Spoiled Food

[BIttermace 31]

OK so everyone I assume knows the benefits of using cooked meat as opposed to canned foods but is it really that realistic to be able to carry around slabs of meat for days on end in 42 degree weather and it still be as fresh as the moment you cooked it ?

I think it would be a nice idea to add a degrading factor to food like meat i.e after 2-3 days you have spoiled meat.

I think this could lead to a couple of interesting ideas (in my opinion)

1. Cooler Bags

Preserve meat for longer but at the cost of 1 inventory slot

or

2. Salted Meat/ Salt Cured Meat

This was an early 19th century way of preserving meats before refrigerators and I think it would go in very well with the Day Z game setting as most people know in a zombie infested hypothesis electricity is one of the first things to go.

This would also require looting salt (civilian loot/ supermarkets) and possibly another construction property for wood, wooden barrels which could be placed near your tent/ camp site to preserve a small or medium sized hunting groups amount of meat.

so what do you guys think ?

[BIttermace 31]

Well I thought it was a good idea haha

[House (DayZ) 0]

i think its cool

no one really cares though as i can see, it's all about them.

but yeah this would eliminate sniping for days and actually making someone move every few hours

[simonjames (DayZ) 10]

not too sure im a fan of this idea as snipers will snipe and tbh they will just server hop and ghost away eat then come back and snipe again ....

plus im not sure heinz would let there beans go moldy :P ,imo dayz dosent need to be that realistic or we may as well end up with a sims clone where u have to go potty etc ,just nerf sniper rifles or zone them or make it so if someone snipes near a town then spawn a bunch of z's next to them

[suspectmammal 22]

Great idea i hope this gets seen

[Sol (DayZ) 132]

YAY! Finally an idea that isn't "PUT DAYZ ON XBOX HURRRRRR"

I bet it drowns in the next 30 minutes never to be seen again.

I support this thread.

~Sol

[sealteamaus 16]

Damn it I should have searched for this :( you have my beans

[Teo (DayZ) 6]

No. I don't want my Cooked Meat to get rotten. And in real life, canned beans can stay really long good to eat :P

Edited August 1, 2012 by Teo

[nuclearaddict 15]

Not bad. It would add to the realism, because obviously we don't have any mobile freezers out in the middle of the wilderness. Beans, bro.

[BIttermace 31]

No. I don't want my Cooked Meat to get rotten. And in real life, canned beans can stay really long good to eat :P

Thats why this is based on Cooked Meats, cooked meats have a higher benifit then canned foods and aswel in my opinion should have a downside too :)

[johan (DayZ) 21]

Tbh I consume most of my meat within a few hours as I spot new animals (not afraid of ax:ing them zeds!) because I tend to be beneath max blood most of the time, hehe.

[sixfeetgiantbunnyrabbit 40]

Good one! Simple, realistic and also enjoyable in game even maybe solving some minor issues in the gameplay.

I always found it "arcade" that you can consume a whole cow in less than a minute to fully restore your health in an instant. That's like drinking a healing potion. Maybe this should at least include a time factor so you restore the health you consumed through massiv amounts of cow only let's say 100 blood every minute. But that's a different story.

Good suggestion by the OP!

[BIttermace 31]

Tbh I consume most of my meat within a few hours as I spot new animals (not afraid of ax:ing them zeds!) because I tend to be beneath max blood most of the time, hehe.

This is more of a hording at base type suggestion so you dont have to carry meat all the time you can have somewhere back at base to store food so you can set yourself tasks i.e today ill go out hunting im running low on supplies.

[MasterZ 90]

This is a good idea, but give people still the option of eating spoiled meats with a high risk of getting sick.

[kryvian 123]

even tho I'd find this bothersome, it will sure as hell make the game interesting.

A few days ago I died with full belt, AS50tws +5m, M4A1 CCO SD +6 mags and a shitton of med supplies (suspecting hacker; only 3 ppl on server me included, I just walked into a 3 building village, that had my aggro just spawn in, got one hit killed, headshotted). Previously I had accidentally duped my body *woo bugs* wile trying to fix graphic glitch, so I could have run back and gotten every little thing, but you know what? it would have been boring as fuck! I said fuck it, start fresh, and I really had more fun, found my first GPS in a firehouse, 4 hours later I was rolling in a ghillie with everything but nvgs, rangefinder and radio, with an FN FAL.

I'm all for it being harder/more troublesome. It's easy as it is right now; especially if you have friends.