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First of all, have you heard of the 'edit' button? Second of all No. While there's been very little background given on the 'zombies', its been confirmed that it was a virus of some sort, and that all Survivors (players) are immune to it. It's been stated many times that the 'zombies' are not actually dead, just rabid. A rabid human/animal isn't going to stop once your infected and be on its way, its going to keep attacking you until it's forced to stop (usually with death) or you're dead, and probably won't stop for a while after you're dead. Player Zombies have been pretty much confirmed as a no by Rocket, for a number of reasons. Players would use it to grief. It would be something players would exploit, and really how can you control how a player plays? The 2nd part of that is 'oh well what if we just have the player corpses become zombies', first part of that is that the zombies in this game are not the undead, once you die you die, which is why 2 shots to the chest with a rifle round will kill a zombie, instead of headshots only. Second, player's models are different from zombies (edit: at least in Standalone they will be). Zombies for simplicity are models that may have very minor variations to break up the monotony (not 50 Jammie Heinemen Zombies barreling down on you). Players on the other hand are much more detailed, we will have our own clothing and equipment layers (since we will have custom clothing). If we were to be zombied when we 'die' we'd lose any gear we were wearing and be reset to a default zombie skin and break immersion for a lot of people. TL;DR? BECAUSE ROCKET SAID NO!

Would still be the same problem of people camping on them if there's just an 'infinite' supply of food and drinks.

Not sure if its a demo, just a free version of Arma2 (very low def graphics, lot of stuff missing, so on) but yes, you can get Arma2 free and buy Op Arrowhead. The graphics will just be shitty from my understanding.

To be honest, I don't see how gold and silver is valuable anymore, other than the 'value' we assign to it. All the hype about buying gold and silver 'in case tha gub'ment collapses'. I can't eat gold or silver. Can't drink it. Might be able to bash someone's head in with a gold bar or a silver candlestick and take their food and water. Might be able to melt it down into bullets, but lead would be easier to melt down and more common (can walk into a fishing store and get 50 pounds of lead fishing weights without so much as a sideways glance). Honestly cash would be more valuable than gold or silver in a survival situation. If a vending machine is still working I can put a dollar in and get a water without having to break into it. I can use it as tinder to help start a fire. As a makeshift bandage (US 'paper' money is more cloth like) The only reason why it's still of any value anymore IMO is because stupid people like shiny things. Well that and electronics, which by extension is a 'shiny thing'. The only reason why 'bottle caps' work as currency in a game like fallout is because there's an economy (and the very idea of an economy) and traders (NPCs) who will actually trade you goods for bottle caps. As many have said above, the only currency that will more than likely take place will be 'natural' currency that the players decide on, food, drinks, bullets, meds and the like, nothing that the Devs put in. I wouldn't mind if they added in money as an item in game but it would be pretty much a 'junk' item like empty tin cans, sure it would have it's uses, but not as currency, unless a vast majority of players decide to start using money as the currency in DayZ.

I don't like most racing/car games (Aside from the GTA series) but this has gotten me drooling. No more exploding Offroads for hitting a low lying moss covered rock wall hidden by grass and killing the guy you just picked up who went afk...Im still VERY sorry about that if your reading this.

Someone had some horrible, horrible lag. But duck tape is going to be in the game already, so just adding another use wouldn't hurt (and be in the spirit of duck tape). Maybe use that if you don't have handcuffs to bind the hands. I would say Direct text chat should be scrambled and limited (say range of 5 meters instead of whatever it is now (guessing something like 50?) and voice direct would be completely muted. (no real good way to 'scramble' voice chat IMO) Not sure if 'radio chat' would be disabled if you were cuffed/tied but it would make sense (can't key your mic after all, unless you have it set to constant transmit)

Ah, I see now, not just a blink from seat to seat but an actual animation/sequence/movement whatever you want to call it. Should be possible as far as i know Quick, someone buy the team a Skoda for their Mocap studio! I also like the idea of being able to duck or lean that was mentioned above, not sure but I think I actually did lean inside a car by pressing q and e in either DayZ, ToH, or the Arma2 Armory, can't remember which, but yeah a duck and lean would be very good to provide at least a little bit of cover in a firefight or under sniper attack (I would limit it so that if your ducking your forced to first person or something so you don't have guys just using third person to avoid getting shot and drive like a pro). I've mentioned this several times in related posts but I would like to see it so that we could mount (almost) any gun on a vehicle (not something like a pistol or anything silly like that) providing you actually have the gun. Yeah i'd be more worth it to mount an actual MG on a vehicle, but duck tapping an AKM to a broomstick and sticking it out the newly created 'sunroof' of your van should do in a pinch.

I believe 1 (I think the popular term is Mad Maxing) is going to be in when vehicles are readded to the game, 2 I think is something they might want to do but haven't heard anything about. (they will be absent in the Alpha release from my understanding). Number 3, assuming you mean like walking around in the back of a Ural or van, or even running around the cargo bay of a c130 is as far as I know is not possible with the engine (it would turn the car into a blender with you as the goldfish in a sense). If you mean just jumping from seat to seat it's something we can do already in the mod.

