I'm not 100 percent certain what is going on but sometimes zombies hit you when they shouldn't.
What happened was that a zombie made its jump attack and missed me, then it landed on the ground and took a few swipes at the air. By that time I had moved behind the zombie about 3-4 meters. The hits still connected and I started bleeding.
This happened several times during a 1 hour session.
agreed, sometimes I got hit while I should not have been because I was circle-strafing.
I just tried some stuff. The zombie jump attacks don't hit when they happen, they happen when the zombie lands on the ground + 0.5-1 seconds or more after.
This makes the issue worse because you ran further away and it becomes more of a BS moment.
But yea, sometimes you get hit when the zombie makes no contact with you.