Wayze

Believe it or not, but in like 50 years, killing kids in games will be as wrong as playing tetris. Add something like Oculus Rift, virtual reality, and you got your generation of totally confused children. We all did raise up without facebook, without Call of Duty and all the other games. This world will change and we just can speculate about the effect the internet and the media will have to future generations. What I think is that morality and many other basic human thinking-processes will change. The world developes very fast and in 20 years we all will be old grandpa's, missing the world, the music, the movies, the games, how it all used to be.

Am I the only one feeling like a friend is playing a super awesome game and I am just allowed to watch?

Run out? It should be so rare that you even won't be able to make it "run out".

Don't wonder if you end up being the one on this paper.

Realism? Well, if you want to have child zombies because they are realistic, you would have to add the possiblity to play a child. Which would require alot of work.

Now THAT was expensive.

When the game is released the world, as we now know it, won't exist anymore.

Give him beans, goddammit!

You need the batteries, which will run out pretty fast. But, sure if we speak of realism you would be able to find many radios. Now, thinking from a gameplay perspective, this is probably not a very good idea, if you want to keep the immersion. Look, if there are many radios, people will just troll. All the day, troll, troll, troll. You will see everywhere speakers with music turned on, electro will be a massive zombie party. Well, would that happen in real life? No way, who would be that crazy? Will that happen in a game? Yes it will.

If you have a radio, which will be highly unlikely, then yes.

What? And how do you explain this:

First, I want to make clear that I really do not care about this. You can have it your way, no problem. But I think there are some additional aspects we should consider here. I haven't played DayZ for quite some time, but I never was able to transport my vehicle or my tent across a server. Seems really stupid, the solution would be simple: Don't add it to the game. Well, and there was another problem you were talking about. People who server switch for farming loot. Well, people would most likely do that in military areas, where good weapons are more likely. But, I think standalone has two really simple solutions for this: Zombies and serverside characters. I see it like that, if you want to get inside a building of a military area, you first have to take out a huge amount of zombies. I am talking about 20 zeds (if you are careful and they don't detect you at all), which is quite difficult. But, let's say someone serverhops inside a building, as zombies do spawn at server restart, the guy in this buidling will be dead before he even sees his character. Additionally, if he wants to log out, the zombies will rip him apart, because if you leave a server your character will stay on the spot you logged out for a certain time, unprotected. So, problem vanished, hopefully. That would ofcourse require zombies to be in buildings, in military areas. Someone who spawns inside a building, would have almost no chance of survival. The zombies will attack him, even if he takes them out as the zombies scream they lure all of the zombies outside of the building (maybe like 30-40 depends on how well protected the area is) to him, which would result in certain death. Approaching a military area on the other side should be a very difficult task and time consuming task. It should be a great risk and result in most attemps into a violent death. Another aspect is the economy. As there will be very rare items in the game, they would have no value if the servers were locked. Who needs the best weapon ingame, if you cannot even get out of the server with it? And additionally I don't think that 100 players are enough for a working economy. I really think that people will form groups and operate on certain servers. Like trading servers. This would be some sort of end-game, because, tjhe people trying to protect it would have constantly something to do. Secure the safety of the trading area. On the other side there are the bandits which will try to rob the place. Would result in very interesting situations. Ofcourse all of this won't be possible without constant characters.

Wouldn't fit into the game. They are no zombies, they are infected people. If their lung is popped, they are dead.

Dean is clearly tired. Probably didn't sleep much, look at him "are are" "new engine-based". I think he means that the zombies, which required to rewritte them from scretch (changes in the engine?), are working very good.

And he may come upon us, disguised as the savior, his true nature hidden throughout history. He shall bring terror, as he is all of them together, the last horseman of chaos. - True Bible, Psalm 32 Salvation awaits, sacrifice all your beans and your soul shall rise to heaven!

We both now the truth! Your empire will fall soon.

Guys, I am shocked: I told you, they would do everything for beans. They don't care about the game or us, they just want power! Burn them all! :bandit:

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If they keep that speed they finish in 78 days... You were faster. ^^

Yeah, they pretty much don't need feedback.

