DayZ is getting bear traps

If you're not playing DayZ, you're not living (in a zombie infested version of a fictional ex-Soviet state). And come update 1.7.2 the game will get Bear Traps - an item first revealed to GameArena in an interview with the mod's creator, Dean "Rocket" Hall, at E3.

One thing I want to see is more content - more items. We've got a really good Russian artist who's been working with us, he created a really good bear trap and we've been meaning to get that into the last few updates. A lot of people don't want to see it diluted with billions of items, but I do! Why not? They don't have to be required items, but you don't know what the players are going to do. They could set up some cool bear trap thing - I find the idea of that awesome - like you place it where a guy can run in - bam, he breaks his leg. But that will be reasonably rare to find and that's what I want to see - little items that you don't need to find, but you might occasionally find them.

The Bear Trap is the only 'new' tangible feature coming in the next update, but the update will also bring with it a host of fixes for many random issues in the game - you can read the full pending changelog here. The update was supposed to drop on the Monday just passed but the team working on the game has been adding more and more features.

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