PracticalTactical

I have actually met some hackers that were...well...nice? One teleported to us and rolled with us for a bit. Then he gave us some gear and a huey and logged off. Went by the name Batman...Oh yeah, we also went on a base building adventure with this hacker "Batman". Made a sandbag checkpoint with a crate of guns in the middle. I mean, I know you are not suppose to be friendly with hackers, but he was honestly a pretty good guy. This encounter was my best encounter with a hacker ever. He didn't kill anyone and used creativity and gifts of M4 CCO's instead of carpet bombing the entire server out of existance. I believe he also protected the server from other hackers while he was online, I recall him and another hacker having a massive teleport war with the aftermath being the defeat of the unfriendly hacker and the survival of the Batman. Never saw him again after that night. He truely lived up to his name...Batman.

This would be right up my alley! REAL perma death! Oh the teamwork that would happen! Oh the banditry!

I wouldn't mind a few more screenshots :P kind of bummed out that he didn't release any more visuals.

A crew served weapon like a recoiless rifle might be OK (you know, one of the old, rusty and extremely heavy soviet era ones). As long as its very rare and requires a flat bed truck to mount it on (they have a flatbed with recoiless rifle already in game). Ammo would have to be extremely rare aswell. It would fit with Chernarus because Chernarus itself was in a civil war before the shit hit the fan (I assume because it is like that in ARMA).

If its going to be high end military hardware: NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! I would support more civilian type weaponry like over under shotguns, rifle shotgun combos, bolt action rifles, pistols and maybe even some more hand to hand type weapons. I would support military weapons IF they were things like basic m16s (no fancy scopes or sights), older battle rifles (mosins, SKS type rifles), basic AK varients.

I am all for this. The less you spawn with the more fun you have in my opinion. Maybe randomize it so you have a 5% chance of spawning with a patrol pack or another starting item (flashlight, medical supplies, beans) but only ONE item.

Yes, I am quite shameless. I think it is a really good idea though, so in my opinion it was worth it. Thanks for your input. Yes, much to what I was thinking. I have done allot of canoeing and kayaking in my life and they are great ways to get around and they would be extremely usefull in a SHTF situation or in DayZ's case a zombie apocapitz! You can solo a canoe easily and make good time but having two or even three people definately eases the load and quickens the pace. Allot can be caried by canoe, ive done month long treks with a group of 4 with tents, food, clothing and other supplies and canoes in particular can hold ALLOT of stuff. Heck, two barrels, 4 packs, fishing gear, tarp, tent, food and three people can fit in one canoe if need be. It would be cool to have this ingame. According to the search bar "Canoe or Kayak" only has two forum posts about it (this one included). And the last one was started on July 29, 2012 with the last post on the same day. Honestly, two forum posts are not "many times". I appreciate the input though, allot of things have been suggested many, many times on here.

Bump?

Twister! I like this idea! +1 beans for you sir!

Yes please, better sounds would make the experience allot better!

I was thinking about this the other day. If the gun for the vehicle had to be fixed with rare parts or was non existant I could see it being somewhat fair to have ingame (with the addition of an RPG or IED to counter it because satchels are too rare to be effective). I was thinking more of a BTR-40 (some driver and passenger exposure) or a BRDM with a pk machine gun. Another suggestion might be that T-34 you find in Cherno and Vybor (I think). Its on a pedistal so you would have to fix it up with ALLOT of spare parts and then you could drive it off the pedistal. I would feel if this were added that maybe only one T-34 for the map would be in order and it would use a large amount of fuel, be noisy, dusty and would break down often. Its gun might not even work or would need massive repair for the machinegun to work (no cannon, too destructive and unfair plus lack of ammo). But it would be bulletproof and would need an RPG or satchels to completely destroy it, or simple IED's and molotov cocktails (throw the cocktail on the engine block and it will eat up all the oxygen thus making engine stop and cab fill with smoke!). Maybe even have to constantly repair the tracks that break all the time due to age?

Isn't this in eastern europe? Why so many western weapon suggestions guys.

I would like to be able to take some heavy steel and weld it to the front and replace the bumper with some thick iron piping. Then when you run over zombies, players, fences, small bushes, trees it does not dammage the car.

No way man, AI zombies are glitchy enough as it is.

I can see better at night with the gamma up than I can in the day sometimes. LOL!

They already have an m249 SAW in DayZ. The last thing the game needs is another freaking anti material sniper rifle. If anything, DayZ needs less western military hardware (and military hardware in general). I think taking out allot of the western military hardware and adding in more Russian built civilian and military/police weaponry would add to the realism allot. My Suggestions: - Saga 12 - Mosin Nagant (maybe a scoped version aswell?) - SKS - Another double barrel or single barrel baikal shotgun (maybe over under?) - Replace the M249 with an RPK or RPD - Replace the DMR with a Dragunov - Nagant 1893 revolver (still used commonly by transit police) - Some kind of over under rifle shotgun (1 barrel for shell 1 barrel for bullet) - Replace the M136, M107 and AS50 with an RPG-7 or RPG-18 (very rare drop, RPG-7 can reload) - A .22 rifle of some sort. I do think that some western equipment should be in the game as allot of countries use a mix of Eastern and Western equipment, but for a country in the eastern bloc the majority of equipment for both civilian and government would be of more Russian design. Rifles such as basic M16's (no scopes maybe a 203), FAL's, Lee Enfields and perhaps an FN MAG machine gun (pretty much an M240) might be added also. Just my opinions, maybe some other people would agree?

If there are birds added into DayZ, the double barrel shotgun could actually have a use! Maybe change the double barrel to a 20 guage (I believe its still a 12 at this time) and it could be a specialty shotgun for birds and small game like rabbits. Adding more hunting elements into dayz would be more than welcome in my opinion. It would take me away from hunting other players to hunting the elusive beast of the air!

Human+Goat = Goat Man plz.

I hope they take as long as they need to. Don't want no glitchy and nasty game.

I don't think the heli is too much of a threat. If there is only one on the map and its as weak as a huey is (can be taken down by small arms like AK's, MK48s) it should stay. I would think that helis should be harder to operate like they are in Take on Helicopters because that would mean that only some players would be good enough to fly and could trade that for group protection/items.

Same thing has happened to me three times. Two of those times the servers shut down for good! What have I learned? Don't put allot of effort into making a base because its probably going to be wiped anyways.

Fuel pumps need to be in the game. Or be able to syphon fuel with a hose. Orlok, why do you put this after every post?

Gee, thanks for the comments guys! I sure hope they will put in a canoe or kayak...maybe even both!

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