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How about we get rid of zombies and guns? Oh I know, lets place it in Colorado and only be about 2 square miles. No. Chenarus will always be THE DayZ map. They want to add other maps eventually, including a 'western' map that Rocket wants to add, as well as a way to travel between maps. But for now shut up and drink your Zlota Kola and eat your Rice and put on your Motorbike helmet like the rest of us.

I would prefer if we spawn the way we do now. At a random place along the coast. I like to gear up, hell it's half the fun really. Most people if they had the choice would just choose Cherno or Electro, grab a military gun from one of the firehouses or tents, and run up to NWAF.

Unless you're using 4+ inch roofing nails, a nailgun won't penetrate deep enough to cause enough damage to the brain, and even then that's questionable from anything but short range and multipul headshots. Also the type of Nailgun, they have 'tethered' ones that require an air compressor, there's battery powered ones that have a mini air compressor built in, neither are very silent. Co2 Canisters might do the 'silent' trick. There's also nailguns that use .22 rounds as the driving force, not quite at all. Despite the shit you see in the movies almost all nailguns are required to have safeguards built in that prevent them from being used as an actual gun (although they are for the most part bypassable). I do like your welder/blowtorch Idea, however that and the flame spray as a weapon against anything but players would be a bad idea. Set someone on fire, yes they will run around and scream and try to put themselves out. Now give that person bathsalts, PCP, Meth, steroids, and a slap to the balls, THEN set him on fire. You now have someone on fire with little to no sense of pain trying to kill you.

1) I'll try to keep it short and simple then. 2) Steam Does Free Weekends all the time for different games. 3) The Product is ready/almost ready for Alpha, what Rocket is worried about is precisely this. People buying it, not liking something, then Demanding their money back, and DayZ goes right up on the shelf next to That Which Will not Be NamedZ. Now think of it this way, you buy the Alpha, along with the other half a million players, say there's only 50 servers available with a cap of 150 players. Pissed off people demand their money back. If from what I read above is true, their probably going to buy as many servers as they can before alpha release, and be ready to buy additional servers after alpha release, because no mater how liberal an estimate there's NEVER enough servers at an MMO's launch.

There's already so much Hype for DayZ already. And even if they just released the Alpha tomorrow via Steam tomorrow and didn't say a word about it. Word would get out, and word would get out FAST. Looked at the front page recently? Over 1.7 MILLION Player IDs, now assuming even HALF of them are Global banned, dual accounts, what have you. That's still over half a million people. Assuming just 1% of that grabs standalone alpha as soon as it comes out, that's 5,000 players. How many Players did Rocket want per server again? 100-150? (Pretty sure that's an old number so probably less) And I don't think there's going to be any private hives (at least at first) for SA. EVERY MMO (and I would assume SA counts as an MMO now) goes through this process before release: Internal Testing>External Closed Testing>External Open Testing>"Stress testing">Buying MORE Servers>Release>Buying even MORE Servers the next day. External Open testing is still usually closed and limited in number, but rather than say just using the Devs and the Mods from a Forums and Redit page, you give out say 500 keys. Stress testing is usually when they do a 'free weekend' or something when they want to see how far they can push their servers. I would not be surprised if they do this, after all 'official' release probably wont be for a year or so from when the do an open Alpha.

In SA looked like you would still have to disinfect water, though it looked like there was purification tablets (which you just drop into a canteen and swish about a bit). So we will have to disinfect water in SA too, hopefully we'll be able to boil it like we can now as well and not just find some purification tablets. Purification tablets will just be the 'quick and easy' method.

