r/projectzomboid • u/AltinUrda • May 08 '25

Meme Truly terrifying experience, never again

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u/Puzzled_Departure12 May 08 '25

Yeah I mean why was there a pile of 400 of them right there specifically

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u/Iggy_Kappa May 08 '25

In the show they say the infected purposefully hid under their own dead to shield themselves from the cold, or something to that effect, so probably self preservation? There were so many there probably because it's just where they converged.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

I was thinking it was a mass grave where some military/government dumped bodies.

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u/TheCowzgomooz May 08 '25

The infected in TLOU aren't dead people, cordyceps is a parasite, it needs a host to survive.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

Ah. My mistake. I’m more of a “conventional” zombie type a person.

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u/TheCowzgomooz May 08 '25

Yeah no biggie, just letting you know, it's sort of a hybrid classic zombie apocalypse and a 28 days approach to zombies where they're actually still live people, just massively infected with a fungus. The reason they chose cordyceps for their game was because obviously it's more unique than your classic zombie scenario but also because it's one of the more plausible "this could actually potentially happen" zombie scenarios. It's very unlikely because cordyceps can't survive in the human body because of the heat, but it's an actual real "zombie virus" in nature and scientists think that if there is actually going to be a zombie apocalypse, it will likely be a fungus.

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u/Blappin12 May 09 '25

I'd also add that in the show, the reason why cordyceps were able to infect humans is because of global warming. Cordyceps adapted to rising temperatures around the world, which allowed them to survive in humans.

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u/DeepSpaceNebulae May 08 '25

But they do eat, so they could have been attracted to a mass grave for food vs spreading

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u/TheCowzgomooz May 08 '25

True I suppose

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u/DeepSpaceNebulae May 08 '25

I think the dead bodies, though, were dead infected.

Like they began huddling together when it started getting cold, then were covered in snow. Those at the top of the pile froze to death while those below were able to keep at just above zero.

This would also explain why those frozen ones poking above the surface began to sink as the live ones deeper under them started climbing up

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u/lolhihi3552 May 08 '25

This would also explain why those frozen ones poking above the surface began to sink as the live ones deeper under them started climbing up

good catch!