[2020] Its just me or the zombies are very smart with extreme determination? (For zombies)

There's a thousand different interpretations of zombie lore. Smart, dumb, slow, fast, blood hound nose, cant smell a thing, blind, not, sharp ears, deaf, Memory of an elephant, Memory of a goldfish...

They're the exact kind of zombies they are. They have a very strong will to get to your location if they saw you or to get to the location of any sound you made that they heard- But thats where there memory stops. The moment they reach your spot and you aren't there, they'll just go back to wandering.

As to targeting the pillar, There was no intelligence behind it- They just attacked the nearest thing to you that they could reach- Which was the pillar beneath you. Intelligence would have been to find a way up to your location without breaking anything. That the pillar in question happened to be load bearing is another issue entirely that the AI would barely account for in that specific situation.

Originally posted by Achille12345:

Originally posted by Shurenai: As to targeting the pillar, There was no intelligence behind it- They just attacked the nearest thing to you that they could reach- Which was the pillar beneath you. Intelligence would have been to find a way up to your location without breaking anything. That the pillar in question happened to be load bearing is another issue entirely that the AI would barely account for in that specific situation.

If they could see me or hear me, I would 100% understand but they couldn't I was on top of a big building like a Walmart, there was a concrete roof between me and them, they were attacking the pillar right under me, I later realize that it wasn't the only pillar they took down another one before trying to take down the second one, so they were trying to make the roof collapse on purpose which I find kind of interesting to be honest. lol

It's less that they were trying to collapse the roof, and more that they are a hive mind and will focus on destructing the first thing over initiating the destruction of another- If there were two pillars close enough to you for them to be registered in the pathing AI, whichever one a zombie walked into and started hitting first would become the one that other actively hostile zombies will focus on if they aren't already attacking something else.

It's because the AI prefers targets with less block HP to destination- The one with 3000 hp but took 30 damage from another zombie thereby is more preferred as 2970<3000.

They don't actively attempt to collapse things..They're just dumbly focused on attacking things in sequential order, instead of all targets at one time. Single target vs AoE.