hogscraper

THIS^^ I may rage at things happening in the SA. I may throw my mousepad at the wall, (because its the only thing I can't break within reach), and I may yell and scare the neighbors. What I will not do is talk shit about it on the forums except for opinions that have to do with decisions already made. Crying about bugs is pointless as I know they are already well aware of them. I was one of those people begging to play it in whatever state it was in. I couldn't care less if the game insta-killed me every other spawn so long as I could see the surrounding land for a moment each time and imagine what is on the horizon. I just wanted to have a small window into the development process of an awesome game. Does it suck that we aren't yet in the future where everything is rosey and I can build a base and defend my suv? Kind of but there are a ton of games out there to play in the meantime and I'm happy I was throwing my money into the pot in the first couple of hours after release.

Or you could just do like I did and choose to play another game while you wait for the fixes. I love Dayz, or rather the idea of what Dayz can be one day. Right now its nothing but KOS and bugs. Bummer its an Alpha. I fill out some bug reports and check on the patches/updates while I enjoy other games. I didn't pay $29.99 to play a fully functional game, I paid it to add money to the pot that helps pay dev salaries so that when its closer to where I want it to be, I don't have to spend $59.99. I basically made an investment that doubles my money. Plus I get to check out Cherarus with updated graphics for a few hours, long before its retail release. I can see where a young child, or a man with a child's emotional fortitude, would have a sig talking about taking a full sized group of well armed people into Elektro in order to 'terrorize' people playing the Alpha then rage when something doesn't go their way, but to stick around after you died multiple times to nothing? Come on, you're not serious are you? First time: Holy crap what just happened? Second time: WTF! I will definitely not be going into any multi-story buildings until this lag gets better. Third time: Wouldn't have happened if you happily played something else or adapted and roamed the land. Fourth time: Now you just want to die. Fifth time: Seriously, we're still talking about this?

I have no idea what you want, then. If you don't own Dayz but want people you meet here on the forums to be able to group up in another game, why couldn't you just tell them information at the time you decide to group up? Also, why can't you put your Steam name in the Bio section of your profile? I do agree that it would make sense to add Steam to the list of contacts since you have to have a Steam account to play the SA, but I'm not sure why you just can't add it elsewhere in your profile where you can edit things.

Pretentious calling it the best ever as its missing oh, 99% of the information a player could use. Good information actually in your list, though. props for that.

The game uses whatever your Steam name is at the time of creation for your Dayz name so anyone that you give you Steam name to can send you messages. Or do you mean in your forum account? You could put your steam name in your bio or interests area of your forum page and people could get that information pretty easily.

That's funny. And sadly, probably, true.

I thought the spawns were all moved Eastward with Elektro being the most western place you could spawn? I have only died twice in the last week and both respawns would follow that. They also said these changes were on going and would be updated so not sure exactly where the borders are.

If there was a sniper somewhere that just killed the guy, who these two couldn't also see, it would have been a waste of bullets and potential death trying to see if it wasn't a glitch. I don't think this would be a hack, though. The mod had player's clients tell the server what other people 'should see'. That's why they could run God mode and a few other hacks. I thought the SA had the server tell each client what they should be seeing based on whatever rules are in place for whatever the player is wearing. Almost sounds like something to do with lag or just a graphical glitch.

I don't know that all of the sounds you hear are a bug. There does appear to be a bug the last time I played that seemed to bleed things other people could hear into your sound area. People chatting, zombies being shot etc. That needs to be fixed but isn't really on my priority list like server hoppers. That needs to be fixed, stat. Some of the sounds you hear randomly, (like the chain-link fence sound), have been in the mod forever and I love that they are there. I don't seem to ever hear them until I am in an already stressful situation and I like that they crank up the stress for a second.

Sometimes, if people are trapped under a house, getting to a tight spot and trying to vault can break your legs and/or kill you. Do you have a gun? You could also try shooting it off and hoping a zombie comes and finishes the job.

I can come kill your guy if you're close. Send me a message with your location and if its close to Berezino I will come fix your 'problem' for you. That is if some part of you is sticking out. Let me know, I'll be on for a little while longer and will be on tomorrow. You could also just stay logged in while you go to work or school and hope you starve to death or die of dehydration. Crazyandlazy definitely got the lazy part right. Read his whole post. He is stuck and can't move somewhere on the map...

