shagohad

sure the duping will happen again, but what we have now as the OP said is the result of an exponential growth over a few months, it would take at least as long to get back to the current stage which would I think give a new lease on life to the game up untill the standalone come out :)

probably the most succint reason ive read and totall worth them beans hive reset would bring back the old days and give all the newcomers a taste of what it used to be like, I think they will honeslty enjoy it a lot more than whatever they are doing with their duplicated loadout RESET DAT HIVE YO

I agree anyone playing arma can see how many awsome skins there are, would add some well needed variety IMO, I think it would add a bit to characthre attachment. I love Lingor cuz its fun to be some random dude from the 80s with a perm and a jean vest. It makes more sense than everyone being a mall cop...

Has anyone here actually looked at how the dogs function? you dont spawn with one, its like a car, another objective to work towards and one that could be fun for smaller groups that dont want to get cars ect. I think it will be good, think of the addition of melee weapons, it changed lots of things and made players do interesting stuff like roleplay axe murderes and set up tournamaments Im all for new content, so cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war! :)

do you really care about dying and losing your gear? thats what im trying to argue here, even that point doesnt hold much wieght anymore, its really only a matter of time before you die to hacking, why not try and chill wiht people. Im not looking for any more people to team up with long term, but its fun just to see what happens, there is an element of mystery in human nature that mixes things up a bit. Exploring the map used to be enough for me but nowadays player interaction is the only ever changing aspect of the game

the downside is you dont get to mix it up with some randoms I could go play BF3 anonomously and never talk and just pewpew all day, i come here for player interaction, made lots of friends In GAME on dayZ, never had that in another game really

i think you should look at balance in a different way, not in a purely stats way. Such as "this gun fires faster but reloads longer" way that is traditional to fast paced FPS Its more like a natural balance that used to exist. High level guys wouldnt be on the coast unless they were in a coordinated team stirring shit up. This was due to risk vs reward, the coast is higher population, with lower level loot and is less predictable in some ways. this balance has been tipped however, the cosmic balance of DayZ is off, loot has no value, death has no repercussions

Same boring bullshit "carebear" and "butthurt" responses Please look at the Poll, it is not discussing PvP, its discussing KoS, a subheading of PvP if you will :) and like I said before the issue now is more related to the lack of any sense of attachment to your charachter due to getting killed often by hackers and the massive saturation of high level gear on the coast of course you should be able to kill on sight, its just more interesting as a game when its more a battle of strategy and wits. Back in the day the highest level geared charachters you would run into on the coast would either be clans coming in to raid or shit people got in firehouses. Everyone else was having fun up norrth. this meant that say some guys had an AKM and you had a winchester, through a well timed ambush you could kill them and head north with you sweet loot, maybe a map and compas and alice, and shit. NOW, the situation is AS50 snipers kill everyone. Only trump to AS50 sniper is another AS50 sniper. Say I happen on the corpse of one such sniper and kill him. I now have all the loot in the game...... this can be done within a few minutes. Should I head north? whats the point, im going to get telported to the coast, its only a matter of time.. so now I will jsut kill people on the coast until I am killed. What im trying to say I guess is that PvP used to be fairly interesting and balanced (this is not an argument about OP weapons or something, its jsut that the whole risk vs reward structure was completely different) now it is kind of boring, still i try not to kill survivors, why? because I find the interaction interesting, other shooters have other thrills, dayZ is about the players. Player attitudes are formed from global influences and define the game. PvP should never go, its just an attitude problem at the moment generated from other influences that has made the game less entertaining

wtf? why the fuck are you here if you arent going to read his post, it was not "crying over sensless killing" at all.... the problem at the moment I think is that the whole idea of a persistent charachter with one life has been eroded. The high chance that you will die to hacking and that you can find elite gear in about half an hour on the coast has made life pretty cheap. i think something like a hive wipe as discussed in another pole would restore some balance, because at the moment no one has anything to lose, they can get all thier shit back plus some, death has no consequence

