SashaScarah

Okay so I was playing survival mode the other day, I shot a bear as you do but then lost it. I eventually found it again still alive to popped two bullets in it killing it. I harvested what I could and then went on my merry way back to my camp, only to find my dead bear, turns out I killed two of them. I then realised that I couldn't harvest both of them so spent several hours going back and forth to collect all the meat. Which got me thinking... What if the game had sled dogs? Which you could either find in the wild and befriend (I know a dog is mentioned at the farm in wintermute) or that you could barter for from other survives? (one bear pelt for one dog?) You could then get a dog team together that could pull a handcrafted or found sled, this would make collecting large amounts of food easier as well as collecting building materials. ~ Another thing that would be really cool would be in survival mode having the seasons change and having different resources available at different times of year. SO in spring you could collect bird eggs and in autumn you would have a boost in deer population as they migrate. You could also have it possible to after a set amount of time possibly, be able to own chickens or even ducks. ~ Something else I think would be really cool would be having set places on the maps where people could make their own frontier, they would have to go out in the right seasons (spring/summer) and collect the needed materials to build the players very own home. The player would be able to decide what shape, how many rooms and also be able to build furniture to go inside the house once it was complete. I would actually really love this as an update as I would love to build my own "home" in survival mode which would have everything I needed (workbench/forge ect) so I wouldn't have to constantly run around the maps. ~ My next suggestion would be adding in other animals like Ptarmigans, lynx, wolverine. Even changing the animals depending on what season it is. You could do a salmon run in autumn where people could potentially catch lots of fish to survive over winter. ~ My last suggestion is putting in drying or smoking racks as I've noticed meat goes bad pretty fast in the game but smoked meat lasts a very long time. You could have it so the player has to smoke the meat for a week or something for it to stay fresh almost indefinitely. I also thing adding things like generators would be cool to power electrical equipment.

Okay so I have already emailed some of this to HinterLandGames and they said I should post them up here so here goes. You have your normal skills that level up as you use them (for example your sharpening skill and sewing skills) but what if you also had key skills that you ernt points to update while playing the game? They would be as follows: Strength - Levelling this up improves your carry capacity and how long you can run. You can carry more weight maxing out at Xkg (I know it is currently maxed at 30kg) and you can run longer distances before your stamina runs out. Dexterity -Levelling this skill improves how fast you can craft and break things down into components. You get faster at crafting items and fixing items as well as you become better at breaking down things like logs for firewood and curtains for cloth. Charisma - Levelling this skill means that you become better at talking to people, people trust you faster. Intelligence - By Levelling this skill you learn faster, you learn more from reading books and from what people teach you in the world, your crafting skills level up quicker. Wisdom - Levelling this skill gives you more insight into the world around you, you can learn where things are and it marks on your map after a while. at higher levels you become resistant to infections. You could also have after the full story is complete add in wondering survivors into the survival mode, both good and bad, so all the groups you learn about and the people you meet in the story mode you can find in the survival mode and interact with, and depending on what you say/do towards them they will either help you or try to hinder you in some way. You could have it so that when you meet someone you can either try talking to them or straight out attack them which would start your relationship with them. If you attack them they would start hating you, but if you talked to them you might get a task to do and eventually might learn new skills that would help you in game. You could also have settlements of small groups of people that you could choose to help or leave for death, even possibly adding in children. Well that's all I've got for now, if I think of anything else I will add it later.