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Current weather/insulation/body temperature values force players to wear very specific clothing. Variety and uniqueness in clothing choice is very difficult.
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Current weather/insulation/body temperature values force players to wear very specific clothing. Variety and uniqueness in clothing choice is very difficult.

Currently it feels like you are required to wear at least 4 items of best clothing and to be running to not be too cold. Sitting at NWAF firing range, wearing full TTSKO top and bottoms, Assault boots, A smersh vest, smersh backpack, working gloves, ski mask, SSH68 helmet in April, ~30% wind, no rain and the character is still cold.

Right now it feels like you almost definitely have to be either A) Wearing hunter clothing or B) stopping every 15 minutes to sit by a fire.

It feels like a lot of the uniqueness and part of the fun with DayZ and finding your own style has been stripped, everyone looks like a slightly different variant of a hunter with the only real difference being what colour your balaclava is :(

I feel like players are forced into wearing so many of the "best" insulation clothing that there is barely any point for items like the shirts, smersh vest or even the amazing chest holster because as soon as you get into a tier 2 zone, it's too cold to have any sort of uniqueness.

Details

Severity
Tweak
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Operating System Version
N/A
Category
General
Steps To Reproduce

N/A

Additional Information

If you would like a proper test of this, I'll happily go through and try to make it as repeatable as possible for every clothing item in the current game as long as I can know that it would be worth the effort! I miss looking like a survivor just because I don't want to freeze to death! Also, all of the zombies would've been freezing pre-infection based on how they are dressed and current Chernarus weather! it doesn't add up!

Event Timeline

Nolhek added a subscriber: Nolhek.Aug 13 2021, 11:56 PM

I thought that it could be because the server I usually play on was set to be winter, but I see that it also happens in April... This is an issue. I think the same.

kplan added a subscriber: kplan.Aug 14 2021, 12:46 AM
Litas added a subscriber: Litas.Aug 14 2021, 1:22 AM
JerryK added a subscriber: JerryK.Aug 15 2021, 11:14 AM

I feel like a system where we can layer clothes would be ideal, but the inner layers should only be used for: adding weight, adding insulation and water resistance... not giving more slots.
I want to be able to wear raincoat with a sweater under it...

But at a certain point too warm layers should make you sweat which should cause faster loss of hydration.

I mean the current system isn't too bad, but if clothes could be layered that would add the much needed "customization/personalization" options.

Geez changed the task status from New to Need More Info.Aug 16 2021, 5:35 PM
Geez added a subscriber: Geez.

Hello rypasmith.
Do you experience this on the vanilla official servers?
Regards,
Geez

This screenshot was taken during offline mode on a vanilla server.

We also experience it on TheCommunityZ.com community server which is unmodded. I am also an admin on this server and would be happy to share any require information to give you guys full information on this.

I'm unsure about official servers however if required I can get more info on those.

Happy to be given some scenarios to check and get back to you with as much info as needed even down to the individual clothing items which I would deem useless, even with the best items in every other slot, such as the "bad" insulation tops.

Geez added a comment.Aug 17 2021, 9:37 AM

Thank you for the additional information.
Can you please provide us with the server configuration files and storage from the server? Please do so in a private ticket so you dont have to share this publicly.
Regards,
Geez

I only play on official servers and I can confirm this happening all the time. Unless you have hunter clothing you would be cold, specially if it reains heavily. 1.12 for me was "food" patch because all the added type of food and I was expecting a clothinn patch in 1.13 but that was not the case. More options would be great. Not only color. Being so hard to identify your friends from enemies the clothes should be more "customizable".