Asmondian 372 Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) Part #1 / Part #2 / Part #3 / Part #4 (With Pictures) Hi ladys and gents! It’s been a while since I want to make a post like this. I have read a lot of amazing ideas on this section of the forum (I really follow the suggestion threat) and I personally feed from some of them to expose and “develop” my own. I really hope you can give me some feedback about them to Polish or adapt them. First some clarifications: English is not my native language, so I truly apology for the grammatical errors that may exist. Post format: IDEA + ILUSTRATION + SHORT SUMMARY (I can amplify more in coments) Each idea tries to be as achievable and reasonable as possible according to the Dayz spirit (Survivalism - post apocalyptic atmosphere) and actual game possibilities. Let’s start ! #1 SURVIVOR'S DIARY AND MAP ILUSTRATION SUMMARY: The idea is quite simple. With your initial fresh spawn gear/ki9t you should have a diary. (NOTE: It could be an item like a book or just a function in game by pressing some key like in many other games). There (in the diary) you can write notes, your personal story, people that you meet traveling in chernarus and want to remember their names – or steam names -, feedback o thoughts about this people, notes about the loot, etc. Also, you can add a map by combine the already Chernarus map item with the diary and you craft an editable map where you can draw stuff, marks of bases, loot spawns, enemy base, and so). PROS: I would add a lot to the roleplay servers and to normal pvp servers too because you can get more immersion, you can now know who do you kill or meet. It’s a good way to have a map in game with tags and marks. You can also add a system where the map (in your diary) it’s completes and update by visiting parts of the map. #2 FIREARMS SIMPLE MELEE ILUSTRATION SUMMARY: Just add the possibility to do some basic melee attack with the firearms. This attacks don´t mean to make a lot of damage (same as fists if you wish), but just make zeds step back like when you first shoot them. It would be really useful if we think to face big hordes of zeds in future updates of the game and when you went out of ammo. #3 BIGGER AND DARKER BUILDINGS ILUSTRATION SUMMARY: The map of Chernarus is one of the best maps I have ever play in because of the realistic scale and complexity. But the buildings of the mayor cities don´t look the same (probably they are a fiddley copy of reality but for the purpose of the games I think it just doesn’t work quite well). Of course they need some “apocalyptic touch” with some creepers and destruction (it’s in develop as I know). But I talking about dimensions and lightning here. I think we should take the existence buildings and add some more but with a huge and realistic scale. Example: a hotel where you can go room by room with zeds spawning inside, or a huge hospital or laboratory. I want to travel inside buildings and get lost… not just go up a stair, check a room that looks exactly like the other and get out. Or enter a house that the main door leads straightaway to the bedroom (realistic?). ¿Have you seen the double green and double red? ¿What kind of houses are they? Games like Miscreated or Scape from Tarkov have great examples of this time of buildings I’m talking about. LIGHTING: The second part of this idea is about the lighting. Players have abuse the gamma option for too long at night time and only some players (I include myself here) know the great atmosphere that a flashlight in a dark place provides. So, if we can add some of this building ideas that I just talk about and make them very dark (even at daytime you can´t see inside because the windows are blocked), players should turn gamma high and low all the time when they go inside, making this very disturbing. I don’t say they won’t do it, I say it´s more likely some % don’t and just turn the flashlight on when they go inside or just pass by the building. #4 SECRET LORE WITH TIPS ILUSTRATION SUMMARY: Of course Dayz already have a Lore (background history of the game) but there are some really big questions that haven`t been answered. I read is some interviews of devs about this and they all agree the lore should remain to the free interpretation of the players. I also agree but putting some tips and false tips in the way could make dayz experience more Enjoyable and give players more objectives in game. The experience of the game “The