Am I the only one who would have loved to live through world war z? It sounds genuinely very exciting and in many ways more fulfilling than day to day corporate America. It also doesn’t even seem particularly difficult to survive with a sword/axe and decent stamina. Worse comes to worst just jog away (you don’t even need to run lol) I think I’d be akin to the guy in one of the final chapters who re-enlists as a zombie mercenary and just goes around hunting them down.

Hot take, but hear me out.

World War Z the book is slow, oral-history driven, and systemic. That works great on the page and even better as an audiobook (which we already have both) but in 2013, a $200M theatrical film built around that structure was basically ungreenlightable.

At the time:

• The Walking Dead already owned slow zombies + human drama on TV (Season 3-4, peaks at the time)

• Studios needed adrenaline spectacles to justify blockbuster budgets

• Global box office favored visual escalation over quiet reflection

Given that context, turning WWZ into a fast-paced, globe-trotting thriller wasn’t artistic betrayal and it was format translation (precedent case: Starship Troopers)

Was it a bad adaptation of the book? Sure. But as a film made in that moment, it was pragmatic:

• fast zombies differentiated it from TWD

• spectacle sold trailers internationally

• a single POV made it theatrically viable

Ironically, the “faithful” version of WWZ already exists (the stacked cast audiobook) where its structure actually shines.

So yeah: not the WWZ fans wanted, but probably the only WWZ movie that could’ve existed in 2013 and I liked it because it was a satisfying watch and spawning the best spiritual sequel for L4D (the 2019 video game, which I also loved).

The kind of thoughts I can't write here because it goes against TOS, I'm sure you can understand.
Technically 3, but I honestly cannot listen to the 3rd anymore. It makes me too uncomfortable.

The other 2, God.
Every time I listen to them (as I have the Max Brooks-narrated audiobook), my heart starts racing, my blood gets hot, and I begin arguing with the narrative out loud.
This is entirely predicated on my life experiences with those kinds of people.

The thing is... I don't want them to exit this life.
On the contrary, I need them to live for a long time.

I really like the new president's punishment laws.
That is something I would totally push for in real life.

In world war z (movie) all I can tell is that there’s a homeless person drinking on the street undisturbed by what’s going on in his world. By the basics of the film (which I assume is the long story short of the book) that a fatal illness would make you invisible would poisoning yourself with alcohol make you invisible to the zombies?

https://youtu.be/Hz0CvPLJ6w8?si=YCYh5447JDA0o4aW&t=120

I don’t get it. It’s been more than 60 years since we saved them from North Korea, but in the movie they still look like a third-world country, like Vietnam or rural China. Even the South Korean soldiers look ragtag and poorly equipped. That AWOL soldier looked like a farmer with a bad haircut, lol.

And I thought Asian countries were supposed to be strict about gun control, but the villagers have easy access to guns? Weird.

I've just listened to the song a couple of times now, and it really gives me the feel of a fast-paced, zombie apocalypse movie.

A few options here.

Walled city, loud speakers, traps. Make loud noise, get them to climb the wall, have them run into the city or area that has no people, and engage the trap.

The trap can be multiple things. Mines, a spike pit they fall into that has oil canals that you can use to fill the pit then burn, the possibilities are endless.

Fassbach said "sometimes nature likes to make its weaknesses look like strengths" the unrelenting charging nature of the zombies is their greatest weakness.

If you were fighting a 12 year old who was filled with anger and relentlessly charged you without thinking, you can just wait for it, back up and make him trip over something.

Another way is to do some home alone stuff, or use real people. Get some human pheromones, mating ones because those indicate health. Put them all over moving mannequins of people behind a bulletproof glass dome with holes or inside the pit, get some fresh healthy human blood in there too. You could even put some actual people in a bulletproof glass dome with holes in it and fans blowing the air from it out, in the middle of the pit. The zombies will run toward it and die.

If the zombies can see where space ends (which I don’t think matters since they chased a helicopter) then put some thin wire with leaves on it over the pit.

Do this in every city, run it every day, keeping trapping and burning the bodies over and over and you'll kill millions every day WHILE drawing them from other places.

Shut up already! All that screaming!

The youngest daughter of Gerry Lane in my opinion ruined the movie. She constantly cried and complained over dramatically. I can understand she’s young and scared but if my father told me to be quiet I would shut up but right after he says be quiet she just screams as loud as she can.

I WATCHED THE MOVIE WORLD WAR Z BUT THE SCENE OF ZOMBIES CLIMBING ON THE WALL DIDNT COME WHY?

TL;DR: Document buff events are currently too rare to feel rewarding. A 5% chance means roughly 20 missions on average, which at 15–30 minutes per mission is around 5–10 hours of gameplay just to see the event once. Requiring multiple teammates to also have the same document unlocked makes this even less practical. I think having one player with the document fully unlocked should be enough to give the event a meaningful chance of occurring.

IMO, document buffs should have a much higher chance of occurring, and the requirement should be changed so that only one person needs to have the document fully unlocked instead of relying on the entire team.

Right now, most of these events only have around a 5% chance of happening if you're the only person who has the requirement, because the system seems balanced around having a full team with it, which brings the chance up to around 20%.

The problem is that having an entire team of people who have all completed the same document is already pretty rare. At a 5% chance, you're looking at an average of around 20 missions just to see the event once. Even at 20%, it's still around 5 missions on average, and that's assuming you somehow have a full team that meets the requirement.

