Fun Factor Suggestions in no order

[funfactor 0]

Just a few suggestions - to make the game more fun - and playable.

 

Blood Bags - Remove the blood types. They are useless. I never used one, I have never seen anyone in my crew use one, I have never seen a streamer or youtuber user one -

the problem is, way too many mechanics -  find blood bag, find your blood type kit, find player, test his blood, etc. It would be MUCH more fun for gameplay, if you just had blood. Less real, sure but now you have a reason to take blood from other people and carry it yourself. Now you have reason to carry blood with you, find blood test kits. Right now if you find a health kit, the first thing everyone does is toss the blood kits out.

 

Rail carts - just a flat bed, with wheels and a pumping handle - very simplistic - it would be nice to have a hand operated rail cart, where a player has to pump the handle to move the cart in a direction. Transportation, fights, I can see many events that could happen around these carts as players would use them to travel the map faster, ambushes being setup on railways.etc

 

Range Finder - Zoomable

 

 

 

 

 

[DURRHUNTER 597]

 

Rail carts - just a flat bed, with wheels and a pumping handle - very simplistic - it would be nice to have a hand operated rail cart, where a player has to pump the handle to move the cart in a direction. Transportation, fights, I can see many events that could happen around these carts as players would use them to travel the map faster, ambushes being setup on railways.etc

 

Hi, your new here, this suggestion itself has been suggested alot, and we dont know if its going to happen. The blood types wont change, this is real life (right?) and range finders in real life dont zoom afaik.

Edited February 27, 2015 by DURRHUNTER

[funfactor 0]

_{Real life is one thing, but this is a game, and blood bags are useless right now. Nobody uses them for any reason. Would it not, in the spirit of having a much better game play event, be wise to remove blood types for the sake of game play? I mean, you can not grow plants from seed to product in 10 minutes, yet for game play reasons, it was felt that what we should have. Same for blood bags I would imagine.}

Edited February 27, 2015 by funfactor

[Chaingunfighter 917]

_{Real life is one thing, but this is a game, and blood bags are useless right now. Nobody uses them for any reason. Would it not, in the spirit of having a much better game play event, be wise to remove blood types for the sake of game play? I mean, you can not grow plants from seed to product in 10 minutes, yet for game play reasons, it was felt that what we should have. Same for blood bags I would imagine.}

Instead of removing blood types they're going to make them more accessible and reduce the amount of health you get back by just eating, meaning it will no longer be viable or even possible to fully recover without a transfusion. This has already been the plan for some time now.

 

 

The rangefinder in DayZ has no zoom button, so that suggestion doesn't make sense. Just use binoculars if you really need zoom. (I'm not necessarily opposed to them adding a separate zoom-able device in the future, though.)

[liquidcactus 719]

I think later down the track when the game is better and things like barricading/fortifying houses is able to be performed, stocking up on supplies is what you will want and need to do.. thus having alot of your medical items for transfusing blood ready and available in a box/cupboard in your house.. I understand your main gripe is about the types of blood but when you have the items ready like i said, plus you will have a few freinds and such, i think finding the right blood type may not seem like such a hassle..

 

At the end of the day, there is no way this system should change but only be enhanced, think about it. Needing a blood transfusion is pretty much one of the best ideas for making people cooperate.. maybe not so much in the current state the game is now but believe me further down the track when there is zombies everywhere and people are attached to their characters and dont want them to die, they will definitely cooperate to find someone with blood... 

 

THIS SHOULD NEVER CHANGE - IT WILL ENHANCE COOPERATION.. 

 

And if you cant see this I feel bad for you son

Edited February 28, 2015 by liquidcactus

[funfactor 0]

@VFX Man Bear Pig - you are 100% right! and I agree. However my main point is that blood type has no bearing on the cooperation aspect - you still can not blood bag yourself - you still need blood from others. My main gripe being, what if you have a crew of 4 and nobody has your blood type? Also that would make the hermit in the woods character a non option, as he can not be self sufficient.

So while you are right on point and I agree, I think my version at least, is to remove the headaches, and bad parts, and keep the blood bags themselves in so they can be used even more.

 

@Bean King  - Not sure that is true. Yes, they have changed it in the latest patch, but they also clearly said it was an experiment and I for one, think it has failed. Still no blood kits, no transfusions, nobody has used them, no streamers, no youtubers - nothing. For example, Saline bags are not very helpful, but we have used them TONS of times. Why? just the plain ease of use -

 

As for the zoom option, here is my gripe. Because of the map, and features it is very hard sometimes to get a distance on items. I have tried many times and get the 1m readout, which I know is wrong.

Zooming in would 1 - help you pin point your distances, and if you play in a two man sniper team, your seconds can give vital info to your sniper, ranges, locations, etc.