Wildlife

[twix (DayZ) 24]

I'll jump right to it,

Bats: Should I chose this location to snipe or will the bats give away my location.

Rodents - Freaking ugly looking shit comes out only at night scavenging for items in your tent and leaving a mess behind. Can be captured to find tent locations. Makes squeaky noises. Also infest dead player bodies in cities.

Cockroaches/Maggots - Some zombies are infested with roaches and maggots. If attacked be prepared for your screen to be flooded with a horde of cockroaches and maggots. Temporary Blindness.

Flying Roaches - Temporary Blindness. These infest dead player bodies in cities.

Locust Swarm - Infest zombies and found in farmlands.

Spiders / Snakes - Extract venom to poison others and to scare the shit out of you in the forests.

Frogs - For the snakes to hunt something.

Feel free to add to the list.

[Herb (DayZ) 121]

some of these are really good as long as the animals make sense in the area the map is in

[BlaBlaSoldier 16]

LOL add Turtles and we wont be attacked by the zombies anymore. I heard they like them...

[armss6536@yahoo.com 0]

BeArS <--- already got large mammals (Cow) and already got the traps to catch them too!!!

[BurritoBandit 24]

The snake one makes me want to play MGS3 XD

[twix (DayZ) 24]

Crocodiles to jump at you while you refill your canteen.

[TheEstonianDude 16]

you have to remember that the crocodiles and turtles cant live in this type of climate. its too cold for them. remember, this is chernarus, its in the north... they have shit weather there. but i think these would be kind of hard to implement into the game. nice idea tho.

[Bobcomss 189]

Can we eat the snakes and rodents! :D

[Blakbewwy 8]

Bats could probably give away the location of snipers, and could maybe be used strategically by players as players could find an area with loads of bats and make a camp there. Not sure how this would be coded...

Rodents; how would capturing these magically show you where tents were? I think you should ditch these. Besides, rodents do not steal guns.

Cockroaches/maggots would be plain awesome, I think... Imagine the fear of running through Cherno while desperately trying to scratch maggots off your face. Ew. And, since rotting corpses are indeed rotting corpses, it makes sense! It'd only need to be as a 2D series of images on the player's screen so why not.

Flying roaches; okay, but I think this would maybe give away corpses too easily. Besides, is there really any way to get past them? It would mean you would always have to blind yourself in order to loot a corpse unless you decide shooting at a swarm is a good idea.

Locust swarms would probably work and finally add difficulty to looting barns as these are good sources of weapons for the freshly-spawned. Perhaps put them as an NPC and make the swarms patrol round the edge making timing necessary?

Spiders and snakes would be great, as the forests are practically safe havens for players. The forests do need something which isn't a zombie to make them that bit more dangerous, as once you get a water bottle, matches, a hatchet and a hunting knife, you can retire to the forest and live in peace forever. That wouldn't happen!

Frogs... Why? I don't think we need frogs, lol.

Overall I think you are on the right track, but maybe spend half an hour doing a bit of trial and error, changing your suggestions to things which can easily be done by the dev team and would help make the game more interesting. Thanks!

[BlaBlaSoldier 16]

[twix (DayZ) 24]

rhinos to run you over at nw airfield. perhaps you could tame them and ride them to kill players and zombies. fuck horses.

[Womb Raider 92]

Well to be honest the only kind of animal I'd like to see in Day Z would be a Bear or some kind of wolf, anything else would be pretty eh, sure it would add to immersion, but I dunno.