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Am I the only one who actually misses gettin' their face eaten off by zombies? Idk why they ever removed it, and I don't know how to prompt the face-eating these days; just happens randomly as far as I'm aware.
Poor zombies must be hungry after all this time of not eating faces :(
I got my face nommed on around a week ago. It's just rare. They must not like the taste of metal armor very much.
Well, ish. It (clearly) isnae completely removed from the game, but it used to happen on a very regular basis. A large number of the jumps would land with you getting eaten, but now...idk, I see it once every couple of weeks?
If I'm not mistaken, this was "removed" the same time they removed the ability of Retrodes, Alpha Wolvers, and Zombies to "track" targets as they attacked.
At this point, damage was added to Zombies' lunge animation, meaning that if you got hit by the lunge, you would not get your face eaten because of the ensuing invulnerability frames. However, in the rare occasion that your shield breaks with the exact amount of damage produced by the lunge, your face will proceed to be eaten.
Yup I can confirm the above, got my face eaten right now after a Vana run in which zombies boom'd mah shield.
At this point, damage was added to Zombies'...
That's good to know; never was sure of the exact reason it was taken out. Bit odd though, but definitely just feels like another nerf. The face-eatin' was so much scarier than just damage...
I think part of why it was removed was that the animation was very glitchy - the zombie could be shield bumped away, but still "latched on." I'd be like, five squares away, unable to move, and taking damage from the zombie nomming my brains. It was very disorienting and obviously a bit buggy. And I guess it wasn't exactly what they wanted anyway and decided to scrap it.
They removed it?