IkaikaKekai

CAKE OR DEATH!

You make the point, but in Cuba, until recently (like last month) it was illegal to purchase a new car, so those fortunate enough to have cars would take good care of them. As far as I know the Civil war did not happen in the DayZ universe, but I may have misread that, they could be explained by rioting or the chaos that happened during the outbreak (Some of the Humvees look like they got hit by an IED). People do stupid shit when ROL goes out the window (Like steal TVs during a power out). As for not using newer 'intact' models, people would be wonder why we don't have working vehicles, you see a burned out husk of a car with a large cavity where the engine used to be and you know 'Shit, I'm not gonna drive that thing...'. Now if you see an otherwise intact car that's just a static model, you'll be wondering 'wtf, damn devs why can't I drive that thing?! Assholes!' As for the streetlights being on, it's been said they're not suppose to be on at all, though they could be explained with the old 'battery backup and solar panel' argument I just go on the assumption they're not suppose to be on and ignore them. Much as I hate to say it...yeah...shit will change on the whims of the Devs.

The rusted cars could be explained as simply poor maintenance of old vehicles (Cold War Era) in a coastal area (salt spray helps to speed up rust) that's also a poor country. And of course there's always the 'placeholder' argument, that they had rusty burned out car models left over from Arma2 and simply reused them till the artists get done with the more important (or easier to do) things. I would personally guess that we are no more than a year past 'Z Day' so to speak, and no earlier than a week after Z Day, with Z day being the day that all humans who are not immune are either dead or infected. Yes that's kinda ambiguous but so be it. I'm sure we'll know more as the lore itself is fleshed out and added to the game. Then again, 'It's Your Story', if thinking the infected are Walking Dead helps you cope with the apocalypse and all the things you've had to do to survive so be it.

Even the Original Zombies were not in fact undead, simply people who's deaths were faked and brainwashed into being slaves. But 'I put a fake death serum in your brother's food, waited for you to bury him, dug him up, and kept him in a drugged state and brainwashed him' doesn't quite sound as badass as 'I killed him with a curse and raised him from the dead to be my eternal slave.' Until you think about it and the exact dosages and extracts needed to make the fake death drug. That's pretty badass in it's own right, but badass in the sense that 'I need to shoot you in the face soon as I see you and not eat/drink anything you give me.'

I'd like to see modern muzzle loading/black powder rifles (yes, they exist) rather than some museum piece which might turn into a pipebomb.

They'ed need to do new mocap and a skeleton for fat and skinny models, otherwise you'd just have a guy in a fatsuit running around and it would look awkward. It's still early though so maybe someday.

Flowing streams aren't even safe to drink straight from (as I said, leptospirosis is a big problem here in Hawaii), even rain catchment water should be boiled/treated.

Contaminated ponds are coming, they just need to get sicknesses like cholera in and working. Also one would get sick drinking from ponds without boiling or disinfecting them is because humans and animals tend to forget the golden rule, don't shit where you eat/drink. Wild water can be contaminated in any number of ways, dead bodies, feces, or even just someone/thing sick taking a swim, not to mention industrial and man made waste. Sometimes the contaminate doesn't even have to be in the water, heavy rains usually wash all kinda bad shit into rivers and lakes (Some asshole with leptospirosis takes a shit next to a river, it rains, washes it into the water, and now the river is contaminated with leptospirosis). Unless you're getting your water straight from a artisan spring/well you'll need to sterilize it somehow.

PVE servers will probably only happen after Private Hives are made, and maybe not even then. AFAIK the team has no plans to make a 'pvp switch' so to speak, so we might have to wait till they allow modding and someone makes a 'PvP Switch'.

You're probably playing on a Hardcore and Regular server. They each save different chars. Stick to the same server and you shouldn't have a problem. Even if you switch a lot oyu shouldn't have a problem, just know that whatever you do on a Hardcore won't transfer to a Regular, and vise versa.

Probably sometime after full release.

