finalstraw

Name: -lOldBoyl- Location: United Kingdom GUID: 0ad80059bce7d6c08f540b0de4c89e25 Reason: Want to play a decent and populated UK server with admins.

Yeah, I started using it recently. It's a thousand times better than SixLauncher/Updater

The standalone would cost $60 and we wouldn't see it come out for years. Screw that.

OP seems butthurt.

Ok, some you got some good kit... now go survive. Seriously, see how long you can stay alive. It's not as easy as it sounds, make that an objective/challenge.

Playing at night is a different challenge but alot of players are babies and refuse to see any benefit of playing at night so they won't. It's a shame because playing at night can be alot of fun in friends/squads.

I think in the standalone the borders should be blocked with walls and structures to enforce the quarantine and guarded by a largely unseen military force. If you get too close to the border/walls or attack them they will shoot you.

The fall damage/death is very over the top but then falling doesn't even have a proper animation, this is something that could be addressed in the standalone. Going into a barrel roll or the character bending the knees would be enough to stop this and falling from the second level of a barn (or similar building) shouldn't be as life threatening as it currently is.

Should be very rare, like any of the high end military gear (excluding GPS).

Sounds like a Cherno sniper to me.

Loads of these servers, it's much harder to find real-time servers than daytime/minus GMT servers. Too many of these servers in fact.

All these enviromental cues can convey alot of narrative about the world of DayZ without actually saying it or leaving it to the imagination of the players. The Left 4 Dead did a good job at this with the survivor graffiti and other setups.

No immunity to virus/disease (like the civilians) or killed by zombies/people seems the most logical thing. In the stand-alone I hope they replace these bodies with ones in further stages of decompostion to reflect this. Other indicators could include more civilian bodies, crashed cars, old blood splater etc. The DayZ lore isn't very well established yet, when this goes stand-alone when the new/updated map is designed I'm sure Rocket will fill in the blanks a bit on these things. I think he's already worked out some of this stuff, he hints at it alot in interviews.

Nothing is currently stopping you from playing together. All you need is a map and compass... not even that. Meet your friends at x location, then stick together and give yourself some objectives each night. When you are finished, log off together and repeat. The only thing stopping you doing this is if you get yourself killed every night... but that's not the game fault is it.

Q: In the stand-alone release do you have plans to properly close off the map? Perhaps a guarded wall/quarantine zone by an AI force (UN/US/PMC?) on the edges of the map. You could even have neutral security posts on the border where survivors could exchange tissue samples (an item) from the zombies (infected) in exchange for food/ammunition. (Possible "end game" could include collecting x amount of samples to buy freedom)

Well nobody gives a fuck except horny virgins so who cares. Remember rule 30.

Until the devoted (insert other religion) turn up. BRB going on crusades.

Laziness isn't the correct word really. This is all about patience, or rather the people who seriously lack it. They just want everything now.

They could have started work on it before DayZ as they claim but they are clearly jumping on the DayZ bandwangon and it's almost a guarantee they have taken note of what DayZ is doing and likely had some influence on the design and features of the game. It's still early yet. Oh well, a bit of competition is always healthy and I forward to trying it.

No, but It seems like you and others are expecting the wrong things out of this game. Arma/Dayz isn't like every other FPS game on the market. Arma is a tactical military similation and DayZ doesn't have a cleary defined genre. It's a persistant world survival/horror/RP shooter with a very strong emphasis on realism. No triple AAA FPS is like it. It plays nothing like Call of Duty, even Battlefield these days is just glorfied TDM with flags and vehicles. Those games are super fast pased, action heavy pick up and play games on small maps. This isn't L4D with magical resurrection closets. If you come to this game expecting any of that you just don't get it. The idea of a squad spawning system is ludicrous, the risk of dying is simply that. That character is dead. The reason you are dead is because you make a mistake, next time try not to make that mistake.

Like Call of Duty? Boohoo. ZedsDeadBaby makes a totally valid point, everything he descibes me and many others have done within a group. I never died once when I played with other people. It's only recently when I've been playing lonewolf style that things have been more difficult, so if you are frequently dying with friends you are doing something wrong. If you are dying this much I'm not so convinced you have "the basics down" Maybe you and the people you play with need to be more cautious and plan things out a bit better.

How so? It's just a skin, I'll shoot either if they seems hostile/attack me. What I mean is no REAL woman play this so you shouldn't hesitate you shoot a survivor if its a dodgy situation.

Well stop getting killed so often then, use more caution and work together better.

Same, I feel naked without the basics. I guess people have different priorities. "Goooota get my snipurs rifle so i canz shoot me some scubz on da beach hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!"

It's a fine line really. Majority of the time I do my best to avoid contact with other players. If they haven't seen me I'll watch for a second and try to see what the "survivor" is carrying. I'll often just GTFO, the same if I hear I hear distant gunshots. I got killed by some bandits scum recently. Dude opened fire on me instantly. 42 days alive and two weeks without seeing another survivor.... I respawned at Bolota, found an axe but suddenly came across two guys in the dark. I snuck up behind them when they went inside a buidling and axed them both to death and took everything they had. My first two non-defensive murders and my first axe kills. 40 mins later I found a crashed heli, got a another FN FAL and then found a dead body with some NVGs... win!!!