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Thats actually a pretty good suggestion. Beans for you my friend.

Suggested quite a few times and more equolently, ranging from BB guns to .22 co2 rifles for hunting.

Zombie is more of an umbrella term for a number of things. REAL zombies (ones brought about by voodoo) are merely people who were fed a poison that makes them appear dead, were buried dug up by the one who administered the poison (most of the time after some brain damage occurs) and brain washes them into a slave. Every culture has a zombie story of some kind, most of them dealing with how to properly deal with the dead (in summery, don't give the last rights properly, angry zombie rises up and takes vengeance), as well as 'magic' zombies (voodoo before we knew about the real story, necromancy, ect). Then there's zombie like diseases (Madcow, rabies kuru, ect) and transmited through contact or bodily fluids (blood, saliva, ect) and drugs (bathsalts, meth, crack, ect.), and the 'fantasy' diseases that reanimate the dead somehow (Resident Evil's various Viruses).

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The original post talked about using loading screens ala Fallout 3 to try and reduce lag. He just used the DC ruins as an example. As the game stands now it wouldn't work like Fallout to reduce lag and would just complicate things. A single player game only has to worry about the SINGLE player. Fallout and other similar games that have transitions or loading screens are ways for game developers to cheat a little when it comes to space. Take Fallout, instead of having to make sure say Vault 101 fits without any kind of clipping errors or a part of it sticking out of the terrain at some place, in the overworld map they just have a small cave with a door, then you load into a map of Vault 101. The DC ruins as example are just a series of doors that go to smaller maps, (don't know if this is true or not for fallout since I never used any kind of Noclip cheat to check it out) If you were to fly over the DC ruins in the overworld map you'd probably wouldn't see much past the facade and props.

Any kind of 'store' system could be farmed, no matter how 'expensive' you make the items. Survive for a week or two, pack your stuff in a tent and walk naked into Cherno with a sandwich board saying "I HATE SNIPERS!" ala Die Hard. Now you've got a shiny new gun, some ammo, backpack, beans, and/or any other thing that you could buy. As for perks? No.

I've got a LED headlamp right next to my desk, there's all kinds of things they could add for hands free lights without having to find a gun mod Hell if anyone's seen Moonshiners, one of the guys on the show (Tickle) has a baseball hat with two small LEDs in the brim that he uses when hes checking his still at night. This might be going into the specialized territory but I saw an arm/wristband thing that had 3-6 lights mounted on it that's for mechanics, no matter which way you turn your hand you'll always have light for what your doing. In fact, didn't the US military used to have a flashlight that had a 90 degree bend so you could have the flashlight strapped to your BDU or in a vest pocket and it'd be facing forward?

*gets the pitch forks and torches* NECROMANCER! Seriously though, players are Immune to the Zombie Virus. Stop bringing it up.

This doesn't really make any sense, look at a can of beans and look for that thing that says 'suggested serving size', its more than likely either not the whole can, or no more than one can. And while (before I went cold turkey) I can pound 2-3 cans of pepsi in one sitting it didn't really affect my thrist anymore (in real life). The thing about 'promoting' water and meat as opposed to soda and canned food is already in, meat recovers much more blood than canned food, and water bottles are reusable. If anything they should add more than one 'serving' per water bottle.

- Police cars abandoned in the streets, shotgun spawn inside. Yes! - Other rescue vehicles left at the scene. Yes! - Hospitals overrun, lots of corpses, extra medical tents and so on. There is evidence of this currently, look better at the Cherno East Hospital, they set up medical tents accross the street next to a factory as well as looks like the military tried to protect the hospital itself with barbwire. Berezino's hospital looks the worse off, I'm guessing it was the last stand for Chenarus' Military. - More corpses in cars, apartments etc. Yes - Less clutter in the roads(road blocks), more abandoned vehicles. How would this be a sign of the zombie apoc? People were panicking and try to get somewhere 'safe'. People are shitty drivers under the best conditions, now add OMG ZOMBIES FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK! and there's gonna be a lot more accidents. People would try and hunker down and defend against something, maybe set up roadblocks to keep people infected from going into their village or to try and stop the zombies with the blockades. - Some areas still have power/limited power. Rocket has pretty much said no to this, any power generation would have broken down or 'tripped' to use his words without people to keep it up and running. Even a hydro electric dam needs to be maintained, power surges happen which need to be dealt with and repaired, not to mention shit just breaking down without routine maintenance and the power infrastructural itself going tits up. When we play we are Months to Years after the infection started and we don't fully know what transpired during the outbreak (might have been EMP blast or something, a power surge caused during the outbreak might have destroyed/knocked out the entire grid, ect. - Hoards roaming through the map, players will have to fight or flight. I'm all for this - Some houses should look like someone tried to barricade them. Pretty sure it's gonna happen. - Some signs on houses saying "survivors inside" etc. Like in 28 days/weeks later.' Помогите! Из водки! is more likely, forgive the joke. Seriously though Выжившие внутри! and other signs in Cyrillic. Theres little 'scenes' all around that kinda tell the story while still leaving you wonder 'what the fuck happened?'

