Slyguy65

So I log in after a few months, and my 3rd person guy still has all his stuff, with mosin and long range I then proceed to go to svet up north and practice sniping. So im up on the mountains looking at the town, and after trying to shoot zombies on looters, I fail hard and don't even think i hit either one. Anyway after about 2 stacks of ammo later, I thought I was frozen, but in fact my guy stood up and was stuck leaning, the gun was unequipped, and I soon realized it was just GONE. Not unequipped...gone. Not on the ground, not in bag. So uh ya WTF???? This has never happened to me before is this a glitch? Do scripters have power to do stuff like this now? Shedding light on this BS would be helpful.

Well thanks for shedding light on something I thought was impossible, the game became shittier than it already was. I am done.

Now for the people who execute bambis...ya they are assholes but for people like me and others who agree with this. Shooting and or killing bambis is not a form of grief or being a dick its much more practical than that. I shoot at bambies to improve my accuracy. Ya i can shoot a geared guy camping no prob...but those guys running across a field...nope, so what better way to practice then at the moving target range (coast). Do i do this alot, no. Is it a valid way of learning how to shoot moving targets, yes. Better to camp the coast and kill freshies then camp an airfield to kill people who invested hours. Think about that. P.S Guns do different levels of damage between zombies and humans. Perfect example: When the SKS first came out I killed zombies in one hit im like SWEET ONE HIT GUN. Get into a fire fight I shoot a guy point blank two times he didn't die. Im like WTF, it was then I knew I would need to test guns to see how much damage they do to humans zombies were irrelevant. SKS takes 3-5 shots to down someone while the hunting rifle (blaze) takes two direct shots Now why would I go into fire fights not knowing the capabilities of my own equipment, only a fool does that. Lets not forget the most important fact of all... THIS IS ALPHA This period is meant to test and experiment, forcing yourself into a strict playstyle while ignoring other options is foolish since right now the game wants you to explore options and see what everything does. I made the topic not to justify playstyles but to point out the ridiculous notion that playstyles matter right now, the game is no where near complete and all the controversy between how others play is just not needed. Ya going out of your way to be a dick (knee capping people, which i made a rant post about) ya that is just wrong, but if you have a reason for doing things other than to just be a dick to people then I don't see the issue. Also making controversial posts is fun every now and again.

Most deaths are without purpose, if you consider "eh i was bored" or "for the lulz". If those are reasons then that is the same as a psychopath saying the same to a real life murder, the only true reason is because they wanted to, aside from selfish (usually trollish) intent, there are very few justified reasons people kill, i would say the selfish drive to kill is 50% and the other 50% of people killing, are the ones killing the selfish ones out of defense. Don't try and fantasize the game, its not as hardcore or in depth as people like to think. Its a game, where it takes a lot of time to do and get stuff, a lot of people know this and take enjoyment from shafting everyone else from doing this. Or they have collected whatever they wanted and decided to play the open world CoD part of the game. Until a game comes out that truly encourages survival and not simply rewarding those who troll the ones trying to survive i doubt anything philosophical and deep along the lines of this thread will be needed. I honestly don't see how you can make an open ended game with actual consequence without it being too restricting. Dayz is just, a virtual kill space, no consequence for the ones without a care other than to kill people (which is most at this point). The only ones punished in this game are the ones who actually try and survive. And to me that is fucked up. Added text "But, sly,not everyone is a dick their are heros and bandits, not just bandits." Oh ya, totally, waiting for karma's swift judgment to come and...oh look he died, good yes g....oh look he respawned and is back to camping and killing....ya its a game, the bad guys respawn and the good guys are so few and far its a ripple in the ocean. Lets not forget the fact almost every neutral goes bandit because of how fed up he/she is with trying to be good. Its like real life in that regard i think, there is more bad than good because people get tired of the bad winning. Also, that is the other thing, this game, because its just an open kill space people naturally created sides, in this case its hero and bandits. And with all the people wanting more ways to kill, well idk. I just dont understand why people don't just play arma 3 if they want an open kill space TDM...oh right, I forgot. Its not as enjoyable to grief in that game.

Dayz won't be perfect, its a protoype, a pioneer. It introduced players to hardcore survival genre. Now the only thing to do is wait until a better engine with a better game comes out. Though making hardcore survival possible in an online setting is kind of hard since it will always be filled with trolls out to simply kill the ones trying to stay alive, so until there is an actual solution to that no game like dayz will be the best it can be.

