ThirdSinger

So I've read that I need to constantly eat/drink to stop from going unconcious. Well that's all fine and dandy except for the fact that I've searched over 20 buildings and my only find is a fire extinguisher. Am I looking in the wrong places or something? Because the rate at which I'm apparently expected to eat food is going to be impossible to ever meet at this rate.

What I mean by this is make sure they don't no-clip through doors, hit you through walls, or other silly things. Since this isn't a mod alpha, but a game alpha, you need to prioritize fixing the major bugs like ghost zombies. That's what an alpha is all about.

I'm fully aware that I'm an alpha tester. My point is that zombies need to work properly in order for the alpha to be ready to move on to 'beta'. They're an integral part of the experience, far too large to not be fixed in a reasonable timeframe.

God I hope the shotguns in this are better than the mod ones. Those shotguns were completely and totally useless.

I'm pretty sure fixing the zombies in a zombie survival game is "getting a necessary system implemented."

ITT: Edgy teen kills people for lulz in DayZ like everyone else with a gun. What a special snowflake you are.

Why? Because I'd rather take my miniscule chances of escaping with my loot and life instead of guaranteeing I lose everything and then probably get shot afterwards anyway. It's been said a kajillion times, but there needs to be more worth to a character than the loot on his back. How this gets implemented could be a number of ways, but it is LIKELY going to HAVE to boil down to a semi 'skill' system that gets reset on death.

Server hopping is a direct spawn of the loot system and how it currently works. The loot system needs to be fixed and rebalanced to eliminate ghosting and server hopping.

To you, it might be. But to me, it means free loot that I don't have to trek my ass off for, and it means one less person near me who could kill me.

Nope. Every time I've been handcuffed and shot I've either been up north or a completely fresh spawn.

Because shooting them is faster and has less of a chance of YOU getting backstabbed once THEY get a gun or their friend comes along.

...lol Alright then, good luck.

The thing is, the people you took all the loot from may as well be dead anyway, since they're the equivalent of a fresh spawn now. Being robbed is essentially the same thing as being killed, and location isn't exactly a big deal since Balota is by far the best place to camp and server hop for loot.

I think skills are probably going to be inevitable. There needs to be a way to add more worth to a character than the loot on his back. As long as we stay away from 'shooting' skills, I'm fine with a skill system like being able to repair a car faster.

You realize of course these forums are an EXTREMELY small percentage of the people that play the game. You also realize I'm sure that the people who played the mod will play this. Guess what happened in the mod more than anything else, and was constantly complained about?

See how quickly you both get popped the second someone you rob tells his group about it.

Call me a murderer if you want. I call myself a survivor, because trusting people in this game has a far larger chance of getting you killed than anything else.

I've been handcuffed thrice and then shot every single time afterwards on multiple different servers. You're simply delusional if you think the handcuff system is going to work. The game very nearly encourages it not to.

Oh god it begins. This 'code of honor' bs ran rampant throughout the forums during the mod. It's not your job or my job to tell people how to play the game. If I want to KoS I will, if I don't, I won't. As it stands there is less risk to KoS than there is anything else. Until that changes, I'm going to survive in the most optimal way, which is mostly KoS.

YES I KNOW IT IS ALPHA That point acknowledged and put aside, I have a suggestion. One thing I would really enjoy seeing in the finalized product is an expansion on the character creator. It would be nice to see other eye colors, hairstyles, facial hair, and body types among the survivors of the apocalypse, from the long bearded survivor ready to raid a town to the fresh faced accountant about to shit his pants. I mean, I myself have long, curly hair. I don't think everyone in Russia keeps their hair the same way. What do you guys think about a more expansive character creation process?

Pls try not to derail the thread with your hoarding complex. Thx baby. <3

Lost me at the first sentence. If I shoot someone in the chest, they shouldn't magically break their gun, pants, helmet, and whatever is in their backpack.

God I hope so. This game needs more shit inland than an airfield and a shit ton of forests. Edit: Awwwww yeah Rocket.

If that was implemented I would honestly never bother with it. This is DayZ. I want to be scavenging food and killing zombies with an axe, not performing a college Chemisty course lab.

I swear if people like you had it your way games would stay in alpha forever. Instead of being a smartass, read the thread and realize it's a suggestion thread, which is what the spirit of an alpha game is all about.