Leaving behind canteens filled with gas

[IgnobleBasterd 161]

I have never done it myself - for exactly that reason.

I didn't even accidentally "pick" the wrong one. I empied the container and filled it with water. A few seconds later server crashed/I got disconnected. The next time I logged in the game thought I never emptied it and filled it with water. It sucked. :(

[OldManRiver (DayZ) 42]

I didn't even accidentally "pick" the wrong one. I empied the container and filled it with water. A few seconds later server crashed/I got disconnected. The next time I logged in the game thought I never emptied it and filled it with water. It sucked. :(

 

That's rough man.

[pale1776 375]

Definitely not real. I think he was illustrating the ludicrous nature of some game mechanics (e.g. losing food when opening a can with knife, stomach grumbling sounds, forced eating while standing, etc.)

I know that part, I meant the Afghanistan part because I have had a suspicion that MacTabish here is/was in service.

[pilgrim* 3514]

If you have two pristine (or two damaged, whatever)  canteens full of different stuff, the game might swap them around. Be warned.

 

e.g. If you carry two LOADED sawed off shotguns in your backpack, (I have done this) and you take one out and fire it - then take out the other one (you can even look in your backpack and switch them without using the fast bar) - the 2nd sawnoff is now in your hand but it's unloaded, the "loaded one" is still in your backpack - AND if you try to load the one in your hand, the game says you can't, because "it's already loaded" (game can't tell the difference between the two gun locations, right?) The only way you can take out one gun and shoot, then take out the next and shoot, is to put the gun in your hand on the ground, before you take out the second one Then you can load or shoot normally..But you have to load the second gun and put it on the ground before you pick up the first gun and reload it -  if you have it in your backpack, the load switches around.

 

Also - If you have 2 icons on your bottom row - for the same type of object - the game uses them as one single icon. Same if you have 2 icons for two full canteens..The game decides which one comes into your hand, not you.

That all sounds kind of crazy but you have to try it out.. it' just pointless carrying 2 sawed-offs, for SURE

 

Now what's the difference between 2 guns with different stuff in them, and two bottles with different stuff in them ? Also -  does gear NEVER move around in your backpack any more now, when you log back in ? So can you always tell where you put that BAD bottle ?? .. hmm No, ya CANT.

 

Best thing would be - when you examine or use the container, instead of the game saying < canteen contains 55cl > it could easily say < canteen contains 55cl (water) > or < canteen contains 55cl (gas) >

Because the game DOES know exactly what fluid is in each of those canteens, it's listed in the server exactly like how many rounds you have in a mag. But the game doesn't know that the left hand icon on the bar is water and the right hand icon is gas.. it just knows it's a canteen.. so it thinks you put the SAME one piece of equipment on the bar two or three times..it gives you ONE of them, but NOT the one you selected. -  It decides for you.

 

It would be nice if that was sorted out.

 

xx

 

hmm .. or even < canteen contains 55 cl (smells strange) >

Edited September 13, 2015 by pilgrim

[emuthreat 2837]

I personally carry one of those little bottles of alcohol and pour it into canteens on the ground on occasion, you don't even have to pick them up.

^THIS^

After all that discussion about upright canteens, somebody up and broke the system.

 

Did you know that you can also carry a couple canteens full of gas and an empty tincture bottle, then just pour off a bit of gas into the smaller alcohol bottle to make it look like a randomly filled spawned canteen?  Or just pour a couple tincture bottles full into a water bottle to get the same effect.  Maybe pour a canteen full of gas into a water bottle.  (Insert Die Hard 3 reference here)

 

But hell, this is coming from a guy who will eat an opened can of sardines out of a random ruined backpack just because they were there.

Edited September 10, 2015 by emuthreat

[emuthreat 2837]

game solutions

 

If you have a container that is either full of gas or full of water - how can you tell what is in it ?

 

If you have two jerrycans, one full of water and one full of diesel, and you want to fill the truck tank. What do you do ?

 

xx

Throw down some pepper seeds and see which can ruins them.

[roguetrooper 201]

There should be a confirmation mechanism like "The canteen smells funny. Should I really drink it? <Yes> <No>". In real life you also notice when you are about to drink something that you think to be water and it smells like gas (may not the case for bacterial contamination).