MR DELICIOUS

The new patch makes me feel like One Direction at a tween birthday party.

Man just add this to the already thriving patch thread. Good to see you're not having a massive whine though.

Might be an idea to have this moved to the survivor group thread.

I think this reveals that many people dont strategically deal with the zombies, and treat them with the same fear they treat the ladder of a deer stand. Here are some survival tips: Carry a zed killing weapon with a big clip or plentiful ammo, like an enfield or Winnie. If you're a baller, carry a pking NATO weapon in your backpack for backup. Choose pellet rounds and aim at head height. One pellet burst at medium difference can kill five or more zombies. Know your paths and herd them. Look with binocs for an enter able building. Fire, get zombie attention and then sprint for the building. Make sure you have enough ammo or an escape route if things get hairy in the building. When the zombies begin to claw their way into the building, head shot them for ammo conservation. If you're overwhelmed in a field and can't escape, throw a smoke nade to distract them. A smoke grenade plus frag grenade can kill sixty zombies in one go. Use whiskey bottles as distractions. Lastly, the only recommendation I have to Rocket is to make flares have the same distraction power as smokes. It would help the new players out and give value to the things during the day. Oh, and maybe increase the respawn zombie rate from four minutes to ten or fifteen. At the moment I'm fighting incredibly hard for my right to party.

I like it this way. It forces group work and distraction tactics in taking down a horde. Seems to need some refining as to exactly where and how many spawn, but greater numbers increase team work and will cut down on PvP as you really need to plan stuff out carefully or group up before going in. Finally there is a point to smoke grenades and HEs. I do predict the rise of the enfield/Winchester though.

The old skin looked like Kevin from Home Alone going down on his girlfriend at the worst time of month.

LOL. No worries. My meter is running a little high on this issue. All I seem to see are people throwing out' date=' "it's not fair for people to be able to kill other people without repercussions" or, "we'll just give 'em a timer on the skin, and the complaints will all just go away." WRONG. You know the only time killing another player SHOULD carry repercussions? When somebody is watching, or when zombies are within earshot. Other than that, hold it as word of mouth. TKJ [/quote'] For sure. I think something that needs to be done is to make the user names permanent within the game. At the moment, somebody can effectively harass the crap out of people in game, then change their name and never be found again. Just as if you were surviving in an apocalyptic world, people would recognise you. If somebody is endlessly running their mouth and threatening everybody with violence, I want to be able to look through the servers, find their name, and then introduce them to Mr Law and Mrs Order. If people were held accountable a bit more, you'd see a drop in player kills and an increase in benevolence. Hell, I'd only kill Vanomas on sight by virtue of his name, and I never play on the EU or Russian servers, so that's never going to happen. Also, I'd like the survivor skin to be a little less Ash Ketchum and a little more army ranger.

I think this is the only game where "Achievements" would actually mean something. It wouldn't benefit your player in game, but it would show in your DayZ account profile that you've successfully lived for so long, killed so many zombies, etc etc. I don't want a gold Mach 10 or the ability to fly, but a personalized profile with my own personal achievements might be nice.

Oh, you!

Haha sorry man I was being facetious. Those two places I listed are the only ones in the game where having desert camo is actually useful. The bandit skin to work ratio is way too big at the moment. Better to scrap it until we get a better engine.

My favourite is when people suggest game HUD, player markings or other modern FPS conventions as though Rocket is some autistic savant who hasn't quite caught up with the rest of the games industry. The point is that the games industry is lazy. They make FPS over FPS, and instead of asking "why is this experience "fun"?" they think "oh gee, it'd be cool to put an RC car in an FPS, because everybody loves RC cars, and everybody loves FPS!" The entire experiment being conducted here (and being systematically proven as a "fuck you" to the games industry) is that people want more than that split second of satisfaction achieved when you fulfill the act of shooting somebody. Modern day FPS (and I'm including BF, although that's a little bit more diverse) is a totally contrived, handheld experience of lots of little "shoot the other guy" moments sewn together. The only thing that rewards players is their twitch ability and ability to know the maps really well. There is nothing at stake, there is no need to think. Besides a K/D ratio, there is no metric of success, and no metric of failure. In this game, a player is tested by the merit of their intelligence, moderation, social interaction and finally (and minimally) their ability to shoot. This game gives satisfaction in a myriad of different ways - whether it be successfully navigating by the stars, slaughtering and cooking a cow, saving a best friend, clearing a town of zombies, whatever. What strikes me as odd, and very funny, is retarded game developers can SEE the COMMERCIAL SUCCESS of films like Dawn of the Dead and the 28 Days/Weeks films, and yet still fail to isolate that people don't want zombie films because they like watching people plow through zombies, they watch it because they like that never-ending feeling of dread - the moral decisions and other quandaries faced by someone at the edge of civilized society. If they stopped to ask each other "why do I like these films?" I am one hundred percent sure the answer wouldn't be "because I like killing zombies." Until this point, all zombie games have essentially been zombie coloured FPS, with idiot developers failing to grasp why their game isn't satisfying anyone but the raw FPS crowd. They think introducing bigger guns will make it better, more interesting guns, etc etc, while completely missing the actual atmosphere and experience that they most enjoyed about these films. So how about this pitch, retarded game devs and publishers - a wide MMO zombie apocalypse game that spawns you in an incredibly harsh environment, makes you fend for yourself, puts a time limit on all your actions as you die of thirst or starvation, there is very little other-player shooting (comparatively), the best survivors have the best weapons and the worst survivors have the worst weapons, there is no map until you find one, and if you play at night (which lasts eight hours), you have absolutely no way of seeing around. Oh, and the map is in English and signs are in Cyrillic script, so get ready to learn some Russian! That's right, this game isn't set in L.A. or N.Y.C., it's set in downtown Chernarus, a place with zero commercial or tourism appeal, that nobody has ever heard of. Oh, and the game is going to be a mod that's installed on a clunky as fuck engine with the worst inventory system in the world. You'll get hit by zombies through walls, die falling off ladders with your pistol out and generally die pretty quickly. Sound like fun? I'm excited to see where Rocket goes next. If he's come this far and done this much, everything from here is gravy.

