Trackers

[Cronic (DayZ) 35]

How many times have I been tracking someone & lost em? Many. Some may say I'm a shit tracker, I guess they'll be right, I have plenty to learn but...

What if there was a tracking dart gun, you can tag you quarry with, or a vehicle?

What say you?

Apologies if this subject has been touched on already.

[Mos1ey 6301]

Nah, this would make it too easy IMO. You wanna track someone and find their camp, you should have to do it the old fashioned way. :)

[Cronic (DayZ) 35]

Nah, this would make it too easy IMO. You wanna track someone and find their camp, you should have to do it the old fashioned way. :)

No I agree I really do, but doing it the 'old fashioned' is an art in it's own right, but you're tracking pysical things left from your quarry, in DayZ you don't get any. I'm not saying make these dart guns as common as hatchets, i'm saying make them extremely rare. If you had a toolbox you could strip someone of a tracking dart for example?

Still not sellin it?

Edited August 23, 2012 by Cronic

[Mos1ey 6301]

Yeah, I know. I guess it's similar to the way that we have no body language in game so we substitute it with the bandit skin.

How about if the dart, once stuck to the victim of your choice, only relays their position if you're within a certain range of the player. So you'd have to still be following them for it to work, but losing sight of them for a sec wouldn't be game over? Also, it would have to be used with GPS.

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The darts could also be single use only and EXTREMELY rare, making you think long and hard before you used one....

[VRocker 6]

A 'tracking dart' could be useful imo. Could make it like the tracer dart from BF:BC2 which could make things very interesting since you could either tag a player and look for the big flashing beacon while you follow him back to camp or you could be a tit and put one on your friend so everybody can see him :P (used to do this in BF:BC2 all the time :D)

It would pretty much be the same as putting a road flare in somebodies pocket and would be quite fun. Although if it was made so the tagged player could see it (which he really should do) then it would be useless when trying to follow somebody back to camp so it'd be nice to have an IR version of the dart too :)

I think a version where you'd be able to track them on your map (such as a GPS tracker) would ruin the game, at least if it was a visual one then you'd have to keep line of sight and the tagged player would be able to hide to some extent, maybe by diving in a dense forest or a closed off warehouse.

[Cronic (DayZ) 35]

Yeah, I know. I guess it's similar to the way that we have no body language in game so we substitute it with the bandit skin.

How about if the dart, once stuck to the victim of your choice, only relays their position if you're within a certain range of the player. So you'd have to still be following them for it to work, but losing sight of them for a sec wouldn't be game over? Also, it would have to be used with GPS.

Have my beans. I love that idea dude.