What would your roadmap for DayZ look like?

[nudelwalker 99]

I'd like to gather some opinions here.

What do you think has higher priority over other things to be patched into DayZ?

I know all of this are already planned. It's just about which of them should come sooner then others and why.


Here's my List:

1.) Things to store stuff in (tents, boxes, stashes,etc)
This adds a very important layer of gameplay, and should come sooner then other things.
Right now there is so little to do once you are geared up.
This would add so much new gameplay mechanics and player interactions.

2.) Hunting & Cooking
also making fireplaces etc. something to do when you are out there in the wilderness. So the only entertainment isnt about going to some places with people because there is nothing else to do.
If Hunting one day becomes as deep as one of the older Deer Hunter Games, I think I wont even see any other survivor anymore for a year.

3.) More Items
just to add greater diversity.
More different styles of clothes (russian farmer style? business type? worn out hobo?). More random loot things. also trash loot.
Just like the books add a gameplay layer of people playing scholar style, more stuff with more diversity gives us more ways to play around.
Or put simply: Give us more toys.


4.) More Guns
Adds diversity and also more thought&problems into tactics.
with more diverse guns also comes more diverse ammo, which means ou really have to think about what you carry with you. maybe you can trade those shotgun shells in later, even if you deno't need them for your empty AK right now? Or should you dump your AK and rather pick up that double barrell shotty?


5.) more Zombies
Pretty way down on this list, right? That's because I felt that DayZ right now without Zombies (encountered 3-5 in 2 weeks) still feels like DayZ.
Still gives us this moments of goose-bumps.
It's just this: Zombies aren't what makes DayZ to be DayZ. It's the human apocalypse survival factor that does everything.

Still: more zombies would definitely add more tension and a harder gameplay.


So, that would be my top 5 priorities.
How about you?

Edited January 6, 2014 by Styrias

[DemonGroover 8836]

You know i've never been too keen on tents etc.

 

Storing items for when you die seems a bit off, but i understand some players need the comfort.

 

However if there are ways i can completely destroy any tents i find then i'm in!

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

1-100.) Beards....

Character lives for 10 days or more Beard.

 

Character lives for over 30 days 

[raynor009 204]

We could use matches to burn down tents.

[Lancer 2-2 14]

1) Fixing the ladder bug

2) Fixing Rubber banding and wall clipping

3) Adding in anti-server hopping, combat ghosting features

4) Adding in anti-combat logging features

5) Adding wild animals, hunting & cooking

6) Fixing sound files

7) Adding in a 3rd rifle or shotgun, civilian based

8) Balancing spawns and military weapon loot spawns

9) Balancing weapon accuracy and power

10) Balancing stored item damage when taking hits

11) Introducing tents and item storage (first stage of base building)

12) Introducing first vehicles and vehicle parts

13) Balancing, bug fixing and optimization

14) New map (similar to compass)

15) Addition of Main Menu music

16) Addition of In-game music (able to turn off as normal)

17) More civilian and military weapons

18) Weapon balancing

19) Addition of rare helicopter crash site spawn

20) Addition of more zombies, zombie behaviours & optimization

21) Add new base building options

22) Additional vehicles and vehicle parts

23) Loot balancing and bug fixing

24) Optimization

25) More character customisation options (beards)

26) Steam Achievements

 

 

 

Other:

 

- Veteran servers with 1st person view only, regular servers with 3rd and 1st person views using the same hive.

- New content (vehicles, weapons, tents, base building items, foods)

- Extended map (North into a cold, snowy mountainous region similar to Namalsk, West into a more forest and river like area with very few villages and towns, East or South to a separate island).

- Addition of weather effecting health (temperature, needing shelter such as tents, fires to keep warm).

- High server populations & more optimization

- Reworked server browser (server history & favourites) with added filter options.

Edited January 6, 2014 by Lancer 2-2