"Playing dead"

[Jonathan Bart 3]

So I was watching ArmA 3 footage and saw that they added very neat rag doll effects to the game. So I thought that it would be awesome to "rag-dolise" and basically play "dead" on the ground in DayZ. This feature could be used to ambush other players:

*Rag doll in the open

*Someone comes up

*Team mate shoots

*???

*Profit

Or it could be used by new spawns to hopefully be ignored by armed players.

...Also it would be funny as hell to roll down a hill :D

What do you guys think?

[Toastedzen 80]

I think you should be able to strip off your shirt and cover yourself in mud and hide in a river bank. Predators won't be able to find you. Although Katniss Everdeen likely will.

[OrLoK 16191]

Hello there

I think this has come up before.

The main problem is the fly buzz noise (or lack of), I have been known to put a round or two in a dead body because "it felt wrong" before approaching it, so it could turn out not to be that useful after all.

Also, I wasn't aware any "rag doll" system would be in the build of RV for Dayz?

Rgds

LoK

[theozzyoscar333 3]

it would work, and its a great idea, although orloks right, it would only work on dumb people.

[Riem 164]

Hello there

I think this has come up before.

The main problem is the fly buzz noise (or lack of), I have been known to put a round or two in a dead body because "it felt wrong" before approaching it, so it could turn out not to be that useful after all.

Also, I wasn't aware any "rag doll" system would be in the build of RV for Dayz?

Rgds

LoK

I do think I saw it mentioned in the suggestions forum that they were looking at implementing basic ragdoll for the ToH engine.

-PHYSX-

Arma 3 will feature Physx 3.0. It should feature in Day-Z

Okay so we now know Day-Z won't be running on the Arma 3 engine, rather it's own spin on the Take on Helicopters engine which is it's own branch of the Arma 2 OA engine. It's still important that the game features at the very least basic things such as ragdoll.

And yes, the lack of the fly buzzing noise should be a tip off, but we'd need to have some kind of way to make sure that all bodies don't immediately start having flies buzz around them. It's unrealistic, and if you're not sure you've killed someone, hearing that noise reassures you in a gamey fashion.

Edited November 2, 2012 by Riem

[cazador 45]

Umm well if i don't hear flies i'm going to shoot you, so you better perfect that fly buzzing impersonation!

What I think we should have is the ability to walk like a zombie so if you roll in blood or mud it can get rid of your scent and you should be able to slowly stumble past hordes of zombies it would also make it harder for people to identify you as human which could make things interesting :)