suggestions V1.5

[scoffield77@gmail.com 192]

Links to other stand alone suggestions at the bottom.

A. Heavy Mist

B. Return Bandit skin (as an optional skin)

C. Zombies with Survivor skins

D. Empty Whiskey bottles

E. Camp Fire stories

F. Mid-Infected Walkers

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A. Heavy mist.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?112464-Fog-script

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=13101 (contains video)

I believe this will increase the mood of the game, Make players more paranoid. It will also increase PVE, due to Hoppers and crawlers will be harder to see daring the fog.

I don't want fog to be around all the time, Only at X time like rain

Also for those that worry about server lag, This is a client side mod. It will not cause lag in the server.

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B. Return Bandit Skins

I don't want the bandit mechanics returned, just the skin.

There was "clothes" in the game to change skins, I think the Bandit skin should be one of those clothes, It will add a intimidation factor. A stay the F away from me or I'm going to skin you, persona

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C. Zombie's with survivor skins

I think there should be walkers with survivor skins. It will add to the mood. Also I think players should turn in to the infected.

I don't mean that you play as the infected. I mean after getting hit X amount of time you get ill, if it spreads you get infected. And you "die", but your avatar turns in to a infected.

for exp, If you get attacked

1-2 hits = nothing

2-3 hits = illness

4+ hits = Infected

(Numbers can change)

If you die while infected, you turn.

This will also make it harder to loot dead people due to you having to take a risk to put them down, it could alert other infected, or worst... Players...

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D. Empty Whiskey bottles

When you throw one of these, It will distract a zombie by changing it's path but not alerting it. (should effect them more then it does now)

I think if you are walking in a barn and you're not watching where you're are going, You could step on this and it will change the walking path of the zombie towards that spot.

This will keep players on their feet and alerted to their surroundings, It will also cause more intense close calls due to you'll have to get out of their fast unless you can kill the walker quietly.

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E. Camp Fire stories

This is one is more "fun" We've all had those moments when get stuck in the rain or have downtime.

So let's use the forums as a solution to pass the time, There are threads where you can post your stories. Why not take those stories, and put them in "books" that are in-game. You could read about how someone assaulted Devils castle, or someone could be reading about how you did X, Y, and Z.

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F. Mid-Infected walkers

There should be infected that are in the mid stage of infection. I think this will add much to the fear factor of the game, and give more versatile infected rather then the same old infected, and 2 that are pretty much harmless.

• They should mimic the hoppers stance, but be static unless agro, and should be twitchy. if agroed they run full blast like normal infected.

•They will have better seances then normal infected.

•They scream loudly in broken english, can be herd well outside of town

•They attack both full-infected walkers and players. (berserk in a way)

•Harder to kill since they still have human motivation.

•Hide in dark corners.

•They will have a radius that they can't leave, I don't want them to attack an entire town of infected and clear it out for the players.

•500m Spawn radius. e.g. if someone walked with in 500m distance of these mid infected walkers, spawn points... they spawn.

•Only 0-1 spawns at any time per town.

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Cross bows: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10043

Predator and prey: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10391

The team work philosophy (Shoot on sight / group play): http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=7036

[pogoman979 4]

yeah that heavy mist would be cool to have ingame. A2s particle effects can really improve the atmosphere. I used dust effects in a few missions which were really nice.

[scoffield77@gmail.com 192]

Edited: remembered the forgotten post.

yeah that heavy mist would be cool to have ingame. A2s particle effects can really improve the atmosphere. I used dust effects in a few missions which were really nice.

I do too, setting the mood really helps with game-play. spec in "scary" games ;)

[Gaidoon 19]

A. Heavy Mist

Sounds good

B. Return Bandit skin (as an optional skin)

I don't like the skin maybe if it's optional but then everyone will shoot you on sight.

C. Zombies with Survivor skins

No but i think maybe crazed AI survivors that want to kill you would be nice or possibly an infected individual with a zombie skin who hasn't quite succumbed to the effects yet.

D. Empty Whiskey bottles

I would go with this.

E. Camp Fire stories

Sounds nice if your sure no one will put a bullet in your head the second you turn.

[scoffield77@gmail.com 192]

A. Heavy Mist

Sounds good

B. Return Bandit skin (as an optional skin)

I don't like the skin maybe if it's optional but then everyone will shoot you on sight.

C. Zombies with Survivor skins

No but i think maybe crazed AI survivors that want to kill you would be nice or possibly an infected individual with a zombie skin who hasn't quite succumbed to the effects yet.

D. Empty Whiskey bottles

I would go with this.

E. Camp Fire stories

Sounds nice if your sure no one will put a bullet in your head the second you turn.

You're thinking like a lone wolf, B for exp. No one by them self in the right mind will use bandit skins. But a group of players will, to do that stay the F away from us look.

I made a post about mid-infected walkers once, must of gotten flaked by the hacker and I didn't know

[Deuzerre 64]

Bump for good stuff.

[mikyjax 3]

All those Ideas are good for me Bullfrog :)

And yes, the factor that a player should turn zombie is important for me too, but it should only be ex-player, with loot. Not a random zombie spawning like player.

Like I said in another post we could have a new jauge on the right with our level of infection.

We can have slight symptoms that could alert our friends that we are infected like some pain scream.

Because the interresting fact is you can hide to your friend that you are infected, and prey to find medics to heal your infection, probably anti-biotic you have to take often.

When your jauge reach a critical level of infection you can turn zombie, but you and your friend won't never exactly know when : the "I think it s time to kill me guys" factor.

That phase can last 1 hour like it can last 12 hours, but it remains a big risk to be around you when you are in the critical jauge. Your call to tell your friends or not.

Mike

[Gaidoon 19]

The only one i would go for is Turning into a zombie and eating your friends. Won't be possible until we have melee attacks in A3 anyway.

[mikyjax 3]

Zombie must remains AI, you will never kill your friends who can save your loot for when you come back, it won't work, you have no interrest in killing your buddies.

AI is quite good at it ;)

[scoffield77@gmail.com 192]

Zombie must remains AI' date=' you will never kill your friends who can save your loot for when you come back, it won't work, you have no interrest in killing your buddies.

AI is quite good at it ;)

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agree, Let's say you have 50 players, 25 of them wants to be a zombie..

that's 25 less survivors. and low amount of survivors ruin the social factor of the game.