I personally can’t imagine anyone surviving long-term around running zombies. Even if fighting them was relatively easy, it’s statistically inevitable that sooner or later you’d get bitten. This applies to walking zombies too, but at least with them, you have the option to avoid physical altercations altogether, at least for the most part. That’s what I think most TV shows get wrong about zombies: even if there’s just one, and you could easily take it down, just don’t. It’s almost never worth the risk. In my view, the best way to survive is to avoid them as much as possible. Fighting is the last resort and should only be done in self-defence.
If the zombies die within a few weeks or months than survival with bunkers is possible. If they live forever without food than it depends on what they do eat. If they eat all living things things get hard, if they eat plants than I don’t think there is hope.
TWD style zombies live indefinitely and they eat humans as well as animals but this is just an instinct. Zombies don’t need food, water or shelter to survive nor do they even have a functional digestive system.
Than they are a perpetual motion machine and they can generate power for you endlessly walking on treadmills. Which is cool, but ultimately useless.
They’re fictional creatures but that’s not exactly the point of this thread.
Whenever anyone in my friend group discusses zombie survival, the default assumption is that we’re discussing slow zombies, because it’s universally understood that there’s no good fast zombies survival situation
You should really check out Dying Light then. I think you might find it interesting.
I have it and wasn’t really for me. DayZ is the only zombie game I like, though project zomboid seems interesting as well.
If they run but are not smarter, they will be more dangerous but not undefeatable. The biggest issue will still be the big crowd. Zombie fear is 80% fear of crowd. People in groups are highly dangerous.
If we’re going to be realistic about it, a zombie apocalypse wouldn’t last too long, given that they are generally depicted with rotting flesh. So, regardless of whether they can run, you’re correct that the best bet is avoidance until the whole thing blows over.
I don’t now about running but I agree with the non-fighting part. If I postulate than Zombie are dumb creatures that slowly rotten, I want to avoid them as much as I can until they are too rotten to move. It doesn’t mean that I can build defense and even traps but I should not confronte them but I will let the zombie population almost rot out of existence, hoping the disease doesn’t pass from the rotting bodies to the environnement.