hogscraper

So Battlefield is not simulating a battlefield? I didn't say they were doing it well but it is what it is. I did say that it would be a better choice for someone looking for military grade gear used for killing people. Also, when a zombie apocalypse happens and a base is over taken, I would think the barracks or some other general use building would be where they made their last stand. And when they get up and walk away as zombies that would seem the most likely place to find the gear they left behind. Maybe today, when nothing is happening an armory would be the likely place to find it but I doubt anything would be left behind there during the end of days.

No need to lose your music! I love hacking into stuff and a couple years ago realized that Home Depot sells off a lot of it's solar powered yard lights at the end of the year. I bought a dozen for less than a buck a piece because I found out they actually contain AA batteries inside. Sun light charges the battery then the light runs off of that at night. I tried it out with a few and figured if the electricity ever goes out for any reason I can still have a supply of charged batteries. I also bought two of these power packs that will charge my tablet and my phone using AA rechargeable batteries so I should never run out of music! My downfall during the apocalypse will probably be other people killing me to take my stuff. No matter how badass you think you are there will be groups of ex-military or biker gangs coming to take your shit. Unless you're in a bigger group, you might be done for. Probably won't be too many lone-wolves in a real zombie apocalypse after a few months in.

I've seen people use tank traps and barbed wire to funnel people a certain way through Elektro and Cherno. I generally hunt bandits but this one group of four I came across, I had to respect their planning and left them alone just to watch their plan unfold. One guy with his back to the coast, traps set on main road. People coming down the coast would try to avoid traps by turning towards the coast but some random bullets in their direction and most were panicking before turning into town. A couple streets well barricaded directed around five cars that day into a kill box they had set up. Was pretty cool watching it all happen.

Comic was pretty dam funny. It's actually been a long time since I laughed out loud at a comic. Thanks! I propose we reserve all future use of that word only to describe your avatar's hair or itself in general.

Well you didn't actually see him server jump did you? You said you only supposed he had been on the other server you went to when you really don't have a reason to think that at all. It could have been a coincidence that you were at the same location where he had spawned in. You said you left and went to another server after he spawned so the chances that any given player, (realizing they are on a now empty server), would head to NWAF for easy loots is pretty high. You killed him so he definitely wasn't using god mode. He had a decent load out, but I have had better myself and never cheated. I've found a few NVGs and many, many ghillies and camos in apartment buildings. I've watched two groups of people slaughter each other with everyone dying and came in once the dust settled to loot their corpses. Five minutes and I had rangefinder, two NVG, a dmr, an as10 and multiple sd pistols. It could have been a hacker but it definitely doesn't sound like it from what you've posted.

Definitely agree with my non-native English speaking OP friend. At least ban them from hosting on the public hive and relegate them to private only, (once or if those become an option with SA).

I completely agree Karmaterror. Some people may make a mini game out of hunting for crash sites, but since they randomly spawn, it comes down to a:hunting for crash sites and lucky enough to stumble into one with almost no risk because you're in the dead zones of the map where people don't usually camp and just a few zombies spawn b:randomly wander around the map and luck into one with almost no risk because you're in the dead zones of the map where people don't usually camp and just a few zombies spawn Either way you put almost no risk into finding one and the people I see complaining about low loot spawns are probably the ones that have grown soft in being able to safely and routinely find great loot. Compared to the risk of Stary or NWAF I feel crash sites offer about exactly what they should at this point. There's even greater risk going into a town and looting the grocery store so the loot at crash sites should be even lower than that. Medical supplies and food. That's what people hiding from risk should be rewarded with.

Maybe that's the entire point. When you can find military grade loot everyday at dozens of sites it makes the entire point of the game using those weapons instead of just surviving. They don't want Dayz to be a military sim but a surviving sim. That's what Battlefield3-4 is for. And get this! They actually give you tons of military grade loot BEFORE you spawn! Can you imagine? A game where people want a military sim experience who can just jump right in a start killing! I'm pretty sure you're playing the wrong game.

