My Idea for more tension

[Venarge 1]

Well im new with the game but I already love it =) Its so awesome and I cant wait for Arma3 and it´s own DayZ. For Arma3 and for the actual DayZ I had a little idea for more tension. Its about a new threat that appears. Nothing that is to hardcore. It is a new kind of enemy. For the moment I call it the nightwalker. A creature that only appears at night. For the movement, I had the monkey walk in mind. I´m working on a model right now. The idea behind the enemy is that you need to get to a safe point before it gets dark. I thought the nightwalker could replace the monkeys in the nightime and you get to say to yourself: Damn its almost night and the nightwalkers will come in a few minutes, we need to get to a safe place.....

Well let me know what you think about it. I will give you some pics from the creature im working when im satisfied with it =)

[lockpwnage 2]

Basically making night servers even MORE empty then they already are.

[Venarge 1]

actually I can understand that opinion ^^ I would do it myself. I think the day/night time should be changed drastically.... I thought about 2 hours for day time and 1 our of nightime. Well that was just a early idea for it :D

[privatewolf 59]

Like Endermen from Minecraft? But ArmA 2 style? I like it, but not actually replace the hoppers or monkeys in-game.. more of a new addition to the horde, in a rare chance though

[Venarge 1]

well yeah wolfsix ^^ you just hit the point :D

[Bat (DayZ) 230]

I'm not against variety in the zed hords, but your idea is a little bit in opposition with what the mod tries to achieve. It's not about fighting imaginary fantastic creatures with surnatural powers, it's more like a simulation of a world ravaged by somes sort of virus. Something that is even more creepy than any imaginary creatures because it could really happen tomorrow. Also the different type of zeds in the game tries to simulate a realistic zombie life cycle, with some being "fresh" infected who can run really fast, and others that are starving and can only crawl.

SO the problem with your idea is that you're thinking backwards.

You should start thinking about the virus, what it does from a scientific point of view, and then come up with ideas on how zeds should behave, or how they shoudln't, in relation with the infection they have.

EDIT : you say it isn't too hardcore but night is already hardcore, and you add a new zed type that can basically see you in the night and chase you like forever ? it is definitely hardcore. I like it :)

[Venarge 1]

nono ^^ i dont want to add an fantastic creature or something. it is a zombie. The name for it is a bit to much fantasy. It will be a zombie, with another skin, something cool, something you will definitly recognize but still a zombie! And with not to hardcore, I just meant that I dont want it to be to hardcore, night game is hardcore already XD

I had in mind a zombie that got kind of mutated through the virus. Maybe he cant stand the daylight and only hunts in the night^^