Forest” or “Metro 2033” (sorry I compare dayz with other games all the time, but is the way I best known to illustrate it) show ass how good this could be to the game, even if you only add small details to game. #5 ZEDS ALREADY CRAWLING ILUSTRATION SUMARY: I know that zeds crawling or walking like 4 feet animals have been in the game before and I love it. Nowadays, when you enter a city and fight with some 3 o 4 zombies, its looks like you are fighting clones: They move the same, they attack the same way and they are all too clumsy. A good way to mitigate that in short term (because I’m sure devs are already thinking in give zeds some random movements in future) is make some zeds spawn directly crawling, as their legs have already been broken. It’s would give more diversity and I think they are scarier to because most of the times you can´t see them in bushes. I limit this idea here because I know they are working on player’s animations, but my other thought about zeds it’s that they can climb tall buildings to access through the windows to the second, third or fourth floor. Just imagine hordes of zeds try to climb the last floor of the Dubky buildings to reach the top where players are camping. #6 REAL POST APOCALYPTIC CLOTHING ILUSTRATION SUMARY: Dayz is a post-apocalyptic world, but besides the absence of people and zombies it doesn’t look like that. Clothing is too “clean”, military outfits are complete and new and there are no “random and mosaic” clothes you can put on your character. I mean, you can put a rider jacket, some gloves and a BDU pants, but we need to feel that our character struggle to survive, and his clothes must be a sign of that. NOTE: We must avoid “futuristic apocalypse clothing”. So… i think dayz should add more random clothes to make each character more personal and recognizable if you really want that immersion of a survival game where you value your life because is unique. Things like ponchos, improvised gloves, tons of new raincoats, a lot of differences gas masks (nato gasmasks, rusian gasmasks, improvised gasmasks), hats, winter clothing, heavy bags, backpacks that don’t look close (just open, with some items at sight), weapon crossing your back like a survival should carry them and not like a perfect soldier, wind glasses like in mad max, etc. All that with the possibility of dye or paint with aerosol some particular clothes. #8 CONTAINERS =/= SIZE AND RIGHT CLICK TO INSPECT CONTENT ILUSTRATION SUMARY: I think the 3 main containers in the game should have a little change. If you think them like a “organization container”, they should have more slots of capacity that they have in size. Otherwise, the only function of them is to protect the item (same protection that a cooking pot or a frying pan can provide, and they are not the same kind of containers). So I prefer a new size / capacity distribution like I show in the image above. CHECK INSIDE: The other idea about this type of containers if that you can check inside them (but NOT use any of the items) by right clicking inspect. Before some updates you were able to do this and its helps a lot. Here is some screen to illustrate my thought: #9 USE DUCT TAPE TO SILENCE A HOSTAGE ILUSTRATION SUMARY: Simple idea. You can use the duct tape to silence a hostage (VOIP and Direct Chat). It should work the same way as the burlap sack (hood). The player can remove it from himself if he is not tied up. In add, if you use the duct tape on a player’s mouth, you can hide your identity in the direct chat like: / Unknown player: “Don`t move man”. #10 THE BOW SHOULD BE A MELEE WEAPON ILUSTRATION SUMARY: I think the bow (for inventory purposes) should be consider a melee weapon. ¿Why? Because I think this would bring more use to this weapon and much players are going to start using it to clean the cities of zeds. Also it can provide fresh spawns a good opportunity to have a load weapon (bow) and carry an unload one until they find the ammo and not be so helpless. Ok guys, that´s all for this post. As I said before, I have a few more ideas that I want to share but I need your feedback fist. Sorry one more time for my terrible English, tips or corrections will be highly valued !! :::::::: INDEX :::::::: Quote ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PART 1 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: #1 SURVIVOR'S DIARY AND MAP #2 FIREARMS SIMPLE MELEE #3 BIGGER AND DARKER BUILDINGS #4 SECRET LORE WITH TIPS #5 ZEDS