Why is dayz just now getting the amount of devs it needed at the very start (i.e dedicated teams for different areas; animals, ai, etc). At least from the vague updates I have read thats how it sounds its like they cut the ribbon for a new mall, and just now adding in the stores a few months in. TBH I notice this trend in f2p games (where we essentially give mmicro donations to kep the game updated with micro transactions). But for a title that asked for 30 dollars at the get go for a game that didnt start getting the man power it needed till later,just gives me mixed reactions. I can't tell if they brought in more people cause they could. Or cause they think they need to stay ahead of the f2p counterpart of their game, h1z1. If its the latter, would they just have left dayz stay in its turtle speed state if h1z1 hadnt been on the horizon?

Because dayz isnt even focusing on the IT factor itself The game is clearly flocked to because of griefing/deathmatch factor. NOT THE SURVIVAL..or lol..the zombies, rust has sown the environmental enemy can be whatever. This fact saddens me, but hey its the truth. I bet if they just did something like planetside 2 scale wise with no teams, and charecter customization and junk they would have what people are wanting. Which is simply an open world death match mmo. No matter how many cool things are added to dayz, whether they have fortifying or base building... or vehicle building or gathering, hunting. Nope, the majority will still just focus on the griefing, deathmatch aspect above all else. The other features will simply be icing on the cake when attempting to grief as hard as possible. It is actually kind of sick to me how people get off on how much they can piss someone lse off, like as sick as torture, cause it is really the same thing except to multiple people instead of just one. Ya I am kinda calling the game a circlejerk of griefers and spiters who want to fuck over eachother for fun. I thought the game would evolve past that 1 dimensional path and be more of survival sim with player created trades and stuff, but because of the lack of any actual things to do, like rstoring power, taking out hordes, finding military. The only thing people were imprinted with was "hmm no one here, oh wait *bang* yay something to do besides looting" TLDNR Dayz gave an awesome taste of what could be, unfortunately it lacked depth at the start and never really improved on that so people just got used to loving the only thing available; looting, killing. Because its all we know, there wont be any change (in behavior).

Or you know just reduce client side shit....that way hackers don't have much of a gateway

Yes I would like the ability to track humans threw fecal tasting.

So there was this link a couple months back where it sent me to a twitch highlight with rocket doing a q&a. Among a lot of things, the question about whether or not cars were going to take very long to be implemented was asked, and someone guessed at summer being the earliest. He replied saying with confidence that summer was a very conservative estimate and said spring would be a good guess. Well seeing as survival isn't even in yet, I am going to guess that vehicles probably won't be coming out until like winter. I assume summer will just bring the hunting/surviving update and fall will be more fixes hopefully, then winter will be more features. It is sad to see this game coming along slowly, but hey, after dealing with planetside 2 since launch; (gave up on that late 2013, side note I found out the continent they promised a year ago is still not out.). I think it is safe to say dayz hasn't gotten that bad yet, but honestly with the almost complete shut down of experimental servers (they are never up to my knowledge), as well as the fact that no real changes or fixes are happening (zombies still ignore physics, the only thing to do is just run/loot/shoot, no depth.) I am starting to think the game is not living up to what it could be. Yes you could say the re spawning zombies is a step in the right direction. But honestly that is about the only real sign of progress i have seen in almost 6 months. BTW guns, more trees, buildings. ARE NOT features, if this game is in ALPHA, we should be seeing more of the core features of the game being made. More guns and items and such are the extra stuff they can add any time. So ya, to me this SA is just looking like a reskinned mod with all those simple additions WHICH IS WHAT THEY SAID THEY WERE NOT DOING. And made it explicitly clear that that is the reason SA wasn't out a year ago. Personally I think BI just soaked up the money from the hype and is now just half assing the project to ensure as high a profit margin as possible. BUT HEY, that is just my thoughts.

Main thing i wanna see is the shape of containers affecting their storage shape

No servers pop up, except on favorites, try to connect, get kicked because authentication. WTF? This is on stable, with normal filters so things should appear. Anyone else have this happened to them? Edit* I think it may be steam related, like having those random blackouts on steam where it says no connection until awhile later. I guess since i never played dayz while it happened i never noticed how it would affect it.

More like "I hardly play this rarely updated game and on the night with a blue moon when i try, I get this"

This site is better

As one of them so elegantly points out WHO THE HELL DOES MAINTENANCE ON A FRIDAY NIGHT

Not bad...but the only thing i see people doing is just dumping AI with guns and more loot....nothing really different. Aside from the SA like melee system. Too bad dayz never became what it was meant to be....a survival sim, instead its just open world zombie pvp...no real consequence just kill die kill more....like the generic FPS...which makes me laugh since people say "go back to CoD"...when all they are playing is an open world version of CoD...

