Kajin

Found a boat. Works fine, but no fuel. So I hike all the way into town to grab a fuel can. Find one, but have to drop some stuff in order to make room. Hike all the way back and move to fuel the boat up, but when I do I find out I don't have the fuel can anymore, even though I know I had it. My inventory must have glitched or something. Entire trip took me about an hour, and now I have nothing to show for it. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Yeah, but it certainly complicates things when you want to hop off the bike and grab that wonderful looking ghillie suit or Coyote Backpack.

I never put my tents up in one location. I spread them out all over various places on the map so that if one is compromised I still have whatever assets I stashed away in another tent. I don't even keep all my tents on the same server.

I'm gonna let this hang around for a full day to see how many people want to sign up. It'd certainly be an experience to get a group of ten or more random strangers together and see if they can cooperate long enough to form a cohesive group and thrive. I doubt we'll get anywhere near that number of players, but still XD Tomorrow I'll pull together a list of all the people who think they can get together and we'll select a server and a rendezvous point once we've gotten the finer details sorted out.

I think they should keep it in the game. The zigzagging provides an interesting challenge and really wouldn't be all that difficult to explain away.

It makes things slightly harder. These aren't undead we're talking about. They're still living creatures, for certain definitions of "living". Just because they've been reduced to the intelligence of bloodthirsty animals doesn't mean they don't have any form of instinct. A zombie, at its very core, is essentially a pack animal. Easy to dispatch individually, but once you get more than a dozen after you you're sort of fucked if you don't think of something fast. Why shouldn't they run at angles like that? As far as we know it could be a natural flanking instinct so that a group of them aren't all coming at you from the same direction, making it harder for a potential meal to escape. Just because you don't think it works doesn't mean other people will think the same. You just have to alter your perception of the idea enough for it to fit within the confines of the perceived reality.

I think it's acceptable to alt+f4 if you're encountering problems that are outside the scope of the game. If you're about to die by a hacker, alt+f4 right the hell out of there. If there's a lag or a framerate issue which is, again, a problem outside the scope of the game, then it would be acceptable to alt+f4. I've done it once myself to escape from zombies because my nephew was crying in the other room and I had to get up to see what it was he was crying about. Otherwise I'd have stayed and fought the zeds using legitimate means. If it's outside the scope of the game then I see no reason why it shouldn't be acceptable. If you get cornered by zombies or other players using legitimate weapons and tactics then you need to stay there and meet your end with honor. If something comes up that keeps you from playing the game to your very best, then go ahead and ditch.

Knock someone out with tranq darts, put them in the back of the car, then drive off a dock. This is exactly how I see it happening to me if this gets implemented.

Says the poster with the avatar of Kyonko. Deliberate, or odd coincidence?

Don't even get me started on the hive of scum and villainy that is XBox Live. The local Starbucks/Apple Store trend following Hipster Commune is a close second.

The zeds in this game aren't dead. I believe this has been discussed before, but dead players will never come back because that isn't how it works in this particular story. I do, however, like the idea of Dormant Zombies. They're hurt or injured badly enough that they just lay there in wait for prey to get close enough. Then, when the unsuspecting sack of meat gets within arms reach, they lash out and grab hold!

I freaking love Kamenka. One of my favorite places to spawn. I would, however, like some more spawn point along the eastern coastline.

Zombies notice me on my bike from all the way across town. They notice me farther away then they have any right to notice me. It isn't unusual for me to have twenty or thirty of the fuckers chasing me around as I ride across town.

Accidentally ran over a survivor named Tanner five minutes ago. My friend had just gotten out to loot a building, so there were zombies everywhere. I saw a group of three zombies up ahead and ran them over for the fun of it, but then I heard the pained cries of a survivor going down. Apparently it was a lone survivor being chased by two zombies. He died about a minute later, presumably from a broken leg and being unable to fend off the zombies that were in the area. If you read this, Tanner, I'm really sorry! I didn't see you and didn't mean to hit you. I've played this game for two weeks and I've not killed anyone before now.

I know, but it makes traveling around so much easier. The extra storage space comes in real handy as well if you're searching for supplies. Hey buddy, you just die? Don't worry! I'll hop on my ATV and be down to pick you up in fifteen minutes. Gear? Don't worry! I've got a spare Lee Enfield and some other supplies stored in the ATV's compartment.

But... But ranting on the internet is the only sure way to achieve social change! The internet said so!

Managed to slap a bandage on there at about 700 blood, once. Closest I've ever been that I can remember. Had to hunker down in a house and wait thirty minutes for a friend to show up and give me a bloodpack.

Happened to me once. I'd just been killed. When I spawned on the shore, I was unconscious and I had no gear whatsoever. Not even a backpack.

Was driving along a dirt road in my GAZ when I thought heard what sounded like a corn kernel pomping and then a ricochet ding. Not sure if that was what I thought it was I asked my friend, who was in the car with me, if he heard a noise. He said no, so I kept driving along. Five seconds later, a hail of gunfire from several different sources rains down on us from the hillside to our immediate left. "We're getting shot atI" I yelled as I veered off the road and into the forest away from my attackers in the hopes of avoiding line of sight. Our hull and our fuel tank were damaged, but after getting out of the forest we were able to limp our way to the gas station west of Cherno. When we got there, we repaired our car with some spare parts we had in the trunk before filling up our tank and heading east to search for some medical supplies in Cherno. I dropped my friend off at the outskirts of the city's edge so that he could run to the hospital and grocery store real quick while I circled around the area to try and draw the zombies away from him. I had a pretty large horde chasing after my car by the time he had finished getting the basic essentials to keep us going, so when I pulled up to him I had no time to spare waiting around. He hopped in the car and I gunned the engine to escape the pursuing zombies.

I still feel bad about it.

My buddy found a Mountain Dew once. Five minute later we happened across a bus with some pretty sweet military gear and a metric fuckton of medical supplies.

What, so they're a waste of one of the ten thousand splinters used to swing my hatchet? I sort of doubt it.

Fine then, add batteries then. Just because an item requires batteries doesn't mean it needs to be axed. Even better, add several different kinds of batteries. Flashlight might take AA batteries whereas NVG's might take D batteries. Or however it works in Soviet Russia. Maybe the D batteries take NVG's instead?

I've never found a pair of NVG's, legitimate or otherwise. I don't get why people keep saying they're so common they ruin the game.

Not the kind of infection I'm talking about. Even if the bolt was recovered from someone that wasn't an infected man eating lunatic, there'd still be the risk for all kinds of bacterial infestations that decided to feed on the dried blood leftover from the kill. Get shot with a bolt covered in that and you're in for a very bad day if you survive.