I think the map is too small for cars. Am I the only one

[crazyandlazy 376]

Been playing for a little over a week now and I think the map will shrink considerably if there were cars and such. Anyone else feel the same?

[Timmymachine109 (DayZ) 235]

Was fine on the mod and the SA map will be getting bigger anyway. I find driving in a car usually leads to death anyway as they make a lot of sound!!

[derpdiggler 69]

I believe they're trying to expand the map. When they add cars, the map will shrink, but not as much as we might think. Cars can't beeline up hills or through the woods. Fuel could be a very real problem, as well.

[knawx 175]

I just want vehicles to be rare.

 

Perhaps only have a handful of large vehicles mixed in with a more genereous amount of small transport vehicles such as bikes, electric scooters, etc.

[kovie20@gmail.com 125]

Been playing for a little over a week now and I think the map will shrink considerably if there were cars and such. Anyone else feel the same?

 

The only use I've ever had for cars (In the Mod and probably in SA as well) is to pick up buddies if they die. I take a pistol with 2 mags and that's about it and drive and pick him up maybe stop and get gas if really needed. They are too easy to get killed in. Any player within a mile will hear you buzzing around in it and its just a death magnet. I understand it will make the world smaller but as stated above they already said they are making the map bigger and honestly players will sort you out eventually if you ride around in your whip too much.

[Ken Bean 175]

Yep, the map definately is too small.

If they allow 100 player on a server then having cars basically is useless

Edited January 2, 2014 by Ken Bean

[crazyandlazy 376]

The only use I've ever had for cars (In the Mod and probably in SA as well) is to pick up buddies if they die. I take a pistol with 2 mags and that's about it and drive and pick him up maybe stop and get gas if really needed. They are too easy to get killed in. Any player within a mile will hear you buzzing around in it and its just a death magnet. I understand it will make the world smaller but as stated above they already said they are making the map bigger and honestly players will sort you out eventually if you ride around in your whip too much.

 

Is the mod's map bigger? How big will it get? Anyone has a link?

[hrdrok 183]

I don't believe so. I always had a car in the mod, but used it for storage and getting my group together. NEVER used it for general travel and looting.

[Dr. Goner 661]

I just want vehicles to be rare.

 

Perhaps only have a handful of large vehicles mixed in with a more genereous amount of small transport vehicles such as bikes, electric scooters, etc.

 

Look at the world we live in, vehicles are plentiful and fuel is SCARCE. I think we want the same thing, but in reality, fuel would eventually become hard to find.

 

I think that should be the model. Not sure which direction it will go at this point. I'm personally really excited about base building and a ton of zombies on the map with a few instanced scenarios such as hordes and crash sites or whatever. 

 

EDIT: Also, I hope like hell that the train eventually becomes operational. I've seen it up there. . . I've seen it. Plus all the new track.

Edited January 2, 2014 by DrGonzo

[maliceubx 73]

Cars are convenient but they also make you a massive target. It can take you hours to find the parts needed to build a car if you don't have a large group helping you, and it can take a couple seconds and  3 well placed shots for that car to belong to someone else.

[kovie20@gmail.com 125]

Is the mod's map bigger? How big will it get? Anyone has a link?

 

Maps are the same size it was just something they were throwing around as an idea. Don't know if they'll actually do it any time soon they have their hands full haha.

Edited January 2, 2014 by mkoval

[thomas.bowyer@hotmail.co.uk 25]

Been playing for a little over a week now and I think the map will shrink considerably if there were cars and such. Anyone else feel the same?

 

I hate to sound like a cock but 'playing for a little over a week now' when others have been on it for almost 2 years?

 

not to mention the other variants like namalsk etc..

 

trust me, the map is not too small for cars. it makes it way more interesting.

[Dr. Goner 661]

I don't believe so. I always had a car in the mod, but used it for storage and getting my group together. NEVER used it for general travel and looting.

 

Ah, I don't know. I used a car a lot in the mod. I would get within about 6 or 700 yards of my goal, hide it as good as possible and go in to do some looting.

[hrdrok 183]

Maps are the same size it was just something they were throwing around as an idea. Don't know if they'll actually do it any time soon they have their hands full haha.

