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Zombie Panic! is a modification for Half-Life in which the last remaining humans must fend for themselves against a horde of Zombies. It is currently in open beta playtesting.

Gameplay

When the game starts, one player is selected to be the zombie. The remaning players are placed on the team of humans, which is known as the "Survivors". The goal of the zombie is to kill all of the humans. The humans' goal, of course, is to kill the zombies and to stay alive as long as possible. The thing that makes the game interesting is, when a zombie is killed, he simply respawns and continues to play. If a human is killed, he respawns as a zombie. Humans die and join the ranks of the zombies, until there is only one human left, facing all of the zombies alone. When the last human dies, the round is over. Survivors can win the game by killing off all of the zombie reinforcements (the default is 20).

Maps are generally divided into two types, the standard type, and the "escape" or "objective" type. In these, the amount of zombie reinforcements is set to a level (usually 100) where it would be almost impossible for the Survivors to wipe them out. Victory is instead obtained by clearing objectives before being overwhelmed.

Teams

Humans have several advantages over the zombies:

Speed - The zombies only move at 80% of the speed of a human player, so all other things being equal, a human can outrun a zombie in a straight line. However, the more weaponry and ammo a human picks up, they slower he will move. This tends to discourage ammo hoarding.

Firearms - The Survivors have a great advantage in the form of ranged weapons, and in a long hallway, with plenty of distance between a human and a zombie, the human should have no trouble dropping the zombie with multiple slugs before he gets in range of the zombie's claws. Unfortunately, ammo is scarce, and you won't always have a nice long hallway to shoot down. Zombies *love* tight spaces.

Numbers - At the beginning of the round, the Survivors greatly outnumber the zombies. This means that they can easily watch each other's backs and provide cover fire. However, once the ammo starts to run dry, humans have to squabble amongst themselves for the few precious magazines of ammo available.

Zombies also have some advantages:

Persistence - Zombies may seem to die often, but they won't give up. They just keep respawning over and over until your pistol runs out of bullets, your back is to the wall, and there is no escape.

Numbers - Later on in the game, as the undead ranks swell with the freshly dead, the last few humans will find their superior weaponry small compensation for the hordes of zombies that close in.

Health - Zombies start with twice the amount of health as a survivor, and they also slowly regenerate health.

The mod has a creepy feeling to it and is designed to imbue the player with a sense of desperation. Overall, however, fun and playability is the priorty, not realism or horror. The mod can be easily played with any number of people.

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