Would you rather?

[SelfDefined]

Zombies that were blind but have extra clear hearing, e.g could hear even the slightest rustle of leaves.

OR

Zombies that were deaf but had extra clear sight, even the movement of an ant alerted them.

I would personally prefer deaf zombies, that way i could stay at home with the curtains closed and listen to some good music whilst looking at some sexy arsed porn. hehe what about you guys?

this is a serious post :P

[detpat]

I'd have to agree with you, line of sight zeds would be much easier to deal with.

[Cenobite]

Blind zombies.

Unlike some people who were born blind, zombies didnt have the training to run around unable to see.

Just lead them to a ditch or make let them charge a concrete wall with you sitting on top of it. SPLATT!

[SelfDefined]

but cenobite, youd have to be silent for the rest of your life. youd be sitting at home and a zombie could pinpoint exactly what direction you are. you couldnt talk to your friends or listen to music. itd be like living in a library for the rest of your life.

[Cenobite]

Originally Posted by SelfDefined

but cenobite, youd have to be silent for the rest of your life. youd be sitting at home and a zombie could pinpoint exactly what direction you are. you couldnt talk to your friends or listen to music. itd be like living in a library for the rest of your life.

Yeah but you can evade them easier, go through a couple of doors and youre free...it wouldnt even occur to them that they have to find a door, they'd just wander around, aimlessly.

[Behemoth]

Blind zombies would be my preferance, it would be easy to just confuse deaf ones, just leave a radio on in an abandoned car, the zombies would make for the noise while i get the hell outa there.

[Trebek]

I'm with the blind group. Unless they can echolocate really well, They would be easier to evade. Plus diversions are easier. Just throw on a movie or something with people yelling and fire away as they crowd the speakers.

[Faran Brigo]

Deaf. If they can't hear, basically you can forget about silencers or trying hard to stay undetected when moving or while staying at your hq. Also, this means you'll never have to worry about a whole horde of them gathering outside if you screw up.

I assume since you didn't say otherwise, either of those still have the sense of smell, so I doubt they could be standing right next to a speaker and confuse it with a human. From a distance maybe, but eventually they'd get close enough to know it doesn't smell like food.

That would also help them navigate I think, much like when you smell good food in a kitchen and track it even if you've never been to that house.

[mattifikation]

Deaf, for sure. I would much rather a zombie be able to detect me easily when it's facing me, than have a zombie be able to detect me easily no matter where I am.

[Dave Of The Dead]

Deaf makes every situation better, whether you're on the defense, offense, or just on the move. If you were on the defense, you could do whatever you pleased as long as you stayed out of sight... Now that sounds like a plan to me.

[Behemoth]

Well, think about it for a minute, would you rather fight a blind mike tyson or a deaf one? Same goes for zombies.
"What the eye cannot see the hand cannot catch"

[Faran Brigo]

I agree that it's a good comparison, dumb as rocks piece of meat that will bite off a chunk of you if it gets close.

But there's a couple of big differences here.

1.- You don't need to fight zombies up close, you can use guns.

2.- Do a little experiment. Turn on a tv, close your eyes, and try to grab the source of the sound. I can assure you after stumbling around for a little while, you're gonna grab your tv, I did.

[Behemoth]

2.- Do a little experiment. Turn on a tv, close your eyes, and try to grab the source of the sound. I can assure you after stumbling around for a little while, you're gonna grab your tv, I did.

Yeah but the tv don't move, if some shambling, stinking, maggot infested thing comes near me i'm moving, fast. The tv will still be on, the zombie goes for tv, i live to fight another day.
Ever played deaf mans bluff? No didn't think so.

" It is difficult to catch a black cat in a dark room, especially when there is no cat" K'ung-fu-tzu. 477 BC

[Faran Brigo]

Originally Posted by Behemoth

Yeah but the tv don't move, if some shambling, stinking, maggot infested thing comes near me i'm moving, fast. The tv will still be on, the zombie goes for tv, i live to fight another day.

Moving fast means making more noise which in turn makes you even more detectable. Also, blind or deaf if you're moving they're not going to get you, they're slower than tax returns, so that's beside the point.

If you can't move much because you're in a constricted space like say, a hallway, in a dorm or small apartment, in most kinds of stores, an alley, etc. Then... what? Unless you can disengage regardless of how much you move a zed only needs to know your general direction, whereever it bites, it will be a kill. It won't be able to grip you easily but this holds true blind or deaf because you'll be moving, and they're clumsy.

The TV was just to illustrate the effect, I didn't mean you're going to be in a room with a zombie and a working TV.

Mostly though, consider that with deaf zombies you're safe if you're outside the line of sight. That means in most cases you'll rarely have to worry about zombies attacking en masse since each zombie needs to see you to come at you. Blind zombies however will hear you for hundreds of yards around and will converge around the source of the sound. If that's a decoy great. If that's you, you got a huge problem on your hands. Consider also that zombies don't learn, so when you dissapear from a blind Zed's LOS you no longer exist, this is harder to do if it can track you in a larger radius. Not so important outdoors but in a structure this could mean the difference between killing a couple and having time to bash open a door, and being trapped with the whole building behind you and who knows how many behind the door.

Originally Posted by Behemoth

Ever played deaf mans bluff? No didn't think so.

play it? I don't even know what that IS...

[SelfDefined]

Good replies guys,

I would definetely want deaf zombies, imagine tons of blind zombies walking your direction, at least with deaf zombies you may just get the odd one or two. not tons like if they had great hearing.

on the other hand, zombies could also follow each other, that way it wouldnt matter if they were death.