My Suggestions for DayZ gameplay

[Gareth_Sims (DayZ) 8]

So, I will just start of by saying I have only had the game for about two weeks and I love it as it is but i think a few things can be tweaked a little bit, now I know that it is only in alpha and the things I am going to say are not Bugs, My ideas draw towards more reality. this would be for REGULAR servers IMO.

1 - Vehicles that are found are not in need of repair to begin with, they may be locked thus needing you to break a window or obtain a lockpick to enter and (Hotwire) the car OR they may be unlocked and Empty or near empty on fuel, my reason for this is that how many cars in your city if a zombie outbreak were to take place would be just "Broken" - Now i can see people crying about this one but IMO this makes for a more reality driven gameplay experience .

2 - The ability for a player to play true "Lone Wolf" style gameplay, this game is fun both alone and with friends but there are limitations on how far a player can progress alone as in the blood effect, i know you can get blood back from food but i would like the option to use a blood bag on yourself rather than wait for a friend to log on or risk asking a survivor for help, now once again the very idea of a person giving another person a bag of blood to survive is not reality anyway so allowing someone to do this on their own is no big stretch.

Now these are just my suggestions for a Regular server, Now these are not demands in order for me to keep playing, i love the game and will continue to play regardless, they are just my two cents, Please discuss and please dont just say "No way" if you want to shoot down my suggestions please give a valid reason.

Cheers for reading my babble and i look forward to a good discussion.

[SoulShaper2 243]

now they are interesting suggestions but heres the reasons why not:

1. they fact they are broken, all of them IS unrealistic however its a game and we need something to work to, if we had vehicles so easily the whole mystry and determination to get one would really ruin the status and achievment of getting one.

2. Use cooked meat to get blood back, the reason they have done this IMO is to try and encourage teamwork without making it being to much of a draw back for lone wolfs

[Gareth_Sims (DayZ) 8]

now they are interesting suggestions but heres the reasons why not:

1. they fact they are broken, all of them IS unrealistic however its a game and we need something to work to, if we had vehicles so easily the whole mystry and determination to get one would really ruin the status and achievment of getting one.

2. Use cooked meat to get blood back, the reason they have done this IMO is to try and encourage teamwork without making it being to much of a draw back for lone wolfs

Yeah i can see your point and as for the Blood situation I have now started doing that to get it back but imo , the vehicle situation needs to be altered, just the sheer size of the 225km2 map and the number of damaged cars on the side of the road that are (Part of the scenery) says to me that there would be more cars in action than just the ones that are available to the player and having the vehicles horded by large groups who rarely drive them really pisses me off i think maybe increasing the number that spawn and making them harder to repair or adding some other function would be ideal but that is just me :P, cheers

[bad_mojo (DayZ) 1204]

There's a section dedicated to threads like this....

[moriak 35]

2. I've been playing a lone wolf for a few weeks now, currently I am on day 13.. it's quite easy to get blood back from animals, I have been down to 3-4k blood several times.. I have also found a couple of blood-pack at heli crash sites but I just leave them there since they are of no use to me

Edited July 13, 2012 by moriak