Mouth calls (Animal noise-makers)

[UnarmedCiv 54]

A mouth call is a device used in hunting to entice an animal to come nearby so that a hunter can easily find wild game.

Uses for them in DayZ:

1. Hunting
   
2. Find your friends
   
3. Taunt your enemies.
   
4. Find hunters to kill
   

Types of mouth calls:

• Duck
  
• Crow
  
• Owl
  
• any animal that will exist in the game.
  

Each mouth call should have more than one sound that can be produced.

1. Mating
   
2. Mating 2
   
3. Distress
   
4. Feeding
   

Edited February 18, 2013 by UnarmedCiv

[mr_chabowski@live.co.uk 2416]

[FlashHawk4 44]

Hunting will be a larger factor in the Standalone, so this might be a good addition. Animal AI will hypothetically be more evolved, and hunting will be more necessary due to fewer easy canned meals.

Also, it would be useful as a signal device while enemies are around, so you have an alternative to shouting out orders and whatnot within earshot of them. A sentry could give a bird call in place of shouting "We've got company" over direct chat, and everyone who needed to know what it meant would have been briefed on it beforehand. Obviously we'll never be able to get rid of this, but this could help to neutralize the allure of a third-person system like Teamspeak or Skype. It would be more immersive than being able to say "Watch out dude" over Skype with no fear of being overheard, and that might be another way to get people off of Skype and TS and into the game.

Obviously not as much of a factor as functioning radios and whatnot, but still.

+1 for all of it.

[King Tubbs 224]

I like the idea

should be hard to find

[Ohly 26]

I like the idea

should be hard to find

yeah should be rare but you'll be able to do the call with your hands but have a lower rate of success... thinking between 35 to 50% of succes compare to the calls you can find

[UnarmedCiv 54]

LOL perfect example.

[SteelKnife 25]

This would be awesome, also mabey the thehunter2013 team could help with animals animations and behavior.

[jona (DayZ) 61]

1 hell of a noise maker i would be up for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-NKadUe7UU

Edited November 8, 2013 by jona

[AP_Norris 1018]

Yes, but they should occasionally appear in nature to not instantly set off suspicions, the calls should be slightly louder to their bird counterparts and not attract zombie attention unless you're very close.

Maybe with a proper caller the sound could be more accurate or have a fudge up chance where a little tip off that it's actually a person calling that only appears when hand calling and not with a proper caller.

[harley001 315]

The animals should also make sounds.  So this way you lure survivors in because they might be looking for some steak.

[Karmaterror 982]

The animals should also make sounds.  So this way you lure survivors in because they might be looking for some steak.

 

I want this! would be awesome to lure survivors. And if you could (to some extent) lure animals with it, that could be used brilliantly for loosing zeds....if, of course they make zeds chase animals. Id lure something to the treeline...quickly loot...then run strait back at the animal and let the zeds have a well earned munch, as I wonder off back into the woods :)