ALREADY CRAWLING #6 REAL POST APOCALYPTIC CLOTHING #8 CONTAINERS =/= SIZE AND RIGHT CLICK TO INSPECT CONTENT #9 USE DUCT TAPE TO SILENCE A HOSTAGE ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PART 2 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: #10 THE BOW SHOULD BE A MELEE WEAPON >> PART2 #12 HOLD BREATH WHILE HIDDING #13 TRADING SYSTEM BETWEEN PLAYERS #14 BIG HANDBAGS #15 BLOOD SPLATTER OR BLOODIED HEAD ONLY WITH HEADSHOT #16 PASSENGER TRAINS IN DAYZ #17 SCOPES REFLECTIONS / GLARE #18 SAFETY ON STANCE (BUILDING TRUST AND DOUBLE CARRYING) ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PART 3 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: #19 TRAVELING ZOMBIE HORDES #20 SOLUTION FOR GAMMA BOOSTING (RUST EXPERIENCE) #21 ABILITY TO DESTROY LIGHTS SPOTS #22 CROSSED WEAPONS IN BACK #23 TORCH / FLASHLIGHT WIELD #24 BATTERY LIFETIME INDICATOR #25 BLOOD TYPE LABEL IN BLOOD BAG AFTER TEST KIT ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PART 4 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: #26 SPAWN BACKGROUND STORIES #27 ALTERNATIVE HOUSES INTERIORS AND WINDOW BARRICADES #28 BLOODY HANDS / FACE AFTER KILLING SOMEONE #29 PICKING UP ITEMS ANIMATION #30 THE USE OF RADIOS #31 BALOTA AIRPLANE GRAVEYARD #32 NO CROSSAIR AT ALL #33 KEFFIYEH AND FACEMASK TO HIDE BREATHING STEAM Edited June 5, 2017 by Asmondian 12 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kopo79 426 Posted February 10, 2017 hmm...yes to all:D 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sqeezorz 839 Posted February 10, 2017 Some ideas are very nice. Give the Devs Time to make at first the basics nessesary system.... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Asmondian 372 Posted February 10, 2017 28 minutes ago, kopo79 said: hmm...yes to all:D Thx for the feedback dude! 28 minutes ago, Sqeezorz said: Some ideas are very nice. Give the Devs Time to make at first the basics nessesary system.... Of course. I know that most likely any of our suggestions are secondary to the main and priority goals that the dev team have right now... but we just post them to discuss about their probability in a not so far (I hope) future. Thx a lot for the feedback. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kopo79 426 Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) diary system should also if doable,create some txt file or something what you could easily share on forums.maybe its hardcoded but it would be cool feature. one thing what i thought about in RP world....it could be nice addition that you could put signs on ground...if you know what i mean. DONT TRESPASS OR YOU COULD BE SHOT Edited February 10, 2017 by kopo79 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Asmondian 372 Posted February 10, 2017 8 minutes ago, kopo79 said: diary system should also if doable,create some txt file or something what you could easily share on forums.maybe its hardcoded but it would be cool feature. one thing what i thought about in RP world....it could be nice addition that you could put signs on ground...if you know what i mean. DONT TRESPASS OR YOU COULD BE SHOT I agree. I thought about signs and notes but i didn´t add it in this post. It would be really useful to have some nice and simple "note system" where you can write and nail signs in walls (you need to have nails and a hammer) with warnings and messages. They should have some short persistence to avoid spam (like 5 hours of persistence without any player read them or move them and reset if they do so). Thx again man. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevo1414 62 Posted February 11, 2017 @ Asmondian One big like for you! Your english is perfect. Mine is horrible so don't worry about english. Secondly, your Illustrations are amazing. With all yours suggestions I agree and I am happy that you show them loud!!! :) For the suggestion ^9 I have great news for you. Check this (not so long ago). Also I dare you to check my "wishlist" on reddit. I can't wait for your next suggestions. Bring it on boooy! :D 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Asmondian 372 Posted February 11, 2017 2 hours ago, kevo1414 said: @ Asmondian One big like for you! Your english is perfect. Mine is horrible so don't worry about english. Secondly, your Illustrations are amazing. With all yours suggestions I agree and I am happy that you show them loud!!! :) For the suggestion ^9 I have great news for you. Check this (not so long ago). Also I dare you to check my "wishlist" on reddit. I can't wait for your next suggestions. Bring it on boooy! :D Thx a lot dude. Nice! glad devs take on consideration some suggestions like this. I was watching some of your ideas (Wishlist) and some are amazing like the dirt system, blood trials and the world wide containers. I have almost finish the other 10 ideas to create the post for tomorrow so hope see your feedback there (or anywhere to discuss about this kind of improvements / changes / preferences about the game). Cheers man! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