I'm not a bandit and usually live and let live, until they see me. If I see someone who points a gun in my general direction I kill them unless they have a pistol or hatchet and move away from me. I used to be nice and naive then I died one too many times. That being said, I have never killed someone for their gear or their food so I couldn't care less if what they have is broken. People keep saying stupid shit like, "good luck with that! bullets gonna be super rare!". So what? It usually only takes a couple bullets to kill someone anyway. If its die and lose everything I have or kill and maybe break all of their gear at the cost of 2% of my total gear I have no doubts which way I would lean in that situation.

The biggest problem with an idea like that is the genie is out of the bottle. People have already gotten accustomed to being able to have everything at will and most will not likely go back to vanilla even if quitting is the only alternative. I do intend on playing on public hives as the only reason I left them to begin with was the abundance of hackers. Once they get their network bubble figured out my one complaint should be gone. That's not to say that six months in I wouldn't want something more, and private hives might offer that extra content and experience that dlc would if it existed at that point. I agree with the OP that it would definitely help the game in the long run if they forced everyone on the same public hive for the first few months. The biggest threat to a stable community right now is the ease with which every twelve year old playing can pull just a few players away to a private hive. Once doesn't hurt anything but when the vast majority of servers have just a few players it doesn't help anyone. I always laugh at the amount of people trying to advertise this new amazing server that's loaded with absurd crap. The perfect piece of evidence of this community being broken was a post I once made on these forums. I made a joke post about a new server I opened that had thousands of vehicles, hundreds of helis and F18s, donate for an invisibility cloak, etc and people actually thought I was serious. I expected a few pages of people laughing with me and instead found people actually thinking it was real. It was kind of sad really.

There's a guy on these forums named Gonzo. Class act. Always willing to drop what he was doing to help someone out. Hero through and through. A server I frequented had a massive bandit clan and one day they decide to betray the Hero to the People. Most bandits left him alone because with Gonzo doing good deeds, the bandits could generally lean even more to the evil side and people would still play there. When the bandits wrecked his camp, was it to steal his stockpile of AS50's? Nope, he didn't collect weapons. All they got was his vehicle and a ton of medical supplies. Things he could use to help people. Then they mocked him relentlessly. I'm all for wrecking a camp as I hate hoarders. But when its a guy who does nothing for himself and only works to help people, that kind of pissed me off. I started mocking him in chat with them and slowly worked my way into their group. Twenty people strong, two of which I found out were using ESP hacks, and they let me in. Slowly over the next few weeks I did things I didn't want to do. I shot noobs asking for help and LOL'd in side chat. I shot out tires of hidden vehicles. All in the name of making these guys think I was like them. After a month I had found every location of everything they had which included all of the server's helis and good vehicles. That's when the fun began. I would creep towards Elektro, claim I was taking fire and ask for help. When the bandits came I would shoot them in the head and claim it was the sniper. I'd claim to have killed the sniper and tell them to come get their gear as I was full up, but would hide the corpse. I wake up for work at 4am and knew no one was on so I would login and torch a few of their vehicles. I would pick a guy who I knew didn't like another one of the bandits and tell him that guy was talking shit then a few days later after the vehicle got destroyed I would innocently add that maybe it was him. After two weeks of playing with their heads the entire group was ready to blow up. I had four separate sub-groups ready to kill all the others and grateful for my help in exposing all of their treachery. I convinced multiple groups to make a play at taking over the bandit group. Then, when everyone was ready for war, I sent a list of the coordinates to every camp and vehicle they had to some heroes on the server. The next day was like WWIII and none of them had the stomach to do much banditry after that. It was a shame that they spent their lives being assholes and picking on other people and the first time they have a real struggle, every one of them quit playing altogether.

This is the type of thinking that would ruin the game. They already have exactly that mechanism on some custom servers that have these domes that can only be entered by certain players that own them. Dumbest dam thing someone could do to a server as eventually it means that there are no cars to find on the server. Brilliant way to take a HUGE reason for exploring away from anyone joining your server and basically allow players to lose all fear of losing their gear or any need to ever explore. How fast would someone erect these around the barracks at NWAF? Super awesome idea. You know who would love this idea? Lazy people. Lazy people and cowards. Lazy people, cowards and people that have no concept whatsoever as to what Dayz aims to do or the reason that most people like playing.

