Dragging dead bodies.

[andrewmont 91]

ATM hiding bodies is as easy as click of a button. This should be made more realistic. If you want to hide your traces then you'll need to drag the body somewhere people won't see it. On the other hand this also allows you to use dead bodies as traps. The same way tents are used ;) allows for more strategy in the game and should be quite easily implemented considering there is already a drag body function for living players.

[Mos1ey 6301]

+Beans

Nice idea. :)

[camycamera 36]

+1, yes. But it's bloody hilarious hiding a dead body on top of a building or a dear stand and watch them sink into the ground in mid air.

gotta love Alpha.

[Hello moto 70]

Hide body should be removed and this implemented.

[Dr.Duff 211]

Hide body should be removed and this implemented.

You have my one remaining tin of beans, now I'm down to just sardines :(

[liquidcactus 719]

i like it it too.. hmm i always thought you could d drag bodies for some reason, maybe that was Op flash point hmm

[LockeDown 144]

I can dig this. Someone get me a shovel.

[Mos1ey 6301]

I just had a thought...

Burying the body stops the sound of the flies, whereas dragging a body to a hidden place would not. I think a shovel as a moderately rare item (maybe the same as matches?), required to bury bodies should be implemented if this made it in to the game.

[Nichols 13]

You already have a shovel...its called an entrenching tool and it is used to dig holes in the ground by the military all the time. Some very large and deep holes have been dug using said E-Tool.

[Mos1ey 6301]

You already have a shovel...its called an entrenching tool and it is used to dig holes in the ground by the military all the time. Some very large and deep holes have been dug using said E-Tool.

Ah, I knew the entrenching tool was a foldable shovel but I didn't realise it would be suitable for digging man-sized holes. Fair enough then, if the e-tool was required to bury bodies then that would be perfect.

[LockeDown 144]

Ah, I knew the entrenching tool was a foldable shovel but I didn't realise it would be suitable for digging man-sized holes. Fair enough then, if the e-tool was required to bury bodies then that would be perfect.

I can dig that too. Double shovel.

[andrewmont 91]

I just had a thought...

Burying the body stops the sound of the flies, whereas dragging a body to a hidden place would not. I think a shovel as a moderately rare item (maybe the same as matches?), required to bury bodies should be implemented if this made it in to the game.

I've had my body hidden and the flies were actually still there. Though maybe I just couldn't find my body. Nonetheless I'd rather an option to just hide the sound of flies since it's not really necessary to have them. I think the problem with a shovel is you can't bury a body in seconds it takes hours so realistically you shouldn't actually be burying bodies at all. All ideas to there own though :)

[m.w. vindicator 880]

The Cowarmod and SLX mods do this nicely, you can drag living and dead players to a desired spot to hide them or get them out of the line of fire.

Sometimes after a battle I go around gathering all the bodies and putting them in orderly lines.

It would be cool if you could cover the dead with objects laying around to respect/hide their bodies. It would also be cool if you could construct a grave or a cross. If you buddy gets shot use could drag him to a nice spot, bury him ,and leave a cross to mark the spot.

Around the map there are bodies with tarps covering them. It would be cool if the player could do that.

[Scrooge (DayZ) 0]

+1

[Sutinen 635]

When the body physics are done as well, I would like to see that done in dragging of dead bodies as well, so you can identify a corpse from an alive player.

[Brint 40]

I want to make big piles of bodies in Cherno.

[Khoysta 17]

I want to make big piles of bodies in Cherno.

Yeah with base building being introduced, i can imagine piles of bodies outside or on access route to a base.

[Very Ape 748]

My beans, they are all yours.

Will a bandit really take the time to hide your body, now?

[Welch (DayZ) 756]

Not too bad!

[mr_chabowski@live.co.uk 2416]

Hide body should be removed and this implemented.

This should definitely be implemented.

If you really want to get rid of a body, to hide evidence, there should be a way to burn them with a jerrycan and a box of matches.

Drag the body to a secluded spot, set it on fire, it burns for a minute or two, then the body would become an unlootable skeleton, and there would be no flies noise.

[andrewmont 91]

This should definitely be implemented.

If you really want to get rid of a body, to hide evidence, there should be a way to burn them with a jerrycan and a box of matches.

Drag the body to a secluded spot, set it on fire, it burns for a minute or two, then the body would become an unlootable skeleton, and there would be no flies noise.

Like that idea. Could have clans who've just created a big burning pile of all their dead foes. A player could see the smoke from this and proceed to investigate then shit themselves and run back into the treeline. Gives that sort of user created world and stories that the dev's wanted.

Edited October 4, 2012 by AndrewM

[tommes 331]

It's a good idea and realistic aka plausible. You could drag a body somewhere safe to loot it.

[hawc 63]

Well arma2 has a drag body and carry body function, i guess it's disabled in dayz like the "give first aid" option.

[tommes 331]

You can drag LIVING bodies in DayZ. We're talking about dead ones.

[enforcer1975 1111]

ATM hiding bodies is as easy as click of a button. This should be made more realistic. If you want to hide your traces then you'll need to drag the body somewhere people won't see it. On the other hand this also allows you to use dead bodies as traps. The same way tents are used ;) allows for more strategy in the game and should be quite easily implemented considering there is already a drag body function for living players.

Nice maybe add somethign like you can only bury them on soil and not in cities because you can't dig there unless you have soil.