ZedsDeadBaby

Not spotted, heard. Next patch reduces zombie hearing through obstructions by 50% you should notice an improvement.

Wow. What a ridiculous piece of trash post. Wall of text and it boils down to the fact that you banned them because you're not sure how they found your base and also there might kind of be a cheat out there somewhere. "Did you find the murder weapon?" "Well' date=' gee your honor. No. We couldn't find it. But I googled 'butcher knives' and it looks like IKEA has them on sale. That's probably it." "Good enough for me! Case closed." How about you let BattleEye prevent hacks, Columbo? People like you are the reason this game needs official servers. Asinine, self-serving bullshit. Like you're so fucking clever with your hiding spot that ONLY a cheater could ever find it, right? INSTANT BAN for getting lucky or running around in the woods for awhile. Fantastic administration, there. Oh, and you "invited them to talk" how fucking gracious of you. You are truly a saint. Does he have to kiss your ring when he shows up to this "talk?" Just unban them and quit trying to justify exploiting your powers for personal gain. It's embarrassing. Mature gaming community my hairy ass. Report your suspicions and let BattleEye handle it? Especially when your suspicion is based on a hilariously flimsy premise like "Oh it kind of seems a bit strange that they found our base so BANNED." What a joke. Adding yet another server to my group's "not even once" list.

Hey =7Cav=; thanks for the server. Great performance, very stable. Appreciated. Just curious, what's going on with your time? Played Friday 930PM EST and it was dark ~830PM server time. Played Saturday at 10PM EST and it was light outside, didn't get dark until 11PM EST? Hmph. Played Sunday and it didn't get dark until 230AM Monday morning. Now Monday afternoon, 3PM it should be morning and it's dark again! Can we stabilize the time somehow?

Well the OP explained how' date=' so go read the post you're responding to fancypants. Or maybe if the guy didn't want to be involved in a firefight he should go play a fucking game that doesn't involve firefights? Novel idea, no?

That's... okay. I would prefer it that way.

Why do we use the term "hero" or "murderer" in real life' date=' even though we all look the same? People don't put clothes on or wear hats to indicate their intentions. You have to use other clues to puzzle it out now. Fire up that old mushy grey thinksauce that nature stuffed between your earholes and come up with a system. I'm sure you can do it if you try. Okay. Then you don't mean "unbalanced." You mean something else. Find a different word.

Hey, thanks for the contribution to the forums. Good post with some interesting thoughts. Should spark a lively discussion with good points on both sides. Just the sort of discussion that will help the devs guide the development of the mod in the right direction. I hope to see more posts like this around here as the community matures a bit and holy shit go fuck yourself you ridiculous turd.

Forum usage proposal: 1. Post suggestions in the suggestions forum. 2. Use the search function and add your thoughts to existing discussions on the same topic, of which there are a great many.

I can say without a doubt that if this game had a suitable hole I would stick my dick in it.

rocket has been pretty definitive that he intends players to be the primary threat in DayZ. That's true now. That will likely remain true. That means PvP will play a more important role in your life than zombies. He even went so far as to say that if you don't like PvP that there are already other zombie-themed ARMA mods that might be better for you. So if your hope is that he's going to wake up one day and decide to put a stop to all this crazy PvP, I really think you're going to be waiting a very long time...

Are you serious? Holy motherfuck there is another thread on this EXACT SAME TOPIC that was started 3 minutes ago and it is right next to yours and BOTH of these are re-hashing shit that has been discussed ad nauseum in dozens of other threads. Believe it or not, your thoughts on the topic are not so special and unique. Go add them to an existing discussion.

Do you have to guess that? It's spelled out for you right there on the "What is Dayz?" page. They even included an image for you: Anyway, what does any of this have to do with the title of your thread? What is "unbalanced" and how? You never got around to that part...

I play on US 39. It's actually run by a very large, organized clan that I am not a member of. Very risky stuff. I just play smart. Try it some time.

Blacklist servers with sidechat. If you miss it, that means rocket is doing his job.