Once I get a gun, even if its an enfield, I head north, kill my own food, scavenge for water, and steal people's shit. Why? I decided one day, for no reason, that I hate hoarders. Nothing personal but I work to take from them and give to the poor. I take heli's and park them in Stary. Take cars, offer to give a player a ride, then surprise them with a free car at the end of it. I have spent entire evenings riding a bicycle through the north, quardrant by quadrant until I find something. What people that cry hacker fail to understand is that the woods are where people hide shit and most people know it. If your server has two helis, expect the one you found to never be safe. Someone will find the other, then use it solely to find and take yours.

I made a commitment to watch the whole thing and must say there wasn't anything that hooked me. People like to watch videos of people overcoming adversity. You used another YTer's intro music, which didn't bother me, but doing so says you want to be like him. Whether or not a person agrees that that is a good thing, your entire video was things that guy wouldn't do. People like watching him, whether they feel he is scripted or not, because most of his vids show him overcoming some threat to his life. Just getting kills will not likely get you many viewers especially when those kills were a given. Every kill you got, the better story would if the other guy killed you. Stash your best gear and put yourself in dangerous situations. Purposefully try to kill people who outnumber you and die a dozen times trying. That one time you kill them, if you ever do, will result in the kind of epic video people like to watch.

It depends on whether or not you're on public or private hives and how geared you are. I don't play on too many public servers any more but when I did, I would work the system to my advantage. I hated people who sniped from the North hill so I did whatever I could to kill them. Sometimes I would find a zero population server, head to the backside of that hill, log out, then log back in to the server I normally played on. Sneak up, kill anyone I found there, take their gear and forget about ever going into Elektro. On a private server simply knowing where the snipers might be posted up, (hills or rooftops but might be different for every server), then use the surrounding hills and buildings to block the sight lines of those spots. Worst case scenario and you absolutely feel the need to go in but don't want to die? Swim out into the water from down the coast and slowly work your way inbound. Elektro has a decent amount of stuff right up to the water in spots so you might find a path that keeps you alive a lot longer. The downside to doing that is its very slow and I only did it when there was a large gang of people roaming the town and I had planned on trying to ambush them, (why I needed to go in geared and stay alive).

From what I've heard from friends trying to get in cheap, you need OA and can use the free version of Arma2. The biggest difference is you will be playing Dayz will the lowest possible graphics quality. If you have a low end PC, you might have been on that path anyway. If nothing else you can still play while only buying OA. I don't know if this is relevant or possible any more but it definitely worked for a couple of my friends last winter: http://kodabar.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-install-dayz-with-arma-2-free.html Good luck:)

Maybe, and this is a huge maybe, if the spawn rates are dropped enough, there might eventually be a huge deficit of guns and ammo in the game that might lead to people being cautious. Otherwise I think this will ultimately hurt the game. I can't see that there is any benefit at all here. For those trying to kill or rob for gear the drive MIGHT make them more cautious but will most likely cause them to kill MORE people on sight when they go to their kill and find broken gear. For the victim, who rises up to the challenge and kills their attacker, there is a much greater chance that they will have nothing to loot from their encounter. When someone tries to rob me now, I go on the attack knowing that the risk to my life has the possible reward of finding things on their corpse I can use. In SA I will be defending my life, causing a racket and drawing zombies and other players to the area, with less chance to have anything in that situation go my way except surviving. I think the gains in people not killing for gear will be offset by people knowing that if they are about to robbed, shooting at their attackers increases the chances that attacker will get nothing if the victim dies. Some guy trying to rob me now is most likely still going to end with me dying. Once enough people realize that fighting back might stop a robbery the chances of those same people rolling the dice and just shooting them first goes way up. Count how many times you've died, but had the pleasure of making it back to your corpse and get a few supplies before moving on. SA makes it so that you have little chance of recovering gear? Its a lose-lose-lose-lose situation.