More like... Leg holsters have been suggested many times before, and more than likely will be added eventually. I'd imange they'ed have to make a new 'belt' layer as well as a few other 'belt' options (toolbelt, fanny pack, ect) I don't think there should be portable bullet making kits. If anything they should be in set locations that you can use to make a few bullets. A lot of other stuff has to be added however, such as gunpowder, lead, shell casings, shotgun hulls, primers, ect. Brass knuckles would be kinda cool to add, maybe replace the 'hand' slot

Will more than likely be merged into one H1Z1 post. As for 'incentive to complete dayz'? Why does SOE trying to get in on the zombie craze give incentive? Is Rocket going to hire sweatshop workers to push stuff out faster?

I support the idea of learning things from books, but simply '+15 to reload' is a bit hoaky, especially since there's no skills. Maybe reading a medical journel so you learn how to cure different things (when other diseases are added). Or reading a pilot's manual to learn how to properly start up a helicopter/aircraft. Even crafting recipes from books (don't need the book to craft something, so once you know how you don't need it). Cookbooks so you can learn how long you need to safely cook food/meat, and how to spice up food.

Not really 'glitches' in the mod, but they are turned off for the most part. Women can't have gillie suits or bandit/hero skins. So it's just blue hoody, red hat, and white pants.

Start off by verifying your cache in Steam. Is this Standalone or Mod?

Yeah, not legit. They either play on a cracked/modded SA server, or they loaded Arma2/3 vehicles into DayZ and tweaked around a bit. They're going to redo vehicles completely, so that your car won't blow up because you got stuck on a rock or glitched on a bridge. That and so we can Mad Max em a bit (put some Ural fenders on a Skoda!)

Wouldn't be opposed to muzzle loaders being added, but are they used a lot in Eastern Europe? I know they're starting to get popular in the US again (Think you don't even need a permit to get one here in Hawaii).

He's just being facetious (think I'm using that correctly), just run the Verify on Steam and it should reinstall whatever's missing.

Is it real then? Saw another picture of the same scene, just thought the DayZ logo was photo shopped. sarcasm...Does this mean New Zealand is secretly working with the Russians, and sent one of their Special Forces (Dean Hall) to help train pro Russia supporters in a mod of a military simulator designed to make the youth not feel bad about gunning down non Russians because they're just zombies?/sarcasm

Zombie is an umbrella term. Real zombies are simply brainwashed people turned into slaves who's deaths were faked with a drug that makes them appear dead, some would have brain damage either from the drug, or being buried for too long, and sometimes attack people in a rage. When most people think Zombie they think George Romero types, even though he used the term Ghoul while filming (and Ghoul usually being more of a ghost than a flesh and blood monster). Ghoul doesn't quite sound as cool as Zombie (I would blame the 1930 'Zombie' movies for this as establishing the word).

I like the idea, but agree that it has to be realistic. IE not just slapping a PU scope on a M4 or a scope that has uses one rail system or another without first modding the weapon (IE not taking a stock mosin and slapping on an ACOG). That said there should be kits that you can find, so say you can take that .22 Sporter, add on a rail system, then put on any rail sight you want/will fit. It should also be that you have to 'manually' zero/adjust a sight that you add on (so you can't just slap on a RDS in the middle of battle and start scoring headshots by putting dots on foreheads)

It was more like 1% of the world's population was immune to the virus (or 5% but only 1% remain alive, bit confusing). All the zombies are living, breathing humans, just infected (with what I assume is an airborne version of rabies or similar virus). Basically everyone that could be infected and wasn't killed by the infected or some other means are zombies. Dean's brother (a virologist) wrote a paper on the DayZ zombies (how they could realistically exist and what not), and I would assume that is the lore. I have yet to read this paper or even know if it's available to the general public (if someone has it I'd love a link or something).

It's Wednesday, server maintenance. Browse (Your website(s)) of choice for a couple of hours. Or go outside if it's safe.

Kidding, it'd be a bitch and a half to replace the teeth after every couple of zombies. Gimme a spear/halberd and I'll be fine. I'll add in my 2 cents to the Katana fight...for those interested...