Drying off when soaking

[levaus 3]

I have only been playing for a few days now and one of my favorite environments to play in is a rain environment. As expected my clothes steadily went from dry to wet to soaked. I appreciate the inevitable onset of hypothermia when in wet clothes(although I'm not certain if that is something that happens, I generally dry off pretty quickly) but I could only accomplish this standing indoors or under a tree. I tried on a few times to just change into dry clothes but it did not change the soaked status.

 

I feel as though the items themselves should hold the soaked status because if you take your soaking t-shirt off and put on a dry one you may not be entirely dry but you would be much drier. However, at the same time you might not have a dry shirt to change into. I know the best thing to do in the event that you become soaked is to take the clothes after you get into a dry, warm environment. This should decrease your level of being soaked or at least increase the rate at which you dry off.

 

 

P.S.

I have a couple other things that I'm not sure are being discussed. The sun should rise steadly to mark the passing of the day and give you a bearing of North, South, East and West

 

Will there be thermometers in the game?

If not how will temperature be indicated provided temperature even has an effect on your character?

 

I managed to get my hand on a map which really excited me accept I had no compass-.- I finally found a road sign that exclaimed the village I was entering. Something Russian (no complaints I think thats pretty cool) and when I wrote the word down and checked my map all the names are in English.

Do you understand what I'm saying?

 

Thank you for reading :) and thank you for your comments.

 

 

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Edited June 15, 2014 by levaus

[DemonGroover 8836]

I don't think the soaked, wet messages actually have an effect on things just yet.

 

I would imagine temperature will play a part as well, you will no doubt have to keep warm and dry otherwise you may get sick.

[11tw 106]

You're right about the maps, they should be in Russian too.

 

You're right, changing in to dry clothes (i.e. either clothes you were carrying in a waterproof container or clothes you just found indoors) should lower how wet you are, but your body would still be wet. So, changing into dry clothes would take you from soaking to damp realistically.

 

However, it would be cool to be able to use a t-shirt to dry yourself off.

 

As an idea on how to implement this, all items should have a soaked to dry indicator. No indicator on an item means it is completely dry, but the intensity of a blue colour indicator could tell you how wet it was. This would mean that different objects would get wet, and therefore effect how they work exactly, for example bandages won't work if they are soaked.

 

If this were implemented though, some way of waterproofing bags would have to be implemented. For example, I line my expedition backpack with a black bin bag. This keeps everything safe, and if you are extra cautious, then smaller bags to keep things separate in case water gets in.

 

As always, it would be cool to see the environment be a bigger threat, but in order to keep the game balanced, the devs need to add ways to counter the new dangers as they are added. So waterproof clothing which actually keeps you dry, or even an umbrella (sounds stupid, but why not?). The ability to put your hood up on a coat to protect from some of the rain might be useful.

[levaus 3]

I was thinking yesterday about the compass issue. In an apocalyptic world an item as valuable as a compass would be difficult to come by. However, there are other ways of discovering your bearing. For example lining the hour hand of your watch with the sun and halving the distance between that and 12:00 or magnetizing a needle and poking it through a piece of styrofoam then letting it settle in water.

[Mystic Bagel 128]

Yesterday I was thoroughly soaked and I couldn't run...not sure if they are related but either way....it sucked and was penalizing..so it was AWESOME!!!!!

[pilgrim* 3514]

good point about changing clothes to get dry

the effects of being wet are not implemented yet but I hope this will be included when they are

 

sun direction and time of day is correct in game you can use shadow as a compass direction indicator, it works.

sometimes the stated server time has nothing to do with the real 'solar time' in the game itself, I've noticed. If watches were in the game they would have to go by "real ingame time" (where 12:00 = noon) and not by the stated server time. Sometimes you find full daylight even when the server says it is 23:00h

 

(also, I don't know for the accelerated daytime servers, I don't know how that works)

 

town signs are in the Cyrillic alpabet, maps are in the Latin alphabet (used in western europe, USA and etc). I guess the maps are old nato maps ?? You need to learn your way around, but its not difficult. Any 'Latin' stranger in that area would have the same problem in real life. Be thankful for a map you can read, however it got there.

 

xx

[levaus 3]

good point about changing clothes to get dry

the effects of being wet are not implemented yet but I hope this will be included when they are

 

sun direction and time of day is correct in game you can use shadow as a compass direction indicator, it works.

sometimes the stated server time has nothing to do with the real 'solar time' in the game itself, I've noticed. If watches were in the game they would have to go by "real ingame time" (where 12:00 = noon) and not by the stated server time. Sometimes you find full daylight even when the server says it is 23:00h

 

(also, I don't know for the accelerated daytime servers, I don't know how that works)

 

town signs are in the Cyrillic alpabet, maps are in the Latin alphabet (used in western europe, USA and etc). I guess the maps are old nato maps ?? You need to learn your way around, but its not difficult. Any 'Latin' stranger in that area would have the same problem in real life. Be thankful for a map you can read, however it got there.

 

xx

I am just following roads for the most part. I'm trying to find a large town but the maps were a very fortunate find. If only I understood the language.

[levaus 3]

Perhaps a way to draw on maps as well. If your pack is not water-proof you certainly don't want to take it into the rain. If you could draw on the map you could mark a building you left it in and find supplies in the town while your pack sits dry and be able to find it without a ton of searching. (i understand maps aren't generally waterproof but you could keep a map in the pockets of a waterproof jacket.)

[pilgrim* 3514]

I am just following roads for the most part. I'm trying to find a large town but the maps were a very fortunate find. If only I understood the language.

 

Don't decide you have a blind spot about the language

It is pretty easy to work out placenames - they are written on the map in Latin and on the signpost in Cyrillic, but they both say the same thing

 

in Cyrillic there are a few funny looking letters we don't have in the Latin alphabet - look up a cyrillic language learning site on the web and find out how to pronounce those letters. This takes you 20 mins maximum. Write down the strange letters and how to pronounce them on paper.

Now try pronouncing a roadsign that you know what town it is. You should hear the same thing as you have on your map, more or less...

You get the habit of it. It's fun.

 

Its the same problem that any western european would have IRL if they came into this country. So enjoy it

[levaus 3]

Don't decide you have a blind spot about the language

It is pretty easy to work out placenames - they are written on the map in Latin and on the signpost in Cyrillic, but they both say the same thing

 

in Cyrillic there are a few funny looking letters we don't have in the Latin alphabet - look up a cyrillic language learning site on the web and find out how to pronounce those letters. This takes you 20 mins maximum. Write down the strange letters and how to pronounce them on paper.

Now try pronouncing a roadsign that you know what town it is. You should hear the same thing as you have on your map, more or less...

You get the habit of it. It's fun.

 

Its the same problem that any western european would have IRL if they came into this country. So enjoy it

This is absolutely the most resourceful thing I could imagine. I actually think I well enjoy reading a map now. 

[Pvt_Larry (DayZ) 98]

You should be able to wring out clothes to dry them off some, standing by fires should also help. And I think you should be able to scour the map on the trail of the elusive bath towel, so warm and plush and dry...

Edited June 19, 2014 by Pvt_Larry

[Rigor Mortis (DayZ) 141]

Right now the dry <-> soaking indicator doesn't really do anything except indicate how long you were in the rain (or how deep you got into a pond), but I think it's pretty obvious that their intention is to implement what you are talking about here.  I doubt the developers added this feature and have no future plans for it.