I was just reading the log and wondering if its Christmas already? So much good stuff in there!

While I don't think combat logging is cool, that's for people playing Dayz on real Dayz servers. For kids playing on servers with bases and tanks, why not? You're already playing on a server that makes every reason for playing Dayz pointless. Hell, you should have just nuked the server then scripted in another tank. That would teach him to not expertly sneak up to, enter and drive away in a tank that had someone in the gunner position. That would teach him real good.

So now, when some douche bag kills somebody for fun, that victim not only dies but has zero reason to try and make it back to their corpse in the hopes that the killer moved on? Most of the times I've died the person killing me took little from my corpse outside a weapon, ammo or backpack and many times nothing at all. Now every thing just gets destroyed. The only real risk to a guy killing every single player he sees is the brief time when he goes to loot his victim's corpse. Now they know to just kill and move on. Doesn't sound fun at all.

I like the long travel times. It doesn't add realism, fuck realism to be honest. Taking dumps and needing toilet paper so I don't get a disease? That part of realism adds absolutely nothing to what makes the game awesome. What long travel times add is tension. If I could respawn and quickly get anywhere on the map, the one thing that makes Dayz worth playing would disappear. Tension is why my heart starts pounding when I hear a gun shot or get surrounded by zombies. Why? Because I invested the time to get somewhere other than the coast and I don't want to lose that investment. Going black and white, getting a bandage on at <1000 blood, having a broken leg, blacking out every few yards and crawling halfway across the map was probably the most intense thing that has ever happened to me in a video game. The first few minutes pissed me off, but I will always remember that journey for the emotion that a damn video game made me feel. Having any, free transportation right at spawn would have made me pick a bush and suicide. Hungry? Screw it, suicide. Thirsty or infected? Screw it, suicide. Here lately it seems like a lot of people are doing that any way and hoping for the easy fix back to where their corpse is lying.

Why so many updates saying sorry there's been nothing to report because things have been changing and we're afraid that what we report today will be wrong tomorrow? How is that even possible unless development is going absolutely nowhere? If you guys have more important things to do, just say you don't want to be bothered with devblogs. We'd understand.

Welcome back forums!

I would suggest playing normal without any mods on a private hive. Public servers are a crapshoot as to whether or not you will have fun or find a hackerfest or just run into a bunch of trolls. I would suggest getting Dayz Commander, setting that up, patching everything you need then just look for a moderately filled private server. There are tons of servers being advertised in the server area of this forum. Just pick one and have fun. Just remember there are thousands of different personalities running servers and it may take a while to find one you like. Trust me, though, finding a server full of like-minded people like yourself is worth the time you put in finding one. Some are noob friendly, some are noob aggressive. Just don't get mad, no matter what happens, leave and find another server that suits you. If you are new, never use voice over side chat, (the blue one). Doesn't matter if people are ignoring your text chat. Doesn't matter if you are being raped by a horde of zombies and you can't take time to type. That one thing will make most people on most servers instantly hate you if they have rules against it and many do. Never tell another player where you are located through in game chat. If you care nothing for your life and want to roll the dice on all the gear you are carrying, feel free. Bandits will kill you for your gear or for fun. Assume everyone in the game is hostile until they prove otherwise. I've run into a ton of players acting like new guys, asking for help, then trying to shoot me. You may feel that not shooting some guy you come across who is yelling "FRIENDLY!" is the right thing to do, but never assume it will work for you. Many people are cool and will simply watch you with their gun drawn, many people will shoot you no matter what. That also means, never running up on a player you don't know. Crap happens and sometimes you round a corner into another player's face, but seeing a player then running towards them, (if you don't know each other), will almost always get you shot. If you know people, though, or even meet someone cool, try to get comms outside of game to talk where others can't find you. Skype, TeamSpeak, Ventrillo, whatever. You will also have to buy the standalone once it comes out since you really didn't buy Dayz, just Arma2.

Stopped watching at "uh, can you change the loot tables so sniper rifles will spawn in houses?".