GoodGrief

Put them in. And increase gore massively. Hopefully this will lead to the game having big red warning stickers saying 18+ all over it. This may in turn reduce the amount of RL children playing standalone.

Don't play in clans, but I would express the same if I did. On the level which I encounter the pimpsqueak kids, on side chat servers or on direct, I also find them annoying. They are annoying because they come over so loud, unashamed and self-assured but you just know that, like you mention, they have absolutely no life experience to back up being that way. What are they basing their brazen behaviour and morals on? Harry Potter? Playground drama? Are they the coolest pupil in their class? Fuck. That. I couldn't imagine being trapped on TS regular with them. Only a creep adult clan leader would actively target recruit under 18s in any case

As I saw it, people only got interested in non-hive servers, be they other maps or not, as a means of escaping the hackers. One of the original things about this mod was the hive, taking loot from server to server etc. Private servers blow, in that you could build up a good character and then are only able to get a decent game if and when that server has players.Without any fucking shadow of a doubt, the main reason the majority of players quit is not boarding school or different maps, but hackers. Hackers that teleport and instantly kill. Sure there are other serious problems like logging, ghosting and duping. Those were also serious factors in diminishing the playerbase but at that time, before grief-hacking became widespread, there were 200,000 more players at least. Hacking finished it.Roll the fuck on, standalone!

Folks suggesting elektro/cherno are easy yet dangerous places to gear up are sort of missing the point you could join an empty server and spawn near elektro/cherno and get the easy loot without danger. Then join a busy server. That shit happens round the clock. Back before this mod was raped to oblivion by hackers and dupers, I liked Kamenka and Solinichy spawns precisely because it was easier to head NW and get stuck into the proper role-playing, gear collecting etc. Nowadays, with the mod being a piece of shit hanging by a fine thread, I will instantly killself if spawning at either one of those places.

What squad tactics do you have to ensure I dont suddenly respawn in the air and fall into the ocean? What squad tactics do you have that even on a quiet server I won't have a hacker appear behind me, shout something and shoot me in the back? There are none.The grandstanding about fighting up north can't seriously be for real by now. Before hacking that shit made sense. Now there might be less players and therefore hackers, but nothing was fixed so at any moment you might die from a hacker and will. How can you seriously be bothered legitimately (without hopping) going north, over and over, just to die illegitimately? Are you transporting yourself there and hacking your shit back in karma style, after being hacked? Is that the squad tactics? On a quiet server? Nobody is up there, that's a single player game you are now playing.

Please, don't tell me there was a debug monitor. The point is it's not there now and pointless to play enable because it breaks the icons. So it doesn't pan out anymore to suggest people are killing to get another notch on a kill count. There is no kill count and the statement was made today, since the change. You are going to have to quote me and then point out what contradiction, because I can only see drewl dribbling from your lips at present, kind sir. I do what I do now because the game is fucked and I am as much a victim as you

There is no kill count in DayZ right? So it's not a stats thing. Maybe it's just about target practice, on a running person. I understand you'd prefer I quit, but of course I will keep playing this mod the only way that isn't totally ruined by hackers. You might have a view of me as geared up killing newspawns. On the contrary I get killed as a newspawn too (and couldn't give a shit, just press Abort and start again). I rarely have decent weaponary because I get KoS'd too and continue to be killed by hackers even at the coast. I have played the mod since release and used to stay way out alone, preferred the PvE element to PvP completely. But it was ruined by being instantly killed or transported. Nowadays I don't even stop for a box of matches. There's no point. Once standalone is out I will go back to causing mayhem in the hinterland, if its hack free. And be sure I'll shoot every person I see there that is not a RL accomplice. Until such a time, i will continue to get whatever I can out of the mod and that is this play-style. Tens of thousands just quit, but I enjoy it in this form more than nothing at all. Honestly, listening to you guys is like opening a time capsule. DayZ is broken.

