Cannibalism

[Tigerr13 1]

I think cannibalism would be a neat feature for a zombie apocalypse. Once people start getting hungry and don't know where else to get food, they will start looking at each other and in-fighting just to survive. I would imagine the in-game mechanic would work similar to how you gut animals after you kill them and grab the meat off of their body. However, as a cannibal you would suffer a humanity hit (lose humanity) when you ate people and maybe some sort detriment it has towards you for eating people. I couldn't think of anything at the moment so help me out guys!

It's just a thought I had that I thought would increase the immersion, atmosphere and feeling of the game while at the same time kind of sorting out the lack of food at the moment. The only thing is there needs to be some penalty or detrimental effect to eating human meat, not sure what that could be yet.

Would make for some interesting stories.

[gusmanak 1]

But instead of dropping "Raw Meat" the players' bodies would drop "Strange Raw Meat".

And when cooked it would be called "Strange Meat". :D

[Tigerr13 1]

Yeah! Exactly like that :P

[thealgerian 2]

On saturday I had family visiting.

I played Day Z while my little cousins was watching, at some point I was searching a zombies's body, the youngest of my cousins (he's 5), told me: "Why don't you eat him?"

I told him "I can't eat him, he's infected", but what I was really thinking was "you deranged sick kid o,O"

On topic, I think it's not a bad idea at all. It would be just like in "The Book of Eli"

[ZedsDeadBaby 2287]

Would be a great addition and could tie in to the humanity system in... interesting ways.

It's a central theme in The Road and part of what makes that book so unbelievably grim.

It would have to come with some clever consequences, however. Otherwise food spawns will become completely meaningless. Human meat is... abundant.

[Tigerr13 1]

Would be a great addition and could tie in to the humanity system in... interesting ways.

It's a central theme in The Road and part of what makes that book so unbelievably grim.

It would have to come with some clever consequences' date=' however. Otherwise food spawns will become completely meaningless. Human meat is... abundant.

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Completely agree with the consequences. Though, I'm still at a loss for what those consequences could be. Will have a good think about this while at work :3

[ZtruK 0]

I would like to see this too. We were thinking about this last night when the bugged spawn had us all starving to death and you couldn't loot animal meat.

[dragula 1]

that is history, right too. There been many times of Cannibalism, In ww2 and so on, plane crash.

think the guy that got ate should get more humanity points, the eater less. the eater can get mad cow and have the shakes, but still get blood from the meat.

[Fonziе 159]

Didn't rocket second this idea, but then said that should there ever be a stand-alone version this would get it banned in that big island down south?

[TheMoodyOne 1]

there are several real life draw backs to Cannibalism - notable it makes you sick after long periods and doesn't have enough Vitamins to live Solely off

abstracting this onto game - the "strange" meat should not provide any blood (but does satisfy Hunger), reduce humanity (long term Cannibalism drives you insane) and with a chance of shakes

basically it would be a "last" resort for when starvation comes a calling

[djkling 5]

On saturday I had family visiting.

I played Day Z while my little cousins was watching' date=' at some point I was searching a zombies's body, the youngest of my cousins (he's 5), told me: "Why don't you eat him?"

I told him "I can't eat him, he's infected", but what I was really thinking was "you deranged sick kid o,O"

On topic, I think it's not a bad idea at all. It would be just like in "The Book of Eli"

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Deranged and sick, or bloody pragmatic?

[osiriszoran 33]

there are several real life draw backs to Cannibalism - notable it makes you sick after long periods and doesn't have enough Vitamins to live Solely off

abstracting this onto game - the "strange" meat should not provide any blood (but does satisfy Hunger)' date=' reduce humanity (long term Cannibalism drives you insane) and with a chance of shakes

basically it would be a "last" resort for when starvation comes a calling

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how bout only restores 1/3 of hunger meter instead of full.

[Huey (DayZ) 87]

But instead of dropping "Raw Meat" the players' bodies would drop "Strange Raw Meat".

And when cooked it would be called "Strange Meat". :D

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Eating this meat will do "Strange" things to the character :)

[rares 2]

Yea man, and before we can canibalise them, we could rape their corpse and they would watch. What retarded suggestions would we see next? Satanic rituals in the name of Satan to get some beans? Crucifictions? Hm?

[thealgerian 2]

there are several real life draw backs to Cannibalism - notable it makes you sick after long periods and doesn't have enough Vitamins to live Solely off

abstracting this onto game - the "strange" meat should not provide any blood (but does satisfy Hunger)' date=' reduce humanity (long term Cannibalism drives you insane) and with a chance of shakes

basically it would be a "last" resort for when starvation comes a calling

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Sounds pretty perfect to me.

[hollow05 0]

Anyone who's against the cannibalism feature should watch "The Road".

Then you will understand how it will change the atmosphere of the game.

[vincent.cheesbrough@gmail.com 0]

Yea man' date=' and before we can canibalise them, we could rape their corpse and they would watch. What retarded suggestions would we see next? Satanic rituals in the name of Satan to get some beans? Crucifictions? Hm?

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You need help...

Great ideas in the post, the humanity hit should be really massive imo. The only other creature that eats human flesh is the infected, perhaps you should slowly turn into one if you eat human flesh.

I'd really like to see players catch the infection, through multiple means, perhaps getting mauled by zombies, eating 'strange meat', dunno what else... It could start off with letting out an occasional involuntary zombie noise, periods of impaired vision, the shakes etc. Final stage you start to loose blood continuously, very slow at first and accelerating, the only way to recover blood at this stage is to consume more humans perhaps. Your definitely gonna die from this, there is no drug or solution but it should take a while to allow players to last a couple of weeks or something.

[zeeb 6]

Maybe you could get sick and instead of caughing you could just randomly puke and the sound should be as loud as running down on palement. And maybe add so u puke for 10 seconds, which will get some infected really close before you can actually run awy.

I dunno..

[Brayt0n 0]

What if you could only be a cannibal if your humanity were low enough.

You could lose your taste for canned food and only be able to eat human meat from that point on. That sounds like fun to me. :)

[vincent.cheesbrough@gmail.com 0]

What if you could only be a cannibal if your humanity were low enough.

You could lose your taste for canned food and only be able to eat human meat from that point on. That sounds like fun to me. :)

There has to be a serious negative effect otherwise everyone would just eat survivors all the time, dead survivors aren't exactly hard to find or 'create'. Suddenly there is a real reason to kill noobs on the beach again.

[Big Boss (DayZ) 23]

Yeah human noms should have a visual tell for those who are devoted to cannibalism.(shakes, uber pale skin, random tweaks etc.)

And cannibalism fits DayZ so well hahahah.

[bezki 31]

why not just farm the yummi pumpkins or fishing ;)

[Big Boss (DayZ) 23]

why not just farm the yummi pumpkins or fishing ;)

I like the idea of hunting cannibals....

Fish sound awesome though, even if I would be paranoid of anything not in a can being infected XDDDDD

[McFluffy (DayZ) 3]

tsk there is no negative effect of eating humans, you just need to take some extra vitamins, I just take some Vitamins D and take a B12 shot every other month.

[WeedFoXx 7]

when u eat it u have a change to becoeme faster hunger/fast Low Humanity and a Zed skin when u eat corpses u cant eat normal eat again and just can eat rotten flesh even more u eat faster u get hungry so u will die at some point ...But u can get healing like with antibiotics or flesh of an player and not an Zed so the onbly cure is killing some other guy ..... mayby ^^