Pandema

Never trust women in gaming. Never. Even if its a guy with a female avatar. NEVER TRUST THEM.

Just be patient, they'll put it out when the rubber banding issue is fixed (and its hella bad on experimental).

Hackusations with no proof? INB4GY

Because at this point there is nothing better to do, none of the survival aspects have been implemented yet. So, to pass the time some of us indulge in murdering the innocent in violent and fun ways. For example, I shot a coastal in the legs today. Dropped a splint on the ground 20m away. As he started to get close to it, I picked it up and walked off another 20m and dropped it again. This went on for 20 minutes or so before he tried to log out, at which point I shot him and stole his pants. Much more fun than running Military base to military base accruing ever larger stores of ammunition.

Its everyone telling OP he is a moron, and the occasional person who thinks this idea isn't shit for some reason.

If people aren't talking, making them own a mic won't make them talk You didn't read the thread You didn't read the thread

First, why would having a mic make people talk more? Second, what about mute players? Third, what about non-English speakers and those with thick accents? Making people buy piece of hardware to play a game is stupid, some of us have families and lives. When it comes down to it, most of us would rather buy food or a tank of gas than spend 20 bucks on a stupid mic.

Desync, you can mag dump someone and they'll have enough time to react and kill you before they drop. Either that our you missed both times.

So, this thread has devolved from a discussion on the pros and cons of a squad ID system to a dick measuring contest between a game that isn't available yet and one thats still in pre-alpha. Stay classy DayZ. And I just realized that guys name is UltimateGentleman and had a giggle.

I'd like to point out. None of those servers can enforce ANYTHING they have listed in their names. Its just to bait in carebears so they can justify the money they're spending.

Somethings gotta be special about you people. I've got close to 200 hours in the game and I have never encountered ONE hacker, and everyone on these forums seems to be dieing of hacks every 30 seconds.

INB4 Penis armbands Also, wouldn't it be easier to spot people wearing your same hat than it would be to see if they have a armband of the right color? So, you get to keep your super tactical green everything while still having a way to identify each other.

I like how the argument of "Well, you're just a fanboy!" counters everything apparently. Want guns with the right ammo? Fanboy Harder zombies? Fanboy Think clothing options are good enough to make a identification system irrelevant? Fanboy Thinks nights are fine? Fanboy Don't want X, Y, or Z thing? Fanboy Want X. Y, or Z thing? Fanboy Ever considered that people have differing opinions?

Zombies are still to easy imo. Jumped on the experimental today and fought off 4 zombies with a kitchen knife and never got hit....

Why not just dress up in the same types of clothes? Seriously, you don't need special group models if you all just wear the same stuff or just one piece that denotes you (hat, shirt, vest, backpack etc)

Caboose, isn't the point of opening an alpha/beta to the public so that we can have a say and what happens? So we don't have to take what we're given? Why bother participating in a alpha/beta if we're expected to shut up, sit down, and smile pretty?

Removing storage on death is a terrible idea. I want you to imagine something for me real quick. Lets say you're wandering across Chernarus and you suddenly find someones base. Its decently sized and has guns and goodies galore! Now, before you can take your pick of the loot the camps owner appears and starts shooting at you. You win this fight and suddenly *pop* everything in that camp associated with that guy just disappeared taking all the loot with it. Or, even better, you arrive at the camp and start looking through his stuff when suddenly, somewhere, the owner is shot/eaten/run over/drowns/burns to death/has his head caved in/chopped into pieces/falls off a building and his entire camp disappears.

Dispersion is kind of OK as a mechanic. Just not at current levels. I understand that we're not soldiers and that we're not all trained to shoot, and that our lack of experience presents all sorts of factors that are hard to factor into a game. But assigning dispersion numbers in what seems like a rather arbitrary manner is just insane. Having the attachments of the rifle (barring bi-pods and compensators) affect the accuracy is even more insane. Dial down the dispersion on the guns (seriously, some of these guns seem to be lacking rifling from the numbers) increase sway and recoil. I feel if Torchia had worded his post better no one would care. Saying no one cares about authenticity is going to get you some shit. If he'd said that the calibers wouldn't line up for a while because they want to focus on more important issues right now and would come back to it, would be fine.

So, I'd like to ask a question. When are we getting .45 and is it going to include hunting one patch day or is that going to be one of those major patch features that get shoved further down the line?

7.62x54/51/39 5.56x45 5.45x39 Those five calibers cover most if not every rifle currently in use by NATO and post-Soviet countries. I'd like someone to go over with me how having five calibers that cover most of the weapons we'll see in this game (because lets be honest we're not going to get a lot of civ weapons in the end) is too many and will overly bloat the loot tables (which isn't a bad idea actually).

Yes, because then its using its actual caliber.

Just to sidetrack a bit here. We're not arguing for pin-point accuracy. We're arguing for a system that isn't magical bullet dispersion. Give me an M4A1 with proper dispersion, sway and recoil and I'll be fine. Give me things I can compensate against and not some RNG bs.

This whole caliber thing annoys me. If its something that will go away as we progress through the Alpha I'm fine with it. But if its going to stay on 5.56x45 7.62x39 and generic 7.62 for the rest of DayZ's life span, that is just plain wrong.

Ammo in ArmA 2 had the mag names, and then below that it listed the ammo caliber. I put a 30rnd AK mag in my AK74, and in that AK mag was 5.45 and in my 30rd STANAG mag was 5.56 I didn't grab a box of 5.56 and shove it in my AK magazine and then fire off the whole damn thing with nothing bad happening.

I have to agree. For a game that claims to be trying to take a realistic approach its getting kind of arcade-y