INSTANT Item Drop/Cancel Action Button

[omgwtfbbq (DayZ) 1069]

Yes, I know you have the ability to cancel an action as you're doing it. However, I'd like to see a button that will let me instantly cancel whatever action I was doing, or instantly free up my hands. I press it, and the can of tuna I was in the middle of eating is now on the floor, and my hands are now empty.

 

What's the point? Say I'm eating something and some random guy walks into the building I'm in. In real life, I'd stop whatever the hell I was doing so I could defend myself. In DayZ, I have to wait for the eating animation to stop, then pull out my defensive option. It wouldn't pull out your last weapon or be a button to push to bring up your gun, it would only place whatever was in your hands on the ground (food, gun, bandages, water bottle) and/or cancel whatever action you were doing (bandaging, reloading, eating). 

 

It would be instantaneous, and is a button I can easily mash if the situation becomes dire all of a sudden. If I wanted a weapon, I would have to open my inventory and put the weapon in my hands for it to come up. Alternatively, I would drop any item in my hands to bring up my previous weapon. If the item I dropped was my weapon, then my hands would be empty. Could also be used in a hold-up.

Edited January 14, 2014 by omgwtfbbq

[djporternz 644]

With apologies to Mr Rodgers (and a wink to KoS on these forums):

 

"If you're gonna play the game, boy,

ya gotta learn to play it right.

You got to know when to hold 'em,

know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away

and know when to run.
You never count your money

when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin'

when the dealin's done."

[Ymath 30]

Good idea.

Although you should only be eating/drinking somewhere safe.

I was eating some rice and a zed ran through a wall in front of me, damn thing got a few hits in before I could pull out my axe.

also its a bit annoying that the eating animation disables you from walking around?