BigChef

I enjoy and use both 1st and 3rd person, mostly for reasons already stated by others in this thread. Driving situations, landing choppers (not that I fly often) off road biking (my favorite way to get South to North) and I definitely use 3rd person for those times I can’t find a vehicle and need to take a long run…1st person blows for this. But, FP rocks for an in the game feel, it makes for a much more tense gaming experience, however becoming stuck in a doorway, not being able to peak over a fence or around a corner certainly is a drawback. Someone said something to the effect of "it makes up for the limitations of the monitor" I couldn't agree more, I believe that far too much needs to be addressed that will not be address to make this a smooth fully functional 1st person only game. I like it, I use it but far less than I once did and I also believe that removing it all together would not only decrease sales, but cause a greater dropout rate amongst players…it’s a far more difficult game to learn in 1st person. Someone said “they’ll just have to find another game to play” a very elitist attitude IMHO, were the game 1st person from the start I may well have dropped out already missing on months of enjoyment (and frustration) that the game has given me, my family and friends. Perhaps instead of they’ll just have to find another game to play” we should say “they’ll just have to find another server to play on”

I can't stay out of super markets...alice packs, 1911s, food even tents...DayZ Walmart! Of course more often than not, none of those items are there

Loot at night when the zeds can't see you Cruise the edge of the map in search of camps Raid said camps when the server pop is low

I had a short day at work last Tuesday and my daughter came along, and she wanted to play DayZ while I was taking care of things. When she logged on with my laptop she could only play as me, even though she changed players in the game before launching from Commander. Her player name was there but she loaded in with my gear and in my location. Can you play a different character from the same PC on the same server?

I get it now HA! Not without that 30cal Skrat posted

I can hit with a DMR out to 500m consistently and 600 often but not 3 rounds in 3 seconds nor will that 7.62 carry the kinetic energy that far down range as is portrayed in DayZ, so I agree it certainly is not realistic and is nearly if not more deadly than the removed 50s because of it's rate of fire, high mag capacity and low recoil. It could use a retooling, however as mentioned,something else will take it's place if removed.

The camo net looks cool, something I've always thought the game could use...the infection mess needs to be dealt with more than anything...IMHO

So when you are in 1st person, not sighting through the scope, the weapon is still shouldered?

Hell, I broke my legs getting into a tent!

At 50m that weapon hip shoots nicely

I couldn't disagree with you more on this point...I've survived for days off canned food, soda and ammo found on dead zombies...I hunt them quite often

My guess is because of steam you can't connect three or four PCs and play via a LAN network...or is there a way?

Thing is I live in a remote area, broad band should reach us in about four months and until then I play tethered to my droid...don't think that'll work well with a server. I was looking for a way to play each other offline...I'll just have to wait.

"Me? Worry about infection? Naw, I can always find some antibiotics"

drop the makarov and pick up the 1911

Didn't consider the CD key, makes sense. She's only been playing for a few weeks and likes the private hive "you've just won the load out lottery" servers so we have a camp and she likes to add to the loot stash, but seeing as how I've purchased steam/DayZ for 3 PCs now she can play on her 2nd favorite server! Thanks for your responses.

I was approaching the construction site building and due to zombies I decided to try and vault up onto the building from what I consider the side instead of using the stairway and ended up waist deep in the concrete...I didn't live long. The game could use a Minecraft style "jump" key.

Experienced the near instant death under the boat house, as well as falling down...I should say THROUGH the stairs in the station house, broken leg/no morphine death by going prone on a catwalk...and...got stock in a cargo container once and starved to death because no matter what I tried I couldn't get the door to reopen! Serious fear of cargo containers now.

"Hey, I'm new here...where are you?"

MAN! The maddening part was after respawning, running, dodging players and zeds in order to retrieve my gear...(some nice gear and pack) I couldn't do so because my corpse was encased in concrete! I reentered the building and went to where I made my glitchy demise, and followed the buzzing of the flies only to find that I could stand right on top of me and perhaps Jimmy Hoffa without being able to retrieve any of the gear! Lesson learned.

I've been searching unsuccessfully for anit-biotics for five days now, it's getting tiresome. I'm not infected or surely I would have died by now, however my entire focus has been the pursuit of anti-biotics and it's changed my gameplay and not IMO for the better. i do believe that this infection issue may well slow if not halt the amount of new players staying with DayZ as it's difficult enough in the beginning to stay alive for even a few days, now how long will noobs last?

HA! Didn't work so well for me this time, and no, I can't think of too many scenarios in the DayZ mod where I think it would be called for...I'd most likely end up waist deep in shit anyway.

Perfect, thanks

Thanks, that did it. Now...It rarely happens unless my ping is up around 270+ but Arma launches Op Arrowhead army of the Czech republic, which I also must close out of. Any thoughts there?

Always know where the closest pine tree is, not just any pine but those whose bows go down to the ground. You can run in to a pine with zeds on your ass, turn around and kill them with whatever weapon you have. If you wait until they start to walk away you can shoot them in the back of the head, drop them close enough to scavenge their loot all without leaving the cover of the tree. I'm a bona fide tree hugger!