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I believe that a bit of set dressing is necessary (at some point at least) to paint a more dismal picture of Chernarus. I think that some houses should be populated by dead folks in a decomposed state..folks that died of the plague  and as a result did not turn into Zeds. Some of these folks along with looking nasty should also be containers where some minor loot may spawn. Other possibilities are roadside body dumps, open mass graves, and impaled and strung up Zeds. Also a few field research stations where Zeds were vivisected  you know, bloody places. These should be be numerous and distributed around the map in logical places and change location upon server reset.  There are already some static body piles so I'm sure its doable. 

 

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Those are great ideas - I do know that in either the last status report or the last dev stream there was mention that as soon as they finish with adding all the towns they want they're going to go back through everything and make it look more appropriate / run down.

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Maybe even randomize the dead folks (and other horror elements) on server restarts, kind of like they do with the loot in a way. One time you go into the house and you have some dude decomposing in the kitchen, and on a different server\after restart the room is clean.

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Maybe even randomize the dead folks (and other horror elements) on server restarts, kind of like they do with the loot in a way. One time you go into the house and you have some dude decomposing in the kitchen, and on a different server\after restart the room is clean.

 

+1 to more things being randomized on server restarts.  

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Those are great ideas - I do know that in either the last status report or the last dev stream there was mention that as soon as they finish with adding all the towns they want they're going to go back through everything and make it look more appropriate / run down.

That's good to know and they are right once the game is functioning well they well enter the final stage of Alpha and start sprucing things up and balancing everything out. And have some beans :beans:​  

 

Maybe even randomize the dead folks (and other horror elements) on server restarts, kind of like they do with the loot in a way. One time you go into the house and you have some dude decomposing in the kitchen, and on a different server\after restart the room is clean.

Exactly what I was thinking and with enough locations and lootable corpses that would also decentralize the loot spawns..Even small military loot spawns such as overrun  military checkpoints, relief stations in remote areas would have  a significant volume of loot even some ammo and a weapon or two, food (MREs?), and medical supplies like morphine, first aid kits, antibiotics, pain killers, epinephrine, bandages, alcohol, cleaner etc and I know they plan on creating lootable furniture.

   

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Have some Beans  :beans:

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Exactly what I was thinking and with enough locations and lootable corpses that would also decentralize the loot spawns..Even small military loot spawns such as overrun  military checkpoints, relief stations in remote areas would have  a significant volume of loot even some ammo and a weapon or two, food (MREs?), and medical supplies like morphine, first aid kits, antibiotics, pain killers, epinephrine, bandages, alcohol, cleaner etc and I know they plan on creating lootable furniture.

 

Beans? :beans:      

I think we will just keep passing the same beans can between each other :D

Seriously though, this sounds awesome

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Maybe... maybe we could have our way with the zombies as well? Chop them up into fine pieces after killing them, or maybe string them up ourselves?

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Maybe... maybe we could have our way with the zombies as well? Chop them up into fine pieces after killing them, or maybe string them up ourselves?

I like that :)  Even just being able to take Zombie ears and craft a necklace would be swell. And maybe when you have a string of +20 ears that acts as a mild repellent. 

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I hope they add something like radio broadcasts which you can pick up on the walkies or the radios I see around. and it would also be nice if the TV's would show a broadcast as well like in the old romero living dead film. I know we don't have electricity right now but would be nice if maybe at the beginning of restarts water would run in faucets and there was power maybe it could be set by admins for how long they both work.

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I hope they add something like radio broadcasts which you can pick up on the walkies or the radios I see around. and it would also be nice if the TV's would show a broadcast as well like in the old romero living dead film. I know we don't have electricity right now but would be nice if maybe at the beginning of restarts water would run in faucets and there was power maybe it could be set by admins for how long they both work.

I like the beginning of this, but not the idea of electricity/water functioning upon restarts, that would basically be saying the apocalypse just restarted itself. I think once they get the basis of barricading/base building we should be able to get a source of electricity (Solar Panels, car batteries, gasoline powered generators, etc) that would let us see these broadcasts.

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I hope they add something like radio broadcasts which you can pick up on the walkies or the radios I see around. and it would also be nice if the TV's would show a broadcast as well like in the old romero living dead film. I know we don't have electricity right now but would be nice if maybe at the beginning of restarts water would run in faucets and there was power maybe it could be set by admins for how long they both work.

Good Idea, I love the broadcasts. And we have batteries so lets say two 9volt batteries should be able to power a tiny TV for a short while.

 

And the clips from Night Of The Living Dead 1968 can be used without any copyright problems. This is my favorite start at 1min 40 sec

 

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I like the beginning of this, but not the idea of electricity/water functioning upon restarts, that would basically be saying the apocalypse just restarted itself. I think once they get the basis of barricading/base building we should be able to get a source of electricity (Solar Panels, car batteries, gasoline powered generators, etc) that would let us see these broadcasts.

true very true we as survivors show up after the shit already hit the fan and is starting to smell was just trying to figure out an excuse for the power to be running but the generators/batteries sounds a lot better.
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I completely agree with this, there needs to be more "story" in the world.

 

Here is something I posted in a thread I made about looting car parts, it was about how car parts would spawn while keeping the amount of useable vehicles down. But this part of it is relevant.

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Non drivable vehicles would be more common, much more common 50-100 per server but they would be in such a state that they could never be repaired. Some of the conditions these vehicles would be found in are -

 

Completely totaled on a building or into a tree at the side of a road - anywhere

Burnt                                                                                                 - anywhere

Shot up by military                                                                            - near military bases

Full of dead zombies and rotting flesh                                              - mostly in cities

Rusting to pieces                                                                              - near the coast or in the woods

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I was stuck between them spawning in different locations like choppers do or them being in the same place and X% of them spawning loot on restart. I was unsure because if they moved every restart it would seem strange. Though thinking about it, some of them could be static and some of them could move! The crashed cars for example, it's possible that they only crashed yesterday meaning that they could be random spawn while others, like the burnt cars and ones full of dead zombies/people would always be in the same place.

 

I was thinking that these cars would show story, find a car that crashed into a tree? there should be a dead person in the drivers seat and maybe some valuable loot in the boot. Find a car full of dead people/zombies, there should be valuable loot but you would need to disinfect or take on a high risk of infection.

 

Top notch post Xbow!

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Someone posted up a small video where the zeds were screaming and it was pitch black apart from the guys flashlight. Playing at night with some buddies in a server like that would be absolutely terrifying and would change how the game feels entirely.

A shame nobody would play on them and would rather go on 24/7 day 2 hour restart servers.

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Someone posted up a small video where the zeds were screaming and it was pitch black apart from the guys flashlight. Playing at night with some buddies in a server like that would be absolutely terrifying and would change how the game feels entirely.

A shame nobody would play on them and would rather go on 24/7 day 2 hour restart servers.

Indeed most players are pussies but the night time still needs alot of work especially with that shit house arma lighting I cant beleive how shit it is and it was released like that. unreal

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