"The Road" Type Scenario.

[King of kong 1117]

I love Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" both the book and the film. It was a world filled with cannibals, violence, hunger, and death. It would be really cool if DayZ was like that too.

Old hunting rifles. ToS-7. TOZ-34. Medved 9. CZ550

Extrememe rarity of supplies. At the moment you can get fully supplied with a bag of provision by heading in-land. It should be more where there's only a half can of food per village or something. The big stocks of food being in, underground cellers i the wilderness, or Chernarussian Defense Force stockpiles.


-Bitter Cold Climate. People would abandon the military look for more suitable clothing.

-Cannabalism. Simply have the the option to "Butcher, Eat" a corpse. It could be a simple animation where you act like you're gutting an animal. Then you receive "Meat" in your inventory that must be roasted.

-Extreme rarity of fuel.

-Shopping Trolley "Vehicle" simply pushed along to carry supplies.

-Equipable blankets. Drag a blanket onto character. Keep warm.


 

Edited January 18, 2014 by King of kong

[Roshi (DayZ) 397]

Haha... "The Rod".

But like some of the ideas - the blanket in particular.

Hehe... Rod...

Edited January 18, 2014 by Roshi

[Space Milk 195]

I guess you like them long rods.

Dirtiness aside, I watched it too, and I think DayZ should be like that too.

[King of kong 1117]

I like a big dirty rod as  weapon

[Awruk 216]

Just remember to don't complain you got shot with almost nothing on you because you introduced "lack of supplies".

[gangrenetvp 74]

Just remember to don't complain you got shot with almost nothing on you because you introduced "lack of supplies".

Yeah, scarcity = violence.

I do think many items could be more rare though, but I don't think we should even be talking about item balancing until the Beta...

1. We need to try the gear right now and test for bugs. More gear means more testing especially as crafting is increased. We can't test stuff if it isn't around.

2. New gear is being added all of the time... we can't truly balance it until we have everything in place. As new items are brought in everything would be thrown "out of whack" and we'd have to do it over and over, very redundant.

[bad_mojo (DayZ) 1204]

Okay.

[gangrenetvp 74]

-Cannabalism. Simply have the the option to "Butcher, Eat" a corpse. It could be a simple animation where you act like you're gutting an animal. Then you receive "Meat" in your inventory that must be roasted.

-Extreme rarity of fuel.

-Shopping Trolley "Vehicle" simply pushed along to carry supplies.

I think those three options are good!

Cannabalism should effect a person's physical appearance...

 

Having a shopping cart or comparable item to push around could be interesting.

Edited January 18, 2014 by Gangrene

[Wulfic 17]

I'm against it. This is a zombie apocalypse ppl died, ppl got infected all stuff including food,clothes and soooo on was LEFT BEHIND. In the road it wasn't a typical apocalypse and many ppl survived. They lived off the food that was in markets and so. The road takes how many years after the "EVENT" ? 15 ? Most ppl killed themselves or eachother ate the food and so on. Zombie apocalypse is waay different so u can scratch the Idea now.

[King of kong 1117]

I'm against it. This is a zombie apocalypse ppl died, ppl got infected all stuff including food,clothes and soooo on was LEFT BEHIND. In the road it wasn't a typical apocalypse and many ppl survived. They lived off the food that was in markets and so. The road takes how many years after the "EVENT" ? 15 ? Most ppl killed themselves or eachother ate the food and so on. Zombie apocalypse is waay different so u can scratch the Idea now.

Well, look at the world of dayz. It's overgrown. Cars are rusted. What if the food was all looted and eaten? Would you prefer endless supplies of food like it is now? Look at the expiration date on cereal boxes. It's around the same time as DayZ 2017

Edited January 19, 2014 by King of kong