green_mtn_grandbob 594 Posted March 28, 2017 On 2/10/2017 at 2:02 PM, Asmondian said: I think the bow (for inventory purposes) should be consider a melee weapon. ¿Why? Because I think this would bring more use to this weapon and much players are going to start using it to clean the cities of zeds. Also it can provide fresh spawns a good opportunity to have a load weapon (bow) and carry an unload one until they find the ammo and not be so helpless. This is your # 10 your post was so long that i didn't get to that part , with me being legally blind and 76 years old it's hard for me to read long posts. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Asmondian 372 Posted April 1, 2017 On 28/3/2017 at 3:48 PM, green_mtn_grandbob said: This is your # 10 your post was so long that i didn't get to that part , with me being legally blind and 76 years old it's hard for me to read long posts. Jajaja... no problem at all dude. Glad to see you around here. I just link you my post to share thoughts about it. I agree with your original idea. Cheers! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arthur Dubrovka 376 Posted May 15, 2017 Hey Asmodian, thanks again for this perfect suggestion thread/overview! Maybe add some sort of register so everybody can see in one view which topics were suggestetd and which not. Something like this: Part 01 #1 SURVIVOR'S DIARY AND MAP #2 FIREARMS SIMPLE MELEE #3 BIGGER AND DARKER BUILDINGS #4 SECRET LORE WITH TIPS #5 ZEDS ALREADY CRAWLING #6 REAL POST APOCALYPTIC CLOTHING #8 CONTAINERS =/= SIZE AND RIGHT CLICK TO INSPECT CONTENT #9 USE DUCT TAPE TO SILENCE A HOSTAGE Part 02 #10 THE BOW SHOULD BE A MELEE WEAPON >> PART2 #12 HOLD BREATH WHILE HIDDING #13 TRADING SYSTEM BETWEEN PLAYERS #14 BIG HANDBAGS #15 BLOOD SPLATTER OR BLOODIED HEAD ONLY WITH HEADSHOT #16 PASSENGER TRAINS IN DAYZ #17 SCOPES REFLECTIONS / GLARE #18 SAFETY ON STANCE (BUILDING TRUST AND DOUBLE CARRYING) Part 03 #19 TRAVELING ZOMBIE HORDES #20 SOLUTION FOR GAMMA BOOSTING (RUST EXPERIENCE) #21 ABILITY TO DESTROY LIGHTS SPOTS #22 CROSSED WEAPONS IN BACK #23 TORCH / FLASHLIGHT WIELD #24 BATTERY LIFETIME INDICATOR #25 BLOOD TYPE LABEL IN BLOOD BAG AFTER TEST KIT 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Asmondian 372 Posted June 4, 2017 On 2017-5-15 at 8:35 AM, Arthur Dubrovka said: Hey Asmodian, thanks again for this perfect suggestion thread/overview! Maybe add some sort of register so everybody can see in one view which topics were suggestetd and which not. Something like this: Part 01 #1 SURVIVOR'S DIARY AND MAP #2 FIREARMS SIMPLE MELEE #3 BIGGER AND DARKER BUILDINGS #4 SECRET LORE WITH TIPS #5 ZEDS ALREADY CRAWLING #6 REAL POST APOCALYPTIC CLOTHING #8 CONTAINERS =/= SIZE AND RIGHT CLICK TO INSPECT CONTENT #9 USE DUCT TAPE TO SILENCE A HOSTAGE Part 02 #10 THE BOW SHOULD BE A MELEE WEAPON >> PART2 #12 HOLD BREATH WHILE HIDDING #13 TRADING SYSTEM BETWEEN PLAYERS #14 BIG HANDBAGS #15 BLOOD SPLATTER OR BLOODIED HEAD ONLY WITH HEADSHOT #16 PASSENGER TRAINS IN DAYZ #17 SCOPES REFLECTIONS / GLARE #18 SAFETY ON STANCE (BUILDING TRUST AND DOUBLE CARRYING) Part 03 #19 TRAVELING ZOMBIE HORDES #20 SOLUTION FOR GAMMA BOOSTING (RUST EXPERIENCE) #21 ABILITY TO DESTROY LIGHTS SPOTS #22 CROSSED WEAPONS IN BACK #23 TORCH / FLASHLIGHT WIELD #24 BATTERY LIFETIME INDICATOR #25 BLOOD TYPE LABEL IN BLOOD BAG AFTER TEST KIT Wow dude!!! didn`t notice your message before!! Thx a lot for the compilation and index!!! really!! Love to see this kind of willingness!!!!! PDT: im working on part 04. Hope to see your feedback there. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arthur Dubrovka 376 Posted June 12, 2017 Stickyyyy! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arthur Dubrovka 376 Posted November 14, 2017 push... pls stick those threads they are awesome community work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
