[Standalone] Using Flashlight on Map

[Statik (DayZ) 2695]

This evening I was playing with some friends, and we were using 100% vanilla settings (i.e. no gamma warriors, etc, etc). I was overwatching a hotspot while I waited for some friends, when I opened my map. It went from the black of night, to the deathly bright map screen.

 

On to my suggestion:

 

In the SA, make the surrounding light levels (i.e. noon, dusk, dawn, midnight, full moon, half moon, nearby light source, no nearby lightsource) effect the brightness of your map. This would mean, if it's midnight and you need to study your map, you'll most likely have to use your flashlight in the mapscreen, which in turn will give off your position to other players.

 

I also think it would just add immersion to the game if you were to open your map at dust and have the map have a dull orange tinge, etc.

 

Thanks, and I'm open to ideas.

 

 

P.S. inb4 fleshlight joke.

[Fonziе 159]

Something like ShackTac Map Autobrightness would be good.

[fluxley 2228]

Love it, great little idea.

[Creep- 569]

Good idea mannnnnngggggggg

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

Yup. +1 from me as well.

A neat little detail, although I wouldn't say it should be something up there in the priority list.

[Mos1ey 6301]

Nice idea. You'd want to find a building or somewhere secluded to check your map without drawing attention to yourself, which would be cool I think.

[DayzForumer 284]

Neat idea. Beans for you my good sir.

[liquidmind 320]

I think this would fit in nicely into other map-related suggestions.

 

f.e. many wanted a "map-reading" animation that would show others that you are currently looking at the map. (so you can only look at the map while you are not moving)

other popular suggestion was to share a map so that you could have a team-meeting around a map to show everyone where to go. 

 

If you combined all that, it would be placing the map on the floor or a table and looking at it from above. if the light of the surrounding is not enough, you need to make light. If you use NVGs, you see it green, etc.  Everyone else around you would see the same tough.

 

Additional Feature: You have to be careful around strangers when you look at your map, because they might see your markers looking over your shoulder. 

Other additional feature: Copy map: copy all markers from one map to your map, probably with the ability to have different maps? like a private map with your own spots on and a map you use to show people where to go, so they don't know where your goodies are at?

 

Maps offer so much. I really hope that combining maps is just the beginning in SA.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Sounds like a sweet idea, maybe also have it work if you have a chemlight/flare/whatever's going to be handheld light in standalone.  Color would affect how well you can see too, IE a red chemlight or military flashlight will make anything red on the map not show up, or not show up well rather, same for green and blue and whatever else their adding to standalone.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Wow, this late in the game and we still get new ideas.  Have some beans, I like it.

[mzltv 2281]

Really simple. Really like it.

It's definitely an avenue worth discovering.

[Wili 156]

Great Idea!, matches, lighters and oil lamps should make the job too. 

Marks on the map are nice, but I think in game mark wich shows the meters remaining and the direction regarding where you put the mark on the map should be gone; this way people will follow roads, lakes, cities, etc for orientation thus it will be more easy to hide the camps/bases because people won't be travelling through the middle of a forest following a mark; I personally found lots of tents/cars following my own mark through the mountains in servers with that marks enabled. I'm playing on a server without these marks now and Is much easier to hide stuff and harder to find other's stuff.