list of my suggestions

[stollpatrol 0]

My addiction is growing for this mod and I am very much looking forward to the standalone. I was recently watching a youtube video and i noticed that Dean Hall referenced several "suggestions" on this site, which I thought was very cool. So I am sharing with the community a few ideas I had that I would like your thoughts for.

Suggestion 1: tripping.

With zombies being very fast and menacing i think it would be a nice addition if a zombie occassioanlly tripped when chasing you. I think it would be that sigh of relief that a bleeding player was looking for. It would immerse you in the game. In tv shows and movies characters are often having "Close encounters" where they narrowly get away, or simply get lucky. I think zombies could trip and fall once in a while (giving you 5 seconds before they get back up) to add to that immersiom.

suggestion 2: holding door closed.

I think it would be intense running into a house and closing the door behind you and holding it closed. this would giveany allies a chance to bandage up for a minute or 2. You could give a limit of time that you could force teh door closed by pushing against it. therefore not making it to easy. Also if 2 or more zombies try to open it they overwhelm you and break in. With larger doors like in supermarkets you could have 2 or 3 human players able to hold door closed, able to keep 2-3 zombies at bay outside. Giving you the whole 'walking dead', 'dawn of the dead', 'shaun of the dead'-esque experience. But by closing the doors this could attract more zombie attention, giving you the feeling of being overwhelmed in a building (even like nazi zombies) -Also you could allow doors to be broken off and then repaired. adding to the atmostphere.

Suggestion 3: ziplines (not flying foxes, more like a rope you can shuffle along)

Moving from large city building rooftop to large city building rooftop would be awesome. You could have injured players unable to cross the zipline and a chance of slipping which could be effected by your total weight (by a full backpack etc). Ziplines could be broken (or shot) which could then be repaired. (imagine shuffling along a zipline above 20 zombies that have spotted you and are waiting below only for it to snap and you to fall into a death pit.

Suggestion 4: rain water

Imagine running around in the rain, soaked, but thirsty. You could take off your shirt and ring it and drink from the water soaked shirt(it wouldnt provide much but it could help in dire straights) - again something that i have seen in countless movies/shows.

Suggestion 5: blocking off ladders

You could block off the top of a ladder so zombies or humans cant climb. You could make it take 15 seconds to acheive so you cant do it if someone is in hot persuit of you. It wouldnt be overpowed as if you block it off then you cant get down anyway, therefore you would have to dismante it to move on to a different area. This allows for you to camp out safely on a rooftop (also seen in zombie movies). they could eventually collapse or sease to work after a certain amount of hours and be irrepairable. this could be due to heavy rain, taking enemy fire, etc.

I have more but i might wait until i see your thoughts on these 5 before I bother writing the rest up. Thankyou.

[IcyZ 295]

I don't think any of these will come in SA Alpha version but nice suggestions.

1-Zombies need a whole new behaviour system i general. They should aggro on animals, maybe hit each other, and as you said trip OR get distracted by the cow 5m to your left.

2-Keeping the door closed wouldn't work since you're supossed to be hurt and bandage etc, you shouldn't be able to hold the door closed as well. Barricading it with wooden planks etc would be nice

3-Chernarus is a land based of farmers(and military) not parkour and Assassins!

4- Water could be infected and lethal, holding it in your shirt doesnt seem right but using a bucket to get some could work

5-That can easily be abused by campers, they block the ladder and camp on top forever

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

I like every other suggestion besides the zipline thing. Seems a bit too game-y for DayZ.

2-Keeping the door closed wouldn't work since you're supossed to be hurt and bandage etc, you shouldn't be able to hold the door closed as well. Barricading it with wooden planks etc would be nice

I don't think he meant that you are supposed to hold the door shut WHILE bandaging. He said that you can hold the door closed so your friend can bandage. Or vice versa.

[IcyZ 295]

I like every other suggestion besides the zipline thing. Seems a bit too game-y for DayZ.

I don't think he meant that you are supposed to hold the door shut WHILE bandaging. He said that you can hold the door closed so your friend can bandage. Or vice versa.

Oops, my bad, just re-read it.

[stollpatrol 0]

you mis read most of my things.

Oops, my bad, just re-read it.

