Smashing windows and jumping out from them

[komadose 190]

This would be a good escaping mechanism later on, when zeds are fixed and able to follow you into buildings.

 

Let's say you fire a gun in some bigger town with lots of zeds, and then you run out of ammo. Loads of zeds are now running at you, so what do you do? You can't outrun them. You could run into a building, maybe close doors behind you but then what? If there's no backdoor, or you find yourself in an upper floor, your only option would be to break a window and jump out. Ofcourse if your are high enough you would be likely facing broken legs.

 

Also, i'm not sure how much the engine allows it, but barricading and breaking doors would be cool. You could then apply the same thing for other players too. You could then wait for your possible friend to come rescue you, or then try to escape from a window.

[slider (DayZ) 26]

Nice idea.

 

Speaking of broken legs. Crawling up stairs or steps would be great too.

[Damnyourdeadman 1045]

This was very usefull when i was playing State of Decay.

With the current DayZ physics though,you would see your charachter

drop like a log (vertical position) and die from the 1 meter drop :P

If pshysics and the falling damage allows it,only thing left is the animation,to give off the desired effect....

[Aamunkajo 110]

Sounds great! Lets climb to the roof also :)? Would be cool to just break zombies arms when they try to reach you from the roof.

[aknar 13]

There had been talks about it being hard to add with the game engine (don't know why though), they also added that they would have to change the whole map (I suppose they mean change all the building textures but they don't have so many different buildings for now). It's probably a butt-load of extra work just for windows but I think it would really be important so you aren't every completely trapped. They are making cars, cupboards, extra doors, closets, fridge doors work right now so why not windows?

[enforcer1975 1111]

This was very usefull when i was playing State of Decay.

With the current DayZ physics though,you would see your charachter

drop like a log (vertical position) and die from the 1 meter drop :P

If pshysics and the falling damage allows it,only thing left is the animation,to give off the desired effect....

 

Not really...unlike falling from the stairs an animation like crawling out of a window or climbing over the edge of a wall won't hurt your toon because technically it's not a collision with the invironment. btw..a buddy had a collision in a doorway with me the other day ( mod ) which left me bleeding. The solution is in the animations like in every game...

[komadose 190]

There had been talks about it being hard to add with the game engine (don't know why though), they also added that they would have to change the whole map (I suppose they mean change all the building textures but they don't have so many different buildings for now). It's probably a butt-load of extra work just for windows but I think it would really be important so you aren't every completely trapped. They are making cars, cupboards, extra doors, closets, fridge doors work right now so why not windows?

oh bummer... when zeds are able to follow you into higher floors later on, there's really no safe places in towns. it would've added a nice way to get some distance between zeds when you are unarmed or severely outnumbered.

 

oh well. atleast i guess we can then trap them behind doors. would also add a nice gameplay element, when you can lure craploads of zeds to a police station for example, and then run out and shut the door. nice surprise for the next unlucky looter >:-D

Edited March 25, 2014 by komadose

[TOPMO3 119]

oh bummer... when zeds are able to follow you into higher floors later on, there's really no safe places in towns. it would've added a nice way to get some distance between zeds when you are unarmed or severely outnumbered.

 

oh well. atleast i guess we can then trap them behind doors. would also add a nice gameplay element, when you can lure craploads of zeds to a police station for example, and then run out and shut the door. nice surprise for the next unlucky looter >:-D

 

I would be happy with being able to jump in/out of open/smashed windows. This would be a great feature. 

 

I would also just be happy if I can lock zombies inside buildings. This would be a handy defense vs zombies if you're unarmed. 

[akafugitive 244]

I jump in and out of the grocery store windows all the time