I just found the new amphibius s or w/e its called...shot it...found out it was silenced... Now im too scared to log in, cause I know i will lose it to some camper scum.

Ok so i saw one new house which is cool looks like a wild west saloon almost. But I also remember seeing on the blog, this warehouse looking building. Where can i find that? I have been to the new town but couldn't find it. Also besides the warehouse and saloon looking pub are there any other new buildings?

warehouse?

"Playing" the "game" Cute, considering last time i checked holding down a button isn't really playing a game....Or if you DO consider that "playing" I stand by the fact ALL PC MMO like games have auto run keys... So either way it makes sense to include one then to not have one.

The past 3 lives have honestly shown me the game and its playerbase/community/ players whatever. Are honestly just getting worse. And what I have learned from how this game is "changing" or IMO degrading, and making the game virtually UN-enjoyable to solo players who don't want to sit and camp a place just to kill every 30 minutes a person walks through. Its quickly becoming the only available play style for solo players and that is bullshit. Let me explain with 3 short simple stories (mind you these are back to back in one playthrough (4 hours). Mind you these all took place on full pop HARDCORE servers (and here i thought the people on hardcore had more finesse, and class). Life 1: I have tons of gear, cause honestly no one ever goes to the best loot place on map if you know what it is you know what i mean since the newest update. Anyway point is I can get 2 primaries and enough food and clothing for 2 people within 10-30 minutes, so looting is simple and easy and honestly once you know where to look it becomes second nature. Now on to the actual experiences. So im running down to berezino cause I find camping and waiting for player in one location for 30 minutes or more just to shoot them is boring and pathetic so I try to think of more interesting ways to play, Currently I was just wanting to find fresh spawn running north and give them food and my second primary. Anyway I come to berezino and for the 5th time on a 30+/40 server it is barren, BUT I get to the construction site and come across 2 fresh spawns, I greet them they respond I tell them I got a lot of stuff to give them and to follow me to the barn so they do I begin to drop food and say I am giving them a gun and all of a sudden the life their fists and charge me...as im giving them stuff....they KO me then shoot me (BTW i had a helmet on worked against fists like a charm....) so ya that was just a moment where I just sat there saying really? Life 2: Im a fresh spawn i run to berezino on a new server, i get there and come across 2 guys with newish loot one has a shotgun, they talk to me i respond they tell me to take my backpack off (i had nothing it was clear) so to prove i was unarmed...they then kill me and say "sorry not enough loot to go around"....I just sat there again saying ...really, I mean the least the idiots coulda done is just shoot me on sight since i wasn't even moving...but no they waste everyones time just to say meh POW it was just stupid. Life 3 (you know what they say about true despair? when you have the most hope and right as it nears the top BAM its taken away) This is the best example of what this game has become I was in a server. I kid you not EVERYONE or at least 90% of the server at least was at elektro just camping in buildings waiting for someone to pass their site to say BOOM HEADSHOT. I know this I came across a guy with a backpack who just ran through it I had like 5 guns handguns shotgun 2 primaries, I was tempted to give him a gun but I knew he was going to a place that had guns and nobody around sooo I didn't bother risking it, so instead I gave him some food and water to get him where he needed to go and moved on. So as recommended I just ran around elektro, no one was on sniper hill (sniping is pretty rare now at least from sniper hills that ive seen) I get to kamyshovo and my god...let me just say this I honestly think DayZ should just be renamed Chernarus Deathmatch or more appropriately Elecktro Deathmatch. With a taste of homicidal rock um sockem robots. Because I came across literally 9 people just bolting it back to elektro after failing to hear a response the second time I simply started using the robots as aiming practice (only way to learn) I didn't kill any cause well they are hard to hit with fists up and zig zagging not to mention giving them a head start by trying to greet them. So im on the mountain after passing the 5th robot and all of a sudden i turn around to see a guy with his fists up right behind me he tried killing me i shot him after the bullet kept clipping right at my guns barrel a few times. I then come to kamyshovo where I see another man running he stops after i greet him and he silently start skirting around me and after a few seconds with no response starts trying to run circles and KO me...I kill him. Another man comes, head on he dies, another gets the jump on me while dropping a mag, i reload and end him. Ya...nothing, no talking at all, no sign they are even human god forbid you trash talk or something but no...probably just in a VOIP or silently trying to get back at the others who would (in their mind) do the same to them). But finally I come across a guy with a gun ( I had the jump on him mind you) he greets me and we put our guns down, he is starving so we get in a house I tell him how everyone on the server is a malfunctioning robot who is bent on death. So we talk and he tells me he was following an unarmed guy (he was probably trying to kill him since i caught him, this is hindsight mind you). Anyway new fresh spawn who ACTUALLY TALKS AND