I'm 6'6" and weigh 325lbs. Compared to the average person that would have made up the zombies in Chernarus, if I got turned I would be that 'oh shit' zombie. If I grabbed you, you would be done for and I would imagine that I could take a few more hits than a 5'6" 130 lb zombie. This could be done realistically by just adding a higher damage modifier and more health to a zombie with a larger model. I wouldn't want to see a 'Tank' or the big crazy ones from State of Decay that can blow up a car that runs into them but having different sized zombies would be awesome. I wouldn't make their speed any different as zombies don't seem to care about oxygen levels getting to their muscles and I would assume that most zombies, (those that weren't damaged), would all move at about the same speed. Next in the awesome category would be child zombies. Not that I want to kill a kid, but how terrifying would it be to have miniature zombies hiding in closets, in bushes or anywhere else for that matter. Way less damage to kill and do less damage and they would be an interesting addition.

He left out the most important part: Terminal Brain Flu. That just doesn't sound like any normal cold/virus I've heard of. Almost sounds like Meningitis. Awesome list, though!

I miss tents, road vehicles and hunting/cooking the most. Blood works a lot different in the mod but I miss being on death's door, finding a cow and finally seeing color once again.

Sometimes item can still be picked up but you just have to find the right angle to try. Some things can also be dropped by players and end up in places that can't be picked up at all.

hahaha new bandit style. Handcuff someone and feed them everything the are carrying. Plus points for eventually having someone come across your corpse that has a gun and 14 bottles of disinfectant and wondering WTF is this world coming to.

You can find a lot of stuff around the map but you need to get full of water at a well, find some food and get moving North. Most of the cities in the middle of the map are untouched and many servers.

Chernarus is part of the old Soviet Union so there should definitely be vodka laying around somewhere. The land was only modeled after part of the Czech Republic. I love the fact that everything is in Russian. The story is you have washed ashore and have no memory of how you got there. The fact that you can't read anything helps the feeling of disorientation. The Dayz mod got me to learn the Russian alphabet just so I could more easily tell where I was, (before I learned the map). Now when I'm watching movies like Night Watch its awesome being able to read a lot of the stuff that ends up sounding like its English counterpart. Like seeing something that I recognize then realizing what телефон means.

lol awesome video. I haven't played anything but PC in a while but you get my beans for Salt and Vinegar chips. Best snack on the planet.

I was thinking the same thing about the room across the way that has the perfect shooting view of that roof.

Yea, those were cool bandits indeed.

One you missed is the 'take no chances and shoot you in the head before moving into loot your corpse' bandit. I definitely like that loot is so easy to find right now. Makes it much easier of a decision to just resist all people trying to push me around. I actually had one bandit kill his buddy a week ago. Two guys with M4s start yelling about get on the ground. I tell them I have nothing and they still yell. I figured I wasn't going to waste my time being handcuffed and messed with so I ran around one guy landing a couple punches. His buddy opened fire like an idiot and killed us both. Good times.

There's a huge difference between being lazy and choosing not to search the forums and skipping the entire section titled exactly what you are looking for. Considering by posting here you are part of this 'fucking awful community' I guess I was right all along and you agree with me. Thanks:)

There's a line that needs to be drawn but its up to the devs where they draw it. Personally I don't want to see free form bases in this game. Boarding up and fortifying houses would be much cooler. They would have to able to be broken into with the right tools but defending your shit is part of what made the mod fun. At this point, they have enough guns to last until the full release. So many other real features need to be added first. More zombies to start.

No. It would cause more problems than it would fix. Dayz has always been about having to put in effort to get where you want to go. You decided to play every day so you need to decide whether or not a twenty minute walk is worth playing with your friends when they eventually log in. We will have vehicles eventually so this really is just a temporary problem anyway. The problems that arise with multiple characters is that it completely changes the game for trolls. Lets say you and two friends are at NWAF when a larger group of people roll in. What happens if you each had four different characters, all geared and all in different places around the airfield? What's to keep you from logging out once you know where they are, logging back in and killing one or two from a distance. Logging in on another guy to kill a few more then back to your original character? Making choices that keep you from dying is a major part of the idea behind Dayz. What happens to that idea when people start making characters that don't ever move and exist only to hold a supplies? Like a tent that can't be raided it would break a huge part of the game.