Ken Bean

Driving against them?

Not to forget the unholy hand granade (which kills absolutely no one but the guy who threw that thing) and of cause the insidious dear stands. I can hear them whisper: "Come up here, climb the ladder. And then crouch and prone." they say. And then you fall through handrails, which somehow didn't stop ya.

Myanmar, sth tropic or mediteran could be a nice setting. What about Afrika or Australia?

Can it be that most of you guys who suggest to make weapons way more rare just use to play a lot on private hives? Btw, I never found an AS50 in barracks. And if you make it to hard to get into those military bases, lets say you just have 2 or 3 entries, gues where all the AS50 dudes are waiting... Besides of that, there are some very sexy ideas.

Jep, NVGs are very rare. But really dark nights are quite fun. If the server is empty and the pvp dudes are gone, flares can be found in almost every corner. They do make a nice light which can be seen extremely far though. So running around with flares on growded server may not be advised. ^^ Edit I'm for a mixture, like having bright nights and dark nights available. We shouldn't go and remove the dark nights just for ending up having everyone playing at night like it would be day. I'm more a night person, I wouldn't enjoy it.

Yep, night is fun. I love to play with flares and chemlights. Those bright nights destroy the nighttime and flares, chem lights, flash lights and NVGs get rather useless.

Death lurks around every corner in DayZ. Keep an eye on those horrific killer tents or they'll hunt you down.

I'm certain, you are a little exaggerating the impact it may have. Instancing player hideouts is in my opinion the best way to go and I'm very glad that the devs made this decission. How many player are you expecting? One million, two, more? Okay, they'll not play one server only, but the space is limited. It's a huge map but not as huge to prevent crowding. I mean I've been almost everywhere on the map in a relatively short time. The world really could be larger. Such a structure would just scream "raid me" all day long. It would take 3 hours or so and the whole area around that structure would be covered by snipers. Player would spend their days lookin for/after them. Nope, I wouldn't build a base which is not kick ass hidden. At least I wouldn't place anything of value in. Maybe using it as trap, but not as stash.

If player A shot player B, starting the fight and as long as B wasn't a bandit, player A has a logout timer of 10 minutes. In other words, a player is unable to logout for 10 minutes if he killed another survivor. This may help to reduce kill on sights as well as spawn camper. It also adds an additional challenge to PvP. --> If you attack a group, you may get tracked down by the them. --> They have a better chance to take revenge. --> Sniper will be forced to change their position. --> Since bandits are excluded, they have a disadvantage. --> It's harder to kill, one would need at least a plan of how to get away. Opinions?

Come on folks, don't be too hard, the game wants to be taken serious. It's advertised as survival game, it has some stats on iths website, which are supposed to mean sth. For most of us here it's just old news that cheater basically screw up the whole game. So after the 3rd time killed this way, we probably accepted it to a certain extent. But this doesn't change the fact, that other, maybe new player may still be very pissed. @OP There's nothing you can really do about, it certainly is not the last time this happens. But you could try signing up for a white listed server. The very friendly reaction here is just because it really doesn't surprise anyone.

I can understand the OPs point. Since DayZ is ought to be a survival game, it's quite odd to realize that you won't survive, doesn't matter how good you are. If this is the accepted way of the game, then don't call it survival game, call it a looting game.

Frankly, this happens to me very often due to an UMTS-Connection which sometimes seems to have it's issues. Atm I get disconnects almost every session. Dunno what's up, usually it's working.

He doesn't take his pc with him? So then, what's he doing there?! :D

Too bad. Thanks for your efford anyway. :) The update really sounds cool.

Why? When? How?

