SUGGESTION: Alcohol, and how it would effect gameplay.

[Filipino-Hooker 0]

Hey guys how is it going?

I had this thought the other day about things they could add in DayZ. I was thinking about the use of Alcohol in a game. We know the consumption of alcohol will make the drinker temporarily warm, Especially Vodka and other sorts of hard liquor. BUT we also know that the consumption of alcohol makes your blood thinner.

My thought was basically for example you are in a town in the middle of night without warm clothing drinking alcohol would temporarily make your character warmer BUT it makes your blood thinner. Forcing blood leaving your wounds quite quicker. The excessive consumption of alcohol could indeed effect for example your vision, audio and reaction times.

This is my suggestion that i would love to see in the game. What do you guys think about this?

Thanks - AC

[TIC 1050]

I think alcohol could also be used as other methods as well, such as being an antiseptic to reduce infections and make wounds heal faster if taken care of properly.

Edited February 9, 2013 by TIC321

[Chris529 380]

Why is the whiskey always gone?

[UmBe 125]

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We know the consumption of alcohol will make the drinker temporarily warm

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Do we know that? I belief it only makes you feel warm.

Also anyone drinking alcohol in a apocalypse scenario is a Idiot because (like The Guy above me already mentioned) there are better Uses to spirits

Edited February 9, 2013 by UmBe

[machineabuse 31]

Alchohol lowers your core temperature. Feeling warm and being warm are not mutually inclusive ;)

[m.jonitz@gmx.net 1]

Do we know that? I belief it only makes you feel warm.

Also anyone drinking alcohol in a apocalypse scenario is a Idiot because (like The Guy above me already mentioned) there are better Uses to spirits

It is proven that the consumption of Alcohol dehydrates your body and also you get cold. You only feel warm.

I think the only good that comes from Alcohol is indeed the use for disinfecation.

[Filipino-Hooker 0]

Yeah sorry, you only 'Feel' Warm, Russians used to do it even though they still died from the cold. I cant believe i forgot about using Alcohol as a disinfectant aswell, Good job guys.

[CreepySalad 108]

Someone else suggested this as well, and I began to think of other benefits it could bring. Maybe it temporarily makes you warm, but causes you to get colder faster.

Rather than taking, let's say 20 minutes to get kinda cold, it would take 10 to get dangerously cold.

If melee combat is added, it could make your fists more efficient.

I dunno.

[pr3llox 63]

it would be kinda stupid to find empty vodka/whiskey bottles everywhere and no one is ever full at the stores or on dead bodies....

Edited February 9, 2013 by KC Pr3lLoX

[terrvik 2409]

it would be kinda stupid to find empty vodka/whiskey bottles everywhere and no one is ever full at the stores or on dead bodies....

There's a reason the infected can't run in a straight line.

[mr_chabowski@live.co.uk 2416]

It's already mentioned that any sensation of warmth is just in the mind, but we've had a similar debate about smoking in another topic.

It could be noted that alcohol can make pain more bearable, though we don't necessarily consider it a painkiller.

Is it better to have substances in game affect characters purely with their tangible, physical effects? Or is the power of the mind something that can be expressed in DayZ?

Edited February 9, 2013 by Chabowski

[Arkayzer 1]

Alcohol won't make you temporarily warm.. Mythbusters tested it.

It's actually dangerous, it does dilate your blood vessels making your skin feel a bit warmer, but it'll then cool your core temperature faster, you'll get fatal hypothermia faster.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/alcohol-warms-up.htm

[Mos1ey 6301]

There's a reason the infected can't run in a straight line.

This combined with the Shaun avatar - priceless.

[B00tsy (DayZ) 19]

I am already using alcohol in the game and an occasional reefer too, but I guess you are talking about the character. :P

[Fenrod 60]

That's a bad idea. Alcohol has nothing but wrong effects, such as dehydrating your body.

If you wanna feel warm, just get a heatpack, or a hot cup of tea from British zombies.

[radrussian1 (DayZ) 23]

wellllll sure it technicaly does make you colder. but it makes you feel warm so that good enough to stop you from shaking.

[Jeremiah Cross 55]

Alcohol is one of those things I could see adding just so it's there. Maybe I just want to get my character drunk once in a while, guy has a hard life after all. Besides that you know people would get drunk and that would make them vulnerable. Aside from all that, it could be used to sterilize wounds or as a mild pain killer (takes the shakes away and enough of it could dull the pain from a broken limb), Drinking to prevent Hypothermia though, probably not, unless we're talking about a Hot Tottie.

[King Tubbs 224]

I like crosses idea the sterilize wounds or as a mild pain killer

plus Alcohol would its self be sterile so you could drink it to gain hydration (I know it dehydrates you but you do gain more fluid than you lose) without the risk of disease

think about it you are out of cans have no matches so you have to choose

water and risk getting ill

or whisky you wont get ill but you will get drunk

a hard one

Edited February 9, 2013 by King Tubbs