How do you solve the heating problem with ghillie?

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

I think when we get bikes it will make ghillie travel more tolerable. I think running somewhere vs taking a V3S or bike will be totally different - one you die of heat stroke and the others you don't.

[Kaffarov37 125]

Go prone on a pond, make shure not to drown though

[Evil Minion 943]

Though with the incredibly fast hunger/thirst system this causes a discrepancy. If we are talking about realistic aspects.

This is always a tricky one as it depends on the time you spend playing. In general you want body functions and wear to be accelerated for authenticity: Players should roughly care about those things as real people would in real life. Now your character is not online 24/7 so you have to make up for that during the time she is played (because offline energy/water drain is stupid).

Now if you are playing significantly longer than average you might have to worry more but in general "realism" would actually hurt "authenticity" here.

[IgnobleBasterd 161]

This is always a tricky one as it depends on the time you spend playing. In general you want body functions and wear to be accelerated for authenticity: Players should roughly care about those things as real people would in real life. Now your character is not online 24/7 so you have to make up for that during the time she is played (because offline energy/water drain is stupid).

Now if you are playing significantly longer than average you might have to worry more but in general "realism" would actually hurt "authenticity" here.

 

How about a system that to a big extent decreases metabolism and "diuresis" when not moving? I am one of those people that could easily sit still with my ghillie for an hour, even if nothing happens.

[CJFlint 357]

I havnt played in prob 2 weeks, but my 3pp avatar has a ghillie suit. Even if you carry the top in a back pack it heats you up faster. When you were it its like walking a tight rope with body temp. If you are dry and you put it in you will go from norm to hot. Theres really no getting around it if your dry and norm temp. So the really the only way around it is to get wet. By becoming soaked, it will cool you off. Dont keep soaking your self. Just keep going til you become dry and it says you are warming up rapidly then do it again. Or you will become cold. It kind of has to be done in moderation. I would jog, and only sprint to cross wide open spaces like feilds, if I had too.

 

I carried a rope and berlap on me too. So If I became hot or over heated I could craft a improvised back pack to put my top in. You really have to becareful with that suit. You can fuck your self over pretty easy.  

 

One of the problems with dayz right now. Is persistants kind of works at best....its wishy washy. I have even lost items by putting them on the ground I cant even count how many times I put items on the ground just for them to go into the either.  Even building fires can sometimes takes a couple attempts, because a log goes away ect ect. Let alone leaving something on a server over night. My point is if you really want to have the ghillie suit you have to be completly prepared to give up some things. You cant relly on stashing stuff....it works sometimes sometimes not. Sometimes you cant even relly on putting things on the ground. So what you have on you has to be well thought out, and its never enough. I found most of the time I had the suit on I was more concerned with keeping my avatar healthy, and cool, then camping a hill. In fact I never wanted to stay in one place too long. This is coming from someone who plays solo and has done over watch almost the entire time I have been playing.

 

What is ideal is to have a back pack to put it in to cover long distances. Were you going to put it though? You could roll the dice and hope that you can stash it on a persist server, maybe it will still be there when you log in. But In my exp, thats really wishy washy. Infact the whole game is wishy washy right now.

 

The game is still developing and certain things that you would think should work dont. Basiclly its probably going to be a while before you can really have a ghillie suit and thrive, be able to have kind of a sniper hide to stash stuff....you cant do that yet....or at least not relly on it working. Really right now your prob better off just having the gun rap and hood, not even even bothering with the suit or top. Unless you really just want the challenge of being a minamallist. Its kind of wait and see what happens in upcoming patches. I think I might be better off just waiting til the game is close to beta then playing it.

 

Dont get me wrong it isn't all bad, I have had people run like 2 feet away from me and not even know I was there. In a KOS area. If you got it painted and lay down in a tree line you are invis almost. You better have an eagle eye.

 

An option that would work is to a have a team. Have players provide support for the person wearing the suit. Carrying ammo and so forth. Almost like a pit crew. But you know how dayz is, that can be like hearding cats haha...

Edited March 24, 2015 by CJFlint