DayZ Standalone is the game that has not yet been released, it will be its own game, meaning you won't need any other game to play it (thus, Standalone, I'm sure they're gonna come up with a better name later on). DayZ Mod is what we currently have, and requires Arma2:CO to play. The two games will not be connected to each other (meaning if you were playing DayZ Mod you would not be playing with people playing DayZ Standalone). Hope that clears it up for you.

That's still not self sufficient. Their getting supplies from the outside. If they were producing their own food and had water desalination then they would be self sufficient. If a rig were to be added to Chenarus I would make it so that food rarely spawns on it (if at all) that way you don't have people just camping out on it with an AS50 and killing any boats or swimmers coming close. If you wanna hold it you gotta make supply runs.

An oil rig would be kind of a cool thing, but yeah they are far from 'self sufficient'. Also, wouldn't it need a skilled crew to keep it from pretty much blowing up? I'm sure there's all kinds of 'safety' devices installed, but recent history kinda disagrees with their reliability. That aside, let's just say the crew cared enough/had time to shut everything down properly as their coworkers became infected and started to attack them and nothing broke or blew up. Would make for a good 'endgame' thing. Let's say the rig is about a mile or two out from shore near Berezino, and that its an experimental rig that actually refines oil and gas onsite before piping it to the docks at Berezino. A group would take a boat out to the rig, clear it of zombies (make some mechanic where they never respawn but theres a LOT of them) After clearing they can switch everything back on and it'll start pumping oil and gas back to shore, refilling the gas containers on the docks. Things would shut down occasionally so players would have to go back out to do repairs occasionally. The real control would be of the docks and the gas tanks however. Let's say gas doesn't respawn in any other gas tanks, but can be refiled with a tanker truck (or more slowly with jerry cans). A group would have to find and hold the tanker truck, the oil rig, and the storage tanks in order to control the flow of gas on the server (or alternately they could just load up a car with as many jerry cans as they can. Group of Heroes or survivors might make deliveries to fuel tanks throughout the map and allow survivors to take as much gas as they need or trade for it, bandits would keep it for themselves,

It's the little things in life, for some its a turned over truck of twinkies. For some its a cup of tea. For others its seeing a .50 BMG cave in some poor bastard's skull and turn it into a fine powder/mist. Would be nice if they added in 'comfort' items. As for a mechanic as to why they'd be necessary, I can't think of any that would fit with the whole feel of DayZ (or at least my understanding of what rocket wants for DayZ).

There's no real way to 'recover' a CD key once it's been stolen. You still have the CD key, just now you and some scripter has the key, and he's probably selling it to someone else who will get that key banned. Backup important files, wipe your computer, re install your programs, and don't install shady stuff. If you don't get rid of the key stealer you'll just be losing another key within a few days. And honestly you'd want to get rid of that thing anyway, no telling what else is attached to it. Fucker probably could have all your credit card info already.

Was probably a scriptkiddy if you're sure you shot him. That or a REALLY good/lucky bastard. Probably had godmode and/or esp to find you and your friends, then teleported about when you saw him (thus 'disappearing')

That would be a pretty good birthday present for me then. But whenever it comes out it comes out.

No, the Key stealer is IN your computer. You have to get rid of the keystealer or the next key's just gonna get stolen.

No, Rocket pretty much said in the announcement of the release date for the Dev Log that: 'THIS IS NOT AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE RELEASE DATE!' twice. Actually probably three times.

Doesn't sound like a bad idea, maybe with a chance to 'slip' or lose your gripping and fall off?

I believe 'American' is a failed attempt at a written language by Ben Franklin. From my understanding its English, just spelled phonetically IE America = 'Mer'e'kah (I think). Flat Earth Society. They're either VERY committed Trolls or stupid.

Do a full virus/malware scan to start off with. If you remember what the 'fps booster' was called, try looking for that to delete it. Although to be honest probably your best bet is to restore your PC to before the booster was installed.

brain...dying, must...kill parasite!

That's a loud enough noise for you to hear without a stethoscope. This is just a bad idea. Probably the only thing you could tell by pressing a stethoscope to a wall is if there's termites or not (and even then you need to know what termites sound like).

Pretty sure that wouldn't work. And what exactly would you expect to hear from a guy that's standing still in a room and aiming a gun at a door? Him talking to himself, his heartbeat?

Epic loot would be a Stillsuit rather than NVG or Antibiotics. Also were there going to be any zombies on this map?

Dunno if AFK avis 'twitch' after a while, but I would say that was someone afk, especially since the bot didn't react to you at all, probably should have checked it's bag or something. It is possible to place in AIs, but it's not something that's 'in' the game. IE you can't just start up a server and have AI survivors running around, you need to actually put them in (dunno how exactly to do that but I think the mission editor or whatever)