Zombie Plague: Overview
Zombie Plague is a popular Counter-Strike 1.6 server mod. Developed by MeRcyLeZZ and released first time in Jun 09, 2008. Starting from the version 3.55, this mod has too many modifications since that time, until it did officially reach the latest version in Jul 22, 2014. Known as 5.0.8, that was the latest stable version of the mod!
If you have ever played cs 1.6 before, you must already know about this mod. However, if you didn’t and you want give it a try, you can download cs 1.6, it is a non-steam version which you can use to test the mod and play in servers totally for free! You can use the link shared above, it’s totally safe and we do highly recommend it for a full and clean version with a super fast download speed. (by downloading the non-Steam version, you claim to have the original Steam)
Gameplay:
The game basic concept is very simple, Zombies! It is a survival mod, which humans needs to survive to the end of the round in order to win. While zombies tries to infect as much as possible number of humans. The last human won’t be able to be infected. In return, he will got killed (that goes for all the mods of the game)
The game starts after a 10 to 30 seconds of peace time. In this while, everyone needs to hide, while there’s no zombies yet. The infection get effects at the end of the countdown, and here where the game begins!
Game modes:
There’s different game modes designed for this Counter-Strike mod. However, in this post i will try to cover as much as possible of the basic game modes, as well as the most added modes (Assassin, Sniper…)
Normal mode
This is the basic game-mode of the mod itself. As well, it is the most common played mode by default (that goes for the most of servers, if not all). It has the biggest rate of playing. The idea of this mode is the same basic idea for zombie games, movies and series.
So, the game simply starts with the infect of a single human, who will try later to pass the infection to all or as max as possible of players. The first zombie have a lot of Health Points (HP) to allow him to survive against all the remaining. If that first zombie dies, the games ends shortly and the human team wins. That doesn’t mainly happens in 70% of the normal cases, but some players offers free kills to others.
Swarm mode
Swarm mode is another mode of the game. In this mode the number of players is devised by the half to the both teams of zombies and humans. Infection doesn’t take effect, in other hands, all the zombies need to kill the other full team of humans. If a zombie dies, he can be re-spawned or not depending in the server configurations!
The round ends by the death of all humans, death of full zombies (in case they are not respawned) or the survive of the humans to the end of the round.
Multi-Infection
Multi-Infection mode is the similar normal mode but with multiple infections at the start. The number of zombies depends in the total number of players and can varies between 2 to 6 zombies at the start.
The new zombies doesn’t have the same HP as the normal mode. In order to get the game more balanced, all the zombies have their full default HP depends in the zombie class
Survivor mode
As the name and the picture shown, this mode consists of a full attack of zombies against a single human, a survivor! That human isn’t just a normal classic one, it is super! With an extra amount of HP (1300 to 2000+-), a Machine-Gun or a Mini-Gun, in addition of the long jump (leap) power, it allows him to make some balance against the team of zombies! The main objective of this mode is the surviving of the survivor (it’s obvious, i know :D) or the death of it. If the survivor stays alive to the end of the round, he wins, otherwise, zombies do.
Nemesis mode
The idea of this mode comes from an analogy of Survivor mode to the zombies team and from the famous Resident Evil 3. The mode idea is about a super zombie against all the team of humans. With a huge amount of HP, long jump and extra damage. His objective is to kill as many humans as he can. In the other hand, humans, all together trying to take him down, with all the regular weapons and items.
This mode can end only by the death of the zombie nemesis (like the survivor mode). But it does not end usually if the server contains more than 20 players, because the nemesis Health depends directly in the number of total players in the server. So a regular player can survive easily.
Plague mode
I would call this mode “the leaders mod”! It is very simple, just a beautiful combination of swarm, survivor and nemesis mod making it one of the best modes of zombie plague!
While half of the players goes to zombies team, the other goes to humans, but with an addition of a survivor in the humans team and a nemesis in zombies team. Like i said, it’s a regular swarm mode with extra super player in each of the teams. But, with the kill of any of the nemesis or survivor, nothing would happen, both of the players will respawn as normal zombies.
Armageddon mode
This mode is kinda similar to the plague mode. But, in this time, all the players are either nemesis or survivor. Which makes it like a super zombie combat, it is enjoyable and funny to play! This mode have a very rate to happen (5% by default). Which explains why most of the players wanting it so much.
Another reason is the ammo packs (i’ll explain later about it). By default, when you kill a survivor or a nemesis, you got more than usual ammo packs. And, i don’t think anyone wouldn’t like to get such an opportunity to get more few of them in an easy way!
Assassin mode
This is another popular zombie plague mode. But, this mode ain’t one of the default modes, it is an added mode to the game. This mode is much similar to the nemesis mode, a super zombie against the team of humans.
The difference in this mode, that the assassin zombie have a total different powers than nemesis. While nemesis have a super big amount of HP and extra damage, assassin have less HP points but a very fast speed (light) and a fast attack coming with a big damage!
Sniper mode
Sniper mode is also an extra added mode of the mod. What makes it special that’s similar to AWP in classic mods of the game. While classic AWP makes a low damage (max of 500), in this mode damage can be up to 1 hit to kill (usually 1K per hit). And again, it is another mode similar to the survivor. A super human, but this time with a super AWP against the hole team of zombies! The sniper have an extra HP and long jump, just like the survivor but with an AWP instead.
Snipers vs Assassins
Well, i think if you read about all the other mods and the name of this mode, you should know already about it! It’s similar to the Armageddon mode, but with snipers and assassins instead of survivors and nemesis’. This is one of the funniest modes, which as the second mode which allows you to practice a super challenge!
With this, we end the game modes. So we can know talk more about the zombie plague mod, starting with the zombie classes! Keep reading for more…
Counter-Strike 1.6 Zombie Plague 