lachlan04@live.com.au

Something definitely needs to be done, it's not enough to just say "some people have lower end rig's deal with it" Otherwise the purpose of hiding in foliage is completely ruined because who knows if the next person comes along and spots you because of your settings. I hope that everyone can agree that this at least requires some sort of solution.

Yeah, but at least he's no Rhinocrunch

I had figured as much, I know about the whole hacking thing but I feel as if there is something i'm missing.

I was just curious as to what the overall or personal opinion on Frankie is here. Not trying to start a flame war just want to find out what people think. I remain neutral on the subject.

I might get flamed for this, but this was one of the few things I liked about console. Everybody was on a level playing field in terms of graphics and controllers. (Yeah I know, modded controllers but still). If only they could find some way of making the forest still look dense while putting minimal load on the system. Maybe some sort of really low res texture that sticks out in the same places whereas somebody on a higher res system would usually see HD branches and such?

Lovin these on-topic responses

Alt+f4ing is one of the biggest problems that needs to be fixed. Even more than glitchy zombies. Me and a friend were at green mountain when we spotted a guy running up the hill with a DMR and some other good gear. I took the shot with my Enfield and knocked him unconscious. not 2 seconds before he hit the ground while I was lining up the kill shot he completely disappeared. We decided to wait him out but instead got ambushed by his friends who he had obviously called to come and clear the area so he could get blood bagged and back to full health.

That's what I was thinking, rarer but more useful. Something that will actually make you be bothered to pick up canteens and boil them.

Just a quick suggestion. It may have been said before but it needs to be said again. Let water bottles/canteens have 3 or at least 2 uses, right now they require to much effort having to fill them up, make a fireplace and then boil them before you can use them. Its easier to just carry around sodas instead of space wasting canteens. That being said I don't want them removed just improved. I would love to carry around a single canteen that is filled and boiled and can be used 3 times rather than take up space with coke's and pepsi's.

IEDs could be really cool, imagine rigging just one tent in your camp-site to explode and making it the most obvious, after the would-be looters watch one of their buddy's get blown apart they will be a little less enthusiastic to plunder the rest of your camp. As for the UAVs? I think not. But a cool substitute could be perhaps a live feed camera hooked up to video receiver of some sort. Could be useful if you wanted to monitor a high traffic area or your camp-site. Imagine this: "Johnson, ya wanna check the camera to see if there's any movement"? "Sure thing bill, gimme a sec its loading... awww shit, looks like we got some looters checking out our tents!" "Goddamn it Johnson, radio the chopper!" "This is Johnson to roflcopter, come in"...."This is roflcopter go ahead" "We got some looters at the campsite! divert and engage, how copy?" "Roflcopter copy's all, proceeding to engagement". *Roflcopter subsequently explodes due to a shoddy engine nobody could be bothered to repair*

It might be just me but I swear the zombies have gotten more sensitive in the recent patches. They also seem extremely unpredictable. I was crawling through the grass when a hopper zombie that was about 150m away from me and parallel with the direction I was crawling suddenly got agro, I looked around for another player then realised that it was actually on me. Other times I will sprint straight in front of a zombie and be in their direct LOS for a few seconds and they won't even care. Hopefully this is all sorted in the standalone though.

How about a hatchet that is actually a hatchet? You know, like a small one handed axe that is a useful tool in a variety of situations, is a fast but short ranged melee weapon and can easily get clipped onto your belt. And then you would have the axe, a big two handed weapon that is heavy and takes up more room, it requires lots of momentum so you can't hit as fast as some other weapons but it would have some serious brute force and cutting damage and would easily knock somebody out with a few blunt hits or make them bleed profusely after a few angled blows. Both would have their pros and cons.

^This Making it so you can't just get a quick transfusion, take some painkillers and bandage yourself and be ready for another fight is a good idea. After an intense fire-fight you and your friends have to try and get somewhere safe and secluded to patch yourself's up well and good. Some of the stuff could include digging out bullets/pellets, disinfecting and bandaging any cuts or bruises, inspecting any heavy blows you may have taken and maybe even having to pop a joint back into place or using a splint to support a fractured bone. Helps to add to the realism and will also help discourage city murder sprees by bandits armed with Lee Enfields, blood bags and the knowledge that after a fire-fight they can easily get back to full strength to kill the next innocent survivor.

Melee: Left Leg Pistol: Right Leg Primary: Chest/Hands

I think that no starting gear besides you clothes is the best idea, the storywise reason for this could be that perhaps a large evacuation plane was leaving Chernarus with survivors and a mechanical failure caused everyone to don their parachutes and eject out over the ocean, strong winds caused everybody fan out over a large area near the coast and the survivors (and you of course) eventually landed in the ocean and swam ashore with nothing. This is probably a plausible prelude to why everyone is washed up on the beach with nothing. The unenterable areas could work as long as the effects are too damaging. Maybe just coughing and blurred vision for duration of time you are in there. I do give you beans for the jet crash-sites though, these could be very rare and maybe usually only spawn near airfields or city's A big C-130 wreck with lots of dead civilians or military personnel inside would be awesome. Maybe even badly damaged motorbikes or quad-bikes could be found in the storage area of big planes? That would be pretty cool.