[Standalone]Wet clothes should need drying out

[Shadow Man 142]

It should really be an obvious consequence that getting drenched makes you cold.

I'm thinking that once your clothes are wet then your temp will quickly start to drop, but crucially, you will need to either change your clothes and/or dry them to avoid cold related problems.

Rain could you make your clothes wet if you stay out in it for too long without some type of waterproof jacket. Obviously swimming, but also laying down in shallow water like the swamp.

You could dry your clothes by being near a fire of some sort, or you could even place them near a fire and leave them there to dry. The time taken to dry clothes is significantly less if you take them off. Lets hope you don't get attacked while half naked and end up running out into the woods with nothing but your undies!

The effects of being wet and cold should be different to just being cold. For example heat packs should raise your temp less when wet compared to when dry and should dry your clothes say, 10%, meaning that once the heat pack is used up you will start to get cold again quickly.

Times for drying clothes is debatable. Too quick and its going to be a tedious repetetive formality, too long and you'll be freezing cold all of the time.

This idea would be best complemented if you could find a secure place to hole up in for a while. Like barricading yourself in a cottage. Used as a temporary base you could scavenge food etc then shut yourself in and dry clothes and craft some stuff before venturing back out.

[Lupatchi 143]

great idea, you have my beans!

But the dryinh facter should happen through sunlight. at night drying should be harder.

[radivmoe 47]

why did i give away all my beans? this is very good, as a Norwegian scuba diver i can confirm the amount of work it takes to stay dry at the shore.

[sasrecon 133]

Also assuming you find a waterproof backpack/some plastic bags or something and assuming it/they stay above the water you could put your clothes in it/them to swim somewhere then take your clothes back out?

[Bat (DayZ) 230]

yep I like this :)

It should be possible now that objects have attachments, they could have a "wet/dry value".

It could also be applied for other objects like weapons, ammo, and even electrical items like NVGs, flashlights etc... Such items could have functioning issues if wet.

Edited February 14, 2013 by Bat

[Shadow Man 142]

Also assuming you find a waterproof backpack/some plastic bags or something and assuming it/they stay above the water you could put your clothes in it/them to swim somewhere then take your clothes back out?

Yes good idea. There should be a means to keep clothes dry. You would take clothes off to swim anyway. How many people would just run into the sea fully clothed? To keep things simple you could make an assumption that backpacks are waterproof so puuting clothes in you pack keeps them dry. Or if you want hardcore you'd need to bag them up.

yep I like this :)

It should be possible now that objects have attachments, they could have a "wet/dry value".

It could also be applied for other objects like weapons, ammo, and even electrical items like NVGs, flashlights etc... Such items could have functioning issues if wet.

I like this too. Things like ammo could be given a failure rate maybe. I dont think guns are very suited to being submerged in sea water. Gps certainly wouldn't like water. Unless military grade gps units are waterproof?

[Sutinen 635]

I've had my pants completely wet many times and they dried out when I was sitting inside. So it would be pretty unrealistic if your clothes were wet forever if you didn't use a fireplace..

[Shadow Man 142]

I've had my pants completely wet many times and they dried out when I was sitting inside. So it would be pretty unrealistic if your clothes were wet forever if you didn't use a fireplace..

Well if they are rain-wet, yes.

Unless you are in a warm evironment, wet jeans would take literally hours to dry. Try getting in a bath of cold water wearing jeans and then stand in an cold unheated building. You're telling me you're not instantly freezing your ass off? Not to mention your top half getting similarly soaked. You'd be shaking like crazy.

There should be a value attached to how wet things are. 0=dry 10=dripping wet like like you just got out the sea.

Rain could be an accumulated effect with the wet value increasing by 1 for every 2 min exposed to rain up to a maximum of 8.

Natural drying could be determined by ambient temperature, an average of -1 every 15 min. You could dry out naturally, but being cold would have affected you in the meantime.

[m.w. vindicator 880]

This seems authentic. Goes hand in hand with another topic I made about clothes. I'll post it

[Sutinen 635]

Well if they are rain-wet, yes.

Unless you are in a warm evironment, wet jeans would take literally hours to dry. Try getting in a bath of cold water wearing jeans and then stand in an cold unheated building. You're telling me you're not instantly freezing your ass off? Not to mention your top half getting similarly soaked. You'd be shaking like crazy.

There should be a value attached to how wet things are. 0=dry 10=dripping wet like like you just got out the sea.

Rain could be an accumulated effect with the wet value increasing by 1 for every 2 min exposed to rain up to a maximum of 8.

Natural drying could be determined by ambient temperature, an average of -1 every 15 min. You could dry out naturally, but being cold would have affected you in the meantime.

Our house is unheated.. It wasn't that cold either, if I was outside, it would have been a little more "chilly" because of the wind and all.

[Raider (DayZ) 47]

Put clothes in backpack, swim, then take them out when at other side.

[sinkatze 52]

I like the idea!

I know many people would QQ about this, but its a simulator, the more things added about realism the better, just have to adapt them to a game and not literally like real life.

I always think when getting into a pond or water about getting wet, but then I'm like well nothing happens here its just a game. So it would be awesome to be with a friend running away from zeds when discussing crossing a river or something (no rivers in Chernarus :( ) because you don't want to get wet cause you have nothing to make a fireplace or dry pants to wear after, or maybe cause you have something you can ruin by getting wet.

Maybe equipment should not be that affected. And maybe not make it tedious to get dry, but just add something to change the temperature in your body cause right now the temperature isn't that integrated in the game.