Changing seasons!

[King of kong 1117]

First post: hello, hello i welcome constructive criticism and i would be happy if any of you could point out flaws in my suggestion's.

. Changing seasons: In my opinion this would be an interesting feature as it might affect zombie and animal behaviour, winter would be quite interesting in terms of gameplay, in winter most animal's go into hibernation so even the most experianced hunter would have to venture far to find food, In the time before winter, animal's should be easy to find (They would be collecting food for winter hibernation), in winter, your character's body heat and hunger bar would go down faster, which could mean tense, even violent argument's with other survivors for a simple can of bean's or heatpack.

(Continued) With changing season's comes new zombie hehaviour, a lot of infected would probably die in the cold unless they found shelter, this would mean less zombies on the streets but possibly, extremely vicious pack's of roaming infected that were feasting on the meat that the weaker infected brought (Kind of like masters of the pack who were smarter then the regular infected). Maybe the season's would change ever server restart? tell me what you think.

[Lady Kyrah 1110]

Winter survival ought to be interesting, cold becoming more dangerous than dehydration.

[GOD™ 2795]

hypothermia FTW

[enforcer1975 1111]

Good idea but you would need to retexture the whole map...i wonder if that's all you have to do.

[King of kong 1117]

i might be hard to do but it's probably worth it.

[King Tubbs 224]

this has been talked about before but it is just not passable without redoing the whole map 

 

they have said that they may look in to it down the road (a long time down the road) when there are doing a new map from scratch

[King of kong 1117]

Ok, i understand that it would be hard to make, but it would be good if they did implement it, maybe just get one of their map desighner's to create a new map called "winter chernarus" or something, set in the most feroucious winter to date. (Snow storms, extremely cold nights)

[TheLastEmp 295]

I like the idea of the seasons changing very slowly on the map... Log-in one day, the leaves are tinted with yellow and red and air has that crisp autumn smell.... Log in a few weeks later and most of the leaves are off the trees and there's snow starting to swirl around in the air...

 

Man, that would be an awesome immersion tool.

 

This seems highly unlikely to me for implementation any time in the near future... but maybe in early 2014 they can start making something like this happen!!

[wild_man 4442]

is nice idea :beans:

[dayz standalone 33]

Would be cool if the higher parts of the maps had snow making it harder to survive and whatnot, maybe put decent loot spawn making people want to go up there.

[enforcer1975 1111]

Would be cool if the higher parts of the maps had snow making it harder to survive and whatnot, maybe put decent loot spawn making people want to go up there.

 

 

Well yeah not with 50m altitude difference in Chernarus or else it would snow on the chimneys and then all the 1337 bambi snipers would freeze their dicks off and we wouldn't want that do we? Takistan would be a great place since the highland is at 2000m.

[King of kong 1117]

Would be cool if the higher parts of the maps had snow making it harder to survive and whatnot, maybe put decent loot spawn making people want to go up there.

Like the elder scrolls V:skyrim where the regions in the north were quite dangerous (With wolves, sabre cats, and hypothermia if you had the hypothermia mod, and hunger too) but had ancient underground Citys with lovely loot

[King of kong 1117]

Mybe an underground military base in snowy mountains

[m.w. vindicator 880]

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/110186-how-seasons-would-help-dayz-game/

 

 

I posted about this a while ago.  you can read my though there.  

[King of kong 1117]

Prepare for winter, stalker.

[DropBearChick 1217]

maybe if we eventually have food that grows throughout the map it doesnt grow in winter and in autumm and winter you would need a different ghille because the snow and the dead leaves and in spring the forests have wild flowers.

[rpatto92@hotmail.com 26]

I think this is a good idea but I just think technically it would be difficult; with the current map because a lot of the art assets are designed for a particular season. If they were to develop a new original map, later in the dev cycle then I could see this happening but for alpha it's not a reasonably expectation. 

[King of kong 1117]

Re-texture the ground, add new trees and bump the terrain