I was on a private hive that started you off with a Winchester and food (forget if they gave a pistol) I spawned in either kamarovo or balota and ran to balota airfield, scouting around and i find a motorbike, one tire was broken but i could still ride/drive it so i hopped on and drove down the airfield to the hangers, hoping for a tire. All of a sudden I start hearing rapid fire gunshots and 'plink' noises hitting my dirtbike. So i hit shift and try to get away as fast as possible with the bike (around 12kph), I get to the hangers, jump off and run for the safety of one of the warehouses, I get shot at a bit and return fire (He had an AKS74u, I still just had the Winchester After a moment I ventured out of the hanger to try and get back to my bike. All this time I was showing my cousin the game to try and get him interested for standalone and he points the guy out, "THERE GET HIS ASS!" I see a bandit in a bush and fire as fast as I can into it, some how I survived the entire thing only needing bandaging (probably one of my only direct kills in DayZ). I died shortly after that by a separate bandit but still.

They are making the game more optimized, but not by converting it to Fallout's system, which more than likely would put more strain on the server than help with any player side lag. What you propose would be just too difficult to implement the way you say, they could do something where there's rubble blocking all paths into the city and you have to go into the sewers or some kind of metro system, but it wouldn't be a loading screen, you just open a manhole cover or walk into the subway like you would any existing building, crawl/run around for a bit then either walk up some stairs or climb up a ladder to get in. It wouldn't reduce any lag or optimize anything, Id just be kinda a cool city to play in/defend, not to mention still being open to choppers landing in them. Chenarus' building's aren't tall enough and the roads are too wide for things to happen like how you want. There's no skyscrapers, tallest building is the International Hotel and that's maybe only 10-20 floors tall? The next tallest thing would be a lot of the industrial buildings, and there wouldn't really be a reason to bomb those (If anything they would probably be something the military would protect and try to use as shelters or for the forlorn hope of trying to get them up and running again after all this is over) There will be more 'destruction' in the game (There was a photo of what looked like Cherno's supermarket with a commercial airliner crashed into it). And to be honest I don't think Chenarus' military was big enough to use 'shock and awe' against the infected. Theres evidence in the major cities that they used mostly ground troops and barricades to try and halt the infected (the hospital in Berezino kinda looks like a last stand to me)

Suggested before but still worth mentioning. Not sure if they could get the firehose to function how you want though, with current game physics.

Theres a little thing under Options called Controls, you can see what does what and can even change what button does what.

The mechanic wouldn't really work the same for DayZ, DayZ is a multiplayer game vs Fallout being single player. DayZ just has one big open map rather than the the large map and entering buildings/smaller maps with Fallout, not to mention Helicopters. They would have to basically remake the game (again) if they switched to the Fallout/Skyrim style.

I support this, we need a few more civilian guns in this game. And yes there are hunting air rifles (co2 and hand pump I believe, co2 being more convenient) If it were added it'd probably be my choice of weapon when I'm alone, going hunting, or scaving in a city. A silent and deadly weapon none the less, just be sneaking around more with it rather than running around like an idiot with a Lee. And fuck yes I'd use this for hunting. Maybe able to make/craft/smelt ammo from tin cans (like 2 slugs per can?) or scrap metal

Hammer, Wrench, screwdriver...wait that might be a bit lethal...

They don't suck, and theres another post like this literally made less than 4 hours ago. And a light is a light at night and while yes road flares are MEANT to be seen from a distance you would still see a latern from far away, you still get beans for the suggestion however for alternate sources of light.

There's really nothing they can do to stop people from posting loot maps. If anything it might just 'incite' more people to post loot maps just to spite the rules. The Whitehouse asked/suggested/threatened to not post photoshops of the Obama Skeet Shooting photo...and look where that got them.

