SpasmoTrout

Been on for half an hour. Got sniped; fair enough, I was out in the open. Global kill for a (presumably) spayed hacker. Had no kit, so not too bad, but WHY? Got zapped by someone in a helicopter. Presume hacker, but if not, again, WHY? I should be used to it by now, but some times this game makes me sad. Seriously, what is wrong with some people??? This sort of immature play will not attract people to what will become TrollZ at this rate. Rant over. I'm going to go back and look for some beans.

I've been playing for a few months now. To be honest, once you work out the zombies, the game (with respect to PvE anyway) becomes easier. My buddy and I have all sorts of kit now - primary and secondary weapons, sidearms, ghillie suits, NVGs, food all of that, mostly from raiding the NW airfield on low pop servers. It's easier with two people, at night, with NVGs on a low pop server. So, a traditionally minded gamer might think we're good at this game, if they didn't know that back story (the low pop raids on NW; the hacker tent that gave up a DMR and M9 SD). We went to Cherno to help out / kill bandits and found, with respect to PvP, we were awful. Probably looked like a right pair of script kiddy noobs. the BRILLIANT part of this game is that it is so realistic. Zombies are mindless and easily avoided. real people are more interesting interactions. having kit means nothing if a zombie breaks your leg with a lucky hit (that happened to me on Lingor). or if someone is hanging out with a AS50 and a rangefinder. you simply don't know how long you'll last. the golden rule is - don't get attached to your kit! in a previous life someone killed me for a GPS i'd found. I was mighty pissed off. now I know that the loot % chance just means you keep looking! Spas

Back when I played wow I had several toons - a main, an alt and a anti social one. The point being, if I just wanted twenty minutes of peace and quiet gaming, I could use the anonymous one that my mates didn't know about… I love MP; I love getting KoS'd by people with more time to invest than me; I love killing bandits; I love the tense moment when you run across the NWAF in broad daylight; I love firing flares in Cherno at nighttime. BUT I also sometimes just want to experience a story, or shoot Zeds or in general play without pressure. If there was a SP aspect to dayz, it wouldn't feel empty. It'd maybe be like a training area for noobs before that hit the beach of the standalone. Remember - games nowadays live or die by the community. There are so many people who'll buy the likes of BF3 they'd already planned four DLCs at launch. If we treat newbies like s*** the community won't grow and neither will dayz. Just some thoughts.

Not sure if this has already come up - apologies if it has! How about a single player backstory campaign? Maybe even co-op? You'd start in some little town as a copper (/cop) when the outbreak begins. Maybe there's some npc scenes, and those npc'c are Zeds in the mp… Then there's an army scorched earth mission; an airforce bombing run; the the Yanks get called in; finally the battle for NWAF (with helo's crashing in the distance, or on the airfield when Zed stows away). Lastly, you hop on a chopper and fly out. Just as you cross the shore you watch a chinook, or whatever, go down with engine trouble into the sea. Someone says, 'they'll have to swim for it.' Someone else: 'back there? I'd rather die…' Or something like that. Maybe your soldier char just makes it on to a civvie chopper which goes down (full of the different survivor skins). It's just a thought anyway - maybe more little scenes than a full blown campaign. And it's optional obviously. But it might add some depth to the multiplayer - some NPC characters could turn up as Zeds, or unique pieces of equipment could be found. Or maybe the helo that crashes gives you a choice of character to spawn. That's my thoughts anyway. Had a zombie dream last night :) Spas

Just a little apology to the dude outside Cherno on a uk low pop server this evening - it wasn't what it looked like. My buddy and I are 31 day survivors, but as we're fairly new, we've stuck to low pop servers (bit lane maybe). Anyhow, now we're geared up, we thought we'd head to Cherno to see if we can help anyone/zap bandits etc. So, not long after we arrive, low and behold, fresh spawn guy with a zed chasing. Don't worry I say to my buddy, I'll zap the zed. Before he can stop my over enthusiastic ass, I'm popping DMR rounds off at this zed. Three rounds, three misses, three Zeds pulled. Not our finest hour. Anyway, we deal with all that. Then I start laughing. My buddy is like, what's so funny, that was a little close! I'm like, it's 10pm, dark, that guy had just a torch and a zed chasing him. Suddenly the world erupts with gunfire - me missing his tail and us dispatching the other Zeds with G17. We've got NVGs and ghillies, so no way he'd see us. Must've scared the beans out of him. So, to whomever that guy was. Sorry - I was only trying to help! Spas.