What RE5 and Left 4 Dead have taught us about the Zombie Apocalypse

The zombies in RE5 Zombies though. They aren't the living dead. They're still living just infected.
Your best bet (if you ask me) is to get as far away from people as soon as possible. Get to a place that's remote, but you can defend. In a city you'll have to deal with hordes of Zombies. Costco is good if you can't get out of where you are. But in the end you still have to defend it against thousands and thousands of Zombies. And you'll run out of ammo fast.

My 5 rules.

1) stay away from military bases. They'll shoot you on sight in the event of a Zombie attack.

2) Be ready before it happens. Have a plan before it happens. And have as many friends on board of said plan.
I have a Zombie kit by the door. (Don't judge me). This kit would work in a natural disaster (food and water and tools), a Russian invasion or a Zombie Apocalypse. It's in ammo crates and ready to go at most any time. Then we (my group of friends) have an area to go to that's far away from people, but still has fresh water and a source of food.

3) Don't leave your house without a crowbar.
To those who have play Half Life you'll understand. To those who haven't it's a good solid melee weapon. Won't get dull. Won't break. And can smash in heads quite well. Also good for breaking open anything etc. Good all around tool.

4) remember that zombies are only killed when the brain is destroyed. However severing the spine will work. A neck shot, destroying the spine from the neck down will result in a zombie that is either dead, or only able to use it's head (haven't done it, can't really say). Either way the zombie is not attacking you. The neck is a softer target allowing you to use a .22 caliber rifle and still ensure a one shot "kill".

5) chose guns that have easy to find ammo. If you can learn to load your own ammo to keep up a good supply of it.
The FN P90 is a bad ass gun. But it's ammo (the 5.7x28mm) is rare. And the P90's round is made for piercing body armor. Not a big threat with zombies. instead pick handguns in 9mm or .45 caliber. Both are common automatic pistol (and Sub Machine Gun) rounds. Having a revolver is good (very reliable) but has a slow reload time and low ammo amount.
A good rifle type is .22 (very common, and very small. So you can carry a lot. Get a scope for it and zero it to at least 100 yards) but weak if you get surrounded etc. 5.56 nato is the round the M4 shoots. A nice accurate round that does great flesh damage. While a flesh wound is not much for a zombie. A head shot will still knock down a zombie. Better would be the 7.62 nato or the 7.62x54r. They have lot of recoil, but a lot of power. can go through the spine and sever the spinal cord. Making a "crawler" or zombie without legs. A good choice for this is the M91/30. The gun is common. And has a massive bayonet (if the ♥♥♥♥ hits the fan that bad). Also amazingly accurate and is a bolt action gun (thus very reliable.) The Ak47 is my biggest pick though. Shoots what could be the most common rifle cartridge in the world. The 7.62x39mm. Does a good amount of damage and has a fair range. (A side note. the Ak74 shoots the 5.45 round. This wound lacks the stopping power of the 7.62, and lacks the flash damage of the 5.56 nato round [which tumbles on impact of flesh] it's not a great gun. But better than a .22 in power). It's also common and very reliable. You'll need to clean your AR (M4, M16, etc) platform a lot. You'll never need to clean the Ak47 (though you should for accuracy).
In the end any gun works. But if you are one to plan look into these guns. The SKS is also a good cheap option to the AK47. Shoots the same round. But over heats from use faster. And isn't reliable like it.
I'd also like to say that full auto is a good way to waste ammo. since a head shot is need to kill a zombie most anything else will just waste ammo. Slow them down (blowing legs and arms off) etc but won't kill them. However if you can manage your trigger finger under stress it's not a bad option. But it's by no means needed. Bolt action rifles are slow but accurate. It's a good idea to have some people in your group armed with them. make sure to get a good scope and zero it to a range you like. It all depends on where you live (where you'll fight the zombies).

Those are my 5 rules. Use them or not. I don't care. I'll shoot you if you become a zombie any way

Every time I think of "zombies", I think of I am Legend.
That movie was the bomb.

