Presumed this was for L4D, for a moment.
Why not, /signed
Someones been playing too much 'Fallout 3' 
Sounds good though, zombies take over WW/BM.
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Corretion; Dead Rising
Fallout 3 is awesome as well 
Cough evil dead cough
And I just saw a trailer for Dead Rising 2 today.
Funny that
"Idealism is such a wonderful thing. All you really need is someone rational to put it to proper use." - Kerr Avon
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pft i don't care about the source i just wants me some zombie shop'n kill'n or even shop 'n' Kill if you will
Zombie invasion code + sprawling interior mall zone = utterly awesome idea!
Hey, let us have an inspiration stall, rather than having to trawl all over the place to find the damn things!
And add zombies! Genius! XD
/Signed, for novelty if nothing else 
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Add some insp stalls, some enhancement stalls, a WW (Black Market might be out of place, unless it was in the parking lot...), an SG/VG registrar, a respeccer, a temp power seller (i.e. revolver, sledgehammer etc - for that true Romero-feel). Oh and balloons. Must have balloons.
Plus an announcement tannoy - "Civilians are asked to evacuate the Paragon/Rogue Isles Mega Mall due to an outbreak of zombies in the cafeteria" - cue Zombie invasion.
That sort of thing.
Add some contacts for stores such as 'Up N Away Burger' (What do they put in their special sauce?), a jeweller's etc.
And suggestions for enemy factions hanging around?
Carnies, Freakshow, Zombies (natch), Security Guards (level ranges permitting, obviously).
I have completely gone off on that one, aware that the original idea was for maps, rather than a zone/mini-zone. But hey. Great original idea!
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Oh and Galaxy City has a shopping arcade with Vaz and Hellions hanging around. Not quite the same (especially as no mission doors exist there and, well, there are no proper zombies) - might be an interesting place to have a Mega Mall though (and prevent Atlas Park from being the only zone people visit...). It could even be a hazard zone within a zone (a la Terra Volta) with its own task force... ooh!
Two words;
Dark Astoria
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I think you're forgetting some of the zombie-killing favorites there, AP. What about chainsaws and the ever popular shotgun
Maybe add in some Vahzilock and have the Security Guards as allies
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You guys suck at Zombie Mall Knowledge! Thankfully I am your new edumacationator!
Click-and-learn! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_the_dead
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That'd so better be the original Romero masterpiece!
*goes to check*
/edit - Phew. It was I'd probably never leave the zombie mall zone. Not even if the zombies broke through my doorway hidden behind a drywall panel, forced me up the back stairs and through a skylight to escape by helicopter.
I'm well aware of Dawn of the Dead, but a game reference was made not a film one
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What Tech said. DARK ASTORIA...
But hang on, that would make too much sense.
Naughty Tech! *thwaps tech with an inflatable baseball bat*
Love the idea of a zombie zone! Awesome.
Needs a few things zone-only things could be incorperated to add to the tension;
A zone-wide endurance, regeneration and healing debuff, maybe even minor power weakening or (if it were an old version of a pocket D area, with broken mechanics) random 'surges' of power dampening - makes it harder to survive onslaughts for long periods of time, makes the rest of this more vital;
No insp drops on zombies
Clickies such as food stands and medical supply closets which allow instant buffs or give you insps
Other clikies give temporary power 'pickups' such as shotguns, gumballs and other random weapons that don't require end to use, but only have one or two uses and cant be used outside the zone.
Maybe a cap of 4 of these items...
Love the idea of as zombie mall, espcially with insp and temp power stands, etc. Even if it wasn't a zone all year, it would make a great Halloween zone, like the ski lodge for the winter event.
There should also be plenty of panicked civilians running around the mall during invasions, untargettable to begin which but which can be transformed by zombie attacks into more zombies.
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Love the idea of a zombie zone! Awesome.
Needs a few things zone-only things could be incorperated to add to the tension;
A zone-wide endurance, regeneration and healing debuff, maybe even minor power weakening or (if it were an old version of a pocket D area, with broken mechanics) random 'surges' of power dampening - makes it harder to survive onslaughts for long periods of time, makes the rest of this more vital;
No insp drops on zombies
Clickies such as food stands and medical supply closets which allow instant buffs or give you insps
Other clikies give temporary power 'pickups' such as shotguns, gumballs and other random weapons that don't require end to use, but only have one or two uses and cant be used outside the zone.
Maybe a cap of 4 of these items...
