Smith Comma John

Nobody. I've been playing MMOs for the last decade and a half, the archtypes that are playing out in this thread are nothing new, despite what you all seem to think. Most people tend to play MMOs with a 'if its red (ie not implicitly friendly) its dead' attitude, and then there is the very vocal forum minority who whine and scream about how everyone kills them. This is a game. Dying is part of this game. I derive satisfaction from being hard to kill and good at killing, if you get it from teaming up with or helping strangers, you've missed your path in life. Go out into the real world and help people there. Nobody cares about how you administered a blood bag to a stranger or decided not to shoot a bambi, however, you make a youtube video about killing or robbing other players and you'll get hits. We don't play violent video games to be nice, if you do, you are weird. Trying to convince the rest of us that your bizarre way of playing the game is the only RIGHTEOUS AND HONORABLE way to play is just silly. Go lose 4 hours of work to a bambi with a makarov and a mic who can say the word 'friendly' long enough to keep you guessing. I hope he enjoys your stuff. Another thing I would like to note: You choose to get angry about dying in a video game. I just spawned 10 minutes ago with nothing on the coast, when I logged out last, I had a DMR/Mk.48/M9SD along with every other thing I could want. I didn't die, the game just decided to reset everything regarding me (my bandit hood! :( ), but ya know what? I get to enjoy gearing up again. If I die its the same thing. If getting killed bothers you, this really isn't your game. (Don't give me any shit about it not bothering you either, if it didn't, you wouldn't have moral qualms with killing other players on sight, as you would understand that it doesn't matter to reasonable people.) This game is about patience. If you don't have it, get the fuck out. Twelve-year-old. Or don't, I like having a deeper understanding of the games I play than my opposition. Maybe I just like winning.

Not....really. At all. I don't actually know anyone who plays this game as non-bandit, and none of the people I know who play this game are console gamers. I think you have confused console gamers with players who make intelligent choices. You seem to think that your e-honor style of play is fun. Cool, enjoy it. However, it isn't a logical approach to DayZ at all, and so you should hardly be surprised when the rest of us take advantage of your idiocy. (I call you an idiot for not understanding that there is always a reason to KOS.)

Why use non-silenced weapons against zeds if you can acquire silenced ones? M14s are loud as fuck and just shitty zed poppers for that reason. Frankly, if you don't play this game as majority bandit, you're 12 or retarded. DayZ isn't one of the more social MMOs, it is a sandbox where the only true entertainment is derived from getting sweet guns and killing other players with them. If you get your rocks off by helping other players in a video game, you should stop playing and volunteer for an actual cause.

The answer is more 'why not?' after considering the pros and cons of shooting other players on sight. Cons ???? Pros I get their stuff. Maybe they don't have anything I need, but if that's the case I still haven't lost anything except a few bullets. I am not dead because they are. Players make more entertaining opponents than zombies, but there is a thrill in catching someone well geared totally off-guard----you get their shit and they don't have a chance to return fire. Some people take this game way too seriously (and are also ignorant of spawn locations and poor fighters/zombie managers, so it takes them longer to recover from a death) and their outraged reactions are entertaining. Let me see if I can't show you my perspective a bit by telling you how I play through this game. I start out by picking a fairly low pop server (fewer than 10) players. I kill myself until I spawn in either Balota, Electro, or Cherno. Once there, I run through the entire city and loot every major spawn. (Military/Store/Big Res Spawns) If I find a player before I have a weapon I run, if I find one after, I kill the player in the hopes that his gear can advance me along a bit so that I don't have to look elsewhere for say...a box of matches or a decent pack. After I loot a whole city in this fashion I usually end up with most of the tools I could use (toolbox/hunting knife/axe/BoM/map), at least one decent primary weapon and a secondary weapon. Once I've got that shit I set a nav point to Starry and run there. Once again, any players I encounter I kill in the hopes that they will have some of the things I'm looking for. Later on, finding things like Rangefinders and NVGs is time consuming as all hell unless you get them from another player, which I do 95% of the time. I cautiously enter Starry (I'll usually lie in overwatch for a bit to make sure no one is there waiting) and go to the tents and then the supermarket. I loot those things, then I set a nav to the NWAF and go loot it. Several times along the way, if server pop goes up too much I'll find another low pop server to go on (looting the NWAF on a high pop server is just not worth the trouble) and if there are spawning issues on a server I join...I join another and loot the same building again. Anyway, I want to end up with two rare or higher quality weapons (sniper rifle preferred for one of those), an ALICE pack or better, every tool I need to fix vehicles, feed myself, and navigate, and either a PDW or silenced M9 as a secondary weapon. Once I have all of that, I meet up with my other friends who have been doing the same shit, we go onto a high pop server and try to find/steal vehicles and accumulate gear in a secluded camp (along with the vehicles) with the eventual goal of having a helicopter for the group, and several ground vehicles and several tents stocked with weapons/equip/food/repair parts/etc. and on a personal level having your favorite weapon combo (for me happens to be DMR/Mk 48/M9-silenced), NVGs, Rangefinder, GPS, Gillie Suit, and a Coyote Pack. At that point we fly around playing vengeful gods of DayZ destroying everything we can because it's what we find entertaining.

This trollop comes up in every game with a social element and the ability to kill other people. Some people just don't like interacting with (usually idiotic) strangers and play the game with friends. Players are just really tough (or sometimes not) zeds. Frankly, I don't understand the impulse to team up with crowds of strangers or leave others alone...this game isn't that hard. Zombies are not difficult or cunning opponents. If you find yourself continually dying to them, maybe you should find another game. If you think there should be that level of risk and no more, maybe you should find another game. There's permadeath here folks, if you can't handle it, maybe you should find another game. Try EVE Online sometime.