Falling to Death a lot?

[Rōnin Rick 98]

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone else is having the majority of their deaths from falls?

 

I'm loving this game and the realism it offers. The single largest issue I have with it (mechanics/physics-wise) is the exaggerated fall damage. In real life, you can drop your own height without any injury whatever. In-game, however, I have fallen/dropped 5 feet if not less, and died.

 

Now, certainly you should not be able to shrug off a 2 meter drop while carrying 50+ pounds of gear, but even when your character is completely unencumbered they still die an embarrassing death from a slight drop. And whether gear-laden or not, I don't think insta-death is an appropriate outcome from even a moderate fall. Realistically, you should (and do, occasionally) just break a leg and lose health, needing to splint the leg or take morphine (magically mending bones, lol). I could even support falling and losing consciousness, as it would still be consistent with the current game mechanics (you incur shock from the drop and go unconscious).

 

My main point, however, is simply that the damage you take from drops is too severe, and begins from too low a height. Additionally, you wouldn't die instantly!

 

Exacerbating this issue is the questionable collision detection/no-clipping. On numerous occasions, my character has simply passed through solid objects. Sometimes, it is relatively innocuous, like running through a fence; other times your character walks right through or over a railing/ledge on a roof and falls to his death. Sometimes while climbing ladders, your character will, like, teleport/glitch to the top of the ladder, and God help you if you were going 'down', as you will back right off the roof! One time I was even running down a stairwell and my character glitched through a wall and outside the building, falling to his death. I've heard similar anecdotes from others.

 

 

So considering the unrealistic and highly frustrating nature of fall damage currently in the game, as well as the aforementioned no-clipping bugs, would you guys like to see updates to the fall damage?

 

Say NO to being bitch-slapped by gravity!

 

Leave your opinions in the comments, thanks!

Edited January 19, 2014 by Rōnin Rick

[creature 1189]

Hasn't happened to me yet. Could be partly because I learned to be very cautious when roaming around Chernarus a very long time ago? Who knows.

 

Dayz is an unforgiving mistress thats for sure.  :D

Edited January 19, 2014 by creature

[Guest]

It is a bit of a pain, but that is wat Arma's engine is renowned for :P

 

I prefer to push people off rather than fall myself :P

[Areos (DayZ) 106]

Have yet to die unintentionally to falling damage. The one time I died from it was so that I could get a better spawn on the map.

Edited January 19, 2014 by Areos

[Demoth 366]

You shouldn't even die from falling two stories at full health. Break your legs? Sure. Outright die? Mmmmm....

I too died, however, from slipping off stairs (movement gets very clunky when going up or down things) after falling a meter. Really? Did I twist my ankle and fall onto a spike?!

Well, whoever found my body must have been happy as I had an M4...

[Rōnin Rick 98]

It is a bit of a pain, but that is wat Arma's engine is renowned for :P

 

I prefer to push people off rather than fall myself :P

Lol, can you push people in-game by walking into them? If so, that would be a deliciously humiliating way to troll bandits sniping from rooftops!

 

Also, just because it is a part of Arma's engine doesn't mean it has to stay like that. It is an open Alpha for a reason, so they can improve and refine things. We should all be bringing issues to the devs' attention, not just bemoaning them as 'the way it is'!   :)

[applejaxc 2500]

99% of my deaths are jumping ten feet while walking downstairs/downhill, falling through the floor, or otherwise breaking my legs and losing my life to gravity. The other 1% are me intentionally jumping off of stuff when the other 99% breaks my legs without killing me.

[applejaxc 2500]

Lol, can you push people in-game by walking into them?

 

No, unfortunately; you'll walk in place and then suddenly jump past them, dying.

[Rōnin Rick 98]

On a somewhat related note, has anyone noticed that you can actually server hop and fix your broken leg? Honest to God, this happened to me once. I was walking down a pier on the coast to see if anything was at the end of it, and my character slipped off and fell ~10 feet into the water and broke his leg; I hopped out of the server and into another, just because, and I could walk!

 

Yet another way to abuse server hopping! Yay?

Edited January 19, 2014 by Rōnin Rick

[Guest]

No, unfortunately; you'll walk in place and then suddenly jump past them, dying.

 

 

Depends what weapon you are holding

[zifadel 48]

On a somewhat related note, has anyone noticed that you can actually server hop and fix your broken leg? Honest to God, this happened to me once. I was walking down a pier on the coast to see if anything was at the end of it, and my character slipped off and fell ~10 feet into the water and broke his leg; I hopped out of the server and into another, just because, and I could walk!

 

Yet another way to abuse server hopping! Yay?

From my experience, simply relog going to the same server also fixes a broken leg.

[applejaxc 2500]

Depends what weapon you are holding

 

That's the experience I've always had walking into people/cars with a driver in them in A2/3.

[Brethren Develain 4]

 With the new patch I have been glitching through stairs, floors and towers at an alarming rate. Every single death I have had since the patch was from a glitch leading to my falling death. I am ultra cautious on ANY elevated surface but it does not matter even when I am not moving it will even drop me though floors/stairs or gently push me through a wall. My latest death was from a tower overlooking a military base. I was watching a guy sneak out and head for the hills and just wanted to make sure he didnt turn around and catch me in the base... I make it up there, stand in the dead center of the platform and use freelook to look around and zoom. Sure as shit it pushed me off to the side and I fall to my death. It is almost as if DayZ is trying to kill me at every opportunity. People dont kill me and neither does Zed -_-

 

 So for now my characters will have a psychological disorder and will refuse to get on any elevated surface, I am sure the guys in my group are going to have a field day with this.

Edited January 25, 2014 by Brethren Develain

[hells high 676]

Only got gravity-ganked once, but the last patch that set characters back actually reset me to shortly before it happened. ^^ Lucky I guess.

 

I'm a pretty long time ARMA player, so I tend to be naturally careful around edges, railings, stairs, etc.

[louist 163]

From my experience, simply relog going to the same server also fixes a broken leg.

This is my experience as well. Broke a leg after falling from a glitchy ladder, spent 10 minutes crawling around and looking for morphine, when the server reset. Upon logging back on, I was magically cured.