If you get rid of the bandit skin, how am I going to be so effectively camouflaged in Solznichy quarry or on the beach, where my desert camouflage finally comes to the fore?

Smacking people over the head with the wrench is best done as you shriek "Welcome to the Jungle" into direct chat. Being bludgeoned to death has never been so post-processed.

Here's a good way to outwit a bandit, or any player. Find a really well traveled deer stand with a good amount of ammo (and if you're feeling extra mean you can do this to the Stary Sobor camp) next to its gun. Let's take an AKM with three mags next to it. Pick it up and fire every single bullet but one from every mag, and then drop the gun and all the ammo. Then, wait for a bandit to roll up to the deer stand, climb the ladder and pick up the gun and all the mags. For this to work best, you need to have a really lame weapon, like a Winchester, and be about 100 meters from them. Once they're all loaded up, let them climb down and watch them equip their new gun. Then, fire a shot at them (I usually choose scatter rounds as it doesn't kill them, but it makes them bleed). The bandit then lifts his new rifle to easily outmatch you - he pulls the trigger and BAM - reload! The joy is then watching him fire a total of three rounds, not working out what the fuck is going on, until he eventually gives up and swaps to pistol, or tries to run away. Then you knee cap him with your rifle and then drive around in your weird little Russian Cadillac to stir up all the zombies before you drive past him, covering him in half a maps worth of undesirables. To make this especially effective, it's best to have the friend driving the car, and do it on a BETA server so you can direct chat stream Carly Ray Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" as you do donuts around him while he's devoured by zombies. A really nicely planned "what the fuck is going on?" moment for the whole family.

At this stage everybody is naysaying and doomsaying and sycophanting their way around Chernarus like nothing else. I like all the new players, I just don't like the turbulence of the new players in game. I had someone try to shoot me from 200 meters away with a Makarov (I was in a deer stand with an M24). I almost felt like telling him to go away and find something better before I pink-misted him. I've observed four people fall off the same ladder (again with the Makarov in hand) and die like a Deer Stand was the road to Basrah. I think I'll just be happy when the majority of players have reached a level of understanding and awareness that people stop asking if the five bandits in Cherno are friendly, or how to eat food, or open a door, or get a drink etc etc.

He had four slugs in one party at one point, all of them crawling around. It made me a bit queasy. I will say that I've told him that if he ever does it to a nooberov down at the shoreline I will put them out of their misery. So far his favourite targets are bandits kitted to the hilt. He uses an ALICE pack, and kneecapped an elite coyote wearing bandit, and couldn't ever be bothered to go and get it. Instead he used it to reel in a few more. I will say that you need to be careful around Vybor on any of the Australian or US servers.

Desert Camo in a Woodland enviroment... Sir you must be a genius... It represents the desert of his bandit soul, man.

This is a good idea. My entire group could all light fires around a village and destroy the framerate of the defenders so badly that they have to D/C. Try fighting through 1 FPS suckers!

The big problem that is being faced is that a lot of the weaponry, vehicles and equipment you need to make the game "sing" is simply too hard to find or too dangerous to acquire. After driving in every vehicle once, I find there really is very little incentive to actually bother putting another one together. It simply takes forever. Similarly, the NATO weapons are really only effective at killing other players, which means that only the most die hard PVPers bother to attain it (and lets face it, the CZ does a pretty good job anyway). The inclusion of wire and co is all good and well, but it's simply too hard and pointless to gather up that much of the stuff to build anything worthwhile, also factoring in the difficulty in placing the damn stuff. All in all, I think there really needs to be a more centralised place where the certainty for specific supplies is very high (a factory for cars and car parts etc) but the risks to get it are just as high (NWAF exists for weaponry, but that is still only one place). If people could raid a general military barracks with the certainty of getting military vehicles, weapons and obstructions, the whole barbed wire thing would be a little more tempting. Also, I'm not really sure what the hell the wire does.

I like the M24 of every rifle. The accuracy even at a stand is good to 500 meters. I can head shot people who are moving at 300 or so from a crouch. Also, the drop bar means the down range drop accuracy is always reliable. Simply dialing in the range on the non-veteran servers (or with my rangefinder - but that's a bit fancy) and then lining up the bar always gets my man. The CZ to me is the giant ejaculatory penis of the game - wielded badly by all the 14 year olds sitting above Elektro power plant.

Nice video Griff. Real attention to cinematic detail (as opposed to Tupac montage of you shooting MAK noobs in the head with a SAW) and to the atmosphere. Probably see you around in game at some point, hopefully not at the other end of my barrel.

"I killed forty five guys on the shoreline in self defense with my M24 from Zug castle while using NVGs.