misterwit

You seem to equate it more to homocide than pranking. Do you call people who throw snowballs murderers-in-training?

But you're trying to monopolize how we should be allowed to play. And it's not "infinite options on how to play", there's actually very few ways to play dayz right now. You can either be friendly, which invariably sends you to a grave before you can get a full kit, and even if you get there, ferrying around bambi's all day gets EXTREMELY boring. I've done it, flying a huey around all day letting nuspawns get a fast-ride to a helo crash or the NWAF to the point where half the server is docile to me. So then what? Go kill some zed in town for shiggles with a mk48? I don't need any gear anymore and as long as I have some steaks and water, I'm good to go. The only way to enjoy DayZ is to start over and enjoy the thrill of navigating the world with hardly anything more than your trusty dinnerbell, and rather than just run into some zed and let my stuff go to waste, I may as well have a good time with it. So I go out and start shooting, sometimes I go a long time without dying, sometimes some badasses show up and a learn what happens when you're an ass to people. Then I respawn and the slate is clean. This isn't some epic quest to evaluate the sanity of everyone who plays this... this is the BETA of an INCOMPLETE game. There's only so much you can do. So if you're going to accuse bandits of being psychotic, then I'm going to accuse you of being detached from reality because you think a half-finished game is some kind of second life.

I remember when my friends and I did our first elektro raid. It was late in the evening and the sun was going down and it was raining. Most of us were poorly armed (hatchets, revolver or two, one dinnerbell between us all) except for my friend who was using my L85 to watch the city (i found it in a bandit camp and none of us had any idea how to use it). So we basically didn't fight anyone, but we ran in and out of the city multiple times, still terrified of zombies much less bandits, looting everything. When we were done, it was too dark to see and most of us were freezing cold. We threw some flares out on sniper hill to guide our path back up into the mountains with our fresh bambi-loot. Being one of that last people in my group to leave, my friend and I saw the silhouettes of our friends through the flare-light running across the hill like a scene from Band of Brothers. We huddled around fires and split up ammo, guns, and beans between the seven of us in the rain... it felt like a real survival game back then.

It stops people from combat logging.

I've had that since before the patch.

Have you ever tried taking a stand in cherno? It usually doesn't end well.

Well the idea behind the boombox would be that the zombies would beat it to a pulp before you'd be able to find another one. They would be a rare spawn.

Some people live under a rock, others can't be arsed to find one so they grow a thick skull and mash it against a keyboard all day.

Boil your water, cook your food, take medicine when you're sick, and don't drive around like a fucking idiot. If that's complicated, there's no hope for you. The idea is to give you more to worry about than "how long can I lay prone in this bush by cherno before I need to kill and eat a goat".

It's a work-in-progress, give them some time to sort things out.

Just wait till you start stealing helicopters and killing bushwookies with your trusty winchester.

You must be really dumb if "take medicine when sick" is a nuisance or "pushing the envelope".

Quoting myself because this thread should have died when I posted this. Everyone gets a free trip to the coast when its inconvenient, get over it.

A little judgmental, are we? It's not like it's illegal to live for fun. I bet his boss wouldn't lose any sleep tonight if he died either so it's not like he's leaving his wife at the train station.

I think the idea was to make ammo more rare so that you would need to carry multiple guns to have enough firepower going forward? I don't know I think I'm misreading how backpacks work now.

you play on the ZUST servers, don't you? People paying $60 USD to spawn with a heli and fly bambi's around all day long.

No matter how many people say it's dumb to go around shooting people, it's the easiest way to find a challenge, imo. Side chat loves to tell on you when you kill someone, and if you stay in the same spot, killing people over and over, sooner or later some badasses will show up and you'll have some fun for once. I still think most bambi's just hate PvP because they suck at it. Last time I spawned, I ran into elektro and found an ak74 with one magazine and though "meh better than nothing" and all of a sudden some little booger starts shooting the firetower with some kind of silenced gun. I ran downstairs and leaned out the door and shot him once in the face and killed him. Buried the AK and the other 29 bullets on his corpse and walked off with an M4A1CCO SD and a full kit.

YES.

The same reason the military fires cruise missiles at guys with camels... taxpayer's expense.

Maybe you could implement a ghosting crosshair, where after holding a gun at the hip (without running) for a while, a circle crosshair will fade in to represent your character's visualization of where they are aiming. This will help with looking at loot spawns to pick out the things you want and can help new players get used to the interface/using a gun a bit, and won't hurt the importance of aiming your weapon much.

But that's the thing, putting a shemagh on isn't supposed to be a "here be baddies" sign. Instead of creating something, they looked at the resources Arma II had and said "well we're at war with people who wear those, that should be good enough". And I said "towelhead" because the low-poly representation they give those things looks like a towel... you know what I'm not even starting down this subject with you. So far you've called me a psychopath and now you're digging through my words to imply even more negative connotations that anyone who would spend a minute to know me would know are completely false. I do my best to use good grammar, spelling, and choice of words as a courtesy to people who take the time to have a chat while I'm sitting here bored at uni. It's the internet, and people get distracted or make mistakes. I'm sorry if I said something offensive but it's not like you've been very welcoming to me, either. Don't bother talking to me again unless you have something to add other than an assault on my character again. I'm tired of bambi's thinking that they hold a monopoly on how the game should be played, and have the right to petition at every step to make the game harder for anyone who wants to enjoy it differently.

Even if someone saw me kill someone, if they were close enough to see my face, one of us would die. You'd have to be within 50m of someone to identify any difference in appearance between all the characters (who are all the same height and build). If you want proof that I killed someone when you never saw me before and you never got a good look at me, the proof will lie in whether or not I was shooting at you when you walked up to me, or if I have bullets missing from my magazine when you sneak up on me and whack me across the head.

I don't oppose bandit skins because I want to mask my intentions, I never said that. I said I don't want a fucking towel around my head that may as well have christmas lights on it. If they want to give me a black raincoat, reserve sunglasses for bandits, or make me look like a street-thug in a hoodie, that's great, I'd love that. however the current towelhead thing is absurd.

Vehicles usually get you killed anyway.

Rocket already stated that DayZ is intended to be an "anti-game", where things that make the game easier SHOULD NOT exist. And I really don't give the remotest fuck if someone saw me kill someone, I'm still not wrapping a fucking towel around my face, literally just painting a target on myself, to hide my identity.