Populate Chernarus with bushes. Millions of them!

[Xianyu 820]

I think this is the biggest gripe I have with the Chernarus map. I've been thinking about it for a while, and couldn't quite put my finger on why it was so terrible. But I dun figured it out.

There's no shrubbery. Or at least, the shrubbery is way, way, way, way, way, way - [sometime later] - WAY too sparse.

Look at this way. If you stood on a building in any single town, there is literally nowhere that a player can go to creep up on you outside of line of site. There's no cover. The native shrubbery just upped and pissed off one day.

In the forests, this is especially true. If you removed all the trees from Chernarus, you would become very acutely aware of just how open the entire world is. In the real world, bushes play a major part of any scene. Even where I live, in the middle of buttf- nowhere, Australia. We have more trees, more shrubbery, and more foliage than Chernarus, and I live in a pretty damn arid place.

The sheer rarity of bushes in Chernarus lends itself more to some kind of forest that's covered six months out of every year in three foot of snow.

So what I'm suggesting is, just blanket Chernarus in bushes. Put them everywhere. On all the fields. In the forests.

Let's go from this:

To this:

The reasons why are many.

For a start, it's more realistic. It occludes your vision. A good vantage point will be one with a commanding view of the entire field without being obstructed, instead of any point in the world higher than the other points.

There should be places in the world that are sparse of vegetation, but these should definitely be the uncommon occurrence.

The lack of vegetation also attributes to the current state of the game: Sniper-range engagements with no CQB unless you literally stumble into someone. The only way to get within 300-400 metres of someone without being seen is to either use the geography to your advantage (creeping up behind a hill sniper noob) or sprinting into a town while said person is also in the town.

With shrubbery and bushes and little trees everywhere, you'd see a shift in the whole way the game is played. Instead of running across Giant Open Field #52123 or, if you're particularly cautious, running through the line of trees beside Giant Open Field #52123, you could run across said field, using shrubbery as cover. Move from cover to cover instead of saying 'I can run across the giant open field and everyone sees me, or, I can zig-zag through the trees, and when everyone see's me anyway, I can hide behind a tree! :D'

So basically, give us trees and shrubbery everywhere. It'll bring us all closer together. And then maybe the engagement range of the game won't be 'hey, shoot at that shape in the distance!'

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[JeffDetroit 717]

"more bush in Chernarus..."

For a moment, I thought it was a forum posting about putting together a dating service for DayZ players!

[Inception. 9443]

I love this idea.

[colekern 1364]

Nice idea.

[harley001 315]

How much bush do you mean? Do you mean the entire landscape is filled with bush or just more bushed in general. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being replacing all the grass with bushes and 1 being adding only one more bush. What would you choose?

I cant stop thinking of the word bush.

Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush.Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. shrub. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush.Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush. Bush.Bush. Bush.

Edited May 12, 2013 by harley001

[Death_Dealer 3156]

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