Umm, yeah. That's, like. We know? Why does this thread exist again? Do you really imagine the developers are going to read it and say "Oh, shit! We were suppoesd to be FIXING those bugs. We've just been sitting around baking pie and playing ping pong. No wonder people are upset. Lets get back to work guys. Good thing he made that thread or we would have wasted the whole Summer!" Jagoff.

Oh, great. Another fucking expert on human apocalypse psychology. I don't even like meeting strangers NOW. You think I'm suddenly going to turn into a social butterfly when the world goes to complete and utter shit? Yeah, no. Not going to happen. Family and friends I know already? Sure, come right in. Maybe children I will think about sheltering. But some random fatass rolls up on me and starts asking for food and medical supplies? BLAM BLAM fatso. I'd gut, cure and eat you sooner than feed you.

Bullshit. EVERY article and interview I read about this game leading up to my download mentioned rampant' date=' unrestricted PvP as a central, critical part of the game. You didn't read shit past "zombies." On the FRONT PAGE of DayZ when you click on "What is Dayz" you are given three simple missions: 1. Scavenge 2. Slay zombies [b']and bandits 3. Survive It's right there. In number 2. See it yet?

Side chat was removed from the game. If you're playing with side chat, you're playing an outdated version. Play on the latest version, or accept the risks that come with not doing so.

The game is 100% fair. Everyone starts the same, everyone has the same access to the same map and loot, and nobody has any special magical equipment to protect them from bullets. We all die just the same when we get shot. No. This isn't Rambo. Groups are more effective than an individual. Basic tactics. Why do you think the Navy Seals work as small team instead of sending in single guys to complete missions? 12 eyes are better than 2, 12 arms are better than 2, and 6 guns are better than 1. You don't HAVE to group up; you can play solo. But don't ask to be magically made as effective as an organized group of players. That's fantasy-land bunk. Okay. You said "But the games difficult is having a negative effect. It is driving way potential gamers (and in the end, a bigger community is more fun) and causing allot of frustrating to others." I don't know how else I'm supposed to interpret that. If you don't want people to think you are trying to make the game easier, you shouldn't call out the high degree of difficulty as having a "negative effect" on the game... I'm just responding to your words. That's just it. I don't WANT DayZ to bother trying to "revive" the survival horror genre. That just ties it to existing conventions and reinforces the notion that the game needs to be more like this-game or that-game that defined the survival horro genre in its heyday. Let DayZ make its own place. Somewhere in the great void between Rogue, EVE, Counter Strike and Resident Evil, DayZ is setting up camp. It's something new and I would rather let it stay there than try to herd it into an existing model for the sake of some misguided quest to reclaim a 'dead' genre.

Good post overall. I want to address some of your points. As new communication features are added, it will be moreso. But, then, Skype and TS will always be valuable so I would advise using them. Your enemies will be and they will use it to outsmart you (there are those brains working again). So make it more difficult for them. Team up and play tactically. Avoid their traps and set traps of your own. The game designers are not going to come along with magic wands and "discourage" PvP. If they add a mechanic like blood smell it's going to effect peaceful survivors the same way it does bandits. Once you make something like that "only on murders and not bandit kills" then you're breaking everything that makes DayZ great. Nope. In this case especially I would much prefer a niche community of dedicated enthusiasts who are willing to put up with the difficulty rather than a huge crowd of casual gamers attracted by efforts to water-down, dumb-down, and simplify the challenge that DayZ offers. Let the AAA publishers like Activision put out games for the "potential gamers" who are driven away from DayZ by its unique challenge. They have enough games already. Let us have one, okay? Just this one. What, you mean like every other game ever made? Why can't DayZ flip the status quo on its head and do something different? I love the way the difficulty feels. Just starting out you're helpless, lost, alone, scared and likely to die. Later, as you gather supplies and grow in power you begin to feel a sense of peace, safety and eventually power. It's an awesome progression and its almost unique in the industry so please lets keep it, okay?