Originally posted by Tahnval:
Originally posted by Shurenai: Wolves aren't immune to zombification; The direwolves (the big black ones) are zombified and mutated wolves. You can tell by the glowing eyes they have, and that, yknow, direwolves have been extinct for ages.
Mutated, maybe, but they're not zombified. Or if they are it has affected them completely differently so the distinction between wolves and dogs still applies. They have fur, their flesh isn't dead, etc.
They wouldn't necessarily be the same species as the direwolves of the past. Survivors who knew about the past existence of direwolves or who knew of direwolves in fictional fantasy settings might well name a new species of much larger wolves that way.
What matters seems to be whether the animal has ingested infected flesh, and potentially how much.
That's why vultures, the carrion eaters, are all infected, while dogs will have attacked/been attacked by their former owners and are all infected, meanwhile wolves/bears will be a mixed bag encountering or avoiding zombies out in the wild.
On the other hand, bunnies, chickens, boars, all completely free of infection; Save for Grace who was artificially experimented on by humans.
That's a good idea. It would probably have to be a matter of how much, since pigs are omnivores and many herbivores are opportunistic carnivores too.
There's a fly in the ointment, though. The player can be infected by being injured (so they're not immune) but they can't be infected by eating infected flesh. Although it would be cooked (in hobo stew) so maybe that would explain it. Other animals that eat flesh wouldn't be cooking it first.
The thing that, at least in my mind since you're right they aren't all rotted up, that strongly indicates/implies the direwolves are zombified, is that glow like I said. The direwolves have the exact same glow in their eyes that the Feral Zombies do.
Also we don't eat 'Infected' flesh in hobo stew. We eat 'Rotten' flesh. :) We harvest that flesh from corpses, albeit also from infected animals. But, It's specifically rotten, not infected. And cooking would surely denature the infection if it were indeed present anyway, especially when stewed over a lengthy period of time (crafting time notwithstanding 'cause gameplay... Noone would make something that actually took 6 hours to cook when other options are done way faster).
Also the infection the player recieves doesn't seem to be the same infection that causes zombification; Even at 100% infection we don't become a zombie, instead we miraculously survive; Plus it's cured by simple antibiotics or even honey.. If it was that easy to cure I can't imagine the zombie plague would have taken over the world.
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