Road flares aren't useless, but you get beans anyway. Don't know if the M203 flares do damage to someone if you shoot them with it but they should do a little at least, as well as the Flare gun you propose as well as a chance of setting the target on fire. Like a pointblank head shot with a flare would probably kill anyone or nearly kill them, but any other range should still do at least a little bit of damage.

@ Enforcer Just a suggestion, for the contamination it could range from anything from some kind of nerve agent or poison to Radiation. I know radiation isn't easy to clean up/decon or even possible really given current tech so maybe just some kind of really bad toxin. Maybe at a security checkpoint or two theres a decon shower and hazmat suits to clean your gear, would be the only two so it'd be easy to camp more than likely, and there would be zombies there to deal with before you can decon. Im sure there's other ways to balance it out so its not just a loot fest. Maybe the factory only has Russian/Soviet equipment and gear inside, so no finding Stanag or .50BMG or any other NATO rounds there.

No, it wouldn't be a good mechanic and people DO care about 'that shit'. Frankly Rocket (the guy making this wonderful game) cares, as well as a lot of other people myself included. He might not be giving us a set storyline other than the Infected/zombies are not dead, just rabid, and that we survivors are immune to the virus, but still, if he were to backtrack on that just to satisfy a few who want to be zombies or have to deal with zombification this game would suck. Imagine for a moment you could get the zombie virus, you spawn and before you even get a chance to pick up an ax you get bitten and infected in Kamenka, now unless you just die and add to the zombie population you're gonna be running your ass off to Cherno hospital, oh look bandits and snipers camping the hospital and kill you with a chest shot, you respawn same thing happens, Kamenka, infected, Cherno, Asshole camper, respawn. By the time the camper logs off/runs out of ammo theres 20 zombie yous standing infront of the hospital. OH good you finally kill em all and get into the hospital, guess what, no Antibiotics. Now imagine the other side of that. You're going along, you're set gearwise, top of the fucking pole, and your just looking for food, BLAM Troll takes out your legs and knocks you out, Troll runs up, bandages and bloods you up as well as steals any meds you have in your pack but leaves all your other gear, then fires off a lee enfield before running off, zombies come and infect you, troll kills em off so they dont kill you and leaves you with your broken leg and zombie infection KILOMETERS away from the nearest hospital/medical spawn, laughing at you the whole time.

I normally don't like to double post but this idea seams to merit its own rather than just something added on as an Edit. Possibly add a Chernobyl type environment up there. An abandoned city and some outlying villages military bases (Abandoned before the outbreak so very little if any zombie spawns) but the area is contaminated with either some toxin or radiation Say a weapons factory that was producing chemical weapons or something, lotta guns and ammo with little to no Zombie risk, but you'd need a hazmat suit of some kind to explore it without dieing horribly, and you'd need to decontaminate any weapons/ammo you find as well as whatever you bring with you. Would probably be a PVP fest but for thouse daring to venture to the Factory and survive they payout would be worth it. Surrounding towns would have little to no supplies, and they would be contaminated (food, water, and drinks would be contaminated/inedible/undrinkable) and even the protective suits would degrade so while you 'could' set up camp in the area it wouldn't be a good idea. It would be an area to get in, grab what you need/want and get out, and even then you'd have consequences (having to decontaminate all your gear/clothes/vehicles that you took with you after you get out of the area or risk getting the toxin in your bloodstream and getting sick)

Not quite sure what they could put 'up there' but a good idea no less. Extending the rail line as well as the 'highway' from Berezino would be a 'well duh' if there's a city up there. From the map it looks like there's an inlet (Guba) for the river you were talking about, as well as the roads north of Gvozndo and Grozovy Pass. Maybe a boarder town or two but mostly wilderness that slowly transitions to snow/mountainous regions before coming upon towns and cities. Another option would be to add about a 1-2km around the boarder in whats now the debug plains, and just make it wilderness and maybe extending the roads. This could be the 'safe' areas (and by safe I mean the forests are so thick you can't see anything very well from the air and you could actually hide a car in the forest without it sticking out like a sore thumb, good place to camp but your still vulnerable to people scouting through the forest)

I think they should double the number of ground vehicles (I think the average limit on a vanilla server is 1 of each of the cars with a couple of cars having 2 per server, 8 bikes, 4 motorcycles and 12 ATVs, I would double the number of cars but not the bikes/ATVs) but if anything they should reduce the number helicopters (Think its two of each per sever type per server, not sure) While it can be fun to play on 400 vehicle servers, for a public/vanilla server i think it should be a reasonable amount, especially if their going to double/triple the number of max players per server.