I'm starting this thread not with the purpose of complaining, but to understand the community's view about this subject. The subject is relogging in ZA to avoid being a zombie.

The past couple of days I've encountered a series of what I'll call 'bad sports' who refused to be a zombie. Some of them laid dead while others continuously relogged to live again. When I commented on this, I received the fairly generic response of 'Respect the way others want to play'.

Now, this response doesn't hold water because they aren't respecting the way I want to play. Therefor there is no point to say this to someone in ZA (or in most games in general because you're obviously being a hypocrite while saying it). But, I just want to understand what the general opinion of relogging in ZA is. If it's not really frowned upon, I may even find myself doing it until it's 'fixed', but being as nothing ever gets fixed in PvP it'll probably never happen.

What are your opinions about relogging in ZA?

Its a poor sport thing to do. Luckily the players who do this don't make it into the other PvP maps since the exploit isn't as advantageous in those maps, with one glaring exception (oops).

Most of the folks who go in and relog/refuse to zombify are folks farming Acclaim since it's the source for the "best" gear right now. They tend to dislike it when they're reminded it's a PvP map and think since they don't want/like to PvP, they have some unfathomable right not to.

I have noticed that the PvP stuff is truly phenomenal compared to a lot of other stuff right now. It's really fortunate that this doesn't work on the other maps, or PvP would be pointless. Then again I've never played KotH before, so I'm unaware if it'd work on that.

I don't agree with it, but when you're a zombie with five kills and you're still the only zombie, it's a little discouraging. It's really better just to relog and join them, at this point. I'm really getting sick of trying to convince them otherwise. I know it's poor logic to live by, but if they aren't going to lift a finger to help you, there's no point in crippling yourself further with a poor end reward.

Then there are a few games where things actually play out the way they should, only in these games everyone dies in like two minutes, lol. Which I honestly don't mind. There's just no point in being a zombie when nobody is playing by the rules of the game.

So I may just ride the tide, then count my blessings if/when they actually fix it.

Really, either they should fix relogging or they should give zombies more reward. Because let's face it, nobody ever really loses in ZA. Most people wind up on the same team one way or the other, and if there's a few still standing, good for them. Zombies should get a cookie too, though

Relogging with a healer is incredibly useful in SH, except I think you don't get any acclaim for the match.

I honestly didn't know that. How does that work exactly?


Edit -

Oh, I bet I know why. You get removed from 'the team' and become untargetable, then can heal from safety. Is this correct?

Yeah, you become friendly to everyone. This also lets you assist the other team if you want.

You're removed from the Report, but your original team still get's an Aura of or IDF buffs you have when in range.

I see. I don't remember seeing this too often in SH though, likely because there's little reward for the person who relogs. ZA on the other hand rewards this behavior, so I see it a lot more often there.

Though It's nice to know about the quirks of PvP so they don't take me by surprise.

It pretty much only happens by accident; people who play SH generally actually want to PvP.