Sewers/ Storm Drains

[Spoeggie 12]

I was thinking about how it might be nice to add sewers/ storm drains to the game.

It will just add another aspect to moving around in big cities, all cities doesn't need to have it, just like cherno or electro.

The basic idea will be that there is a bunch of manhole around the towns, and they will all be linked up with tunnels, so say you are at cherno church, you can get in a manhole and move all the way over to the apartments underground.

 

The thing about this is its gonna change how people move a lot. It will give a bunch of people that are fired upon and pinned down the chance to get out to safety, although it might not always be that safe.

 

In the end i think it will be quite a nice addition to DayZ.

 

Ive added a poll just to see how many people would like something like this and how many people wont.

Edited August 19, 2013 by Spoeggie

[-Gews- 7443]

Hopefully there are some. I like tunnels and caves and secret underground things (except instanced bases).

However, some things to note about sewers:

-You don't want to go into them, they're fucking filthy and they smell like... sewers!

-Most aren't that big. Maybe a little kid could crawl through them if equipped with an oxygen tank and a bit of insanity...

-Most don't connect to anywhere of importance and would make a horrible method of transportation.

-In a zombie apocalypse you really don't want to contract something from crawling through a sanitary line...

Storm drains are what most people think of when mentioning DayZ sewer adventures (I hope). I live in a far larger city than either Elektro or Cherno. It's also near the sea. However, I haven't found many tunnels worth checking out... and no sewer line would tempt me.

There are some that I have found though. All fairly clean (spiders notwithstanding), large, and they are damn fun to go through:

I hope something underground and non-instanced makes it in... at some point...

Oh, and watch out for high tide...

Edited February 13, 2021 by -Gews-

[King of kong 1117]

Yep. It's a good idea. I'd like something like a sewer or subway-station. Maybe the underground would be safe from infected? But you'd have to contend with paranoia, (Strange noises behind you, footsteps, breathing) this could reflect on your characters sanity.

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Maybe the Standalone engine will support under ground structures but currently you can't have Sewers and stuff

[King of kong 1117]

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[OrLoK 16191]

Hello all

 

Im my youth I used to play in the local storm drains and whilst hideously dangerous would be a fun addition, but I dont think the engine will be able to deal with that.

 

A fine idea, but if there's a storm upstream it would be deadly.

 

Rgds

 

LoK

[Spoeggie 12]

Storm drains are what most people think of when mentioning DayZ sewer adventures (I hope). 

Oh, and watch out for high tide...

 

Yes thats more what i had in mind, changed the topic name a bit.

 

This can actually get quite interesting with poison gas and no air in some tunnels. Lets say most of the main tunnels has a little bit of airflow and has oxygen in, here players can be as long as they want, but then some tunnels will not have airflow so have no oxygen. Then lets say you can hold your breath for 30sec while running, if you don't reach the other side you will pass out, then someone has to drag your body out within 60sec or else you die or something like that. Then tunnels with poison gas in should be only enterable with a gas mask. Could get quite fun, hope the new engine supports underground structures :D.

[dannsair2 (DayZ) 16]

I like it would be fun to hide in the sewers and hope no one goes down there and bump in to you.

If this was add it would be a kill zone at first thouh.

[fluxley 2228]

Gews, empty your message inbox, need to ask you something.

 

On topic, would be great to have some storm drains and even sewers with a super high chance of coming out with infection. and rats, we need rats.

[Korsbaek 1778]

we need rats.

 

Hell yeah.