Lost Urban Dead Lore: The Many

You are completely right. It is also one of the main reasons why I never really finished the story of The Many out of the game. I did the research and realized why The Many came and went so quickly. Back then we were a completely unknown and mysterious force. For the first time, survivors were scared and panicking over getting eaten by a zombie horde. It was glorious, exactly what the game was trying to emulate. When we finally came to our first real resistance, Giddings Mall, we realized how broken and unbalanced the zombies were to humans. This was also compounded with the fact that the headshot skill was implemented right as we first started the siege of the mall. Back then a headshot would erase all your excess experience, making leveling impossible. It really, really sucked.

After the failed siege on Giddings, most of the horde said "fuck it" and started concentrating on their DARIS characters. Playing as a human member of DARIS was just as much fun as being in the many back in our prime. It also gave birth to the first urban dead plug-in for firefox, which highlighted the names of DARIS members, so we would not kill each other and keep Shearbank pure.

After that failed siege, I went on strike and did not really start playing my zombie again until July of 2006, when I guess I "first died". The game can be just as fun for zombies, you just have to find alternative means to do so. This is why randomdead is a librarian at the Quartly, a dancing, singing, zombie killing clown of sorts. It’s just more entertaining that munching brains all the time.

Will the game ever be balanced? No, and it shouldn't be. What zombie movie have you ever watched where the survivors did not prevail in the end? This game really boils down the aspects of human nature in times of fear and total chaos and how strange this existence truly is.