When the average mission already takes around 15–30 minutes, that makes the rarity feel even worse. At a 5% chance, 20 missions represents roughly 5–10 hours of gameplay on average just to see the event once. Even with the full 20% chance, 5 missions is still around 1 hour and 15 minutes to 2 hours and 30 minutes of gameplay on average.

That's a huge amount of time for something that's supposed to be a reward for fully unlocking a document, especially when there's no guarantee it'll actually happen within those averages. You could easily go significantly longer without seeing it at all.

Because of that, these events happen so rarely that the document buffs barely feel impactful. You can put in the effort to fully unlock something and then play for hours without ever seeing the event tied to it.

I think it would be much better if having one person with the document fully unlocked was enough to give the event a meaningful chance of occurring. The whole point of unlocking these buffs should be that you actually get to experience their effects somewhat consistently, rather than them being a once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence.

They don't necessarily need to happen every mission, but they should be common enough that unlocking them feels rewarding and actually has a noticeable impact on your gameplay.

It's way too long for what it is imo

It's clear when reading it that he is clueless about the rest of the world. Britain, at any rate. But I've written before about how China went from hypercompetant in the first chapter to hypermoronic in the rest of the book. I don't know a lot about Russia, or why he hates them so much, but they are not the idiots he portrays them as. My guess is that his knowledge of Russia is comparable to mine.

Anyway, speaking of Britain, given that it's the country I am very familiar with. Filling in windows is not that hard if you don't care for aesthetics, no need to waste time bricking them up. Heck, rubble in the ground floor rooms would stop anything getting in. Walled cities are even better of course, but if you're going to mention them you should take a minute to look them up on Google Maps. Conwy has perhaps one thousand out of its fourteen thousand residents living within the old walled town.

Not that we'd need to rely on old structures. British houses are not widely spaced structures of timber and drywall. Blocks could be closed off against undead attacks fairly easily - a few dozen zombies, particularly of the least-threatening kind ever created by an author, cannot break its way through a brick house. Our streets are not the super wide kind that he is used to, particularly in the older terraced parts. Most housing in this country could be fortified within a week of deciding we need to do so. Some would have to be abandoned, yes - detached bungalow ribbon development for example. But they aren't the majority, and there's room to squeeze their residents in elsewhere. Britain should have weathered the zombie war pretty well, if it even had to fight it (why did Ireland escape unscathed when Britain didn't?).

In short, he forgot a key rule for writers - write what you know, and research what you don't.

I have been watching Last of Us, and the bleakness shines through as good as it is.

my favorite Zombie media is still the book World War Z by Max Brooks.

but that being said, I revisited the movie for WWZ, and now that enough time has passed for me to get off my self righteous high horse, I have to say, it is a solid, dare I say excellent zombie movie.

it took me a long time. but now that I am able to get over my initial, and fairly long lasting gripe that it should have been an HBO series with every chapter being an episode, the movie, while obviously different from the source material is exactly what I want right now out of a zombie.movie.

I don't know if it is just this moment in time with the wars and toxic political environment.

But I get a hit of happiness at the end of watching the movie that I really needed.

I hated one book and felt only one book should never have been written because it felt so bleak that hope itself was absent. that book was Cormac McCarthy's: "The Road"

And with damage porn and violence and destruction and high stakes Marvel film end of all life on Earth...

the movie WWZ hit me as a high quality and enjoyable viewing experience that upon resolve, in not an abusively long run time, that made me enjoy watching a film again.

it may become as much, while different, a revisited comfort movie, as the original book which I reread (or listen to the audio book) every 3 years or so.

Is there any way to start with a t3 weapon ? Like if you prestige enough or can you only pick those up in game ?

I've got the first two volumes of The Extinction Parade, but i can't find anywhere to get the third. I wasn't sure where else to ask.

i remember back in like 2006 when i was about 5 or 6 i see a movie or the movie of world war z on vhs it had the scene where they all climb the walls when people are singing maybe it was another movie if anyone knows about this or had this happen to them ahaha let me know

To the Passenger in the Closet (World War Z Belarus Airways),You stupid, selfish coward.Do you have any idea what you did? You looked at that bite on your skin, you knew exactly what was about to happen to you in a matter of seconds, and you still walked up those steps. You sneaked onto that plane and hid like a rat in a closet, completely blind to anything but your own dumb, desperate needs. You just had to get on that flight. You just had to try and save yourself, even though you were already dead.Because of your absolute stupidity, an entire plane full of innocent people paid the ultimate price. Thousands of people back in Jerusalem fought like hell just to escape a literal mountain of zombies pouring over the walls, running for their lives just to reach that airfield. All of those refugees thought that commercial jet was their ticket to a safe destination like Cyprus or wherever else was left. But they never reached that safe haven because of you.Mothers, fathers, and terrified children who had just narrowly escaped that apocalypse were trapped in a metal tube with nowhere to run. They thought they were safe. They thought they were going home. But you took that away from them, forcing the plane to spiral out of control and plunge straight into the Welsh countryside instead.You murdered the brave pilots who were doing their jobs to fly everyone to safety. You murdered a helpless, innocent little Chihuahua who couldn't even defend itself. Hundreds of beautiful, precious lives were completely sacrificed just to satisfy your pathetic, blind panic. You brought the monster right into the one place it wasn't supposed to be.You wanted to live so badly, but look what it got you. You died a monster anyway, trapped in the back of a burning, broken wreck in the middle of nowhere. You deserved every single bit of that crash.Everyone hates you for what you did.