OfficerRaymond

Hmm... My days go like this: Work from 5am to 1pm -> get home at 2pm -> eat, shower, clean -> play from 3pm til' bed which is usually at 10-11. That's of course not if my fiance wants to spend time with me, in which case I sign off early. She's usually too busy watching TV though. I'm a busy and tired man.

I'm gonna go rebel here and tell the truth at the same time. Makarov bitches. Reasons being: ammo EVERYWHEREQuietGood iron sights for zombiesWhen people do hear it, they think you're a fresh spawn/noob and either ignore or underestimate you.Sidearms IMO are for zombies or extreme close quarters with headshots being the only viable option. The makarov can easily kill players and zombies with headshots. My longest kill to date is an amazing 74.34 meters on a guy looting a schoolhouse in DayZ Origins. My second favorite? Oh yeah, more hate muhhfuggahs. The PDW. While not being very accurate it's useful as both a zombie killer AND a last ditch spray and pray self-defense gun, particularly if you happen to use crosshairs like I do.

True, but they still aren't going to die merely from being shot a few times. Look at World War Z as an example. They are 'infected' humans that don't just die from a few shots to the body. If zombies are to be scary in the Standalone, they need to be hard to put down unless you are efficient with a firearm.

WAY too many things need to be implemented before we even think about adding things like this in.

Good AnimationsThis was a serious issue when we saw the E3 presentation. Over the last few devblogs it has been discussed and looks much better. Your avatars movements should be fluent and realistic. No jittery movements or getting stuck in animations like in Arma II. Vaulting, crawling, crouching, and everything else needs to be fluent. We also need more animations... I don't know if I'd go this far, but if a sniper is looking at me, I wanna be able to flip him the bird before I run away. CrosshairsIn my opinion crosshairs SUCK. Not that they aren't useable, it's that they're TOO useable. So far we've seen placeholder cross-hairs in devblogs that are different from Armas OP green lines. They shouldn't be in-game at all. I personally don't even ADS anymore, I just find it much easier to use crosshairs unless I'm using a sniper rifle. Force players to use iron sights to shoot at things and only fire 'from the hip' in emergency situations.

I disagree. PvP doesn't need to be such a huge focus in the Standalone. 99% of people have a "lets kill everything" mentality and don't care about survival, that is why the mod is in the state it's in. We need to move from this mentality to a survival one. I don't like forcing play-styles on people, and try to avoid it... However, I WILL force what DayZ was originally meant to be on people, and that is a zombie survival game. We aren't going to go any farther than just a game that is looked at as an attempt at a standalone survival simulator that is laughed at as a joke on forums everywhere if we continue down this massive PvP lined road. Whether people like to admit it or not )probably gonna get shit for this) but that is where the mod is at right now. It's basically Wasteland with aggressive melee NPCs is what it is. If Standalone doesn't change that, it'll turn into the same thing as the mod, an inside joke. I agree with your points too. Hackers will always be present in gaming, particularly PC gaming where it's so easy to access debugs and commands. What will be crucial is a good anti-hack program and devs making the game hard to modify.

You also didn't have to tell him to shut his mouth either, but ya' did. He's entitled to your opinion as much as you are. Whether or not the server owners care is far from the point, that isn't what this is about. OP isn't calling out server owners he's calling out the concept of 'donations' as a whole. You're pretty far off the point of the thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donation vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment

Alright, fine, they're infected citizens operating off of the basic primal instinct to attack. You don't know if their body is still functioning, they technically could be re-animated dead people. We don't have a backstory. :P Whatever they are, they need to be more dangerous and scary.

You seem to assume that we are whining in the first place, when we're just pointing out stupid where it is seen. Not too difficult in this case.

Seeing as how Dean Hall and BI are developing a product meant for distribution, of course they should make money off of it... And seeing as how server owners are paying a company for a service so that they can own a server, no, they shouldn't make money off of it. They don't personally provide the server for others, they merely rent the spaces from a provider. You literally just provided the stupidest assumption I have read in a long while. I never implied anything of the sorts. Do you buy a car and then ask random people driving on the road with you to help you recoup the losses? The plain fact of you assuming that I think that way is just ignorant, and what is even more ignorant is you assuming that this would apply to much more broad circumstances. We're talking about servers here bud, try to stick to the topic.

Well of course. I'm not discussing immediate death of the game here, just the long run. It'll be either a game like WoW where people enjoy it for years, or a game like CoD where everyone moves on after a year or two of the same thing. The fact that the mod has lasted this long is amazing, and its fate is rested on the shoulder of the currently amazing forum community we have, and people that adhere to what DayZ was originally meant to be. I do agree with you on the fact that the game will no doubt be big. But where it goes from release is up to both the content the dev team puts forth, and the decisions the community decides to make.

If they cannot afford to buy and maintain a server from their own pocket in the first place then they shouldn't have bought one ya' fuckin' twit. Your level of stupid is unfathomable. He can complain about what he wishes, it's a community forum. I don't think a person should be judged upon what server they play on. I personally currently play on both a donation server and a +1000 vehicle server. Does that make me a PvP douchebag noob that can't play the game? No. I adhere to the way I play DayZ. I don't donate, I don't constantly PvP, and I hardly use cars. I spawn in just like every one else, and refuse to group with anyone that has donated. I personally have forbid my own group to donate, and anyone that does so is banned from my teamspeak. Don't be so quick to judge everyone by what server they like to play on. .

