Target Practice (DayZ)

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/155358-security-vulnerabilities-fixed-by-patch-2-and-character-wipe/

Yeah, I don't like the idea that anyone should be 'forced' to do anything in DayZ - that's not the kind of game it is. If people want to work together, they will. If they want to play alone, we should let them.

Yup. You take a full swing from a melee weapon in the face, you're going down.

I live in the UK, I'm 29 years old and I don't know my blood type. It's simply never been something that's come up (no matter how many times I tell myself I must get round to giving blood).

If you're not wearing a silly hat, you're doing DayZ wrong. :p

I shall share with you all my ninja secrets, passed down from generation to generation for dealing with zombies without even getting hit. Joust 'em. Run towards them, as you get close, start swinging whatever weapon you have so that you'll hit them as you run past. Keep running for another second or two, then turn round and run at them again, doing the same. Takes a little while to get the timing of the swing right, but as long as you keep that W key held down, they won't hit you at all.

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/155358-security-vulnerabilities-fixed-by-patch-2-and-character-wipe/ Sorry for your loss, buddy. Still, time to start again! :)

Zombie behaviour is going to be all over the place for a while - I know it wasn't tremendously long ago that it was actually being considered that they might launch the Alpha without zombies for performance reasons. so yeah, the 'intelligence' part of 'artificial intelligence' is dialled way, way down on them at the moment, but it's a known thing and it'll be looked at. During testing I believe it was very similar - there were multiple new builds each day, and each build would change their behaviour slightly. One time they'd be so docile you could walk up and flip 'em the bird. The next build, they'd chase you for miles. :p

OHGODMYEYES Just a tip - paragraphs help us read your posts a lot better - that's a bit of a tough read at the moment. :)

tl;dr seriously though, good job

I know, right? You should see that Orlok guy - I've seen footage of him burning a $50 bill to light a cigar. It's disgusting.

PLEASE tell me this has a small chance of killing you. :p

There's a ten-page thread on the subject. Maybe you could check that out? :)

The model for them is pretty small and dark-coloured, so it's very easy to miss - unless you've spent literally the whole of those 60 hours on the coast (which is picked clean of absolutely everything right now), I'd be pretty surprised if you hadn't come across any at all. But yeah, you're right - soon it won't matter anyway, because the function to open them with sharp stuff will be working again.

You could check one of the several threads about it that already exist. ;)

It's a temporary issue that'll be sorted in future updates - obviously at this early state, getting the game up and running smoothly is the priority. The playability and balance issues will come later on. Frustrating, I know, but them's the breaks with Alpha testing. :)

Place iphone on table. Pick up brick. Lower brick onto iphone with great force. Repeat as necessary.

Can't speak for the whole time, but there's an ongoing issue with the servers at the moment that's a problem on Steam's end. That's why you can't get online at the moment.

Dunno anything about a global chat, but there's an announcement here about the connection issues.

DarwinZ. :D

Apparently. They were the SA equivalent of Mountain Dew.

You should have tried this shit in the testing phase when can openers were harder to find than M4s.

Come on buddy, you've been here long enough to make 22 posts, you should know where the 'search' function is by now - I've answered this question myself three times today already. As I'm here anyway, I'll answer - at the moment, there is no option to use it - it's not been implemented yet, but it'll be added soon. Now go forth and find that 'search' button. ;)

The thing is though, that would detract from what brought so many people to DayZ in the first place - the fact that it was something different - it was a survival game, and it absolutely didn't hold your hand - if you didn't know something, you learned it fast or you died and then you learned it. It's a slightly harsh way to put it (and it's not intended as a jab at you personally), but if a player isn't willing to put the 'hard yards' in and learn about the basic building blocks that make the game what it is, then they don't deserve the rich and varied experiences those building blocks can create. Like has already been illustrated here, blood types can force bandit players to need to kidnap a passing player in the hope that they have a matching blood type, whereas before, they might just have shot him just for the lulz. I do understand that it's a steep learning curve for new players, and I haven't forgotten the numerous cheap deaths I suffered in my own early days, but those deaths were learned from, and they gave me experience to carry forward deeper into the wonderful sandbox that is Chernarus.

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum-76/announcement-8-important-announcement-servers-not-showing-and-waiting-for-host/ It's at the top of nearly every page, and there's a hundred threads on it already. :)