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I think the problem will get alot better when they finish implimenting item durability. Ruined clothes and backpacks? Expect stuff to fall out of your pockets over time! Ruined food? Obviously cant eat it... maybe a hit to to % of contents if you can and a chance of sickness since a bullet's gone thru it... Ruined Water bottles? Cant hold water. Ruined bandages, vitamins, tools, can all still be used currently despite the fact they are ruined. When this changes - so will peoples behaviour. When the end result of purely shooting on site is a corpse full of pretty, but absolutely worthless loot, so will the # of instances of shooting on sight. Then all thats needed is some more functionality and features to how players interact with eachother (Trading, parties, more options once you've surrendered and are cuffed... perhaps allow for an agreement to be made for release, like XYZ items in exchange for 30seconds for them to flee.... ) :D

While my greatest issue with the game's daylight matching the time IRL, was i would be coming home from work each afternoon and jumping on to play Day Z, to be faced with a pitch black screen! I try to stumble around, turn up the gamma, nope, still blind as a dingbat. That just isnt fun for a new player, especialy when you come to the realisation that you'll only be able to play during the day on weekends. a more unrealistic day/night cycle i think i'd appreciate more, say turn 24hours inside the game into 4 days worth of time IRL. You still have the day/night thing going on, its still (for the most part) realistic, but it shouldent feel as much like you'd be coming home each evening ot shove your head into a dark box and try to make your way around the neigborhood blind. I also understand that once i had been alive and more farmiluar with the game, i appreciated night time, as i felt more comfortable with taking a chance to sneak into a city for supplies, knowing it would be harder for potential bandit threats to find me. I think when i did this there was actualy a bit of moonlight as well, so i could see a little, when all the other times it felt like there were thunderstorms above and no light getting through at all. NVG might be a good counter, but i guess i'd prefer to suck it up and not go for it as it would mean darkness is no longer a cover for you at all, as everyone has NVG.

Heyas! So i tried Day Z back when it first exploded onto the scene, i played it for about a month and then lost interest because bugs and lag so i stopped playing. (i know to be expected in an alpha! but it got a bit to much for me so i had a break) Have taken an interest again, and jumped over here to see news of a standalone version, and from what it looks like every house you see you may be able to enter in the future, awesome! I can also assume alot of improvements have been made since i stopped playing, so im just wanting to know.... 1) Have the spawn points been changed? To stop the shore from being this murder grounds by military geared campers that ruins the initial immersion to the game...? 2) Do you still get broken legs for "falling" down 1 or 2 steps or from a height that you would probably only suffer a small graze or a bruze if you actualy fell from it irl? 3) Server Stability - I live in Australia, it was a constant battle for a slot on ANY server, and an even bigger battle to get a spot on a server that diddnt seem to crash every 10mins...? 4) The Zig-Zag thing with the zombies.... have they gotten better at running directly at you rather than acting like they're trying to dodge bullets? :D 5) Any team sort of mechanics been/plan to be implimented? My partner is also a gamer, we did play Day Z together first time around as well, but it was very annoying/time consuming to meet up after spawning. Purely something in relation to being able to spawn with them when you first start out (wake up on the beach) that character, NOT something that would essentialy be a free teleport or the such after you've been playing and accumulated/lost stuff/hp. thanks heaps for your imput on this! p.s - Just noticed the Greece thing.... WTF are they smoking??? No wonder their government is in so much debt if they keep making stupid decisions like that! just wow....

With DayZ Commander now, all the updates installed, steam settings ticked, still getting the same error about downloadable conetent that has been deleted. I am sad :( oh wait.... i think i've done a derp... do i need Arma 2 + operation arrowhead installed? As i've only got OA installed... I think this is my problem... Hurr Durr i'm Cur!.... derp..

Aaaaaaand not having much luck getting back in :( Where'd the how to install page go!?!? I have Arma 2 through steam, Downloaded that overnight, and installed the Six updater as well. D/L was finished thismorning, opend ARMA 2, then closed, installed DayZ through Sixupdater, hit launch... I get a popup when the game launches which states "Addon 'dayz_code' requires addon 'CABuildingParts'" to which i hit OK to, and ARMA2 then launches. I then get another error inside Arma 2 which states "No entry 'bin\config.bin/CfgVehicles/Citizen1.scope" Hit ok to that... then I can then get to the server browser, but nomatter which server i attempt to join it says "you cannot play/edit this mission it requires downloadable content that has been deleted.chernerus" So from that i can gather the mod hasnt installed properly right? Ima download this DayZ commander thing (google search of how to install lead me here http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/108859-how-to-install-dayz-1744-and-play-through-steam/) and give that a go in the meantime.

Thanks for all the replies! And the beans! :D I dont think i ever got to the point where i could fix up a vehicle, i think my greatest achievement was making it to Devils Castle where i found some cameo armor and an alice pack, then met a bandit up the top, who logged and re-appeard behind me below, then back to the beach! lol It sounds like hacking has gone up alot :( Since the standalone version is going to run on the Arma 2/3 engine (from what ive seen?) im really hoping they take an aggressive stance against it, fix the holes letting players do that and perhaps put in some preventative measures! The last time i logged out i was still alive.... this is going to be interesting!

Allo! New player here, got the basics of it (i think) Last night, i had about 8000 blood after getting up to some town. I go into a barn, get all the goodies, and on the way down i decided to run off the side of the steps. I was about 1/2 way down the steps when i jumped off. Big mistake it seems, as i broke me legs and fell to the floor. Big hourglass comes up, it counts down hella slow (about 30seconds) so my blood is draining the entire time. By the time im up and able to bandage, i have about 1000 blood left. I also use painkillers and morphine for the broken bone. I had a heap of food (thanks to the dead body in the barn, i dont know, it was just there! thanks dead guy!) and ate it all to get my blood back up to 3000. The blood icon down the bottom right of the screen tho only had the outline. It was either black, or empty inside (it was night time, sorry for not having a better description!) I was shaking, and my vision would go hella blurry in time with the sound of my heart beating. Every 1-3 minutes i'd fall over randomly, with another hourglass. Could someone please explain: Why the blood icon was empty? Whats with me falling over and the hourglass? Is a small fall like that realy meant to do so much damage? I mean from the height i fell, my character is taller than that fall! what gives? Thanks heaps

But rape isnt in the game, and i seriously doubt the developers will put it into the game, because all they did was introduce a female skin to give the players variety. On that note, being female, big thing on my list should there ever be a zombie apocolypse is to run around cutting off yer dicks to make sausages for dinner. You kinda deserve it too, no? :) wouldent even be hard. Oh hi thar. We need to procreate to ensure us humans dont go extinct! come here baby! *snip* Suckers.