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Infected (DayZ)

Also called: Zeds
GamesInfected, still aliveRuns2010 to today

The infected of DayZ, Bohemia Interactive's open-world survival game. They are living people stripped of speech and reason by an unexplained plague, fast and noisy but easy to lose behind a closed door. Players must kill or slip past them while scavenging for supplies.123

⚔️ Battle it
First appeared
2013
DayZ standalone alpha, December 2013 (full release 2018)
Source work
DayZ (2018)
Bohemia Interactive
Age rating
ESRB M
Made in
Czechia
What causes it
Never explained
An infection of unknown origin, described only as a mysterious plague, has turned most of the population violent.
How it moves
Runs
Most run about as fast as a healthy survivor; they tire during a chase and eventually give up.
Intelligence
Mindless
Weak spots
  • a blow to the head
  • breaking line of sight
  • closed doors, which they cannot open
  • ladders and car roofs, which they cannot reach

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2013

DayZ standalone alpha, December 2013 (full release 2018)

field notes

What the sources say

1

Not undead: 'zombies', 'zeds' and 'walkers' are only player slang123

2

The wiki likens them to the infected of 28 Days Later, not to Romero's dead123

3

Drawn by noise, movement, lights at night and even players talking over voice chat123

4

A leg injury turns one into a crawler that still attacks123

5

They attack animals, and wolves fight back123

6

The standalone game grew out of Dean Hall's DayZ mod for Arma 2123

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (runs), not a measurement.

You, walking about 5 km/h
You, jogging about 10 km/h
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h
Infected (DayZ) about 24 km/h
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h

Sources

  1. Infected - DayZ Wiki (Fandom)
  2. DayZ (video game) - Wikipedia
  3. DayZ - RAWG

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Same era: 2010 to today

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