Starvation speed

[Marcy mark 10]

Please change the starvation speed,no one dies in 24 hours with no food in real life so it really breaks the immersion. Should be 72 hours or atleast 48 hours and at 24 hours you go into slow mode until you eat. Dying in 24 hours due to no food makes the game not enjoyable for new players and makes an already difficult game overly difficult. Everything is good except the dying from no food in 24 hours.

[drgullen 596]

1 hour ago, Marcy mark said:

Please change the starvation speed,no one dies in 24 hours with no food in real life

True, but last time I checked, this was a game and not real life.

[Marcy mark 10]

Ah ok, might aswell add flying like superman and fire lazers out your eyes then. I didnt realise it was just a game.....

[drgullen 596]

To answer your question seriously, you can't make this mechanic equal to real life because keeping your character alive by searching for and looting food and water is part of the game.  As another example, in real life, you can't plant pumpkin seeds and eat pumpkins from those seeds on the same day, but in the game, you can.

If you're new to DayZ and dying of starvation, you are probably sprinting everywhere as a fresh spawn.  Walk normally at first until you've topped up your energy and hydration.  If you find a well, keep drinking at it until the stomach symbol appears.  If your energy "apple" icon is full white, that doesn't mean stop eating.  It just means you're good for a good while before it turns yellow and then red.

I'm not sure how you're measuring "24 hours" -- if you mean 24 actual real-time hours, there's no way you should be able to last that long in this game without eating -- it would take away from too much of the survival aspect of it.

I typically first find a well and drink at it until my stomach is full.  I then try and loot a knife and kill some wildlife.  I then cook that wildlife which I use as both a food source and as a heat source in case it rains.  At this point, I usually have more food than I really need, so dying from lack of food is moot at this point.

I think the starvation and dehydration rates are fine as they are.

[Marcy mark 10]

Im not sprinting everywhere, if you sprint your dead in 15 mins lol, u can literally die in less than one in game day cycle because you genuinely cannot find food in time. If you start a new character youve got between 45 mins to 1 hour real life time before you starve to death. Theres no apples under trees no mushrooms in forests, trails , hay bales etc if your lucky enough to find tin food uve no time to get a sharp object. U need a fishing rod to fish yet dont have time to find one because your looking for food. Theres no wildlife anywhere also. Its easy to fix all they need to do is make the starvation time last atleeast 2 ingame day cycles to allow you to find enough to carry on salvaging. Ive seen alot of long time players also bring this issue up. It does need addressing because it does ruin the game when all your doing is constantly searching for food. Managing food should be a part of it but not the only thing you should be doing but the game is forcing it atm

[Parazight 1599]

Think of it this way.  You can grow a pumpkin in about 20 minutes.  If it takes 24 hours to die of starvation then that's 72 pumpkins you could grow.  That's consecutively, my friend.  If you could grow 70+ pumpkins in real life, without eating, then that would be really incredible.

Seems pretty straight-forward to me.

 

[Marcy mark 10]

Firstly youve got to find a pick and seeds by which time you will prob die. Another solution is your first 3 days of a new char you dont lose starvation giving you time to build up and get a decent amount of equipment then the starvation mechanic starts so youve atleast got a chance of a long surving character

[ddoumeche 0]

New character start with 1/2 or 2/3 of their hunger gauge, but they still die in less than a hour of starvation. Especially after spawning in the middle of nowhere and having to walk.
Looking for food can be very time consuming and not always sucessfull.

Do you want to Kill a rabbit ? but you need a knife, and matches.
Do you want to plant seeds ? but you need a shovel, or a farming Hoe. and a PET Bottle.
Do you want to gather apples ? yes, maybe, or maybe not

This is plain ridiculous

Edited May 10, 2020 by ddoumeche

[Christopher Chapman 0]

I’m with Marcy on this.  I was really excited to get this game once I saw how detailed it was. But now after a few days of frustration, I can say I would recommend it.  When you see videos with players spawning and picking up sodas and apples and mushrooms with ease, it’s very misleading.   In 20 spawns I’ve picked up 3 plums and 2 rotten apples. So basically I play for an hour and then die of starvation.  Yes there are ways to grow food, but you need to find those items first also.   Great concept for a game, and you already have my money, but I’ll be more conservative with my bohemian purchases in the future I think.  My bad for not reading comments with due diligence on this game

[Ra.bo 1]

One comment described this game as nailing your nutz to a burning  car then pushing  it off a hill. I think it's pretty much right on after my sessions today poisoning from goat blood whatever I drank deer blood didnt get sick wolverine's!!!

[Optikn3rv 1]

On 5/9/2020 at 6:16 PM, Marcy mark said:

Please change the starvation speed,no one dies in 24 hours with no food in real life so it really breaks the immersion. Should be 72 hours or atleast 48 hours and at 24 hours you go into slow mode until you eat. Dying in 24 hours due to no food makes the game not enjoyable for new players and makes an already difficult game overly difficult. Everything is good except the dying from no food in 24 hours.

Have to agree on this, apart from the idiot responses about this not being real life the speed starvation and hydration kill you is silly. I just got the game and logged into a server and it was night so I went to the railway building but nope no food and no water and as it was pitch black I could not see anything and was dead due to starvation before day break.

Game could be fun but seriously dead due to starvation or lack of hydration in 1 night and food and water not being readily available ruins the game. If people like that then maybe hardcore servers are great for them but the noob starting off does not have a chance.

Joined same server during the day made a fire and fire starting kit. managed to find a chicken and cook it but 2 chicken stakes gave me like 50% food fill up which was gone in no time so again starve to death. There are hundreds of useless clothe drops to find but very few water and food and if you do manage to find something you need to spend hours searching for a tool to open them. Even rocks are not readily available for a stone knife which again is stupid. The are thousands of rocks everywhere and I think Scum do it better by allowing you to search any stony area and find rocks.