FishGuts4Lunch 66 Posted November 11, 2014 Hi there,I have recently started playing DayZ again after a break at the end of version 0.48. I had the good fortune to start directly after the 0.50 patch came out. One of the things that became very apparent in 0.50 was how much harder I need to work to get my character to regenerate health after a zombie hit. Were as in the old days my health would start healing as soon as it was hit, nowadays the window for health regeneration has gotten much smaller. Damage will often drop you below the threshold of healing making it necessary to eat something first to get healing started. I don't consider this to be a bad thing at the moment.I did come across what I consider to be a small exception to the rule regarding eating cooked meat...Unable to resist taking a shot at roaming game, I took down a deer, butchered it and put several of the steaks into my pack. My hope was to make a cozy little campfire somewhere and have a bit of a pick nick. When the time came to start cooking, I was in a bit of a sorry state after 4 Zeds had ganged up on me and managed to glitch in a few hits. I made a fire, cooked the steaks and started having my dinner. Looking at my health bar I noticed something quite extraordinary... Where as normally you need to get your energized and hydration levels up to bright green before healing will start, now I was healing with a bright green energized bar but both the healing and hydration bars were dark green. NEVER seen this before. It would seem to me that cooking and eating meat now gives a player and extra level up health wise compared to eating out of a can.Are you low on health? Have a BBQ and let me know if it makes any difference to how quickly you begin to heal! Time to do a bit of hunting! This woual seem to be another adaptation to making living off the land a bit more appealing. Indeed in the real would after a collapse of civelazation canned food would start to fet quite scarce rather quickly and living off the land becomes increasingly more important. I don't know... I kinda like it. B) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BeaverProductions 441 Posted November 11, 2014 Erm I think its always been Bright Green Energised and dark green hydrated to start "healing" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FishGuts4Lunch 66 Posted November 11, 2014 I believe before 0.50 you are correct. My experiance at the moment is that the bar has been raised slightly. Has anyone else had the same experiance? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IngloriouslyBad 7 Posted November 11, 2014 (edited) It's been around for a very long long time... you people must have been really skimping on meals for the past year. The color varies on how much food/water you intake. Obviously if you take in the bare minimum of food/water to begin healing it will only be Hydrated/Energized for each respective tag instead of Hydrated/Energized. To put this into action perspective, for those who are still wondering Hit "drink from pond/well" 20 times and watch the word progress from dark green hydrated to bright green hydrated. Obviously you are shooting for the more neon hydrated.Eat large quantities of whatever you can find. Probably about 14 cans/vegetables. Watch it go from dark green energized to bright green energized. The prior applies here as well. Edit: Have people really not figured this out by now... I mean... really...? No wonder everyone complains that your survivor constantly needs to be fed/watered. Y'all never start adventures on a full stomach haha. Edited November 11, 2014 by IngloriouslyBad Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