IS HUMAN joins us in the house after i give the gun man food the new guy says he needs water so i lead them to the well. And they tell me where they came from where they headed, and all of a sudden gun guy shoots me and says "well I hope you enjoyed playing the game but im taking your guns you little fucker, oh man all his stuff is ruined oh well later bitch". Aaaaaaand that was my stopping point. In conclusion, am i whining? A bit, but mainly im pointing out how just like the mod the player base is degrading due to the "eye for an eye" effect and the excessive YOLOing is LITERALLY showing that this game IS NOT a survival game its a #YOLO ELEKTRO FTW whatever that is. AND IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE Because the only thing we have heard is that guns will be more rare and there will be more loot, and when it comes to mechanics...we get hunting, barricading, cooking, all stuff from the mod....but no word on anything more in depth like optional activities or other things to do besides loot-shoot-repeat. I bought SA thinking they were going to build what the mod should of have been...not a smoother running version of the mod that has more/different loot that serves no purpose if it isn't food or a gun. Honestly I don't think they want this game to be CoD+running simulator 2000 considering the effort put into the health system and other small things, but right now its so easy and simple to just kill and camp that it just makes the game a deathmatch and nothing else. TBH I think people just want this game to be a griefing simulator more than anything, considering the type of people I come across; jumpy cowards, (the majority of people I have come across anyway) they shoot for the sake of not knowing what else to do, or the true scum the ones who have time to burn in the hopes of simply wasting someone else s time by sitting on a hill or near a hot spot to get off on being the person to end what someone put work into. Its pretty demented honestly, and unless some good changes are put into to allow for actual communication or variety then I just see this game degenerating into a game where only people who found a group and play and horde with that group will stay and will drive away any new players that want to get in on the "fun". Without innovation the game will simply fade and die especially since the genre is already being copied by games like nether and rust, rush seems to have a lot of big plans but dayz just seems like making a reboot of the mod with nothing truly new, again, they could be hiding the big stuff but honestly from what i can tell for atleast this whole year it will be more of the same...just less loot (aka more server hopping hermits). TLDR Simply put, most people are becoming spiteful children who follows the eye for an eye motif and then some. Everyone just deathmatches at elektro (most just camping buildings with gun aimed at doorways) while sitting in their respective VOIP's to become silent homicidal robots in game, with no responses, or if playing alone they become a YOLO kamikaze. Not everyone is like this yet, but my god is it progressing fast like I said I don't even see anyone in berezino or NE airfield anymore (lol inland? most people never went there in the first place in SA) the game is splitting into two decisive types of players, the hermits and the YOLO'rs the YOLO players are the solo players while hermits tend to solo server hop for loot till their buddies get on then just go camp a hot spot hoping to grief or kill others. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is it their fault they are douche bags? No, the game encourages this because just like the mod there just isn't anything else to do, and it appears for the next 6 months (and possibly the whole year) nothing will change that formula just like the mod....After all when epoch came out vanilla went into a coma, and after checking dayz commander epoch and panthera epoch greatly outnumber vanilla by a good 1000+ servers. People clearly want more to do even if they don't know or want to admit it. P.S This is a VERY recent personal perspective, just last week I was enjoying the game and came across good and bad players but starting late last week and this whole week, people have just fallen into downward spiral of YOLO deathmatching and becoming more and more hateful and spiteful due to everyone trying to hurt everyone else like theythemselves were hurt at some point...its just sad Playing friendly used to be an actual option but if the people you help just say LOL FUCK IT for sake of lawls and kill you then whats the point? The fact that is happening is showing me the game is not authentic or realistic at all and people throw their lives away like its nothing proving for a fact that survival is not the main objective.

most likely the bow and arrows are in too then...bout time. I think the fire place stuff is in too, but cooking and hunting apparently just went dark considering they mentioned it over a month ago and nothing since.

planetside was adequate...this is less than that, the only REAL info we got was at that convention on a middle school grade power point. They should keep us in the loop, if they are falling behind schedule (which I genuinely believe) they should let us know, or at least say "hey THIS is the next big thing"...i thought that big thing was hunting/cooking, but then they do a 180 and focus on all these small things like mouse movement and other technical issues, which isn't bad its just...when they tell us they have a plan then change it up, well its just not cool.

Do you work for fox news?

Anyone else get an update within the hour? It was 170 megs little big for a hotfix. It didn't seem to change the game version and i know I already updated to the one posted about, so what was this new update?