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Well, if we're incorporating Left 4 Dead in CoH, I want my Master of Orion zone! (1 or 2, preferably, not 3 that was too micro managed)
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Nah, not neccersarily saying l4d, just some stuff that would make the game more interesting, challening and fitting... It's generic zombie stuff =D
Plus, panicked citizens would be great, but even better if you could 'save' them from zombies, give them weapons etc, and have them in your team temporarily...
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Idea for the story;
This 'mall' was a futuristic shopping site for all peeoples to use in harmony, much like PocketD.
It had forcefields and powerdampening so that the supers couldn't hurt anyone, and civilians wouldn't be under threat.
They also had a cutting edge medical center, full of respawners.
One day something goes wrong - like a power station is hit by a way-ward ritki ship. This screwed everything up - creating constant power serges, etc.
This damaged the respawners, causing many of them to malfuncton - respawning many of the people damaged in the explosion as zombies, including one or two wandering heroes and villains.
Obviously, the infections spreads, and periodically power surges flick through the building.
Usually, the power is somewhat stable - your powers are dampened, you recharge/regenerate slower than normal, but if you die you can still respawn in the hospital, and if a civilian dies they'll stay down.
Sometimes the power flicks back to full for a moment - during these states you cannot use your normal attacks, nor naturally heal or regenerate. You can use any weapons you picked up in the building or other temporary powers, though, such as brawl or jetpack, and if you die you can respawn at the hospital.
When the power goes down completly, you work as normal, but if you or any civilian dies, your corpse comes back as a zombie. You cannot respawn until the power comes back on and your corpse is laid to rest, either by being killed by an ally or after 10 seconds of being exposed to the health system.
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Ah, make the SUPERhero into a zombie survivor hero(ish?) would be making this SUPERHERO game more fitting?
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Other clikies give temporary power 'pickups' such as shotguns, gumballs and other random weapons that don't require end to use, but only have one or two uses and cant be used outside the zone.
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Hmm, Throw Gumballs - sort of like Earthquake but with the Caltrops 'throwing' animation. Causes knockdown and minor smash/lethal DoT - always useful.
I expect TA archers would have a field day here, especially with Oil Slick. So why not let everyone else (apart from anything with Burn patch 
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Kerosene/Molotov - throw the kerosene down and light it. Everyone's covered in rotting, zombie flesh and is safe... for now!
Ooh, ooh! The 'power' idea could be used to a certain effect - have 'the lights' go off in certain areas, perhaps as a general warning that nasty things are about to happen. It's a shame that the lighting system in CoX doesn't allow for certain powers to highlight darkness (for example, Energy Melee's pom-poms of doom allowing brief glimpses of what's waiting for you in the darkness).
Actually, start the zone 'event' as normal. There's the background noise of a busy mall, maybe a few more regular NPCs. Suddenly the lights start going off and the sounds of zombies can be heard in the distance. Power suppression starts up and, as you say, is intermittent (I'm sure it could be done, even if it did make life annoying - perhaps certain areas would be affected with a central corridor for those wishing to fight off the zombies/whatever whilst others go to grab the temp powers etc. that will make life easier? - there's always a 'Oh no, the medical kits are in that abandoned truck right near the zombie nest! Someone's going to have to go and get them but the power suppressor keeps activating!' /angst! but in zombie/survival/horror/thriller movies)
And Dark Astoria would definitely be a great place to do this! Make it Red/Blue for fun!
The power surges could be predictable? Like every x minutes there's a wave of them?
And as for fitting, I mean the sense of 'oh god will we make it?' which makes zombie stuff more fun.
If you can just go in, blast off some powers and wipe them all out in seconds - well, where's the challenge, the fun?
Maybe the power surges could be area-based? Like the whole main corridoor could go off, but other areas are still working? Then later on the corridoor is back on, but another part flickers to a halt?
The whole zone could be pretty twisted and turned, with only one or two exits at either end.
random survivor groups could spawn, needing leading to the enterances and exits, or temporary 'contacts' could ask for help finding a friend.
There could be events where a helecoptor is coming to the roof but it's infested with zombies, so you need to clean them off - the power suppression is inefective outside obviously..
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I haven't seen one yet, so I'm just assuming that it doesn't exist. I could be wrong, so say if I am!
Can we have a proper shopping mall map please? We have all these zombie invasions, but no shopping malls! Come on! It's a REQUIREMENT for goodness sakes! Zombies + Shopping Malls = fun! We can have "Rescue the citizens" missions for the heroes and for all those zombie masterminds out there "Invade the shopping mall"!!!
Not to mention we could go shopping. Which might be nice.
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