As for me? I think I'll get used to the wilderness. Most likely will solo explore and shite my pants when I get shot at.

What most likely happened, is another group of people had their own chopper and went looking for others hard work. When they find one, they merely have someone eject and take it.

That is such a bleak and pessimistic outlook on humanity. I know, there would be bad people out there doing bad things to others. But you honestly think that the majority of people would try to kill or rob others? You can't really take what you see in movies to heart, they are just movies. I don't disagree with people avoiding others, but when it comes to this topic and just murdering for the hell of it... I seriously doubt if something like DayZ actually ever happened, that there would be the level of mass murder and lack of concern for another person.

No. Modding for DayZ will continue for anyone that still wants to play around with it. The standalone and the mod are two totally separate things.

There, are, so, many, commas, in this, post. You, don't have, to, pause... every, time, you speak. Do. You? Not a bad idea. Depends on how it's implemented.

Dude..... I think we can seriously all agree that was WAY over-analyzed. My findings? The chopper was desynced as fuck and crashed... that Glock had nothing to do with the chopper going down.

DayZ has to start with Arma II, and it automatically loads whatever character you had selected when you last played, including appearance.

I misread the title glancing at it and thought it said "Zombie Feces".... But that's off topic and random. Carry on. Edit: To answer your question. They should be in customize character when you click edit profile in Arma II.

Nah', I'll just make you look unintelligent again and then people can decide for themselves who they think the moron is. No 'troll baiting' necessary. ^This looks pretty contributing. I don't think I made up any of that. What do you all think people? Lets see some beans. This doesn't look too trollish to me. But what do I know? im juz not on ur lvl. I'm going to stop as well. However not for the same reason you are. You are right in the sole fact that me arguing with someone so single-minded isn't contributing anything to this thread, and I don't wanna be the reason people can't post anymore. We'll see how many beans your posts get, and how many mine get. That way the community will have a say in who they think is the troll. Edit: Since you edited your post, I'll edit mine. My intention was to never get you to explain yourself, it was to point out that you have been saying the same thing over and over not proving anything, but still claiming how right you are. Like I said you'd do, you're assuming I haven't read the entire thread to trick yourself into thinking that you're right, but you're only fooling yourself. How would I know that you were arguing with mZLY a few pages back if I hadn't read through the pages? LOGIC!

Why don't you move on? I'm still providing actual content to the thread, and you're merely tossing out "whatevs br0" and "yeh rite d00d". It seems as if you've given up, and that's okay... Nothing wrong giving up when the going gets tough, everyone is doing it these days anyway. To the mods. Excuse this post and its irrelevance to the topic at hand. But someone had to snip Massicors umbilical cord.

See? Yet again you come to the assumption that the person that disagrees with you hasn't read the thread and is therefore 'below you'. I've read every single post in this thread thoroughly, and you honestly haven't been informative or reasonable more than maybe once. Say whatever you like about me not reading the thread to make you feel better about yourself and your presumed intelligence. Who the hell is trolling here? It really seems like you bud. I didn't try to start anything with you, I merely engaged in disagreement with you. Yet you ask for a mod to lock a perfectly good thread due to the fact that you think people are trying to troll you, when really you're just out of semi-intelligent words. I don't wanna get into an argument over intellect, but I think it's you that should step back and read what you've written, and then determine who has the trouble with comprehension skills. One of the hardest things on this forum is trying to remain composed when arguing with a self-endowed genius that can't even compose coherent sentences. <-- You wanted trolling? There it is.

Exactly. It's like playing the role of a murderous psychopath in any post-apocalyptic scenario. They will yes, exist. However there won't be nearly the ratio that DayZ has. In fact it'd be the complete opposite. Most people would want to help others out instead of murder them for no apparent reason other than to add a mark on their rifle. I myself do in fact play the heavy bandit role. I only kill those that are a threat to myself or my squad, or people that own things that I wish to acquire myself that I believe will assist in survival. Like if someone has a DMR and I have a... m16. If I believe I can (or my squad can) kill that person without putting myself or my partners in direct risk, so that I can further my chances of survival, then I'm going to most likely tactically and strategically eliminate that person. On the flip side, if some poor sap is running across a field five hundred meters away with a gun that doesn't pose any immediate threat to myself (or my partners of course) then I'm not going to put anybody in danger when I most likely won't gain anything from it. However, if that person approaches me or my squad or fires at us, making him a direct threat, he's going to find himself being surgically picked apart. Simply put, I do enjoy PvP and the adrenaline rush that comes with it. But I don't go buck wild with killing everything and everyone I see. I still stick to the basic principal that DayZ was founded upon... survival. Constant KoS is one of the main reasons why people get bored of DayZ. It isn't a heavily action based game to begin with. Combine that with the fact that you don't spawn with gear, and you've got boredom within months if not weeks.