Well if this was a 'realistic' game we wouldn't have zombies, we would only have guns that would be in Chenarus, which would mean pretty much only soviet guns. By Authentic he means that they guns will be real, and they 'could' be in the Chenarus area. Also that would go with gun attachments, for example, realistically you couldn't take a Picatiny rail (US) mounted scope and put it on a Russian style ring mount. Just wouldn't work, but hes going to simplfiy that so rather than having 100 scopes that would only work on exactly one gun. You keep using the word 'dumbed down version' even though its 2.5. I hoenstly know very little about game engines, but I'm fairly certain that it's not dumbed down, stuff will just be handled more by the server than the player's computer. As far as I know the .50s will not be in Standalone, at least not for a while. They will have a few rifles which include the mosin nagat, and you will be able to attach scopes to them, so you have a sniper rifle. They removed a lot of the Arma code because they didn't need it. It was explained fairly well in the video a few months back. Zombie AI doesn't need to know how to reload a gun, or flank a position, or drive a tank, so take out the AI reload, flanking, and driving scripts. *EDIT* Now that I think of it, most if not all of the 'useless code' was gutted from the Mod already.

Combat Logging is when you logout when you are being shot at or chased. I forgot to mention it along with hacking, but it is heavily frowned upon, the server I play on (Balota Buddies) usually gives temp bans for instances of combat logging with evidence for the first infraction and perm bans for more than one infraction. There is some 'question' as to what counts as combat logging however. 'How much time till after combat do you have to wait?' 'Do you actually need to shoot/be shot to count as combat logging?' Ect. Heros and Bandits pretty much describe the play style of players for now, there's 3 skins that are used, the standard survivor skin, the bandit skin, and the hero skin. By killing non bandits you get negative humanity, once you get your humanity down to a certain point your skin changes to a bandit skin. If you do 'good' deeds (blood bagging another player, bandaging another player, ect, or killing bandits) you get positive humanity, and once you get to a certain point you get a hero skin. However, for SA since players will be able to wear whatever they want clothing wise, telling who's a bandit/hero/survivor will be more of a crap shoot.

1. Youtube, Frankie is a popular one, though there's some controversy surrounding him. Won't get into that here to both avoid your thread getting locked and nommed and becasue I don't really care too much. 2. Pretty much whatever you make of it. While minecraft does have 'endgame', its somewhat the same. I play as a survivalist. I avoid other player for the most part, collecting gear, food, and water. I look for vehicles to repair, and the parts to repair them with. I do go looking for weapons, but I avoid the 'PVP' guns as much as I can, (Let me put it this way, I'm gonna be happy with the weapons that are confirmed so far for Standalone Alpha, hunting and civilian guns with a few low end military) 3. Thats subjective. A few youtube videos attracted me to it, I forget exactly why, mostly just zombies and survival-ism I guess. There's also the 'heart pumping' things that happen in the game. Being in a high speed chase as I run away from a pair of bandits in a Huey while in an Offroad, trying to not get my things destroyed. Laying low and hiding as another player comes in the area (I avoid PVP mostly because I suck at it, and I try to play as a hero so unless I see an actual bandit I usually don't shoot, even if Im being shot at) 4. Sad to say there are no rules...Only the ones you live by. The guy you save by killing the zombies that were chasing him might turn around shoot you in the head and say 'you shot first', or he might give you a blood bag and a better gun.

Tack something on to this? A siphon hose rather than some kind of hand pump, or rather in addition to the hand pump. Handpump + Hose would allow you to refuel vehicle directly, but attract some zombies via noise (kinda like how chopping wood makes noise now) Siphon hose would allow you to siphon from wreaked vehicles, gas tanks, non wreaked vehicles. Slient, but you would have to have empty jerrycans in your inventory, and take a MINOR health damage from siphoning ('accidently' swallowing gas)

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*cough* repost *cough cough* http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/119268-suggestion-bags-boxes-bulk-items/ From what info has been released, Inventory will be handled with 'pockets' on clothes as well as packs, the player you saw without a pack was either a bandit skin, or some glitch that makes packs invisible (riding a bike I think is one)

I'm calling troll on this one. Even with language barriers, the troll in question would have to be living under a rock to not know this. To get back on point, I shall be on the look out for a ushanka, a boilersuit (hoping with the namepatch Mike on it) a nice pair of hikeing or steeltoes, and a pilot's helmet, or maybe one of thosue snazzy Soviet Tanker helms.

