Debug Monitor (less stats)

[3rdparty 229]

though i think its a cool idea to have the leaderboard and something recording your kills, i think kill counts should be removed from sight, and only given to you at the end of your life.

there wouldnt be a massive universally observable consistantly updating leaderboard in an apocalyptic wasteland, and although im only figuratively speaking, i still think the stats chasing creates a motivation in the game that is somewhat disconnected from the simulation.

[Dr. Toros 8]

And people use them to confirm kills, which is an artificial advantage.

[3rdparty 229]

indeed :) Kills the tension when your questioning "did i hit him? did i hit him??, oh yea hes dead"

[Specter911 2]

I agree, here are some points for you to use to support your claim.

Being able to wander around with a tally ingame ruins immersion as you know how many you killed aswell as above using it to tell if you killed another player.

But being in a world with no kill count, as you wander from town to town killing zombies, you would of lost count of how many you killed, countless people you encountered, most dead from trying to rob you.

Not knowing if that person is truly dead, so you double tap.

Aswell as maybe in future allowing zombies to play dead to do the same after being non-lethally shot in the body occasionally.

I believe rocket also wanted to remove the hunger and let the stomach growls tell you when your hungry, and something similar for thirst.

Could remove blood and let the screen saturation tell you, bleeding could have a more obvious effect on your screen, but for these, sometime in the future.

But I say zombie tally and player tally have to go, perhaps they can even have an item ingame that you pick up, and it automatically updates your current score from the moment you obtain it, so you still don't know your past, but you will know your future.

[3rdparty 229]

Yeeeshh all very good ideas, the only thing that confuses me is why there is a hyperlink to reclaiming credit insurance in your post?

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[DemonGroover 8836]

Maybe a murder is only confirmed when the body is examined.

So instead of a murder count could have a:

Chicken Shit Didnt Go Check if he Was Dead Count:

[Specter911 2]

Yeeeshh all very good ideas' date=' the only thing that confuses me is why there is a hyperlink to reclaiming credit insurance in your post?

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Insurance? Figured with all my computer has seen, they would be Viagra adds.

It still there?

[3rdparty 229]

Yeeeshh all very good ideas' date=' the only thing that confuses me is why there is a hyperlink to reclaiming credit insurance in your post?

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Insurance? Figured with all my computer has seen, they would be Viagra adds.

It still there?

lol yea it is, keeps jumping between highlighting the words "your claim" or just the word "claim"

Yaarp i like ze suggestions though, I vaguely remember reading an interview with rocket where he was expressing his distaste for any interface what so ever.

Though it is hard to think of alternatives for weapons. The suggestions for personal variables (hunger thirst injury) sound good, but for weapons its a bit more tricky.

Peeps would probably lose track of how many shots they were firing in real life which i guess would be true of that in DayZ, but knowing what weapon youve equipped is something that would be obvious in real life but not neccessarily in game.

Knowing whether your gonna be throwing a bottle or a grenade also would be obvious in reality but not neccessarily in a game deprived of an interface.

THe only solution i can think of to this is more animations, so you can physically see whether the pistol is in its holster, whether your holding a grenade in hand or a flare.

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Maybe a murder is only confirmed when the body is examined.

So instead of a murder count could have a:

Chicken Shit Didnt Go Check if he Was Dead Count:

lol yea thats a cool idea i guess, having a confirmed kill count. Im assuming the other stat was a joke though, otherwise the length of that stat variable would stretch the debug monitor to the point that you might think the debug monitor is the game...

which might inadvertedly motivate what is intended for impotency :S