All of this is bullshit that I will not bother to respond to properly because: This was also bullshit. Fact is I used to play north. Fact is I get instantly killed a lot so gave up on the mod as it was meant to be played. Thus, none of what you said counts for shit amigo.

Before the teleporting/instant killing hacking began, sure what you say made some sense in terms of challenge. I certainly enjoyed that more. But since the hacking, there is just no point marching north to get hacked. So that's nobody's fault really but the hackers.Nevertheless, you have it wrong to compare this to an MMO or any game. It's not about honor, character, prestige or "fair game". It's actually a sim which tries to be as realistic as possible. Sure as hell, there is no honor, prestige or fair game in RL combat or survival. It's a dirty, gritty business. I shoot new-spawns in part because, like mentioned, the essence of the game was destroyed by hackers, so I am on the coast. I also do it because, really, how often do you see any geared player running around buildings unless they hacked that shit in? They are all combat logging, ghosting and already setup in a perfect place by the time they join a busy server. That's another problem of the mechanics of the game I guess.

I am hoping one or both of these guys are forum users Yesterday a satchel went off in the long grey 3 storey building in elektro. I was unarmed so decided to have a look immediately after in search of gear. The building hadnt been leveled. Anyways all i found was a winchester but I took a look out of the 2nd floor window which has a view on both the opposite 2 storey residential building and also the entrance of the supermarket (if u know what i mean). On the second floor I could see a ghillie with what appeared to be a sniper rifle, who was looking at the building i was in and that presumably he had satchelled. The nice thing about the window glare i guess is he didnt see me take a shot at him. He ran down his building's corridor and i nailed him a couple more times whereupon he went down. So I ran downstairs and outside, crossing the road into that 2 storey residential holding. I got upstairs and Oh man there's a soldier camo guy with some sort of assault rifle already examining the body of the dead sniper. I actually ran straight past him down the corridor to the final room, where i turned about the aimed at the door. Seconds later he comes in and I loosed a couple of shots. Due to lag he managed to spray me with what turned out to be a m4, so actually we both died. Luckily I repsawn straight at Elektro so ran back to the said building and proceeded to gear out from a mix of these two players. I have literally everything now, all the tools. The sniper had a DMR with 9 mags and i took the m4 with a few mags in the backpack. I have grenades too. Needless to say, I hid their bodies and left the server. All that drama from a fucking winchester :) Now I just know i'm gonna get teleported and killed somewhere..

I have had a look around and can't find that description of DayZ anywhere at all. This sim isn't about rebuilding society. And really, you aren't gonna find a more accepting society than the RL one you are presently in, so there is no point dreaming beyond that!As was just saying on another thread, your idea of DayZ would work as a game but its just not DayZ. Since you are young and therefore at your most creative you could consider collecting your ideas and sending them to the guys who make The Sims series. Your ideas of peace and harmony, rebuilding etc would work better on such an engine. Not trolling, being genuine. Forget about dayZ going soft, it will only get more brutal.

Exactly man; the game those carebears want should be released on The Sims. And I am freaking serious here. There are some folks with rather airy views on post-apocalyptic life and they'd do better on such a Sims mod. There it would be set in some scenario long after a critical event that actually didnt end life as we know it, when there is house re-building, collecting chicken eggs, people wearing aprons doing cooking etc lol. DayZ is clearly a combat game.

Just had a remembrance worth sharing. During the Mau Mau rebellion against their British rulers, after the jungle carpet bombing proved ineffective, there was a young officer in the British army who had the most cunning of plans. His men would ditch their uniforms and don native clothes, but not until they had literally painted themselves black from head to toe. They would patrol areas suspected to have militants, with a number of paid natives in their midst, doing things like chatting and singing local songs. These tactics actually turned the tide of the rebellion in Britain's favour. Now they were able to get close to and even be confronted by unsuspecting rebels whereupon they'd pull out their weapons and gun them down close up (or send them to internment camps). There isn't much Klingon honour in those tactics and they'd be viewed as cowardly from the perspective of the enemy. But the point is it worked. They disguised themselves as friendly, lured in the enemy and killed them. Relevance to DayZ is that guy who calls out friendly, lowering your guard, talks to you for a while running about but then shoots you suddenly in the back of your head or that sniper who sits aiming at the bus he parked there 3 hours ago, or the two bandits that constantly give each other bloodbags to get a hero skin appearance are only acting realistically within a relatively realistic game. Cowardice as it is popularly perceived has always had a place in both combat and survival, which is why we see it so much in DayZ.

