Sorry if this is the wrong place to suggest something like this. This has been bothering me since the mod, but in the standalone it has a better chance of getting fixed. Basically, I'm bothered by the fact that DayZ runs on a realistic 24-hour cycle, but our characters seem to need a full meal every half hour. This strangeness can be solved by either slowing down the rate at which players get hungry or decreasing the 24-hour clock to something less realistic. Personally, I prefer the first solution. The first solution would mean we would have to eat less often. This could be balanced by making food somewhat more rare. Not so rare that it's extremely difficult to find, but rare enough that it's treasured, as food likely would be in a zombie apocalypse. And while I prefer the first suggestion, speeding up the in-game clock could also work, and have some other benefits. I've heard many people complain that they only have the free time to play DayZ at night, so they're always in the dark in-game. if the clock was reduced to, for example, eight hours (four hours of day, four hours of night), this would help solve that issue. A faster clock might also result in fewer 24/7 daylight servers, as they would be less necessary with shorter nights.

So if you live in an unforunate timezone, you never get to see daylight in-game?

Good, working zombies is all I want right now. No more phasing through walls, and make them an actual threat.

Well, while there are some real-life things that DayZ definitely doesn't need, I mostly agree.

While everything the OP says is true, I don't think that that's the kind of player people are generally complaining about. The type of KOSer that people complain about the most are guys who will kill try to kill ANYONE they see, no matter what. Even if it's just a new spawn, even if they're running in the opposite direction, or even if they just found him unconcious, treated his wounds, gave him blood, and killed the guy that tried to kill him. No matter what, if they're a player that's not him, they must die. And honestly, I can absolutely see why people complain about this kind of player.

Basically, my problem is this: I cannot hear anything said over mic or read anything typed in to the direct channel. Every other channel works fine for me. Before you ask, I am certain that people are actually talking to me, I've asked them. I can use direct chat and people will be able to read my messages, it's just that I can't read theirs. I know I haven't always had this problem, but I have no idea when it started. While googling, I've only found one other report of this problem. However, due to its nature, it's possible that other people have the problem and haven't noticed it. I know that DayZ is an alpha and therefore quite buggy, but this is a rather large issue. Can anyone help me?

In post-Soviet Chernarus, bicycle rides you!

I feel like having less of everything wouldn't really be interesting. Instead of having fewer guns and ammo, I would prefer having about the same amount of guns as we do now, but have ammo be much more scarce, especially for more powerful weapons. Similarly, I would want vehicles to be more common than they are now, but have fuel be slightly rarer.

Alright, how about this: Backpack access is still open, but... 1. A backpack can only be accessed from directly behind the person wearing it. 2. Both the person taking from the backpack and the person wearing the backpack must be standing perfectly still. 3. An easily noticable "unzipping" sound is played when a backpack is opened. 4. An easily noticable sound is played when something is taken out of a backpack. 5. An easily noticable animation is played when someone takes something out of a backpack. This way, you either have to be very well distracted or completely oblivious in order for someone to successfully take something out of your bag without you noticing, and it solves the issue without sacrificing any realism. Also, perhaps some sort of padlock item could be added so that you can lock your bag. However, it should not be locked by default and your bag should only be locked while you're alive and concious.

I disagree, and here's why: While it is unrealistic to have you not notice them taking stuff out of your bag, it's even more unrealistic for the bag to be completely locked down to anyone but yourself. I think it would be much better if there was simply a distinctive sound whenever something is taken out of a backpack. If you hear that sound right in your ears, something has probably been taken from you. Honestly, all I see this doing is taking away from realism and possibly causing more murder - if someone can't pickpocket from you, maybe they'll just switch over to plain ol' killing for loot. EDIT: On the points about it being unrealistic for someone to take a weapon out of your bag: What is more unrealistic? Someone taking a .50 calibre sniper rifle out of your bag, or you fitting a .50 calibre sniper rifle in to your bag in the first place?

A rare tranquilizer rifle would also be good, along with a way to restrain players while they're unconcious. It would certainly make bandits more interesting if they didn't always kill you.

I'm in the camp that believes that too much (or rather, certain aspects of) realism can be a bad thing. However, I don't believe that the crosshair really adds anything worth keeping to the game.

I support this suggestion, but don't have much else to say about it than that.

