Talskar

Is it the head bob maybe?

I love mine... originally got it for Falcon and loved it there. Dramatically increases your field of view. Not literally but since you can freely glance around it improves visibility. Especially good for driving in 1st person or flying. However, it'll take some time to get used to finding center again sometimes. (Looking around a lot, then trying to find where your gun is pointing/center.) Not an issue in 3rd person. And only takes a little time to get used to recentering, or just right click to ironsites.

I just did a couple of searches and couldn't find a thing except for Rockets 20words or less topic on starting unarmed (only in certain string combinations by the way). Then I run across this one just from browsing. (and "deleted" my identical suggestion). +1 (or however many) to this idea. Would love to have a rifle and knife at the ready for whatever I might find. This forum section states short and to the point "PLEASE make your THREAD SUBJECT short and *specific* like "Suggestion: More ways to make fire!"... Not "Here is a bunch of stuff I want" - Oktyabr Ideas are easier to find in a short topic then burried on page 21 of a 40 page topic.

*edit* suggestion was already made and posted. Multiple searches didn't yield it. Please ignore, or Mod please delete this as I apparently can't.

I like no weapon at start because it adds value to the experience. The mak is actually a weapon to care about now (always was being as quiet as it is), and how many people out their have morphine in their medicine cabinet?(besides the point) Players are less inclined to quit and respawn a hurt character because they loose that much more. Makes the experience focus on prioritization of needs, scavenging, and survival, not who can best use their "Bug Out Bag." Also forces all players to scavenge before going inland. Fresh spawns don't have the supplies to just bolt for the airfields from the word GO anymore. Saying this, I wouldn't mind starting players with a melee weapon of some sort. For the simulation people out there, melee weapons would be the easiest to find (How many people out there own a shovel?).

further in this great wall of a thread, rocket has mentioned the closed testing progress and how it's not ready to release it to us yet. They're working on it. Don't worry, they'll get it down.

should become less of an issue as the DayZ netcode becomes more stable

how about a melee weapon at start for those who want a little something? Increases the value of the mak, gets people using melee weapons from the start. And they don't need ammo so supplies aren't a problem at the start. Lets get our gordon freeman on with the crowbars... baseball bats maybe? shovels? Still think the starting pack should be the Czech Vest Pouch to make it worth something and makes the patrol pack and assault pack better finds.

i like this idea I agree with the idea of ditching the backpack at start (perhaps just have the pouch be starting gear, to keep the introduction to backpacks to new players). In the very least, it adds value to both the Coyote Patrol packs and the Pouch which wasn't there before.

Life expectancy probably won't ever be long enough. For me, the whole point of a respawn time is to stop you from playing DayZ for the rest of your planned session. It's supposed to be a massive inconvenience, to make people value their (and hopefully other people's) lives more. Would it not be satisfying knowing whoever you just killed now has to wait an hour+ before logging back in? If you want to grief people as a "bandit", this is how you do it. If anything, a timer would make you value another life less because now they're even more of a threat to you with this Sword of Damocles over your head. I think that's a step backwards.

More so... what if you could contaminate fresh water source making them undrinkable?

If that's a quest then so is "find hatchet to start a fire and cook better food." :D While generically true' date=' I don't think it's comparable to the linear quests of a themepark game. Players competing over the prize, vying for the point for completely DIFFERENT reasons (maybe one group wants to power the lights in elektro while another wants to use the plant to force the group in cherno to pay tribute), etc. [/quote'] Now that's the interesting bit. Expanding the concept of limited resources and ulterior motives. Now what if all those fuel tanks and water wells only had a limited amount of fluid in them?

The Powergrid idea is a quest. List of Requirements to fulfill with a more desirable loot drop as a reward. It's a quest... but that's not necessarily a bad thing is what i'm saying.

This would essentially just be adding quests. A lot of people would be against this for it's similarity to an MMO but we already have fetch quests in the form of vehicles. Loot Drops with "Epic" and "Common" Gear. And Random Events in the form of Heli crash sites. Some deeper structure beyond survival isn't the worse thing in the world. The Huey is pretty cool to fly around afterall.

I know SeptusCap, I was just poking you a little bit to add a little emphasis to a higher zombie theat. Hope you didn't mind too much :D

Zombies already aggro PvP'ers from the simple fact they react to gunfire. Are you suggesting the zombies should get out of the way of PvPers? A greater threat from zombies, perhaps just from numbers, would deter flagrant gunfights in the streets while not preventing them. I'm in the camp for more and more dangerous zombies. Numbers and variations. Maybe even get some true slow zombies mixed in with the rest.

Hope we all agree that an experiment requires experimentation and that claiming that, "DayZ is perfect the way it is, bugger off if you don't like it", is counter to the goal of an alpha test.

No' date=' we are trying to get you whiners off the forums who apparently like run and gun. Also, on the other hand, humanity could be put to a different use and sawntime stay universal. Now 12 hrs means that you will be able to play when you wake up so to speak, while 24 hrs means that you will be able to play at a (probably) late hour, so you would actually have to wait one more night because people dont have all day to sit at the computer. 18-20 hrs would be the optimum. [/quote'] Yes, I'm not a fan of a cool down timer but I have to ask... What does a 12-24hour cool down accomplish that a 5-10minute timer doesn't? Has the same "hold up buddy" effect without the "I just ruined my day off" aftertaste.

Is there a difference between Penalty and Disadvantage? I think there is and that sounds like a penalty to me. The Disadvantage to survivors is that they're walking feed bags for those willing to murder them. There's no equal disadvantage to bandits. Trick is to make it more challenging for players with "low humanity" (or just pking) without directly punishing them. A timer is punishment, no getting around that. And I'm no fan of punishing people for playing the game by not letting them play the game.

I certainly don't see how you make a better game by not letting people play your game.

That's it there. The Loop for the Survivor play style is a well established one. Sneak + Looting + Loot Drop % + Time = more items of value. The typical grind, rinse and Repeat for more and better items. This puts a higher and higher value to your items and character. The Bandit play style has a much smaller and chaotic Loop. It's where the Time and Loot Drop % are irrelevant because that work has already been done by another player who's going to inherently "keep the good stuff." This equates to a lower associated value to the players character and items. With less value, there's less risk. Every new player at the beach knows this. So essentially, it's too easy to be a bandit. Survival is hard. Survival in this game is hard. It's perfectly reasonable for someone to prefer a route to survival that requires the least amount of "work" and risk. And that's killing the guy next to you for their stuff. This may be an "Anti-game" but that doesn't mean game theory is suddenly irrelevant (and no, I'm not talking about just games for entertainment theory but proper game theory). And the prevalence of murders in the current system is evidence that people will still act in their own self interest. Bandit Skins creates risk for bandits and bandit behavior. Large groups of armed survivors are risks to bandits. Large number of zombies are risks to small groups of everybody... including bandits. If anything, DayZ updates as of late, are making things easier for bandits. I'm not saying the old system was perfect, I'm not saying the new one is perfect. DayZ is constantly evolving in both design and meta this i know. Bandits and anarchy are essential for the unique experiences this mod creates and it would be terrible to change that but the bandit play style is just too easy to play. So Come on DayZ Devs... Stop making this mod so damn easy.