Hi there, of cause I have some suggestions as well. If some may already have been posted, please don't worry, I'm relatively new to the forums and may not have read every post which has been made. ;) Food Conditions Fresh, old and canned food can get foul by time. It regenerates not as much blood if old and can cause disease if expired. Water can get foul as well. One may need to boil or cook food a second time to avoid disease. Progressive Stats The longer you life, the better you adopt to the world. Meaning that you are getting slightly quieter, faster and accurate by time. Maybe you perception improves. Your ears and eyes may get better or worse, if your health is under good or bad condition (overall condition, not injuries). The character may suffer various illnesses, based on body conditions, food conditions and such. Your body need less or more food if you are healthy or ill. Such stats could have an effect on Zeds only. It may only add to your survivability. I don't like the idea of having too much advantage in pvp situations. Should sth like aiming or driving skills exists? For example that you are able to drive a car with less fuell consumption. Dynamic Zed-Perception Zeds can hear you better or worse depending on your skills and equipment. If you wear very silent boots and light equipment, they will have a harder time hearing you. They also can spot you from different distances depending on your clothes, e.g. bright/dark/camo. Protection You'll find a variety of functional clothes, which may protect you against the weather and certain weapons, like knifes, bats or even pistols and light mgs. Such clothes can be various helmets, cevlar vests, bulletproof vests, reinforced jackets ... even rain jackets Reloading The reloading function [R] loads through your magazines instead of switching always to a full one. Combining Mags already is confirmed, so we may not need this, but it couldn't hurt if we get sth like this. Maybe an extra key binding? Magazines and ammo types Add an option to combine magazines of the same ammo type, so you can use mp5 ammo for the m9 and the other way round. Both use 9x19mm parabellum, so there's no reason not to use the the ammo for both. Also include more ammo types, like armor piercing, sd and hollow-point. Hollow-point (and sd) will not go through certain protection clothes but has a better impact on unprotected player or Zeds. What about craft-able ammo? Stashes Other opportunities to hide and save your gear should be given. Maybe it should be possible to even bury equipment in a way that it hardly might be found, if the spot is covered with herbage or something like that. In order to find someones stash one may need to observe other player. Kill on sight and you won't catch the big fishes. But it should also depend on the surrounding conditions, like shady places or vegetation. Maybe one should see that someone grubbed there for a few days until the spot is covered. That's all for now, what do you think?

Hmm, maybe I just play it wrong or have strange ideas of the game. I'm still a noob in this game. :D But to stay on topic, I wouldn't mind if I got killed just being a Bambi. I'd say I had some bad luck, run into the wrong people, got killed and respawned somewhere else. The random spawn system really has its advantages. So you probably hardly find yourself in a spawn-kill-row. It would be way worse if there were a respawn timer. So it's quite clever solved, after all.

Yeah, probably depends on your play stile. They also can bring you into trouble. Healing each other can be easier but if you hunt a lot, this is no problem as well.

If the game were intended to be a death match, I would have no problem with. I most of the time think, many get that wrong. So yeah, I'm avoiding company the time being. But it greately adds to the thrill, which I wouldn't miss either. A spawn kill wouldn't hurt that much though. You don't lose much gear, just happen to spawn again, it could be worse.

@OP The game is already perma death. There's no continue button which lets you load at your last position. You basically start fresh. That's what perma death used to mean. There are just no levels which are set back.

I think killing other player ist just too easy. It's the "save" way to deal with them. If they are dead, you don't need to worry that they betray you. To counter that, there maybe should be an additional challenge making it harder to kill other player. Besides of real world morals, I dont find it okay that PvP is more rewarding on the one hand and less dangerous on the other. For me it's proven that you either go out of the way of other player or that they shoot each other. I don't want to be a moral apostel, but most of the time PvP player tend to justify themselfes with that letting other player life, would be too dangerous. This should be tweaked. In a real world scenario, you would be glad to find another survivor.

If you'd apply real world morals, then yes, shooting people is very very wrong. But on the other hand it is a game and somehow in games people seems to get used to shoot people even without any real reason. I'd personally be interested in what people would do in a real life apocalypse.

Since vanilla means unmodded while DayZ is a mod itself, I'd call it raspberry. nah, just kidding

What about rookies, puppies, neophytes, tiros, shavetails, springer or tenderfeet? I'd vote for Tiro(s), Tirones, Tironis?

Locked doors would also be great. They could bring the crowbar to new glory.