 

The map has been slightly expanded in the north. (More semi-finished areas)

 

Also islands have been added, and there was an interview with rocket talking about added more maps to the standalone. 

[Etherimp 1323]

SA map is actually bigger. Vehicles will be fine.. and they aren't as much of a death sentence as some people are saying. Just avoid high traffic areas, or be prepared to defend yourself if you are in high pop areas. I rode around in a White Offroad or Military Offroad for the majority of my time in the mod.. Got shot at a few times, and usually just pulled off the road and killed the guy who shot at me and proceeded along my way. Only once was my tire ever shot out, and that was at NWAF and I was driving ON the airstrip, in the middle of a massive firefight with several parties involved. Only other time I've lost my vehicle due to driving around was when I picked up a fresh spawn and bloodbagged him.. he tried to take off in my offroad and I lit it up with an M16A4 ACOG, and blew it up with him in it.

[Isaaq 72]

The map is huge - it only seems small as you can run at sprinting speeds everywhere, with no need for breaks. You also handle slopes, which are everywhere, better than an average car likely would. Vehicles also will not be able to go through trees particularly easy.

 

Basically, once vehicles and some kind of stamina/weight system is implemented, the map will actually seem a lot larger.

[apollovulcan 93]

Vehicles can't be rare, just like weapons.  If there are only 10 vehicles on the map, the 10 people who have them, or the two people who find them all and horde them, will be that much infinitely stronger than everyone else.  However, vehicles don't really belong on this map, to be honest.  After playing SA with absolutely no vehicles in game yet, it's been great.

 

I don't think we need them, or they're necessary.

[Etherimp 1323]

The map is huge - it only seems small as you can run at sprinting speeds everywhere, with no need for breaks. You also handle slopes, which are everywhere, better than an average car likely would. Vehicles also will not be able to go through trees particularly easy.

 

Basically, once vehicles and some kind of stamina/weight system is implemented, the map will actually seem a lot larger.

 

 

I think the map seems smaller because people are only populating certain areas.. Balota, Kamenka, Zelly, Veresnik Military base, NWAF.. 

[Etherimp 1323]

Vehicles can't be rare, just like weapons.  If there are only 10 vehicles on the map, the 10 people who have them, or the two people who find them all and horde them, will be that much infinitely stronger than everyone else.  However, vehicles don't really belong on this map, to be honest.  After playing SA with absolutely no vehicles in game yet, it's been great.

 

I don't think we need them, or they're necessary.

 

 

Someone sounds butthurt that they never got vehicles.

[Isaaq 72]

I think the map seems smaller because people are only populating certain areas.. Balota, Kamenka, Zelly, Veresnik Military base, NWAF.. 

 

Ehh, even that area would seem a lot larger with vehicles, which have to navigate stuff - and the inability to sprint better than any cross country runner alive.

[Etherimp 1323]

Ehh, even that area would seem a lot larger with vehicles, which have to navigate stuff - and the inability to sprint better than any cross country runner alive.

 

 

Ah yes.. Currently the Fisty Sprint is pretty bullshit. Hope they fix that soon.

[henker899 0]

10x10km2 is Perfect for vehicles / helicopters. I can't wait till they are in!

[pythonmsh 71]

This is how I see vehicles.

Regular bicycles = semi common

Motorbikes = Semi rare

 

Any sort of motor vehicle needs to be semi rare if not rare.

 

Helicopters need to be almost non existent. 

[Etherimp 1323]

This is how I see vehicles.

Regular bicycles = semi common

Motorbikes = Semi rare

 

Any sort of motor vehicle needs to be semi rare if not rare.

 

Helicopters need to be almost non existent. 

 

 

In DayZ mod there were 4 Helicopters on the map.

 

1 Huey

1 Mi17

1 Black Littlebird

1 Silver Littlebird

 

I'd say 4 helicopters is pretty rare, especially with how resource expensive they are.. 

[pythonmsh 71]

In DayZ mod there were 4 Helicopters on the map.

 

1 Huey

1 Mi17

1 Black Littlebird

1 Silver Littlebird

 

I'd say 4 helicopters is pretty rare, especially with how resource expensive they are.. 

Right. I'd just like to keep it that way though.

I think it'd be cool if they added Skateboards or even scooters. Those are things you could carry with you.