My Personal Suggestions - A selection :)

[UmBe 125]

Here are all my suggestions combined:

have fun

3D Scopes:

I really don't like the "screen is black except for reticles" scope system in Arma 2/ DayZ

http://i223.photobuc...y/acogarma2.jpg

What i would like to see in the SA is something along the lines of Red Orchestra or Insurgency:

http://www.daggering.../official05.jpg

I also found a vid on youtube:

if that would be included in the game that would be pretty sweet

SMK Animations:

I would like to see something like this included in the standalone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vklOq6KFQy4

PS: I don't have anything to do with this mod, I just stumbled over this video on youtube

Quick Reload:

I heard that the SA will include cartridges and mags as two different Items, so I thought it would be cool if one had two different reload options:

• The normal reload where your character not only reloads his weapon, but also puts the other (empty) magazine back into you inventory. This should take more time than it takes now, because judging from videos of American soldiers in Afghanistan this takes quite a while
  

• The quick reload where your character drops the other Magazine on the ground (like it is in WarZ). This would take significantly less time than the normal reload and is to be used in fucked up situations like being cornered by 10 geeks or a firefight with another player.
  The downside of this is that you have to remember where you dropped all your magazines so you can retrieve them.
  A possible key combination could be [shift] + [R].
  

Built in Quiver:

A friend of mine who is a real fan of The Walking Dead and also quite likes the Crossbow in game had a good idea for a new lootspawn. A crossbow with a build in quiver just like Daril’s in the TV series. Maybe 10% of the crossbows spawned have this already included, but you can also find this in attach it to your crossbow or build one out of trash.

http://static.wetpai...69788912933.jpg

Rivers:

I suddenly noticed while playing DayZ, that there are no Rivers, only lakes and ponds everywhere. It would surely add to the immersion/ detail of the gameplay experience/ world if they would be able to put some rivers on the map.

And with such a great emphasis on infection disease, the water of a river would have significantly less germs compared the water of a lake/pond. Meaning you could more or less drink it without boiling it first and you would not instantly die of an infection.

Animals spooked by noise:

Like the title suggests, when you run through a forest and make loud noises (shooting) and sometimes random you spook the wildlife. For example birds fly away, a deer runs for his life and so on. This way one has to be careful while traveling through a forest, because those birds can give away your position to another player.

You can counteract that with walking or crawling and other means of silent movement.

Roaming hoards of Zombies could also spook animals, so you never know if there is a player in those woods or 300 Zombies.

PS.: I don’t want clouds of 50 high polygon birds flying around, more like in Lord of the Rings Online.

http://www.killtenra...otro/birds1.jpg

Weapons less instakill:

I would like the weapons to be less lethal in the way of instantaneous death (except for like head-/ heartshots) and be more like I knock you out and you bleed to death if nobody shoves a pack of bandages down your wound.

This way, if someone was to shoot your friend in front of you and you are able to kill the aggressor quickly you would, with a ton of time and afford, be able to save your friend, if you are not being molested by geeks.

I’m also suggesting that gunshots knock you out sooner.

NEW:

How to prevent Vehicle hopping

We all know that many people get a car by hopping between servers at a vehicle spawn location.

As these are easy to find with all the vehicle spawn maps on the internet most vehicles are already taken.

So here's my suggestion :

If there are ~200 different spawn points for every vehicle you can't just stay at one place and hop between servers.

You need to search for a repairable vehicle by just walking around. That's just so much more realistic.

Right now people know exactly where to search for a certain vehicle so that's pretty boring.

With so many spawn points for a vehicle you could even spawn more of them as they're not found so easily.

It just makes the game much more interesting and people would walk into each other more often.

I edited title. - lok

Edited December 7, 2012 by UmBe

[Ernst 9]

Love it :)

You got my beans!

[Ernst 9]

You should also be able to pick up the cartridge afterwards.. so it shouldn't be lost.

[sonicrainbrony 136]

3D scopes aren't all that realistic. When you close your left eye and focus your right eye on the scope, you don't really see too much of the things around you. Try it out, I have. Others I more or less agree with.

[UmBe 125]

3D scopes aren't all that realistic. When you close your left eye and focus your right eye on the scope, you don't really see too much of the things around you. Try it out, I have. Others I more or less agree with.

In my opinion it just looks better, and if ou use a scope you really dont have to close one eye.

If you are using a ACOG or a Reddot it is indeed better if you aim with both eyes opened

[finkone 320]

I do like the SMK animations - they are sweet looking, nice find. I also like the idea of combat reloads - being able to drop the mags. Perhaps - since we are talking about combat reloads if players could find a dump bag, which is what a lot of guys that do that kind of reload have, you simply throw the half-empty of close to empty mag in your butt-bag for later use... we don't like to leave mags or have to look for them after we steam roll some brats that wanted to ambush us...

Those are the only ideas that got my attention that I think are decent.

Using a CCO (reddot) with boy eyes open is a good rule of thumb, since it is a free floating optic you'll be able to just put the red dot on the target and squeeze the trigger, that is if you not left eye dominate - entirely different story with a ACOG, since it not a free floating optic, and the same cheek-to-stockwell should be maintained for each shot, to get the same point of aim point of impact. Having the other eye open is a method of just finding your next target - and then closing it again to take the shot. a ACOG is not a CCO optic system by design, and is hard to use close range and thus this method should be used... due to the magnification mainly. Just wanted to clear that up...

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

I am afraid if I click show a nude picture of someone underage will pop up.

