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That is awesome. The local farmers must be wondering wtf is up with all the kids descending on the area with camo gear, tins of beans, and toy assault rifles.

Some of these changes are revolutionary, and may improve the game significantly: Having played 2017 for some time now, I know starvation is a significant threat. The temptation to prepare yourself a filet-O-Zed when your hunger is flashing would be great. Zombie hordes spawning in forests is a terrifying idea, is anywhere safe any more? That said, I played for 2 hours and did not encounter one. Maybe you need to start a fire to trigger one? Perhaps they are just rare. Oh, and External89, I apologize for my harsh remark. It was too much, I just react badly to individuals criticizing people like Shins who are voluntarily working to improve this game (and doing an awesome job at it in this case).

Becoming? LoL

I find the area bounded roughly by Kamenka, Balota, and Zelenogosrsk to have fewer KoS bandits. Everyone who is in this triangle is usually busy trying to get somewhere else. :) Also, I have never run into a hostile in the area around Gorka. Perhaps this is just luck, but whenever I am there I always feel like I am in the middle of b-f nowhere. It is a good place to hang because of the large # of high-value agricultural spawns in Gorka, and also the higher than average chance of finding heli crash sites.

Put pants on. It sounds like you don't have any pants on.

Awesome, thank you! Oh, and: ...this guy is an idiot.

Other: Stary Sobor. For it's small size, it attracts a large number of bandits who know exactly where you are going. There are sniper locations with a good view of almost the entire town. Players you run into here are almost always well armed, and as a result almost everyone KOS.

Try to find methods of administering aid in a way that does not leave you vulnerable to murder. For example: take a decent but common primary (e.g. Winchester), stay near cover, instruct your patient to face away from you and shoulder their primary. If they don't comply then they don't get aid. Once done, tell them to move off slowly without turning around or changing weapons. Keep your sights on them, then back off into your cover and bolt. Be polite, but firm. Don't mean to lecture, you probably know what to do, just respectfully offering some possible suggestions.

As another lone wolf style player, I support these changes wholeheartedly. They will only add to the depth and richness of the challenge.

They better not take the ice cream out of DayZ! That would be game-breaking. >:(

Some randomness to spotting is a good feature. Not knowing for certain if that Zed across the field is going to see you or not is realistic, and adds to the tension of the moment. If it was more strictly controlled, we would quickly learn their "sphere of detection" under various settings and the tension would be lost. Not saying that the Zed model in the MOD is ideal by any stretch, but some unpredictability and randomness is good.

I'm not forgetting that. Did you read my second paragraph? :)

^^This. Either of these cover all the bases quite well. Props to Siberian for the below. I have a new-found appreciation for the WInchester having been sucked into DayZ 2017, and were it not for the limited effective range (that I personally achieve) I would also pick it over any other, even the M4s above.

Meh, the 1-800 range will statistically regress to a mean of ~400 when a large enough sample is taken. This is half of what it was previously. Not a big change, certainly not catastrophic or game-breaking. Combining it with a limitation on how frequently food can be consumed (a great idea), does create some significant issues for solo players. This will cause many of those lone warrior bandits to reconsider their style of play if implemented. Overall a good step in getting this back to a survival game (of which there are few) from a PvP game (of which there are many).

You should be playing DayZ 2017. You're welcome. ;)

Somewhat off-topic: How does one loot clothing off a dead player, or was the camo outfit in their backpack? I ask because I have died wearing camo clothing before and when I looted my body I could not find a way to get the camo clothes off my corpse. OK, that sounds morbid, but this is DayZ after all.

Sounds interesting. I have been playing DayZ 2017 a lot lately, looking for more of a survival challenge. Based on my experience, I think DayZ 2017 went too far for my tastes. You get sick of endless piles of empty cans after a while. Once you get the basic survival gear there is little point in venturing into towns at all, the risk/reward is skewed too far by reducing the reward to almost nil.

You make an excellent point, and yes this is a significant failing in this MOD. There is a noticeable impact on the general character of the game based on the various changes implemented on each private server. There is no consensus on whether DayZ is a hardcore survival game, or a PvP in a zombie infested backdrop, or something in between. Every private server attempts to make the game into what they feel it is supposed to be. Some might attest that this is a strength, but from a big picture perspective I think this splintering of the community is not a good thing. I see fewer and fewer full servers and more and more servers with a handful of players on them,. As this mod is based on Arma II, a game known for its modability, I believe that there is a reasonable hope that the issue will be addressed in the standalone.

LOL a schooling in DayZ ethics.

Your status is saved at periodic intervals. Make sure that if you do something that affects your status (e.g. eat food) you give it a minute or two for this to be saved. I have been burned before by eating my last food when my hunger was flashing, then logging out. When I logged back in, my hunger was still flashing, but my food was gone!

LOL maybe this thread should be locked or something.

Pain is weakness leaving the body. Revel in it.

It sounds like you did not install the MOD correctly. I don't think the ALICE pack is in 2017, and the skins and starter pack are different from vanilla DayZ. My experience is that I ran around for a day desperately looking for a can of food or a box of matches. I checked every store, barn, and major residential I could with no luck and finally died from starvation.

It's a whole different game at night, and one that elicits even more anxiety that daylight play. The 24h daylight servers are doing their players a disservice by denying them the experience. One might say it is the player's choice, but the proliferation of day only servers is so great often there is no good alternative. What to do then with all those flares and chemlights? Sutinen: good post. Beans for you.

This is a great idea and awesome work so far! A map set here would set the creepiness factor off the scale. I imagine stumbling on zombie-infested abandoned villages in the marshes. It is easy to imagine this idea being extended into a MOD of its own with some of the other ideas brought up in this thread already, and these only scratch the surface. A project like this would need a team of dedicated designers though.