hard sell. The thing is, if you get one message one week and a different message the next week, a player expects there’s a reason for the difference, and will try to piece together what made the difference.

“Well, my vehicle’s HP was below 90% when it said the belt snapped. I’ll repair it and then it’ll work on horde night. Oh, this time it said I flooded the engine. Maybe because I parked it on an incline? Okay, NOW it’ll work on horde night. What, still no?”

By the time they’d realize it’s never going to work, they’d feel very jerked around. Better to come up with one plausible explanation and stick with it. But I’d rather be able to use a vehicle, vultures and all, than have it not work at all. I’m not in favor of shutting down a whole mode of gameplay for horde night.