The Communitys Official Vehicle/Vehicle Idea Thread Version 1.5 (Now with constantly changing polls!)

[nokyookami 63]

The first vehicles:::::::

 

1. The RollerSkate = With one roller skate your speed is slightly improved when running but they dont work as good on grass or other rough terrain.  People will murder eachother to make a matching pair.

 

2. The Unicycle = This allows the Day-Z-onite to travel slightly faster from town to town until dev's can make real vehicles. This vehicle requires an air pump after 25 minutes of use, to keep it going.

 

3. The Skateboard = I mean I know this isn't tony hawk, but skateboards should take up atleast 3 inv slots and allows the user to travel on roads slightly faster, sharper turns than the unicycle, with a chance to fall off if used improperly.  Can only break legs when grinding on rails XD.

 

K mon dayz, ill take a half of a skate at this point, just dont make me run so much.

Unicycle is a Bit out there though i Guess it Gos with the Clown Masks

Skates and Skateboard would be Decent for increased Sprint at Less energy Consumption

i Guess could strap the Skateboard on your back like the Axe/Gun

And use your Skateboard to lay on if you have Broken Leggs From the Grind Fail and use it to Get you away From Cities/Zombies Faster than Crawling

Hills Could Get you Some Decent Speed

But going up you Need to take the Skates off/ Pick Up Skateboard or Hold onto the Back of other Survivors Cars

 

Edited October 18, 2014 by NokyoOkami

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Trains please...though who would run them?

 

I'm thinking a neutral group attempting to rebuild society by linking communities.

 

The tracks are already laid down and players could hop on flat cars and open box cars. That would allow them to move down the coast more quickly.

 

And yes, i brought this up before a couple of years ago.. :)

 

I'd be happy to model the vehicle if that would help.

Been suggested many times.  First of all, there won't be any non infected human NPCs in game.  Locomotives are difficult to start up, let alone repair (I barely know how to turn a simple switcher that I've been riding in for something like 8 years, let alone remember which brake is the engine brake and which one's the train brake).  There's locos and boxcars in game already.

[Griz2 77]

Lawnmower is the most OP vehicle. The reason being is that nobody could stop laughing long enough to shoot someone on a lawn mower. Also the perfect anti-zombie vehicle, for obvious reasons. I'd also like to suggest (if it hasn't been already) the classic windowless van. The terror factor of this vehicle means nobody wants anything to do with it. The option to spray paint vehicles goes well with this. Think FREE CANDY in big, red, drippy letters on the side.

[federal39 11]

For now I wish I had bicycle or at least 6-volt Battery operated jeep

[doctorbadsign 645]

Boats and islands is what I want. That's why I fell in love with Taviana.

[d.walker43 196]

Great ideas guys, keep it up!

[Karmaterror 982]

As a little gift when they hit release.....Arma 3 team should let them port the go kart. Common enough I think to have one or 2 in chernarus. Maybe they could spawn randomly in one of the many long garage buildings around the map. If not....make us a go kart that handles like that plz :)

[Martmital 436]

Unicycle is a Bit out there though i Guess it Gos with the Clown Masks

Skates and Skateboard would be Decent for increased Sprint at Less energy Consumption

i Guess could strap the Skateboard on your back like the Axe/Gun

And use your Skateboard to lay on if you have Broken Leggs From the Grind Fail and use it to Get you away From Cities/Zombies Faster than Crawling

Hills Could Get you Some Decent Speed

But going up you Need to take the Skates off/ Pick Up Skateboard or Hold onto the Back of other Survivors Cars

 

 

Should have an increased chance of ruining your trousers when you hit that inevitable little stone in the road and face plant yourself into the ground!

[katana2665 2]

With the gyrocopter gokarts or buggies that you have to put together make sense. Obviously gokarts wouldnt be able to go off road.

[d.walker43 196]

With the gyrocopter gokarts or buggies that you have to put together make sense. Obviously gokarts wouldnt be able to go off-road.

Why wouldn't the go-karts be able to go off-road? Isnt that one of the main points of a go-kart?

[katana2665 2]

Why wouldn't the go-karts be able to go off-road? Isnt that one of the main points of a go-kart?

 

Homemade goKarts (at least the ones I grew up with) had small wheels and only were a couple of inches above the ground. Single seaters with 50-125cc motorcycle engines.

 

The newer off road ones are really small buggies, but then I guess its jus semantics.

[d.walker43 196]

Homemade goKarts (at least the ones I grew up with) had small wheels and only were a couple of inches above the ground. Single seaters with 50-125cc motorcycle engines.