[major.skrewup@gmail.com 177]

weapons need to be more lethal.

I heard people with over 100 forum beans by standalone get the first month free

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

I heard people with over 100 forum beans by standalone get the first month free

Seems legit

[mr_chabowski@live.co.uk 2416]

I heard people with over 100 forum beans by standalone get the first month free

I heard 250.

But yeah, I think weapons should kill you easier.

Getting shot shouldn't knock you out. The adrenaline would keep you going till blood-loss knocked you out.

Apart from that, cool beans.

[Faggala 29]

I really like the reloading concept +1

[Ernst 9]

Why should weapons be MORE lethal?

You simply don't die from a bullet to the leg if not from the blood loss or an infection.

Only a bullet to the brain or to the heart kills you more or less immidiately.

So in my eyes he's completely right.

Even if someone shoots you with a whole 30 round mag to the leg you won't die if someone stops the bleeding right afterwards.

Don't you think so?

[mr_chabowski@live.co.uk 2416]

Why should weapons be MORE lethal?

Why in the fuck should they be LESS lethal?! Players can already absorb stupid quantities of lead without any problem.

A bullet to the heart won't necessarily kill you instantly, (people have survived some crazy shit) but you certainly won't be walking away from it like nothing happened.

EDIT: To go with your theory. 30 rounds in the leg. Followed by some creative bandaging = Perfectly fine?

It may be a game, but it's supposed to be immensely unforgiving.

Getting perforated should seriously fuck you up.

Edited December 2, 2012 by Chabowski

[Ernst 9]

..A bullet to the heart won't necessarily kill you instantly..

.. 30 rounds in the leg. Followed by some creative bandaging = Perfectly fine?..

A bullet to the brain won't kill you either if you are extemely lucky. But that's something that shouldnt be in the game.

The chance of that happening is too damn low.

And I didn't say that you should be perfectly fine.

If you get shot 30 times in your leg it probably has to be amputated (which was discussed to be part of the game but that's not the point here)

But let's say someone shot you twice in the leg and 3 times in the right arm.. if your team mates take care of you you should be able to survive it.

You SHOULDN'T be perfectly fine after 3 minutes of treatment.

But right now a bandit can easily kill one of your group by shooting him to the arm or something like that.

If you then get the bandit your mate is still dead.

I think you should be able to patch him up if you're fast enough and if you've got the equipment to do so.

[UmBe 125]

Those are the only ideas that got my attention that I think are decent.

What is your problem with Rivers or Birds??

[wolfstriked 143]

Love 3D scopes and feel they would give the game polish.All scopes also and not just aimdot and Acog but PSO1,Susat etc.When the screen becomes black with hole in the middle I just feel its an easy way out by game devs.And if you look at most pics of snipers online you will notice they keep there eyes round 2 to 3 inches away from the scope to protect from kickback.This mans that you do see the outside edges of the scope and do not put the scope straight onto your eye unless you have a huge rubber shroud type sight.Plus 3D scopes just look way better!!! ;)

[starwarsfan@gmx.de 450]

I totally agree with the hole 'shot to the leg' thing. I always thought it was stupid that you're instantly dead when someone shoots you in the foot. It should surely knock you out but still give friends the chance to save you. In my opinion that's just one more reason for people to band together instead of lone wolfing. Don't get me wrong, I' more of a lone wolf myself but there should be obvious advantages to running with a group, this being one of the major ones.

[Hetstaine 10852]

I brought up this with with Rocket back in July..

4. Q. possible to have running waterways ? creeks etc or is that a major rewrite of map/code etc. [Hetstaine]

A: I would not rule it out as eventually having, we have discussed it before but it is a major rewrite of both code and the map. Not for the initial release, but maybe something to be looked at in the future as it is a big part of survival (finding creeks etc...).

Animals getting spooked is something that has been repeatedly brought up as well and something that would be a cool addition, i don't think i have ever seen any sort of interest in this by the dev team though.

Check out the one line thread and the q and a thread...

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/38476-the-one-line-questions-for-rocket-thread/

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/72533-reddit-qa-with-rocket/

[Inception. 9443]

weapons need to be more lethal.

I heard people with over 100 forum beans by standalone get the first month free

What about over 9000 900?

[Ernst 9]

4. Q. possible to have running waterways ? creeks etc or is that a major rewrite of map/code etc. [Hetstaine]

A: I would not rule it out as eventually having, we have discussed it before but it is a major rewrite of both code and the map. Not for the initial release, but maybe something to be looked at in the future as it is a big part of survival (finding creeks etc...).

I also think it's better not to implement rivers at any cost but make it detailed and good looking.

And as it's always been complicated to realize good looking flowing water, I guess it's better to take some time to do it properly.

Still I like the idea of having those.

[UmBe 125]

A Idea a friend of me had a while back:

Hey guys!

We all know that many people get a car by hopping between servers at a vehicle spawn location.

As these are easy to find with all the vehicle spawn maps on the internet most vehicles are already taken.

So here's my suggestion :

If there are ~200 different spawn points for every vehicle you can't just stay at one place and hop between servers.

You need to search for a repairable vehicle by just walking around. That's just so much more realistic.

Right now people know exactly where to search for a certain vehicle so that's pretty boring.

With so many spawn points for a vehicle you could even spawn more of them as they're not found so easily.

It just makes the game much more interesting and people would walk into each other more often.

I hope you like the idea

Please respond and share your thoughts with me!