Kevlar.

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Kevlar, as most of us know is a compound used in vests that can potentially stop certain bullets and knives... What if this was brought into the world of DayZ? I know what our characters already wear a vest, but it is not protection. Kevlar could be very rare in the game and have a percentage chance of stopping bullets and preventing melee damage to the torso area.

Based on the condition that it would be in. As it takes damage, your chances for protection will steadily decrease to the point of it falling off. They would be spawned in heavily military based areas like Airfields and Chopper Crash Sites.

What do you guys think of this?

[xXB1ackM0mbaXx 3]

The Hero class already get "Kevlars," but lootable kevs wouldn't be a bad idea at military bases.

The only problem is that people will be equal with heroes, so we need to give them another upgrade.

I'm a Ok/Maybe in this but not a no.

Edited December 13, 2012 by xXB1ackM0mbaXx

[dekartz 315]

In standalone there won't be "heros" as far as I'm aware. So this works.

[Welch (DayZ) 756]

Heroes already get the speed boost, which is crazy, since this game is sandbox and there shouldn't be "perks".

[shadowjack 254]

Not a fan of adding Kevlar. Game is already to much of a gear fest in my opinion.

What exactly is rare anyway? Stuff that is supposedly rare is way to common as it is. Now this may be due to cheaters but to me rare would be an item that has mmmm say 50% chance to spawn once per day across ALL servers. After a years time would have maybe 180 total in game (not accounting for losses). That would be rare.

If you want more gear I would go with more survival based equipment and less damage/damage mitigation gear.

IF we must have Kevlar ... can it at least have the look and feel of plush flannel PJ's?

[Bludy 324]

Not a fan of adding Kevlar. Game is already to much of a gear fest in my opinion.

What exactly is rare anyway? Stuff that is supposedly rare is way to common as it is. Now this may be due to cheaters but to me rare would be an item that has mmmm say 50% chance to spawn once per day across ALL servers. After a years time would have maybe 180 total in game (not accounting for losses). That would be rare.

If you want more gear I would go with more survival based equipment and less damage/damage mitigation gear.

IF we must have Kevlar ... can it at least have the look and feel of plush flannel PJ's?

if we consider also that every player keeps good stuff and leaves the gear become useless on the ground i think that a lot of ''rare'' gear goes from player to player to player..a pair of nvg or a sniper rifle you find spawned can survive dozens of players..

[Failbait 60]

we have Kevlar. Have you not fixed bullet wounds to the chest with a bandaid and some steak?

[enforcer1975 1111]

Only because you carry a vest doesn't mean it's a protective vest or plate carrier...

...and i wear my kevlar underwear every day just in case a zombie dog might bite me in the crotch...