More disease in DayZ

[tobiassolem 173]

Think about it, corpses, rotting flesh all around, zombies clawing at your flesh. Yes you can bandage it, but can you stop serious infections? Similarly, being out in the cold all day and night and drinking putrid water, should make your stomach crawl. This creates a need for antidotes and medicines, and it creates contagion. It would be really cool if we could (for example) use a contagion as a weapon - such as drinking from a water bottle (while diseased) and then putting it... for example on the store floor, someone haplessly walking by, grabbing the bottle and drinking the water would then too get infected... and other morbid ideas (such as, after an axe has chopped a zombie, the axe become infected - and should you kill another player their body will awaken as an AI-controlled zombie at that location).

[Helsing 19]

haha I like this. It would be cool to contaminate items like cooked meat and water bottles. This would give canned goods more meaning since they would be 100% clean. Right now they're considered inferior goods. Maybe even contaminate water sources, hunting knives(producing contaminated food), axes, camo clothing, and anything else that has direct or indirect contact with a player.

I don't know about turning them into zombies, but definitely the current disease that lowers health to 6k, and maybe even cause the player to fall unconscious randomly.

Let the bio warfare begin.

Edited July 26, 2012 by Helsing

[tobiassolem 173]

I don't know about turning them into zombies, but definitely the current disease that lowers health to 6k, and maybe even cause the player to fall unconscious randomly.

I mean when they die. Having player skinned zombies walking around will add even further scares and increase paranoia (double checks).