Jugzilla

I'll commend you for the fact that you have offered your points in a constructive manner instead of just whining incessantly like others... however on a basic level I have to disagree with where I feel you want the game to go. If you've seen or read interviews with Rocket you'll already know that he has intentions of implementing ways to balance the game and offer incentives for ALL styles of play, not just outright player killing and death matching. It's still early and it's going to change a whole lot more before it's done... some of the changes will work and some wont but I'll bet the end product is better for it. I think the key point I took from your post is that you DID learn how to make your way around and survive. Not that it took you 5 hours on top of all your other research... that you did still learn. It's not impossible... it's just hard. That's a good thing too... not enough games have such a learning curve anymore, gamers are becoming soft and having everything hand fed to them. We need more games like this one because they give you an actual sense of achievement when you get somewhere. The only other game that's done this for me recently was Dark Souls. It's brutal and it's not going to be for everyone... that's the beauty of it though.

I'm going to ignore most of your post because it's mainly just whining without offering any constructive criticism but to the "this is too hard and I'm not able to learn the basic mechanics" argument, I'd just like to point out that Arma has a whole bunch of tutorials and ways you can learn the mechanics without ANY threat whatsoever from zombies or other players. That's right... Arma! You know, that game you bought that this is a mod for. Have you even tried playing it? Seriously... give the tutorials a shot and if you still can't say you don't understand the mechanics then I would say it's got nothing to do with failures of the mod.

Seriously? If you hit a rabbit going 70kph on a bicycle, you could easily come off and seriously hurt yourself. That is pretty damn fast to be going on a bicycle and you wouldn't have the mass just to roll straight over it like nothing had happened.

Third person... congratulations. Learn to lean instead.

Umm.... because more wont just respawn?

I'm confused... aren't CQF meant to be a friendly clan? Yet... if you hear a M249 firing you'll hunt down the owner and kill them for it?

If you want military guns... go to military loot spawns. Barracks, tents, deer stands, heli crashes.

Sounds like a made up story to me but if someone really got close enough to you to put a tin can in your backpack without you noticing and shadowed you until you showed hostile intentions to someone else before killing you... you weren't paying enough attention and need to do so in future.

They're both shit... go with the M1911.

I'm interested in the Mk48... where are you geographically / server wise?

Actually... I hate to rain of your grammar rage parade but tyre is a perfectly acceptable way of spelling it. There are many words which are spelt differently in UK English to American English.

If you mean that you don't think there's any point playing if you'll lose more stuff in future then no... there's not. Come back when it's a standalone and no longer an alpha.

"I'd kill a man for some punctuation."

Is this serious? If so, it's pretty awesome that people have gone to this much effort. One question though... if they brought you back to consciousness once they had dragged you inside the barbed wire, why didn't you pull out your gun and shoot them, whether you had a broken leg or not?

Apart from that one hotfix where food wasn't spawning AT ALL I've never had trouble finding any... did a quick hunt around before to stock up and easily came across 10-15 cans. If you can't find any though, I'd suggest hitting the forest and finding a boar.

Ask yourself this: how much fun am I having sitting in a forest doing nothing? I know the feeling... I've been really well geared up a bunch of times and suddenly had the urge to be overly cautious, but after losing some EXCELLENT gear a few times due to glitches (debug forest, standing next to a tree killing me, etc)... I realised that being a new spawn and on the hunt for ANYTHING half decent is some of the most fun you can have. Just get down in to the towns and take the risk... and also don't be afraid to try some of the other servers. I'm an Aussie and I've played on the ANZ servers, NZ, US and even some European servers. I've actually had better connection to some of the US servers than the ANZ ones.

I had to respawn the other night after popping in debug forest with all my gear gone and I flat ran to the NW airfield without so much stopping to pick up food, drink or a weapon along the way. Just saying... moving inland without visiting those two CAN be done. I've found that I actually get better gear more quickly if I just head straight inland without bothering with Cherno / Elektro. Things aren't perfect, there's still tweaks to be made... but it's definitely heading in the right direction.

I played on a 1.7.1.5 server with side chat today, so I'm guessing it was just a server decision, although I was under the impression the forced removal of side chat as part of the mod was in the works. Personally I love it without the side chat... adds a lot to the game in terms of atmosphere I think.

Praise is just as important as criticism. I agree.. this version seems to be running really well with a good balance.

Instead of saying that you hope everyone starts taking advantage of an exploit in the game and that the current system is retarded... why don't you be constructive and post something in the suggestions forum about WHY you think it doesn't work and YOUR idea as to what would be a better option? Saying "this is stupid, go back to how it was" doesn't count either. In doing this you would be actually doing what is intended of you as part of this alpha.

Probably more a case for requiring server admins to upgrade to at least a certain version to remove this option.... also I dare say you've probably now given a lot of people this idea who hadn't previously thought of it :P

Seems the game ate my primary weapon and replaced my secondary with a Makarov too... and all ammo that went with them. Everything in other slots and my backpack remain along with my ghillie though. Oh well, off to find a gun.

YES. Because it's worth a shot and if it sucks you can always remove it. As an additional note (and going past the word limit, I apologise), I think it would make more sense if it's not the bandit's heartbeat you're hearing, but it's actually the quickening of your own heartbeat. That is, you feel yours start to race because you don't think something is right with them... the gut feeling / intuition you sometimes get around others.

I hate to break it to you but this still needs an absolute tonne of work... it honestly looks like it was made very poorly by a child. The sound cuts out when you're speaking, your spelling is AWFUL, poor usage of the text screens and they're also way too plain, the story doesn't really grab you and the actual footage you've used doesn't exactly have much of a cinematic feel to it at all, especially with the icons and chat showing. Sorry.

This thread needs more cowbell.