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Well, this is what we want to avoid precisely. To give already geared teams some sort of advantatge. When newspawns, teams should spawn together, but at a random place. Could be kamenka, could be solnichy. The only advantatge the already alive characters have is that all his teammates will be at the same place when they spawn, but which one? you can't know.

Finding completely wasted HMVIIs everywhere I go makes me think the US military presence was pretty strong before the zombie outbreak. Maybe had something to do with it actually? who knows... Also, ak47 counts as a military weapon right? and there's surely plenty of ak's there.

get rid of it. If u can aim with right-button then crosshair isnt needed, as it is in killing floor. Furthermore, after 13 years of counter strike I can headshot anything at close range w/o any sigh or crosshair at all. You know, "those who can, do. Those who can't, complain". CoD-kiddies should return to CoD, this is why cod exists, to keep them away from other games. GTFO!

I hope the devs hear you and make the zombies a lot more harder, so you and those who think the same way than you will finally see how 'well' it works with KoS and people teaming up :D Get over it, this is the human nature multiplied by the gamer nature. Teaming up and non-killing doesn't come from the hard difficulty. You put a unincredible unbeateble level of difficulty to the game, and all you will get is a bunch of betrayers. Because ingame players are splited between friends (and I mean real friends) and tools, valuable only as they serve you a purpose (and you serve them). I spend 7 years in a MMORPG, trust me, I been in every situation possible playing online. Those that team-up with you, will raid a town with you, get 2 cans of beans total (remember, hard mode right?) and after you both left the city and are safe again he will fucking kill you and steal your well-deserved food. Because now you are more valuable dead than alive. Pure capitalism. But, if you make food more abundant, then you also will not serve any purpose to him, besides the fun, the fun he gets from killing you. After 7 years of Lineage II, making alliances, fighting another alliances and neutrals, and randoms, and cheaters and so on I can assure one thing. This is the gamer nature, and it is impossible to change. If you are one of the nice guys smiling and helping everyone, then good for you, you are 1 in a million. In L2 we had clans, and clans never we’re made out of the “Lets have some fun together people!!”, they we’re made out of the “lets join our forces and fucking kill those motherfuckers!!” (another group of KoS players we could say). And as I said, half the time you had to face those new “friends” trying to kill you after you both killed your mutual enemies and no longer need each other. And why is that? well, simple, you cannot behave the same with an unknown player than with your friends. With my friends I play laughing all the way, screaming, joking, laughing a bit more and with an unbelievable compenetration level you can only get after years of playing with the same group. How can an unknown player compete with that?? isn't the same. When I'm with an unknown player It feels more like Im working, I just wanna finish whatever I need to do, help him (only if he helps me also) and then get lost and go on with my way (at least I won’t kill him… unless I need what he has, which would happen if stuff we’re a lot harder to get) However, once in a while, here and in every game, you find a good person, and after meeting 100 guys you had known 90 bastards and 10 good guys, but those 10 good guys are now your clan, and there’s always 1 or 2 online so you play together and don’t need to risk your life playing with potential bastards again. Then is when you can achieve the highest achievements of the game w/o the fear of being betrayed once they’re done. After some time, those ‘tools’ have become your friends, real friends. Sadly, Day Z doesn’t support groups, so here after meeting a good guy sooner or later you will be alone again. This is why in here the 9/1 proportion of bastards weights a lot more than in any other game, because the good guy doesn’t stay for another day. My advice? Get real friends to play this game with you.

I like to play at nights, but for this purpose this game needs one thing desperately. I always feel like my character is an idiot who can't hold a makarov and a flashlight at the same time xD

Technically, yes. But talking in manners of an MMORPG (and this is closer to a MMORPG than a FPS), zombies are just mobs. We are the living human, so npc's featuring living humans has no place here imho. You want to add more enemies to the game, add hostile animals like bears, zombified dogs, different types of zeds (L4D style) and so on. But, never ever add humans alive, not as enemies and not as helpers (like shops or anything), ever. We are the humans here, I dont want a AI machine to do my job.

I do, patch notes please.

MI17 - Devils Little Bird - NE Airfield Huey - Skality island Always like this. Never seen another spawned heli on another spot, ever.

I dont want an ultra realistic disease/injure system. Getting an infection? fine. Getting 1298751987198 types of infection? no so good. Having to rest 3 month to heal from a broken bone? quite boring. Stuff like this I don't want it to be real. Besides that, I can't think of anything.

I don't think so. You're mostly like me. I'm not willing to kill you or anyone I see, but sometimes the situation forces me to do it. Put in example what happened to me and a friend about 2 weeks ago. We knew there was a MI17 for repair in devil's castle, so we went there with our Ural full of repairing material, and as we we're only 2 (in a full server) the strategy was obvious. We both go there, you cover me from the wall, I repair the choppa, you get the Ural back to our camp and I gtfo with our new brand choppa. As fast as posible. Needless to say, 2 weeks ago was 1.7.5.1 so zombies we're pretty MAD and was difficult to repair a heli (with all the sound and shit) whit zombies constantly chasing and attacking me. So, I was getting pretty much stressed. Anyway, things we're going great for a while until my partner made a bad movement and fell off the wall, killing himself. Realize the situation, devils castle, on a 50/50 server, with a choppa almost repaired, an Ural full of stuff, a body full of end-game stuff (RF, NVG..), plenty of zombies, and I myself ALONE. I was sick, tired and no patience left, so when I heard silenced gunshots from a m9sd... that was it. No more 'nice' player, just hide, wait for him to show, KoS him, finish the choppa, pick my friend, get back, get the ural, and GTFO. Had enough adrenaline for today. So I KoSed one guy. So what? Im not a bandit (in fact, im a hero), just the situation was more than I could handle to add a possible betrayer or bandit or whatever.

