Cannibalism Discussion

[jukaga 271]

So in the interests of testing the new cannibalism feature and the fact that my guy was near starving I decided to carve up a corpse and cook it up. After eating the cooked flesh about 20 minutes later I got the hysterical laugh and my aim gets janked about every 5 seconds or so. It was my understanding that this only occured if you ate the meat raw. I made sure it was cooked before I ate it so I'm wondering if it's different on stable and if the aim janking will go away.

[AlphaDogMeat . 493]

You are tainted.

[zeotrope 76]

hysterical laugh?

[Etherious 907]

No, if you eat the human flesh in general you get the Prion disease. You start laughing, giggling, screaming and stuff. O.O

[JPWiser 251]

My understanding was cooking it only decreases the chances of getting it.

[Zyryanoff 227]

No, if you eat the human flesh in general you get the Prion disease. You start laughing, giggling, screaming and stuff. O.O

Wow. I didn't know it. That's awesome.

[jukaga 271]

It's pretty funny, and I guess this guy is doomed to the life of a cannibal.

[ruax 32]

I ate cooked human flesh.. Got crazy and just had to share it with everyone.. So I went to the shore and shared it with every freshspawn I found. :D They were bit skeptical but I convinced them! Let the cries eat your sanity! The disease fucked up my character and maid the aim flinch so I sadly had to suicide eventually to regain my aim. :( RIP crazy character.

[TGPstolas 20]

didnt know about the aim thing. killed a guy who tk'd the other day. we skinned him and ate him after :D

[The Road Warrior (DayZ) 38]

Do you ever recover you aim?

[Etherious 907]

Wow. I didn't know it. That's awesome.

Yea, it's pretty fucking creepy. xD

[blacklabel79 949]

id love this to be permanent. Mele weapons should work allright no?

 

A crying shivering axe whielding, guillie suit !!! :D

Edited December 8, 2014 by {Core}BlackLabel

[Veniathan 9]

Cooking it only decreases the chance, and even if you overburn it you won't eliminate the chance. You can only decrease it. Which is good for balanse, it's good knowing people who killed you and ate your corpse probably have a disease they can't cure now. :D

[StayAlive (DayZ) 169]

This is not true. I have eaten tons of both rotten and cooked well done and

i feel just fine!

 

Edited December 8, 2014 by StayAlive

[jukaga 271]

I think I'll play around with this a bit more, take my chances as a psycho on the coast for a while and if  I'm still alive find a persistent server to hide my stuff in and get it back after respawn. I feel the onset of the prion disease is far too fast, far too likely to happen in the first place and too severe, but it still makes me jump every time my character starts making those creepy sounds.

[BrainlessZombie 190]

This is not true. I have eaten tons of both rotten and cooked well done and

i feel just fine!

raw

 

:|

Edited December 8, 2014 by BrainlessZombie

[byrgesen 1341]

raw

 

:|

 

You have no idea how long the "freak" kept it inside his deer pelt homemade backpack, all moist and dark :P

 

I like this feature, gonna try it out at some point.

[grindstone50k 208]

 After eating the cooked flesh about 20 minutes later I got the hysterical laugh 

Oh shit I thought that was somebody messing with us! I had no idea you got that from eating long pig. Guess that means I killed a cannibal, then.

[Bororm 1156]

Think it should only happen after a long time of eating a lot of human meat, because otherwise it's stupid.

The game shouldn't dictate my character's behavior to such a degree over such a trivial thing.  There's way more cases of cannibalism where people don't become shivering laughing/crying messes than do.

[Girth Brooks 570]

ya'll gots the mad cow

[BrainlessZombie 190]

...it should only happen after a long time of eating a lot of human meat, because otherwise it's stupid.

The game shouldn't dictate my character's behavior to such a degree over such a trivial thing...

 

Killing, skinning and eating another human being... "such a trivial thing"...

 

Don't breed please :|

 

Edit: But to be fair i've skinned a guy to check the new feature, but when came the moment of eating it... I couldnt do it, just ran around for 5 min and got some beans instead.

Edited December 8, 2014 by BrainlessZombie

[barnabus 1708]

Think it should only happen after a long time of eating a lot of human meat, because otherwise it's stupid.

The game shouldn't dictate my character's behavior to such a degree over such a trivial thing.  There's way more cases of cannibalism where people don't become shivering laughing/crying messes than do.

This must be the ONLY discussion board in the entire universe where cannibalism is a "trivial thing".   Don't like it? Then don't eat long pig.

[Bororm 1156]

It's cannibalism in a video game, it is a trivial thing.  Just like "murder" in this game is a trivial thing.

 

And in real life, while not "trivial" it's not like it's something that just never happens.  It happens, it's happened a lot throughout history.  The notion that everyone, from a single incident, who eats another human being ends up laughing/crying uncontrollably is idiotic.  I get that they want to represent some really off case real life scenario, but I just think the perimeters should be a lot different if they want it to mirror any semblance of reality.  Something they strive for in every aspect of the game.

 

I mean, this is almost the same as burnt meat making you sick in the game.  You don't just get prion disease from eating a tiny bit of just anybody, you don't get sick from eating burnt meat.

 

I don't doubt these things will change, but I haven't heard any official word even about prion disease or why it was included to begin with.  If anyone has helpful quotes from the devs that would be appreciated.

 

 

This must be the ONLY discussion board in the entire universe where cannibalism is a "trivial thing".   Don't like it? Then don't eat long pig.

 

This is my issue with the mechanic as it stands.  "Don't like it? don't do it" does not make for a good sandbox experience.  What if I want to roleplay any variety of cannibal that isn't going to cry or laugh about it?  It hampers roleplay, and it hampers gameplay to put in a mechanic that has severe punishment for something in an extremely unrealistic manner.

 

I think the opposite should be true.  If you want to roleplay a character who got prion disease, then that should be in your hands as the player.  Want to run around laughing/crying into your mic while you eat people?  Have at it.  I'd venture to say that would be an even better experience than canned sounds coming from my character.

 

"This is your story" remember?  That's their entire goal of the game summarized.  They're walking a fine line by making my character exhibit emotions.  In this case it's caused by a disease that does occur in real life, with similar symptoms so I don't think they've quite crossed it but they're hovering a foot over.  What I'm saying is that the disease in real life is not nearly as common as being represented in game or even necessarily obtained in the same manner (certain parts like eating the brain are more prone to give you prion disease than just chowing down on a leg), and a better solution would be prolonged cannibalism can lead to it.

 

 

But hey, if you guys want to just insult me and not actually discuss the topic and believe it's perfect as is that's cool too.

Edited December 9, 2014 by Bororm

[falraen 1]

Guys i want to roleplay tank commander. It doesnt make a good sandbox experience that there are only broken tanks in dayz  :rolleyes: . It hampers my roleplay please give me working tanks.

[Aelel 1]

pretty sure your only meant to get the disease if you eat the brain anyway, so we should be allowed to chomp on that too...