Necrovirus Implementation (Zombie Virus)

[Nidabutt]

This would be a fun gamemode; where a patient 0 starts as a zombie and had to infect the rest of the station. It should have a crazy limit of like 500 rounds played, and maybe even 2, or 3 patient 0’s. The round start zombies should also be pretty strong; and the rounds would be capped to 30? 40? Minutes with a shuttle call disabled, and pods wouldnt work after 10? 15 minutes, with the other z levels becoming contaminated with rads to prevent camping on other Z levels.

Huh, some interesting ideas there. I was thinking the patient 0's would start nice and beefed up and like you suggested maybe around 3, like revs, and perhaps with an unbreakable grip for people trying to grab/pull your victims away - the person in your grasp could still struggle to escape, just so people can't just drag off injured crew constantly and lock the antags out of any chance to do anything. They would need to be quite strong as they're combat antags, requiring effort by multiple crew to bring down, I would assume with some stun resist, regen, hulk (weaker wall breaking requiring many hits but more damage than regular zombies to doors, tables and other potential barricades), etc... but with slower movespeed, honestly kinda like shamblers but weaker. I'm thinking "Tanks" from Left 4 Dead if you've ever played that:

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An idea to replace the rads would be a targetting meter that builds up while people are outside the station, no matter where they are (maybe an exception for azones in which case those players wouldn't count for a victory like with revs) or if they're inside a pod, which slowly increases over the course of a few minutes with no decay or reset, maybe 3-5 so as to give time for people to get back to the station if they're caught out and allowing people to do a small bit of space stuff during the round if needed, such as quickly moving to a safer area of the station via pod if an area is lost. If the targetting meter completes, the person is instantly vaporized by a high power satelite laser which is ensuring the infection doesn't spread off-station until a vaccine by Nanotrasen is completed which would be the round end timer as it's deployed station-wide. Alternatively, have no end round timer and leave the crew at the mercy of an escape shuttle call if things start to go really badly, either works!