Enhanced Environment

[Quobble (DayZ) 2]

Hello my fellow Survivors!

While playing on some common DayZ Chernarus servers I thought about some things.

One of those things was the environment that we have in Arma 2 or DayZ at the moment.

The "only" dangers in DayZ are:

-> Zombies

-> Players

-> Hunger, thirst, bleedings etc.

-> Dangerous objects that might break your bones

-> NPC`s [only sometimes on a few mods and servers]

IMO an enhancement of the environmental dangers is really needed in DayZ, to make the player feel more depressed and attacked by his or her surroundings.

Already in ACE mod for Arma 2 you can see stuff like tear gas etc.

If its possible to wear gas masks in Arma 2, it should be possible to have that in DayZ as well.

My idea is:

Gas, radiation or spores in the air, that can kill, hurt or infect the player in certain ways.

Gas:

Rarely appearing in old civil industrial plants and military areas.

Symptoms without safety measures:

If the players doesnt wear a mask or any similar covering he will start having a blurry view, followed by a loss of walking speed. Running is not 100% able so the player might lose his orientation.

Is the player exposed to the gas for too long, he will fall unconscious for a specific time until he dies.

Radiation:

Appears in old industrial areas like powerplants and military areas, so areas that contain good loot or rare items at all.

Symptoms without saftey measures:

Without a mask the player will die in a few minutes. If he makes it out of the radiated area without dieing he will be effected by a high level bleeding, causing him to lose control of several body functions. [running, aiming etc]

His clothings will be radiated by dust etc. so he also needs to change them or he will keep being effected by the rest radiation.

Spores:

During the zombie apocalypse many buildings have been left alone for a few years.

People left doors and windows open, allowing wild mushrooms and their spores to inhabit rooms and walls.

If the mushroom wants to spread, he inserts his spores into the air, causing the person who inhales them to cough, puke and after a while to fall to the ground.

Mask and towels infront of the face can stop the spores from entering the lungs.

Spores are not deadly, but can cause longtime unconsciousness if safety measures arent started asap.

If you like my idea write a comment below.

[Quobble (DayZ) 2]

i wont let you push down this idea to the bottom of the page ;)

[enforcer1975 1111]

This might be gravyarded anyway...there already have been 100 threads with these ideas so i wonder why someone posts them again...

[methr1k2dop3 323]

Gas masks would be cool.

I don't like the spore idea. Just seems like pretty random thing to have.

Edit: Tear gas would be interesting, or other types of non lethal gas that would incapacitate a survivor.

Give heros a different way of dealing with people without killing them.

Maybe there is just that one guy that likes to corner camp Cherno Grocery store.

Edited June 15, 2013 by methr1k2dop3