drayson

2/10 for troll attempt.

It's an alpha, you are a tester, the whole point of that is to play the current build and report on the issues. If it is borked wait till it is fixed. And the updates are done by the admins of the servers, the dayz dev team does not update the servers. This thread is not constructive because you don't know what an alpha is. Thread locked or deleted kthx.

Friend and myself were thinking about uses for a generator other than just lights. We were thinking something along the lines of using the generator to secure a building or maybe a small compound. As long as the generator is running and has gas the area it is covering is not accessible with electronically locked doors or some other mechanic. The idea is to have a semi-secure base where things can be stashed and base out of that you can actually keep people from raiding while everyone is sleeping as long as the generator is gassed. Means it is still vulnerable as a siege could easily bleed it from its gasoline, killing anyone making a run to the nearest pumps etc etc etc. Thoughts comments? Semi safe base that is still vulnerable but gives the defenders a chance to defend?

Huh...why didn't I think of that? That would make more sense than silly electronic locks...Electrified barbed wire...Yes me likey. The idea to balance this was if you ran out of gas, the mechanism that was keeping players out would be turned off when the generator shuts off, so a solo person wouldn't be able to keep this secure for very long, and even a group of people would still need to regularly scavenge for gas, and parts to repair the generator.

I am eagerly looking forward to the game Punisher is going to create for us that is hack free and then he is going to keep updating it and clearing out new exploits and hackers as they appear. His game will be perfect because he obviously knows how to make one. So go ahead Punisher, lets see what you can make and maintain for years?

Ever tried to sling a rifle back around on your shoulder and pull a sidearm while in sprinting? Let me know how that goes.

I like the idea of making the fireplaces more useful. Would be interesting to see some mechanics added in for stuff like that.

Keep the spawn rate fairly rare but still possible. Would add a fair bit to the running around all the time and keep the whole exploring thing fairly fun and different.

I can't tell you how many times I setup someone to observe and find myself shooting anyway...THE TEMPTATION! I AM WEAK!

Before patch if I was on the coast I shot everyone I noticed and looted the corpse cause I knew they would at least have makarov rounds or food/water. Now if I spot someone on the coast I study them a bit to see if they have a pack I need or a weapon I have and might have more ammo. I went from 100% shoot on sight to mostly 20% shoot on sight when I see goodies.

Kthxbye

Anyone who thinks the game is un-playable due to zombie aggression really needs to watch this vid....It isn't hard at all.

I think I had it over 500 at one point using the akm. It makes enough noise that it draws in a lot of zambies but not enough to overwhelm in most cases. Usually I backed myself up into an apartment building and just wound up the stairs.

-1 Pretty much most of the reasons already posted. I love starting with nothing and making something out of it. Survival game should be HARD to start out but once you manage to get that first sidearm, first primary, and you are making your way inland after successfully surviving and scavenging. I love it when I succeed. Starting with nothing gives you more rewarding feeling when you do manage to survive.

Anyone else notice if the xbow is one shot kill now? I've done some testing on chest shots and it seems to drop them but I haven't done that much testing. Also I would be all for a melee weapon and base building :P

You can't title a thread "You are listening to the wrong people" and expect a reasonable debate. You have already shown how closed minded you are. Saying that the people on the forums are a minority and you shouldn't listen to them.....in a forum thread....is a bit stupid.

Yeah I spawned on the beach, went into town, hour later im leaving cherno with a good sidearm, primary, backpack etc and I never got hit. It is quite easy to lose the zambies and isn't very hard to find supplies.

+1 to the OP. Seriously I spawned on the cherno pier and had a blast running from zambies, hiding from them, and found a pistol. I never got hit the whole time I was in cherno by the time I left.

Oh man there is so much fail in this thread. For each person complaining about zombies, and how the game is to hard and un-playable or how you have to disconnect everytime you see a zombie....You are horri-bad please leave. Go play another zombie game that holds your hand as this one isn't for you.

Updated, found server logged in hit up a deer stand....Died to endless wave of zombies and uber bitch slap lol. Respawned on chernogorsk shore aggroed some zombies and climbed a building like a baby. Climbeb down and sneaky away from them. Watched several people run down the middle of the street with zombie horde on a quest for protagonist pie. Aggroing zombies is easier but losing them is easy too. Better FPS, more hectic playing, and the people I run into i don't even try to shoot now because I am far more worried about the zeds. Harder game but not impossible and very very fun :D LOVE YOU ROCKET!

I have gone into cherno a dozen times now and only been shot at twice. Usually cause I hang around to long or throw a torch to see who shows up. If you are going to defend yourself with a makarov vs any bandit with a primary you are going to lose. Being stealthy vs zombies is 100% fool proof. I can avoid zombies 100% of the time going through any city no problem, it isn't hard. Plus with this patch you can hide from them once they aggro. Using empty cans and flares as a distraction works great too. This is hardly a fatal con you are just very bad at this game.

Oh mighty banhammer....deliver us from all these leet haxors!

So I reverse patched the last beta patch and I spawned in The Wilderness...only it is an empty field with no trees, grass, and a few dead players in a circle....How do I get out of here?

Frienemy fire - It isn't friendly fire if it still kills you.

Read most of it till you started talking about how we should turn off pvp because zambies and survival is the focus. How zambies are supposed to be the bigger threat etc etc. In most zombie movies the other people are usually the bigger threat most of the time, especially with these zombies. You talk about how the game will die if we don't get rid of the pvp, but the game will also die if you do. There isn't any threat to the zombies on their own as long as you have a brain and have any amount of patience. The threat of people is the thing that keeps people on their toes.