el mariachi

The kid lives in the basement.

The more time and care it takes to avoid zombies, the less fun this game becomes.

hahaha oops my bad.

I'm not upset about servers having all different versions of the latest dayz. A few hotfixes have gone out and it takes time for it to roll out to servers. What I AM upset about are servers not running the latest ARMA 2 beta, or not have battleye updated for it, or those running dayz 1.6 or something crazy like that. I doubt the Dayz mods have control over that and its a server admin thing.

Someone miskeyed.

People lock servers all the time. I mean, they don't seem to for very long but there are times when it seems just clan members are on those servers.

I spawned without any gear (nor backpack/anything) in the wilderness. Had to die and respawn. Was kind of upset because I had a few good survival things on me.

I think some of the goofy respawn rates and zombie distances/aggro might fix some of that stuff.

I could be wrong on the second but I am certain I am right on the first. I'm not going to see if the second works, someone else can do that.

Melee was the idea everyone thought was awesome until they tried to defend themselves from a zombie attack in the game. You're going to end up unconscious and bleeding out for your trouble. Then again, I'm sure there are a lot of volunteers for the foolish 'sneak up behind zombie to stealth kill it' club.

I used to love playing in the night but it is too dark now, so no, not until its fixed in the next beta patch.

It's dickish to stash crap out of bounds but on the other hand, they gotta jog a long way to get to it.

I'd like dayz servers that are kind of like some of the domination servers out there. Some are custom, somewhat. Some have slightly different rules or weapons.

I heard stories of hackers setting entire towns on fire. I think it would be awesome to have seen that. Even if I died, it would have still been one of those things where it was 'cool to have been there' when it happened. When it is just straight up griefing, that is just stupid and pointless and I hope it stops.

Because its a military simulator based on the present, not a military simulator based on the roman empire.

Taking things away gives you more gameplay, it is double plus good! And we were always at war with east asia!

I don't care as much about getting spawned camp at the coast. It's a valid concern though, and I can see people doing it just to be spiteful. Personally I look at it another way. The makarov is a crap ass weapon that everyone learns that is a weapon as a last resort. Now someone wants to take that away. I think its stupid. It's like rocket learned the wrong lesson about Chekov's Gun. I also think that the people who think this game should be 'harder' are misguided. You are all mistaking difficulty for gameplay. Meaning that you think by making the game more difficult, it gives you more things to do. Wrong. It just makes it so it takes longer to sneak around zombies to find beans. So, the problem isn't the game being 'too easy', its you. There's one of two things that you're doing wrong: 1. You aren't taking any risks in the game to accomplish anything other than finding beans and/or living. If you're just going to rinse/repeat that a billion times, of course you'd think the game is too easy because you aren't doing a damned thing at all in the game. 2. You think that by making it more difficult, it will make the game better. Making zombies more difficult just makes the zombies more difficult, at the end of the day you're still just doing the same things. Taking away items and weapons just makes it take longer to get items and weapons. You aren't doing anything new, and nothing new has been added to the game. It just gives you more things to manage instead of doing things in the game. Personally, I want to do things in this game. Focusing on the survival aspect of this game will be its death knell. It's one thing to have survival as a part of the game, its another thing to make it entirely the game.

SpaceMidget: Look for servers with an offset time (that say something like GMT-5 or 10 or whatever). Those may be daytime, depending on what the server says its time is offset. Other than that: people aren't bothering to play on night servers now. They're empty because no one can see now.

Good question. I've never seen a hacked gun in this game. I always just assumed it wouldn't have the 'icon' as it appears in the graphical representation of your inventory.

All rocket said in the 'patch notes' was that you can hide from them. Where is this information you have that tells us exactly what that means?

I don't bother quitting in combat. I don't care if someone else does, to be honest. What I do care about is that person reconnecting and sneaking up behind me and killing me.

I don't understand why you people are afraid that a mod of a fairly obscure military simulation video game is going to become 'mainstream noob friendly'.

Noobs you say? Personally, I can't wait for the delicious tears that will flow from the typical Day Z poster complaining that these people who have never even played Arma before aren't playing the game the way the typical Day Z poster thinks it should be played. "bbbbbut my realistic zombie apocalypse survival simulator...."

How about all of the losers who want to make the game harder for themselves by having no gun and only a chest pouch just drop it when they spawn so the rest of us don't have to deal with the consequences of these 'hardcore' players not liking to have fun while playing a video game?

YES Give it a shot. As long as it only makes a noise when you're looking directly (i.e. crosshairs) at the person. I don't want it to distract me from hearing other things in the game though.