Is it really sad? maybe if there were some repercussions to using hacked weaponry people would just smarten up about it. I understand when a noob finds a PDWSD and is like oh cool! but thats not the problem, its more people with thermal AS50s and shit, that just ruins the game on a side note who thinks that there should be a makarovSD? wouldnt that be awsome :) its in the game, seems like it would be more common in the eastern setting

yeah issue is the point of the alpha to test shit is hampered maybe? at least gameplay wise I hope to god this isnt the direction of the standalone, being in cherno is like playing back to karakand with mafuckas on urry roof

I think the counter to these arguments about hackers are kinda moot points, you dont stand a chance against hackers even with good gear, its just more frustrating to die to them at least this would remove all the rare items that are legit but hacked in and screwing the balance, I just go up on dobry and get fully kitted with legitimate (but either hacked or duped) gear in twenty minutes, its just silly. also with regards to the standalone, arent we supposed to be testing things? I think we have thouroughly tested the whole high level weapon saturation aspect and it sucks.... so lets get back to basics, I garauntee you all the PKing will drop again too when there actually is a point to survivng again

I just use as50s to stop people being naughty, just fire in thier general direction and they stop thier shenanigans

use dayZ commander, has a function to install and launch those maps now takistan is shit though....

^^ i second this, works every time for me :)

some people have tried reverting to older patches then dcing during loading i think.. search around my budy got out of this that way

sooo boring......

I dont find low weapon level pvp that annoying, fighting dudes in elektro with winchersters and shit is fun however, the whole "everyone has a fucking AS50" shit is starting to get to me, honestly just run up on Dobry and get fully geared... run around in elktro for 10 minutes then have some idiot fire 20 as50 shots at you, its getiing kinda boring

was kinda boring, really hard to meet up with friends, not very interesting maps... lingor is wayyy better

hey man, I gave your original post my beans because you talked about the false representation of that game, dont attack people for buying ARMA and expecting the real deal, a polished game. The press on this game RARELY discusses the buggs anymore. I have seen it promoted by hot chicks on some gaming show on TV, they obviously had never even fucking played it but they were hyping it as the best zombie game out there THAT is the problem, Rocket can do an interview where the intervwier is congratulating him buggs might not even come into the discuscion. That is not rockets fault its the media running with whats popular the first article I read was one on RPS a while ago and they were like "this shit is buggy as fuck" rarely see an article like that nowadays, its mostly like "PLAY THIS GAME" cant blame newcomers wndering wtf is going on

what? there is a huge difference. The result is the same yes, but I applaud people who snipe me in Stary with a DMR or something, thats part of the game. Instakilling, thunderdoming, as50TWS kills are not part of the game, and are slowly changing the global perspective of players for the worse. As stated by someone else in this thread we shouldnt as a community be worried about dying from hackers, but about the overall effect that hackers have on the attitude of the community which overtime will make it harder for anyone to enjoy the game, even those who don't care about the occasional hacking death. for example I think a lot of the Alt F4ing is related to this, hacking is so retarded that people just assume they are being assaulted by hackers and duck out, the two are related IMO. and wtf people complaining about this thread. You came and posted here, even tho the subject was clearly stated.....

because in a town like Elektro for example, tool boxes are rare and yet all the loot points can be easily blocked off. And it doenst stop zombies so doesnt really seem to be doing what its supposed to be doing

i think it would be awsome its gotten boring really, doesnt matter if you die, and everyone is so geared up there are as50 fights in Elektro... its kinda retarded

yeah remove it serves no purpose and its like 2 feet high and you cant get over it? thats realisitc.....

Not sure thats true... people just need to understand whats gong on in Lingor is not the responsibility of anyone on the DayZ team I think Lingor in someways is showcasing how a dayz standalone could be improved. For example the entrable buildings are awsome, new locales are fun, an Island is perhaps not the best as it spreads the action a bit thin IMO. One thing I noticed in Lingor is that you can put a military flashlight on your shoulder. That is effing awsome and makes having one actually useful :)