RPS: So just to be clear, you are putting dogs in the mod as well as the standalone game?
Hall: Oh, yes, that’s the mod running out there.
RPS: How do dogs work? In the game, I mean…
Hall: Well, you find a dog then you can give it meat – yes! remind your Minecraft at all? – and then the dog will follow you around. The longer the dog follows you around, the better it gets at doing stuff. You can tell it to stay, and depending on how long it’s been with you, it’ll stay for longer periods of time, before it says “where are you?†and comes to find you. You can use dogs for tracking, too, both with people and animals, and you can have it warn you of danger, growling when people are nearby and so on.
Dogs are your companion.As much as I like this idea, I think it'd be better off if players didn't hoard a massive amount of dogs like they do with tents and vehicles. Last thing I want is to encounter is an army of german shepards guarding the barracks in the airfield.
I like it, and I don't.
Here's why.QuoteRPS: So just to be clear, you are putting dogs in the mod as well as the standalone game?
Hall: Oh, yes, that’s the mod running out there.
RPS: How do dogs work? In the game, I mean…
Hall: Well, you find a dog then you can give it meat – yes! remind your Minecraft at all? – and then the dog will follow you around. The longer the dog follows you around, the better it gets at doing stuff. You can tell it to stay, and depending on how long it’s been with you, it’ll stay for longer periods of time, before it says “where are you?†and comes to find you. You can use dogs for tracking, too, both with people and animals, and you can have it warn you of danger, growling when people are nearby and so on.
It's good for tracking and such.
But when he growls, it gives away your position. Which is bad...
Source:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/17/day-z-standalone/
As much as I like this idea, I think it'd be better off if players didn't hoard a massive amount of dogs like they do with tents and vehicles. Last thing I want is to encounter is an army of german shepards guarding the barracks in the airfield.I think there will be a limit of amount of dogs you can have.