I agree for the current generation of consoles. At the very least, they should wait until console hardware isn't as extremely outdated as it currently is. My worst-case scenario is that Micro$oft buys off Bohemia to work on a 360 version as soon as possible, and we get a crappy console port. If they really insist on putting DayZ on the 360 (which I don't see working well at all), hopefully they will finish and flesh out the PC version, then port it to consoles.

I've thought about the same kind of thing, and I would also like to see something like this. Even if they're just one-room fallout shelters, it would still be cool.

Aside from the fact that I disagree with Call of Duty having anything to do with DayZ or any of the rest of the zombie craze, World at War had Nazi Zombies before Black Ops did.

In post-Soviet Chernarus, bike rides you!

Almost two weeks and at least one beta patch later, and I'm still having this issue.

What about Edwina/Deadwina in Timesplitters? If you don't know the game: Timesplitters was an awesome FPS series that is unlikely to continue because Crytek is run by jerks. Edwina is a character who is a (possessed) little girl. Deadwina is a zombified version of Edwina. Both are playable in multiplayer. Keep in mind that Timesplitters: Future Perfect is a game with a gun that causes enemies to inflate until they explode in to a glorious shower of blood and gore. Also included are throwable bricks, a baseball bat, a harpoon gun, and practically any other kind of firearm from the past, present, or future. Edwina/Deadwina is not immune to any of this. I never once heard a complaint about it, and this is a much more extreme example than what would happen in DayZ.

The comics, show, and game of The Walking Dead have all featured killing zombified children, and in a few cases even zombified children that were, in life, well-established characters. In DayZ, the zombies have no real backstory other than "This guy was normal at one point, but now he's trying to eat your face!". I don't think that the killing of zombified children would become much of a wide-scale issue. Honestly, I would think that the already-existing zombie nuns would be more likely to cause a problem than zombie children. Also, for your NRA point, who cares? Anyone with the tiniest bit of sense knows that they're lunatics. People are blaming violence on video games less and less as they become more accessible to non-gamers (thanks, Nintendo!).

I define a bandit as a person that kills people without them attacking first for the purpose of taking their loot. If they kill for the thrill of it rather than the loot, they aren't really bandits. However, I don't really have a term for these kinds of people other than "jerks".

- It was incredibly popular even before it became free. - Team Fortress 2 is many things, but unoriginal is certainly not one of them. - TF2's "Easy to learn, incredibly difficult to master" approach is one of the things that make it both fun and potentially competitive. - TF2 has never really had many traditional advertisements. - A lot is two words. - Water is my favorite drink. Saying that modding is a bad thing. In DayZ's forum. I won't bother pointing out the obvious.

I realize that this sort of thing wouldn't be possible for quite a while, but I thought I may as well post it anyway. What if DayZ standalone integrates Steam Workshop in a similar way to Team Fortress 2? If you're not familiar with the system, it basically works like this: Community modelers create new items for TF2 and upload them to the Steam Workshop. If Valve likes them (and they meet other standards), they are added to the game. Of course, if the item in question effects gameplay, Valve is in charge of balancing it, not the creator of the model. So, since DayZ standalone has been confirmed to include a completely overhauled clothing system, what if DayZ did this with community-created player clothing, and maybe even community-created weapons and vehicles? It would allow our wardrobe and armories to expand more quickly, but with less effort required Bohemia.

I think we're not supposed to make "wish-list" suggestions like this, but whatever. Tasers: Yes. I fully support any (realistic) attempt to make non-lethality more viable and practical. Gatling gun: No. LMGs are enough, and it would be unrealistic to carry one around. Flare Gun: Sure, but why make it automatically shoot up in the air? It could also double as a weapon for someone desperate.

I think you both don't quite understand - I don't want Steam Workshop to be implemented Skyrim-style, I want it implemented TF2-style. I understand the brief explanation I gave in my original post might leave you slightly confused, so I'll try to make it as clear as I can. The Steam Workshop would not be for client-side modifications. It would be for possible additions to the entire game. Whether or not the resources uploaded to DayZ's Steam Workshop would be added to the game itsself would be completely up to Rocket and the rest of the DayZ team. Basically, all it would do is give the DayZ guys a bunch of models that are completely free for them to use. Think of it kind of like outsourcing the creation of models, except the people they're outsourcing to don't have to be paid and (most likely) are fans of the game.