Works to change the system? You were talking about wasting money, I think that would perfectly fit in this discription. But I don't want to argue about international politics and how the world runs, this would be way to offtopic. As a matter of act you will buy the SA, you will do it, there is no way around that. And as you do that, you decided to spent money, you could have spent for starving children, for a game. No matter how much you will spent to these organizations that "try to change the system" (which won't work I assure you that), as long as you have moeny left, and as long as you whether put it into a game then into saving the life of human beings, you will always prefer enjoyment infront of starving children. Now, why would you do that? Is enjoyment more important then another humans life? It kind of is, and there is no way you can talk yourself out of it. What I trying to tell you is that it's the same with all of us. I am, like you, not spending all my money to starving children, which would be infact the right thing to do. No, I will buy the SA, knowing that there are people dying out there in the world. It is a part of being a human, sadly. You don't even have to argue with me because, that how life rolls. But, let's go back to the scenario. Well, I kind of think your apocalypse kind of differs from mine. I don't believe in all this butterfly "all humans will work together" bullcrap, because history just told us otherwise. Now, I see, you would help this guy, probably. If you are not in direct danger, why not? Well, you help him to get back on his feet. It would cost you very valuable food, medicaments and other stuff, but if you are alone, you can aswll go and kill yourself right? You pretty much can. Because, what people will most likely do in such a scenario is that they will trick people that act exactly like you. "I am hurt, help, pleaaaaase!", you are the hero, you go up to him. You hear a click behind you, dead. You don't even hear the sound of the gunshot, because the bullet will pretty much have destroyed your brain before you can even realise it. That's it. No respawn on the coast. This is my apocalypse, people who pretend to be hurt just to lure others, to kill them. It is a great strategy right? If you don't want to starve you kind of have to be creative. If you haven't died in the apocaylpse, you probably have learned that you cannot turst anyone. You probably have seen how children have killed others for fun. You have seen how women got raped. You have seen things that we cannot even imagine. And I think that these things, no matter how important morality to you is, will change you. Your personality. A life will not have the same value as it has today. You see someone dying, well, you are used to it. This is what happend to many people in WW2 and it happens in africa all the day. The world is so cruel that a life is simply worth nothing. If you are not cruel, you won't survive. Simple as that. You may be an exception, you may be the hero. But like I said, you should always consider the possibility that you will not act how you think you act, in a situation alike to 911. And 911 is a walk in the park compared to what happens in africa every day. And what happens in africa everyday is like watching teletubbies compared to a zombie apocalypse. Sure, in this moment I say "Hell yes I would help him", but I am pretty sure that life is not simple as it looks like. In war, cowards turned out to be heroes and heroes turned out to be cowards. How you act in this world and in the real world, may differ fundamentaly.

Sorry, I won't continue to read, because like I said this is the phenomen I was talking about. You will have done nothing? You will have saved a life! Nothing is the perfect word you chose, because this is how much these people are worth for you. Exactly, nothing. Just because you are not able to change the world like a super hero means that you are not supposed to help at all? I mean, a child will die if you won't spent money. If you send them 20$, surely it will live a few more days. And if everyone would spend these 20$, then these children could live a whole life. And, even though you have just spent 20$, is saved a childs life, even if it is just for a short period of time. Is that really less worth than a videogame? No, he is honest. Just because you say you would act different, does not mean that you would. Actually that is a fundemental thing you should have learned while having ethics courses. People say things, but in 99% of the cases they will not hold upon their words. And I don't believe him, the same as I don't believe you. I don't think that he could be so cruel to kill children, women and everyone he sees, the same as I don't believe you that you would die for a stranger.

Praise the lord! He is back!

It is a metaphor! Sunshine symbolizes the end of the dark, cruel period of waiting. Finally the hope becomes reality. How did you not see that?

I could have written that post, before you even thought of it. I knew exactly what excuses you would find. "I don't see these starving children", "It's the fault of their goverment" and the best one ofcourse "My help wouldn't really help them". Sorry, but you know that this is just bullsh*t (no offense). We humans are actually really good at it. You know it is wrong but there is a kind of self-preservation mechanism in us humans that prevents us from going nuts. You ofcourse can immdiately help these children. Ofcourse you could spend money to organisations that will help these people. You are capable of saving a life with simple money. You know it, you just don't want to spend this money. You know there are starving children, you know that it is not their fault, you know that you could help them. But you don't. You will buy the SA and justify it with these thought up "facts" of yours. And I don't blame you, that is how we humans are. You effort wasn't wasted? So if you donate money to helping organisations your effort is wasted? Better spend the money for a game? Sure... And sure there is enough food in this world and you could do something about it. You could actually change someones life. But you won't, you will, like we all, spend the money for a game.