Ken Bean

Whoa, a mouse button? With the power of your fingers only? Awesome! *Harry Potter is holding a stick on that athletical finger tip* Deeply impressed dude, deeply impressed. Anyway, maybe I'm just a bit confused by your avatar. Maybe there's inteligent live behind though? Who knows, who knows? Maybe, the almighty fingar of fait knows all the answers of all questions? Maybe he just brought something shaking to light while picking ones nose?

I wouldn't mind if it takes longer. The latest patch really did well, besides some minor issues. Just take the time you guys need.

You cought me there, I actually never use to play free2play games. I played a lot of free games though. On amiga there were a bunch of good free games I enjoyed, like "telekomando" and stuff. They are not called f2p because "f2p" basicaly means the monetization method that aims to sell microtransactions, not that the game is free.So also DayZ is not f2p, its "just" free. You get the difference if you see how professional f2p games are built around a selling machine. The inner core of a f2p game is to motivate the player to spend money.

It's because you have no emotional connection. You don't see these children, you don't know them personal, so they kind of just "hypothetical" exist for you. But if it were your children, or maybe somewhat close, maybe in your neighbourhood, you may do sth about about it. Many would. And I don't believe all the kill or be killed scenarios. Right, in history books they wrote all the outstanding things in, but this doesn't necessarily mean that everyone is the same. Civilisations can be cruel. They in fact are not only good. Civilisations also take away most of the freedom of men. Often they tend to be more like a "kind enslavement". The military for example is a great example for enslaving first and foremost free people. However, regardless of how cruel a civilisation might be, there are always people who actually do stand against hatred and all kinds of unfreedom. It's not human nature to be cruel. Most people come along without killing others with ease. This fact alone proofes, that killing each other is not "the human nature". Most of the time, those things are even cultural based. People in history basicaly were forced to kill each other because of their civilisations / cultures "demanded" it. The human mind seems to be open for all kind of strange and weird ideas. They do things they believe that are right. Including all the all-mighty spaghetti monsters that demand blood. Know what? This is something that may happen in certain situations, but frankly this is completely unrealistic. First and foremost: almost no one trusts a stranger they just met. See, most people would keep an eye of the situation. Is he armed? Maybe just go out of the way. Is he alone and unarmed while you are 200 man geared with heravy weaponz? Why being in unreasonable fear? However, depends on the situation. Helping someone also doesn't mean to closely stick together. Second, this is why small communities give survivors more freedom. It's saver to be many and if someone just fucks off other people, he will be outcasted sooner or later. In such an apocalypse, no group is forced to suffer a dick. Being expelled can be a death sentence if the environment is hostile. So it's in your own interest to play nice. Last but not least, if you can't value a helping hand, you have never been in a cutting edge situation were you needed one. If you think those things would be "right", then you'll do it as well. (As said, human mind basically is open to all kind of weirdness.) But if you personally think those things are wrong, why would you start being a dick? Personal beliefs, opinions and attitudes have more power than anything else. So yes, it might be concerning that many people seems to be convinced that the very first thing to do in an appocalypse is to rape and kill each other. Sometimes people may have just watched Mad Max too often or few to understand that there are dipshits and ... the other. However, seeing in what people use to believe the whole day can be conserning. Thankfully this just is a game and we'll never find out what happens when a real zombie appocalypse is taking place.

Fixing things just conflicts with the engine's minimum bug count. The game may get instable if it undercuts a certain amount.

awesome :thumbsup:

Don't get attached to your gear. You can't hide anything in the long run. -> Tents are being robbed, vehicles get stolen pretty soon. If you still want to use tents, don't put in anything of value. Keep your antibiotics, favourite weapons, NVGs and so on with you as you log out. Also avoid to lay guns, backpacks and stuff to the ground. They may vanish.

Sure, it always is kind of difficult to generalise, but you can consider those games to be an "excuse", so to speak to have a bult in "but what, it's not all about te money" thing. However, this most likely are titles which are not very expensive in development and probably low end, aiming on low budget folks. There's noothing wrong with paying a fair price and getting a full game in return.

Free2Play just means that you need to pay 100, 200 bucks or more in order to get the full game. Every single shit will need to be bought, that means shiny "buy this, buy that" buttons everywhere. Otherwise you get the game in demo mode. I have absolutely no idea why someone should like this.

Most things I find or do in DayZ, I never did so in real life. Believe it or not, I never found flares nor chemlights, never met a Zed, never shot a man, never found a soda in a barn, never flew a helicopter myself, never ... you get the idea. Though, I actually saw NVGs in real life pretty frequent. It's not uncommon that authorities have some. Sure, they don't wear them all day long.

There already is an official DayZ song:

I understand their concerns. I as well wouldn't rely on 3rd party evidence or youtube videos. Well, at least theoretically someone could manipulate the evidence. I would rely on own data only.

That's why no one wears T-SHIRTS.

True. EA decided to compete with CoD. Thing is, you can't compete with someone who plays an entirely different game.

I know. That's why I consider modding Skyrim is okay. DayZ as being a multi player game, not. Anyway, both games could have a steam workshop for custom content. Copy-right issues are not the defining reason to not to have one.

Pitch black nights are the most thrilling times I had in DayZ. Full moon nights on the other hand are way too bright. If the player found some NVGs, they just are useless.

This is not the only reason and not the most defining. Mind that a game like Skyrim has its steam workshop as well. Copy-right issues is something that can be dealt with.

Not in every case. Many modder do have visions of the mod which are very different from that what the game is supposed to be. If you open the Stand Alone for modding, it inevitably would get watered-down and distorted very soon. Being loocked down actually is a very good thing for a multiplayer game like this. If DayZ would be a singleplayer, I'd say you are right though.

I wouldn't call that 1522 regular server, I'd call it 25. Anyway, one of my favourite server updated. Finally happy again. Edit If I reset the filter DE, I get 79 server at all. Many of them are modded though. Due to bad ping, I at least need to stay with EU server. So it really is not that easy.

Happens to me all the time. For some reason all my favourite german DayZ server went down during the last weeks. And somehow there hardly are vanilla DayZ server left. I used to play at night time. They became so scarce with 1.8 and above, that I almost stopped playing DayZ completely.

Frankly, figuring out that you completely lie in the open for other players while you considering yourself kickass hidden, was quite a shock for me. I also stopped using tents and vehicles. I figure this low graphics settings are the reason why you cant hide a thing in DayZ.

I already wondered when they are going to share recipes. (-:=3

Nope, CoS (cooked on sight).

Other reasons might be youtube and the age of huge parts of the player base which might reflect the mentality of some. Also that a life in DayZ doesn't have a huge value may add to it. I'd agree, that such kind of problems cant be fixed. Youtube will be there and kids probably as well. I'd also not suggest to keep them outside, but maybe the changed gameplay will make the difference.

We've seen so many small changes which had huge impacts on the gameplay - why should have the item degration no impact? Anyway, basicaly there are 3 directions it could take: 1) it's getting better 2) it's getting worse 3) no changes The 3rd option is the least expected one for me. As we have seen, e.g. things like rising infection rates and decreasing Antibiotica spawns, changed quite a lot.