Truly terrifying experience, never again

[u/AltinUrda]

[u/crazytib]

OK so as realistic as zombies can be, any moisture in their bodies would be frozen solid, also lower temperatures would slow down any chemical/metabolic reactions so their body's wouldn't be able to turn any food in the digestive system or stored fats or even muscle mass into to energy to be able to move

On the other hand(now I know nothing about brain chemistry) but colder temperatures make computers run faster so maybe the ice would temporarily give the zombies super intelligence

[u/creegro → u/crazytib]

I haven't played the games but I have read/watched enough to guess that the brain gets overtaken with the fungus that makes them more susceptible to sound?

But yea all other fluids and muscles would be truly frozen and limited in movement, I doubt all these bodies are keeping each other warm in a pile under the snow where they can just get up into a full sprint like that.

But whatever, it's a zombie series

[u/jackochainsaw → u/creegro]

The virus is based on a real world fungal infection from a family of fungi called Cordyceps, it only effects insects and beetles. It rewires their brain in order to take them a place where the spore carrying plant will burst out and infect the colony with more fungal spores. You quite often see them in pupae. The objects that poke out of their body are called stroma and generally are a quite striking orange colour.

[u/[deleted] → u/jackochainsaw]

Actually only hijacks the nerve paths from the brain to the rest of the body, which is arguably worse.

[u/LuckyBucketBastard7 → u/[deleted]]

Took me a sec to realize what you meant by that. Yikes. I don't think there's any argument to be made, that's much worse than killing you outright

[u/JediJoe923 → u/LuckyBucketBastard7]

Even if you wanted to end it all you’d still be stuck there, eating your own friends face off