so what happens if i swim away from land?

[bioned 36]

will i ever get to a point where i leave the map and die?

 

or perhaps find japan?

 

my geography is horrible

[Murlough 192]

You will most likely die.

Edited April 11, 2014 by Murlough

[DURRHUNTER 597]

You will die.

and you have tested this theory?

[Jfiles 439]

you will get wet

[TIC 1050]

You'll be welcomed to No Man's Land.

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

You will eventually find this guy.

[-Gews- 7443]

and you have tested this theory?

You will die because you'll starve or whatever.

Otherwise you will swim to infinity and beyond.

[Survivor_Ted 269]

Actually no, my friend tried this once.

 

You will swim REALLY far out until you can no longer see land at all, then you will eventually hit an invisible wall. As you don't have any means to finding your correct way back to land your best bet is to just swim until you die of dehydration/starvation.

[TheWizard14 372]

DayZ is secretly a testing site for people observing us such as that in The Truman show.

 

If you swim out too far, you will eventually find out that there are walls containing us in. Only then will you find out the truth about DayZ.

[NOLA Chris 11]

@thewizard

 

you quote earned u some beans good sir!

[thesodesa 99]

This is one of the reasons i would like them to put encumbrance and stamina into the game.

 

It should be possible to run out of stamina and drown, and how much weight you are carrying with you should affect how quickly this occurred and how fast you could swim.

 

It would increase the importance of vehicles , boats in this case, drastically. Well, you get wet while swimming, which you dont want in the winter, but people might still resort to swimming to one of the islands (in full combat gear + a rucksack) in the summer if a limiting factor like this wasn't in place.

[nukifux 0]

When swimming, you have a chance of losing any gear you have on you. Right now it's bugged to where you will still get your stuff back after a few minutes of leaving water and going back to land.

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

You will eventually find this guy.

I really don't think a lot of the kids on this forum get this one

[over9000nukez 199]

pack a bunch of food, because youll live for a while out there, as long as you can eat :/

[thelonewarrior 886]

Actually no, my friend tried this once. You will swim REALLY far out until you can no longer see land at all, then you will eventually hit an invisible wall. As you don't have any means to finding your correct way back to land your best bet is to just swim until you die of dehydration/starvation.

As far as I know there's no invisible wall

When helicopters are put in the game test it out, in the mod there is an unmarked island 14,000m out to sea, I wonder if it's still there in standalone

Edited April 11, 2014 by Regulator Lone Warrior

[DemonGroover 8836]

"You are wet"

"You are wet"

"You are wet"

[ZomboWTF 527]

swimming far to the southwest, you will come to a small island where you can park a chopper wich will be spawning somewhere else on server reset... :D

 

well, if there were any vehicles in the game as of yet

 

but yes, you will die because:

 

with the swimming speed and the current system, you won't be able to reach the edge of the map before starving

 

the map is about 4 times bigger than the "playable" chernarus where loot is, and beyond that there is only debug area where you can not go or fall below the surface and eventualy die from hitting the bottom of the engine, but before you could get there, you would die of starvation or dehydration

[ZomboWTF 527]

Actually no, my friend tried this once.

 

You will swim REALLY far out until you can no longer see land at all, then you will eventually hit an invisible wall. As you don't have any means to finding your correct way back to land your best bet is to just swim until you die of dehydration/starvation.

 

how did your friend even swim out this far?

 

in arma 2 there were no invis walls, so i doubt they are in standalone, and it is not possible to swim further than one or two kilometers before starving or dieing of thirst, and the map in arma 2 was able to be travelled out to about 16 kilometers from the shore to the south, i doubt your "friend" swam that far

maybe he didnt see the land anymore and thought he wouldnt be moving, because of having no point of orentation

the map stops scrolling after a while, but you still keep moving

[Survivor_Ted 269]

As far as I know there's no invisible wall

When helicopters are put in the game test it out, in the mod there is an unmarked island 14,000m out to sea, I wonder if it's still there in standalone

 

Well, he told me that his character just stopped moving when he tried to swim any further in that direction, maybe they changed it from Arma 2.

[SGT. Kalme 106]

You will get farther from land.

[pilgrim* 3514]

the fish get ya

 

xx pilgrim

 

ps - you know a shoal of rabbits can swim much faster than a fully geared human player. You don't stand a chance out there.

Edited April 19, 2014 by pilgrim