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Deaf

As you will all know, it is possible in Zombie Panic to make use of in-game voicechat (middle-mouse button by default to use). Voicechat can help both the Human as the Zombie team. It allows you to co-ordinate, help eachother out and to keep eachother posted on our location. But when you are a zombie, you can also use this piece of technology against the humans. Wanna know how?

Alltalk

You have two kinds of servers: those that have alltalk on, and those that have alltalk turned off. What’s the difference? You might ask. When alltalk is turned on the zombies can hear the humans and the humans can hear the zombies. Of course, you are also able to hear fellow humans, or fellow zombies (depending on what team you are), in other words: you are able to hear everybody talk in voicechat. With alltalk turned off the zombies can hear the humans, but the humans cannot hear the zombies.

Use

Now you might wonder, what do I do with this info? Well, let me give you two ways of using voicechat against the survivors.

In situation one; alltalk is on. Zombies can talk to the humans, and the other way around. Now, if you are getting close to a non-suspecting human you might wanna take away his ability to hear you coming, when you are just a few steps away from him. After all, if you can hit him before the human sees you, it will be easier to actually kill him. So what you might wanna try is talking about some irrelevant stuff in voicechat. This way, the survivors will be ‘deaf’, this means that they are a lot less able to hear something coming. Use lunge while you are talking to make those last steps nice and fast (this gives the human less time to turn around and see you before you can actually hit him). Because you are talking, he will not hear the sound a zombie makes when lunge is used. This way, you can get to him, without he can hear you coming.

In situation number two; alltalk is off. Which means you cannot personally talk in voicechat to make the survivor ‘deaf’. So in this case, you’ll have to be sneaky and quiet and you’ll have to wait until a human talks over voicechat. This will be easier in a server where there are a lot of people talking over voicechat of course. As soon as a human starts talking, the other humans will be less able to hear other sounds. Use lunge and close into the survivor you’re chasing.

Keep in mind, it’s always better to get of a first hit, without the human seeing you. That’s why this tactic could help you out.

Action Info
Middle mouse button (push scroll) = Use ingame voice (by default)