Grenades/Item Throwing

[Publik 404]

I was going to just suggest smoke grenades, but then I remembered the horrible throwing system we've got. There's nothing to throw in SA yet, so I don't know if it's been updated, but there's a reason why FTC employees were banned from carrying grenades in the mod.

 

 

Grenades:

• Frag
• Smoke
• Flashbang
• Concussion

Other:

• Rocks
• Cans of food
• Knives/hatchets
• Magazines
• Everything else

Halfway through writing that list, I thought "oh hey, it'd be cool to be able to throw cans of food at/to people. You could throw magazines to your buddies in a firefight too... You could throw anything. Can we please throw everything? It'd also be cool if you could catch items that are thrown to you, for example we're running through the forest in a hurry and someone forgot to hydrate. You could pull out a canteen and toss it to them without stopping to drop loot and all that. Or, if you're in a firefight and Juice runs out of ammo you could toss him a mag without having to run over and fumble around.

[Timmymachine109 (DayZ) 235]

Like the idea but don't think catching would work well in the engine unless you could select your target. Then if they had space it would do it automatically

[Monkfish (DayZ) 339]

Catching wouldn't work, but throwing stuff would be cool. For example, you could throw a rock or something to distract zombies/players and throwing items would mean being able to keep a distance from a player when you're holding them up. "Go into your backpack and throw me your water".

[QbitzR 157]

Yeah, with throwing implemented there would be a purpose for the stone.

 

The question is who will throw the first one.

[AP_Norris 1018]

Why wouldn't catching work?

Press F to grab object moving/ not moving into hands.

Playing catch may be a possible fun activity when waiting in a location.

[AP_Norris 1018]

Yeah, with throwing implemented there would be a purpose for the stone.

 

The question is who will throw the first one.

The testers.

[Immersive 121]

Yeah, with throwing implemented there would be a purpose for the stone.

The question is who will throw the first one.

Clever.

[IcyBlade 48]

They have talked on the stream that they have a dedicated physics developer working on implementing a system that will allow all items to be thrown. Apparently no exceptions.

[Sawnek 12]

Throwing rocks would be interesting, you could throw a rock at a wall across the street, provoking any zombie nearby to investigate. I like the idea! Smoke Grenades would be good for surprising any other players, giving you the upper hand.