No one mentioned getting a shotgun? Thats zombie killing 101

Originally Posted by Evilsbane

Question: do you think a zombie would eat another zombie if hungry enough? If not, why not? If so, what would stop them from eating each other to begin with?

In RE2 or RE3 you can see zombies eating other zombies

No one mentioned getting a shotgun? Thats zombie killing 101

WRONG.

Shotguns cause bloody explosions. Blood flying everywhere increases your chance of infection!

Anyway, I have 9 zombie plans. All are far too detailed to explain on this forum, and I wouldn't tell you anyway.

Plan Number 8's first step is to never tell anyone your plan. They might remember it once they've been infected and use it against you.

THIS PLAN. . . IT IS MINE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFLtU...eature=related

One of those.

According to the Zombie Survivl Guide, (an epic book)I should first tear down the steps in front of my house. Zombies can't jump, so, it would stop the for a while. I'd then barricade the doors wih hurricane shutters. I'd stockpile all of the knives in the house, and use my dad's axe as a weapon, and an antiqu pitchfork to get them at a distance. If gun store were open, I'd buy some sort of semi-automatic rifle, or maybe a SMG, for dealing with Zomies from a distance. I'd also use my lawnmower as a sort of sentry by the door. Whenever a zombie comes near, I'd saw it up. My my friend's dad owns threee chainsaws and lives close to here, so he could help, and I think oe of my neighors has a double-barreled shtgun for hunting. I'd also plant knives in the ground as traps, and put barbed wire oe my fence, an, if there would be time, I'd dig a trench around the house, with knives at the bottom.

Yeah, that's my plan for defending my house.

Nazi zombies anyone? Except not so Nazi.

Originally Posted by Valhelm

According to the Zombie Survivl Guide, (an epic book)I should first tear down the steps in front of my house. Zombies can't jump, so, it would stop the for a while. I'd then barricade the doors wih hurricane shutters. I'd stockpile all of the knives in the house, and use my dad's axe as a weapon, and an antiqu pitchfork to get them at a distance. If gun store were open, I'd buy some sort of semi-automatic rifle, or maybe a SMG, for dealing with Zomies from a distance. I'd also use my lawnmower as a sort of sentry by the door. Whenever a zombie comes near, I'd saw it up. My my friend's dad owns threee chainsaws and lives close to here, so he could help, and I think oe of my neighors has a double-barreled shtgun for hunting. I'd also plant knives in the ground as traps, and put barbed wire oe my fence, an, if there would be time, I'd dig a trench around the house, with knives at the bottom.

Yeah, that's my plan for defending my house.

Acid moat. Sorted.

Originally Posted by Valhelm

According to the Zombie Survivl Guide, (an epic book)I should first tear down the steps in front of my house. Zombies can't jump, so, it would stop the for a while. I'd then barricade the doors wih hurricane shutters. I'd stockpile all of the knives in the house, and use my dad's axe as a weapon, and an antiqu pitchfork to get them at a distance. If gun store were open, I'd buy some sort of semi-automatic rifle, or maybe a SMG, for dealing with Zomies from a distance. I'd also use my lawnmower as a sort of sentry by the door. Whenever a zombie comes near, I'd saw it up. My my friend's dad owns threee chainsaws and lives close to here, so he could help, and I think oe of my neighors has a double-barreled shtgun for hunting. I'd also plant knives in the ground as traps, and put barbed wire oe my fence, an, if there would be time, I'd dig a trench around the house, with knives at the bottom.

Yeah, that's my plan for defending my house.

I'd suggest making sure you have a way of getting food and water though. Biggest problem with barricading in a house. Otherwise very nice plan.