Couple of recent ones. Driving back to my camp along the coast road, passed the bridges at Prig and noticed a HUMVEE, the FIRST HUMVEE I've ever seen in game. Skidded to a stop and backed up, went to check the damage on it and BOOM, explosion. Should have just been satisfied with my van and kept going. 2nd one was going straight back to my body to retreive my gear, seeing a guy on the side of the road who didn't see me with a .50, and just ignoring him in an attempt to grab my shit and get out. A third time. Didn't have a car and was going to try and fix up a hatchback I found. Was just about to get dark and I hear a Ural coming down the road. I hide in the grass with my crossbow, they stop to check out the hatchback and kill all the zombies that spawned and chased their truck. They don't see me for about 5 mins, till a zombie agros me and kill it with the crossbow I had, if that wasn't my mistake, reloading the crossbow was. They both gathered around me, maybe trying to speak to me but I couldn't hear then, just got up and ran when one of them started shooting. Avoided them for a bit after finding cover and bandaging up. Then I went left when I should have gone right and they blasted me.

Exactly, not only that but they don't know how to do a clean kill either. I could snap someone's neck, but my technique is to wrap my arm around their neck and fall to the ground with then at a weird angle, because I'm 350 pounds, that WILL work, if they're not dead they'll at least be paralyzed.

Brick + Sock = Blackjack, Slingshot of doom! Cinderblock + Chain = The Reckoning!

To stave off Dementia I glue googly eyes to all my Equipment. Mr. Choppy is probably my first and best friend. 2nd Lt. Spyglass isn't that good of a friend but I like to have him around, he is a bit of a racist though.

I do not like this, mostly because I think lazy people should be punished if they don't like where they spawn. I would rather spawn on the far west side of Kamenka than right in the middle of Cherno or Electro Fire station and do a bit more work to get geared to be honest.

NO! I work on a real train, and every time we pass near a road there's always one jackass in a raised up truck with illegal tires with one of thous stupid horns in them and I CRINGE. And your talking to a guy that used to be standing right NEXT to the airhorn on a real loco without being phased. But yes to airhorns and other 'zombie aggro' devices. (Player activateable churchbells, alarm on the firehouses or on military bases, ect) Edit IRL youd find them in a few places, supermarkets, jokeshops, most likely at a marine/boating supply store or at a harbor/marina.

They have been mentioned at least once before, and to repeat, I would LOVE a spear. Doubt I'd get my koa 'ihe added, but hey, a broomstick with a hunting knife duck taped to it would do me good too.

Methinks thou wast warned concerning posting a channel and no visuals!

I would put my money on 'soon' but that would range from sometime next week to next month. Or the rumor mill could be correct and it releases tomorrow, either way I've got money on my card to buy it on Steam.

They said they would reevaluate where the game stands in June, then think about posting a release date. Of course everyone takes that to mean that they'll release in June. I'm hoping their correct but from my understanding the only thing keeping them from doing the public alpha now is because they don't have some key program in place that will allow players to connect to the servers.

Probably, but I wont care, if the Alpha does 'suck', I will have still bought it, and will keep up on news and play test when they fix any major bugs. I know its not a completed game, I'm okay with that, it's pretty much been confirmed that it will be 'slightly worse' than the Mod currently stands at (pretty sure it was said vehicles and a lot of weapons will not be in the initial release). I won't care, Hell I haven't even TOUCHED the shortcut on my desktop to DayZ commander in the last couple months. I'll have other things to do, DayZ is not my only game, and I'm certain it won't be my last game either. This is the internet, people will find something to complain about if they receive a solid gold statue at absolutely no cost to them.

For some morbid reason that would hurt everyone else and my self, I want Rocket to start climbing Everest AGAIN, in a shaggy t shirt with holes in it and all the print is so wrinkled you can't even tell what the T-shirt was suppose to be about. But Rocket would probably need a few heat packs and antibiotics to make it up to the top, and from what I heard Sherpa Clan went full Bandit. Also, do you honestly think Rocket's the ONLY person working on Standalone, and that everything just grinds to a halt when Rocket isn't around?