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According to a great book about zombie survival, and I have to agree with it, there are two things you don't want to do to a zombie: Making it radioactive, and setting it alight. Why? Because, by the time those kill them, it made them even more deadly to you.

Though I'd love molotovs.

Works like a flare at night.

Prevents people from following you.

Hurts instead of kills.

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I for one would love to be able to see Zeds catch on fire and die.

Wiskey Bottle + Gasoline + Cloth (also used in other things ive mentioned) = Molotov Could still be lit with matches.

Or automatically is lit when thrown (could assume we lit it before throwing)

EVERY item in the game should have some valuable unique, practical use, or it shouldn't be in the game.

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I...um...honestly thought this WAS going to be implemented just due the amount of empty whiskey bottles and their extreme lack of use. But my hopes were shot down when I played around with the single player spawn window, when I first found out about DayZ...no molotovs or hints that they may be implemented anytime soon.

As for a flare...meh not what I was thinking. I was thinking more of a lighter to put in the tool slot (Then again, there are matches). One must not forget the rag as well. Empty whiskey bottle, gas, rag. Perhaps you could involve a flare in their construction, but then I would see another item needed...tape (To tape the flare to the outside of the bottle, to use as the 'fuse' instead of a rag), even the big 1.5L whiskey bottles couldn't fit a flare in the mouth of the bottle...not to mention how absurd and 'ghetto' that'd look. There has to be some uses for these worthless items in the future (empty tin/soda cans and whiskey bottles). Otherwise they're just taking up memory and are just filler for gear spawns (and not to mention let downs).

Bit off topic, but I was hoping to see the option to throw cans/bottle to distract zeds, but alas, there is none.

Cans and bottles can be thrown to distract zeds, they are the single most useful item you have when first starting a new character

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I...um...honestly thought this WAS going to be implemented just due the amount of empty whiskey bottles and their extreme lack of use. But my hopes were shot down when I played around with the single player spawn window, when I first found out about DayZ...no molotovs or hints that they may be implemented anytime soon.

As for a flare...meh not what I was thinking. I was thinking more of a lighter to put in the tool slot (Then again, there are matches). One must not forget the rag as well. Empty whiskey bottle, gas, rag. Perhaps you could involve a flare in their construction, but then I would see another item needed...tape (To tape the flare to the outside of the bottle, to use as the 'fuse' instead of a rag), even the big 1.5L whiskey bottles couldn't fit a flare in the mouth of the bottle...not to mention how absurd and 'ghetto' that'd look. There has to be some uses for these worthless items in the future (empty tin/soda cans and whiskey bottles). Otherwise they're just taking up memory and are just filler for gear spawns (and not to mention let downs).

Bit off topic, but I was hoping to see the option to throw cans/bottle to distract zeds, but alas, there is none.

you know you can fill empty whisky bottles with water right? and tin cans and soda cans are for distracting zombies.

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