Cannibalism

[Jeremiah Cross 55]

Not sure if this has been suggested yet, but I couldn't find anything.

I think that if you kill another player you should be able to gut them like an animal and get meat from their corpse. Doing so, (or perhaps eating it, saving us from punishment for accidentally clicking it) would, of course, cause a massive drop in humanity. Giving it a high healing value could be interesting too (since the last update I've actually tried, for the first time ever, to kill a rabbit since their meat restores so much blood, what if human flesh did the same or more?).

There have been a few, not many, but a few times when I've been near starvation and the option to kill and eat another player would, I think, be an interesting choice to make, and having it restore a significant amount of blood would also add the temptation to severely wounded players.

Imagine getting into a fire fight; you killed your opponent and have managed to staunch the bleeding but are near death and hungry. Alone in the wilderness, you mull over your options, the nearest store is several kilometers away and you might not make it, but there, laying a few meters away is the still warm corpse of the bastard who tried to kill you. You need food, badly, but do you need it that badly?

Anyway, just a though I had.

I also think it could be cool if cannibalism gave you another skin. Perhaps a bit of a feral look. Dark circles around the eyes, blood around the mouth, dirt caked to your skin and hair. Something like that.

Thoughts?

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

It has been suggested and discussed quite a bit by the forum community.

I Have, and still do support it, as it IS a realistic option if there was an apocalypse.

I know I would probably at least give it a try if there was literally nothing else to eat and my only other option was to die of starvation.

Edit; (Meat is meat. If you cook it enough it will be edible. It's not like human flesh is much different to that of a cow, pig, or chicken. That said, no, I am not a closed-cannibal.)

Edited February 6, 2013 by Dancing.Russian.Man

[Michaelvoodoo25 3120]

I'd sooner jump off a castel tower and let someone eat my body than be forced to eat anothers dead body.

Hopefully the spawn rate of food will never be as hard to warrant this. Some servers may be hard-hardcore and you may need this to survive.

[Jeremiah Cross 55]

After doing a bit more searching I did find a few posts about it but none of the suggestions seemed very fleshed out.

The more I think about it the more I like the idea of a new skin for cannibals, not for one timers, but for repeat offenders. I'm just thinking about the mild panic i feel when I see a guy with the bandit skin, and they just kill you for gear or sport.

[Private Evans 1303]

Q: Are we going to see cannibalism implemented, like we see with DayZ 2017?

A: Yes, I do. I think I really want to see some of ideas taken from SS13, we actually run a server called 'RocketStation' so everyone is welcome to join us on there as a lot of ideas are taken from there, they actually make burgers out of people in that and it's free. Maybe we should hire some of those people because we are actually looking for a junior designer right now.