Stop action and RUN

[Feral (DayZ) 622]

last night i was dying of starvation, I sneaked past the zeds at the NEAF and killed a goat with my silenced weapon.

i clicked 'gut animal' and the animation began, unfortunately this triggered aggro from 3 zeds. Nothing I did would interrupt the gutting process and I died.

It should be possible to stop whatever it is you are doing - refueling, gutting etc - to interrupt the animation so you can move away or defend yourself. In a real life situation if I was filling my car with fuel and someone began shooting at me I wouldn't ignore it and carry on fueling up, I'd drop the jerry can and run for cover immediately, or go for a weapon and return fire, this should be possible in-game too.

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For certain actions if you scroll the mousewheel, you get "cancel action" as a function (light fire and cook meat I've experienced this)

It does exactly what it says on the tin.

EDIT: I don't know if it works with everything, I haven't tried it. It definitely comes up for the two I mentioned. (it did with 1.7.2.6)

Edited November 7, 2012 by Chabowski

[Feral (DayZ) 622]

cheers dude, if that is indeed the case then all is good.

[SP45M 240]

Don't shoot animals with zombies close by is the obvious answer, its just part of the learning curve. Its a reasonable suggestion though.

[wolfstriked 143]

That is a good workaround for now but in SA I think game mechanics should be polished to a shiny gem.For example when gutting,cooking etc you must not press W or it automatically cancels the action.

[Feral (DayZ) 622]

That is a good workaround for now but in SA I think game mechanics should be polished to a shiny gem.For example when gutting,cooking etc you must not press W or it automatically cancels the action.

hope you're right, it works when you are applying a bandage as i found out to my cost =/ should work for all actions.