4 ways to make Dayz fresh and replayable

[kevo1414 62]

4 ways to make Dayz fresh and replayable - In summary:

Make some:

1. Premade photos
2. Premade cassettes/tapes
3. Premade notes
4. Secret maps

and all these things above gets replaced with each update or each month or two and all this things are created by community.

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Now let's get more in detail:

1.) Premade photos

Each map would have 5-10 photos (as a new item) which you could find anywhere on the map by loothing houses, which will hinted at the location for some secret stuff.

It could be a different types of supplies eg. car parts, foods, water, ammo, guns, tents, clothing supplies, tools, buried stashes any kind of supplies or it could be just a trap (mines, bear traps etc...) or it could lead you to some new "premade notes" or "premade cassettes/tapes" which I will talk next.

Example: https://i.imgur.com/FMCkT4g.png (pic taken from https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/2o3ia0/a_trip_down_memory_lane/)

 

2.) Premade cassettes/tapes

Each map would also have 5-10 premade cassettes (as a new item) which you could find anywhere on the map by loothing houses.

For tape to be play, survivors must have a radio. Anything could be on the tapes eg. songs, scary/happy stories, quotes, riddles, or some secret informations (such as location information, reports from soldiers, journalist etc.) that leads to some photos or some new loot or that lead to some traps that can kill you. It could be a double-edged sword.

Example:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlY_W2ec5Q
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDQb2EOMuAc

 

3.) Premade notes

The premade notes would function in the same way and have the same meaning as the tapes except that they would be in written form rather than in audio form. Devs already have a ingame notes so why not use it that way?

4.) Secret maps

We already can find some tourist maps as an in-game item. What if devs would put like 2 to 3 secret maps in-game which will show you some secret location marked by "X" once you open it.

Same as notes and tapes, this maps could lead you to some goodies or to some traps.

Example: https://external-preview.redd.it/5v-PkqFVnHUWZOF5VhykH15o2-74FOFPLyvqsCFeYGI.jpg?auto=webp&s=6401c5eabcf77db55d4d8aaa7044f9bd54d5c5aa

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All this thing above could be replaced with each update or after each month or two to make things new and fresh. And all this can be done by community, all this secret locations, photos, tapes, notes can be done by community. Just make a place where people can send their creations and riddles and then devs can decide which of this creations will be in the game. It's a win-win for both parties, for the community and for the devs.

 

That way players will always have something to do, something to explore, something to find after you are all geared up.

Imagine all youtubers trying to find out all this secret locations and riddles before a new update. A community will work togheter to find those secrets.

 

Thoughts?

[lemmac 102]

Nice idea. You could even have it happen automatically. Imagine if every time someone buried a loot stash a single in game tourist map spawned somewhere at random on the server with an X marking the spot. Anyone finding that particular map could then take on a potential treasure hunt themselves or even trade it with or have it stolen by other players who might themselves go in search of it. If the stash is dug up by the player with the map or after a certain amount of in-game time has passed from when the map is first picked up (whichever comes first) then the X disappears and it's a normal map again. If the player who buried the stash digs it back up or a random finds it, or even if it's just junk, then tough luck, no treasure, but hopefully you enjoyed the hunt 😉 

Edited March 16, 2023 by lemmac

[lemmac 102]

On top of that, to stop people just sharing stash locations with players not in their immediate vicinity the initial X could just be a waypoint which when reached would draw a dotted line to another X in the same general direction you were heading (to within say 15 degrees of the actual location). Having a random amount of these waypoints on any spawned map would make it nigh on impossible to pass on the location of a stash to anyone else until it is actually reached.