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I have taken to putting "NO KOS" or PVE in the filter for servers. There are some out there that frown on bandit behavior. Does that guarantee I'm not going to get shot by another player? I'm not that stupid. But at the very least SOMEONE decided to try and play a friendly style. That's good enough for me. At this point I also refuse to play at night. With brightness and gamma turned all the way up I still cannot see anything, or at least enough to play. Not a fan of any of the "here I am come shoot me" lighting devices. I'd like to get a little more experience under my belt and some more familiarity with the maps before I venture out into the scary darkness.

If you look at it in a realistic sense... when you walk up to someone on the street, do you know their name? Unless they're wearing a food service name tag... I'm guessing no. To my knowledge the Mod version didn't show their name unless they typed in local chat either. I wouldn't be hopeful.

Loot doesn't "respawn" but is spawned on server restart currently. Once picked up it's gone till the server is restarted. This is why many of the servers state in their description that they restart every four hours or something along those lines.

Ok folks... those of you that decided to post "it's an alpha... duh" and that's it... way to be redundant. Thanks for the sledgehammer 40 times. Thanks for feeling the need to chime in with NO help or assistance at all. You win the intertubes today! Let's look at this from a game play perspective. It's a horror survival MMO... emphasis on the survival. What fun would it be if every house you went in was littered with food and water? What fun would it be if every industrial building you went into was strewn with med supplies and weapons. That turns it into a PVP game if you ask me. That's not what I signed up for. Oh it's part of it... but it's not the focus. The focus, as so many here have reminded you, is the aspect of survival. There should be, in my humble opinion, a balance between finding supplies, avoiding zombies and then avoiding hostile players. All with the curse of permadeath hanging over the entire thing. If you're looking to login... find a bunch of cool stuff and hit the "I Win" button... you're going to be very disappointed or you've purchased the wrong game.

I think I have spent more time watching videos of OTHER people playing... than playing myself. I keep finding excuses not to log in. Then when I finally do... and the sounds start up and I have no video yet... and I hear that zombie noise but can't do anything... That...

Pretty much what I would advise you to as well. I'd run with the M4 until you find the scope and/or bipod for the Mosin. THEN think about finding a Mosin. But as AsOiX stated... if you're in town, the M4 is what you want. More lead down range. Close quarters combat the Mosin is too slow and too small of a clip. But, if you're outside of the big towns, or you have a partner with an M4, the Mosin is the weapon to have. You could keep an FXN for in town... large clip and fast fire. As for your buddy... I'd leave him. You can always hook up later. It's a survival game... you don't survive waiting for people to show up. If you're hurting I'd be on the looking for a well and as much food as you can stuff into yourself. Get yourself to a healing state and get your blood level up. However you think you can best do that is your plan. Good luck...

There are two sections to the forums. The DayZ and DayZ Mod, which is below this section in the forums. The Mod isn't in alpha... the standalone is. If you look at the full forum listing it will be a little more obvious to you. Hope that helps.

I'm not sure that it's so much that they don't realize it is in alpha, it's that I'm not sure if they realize what alpha is... or what alpha is compared to beta. Generally an alpha is not released to the public in any way shape or form. It's released to internal testers, usually employees of the company. I'm going to hazard a guess and say that the public that have decided to support and purchase this in the alpha form are the "internal testers" of sorts. Also that even though you paid for the standalone, this isn't going to be in a release ready form for at least a year. Complaining about broken things, or loot spawn rates, or anything that is OBVIOUSLY going to touched on in future releases is counter productive. Stomping your feet and posting that you're not coming back until this is more playable is not only counter productive (because testers are needed) but it's indicative that they haven't really understood the whole "This is an alpha" statement. So yes... I DO think that some folks need to be reminded that this is only an alpha. I DON'T think its necessarily condescending... but a simple perusal of the forums here, instead of clicking the post new thread button, would be more constructive on THEIR part to discern the current state of the release. Just my humble opinion though... YMMV.

Yeah... THAT!! :beans:

Hey boy... you gotta purty mouth...

Very nice. Condensed, informative... well done :)

If now you won't play till a polished release, it sounds as if you really weren't ready for an alpha. This isn't even beta... spelled out right in the disclaimer when you get in... "Game breaking issues may occur". Maybe wait till an update or two is posted. Read through the fixes and determine if you'd like to give it another shot. Improvements EVERY release. Your Candy Crush Saga is waiting. Come back later, we'll still be here.

Bottom line is, and this is really trite, play the game however you want, whenever you want and for as long as you want. If you want to play Hero, and you enjoy it... do it. Personally I can't stand the KOS mentality in the game... but I understand that is how some will play it. I'd much rather work together with others and play how Rhino depicts in his videos. He has stated in the past he played as a bandit in the mod version but found it boring eventually and now wants to play as a Hero. Who am I to doubt him? There was a post he made from last May stating he wouldn't play the stand alone. Can no one change their mind? It doesn't make anyone a hypocrite to get more information and change their mind. Do I believe that is how he plays for real? I couldn't care less if he does or doesn't. Don't fool yourself... ALL youtubers edit their stuff. All of them... yes... ALL OF THEM. If they tell you they don't their lying. The guys that post "This is my first time in game and I'm just going to wing it " are lying as well... or just stupid. Who cares about your first impressions as you're experiencing the game for the first time? I could do that myself. Play for a while and THEN give me your first impressions. (Which I believe is what they are all doing anyway) None of those popular DayZ youtubers are beyond reproach. There are videos accusing Frankiein1080P of hacking in his mod videos... some pretty compelling stuff out there. To me, it doesn't make them much less entertaining. I don't watch those videos and think I can then go do all those god like things I see in the video. You're fooling yourself if you think that. Bottom line though... play it however YOU choose to play. No one can tell you what is fun and what isn't fun but you.

How do you fire a warning shot INTO someone? Sorry... not buying that line LOL. Warning shot is well over someone's head. Not INTO their head.

KOS is not a strategy. It's fear and fear alone. I've seen far too many scenes of players fully decked out in military gear taking out fresh spawns with no more than a motorcycle helmet on.... not even a hint of any kind of weapon. Griefers that can't seem to play any game without making it hell for other people. If you're getting your self esteem by being King of the Hill in an MMO... maybe your mommy didn't hug you enough when you were growing up. That is if you're grown up at all. If you're excuse is boredom... killing folks that are geared way under what you are has got to be even more boring. Wouldn't it be more interesting escorting these new players or fresh spawns? Taking them to get geared themselves? I know I would. I hope the gear quality addition to the game minimizes this. Getting ruined gear from that poor schmuck you killed because he looked "like a threat"... none of which is useable won't be as much fun. If you're playing bandit because you're bored... go find a new game where you're not bored. There are lots of them... trust me, you can go be an asshat somewhere else.