Saving backpacks

[nerfed 8]

I would really like a save function for backpacks. I'm not saying anything is wrong with tents. I'd like both, with backpacks having their own pros and cons over tents.

 

Pros:

- You can pick a backpack up again. This is the biggest difference between backpacks and tents.

- Emergency kits. Hide small backpacks around spawn areas, so when you respawn, you can quickly pick up a backpack with some basic supplies.

- Loot safely. You won't be able to carry as much, but if some wild bandit appears, you'll at least have your backpack hidden somewhere outside town.

- Easier PVP. No backpack means you're harder to spot in the grass.

- If you hide your backpack beforehand, nobody will have the time to ambush you while you loot a body; just take the backpack off the corpse and run.

 

Cons:

- Unlike tents, backpacks aren't weather-proof. Over time they wear and get dirty. Ruined backpacks play the corpse-flies noise from the mod.

- When you die, a note appears on your body, showing the coordinates of your nearest backpack in that server (or perhaps the nearest 2, or even all).

- If someone finds one of your backpacks, it's gone! They can just pick it up, move it elsewhere, and save it as a backpack of their own.

- Having a firearm but no backpack means you're likely going for PVP, so people might attack you on sight.

 

 

Starter kits - No. Just gear up. People do this with tents anyway, they run to them and re-gear. This just makes it far more convenient for them.

Are you implying that's a problem? Hey, if "just gear up" is your way of doing it, fair game. But I can't imagine myself actually carrying all my supplies around in any long-term survival situation. I'd be dropping off little supply packages all over the place, like a squirrel. In fact, I'd have more supplies hidden all over the place, than I'd actually be carrying, and I'd use/hide supplies as I go. That way, if I can't find anything (or worse, I'm robbed and left with nothing), I'll still be able to find my emergency supplies to get going again.

 

Scavenging - You can already drop it off and hope it's there when you get back. However, as I said above, they come with risks. You're supposed to be risking all of your gear, not saving it before you get your hands dirty.

Fighting - Same as above

If servers would actually warn players before restarts, yeah, it would be a valid option. But it's happened multiple times now, to me and friends, that servers just restart out of the blue and half (or more) of our gear is lost forever.

 

Coords - Hell no. You better keep track of your gear just like people have in the Mod. It's not hard. Nothing should just be given to you except a flashlight for those dark knights and some clothes for decency's sake.

You misunderstood me on this. The note doesn't show YOU where your backpacks are; it shows the person who killed you where your backpacks are.

Edited December 21, 2013 by Nerfed

[Diggydug (DayZ) 331]

Couldn't I just find backpacks and start a crazy collection?

 

And a note showing where I lost them all?

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What was wrong with tents?

 

 

 

This seems like easy-mode but I may just be interpreting it wrong, except that last bit about the coords.

Backpacks have a purpose, trust me, I use them all the time and love them for all they do. They have drawbacks too. Some of them, especially these hiking packs, are brightly colored, which can give you away in PvP, that's the cost of lugging around all that garbage you've grown attached to.

 

 

Starter kits - No. Just gear up. People do this with tents anyway, they run to them and re-gear. This just makes it far more convenient for them.

Scavenging - You can already drop it off and hope it's there when you get back. However, as I said above, they come with risks. You're supposed to be risking all of your gear, not saving it before you get your hands dirty.

Fighting - Same as above

Lack of purpose - The purpose is there...their backpack helps me keep track of them and assures me they're a nut worth cracking.

Coords - Hell no. You better keep track of your gear just like people have in the Mod. It's not hard. Nothing should just be given to you except a flashlight for those dark knights and some clothes for decency's sake.

[Zeppa 562]

So bad that my head hurts, you seems to want this to be one more kos pvp fight fest... hiding gear near the beach when you respawn?? really, camon man. There is plenty of other titles for you to play it seems.

They will do something to store gear, but they has to do something to it that you just cant run and regear from your self. period.

Edited December 21, 2013 by Zeppa