For me, realism is an ingame balance tool. Not an ultimate objective to achieve above everything else. This means, if we need to reduce camping snipers, we add wind effect on bullet's trajectory, because is real and also helps balance the game. But, on the other side of the equation, if we need to add a 3 month recovering time from a broken leg, then we're doing something wrong. So realism should be a balance tool. Not just realism for the sake of realism.

Also I think there's a solution for the grass problem. In other games, when you disabled grass, things that we're in the grass appear half buried, or even completely buried on long distance (so you can't see them unless you get closer. Or get a better pc to handle grass). I think it is a good solution. You have a shitty pc and cant handle grass? too bad, get a better one. And I play almost on a coffe machine so I would be one of the harmed due to this measure.

I was gonna answer that I like the way helis are now and that I cant see a reason why it should be harder to pilot. Then I tried the TakeOnHelicopters Demo. Now I want all this fucking awesome shit in the standalone withouth any doubt!! Can't wait to tell to my copilot "take the controls for a while" or having to start the heli through the startup sequence while my mates cover me during the entire process. Its awesome. Only think I would not add is the must for a joystick. Not everyone has one, including me. Which means that autohover and autotrim still has to be in the standalone. If not, pilot is not hard, its imposible.

Had the same problem with a friend. And after a long talking I think we found the best words for this. This is a game about fortuite situations. What can go wrong will go wrong, everything can happen to you, and the goal is to survive.

i5 430M 2.26 GHz ATI mobility radeon HD 5650 6 GB RAM 1920x1080 Around 4-30 fps xD (15 most of the time)

Actually you dont really need to plunder military HQs. There's military gear everywhere, you just need to pay attention. And more people than you would say has crazy weapons in their houses. As I said, I myself would get functional military gear in a matter of hours. You just gotta know where.

As you can find HMMVIIs and military barracks everywhere I dont know but I would just say this place had some sort of international war taking place in there with the US & Brithish troops all around don't you say? and may be thats why you can find AS50 and M107 and Hueys and UAZ, BAF offroad plus full of heli crashes all the time. Just a though. Stop saying military gear is unrealistic. IS THE FIRST THING I would get If society falls apart. Actually I would only need the weapons, as I already have all the gear, even NVG (Airsoft, Paintball.. u know)

Men If I were stuck in the middle of an apocalyptical situation (no matter if zombies or the fucking WW3) the first I would do is get everyweapon I could.. and anti-material weapons would be one of my first choices. I alrdy even know where to get them (Where. Not how, as they are locked, but that is another issue. Dont start by overanalyze what ive said ok?)

100x100 km map would be awesome...

You cant hide it. The more time I been able to keep a choppa was about 3 days. I had numerous helis, been hiding them in really good places noone could find and almost everytime lost them in less than 6 hours. And in fact, if its prime time as soon as I leave the heli alone, it will disappear in 10 min. How is that? well, easy answer, hackers. An heli is like a candy for them, though they're all idiots and crash it in less than 5 min of stealing it. I had a server for a while (not anymore), had acces to the server logs and it was always the same. My helicopter disappeared, check in logs, someone teleported to it not even 30 seconds after loggin into the server, steal it, crash it in less than a mile fly. Only once my heli got stolen by some legit player (at least some who doesn't teleported himself to it, but rather went running. If he had navigation hack... well, we will never know).

I would like to know more about the vehicle lifting heli also.

I actually use a third party software for my char to run w/o me pressing the key (so I can do other things around the house). The program spams the sprint key at 15 times per second (max a keyboard can handle is 18) and my character still fatigues. Plus, even while sprinting you wouldn't be able to cross the map in 10 min. A running character goes 18 km/h fast, sprinting it only goes up to 22 o 23 I think. Not enough to turn an hour race to a 10 min one... So if the bug is there, it doesn't work as you stated.

My first game on the ranking is Counter Strike Source with 1198 hours played. Not that much taking in count Ive been playing CSS since the day it was released and still playin it nowadays. But it is by far 10 times more than any other game Ive played on steam... until now. In the las month and a half Ive played DayZ 230 hours... Looks like my old favourite game has some serious competition.

Actually I like the idea, having different quality maps and having to find the best one (Heli crashes, as usual?) would be a good achivement to get. Problem is... internet maps would do the trick no matter what. So dont really waste time on that...

Playing with Steam you can just shift+Tab and use the steams web browser for the map, and still hear ingame noises and also see something (not much as the map takes most of the screen) But the best part is if you keep 'W' pressed when Shift+Tab your char will keep running while you look into the map :D no more precious seconds wasted.