Battery Charged Handheld Camera item...

[meshcarver 154]

...just thinking about how cool it'd be to have a lootable item, a hand held camera that takes batteries, and that you have to equip it- or maybe not so you can use it with a pistol at the same time.

You press record and basically yeah, you get grainy wobbly footage straight from a horror flick for checking out later. Perhaps a night-vision mode..?

It's more of a "fun/immersive" item than useful, but I'd imagine youtube would be full of handheld cam footage hours after it got introduced..!

I'm not sure ARMA 2 engine can record like this, but obviously you'd have to enter another menu after to review/edit your footage.

Also, if all this diary stuff gets implemented, then why not leave tapes/discs lying around to show what went down..? Or you find a corpse and it has footage on it- perhaps of the players final moments..? Would be freaky to watch that, seeing the player getting overrun by zeds/players...

Also, an option to turn the camera around to point at your face, then you record a personal message into it using direct chat so your characters lips are moving too..?

Anyway, I'm drunk and sorry for the typos and poor grammar lol..!!! ;)

[Elexo 10]

It could be cool if it had nightvision on and you could hold a gun, would love to use it as a nightvision and maybe that would get more player to play on nighttime severs.

[zython (DayZ) 196]

That would be neat. And you could loot a player's camera to see what they've taken pictures of. It might "humanize" other players a bit more and cut down on banditry.