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How many players ou there would still play DayZ if the only weapons were the Makarov and Enfields ? I know I would.

Doom had specific ammos for each weapon... Why can't DayZ do the same ? or Why even bother put so many different weapons in the game in the first place ?

is the use of a 3rd party VoIP software. :) And no, I'm not trolling. And yes, I know this is a lost battle. ;) DayZ characters are not telepaths and shouldn't be able to communicate beyond what 'Direct Communication' allows. Oh and these cheats make KoSing an even better behavior to follow because you never know if the guy's who's acting friendly is not leading you into a trap. VoIP = gamebreaker :rolleyes:

Check the original post. I didn't say it should be removed. Just reminded everyone that it is a cheat...

So when a friend has been shot in a certain fire station and warns you over VoIP about what happened, you don't think you are 'reducing the challenge of the game' ? Come on...

Using VoIP is a crutch. Just like loot maps are a crutch. OP idea wasn't to have crutches removed. If you wanna use them, do it. But you can't say that VoIP and loot maps are not cheats. They are. Just like walkthroughs are cheats for solo games.

Is that in the lore ?

Can't you 3rd party VoIP advocates see a difference between using Teamspeak in a game like Quake/Counterstrike/Planetside 2 and using it in DayZ ? Don't tell me I'm the only who sees the difference... .

Yes. :) Unless you only communicate with your clanmates/friends ingame. ;)

All these elements definitely make the game easier for you. So how do you call it ? Easy mode ? So i'll edit my original post. 3rd party VoIP = 3rd person view = loot maps = Easy Mode Satisfied ?

OK... Notice how I said that 3rd party VoIP is a 'cheat' and not a cheat. It's not a cheat per se, but it's a crutch. A huge crutch. Just like 3rd person view is a crutch. Just like loot maps are a crutch. The more crutches you use, the easier the game gets. Why people can't understand that ?

Nope. Played the mod for a long time. Summer 2012 if I remember correctly. ;) Squad vs squad fighting is NOT what makes (should make?) DayZ unique.

Are you playing other games where you are a survivor washed up on a shore with nothing but a torchlight ?

I love how my 'useless' thread has generated 7 pages of comments. :rolleyes: - I didn't say that VoIP should be prevented. It can't be done. Why would I ask for the impossible ? Wow... so many casual players in DayZ, for whom the game is just a platform to socialize with their friends and they don't give a rat's ass if the game succeeds at being a SURVIVAL GAME and not some Second Life clone... :huh:

Don't take SURVIVAL as a justification for KoSing. KoSing is NOT the right decision if you want to survive. I used to check the average life span of players on a few private hives where I played the mod. KoSers / bandits die more often than peaceful players.

Well I wish there was more than just running around though... I mean what's the point of surviving in this game ? Kill to get more guns to kill to get more guns to kill to get more guns.... Groundhog Day in Chernarus...

Survival game where people WANT to die ? Game fail.

What if survivors STARTED with different abilities ? I mean, who's going to believe that ALL the survivors who wind up on the Chernarus shore have EXACTLY the same attributes and capacities ? Come on... They're ALL able of bandaging with the same efficiency... They can ALL repair a car's engine... They ALL can carry the same weight... They ALL can run the speed... They ALL need to drink and eat at the same time... Make survivors different. This way, next time I bump into John Smith in Cherno, I might be better off asking him to heal my wounded friend rather than shoot him.

Well I don't really care about guns. I would have still played the mod if Makarov and Enfield had been the only weapons available. But you need MUCH more than weapons to make a zombie story interesting...

No matter what people say, when major shit hits the fan, people don't KOS ad nauseam. (remember YOU DON'T RESPAWN IF YOUR VICTIM RETURNS FIRE AND KILLS YOU) There is more to an apocalypse scenario than just rednecks killing each other for their guns... Just look at any piece of fiction about zombies. Sure there are gunfights but it's not at the center of the story. I want my DayZ experience to feel like a Romero movie. KOSers you are a subplot, at best, in the script... :rolleyes:

And there are people who actually don't alt+f4 when you start doing your shit ? If i could store stuff, i'd collect books.

1 character per server => no more ghost warriors

A real knife/dagger. If i sneak up behind someone, i expect him to die. Pronto.

Just like every rule though, the problem is where do you draw the line ? Is combat log triggered when the first shot is fired ? That's how it worked in the mod (at least when i stopped playing).

Well, i'll tell you a story which happened more than a year ago on a private server. I'm in a small town (i think it was Pustoshka), looking for food/stuff. My 4 year old kid calls me, he needs his daddy to do... whatever the little sob needed at the time :D . So i go out of town, hide in the nearest forest and go afk. 2 minutes later, i come back greeted by a 'YOU ARE DEAD' screen. Sidechat was enabled on this server so i whine a bit, to the tune of " Whoever killed me, that must have been your easiest kill ever... :/ " and got an answer. Players had followed me out of town, while i hadn't noticed them. So i go afk and i'm dead. Now imagine i had alt+f4 instead of going afk... Couldn't they have claimed that i had purposely logged out in order to avoid combat ?