Personial portage

[rosebud 35]

I believe the portage system should be reworked. Currently items fill blocks without regard to weight or size. A pen or syringe takes as much space up as a can of beans and weighs the same. With a mountain backpack I could carry 20 cans of food an axe a rifle a pistol, ammo boxes, storage containers, sawed off shotgun, 3 canteens of water, bags of rice, bandanas, bananas, bandages, clips, wood, peanuts, popcorn, cracker jacks, shoelaces and still run like a gazelle. A weight system would be more realistic, with each item conspiring to slow down the speed of a healthy character.

 

Short of this, break one of the jacket boxes down into four small item holders, one box that would hold a pen, paper, syringe and a can opener. The pen and paper would be used a whole lot more if the space they took up was less. This note leaving and note finding part of the game is underused and could be quite fun. I like to leave a last will and testament on my person bequeathing all my worldly good to the guy who killed me.

Edited April 7, 2014 by rosebud

[DayZ_Friendly 145]

It also frustrate me that certain items are "stuck" being only arranged vertically or horizontally.  It doesn't make sense that I can't put the sawed-off vertically or an M4 magazine horizontally or a LRS vertically.