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I have to admit, I don't really like this change. I get the idea behind it, and I like a minimal U/I but I thought the mod's way of letting you know your hungry and thirsty was fine. I'm sure it will grow on me though. Having fun with the alpha. :D

I found a baseball bat, a can of Tuna, and a pink backpack. Currently dying of thirst as I cant seem to find anything to drink. :) OH, and I found a couple bandages, which was a good thing because it seems the KOS mentality is alive and well >:( At least they havent been able to find guns yet and a 2x4 to the head isnt immediately fatal.

You only have that problem if you let people get that close to you. :)

I like the look of it.

Probably the best post Ive read today :beans:

Hi, this is a really good thread with a lot of helpful information. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/10051-index-of-helpful-threads/ . Things I wish I knew when I first started playing: Grab a hatchet, and use it against the zombies. Guns are sexy and fun to play with, but also are loud and when you unload all your doing is ringing a dinner bell, signally chow time to zombies and bandits/KOS players. After you find a water bottle, when you fill it up at lakes and water spigots, boil it in an empty can before you drink it. Getting sick SUCKS! Find matches, a hunting knife, a hatchet and you are good to go food wise. You can collect firewood, and kill animals with the hatchet. You can gut the animals for food with the hunting knife, and you can cook the food with the fire u started with the wood and matches. Currently in the mod, Kill On SIght mentality prevails. When you come in contact with others, get into a defensible position and always deal with others from a position of strength. Or sneak away with them none the wiser. Its a game in itself. Its fun to be watching and avoiding people with them not even knowing your there. Some may argue with this but dont kill unarmed or new spawns. It proves nothing. Find another way to stroke your e-peen. Always try to have a box of antibiotics in your backpack at all times. Even the best, most sneaky player in DayZ will get infected from time to time, and slowly dying from infection really ruins your good day. Have fun :)

I had real problems at first when the patch came out with infection because I was still playing dayZ like it was the previous patch. Now, I hate that infection causes death, I wish it jsut kept your health at 1000 or so until cured. But I get infected much less often now. I changed the way I played. Of course, my life is one unending quest for antibiotics, and I feel naked if I dont have at least one in my backpack lol

UK46 is starting to pick up. Im still looking for the guy/gal that found my UAZ and stole it a couple days ago >:(

Damn sorry for your bad luck. Ive bought a laptop and quite a few things (mice, headset, mousepad, a heatsink, laptop cooler, mouse pad) over the course of a couple years and had nothing but great service and no problems. Only thing I hate is the NewEgg "newsletter" with deals I get in the email drives me crazy with the how often they send it. I usually unsubscribe for awhile because of the shear volume of email spam lol, then resubscribe after buying something else from them and the cycle continues. :blush:

Has anyone seen a list or heard of the melee items they are putting in the game? Rocket, Im waiting for my zombie killing golfclub. :D

Ive only killed one person in DayZ and that was because He made me do it. I was at the top level of a fire house and he comes up the stairs sees me and fires at me, I fire back with my winchester and he retreats down the stairs. I drop to the floor and try to talk to him over chat telling him Hes got an open path, take it. No harm no foul. I wait for a bit and of course he sticks his head up a couple times, sees my winchester aimed at him and ducks back down. He wont respond and finally comes barging up the stairs. I had to put him down. Its hard to not KOS but I just don't want to be a bandit. Im hoping SA has many incentives for people to work together, or at least to think about it before blasting away everytime you see someone. Thats the number one thing I think SA has to address. Have enough things to do, have enough incentive to work with people...so that people dont get bored and play a zombie survival game as a deathmatch.

TMW Se7en...I was really happy with Origins when I started playing it a few weeks ago but when I found out about and read up on it, I stopped playing it and won't be doing so in the future. The whole thing feels slimy the way they go about it. Have been playing normal DayZ on the BB UK46 server and its been fun passing the time until the SA gets released.

So happy you guys got a UK Origins server up. Don't have the ping or patience to play with those stinking Aussies. :P Origins is a great way to pass the time and not get burned out on the Chenarus map by the time SA rolls out. Just need more players on it and it will be Epic!

I love how Rocket talks about changing the look and layout of the supermarket in the vid. Never liked it. And UGH! another vid with a BIS guy wearing a moto helmet. Im beginning to think they all have a fetish and walk around work in them. :P Really interested in how they develop the interacting with the environment on down the line.

Sounds like they are going to have a whole bunch of new resource ($$$$) coming their way in a few weeks :D . Correct me if Im wrong, but isnt the Minecraft Alpha sales model supposed to fund the development of a game. BIS isnt a huge company so the intial development costs arent AAA title level. So BIS and Rocket decided to go the alpha release route to fund the development of the game. Im betting they have all the resources they need after SA alpha goes live. Or I could just be talking out of my ass. :P I think with the mod based on Arma2 Rocket never could of taken it somewhere else. Legal issues, the ease of using some arma2 tech/visuals/yadayadayada, and the length of time (We wouldnt of seen DayZ for years if He had gone somewhere else and had to start TOTALLY new) being the reason.

LOL about the helmet thing. Im a little bummed that there are advantages to them because I just cant see myself using one. Fashion over function :P I was kind of wondering the same thing about the jumping animation. If the zombies do it all day all the time I could see it getting old. Some of the time, sure that would be coo,l as I like the idea of it occasionally. But Ill reserve judgement til we see the animation when its polished and working correctly with the players animations.

Roark, you have a good point. I agree with you that you can't look past the defects. But in my case, I see the bad but also the good. There is a lot of good in there that Im excited about. I like the direction the thing is going in. I see the unfinished state of it, trust me, but I think its a matter of perspective. I expected a total mess, and it is! but its not anywhere close to being finished. But I can see the basics and like it., I figured when we got it, it would have basic functionality and thats it, no bells or whistles, hardly any added features. I thought we'd be able to run around, pick up stuff, get killed by Zombies, see a basic UI. A bunch of placeholders, yada yada yada. Now if in 6 months after alpha release, nothing has changed, then the screaming horde descending down upon BIS and Rocket will have a point.

Very nice! But yea, umm Im pretty sure that the first 100 times a zombie chick jumps out at me, knocks me down and her buddies start gnawing on my face....I'm going to scream like a little girl. :blush: Im so pleased, I was prepared for SUPER rough edges, that it would be a shambling mess, this being a work in progress. Wouldn't of been upset, I expected it, but damn if it doesnt look great right now. It actually looks like it plays, and visually looks better than I thought we'd get at SA alpha release. Just makes me more optimistic than I was. Thanks guys, now get out of Vegas and back to work :P

Havent had a chance to try 1.7 yet. Your opinions on it Klesh?

Have fun with your ban Pothead :P :facepalm:

Holy book, use it for toilet paper.

For what its worth, I was looking for a Origins server, but passed on by. Everything about the server and your enthusiasm sound great, but that name, yikes. Off to try BMRF Origins.

Im loving playing Origins atm but can't decide where to build a house. If I build it on the beach, I have a wide area of view around the site to see peeps coming but its exposed and everyone knows your there. Out in the forests, more hidden away and there's a ton of concealment for peeps to sneak up on you and get ya while your entering or leaving your house. Decisions decisions :) Where do you build your house?

I thought about on a mountain, that would be pretty sweet. Im wondering which Island to put it on. Both Islands look to offer jsut about everything you'd need but would hate to have missed something, and have to travel that damn bridge all the time to get it. Nice thing is the server I'm playing on is a new Origins server so I can pretty much pick a cool place, they aren't all taken up yet.

I thought that was an earlier build, but yea, He leaked it. Jackass