 

The newer off road ones are really small buggies, but then I guess its jus semantics.

Hmm...maybe in-game we could have the option to build a go-kart from scrap/extra material, and we could try to make it hwoever big or small we wanted? You could make a super tiny one with like 6 inch wheels, or you could put car tires on it and make a huge frame and make it really big. The bigger ones could be faster off-road and such, but in order to make it fair they would all have to be prone to breaking down easily, offer little to no protection from shots and stuff, and not go extremely fast. This would make it so everybody wouldn't just use a go-kart instead of a car.

[d.walker43 196]

bumping again, this thread is great I don't want it to die.

[Poisson 2]

What about adding some motocross ?

[d.walker43 196]

What about adding some motocross ?

great idea, ill add it.

[d.walker43 196]

bump

[d.walker43 196]

Bumping again, seems like the ideas have died off a bit...im trying to think of em too guys, but I cant do it by myself!

[d.walker43 196]

Bumping again....what happened guys? this is the official list. we cant let it die.

[call him Steve 46]

All these posts and yet the voting doesn't seem to hold the same number.

[Evil Minion 943]

Bumping again....what happened guys? this is the official list. we cant let it die.

Just keep bumping - most people will only look on the list without posting or voting. And some will not look at all but start a new topic suggesting a single new vehicle already found here with a single line post.

 

As long as the list of already existing suggestions stays unchanged (and I don't think it will be updated any time soon) there is nothing else you can do.

[AP_Norris 1017]

I would like to see civilian vehicles, and rare military vehicles.

Military vehicles shouldn't commonly have guns, even then ammo should rarely ever spawn in them.

The main thing I look forward to with vehicles though is customising them, I hope we can add armour to them in a similar way that Dean talked about barricading. Have zombie proof windows with chicken wire, put something in tires to make them run flats, wield different thicknesses of sheet metal onto doors like in the A-team.

Cut a hole in the roof and mount a gun, like an AKM with a 75 round drum mag, wield guns to the front of the car with wires on the triggers so the driver can fire them when chasing a car, adding extra shock absorbers to the front of the car for crashes like metal trash cans, extra lights, wings sticking out the side to run people or zombies down, cutting parts of the roof and its frame out for improved passenger firing lines, a pointy bumper rake thing so you can tailgate someone and rip up their tires.

The possibilities should be endless.

[Thumper1999 48]

I like this idea of having vehicles. its faster to get to places than getting killed on foot by Zombies or other players. I hope drive some cars soon. :)

Edited November 14, 2014 by Thumper1999

[d.walker43 196]

I like this idea of having vehicles. its faster to get to places than getting killed on foot by Zombies or other players. I hope drive some cars soon.  :)

...you realize its not really the idea of "vehicles" anymore. they are confirmed, and already in development. Now the suggestions are revolving around what vehicles, specific features, etc.

 

No offense, but its pretty obvious your new here. Look around a bit and figure out whats being added and stuff before you suggest things that are already confirmed, try to read the weekly status reports and such.

[bobotype3334 160]

The possibilities should be endless.

Well definitely there should be a lot of customization options and that would be really cool, but please think of the poor old developers when you ask for "endless possibilities", okay?

 

...you realize its not really the idea of "vehicles" anymore. they are confirmed, and already in development. Now the suggestions are revolving around what vehicles, specific features, etc.

Hey, could you please add the 'vehicles should be craftable from scratch, And found perfectly working, and repairable' option? None of your poll answers tickles my fancy. 

Please don't take this the wrong way but the poll feels a little slanted, you have no degree in between "Military vehicles should be more common than civilian ones!" and "Military vehicles should be super rare"

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Had an idea today while heading to work.  Since temperature and such is going to be important to vehicles as well as players, they should add AC/heat to vehicles, along with being able to roll windows up and down.  So say if you have a fully functional car with you could warm up using the heater or cool off with the AC fans or by rolling down the windows.  Say your take a couple rounds to the radiator, to make it last a bit longer before overheating you could roll down the windows and turn the heat up high (which will draw hot air from the engine).

*EDIT*

Wouldn't even have to be a fully functional vehicle to get either to work, as long as the engine/electrical system works and the AC/heat functions you could use a 'broken' car to warm up in when it gets cold but you'd be using fuel, even if the windows were shot out/removed it would still provide a source of heat (though not a toasty with the windows intact and rolled up)

Edited December 1, 2014 by BigMike