Idea Remove Compass/Tracker

Then how would we be able to know if there is an enemy that's camping at a zone or something?
Compasses allow people to check places to make sure that there's no one in there, if we didn't have compasses, then we would get surprise attacked by somebody. Compasses are one of the main things used in WarZ, take it away and it'll be no fun to play WarZ anymore.

 

Well, I don't necessarily sneak up on someone to kill them.
And it also adds a lot more strategy needed with the compass.
And it isn't impossible to sneak attack. They are still possible, just harder because of it. Like I said before, it adds more strategy in the game.

 

Won't hackers just have a huge advantage now because we have no way of telling when someone is around but they can due to hacks such as radar and tracers?

 

Agreed. Hackers would then have a huge advantage. I also agree with Pikmin. Compasses are a huge part of WarZ, and it wouldn't be much fun without them.

 

Well, I mean, they are hacks.
They're designed to give an advantage. If they didn't, no one would get them.

 

That's not the point. What I'm trying to say is that it will give them a bigger advantage than they already have.

 

I have always been in favor of this idea. My favorite memories of watching DayZ videos is when Frankie sneaks up behind a "Bambi" and attacks them. There's one problem people have with this idea, which is the fact that you would get surprise attacked. Remember, no players would have a compass meaning no one would know where you were. This would make the overall gameplay much more fun because it would always have you on edge. In DayZ players don't get this so I say we shouldn't.

 

In DayZ you get instead a very exact GPS-like item showing both your position and others' near you.

 

I agree with this because the ability to know where someone is adds an element to the game that allows for campers to easily be able to escape danger and find targets easily. I definitely think compasses should either be removed or made more rare than they are.

 

I wouldn't remove compasses completely, but make them worse (not rarer, then people with MVP just have 64 compasses in their echest and noone else has a compass) or make them disabled/hindered at a certain time. I suggested an idea before that compasses would have 1/2 range at night, making sneak attacks and stuff possible.

 

maybe only players with compasses can be tracked?

but honestly it kills the surprise factor of the game and creates it to become a camp off when you know someone is coming to you, maybe nerf the range of the compass because it's annoying to not being able to see someone because of the render but you're tracking them.

 

Why not remove name tags so players can get more intense battles and name-tag hack clients can be found more easily.

 

I thought of this, too. Great minds think alike!

http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/nonametag/ <--- This shows it is possible.

 

But that's the whole idea of removing the compass or trackers, you don't know when you will be surprise attacked. I'm not saying I agree or disagree with this idea, but it sounds like it could be fun, since normal DayZ doesn't have trackers.

I agree with melting, you should only be able to track those that have a compass. That way, if you don't want to be seen, don't use a compass. But then you won't know where the enemy is either.

 

Trackers honestly ruin this game... I can think of times when I am in a semi noob town with another person and neither of us have no clue. I finally see him and get scared and it's really fun. We actually have a legit fight with flanking, ect.

 

I do see your point and I do agree with you there, but the only problem is hackers have a huge advantaged. I would like this idea if the compasses stopped working at like nether or something.

 

But compasses help to know if someone's camping in Nether or Snow too. Removing them would make it harder to tell if there is a camper in the area or not. I just think they should be made more harder to find.