I didnt say jump from rooftop to rooftop. I said zipline. On certain buildings you could tether a rope from building to building and shuffle along it. And on the ladder thing, they couldnt abuse it. they would run out of resources and I said that it wouldnt be a permanent blocking.

EDIT: also i said rainwater. rain water would be safe. and clothing soaks in alot of rainwater. Have you seen man vs wild? that show is pretty much non-zombie dayz.

Edited June 16, 2013 by stollpatrol

[smith john 1]

Implement a mouse-scroll radius for the in-game chat to simulate how loud you want to shout or how soft you whisper.

This would make use for various reasons for example:

Controlling how loud you talk with your group or If you want to contact the closest player only. :thumbsup:

[Clumzy (DayZ) 377]

Implement a mouse-scroll radius for the in-game chat to simulate how loud you want to shout or how soft you whisper.

This would make use for various reasons for example:

Controlling how loud you talk with your group or If you want to contact the closest player only. :thumbsup:

That's actually a really good idea.

We need to do this!

[OrLoK 16188]

Hello there

I like

1,2,4

I dislike 3 for it's practicality with the engine and number 5 I'm not certain of.

I do think also that animals should aggro zeds. I don't know if it's achievable with the mod due to the way arma handles sides (in a simple way anyway), but as shambling wrecks of humans they may be fast but their co ordination should be suspect to say the least IMHO.

Rgds

LoK

[Jake398 0]

I love the first two suggestions! Zombies tripping would be awesome and the holding the door would be so intense.

[Xeiom 3]

I love the Idea of tripping, Imagine an entire town of Zeds chasing you and a few at the front trip and end at the back.

Holding doors closed is a great Idea, I'd love to see this also but I think we'd need to make sure players can shoot through the closed wooden doors if this was implemented and maybe even metal doors with a few shots.

I really think Ziplines are cool in the way you've described but I also think that developing it wouldn't really add much to the game for the effort. You'd have to be crazy to have yourself out in the open in a major city because someone will shoot you. While I'd like this feature, there are hundreds more that would be better off benefitting from the development time.

The rainwater idea while also really good I feel would again take too long to develop the tech for such a small feature.

Blocking off ladders is a point I'm not fully sure what your intention was, how do you propose the ladders would be blocked? You can already get like tripwire or whatever it is that makes it difficult to walk somewhere, what's the difference between the wire fence and this? It would be great if you could wire fence a ladder at the bottom so that a potential climber would either have to take some time to dewire it or climb it really slowly or climb it fast but start to bleed. I'm not too concerned about campers with this one, DayZ was never intended to be a fair game and campers would eventually run out of food/supplies. Where does your idea sit in comparison to this wires suggestion?

Also update your main post with more of your ideas, these few have been really good.

Edited June 17, 2013 by Xeiom

[IcyZ 295]

you mis read most of my things.

I didnt say jump from rooftop to rooftop. I said zipline. On certain buildings you could tether a rope from building to building and shuffle along it. And on the ladder thing, they couldnt abuse it. they would run out of resources and I said that it wouldnt be a permanent blocking.

EDIT: also i said rainwater. rain water would be safe. and clothing soaks in alot of rainwater. Have you seen man vs wild? that show is pretty much non-zombie dayz.

I didnt say you said jump from roof to roof.

Your ideas are good but its clear you didnt think them through.

Ziplining would be crazy for 2 reasons. as someone else said you put your self in too much danger, getting shot, aggroing hell lot of zombies, rope gets destroyed while you're on it.. there are too many dangers that must come with that. second, we dont have roofs on chernarus, only atc towers,firestations and hospitals, the all have at least 2 ladders/exits so you can easily escape through one of them if you really need to.

About blocking ladders, wire fence kit or tank traps are already a pain in the ass when it comes to blocking, a camper or a stupid troll will easily find a way to block it and keep it that way for at least as long as he is there.

About rainwater. You don't know what started the infection. It could be Crazy cows it could be Justin Bieber's songs, it could be the water. IRL you have to be REALLY desperate or crazy to drink it like that. IG if you just fill up a water bottle and drink you most probably get infected, you have to boil the water first to make sure it'll not fuck you up. You should be able to use the water rain though, as I said getting it in buckets and then boiling it and filling up 3-4 water bottles would be usefulll