Let's Talk about Tents

[Jex 1104]

Something that has annoyed me since they came out, and I'm sure others too, are the way tents get rendered in the game. If you take the entire map of Cherno, there are actually very few places to conceal a tent.

 

From the air or from 100 meters out of the forest, tents show up like a beacon. The main issue with the tents is their texture which doesn't fit in with any of the textures within the game. I would ask for this to be fixed so they blend in more and that we have more than one tent - a brown one for dark backgrounds and a green one for green backgrounds.

 

Realistically I could set up a tent in the country and nobody would find it. Tents become useless if they are easily found. Whilst Cherno is huge, the actual places to set up tents are very limited once you take a look at player movement across the map and understand that putting a tent in a tree is a useless endeavour.

 

After this, you then take out the obvious places, on hill tops, along the edges of the map, etc and you'll find there are very few places to hide a tent. Now no tent is 100% secure but we all want to feel that where we set our tent we'll get some use out of it and the current system is awful.

 

A better texture is required and taking it further, perhaps options to attach brush and branches onto it.

[-Se7eN- 874]

Thats why in the upcomming 1.8 patch they added:

 

Dome Tents (Dark Shade of Green)

Camo Nets (Conceal camps from helicopters)

 

and in prior they added both variant of stash, if you find that tents are being found too often (couldn't agree more) start a stash network, i had a tonne of stashes spread out over a forest, they still haven't been found =)

[Tarkata 0]

Thats why in the upcomming 1.8 patch they added:

 

Dome Tents (Dark Shade of Green)

Camo Nets (Conceal camps from helicopters)

 

and in prior they added both variant of stash, if you find that tents are being found too often (couldn't agree more) start a stash network, i had a tonne of stashes spread out over a forest, they still haven't been found =)

 

I think camo nets will make it easier to spot vehicles in my opinion, they are just too big: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSUwStD_n3c

[-Se7eN- 874]

When used correctly there kind good, certainly better than a big blue ural in a green forest.

[Jex 1104]

When used correctly there kind good, certainly better than a big blue ural in a green forest.

 

I doubt it will make a difference. It will stand out as a big green square in a forest from the air because of the way the rendering happens. Forests are see through from the air.

Didn't know they added tents so thanks for that :)

[Statik (DayZ) 2695]

They could be colored like the majority of tents in real life. Orange, blue, blue, blue.

[TG ! Jimmy 216]

I think camo nets will make it easier to spot vehicles in my opinion, they are just too big: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSUwStD_n3c

During testing we were able to almost entirely conceal a (yellow) vehicle under a camo net.  It may not be 100% but it's a very drastic improvement, and it will add another commodity to the world of DayZ.  

 

Cheers,

Jimmy

[Bludy 324]

i'm not concerned by my tent being found..i just carry what i really care when i log out and leave in my tent my good stuff while i go looting with coyote patrol pack and a lee enfield..some food, an extra med, rifle, toolbelt stuff..not at all 10 as 50 or three lmgs and some sniper..

[facoptere 180]

I think main concern is use of ESP cheats used do find tents.

Stating that a 225.000.000 m2 map is no suitable to hide a tent is a joke. I did a  heatmap of Chernarus on 1 server, there are several hectares of the map crossed by any player in last 30 days. And some of these area have heavy foliage and are closed to the coast

[Jex 1104]

During testing we were able to almost entirely conceal a (yellow) vehicle under a camo net.  It may not be 100% but it's a very drastic improvement, and it will add another commodity to the world of DayZ.  

 

Cheers,

Jimmy

 

But did you conceal the camo netting? And from the air if it works, what about from the ground, are you saying they're invisible to people running through the woods?

[Jex 1104]

I think main concern is use of ESP cheats used do find tents.

Stating that a 225.000.000 m2 map is no suitable to hide a tent is a joke. I did a  heatmap of Chernarus on 1 server, there are several hectares of the map crossed by any player in last 30 days. And some of these area have heavy foliage and are closed to the coast

 

How is it a joke, have you seen the map? You do realise that you can spot a tent in a wood 500m away without ever having to set foot in it right? Sounds like you haven't even played the game not to know this.