DayZ Standalone sounds kinda like The Ship

[Oakatsura 9]

This is in response to the Eurogamer Expo 2012, where Dean Hall (Rocket) is discussing things like disease, bathroom breaks, etc, If you analyze a game like the ship which uses these mechanics it adds a bit of flavor of survivalism that really is a part of the game, or a part that should be there. Now grant it, its icky, but look at any other game made after 2000. After the blood, gore age we have and still are making games that redefine the meaning of "ok thats just sick," and we don't use bodily functions to define those quotes.

Using the model like the ship as a survivalism structure as far as what is needed to survive to either engage your next target or go from point A to Point B is a great bit of sophistication that should, or could be implemented.

Points of Interest -

Food - Obviously food is a major building block of staying healthy, some things that could be added to the already known examples (Good food / Bad food), but adding things like Wild food (Poisonous or Good), Raw Meat or Cooked (DayZ you can only eat cooked), a visual ideal; gardens of pumpkins in DayZ have a Lootable Point for Raw Vegatables. While food is essential to survival, a person can go the longest without food almost 3 months, however the event for keeping it in a game sense is still a priority so incorporating maybe a 4 hour timer for food (Green - Yellow - Orange - Red - Blinky).

Drink - Another obvious building block to staying healthy and mobile, lets face it water down right essential, soda not so good for hydration, more of an energy boost thanks to the loads of sugar. But have soda have a effect like a color level, from yellow to green, from orange to yellow, from red to orange. Energy drinks the same way, more of an energy booster, alcohol speeds up the dehydration process but is a great way of warming yourself up or staving off blood infections. My opinion add juice, because it can go bad just as easily as some foods. And drinking from ponds, pools, and other stagnant sources, yea it keeps you alive for a short time before you start "vormitting" and really reduce both your hydration and food level. (Great for the short term, not so great for the long term", better sources, streams, lakes, and rivers.

Sleep / Energy / Stamina - Obviously can be replaced with Energy Drinks, Soda, Juice, things that naturally give your body a wake up call or a pick me up, lack of sleep can lead to the same since of low blood in current DayZ, dizzy spells, fuzzy vision, blackouts, falling unconcious, Automatically recharges to full after taking at least a short to decent break from the computer (logging off - autosleep mode - say 1 hour to green, helps keep the advert gamers down :).) Energy drinks, good health, soda helps keep this up. Or staying in a position for a decernable amount of time. Constant running, sprinting, athletics drag this down. I'd recommend a duo-bar for this (Basically Red in the indicator, with a Yellow border would mean, your exhausted from running, but your just starting to get a little tired, yawning or may start. etc.

Toiletries / Bodily Functions - If you think you can drink an entire bottle of soda and not pay for it in a hour you obvious have something wrong with your kidney's or you have a bladder like a camel. Defining these without a UI can be groans, bouts of gas (Also caused by excessive beans intake), panicing in the knees, hoppy disorder (start shaking and bouncing up and down), gut clenching, heavy breathing... there are a lot of things that happen, you see this especially on a road trip where the next exit is 200 miles out and you have too much pride to piss in the woods, no offense but I don't want a rash of poison ivy or oak, and having to explain that to a doctor for a prescription of ointment. Being unable to facilitate these urges can lead to disease, cholera is definately one, bad hygene can mean flys attract, dirty clothes (eww..!), influenza, and lots of people holding their noses at the sight of you. One obvious use to someone that uses his pants to wipe for him, Zombie Magnet.

But Im going to take a line from Fallout: New Vegas on this next one (Old World Blues), where your brain asks when was the last time you took a shower. Obviously a instant counter to a lot of the "Hygene" is to go swim in a pond, which now becomes infected with disease, which now runs across every survivors mind when they see a stagnant pool of water... " I wonder who was the last person here and what did they do" the image of a hairy, poo covered man scrubbing himself in the water, as your body growns from dehydration... what is worse, thinking about it or drinking it and hearing about it from your body?

Lack of Company - Lets face it unless your anti-social you will start to get lonely out there, I'm not going to anything deep, but I think this should just be simple, I see another person I am ok, I know I'm not the last one standing and either I go after him and shoot him (Psycho-Bandit), I let him go on his way, I let him go on his way just in time for him to shoot at me, I defend myself and become (Defensive Bandit).

I would go into more but I think everyone gets the idea by now.

[AfterShave 140]

I shoot everybody, who needs friends when you have an L85A2

[Stafoo 61]

I shoot everybody, who needs friends when you have an L85A2

A friendly increases your combat strength, holds additional items you cannot and can relay Intel to you. If you ever run up on a group of 4 people you'll understand the importance of a friend who has your back.

[Sturgeon 40]

A friendly increases your combat strength, holds additional items you cannot and can relay Intel to you. If you ever run up on a group of 4 Sturgeons you'll understand the importance of a friend who has your back.

fixed.

[Oakatsura 9]

My only hope is they fix the L85 in Chernarus Plus, as when the suns out the ground temperature and the peoples temperature are roughly the same, especially when on hardtop or concrete, making thermal almost useless.

But, then again I hope they do without that L85A2 AWS, some weapons are just a little too overpowered, especially ones people tend to sneak in (Scriptkiddies / Hackers) like a AS50 AWS Thermal Sight.

Course then again I hope they fix a lot of things to do with Nightvision, as only 1 Sniper Rifle is compatible with NVG's, the DMR.