I meant to add to mine (but forgot) to talk about tactical reloading. Which in a zombie environment (or any if you ask me) is important.
When you cock a gun you move a round from the magazine to the chamber. (cock is working the bolt. Don't ask). When you fire all your rounds from the magazine the bolt (on many guns) locks back and once a new magazine is put in must be let back. (or in the case of the Ak models must be cocked to load the first round in). This takes time, and while doing this you have no ammo. Tactical reloading is reloading before your magazine runs out of ammo. This way you still have a round in the chamber and you don't need to cock the gun when a new magazine is inserted. in a video game this is easy since you can see how many rounds are left and reload when it gets low enough. In real life you just have to have a feel for how many rounds you've shot, making it much harder. However if you shoot semi you can count trigger pulls (kinda annoying) or just get a feel for how long you've shot from that magazine. If you already have a zombie defense gun it's worth practicing. otherwise it's mostly important if the ♥♥♥♥ has hit the fan and you're left with a pistol. That bullet in the chamber while reloading may save your life.

And that's enough nerdiness for me today

Originally Posted by GECK~101

My best bet, since how I'm already in Canada, would be to go to Alaska. Let's hope zombies wouldn't make it that far in the cold.

Zombies are actually extreme liberals - they believe in equality for everybody, a world where everyone shares the rights to death and brainlessness. Alaska would be one the safest places on earth, because Sarah Palin's sheer noxious rightwingedness would repulse them.

Originally Posted by shaianwillems

i think Amerika will be the first to fall in a Zombie outbreak LOL

We have guns here. You Brits have sticks. Good luck with that.

Originally Posted by Rumplestiltskin

I'd.... How do zombies tell the difference between a human and a fellow zombie anyway? If smell out their pray then I'd mask my scent. Perhaps like Arny did in Predator with the mud or maybe by making a suit out of dead zombie skins.

My friend and I actually had an interesting discussion about this. Why do zombies never eat their own? The obvious answer is that, as their flesh is rotting, they have barely any nutritional value. They can't rely on sense of smell, as the smell of rotting flesh would cover a normal human's scent. Their brains have deteriorated to the point that only the basest instincts survive, so they shouldn't be able to discern a normal human by appearance.

We considered that maybe they're heat-sensitive. Normal humans have increased bloodflow, making them more detectable (except in America, where everyone's arteries are clogged, so we win again).

Behavior recognition makes the most sense. Running around, shouting, generally drawing attention to yourself seems to attract zombies like nothing else. Which begs the question: Could you really walk right through a zombie mob by pretending to be a zombie? They're not very smart, so assuming they find prey by behavior recognition, then as long as you don't stand out, you should be fine.

Unless you're talking about Resident Evil zombies, which are entirely different. Their mental capacity is preserved, their bodies are intact, and they have a hive-mind. If there's ever an outbreak of those dudes, you're pretty much ♥♥♥♥ed.

Edit: Cute, ZU. Got tired of asterisks? The entire point of cursing is that it's inappropriate. Words are sounds that emerge from your mouth. They have no inherent meaning; communication happens in the mind, not on the lips. Society labels the syllable itself taboo, regardless of definition or context. Thus, there is nothing morally wrong with it, and anyone who tells you otherwise is an anal-retentive prick. Free your mind, man!

Originally Posted by Bradapalooza

THIS PLAN. . . IT IS MINE.

That's actually a very, very bad plan. I shouldn't have to explain why.

Originally Posted by Crab Helmet

Zombies are actually extreme liberals - they believe in equality for everybody, a world where everyone shares the rights to death and brainlessness. Alaska would be one the safest places on earth, because Sarah Palin's sheer noxious rightwingedness would repulse them.

Religious zealotry overrules political repulsion. If anything, the challenge to their beliefs that all have a moral prerogative to enjoy death and brainlessness would only bring them crashing down Palin's gates.

Originally Posted by VictorZamora

Every time I think of "zombies", I think of I am Legend.
That movie was the bomb.

I Am Legend was closer to a Vampire movie though

Originally Posted by Koulatio

I Am Legend was closer to a Vampire movie though

Nosferatu, to be precise. They were hardly zombies in any other sense than that they ate people. And...infected them. Wait, vampires turn people, too. Okay, yes, they were definitely nosferatu.