APOBS

Animals from the actual area definitely need to be added into gameplay. I agree on the spider thing, you couldn't make them obvious enough without making them huge, which is stupid. So while hiding in the dank dark corner of a barn and I suddenly start convulsing and die is going to piss me off. However, if going for realism, we need to add more than just predators as they would only be in the area if there was ample prey for them to survive off of (cue hunting animals for food addition). While in a post apocalyptic environment animals would likely begin to get more aggressive towards humans, unless the player is chasing, cornering, or threatening their den/home, most animals, even predators, aren't going to just run up and try to eat your throat. There are enough dangers in the game to have to worry about packs of wolves, boar, and bears just romping around eating anything that moves.

I didn't sift through all 42 pages of comments, just the first couple and didn't see a mention of this, so hopefully I'm not beating the dead horse. Given my line of work, I would like to see more explosives in the game. I'm not just talking hand grenades, flash bangs, tear gas canisters, land mines (both anti-personnel and anti-tank), rocket launchers etc etc etc. But mostly I'm interested in the use of smaller, homemade explosives. Once you go inland there are a large number of farms. Farms generally have a few things such as fertilizer and diesel fuel, while these are not the only ingredients necessary, it would be enough (in the gaming world) to create a small (depending on container size) bomb which can be used to destroy zombies, or initiate complex ambushes on fellow live players. Throw in some scrap metal or nails and make it even better. But that may require reworking the ability to destroy vehicles and or buildings. Because I would likely wire a whole town to go up on someone.