Edited, too much information for what appears to be a deeply confused 14 year old

Was rushed last night but have a moment now to elaborate; Concealment, deception and ambush are all valid military tactics. Guess that folks in the west are raised by TV to think these are the tactics of non-state actors, terrorists (but not freedom fighters lol). Really nobody uses deceit more than western military forces. The most important aspect of fighting a smaller invisible enemy is intelligence. With that intelligence you can use counter-intelligence to lure the enemy to the location of your choosing, or at least be there ready whereever they happen to be moving. Much the same as a guerrilla force might wait in hiding by a water pool. Awww, those guys only wanted to get a drink but you shot them? That's not fair! The guerrillas should write a letter warning them its coming lol? Maybe in never-never land.. Really if your eyes have been opened at all in this world and if you have seen anything beyond the grim confines of a little estate, you know the brutality that exists beyond say a place like little Britain. I feel like mentioning that tried and tested RL bandit tactic one often hears and which would happen in a post-apocalyptic scenario of the beautiful woman running down the road with her clothes torn flagging down loaded up survivor vehicles. Hopefully they will stop, to offer help. That's when the drivers would be shot and their supplies looted. That probably happened in RL as I am writing this thread, be it in South America or whatever. The world is a nasty cunt of a place and people can be fucking awful. Deal with it bros

This. Ambush, deceit and staying still (camping) are all realistic to the situation of this game and combat generally. I guess they could make a Napoleonic DayZ DLC, where you march upto 20 meters from the enemy, sound a horn and draw your weapon

That scrapple guy, he also was nipping at my ankles earlier.

LOL he's a snappy one, even as gay activists go, starting to get the impression he is another one who can't get over the YOU CANNOT CHANGE GENDER "scandal" of a while back. they dont seem to even like the game and mock it, but have plenty of time to talk shit and act like they are the center of the universe all day on here. I like how that gender screen is still there in spite of the "outrage" and all the trolling since

Reminds me of the jihad jeep days of battlefield 2. Ok sold, dling takistan tonight :)

My GF is always on standby to hold W / keep watch over a town if i gotta take a leak or have a smoko.. she's a real rock like that. and whenever I am about to nail some guy i'll be nudging her saying watch me watch me, just like the oldtime "Watch me dive". sometimes she is the one with the headset on speaking, calling in people. worked every time so far, since its me sitting there with an AK ;)

The environment definately. So long as the game's not getting hacked out, i can buy into that totally. As for the zombies I am with chris really. the only time i ever have to shoot one is when i am desperate for a bandage. These days I dont seem to get long trails of them behind me so either they changed something or i have adapted to how to run to lose them. they rarely seem to be a bother at all and the glitching through walls bit makes it worse. You just gotta hope that side of it will be better come standalone. I keep playing because the intensity of combat when it finally happens and that i know someone is badly aggrieved to lose their gear as am i.

Wow sorry but I don't like any of these ideas at all, maybe take a break

LOL this had me going all day, good show man. jamaal i salute you sir Dang I can see that guys spew through your quote. That guy will say anything, anytime. What a fucking joke yo

A train would be sweet for sure, hopefully this is coming

As a full time griefer I take the opportunity to say I havent tried any hacks or even googled them up. Havent even looked on youtube for how to dupe gear. I'm 100% anti-hack, 100% grief that said my griefing was a lot more fun before the hacking ruined the scale of the game. if the game was made totally secure i would pick my moments rather than picking on every person i encounter