Random Events

[Phil The Survivor 19]

I have seen this topic on the forums before, but i am here to refine it.

I think DayZ should have some cool random events.

Like for example, say you are looting a factory in cherno when you hear a metal grinding noise, the noise starts getting louder.

When you step outside to see what it is, you see a flaming passenger train rolling down the tracks through town.

An event like that would attract a large hord of zombies to the railroad tracks and causing quite a disturbance.

Another event could be a staged car crash. Say you are walking down the road heading to Stary Sobor or a place like that, when suddenly a car comes flying

down the road ahead of you, crashes into a building and explodes. This would attract a bunch of zombies however you would be able to find some loot by the crash (Pistol, food maybe)

Stuff like this would make DayZ a lot more interesting.

Another thing:

Reply to this post other events that could happen. Just dont make them too overpowered(IE: A supply crate filled with m16's)

[Welch (DayZ) 756]

Everything in DayZ is a random event. The players define when they happen.

[TreeMan (DayZ) 72]

Yeah, stuff like that would be cool. Then say just natural random events, trees falling and blocking the road, rocks falling from hills, maybe small floods that would slow your walking a bit, lightning that would cause forest fires and burn smaller houses (would attract zombies). Then those not so natural events, if we are going dramatic here then like streets collapsing, maybe buildings too.. I can't think of much more right now. Maybe later.

[joe_mcentire 2074]

why not refine the idea by posting in these ~100 particular threads...

[Clumzy (DayZ) 377]

Yeah, stuff like that would be cool. Then say just natural random events, trees falling and blocking the road, rocks falling from hills, maybe small floods that would slow your walking a bit, lightning that would cause forest fires and burn smaller houses (would attract zombies). Then those not so natural events, if we are going dramatic here then like streets collapsing, maybe buildings too.. I can't think of much more right now. Maybe later.

Actually, small floods along the coast sound pretty cool. Maybe a way to get some of those people up north too. How hard would it be to implement, I wonder?

[Phil The Survivor 19]

Flooding and some sort of fires are definitely cool features. Cant be hard to implement either.