the wilderness/hunting

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unsure if this has been suggested before, but it popped into my head last night.

i'm pretty sure we can agree the woods/wilderness are fairly boring and empty for the most part. i've seen suggestions of hostile/dangerous animals in the woods, and the idea is good, but most wild animals will avoid humans. i'm also not aware of what native species are in that area of the world and if there is any dangerous species.

anyhow, there's a game called the hunter, that's a free to play hunting simulator that i checked out a while back. so i got thinking... why not implement something similar in day z to help flesh out the wilderness and make hunting a bit more challenging? perhaps add items like deer calls, deer scent, a means of tracking deer, etc. make deer spawn and linger in realistic areas with somewhat realistic behaviors and so on. it might also help this concept, if implemented, to remove some of the domesticated animals near towns, or have the infected prey on them to increase their scarcity or add some more flavor to the world. anyways, the basic idea here is to make hunting more challenging and rewarding, and to make the wilderness a bit more interesting. i myself am not a hunter so if any real hunters here have any suggestions to add that'd be great.

i was also thinking about the possibility of adding some useful flora like berries to gather, but it seems to be fall in chernarus so that might not fit too well with the setting.

if this has been posted before, i apologize for the redundancy.