Feral (DayZ)

DayZ minus Z (zeds) = Day as a game name Day sounds Gay

it's europe - should be crows

yep and the swarms of bandits scanning the skies above airfields

not sure where you get the 'if your character catches fire' bit from, but the image of a smouldering survivor desperately rolling about made me smile so beans for that

personally i don't see the problem with infected kids, it would add extra horror and i think all but the strangest of us will feel uncomfortable shooting kids even infected ones and that would make the game more disturbing. I do sympathise with those who are against it though and for the sake of realism it would be easy to explain a lack of kids by using an evacuation back story.

also bad spawn locations will become transformed from 'fucking kamenka' runs to the light house into 'hmm, i wonder if i can hit that zed' suicide dives

like all the beach kills we get now you mean? at least it would be a fun way to go as opposed to running about screaming 'friendly don't shoot, i have nothing you bastard' you could try to aim at them from 5000 feet and have a small chance of taking them out with your corpse

lol, is she infected? you get what you pay for

hardly a game breaker, you could say the same about spawning in elektro as opposed to spawning at kamenka, also if you choose to land in a city you better pray there aren't players on the ground aiming up at you, best place to land would be remote and quiet spot.

barcelona fits the bill, surrounded by rugged terrain including mountains and forest edit - Durban (south africa) too, with great white sharks in the ocean and lions roaming the land, rambling townships, thick forest, mountains, rivers and modern ctiy scapes. Not to mention zulu zeds

yep, there are some good uns out there, they are few but they are there.

if power corrupts then absolute power corrupts absolutely

for many i fear reading this must be like finally realising that there is no god, that we are all alone and at the mercy of an uncaring universe/public hive

hackers and the blindly optimistic newbies mainly

main hive is broken dude, best thing is to play private hive or a dayzmod mod like 2017 or dayZ+

speak to Trizzo http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/user/98529-trizzo/

Haters only hate the things they can't get and the people they'll never be

Neither do cows or sheep or pigs, my point is in a post apocalyptic world there will come a day when there are millions of functioning horses and no functioning vehicles

what about a simpler 'notebook' style system. You get an option via mouse wheel scroll when you are within 20 mteres of a player to 'memorize' him. You can then open your notebook (which may feature in SA) and make a note - eg - '(player name) - friendly, gave me morphine - factory' Now whenever you see this player again at close range the 'memory' will appear. When your character dies his memory dies with him.

i met a guy once who thought he was funny, he kept telling everyone he met how funny he was and people smiled and said 'sure' and exchanged concerned glances with each other while he began telling another one of his spectacularly unfunny stories...... Long story short he killed himself

for me night time is the best time to play

Seeing as 3rd person is being removed from the standalone, and there are quite a few players who are going to be very upset about it, as a sweetener why not add Giraffes? ...you could sit on their heads and get a buddy to run around just in front of you, this would recreate the 3rd person experience almost exactly.

Again, very good points and quite convincing, i do see how 3rd person could aid a gamers ability to improve if used as a tool in the way you described. Unfortunately if the option to use it exists it will become the norm for virtually every player forcing those who want a more realistic experience to adopt a system they hate. I suppose it comes down to what kind of game the SA is meant to be, some kind of simulator that attempts to recreate a very real and believable experience or an arcade style shooter that allows unrealistic supernatural abilities.

Fair points well made. i doubt there will ever be a game where it is possible to sense where various parts of your body are at any given moment and this is an issue with all FPS games, but most seem to manage fine. Also with the FOV argument, Dayz (Arma) has the 'free look' feature, and although it is tricky to get used to and far from perfect, once mastered it does a pretty good job of minimizing the FOV limitations of a screen based game. Not to mention the 'lean' feature for seeing round obstacles. The problem with 3rd person is it over compensates, it not only increases FOV it increases the player height to about 18 feet, it allows you to see over buildings and round corners you are not even close to, and that at least for some players just destroys the emersion. edit - and the crosshair/3rd person features, (i don't direct this at you btw) if you have come to rely on them and feel like you wouldn't be able to play the game without them, despite the fact that other players manage just fine - well, that sounds like crutches to me