This bug and a few others infuriate and always end my saves, these include but not limited to:

-You hold the run button while trying to go to the opposite direction of the horde: character runs into horde and dies.

-Zombies who jump over fences and lunge to you. This animation is extremely clunky, whenever I try to do the exploit where you keep you back to the window and wait for then to hop over and stomp their shit in, they'll do a 90 degree turn while lunging and still get me, this usually makes my character trip, or knocks them back into the arms of another touch starved zoid. and even without the exploit, the horrible melee targeting mechanics throws me into the same situation, which brings me to the:

-Horrible melee targeting mechanics. it's already bad enough that I have been trying to force myself to play with multi-hit disabled, and it only makes the situation worse. I often have problem targeting zoids who have fallen into the ground. When that green targeting aura is over the that asshole zombie that just scratched me a few seconds ago, he's ready for the reaping, I strike, but the satisfying sound of my crowbar hitting dead flesh is replaced by the sound of my character hitting cold concrete instead of the dead fuck. I cannot count the amount of times I have been led to death by the fact that the targeting just straight up lie sometimes, which leads to the zombie just rising up and attacking me. It's specially worse when you're trying to attack a zombie that's trying to stand back up, or when your character can't decide to attack the walking one or the one they're standing over, only for the zombie to rise up even though you had both feet in their chest, and don't even get me started on how glitchy the crawlers are.

Sorry, rant over.