Very in depth character customization. Character starts with average stats and no weaponry. Can use debris, such as a board or a rock as melee weapons. Go adventure game style with combos: Find gasoline, find a rag, find a stick? Combine into torch. Able to find loot clothing off zombies. Zombies are randomly either the sprinting kind or shuffling kind. On day one of the games release, spawn one zombie in the environment. If it dies, spawn another. When it kills somebody, boost the baseline spawning to two, meaning that the minimum number of zombies now allowed is two. As they bite more players, increase baseline spawning accordingly. And keep character models of the bitten as zombies. Obviously, perma-death. As the game goes on, patch in decayed buildings, more debris, more broken down vehicles, etc. When new players start the game, this is the world they're loading into. Day one purchase reward on a whole new level: You can say you saw it all start, get the good equipment before zombies over run towns, etc. If bitten in an arm, and you have a bladed weapon, you can choose to undergo an intentionally traumatic minigame where you hack off your own arm to prevent infection, via manually guiding the blade with mouse/thumbstick, and pushing it through with the left mouse button/RT/R2, blade catching on bone and your character screaming all the time, alerting nearby zombies. Able to use rag to bite down on and muffle screams prior to procedure. Allow other players to perform procedure, but both parties have to agree beforehand. You'll no longer be able to use both hands to wield melee weapons, weakening your attacks, and your shots with firearms will be more wild. But you'll be alive.
As said earlier, player communication. Able to work together with other players to pull large objects, like a car or motor, to repair. Cars are effected by gravity, so if you push it downhill, it will go on it's own. Able to move debris out of the way to get inside small spaces, or crouch to automatically climb under or through small gaps to escape zombies. Make intelligently automatic climbing mechanics. Hold down a button, jump at a fence, character automatically vaults over it. Jump at a ledge, character pulls themselves up. As mentioned earlier, allow fortification of structures, either via debris, or by using the aforementioned more adventure game like mechanic to make defenses.
... That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure I'll think of more later and possibly edit accordingly.
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