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Bongofish
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Hope Rocket puts the emphasis back on player interaction and doesn't turn this into BF3 with zombies.
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Holy crap, smart phone triple post. I lose the internet today.
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NavyCuda, I don't think you were specifically responding to me but DayZ is what you make it. There is no right or wrong way to play it. Or that was Rocket's goal, from what I understand. Also, giving you tools to negate advantages isn't forcing balance, it is adding game mechanics. Unless everyone spawns with all the tools, then balance, as you put it, never works into it. Some people will find the tools and some won't, every encounter will still be full of unknowns. But more tools will result in more options, and more complex gameplay. Is that a bad thing?
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NavyCuda, I don't think you were specifically responding to me but DayZ is what you make it. There is no right or wrong way to play it. Or that was Rocket's goal, from what I understand. Also, giving you tools to negate advantages isn't forcing balance, it is adding game mechanics. Unless everyone spawns with all the tools, then balance, as you put it, never works into it. Some people will find the tools and some won't, every encounter will still be full of unknowns. But more tools will result in more options, and more complex gameplay. Is that a bad thing?
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NavyCuda, I don't think you were specifically responding to me but DayZ is what you make it. There is no right or wrong way to play it. Or that was Rocket's goal, from what I understand. Also, giving you tools to negate advantages isn't forcing balance, it is adding game mechanics. Unless everyone spawns with all the tools, then balance, as you put it, never works into it. Some people will find the tools and some won't, every encounter will still be full of unknowns. But more tools will result in more options, and more complex gameplay. Is that a bad thing?
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So the hardcore game experience is only available to new spawns? That seems lopsided. It would be nice if there were a way to counter any advantage. Then people who cried that it wasn't fair wouldn't have much to say since there was a counter to the advantage. I know the game isn't about balance but it would increase the amount of useful loot, extending the looting stage of the game. They could add a strobe light that worked in infrared, essentially blinding people with thermals. Or an EMP type device that killed all electronics. Or whatever. Eh, who knows what Rocket will do. I'll just wait patiently for the standalone.
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I don't understand the attitude that wanting to remove items that make the game easier (nvgs, thermals, one shot kill weapons), means that you are not a "hardcore" enough player. Being able to see perfectly at night and one shot kill things makes the game easier and this is then, by definition, less hardcore. Did I miss something?
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Stop saying "friendly" and immediately trusting me
Bongofish replied to Obsolescence's topic in New Player Discussion
Glad to see I'm not the only one. When it happens to me, I just talk to them over the mic while they murder me. Ask them if they are having fun. Doesn't matter to me, I don't care at all about gear. I'm just looking for some interesting player interaction, which is what this mod was supposed to be about (I thought), and nothing is less interesting than shooting each other. It's been done (here comes a pun) to death. I want one of these hardcore bandits to kidnap me or rob me or anything that takes some thought beyond, "it's moving, shoot it."
