The gimick of Zombie is that for every round you are able to get revived three times without assistence of other players however this comes at a price, if you die without a respawn u will need to wait for the round to end, this dosent come at a disadvantage tho because everytime you die you gain a damage buff that lasts 2 minutes and becomes stronger the more you die
Lets say for the sake of hardcore we just remove the ability to buy lifes so that the Zombie ability kicks in and gives you 3 lives you can use each round to revive urself
Ight so for the 2nd death add ichor buff and for the 3rd death add lil higher damage buff and then ad withered armor so the 3rd death isnt just the 2nd death but with a worse buff and same reward