Dog Pack

[davidsouthy@hotmail.com 0]

I was wondering if either individual dogs or packs of dogs were going to be added to the final game. An ability to gane friendship with an individual dog with the use of say a steak would be fantastic. Also the dogs could have sidesadle rucksacks to help carry a few items along with them.

They could enable the higher sencing of zombies and be used to attack and defend when needed.

Just a thought.

[SteveMac555 37]

Rocket said that he was currently working on implementing dogs as a companion in the game. No idea when, or whether or not this will be in the mod or the standalone.

Sounds like a unique idea and should be fun to use. Especially if you can train the dogs to hunt down killers, upon inspecting a body. The chase is on.

[M4L 42]

dogmeat

go find ammo boy !, eh, stanag rounds, thnx

Edited August 12, 2012 by M4L

[DEOVONTAY MCSLANGA 149]

Look at how buggy everything else is in this game and ask yourself how bad the dogs are going to be. I can just imagine the dog disappearing 90% of the time, and only coming back when you're inside a building and by sprinting straight through the wall. Oh and I wouldn't be surprised if dogs have artifact glitches attached to them as well, just as an extra slap in the nuts. Perhaps when this game launches as a standalone, and hopefully with it's own engine that isn't garbage, this would be a cool idea. In the current state of the game I doubt this will cause anything but problems.

[kryvian 123]

with that much negative attitude and looking forward to a dark future, how do any of you expect to have a good future.

[DEOVONTAY MCSLANGA 149]

with that much negative attitude and looking forward to a dark future, how do any of you expect to have a good future.

Isn't it funny how realism and negativity coincide so frequently?

Really though, look at the last hotfix. It was meant to fix the completely game breaking artifact errors, and it didn't. Zombies still alternate between being deaf and blind and being cyborgs that can detect you through buildings. Half the time when I log out I get teleported back to the shore. The list goes on.

I would LOVE to like the idea of dogs, but I can't honestly say that I'm anything but afraid of the idea because of the ridiculous bugs I'm sure it will introduce. Even worse, what if you can set your dog to attack an enemy player? How often is the dog going to get confused and attack my buddies I'm playing with? How often am I going to be sitting in a house minding my own business when a dog busts through the wall like the kool-aid man and shouts "OH YEAH!" before eating my face? Because if any of those things happens just once it will have ruined the fun of the idea for me.