Jex =TE= (DayZ)

No to your no! The nights are too dark - ridiculously dark. You should be able to see something AND need to use a torch as well. If you can't see anything in RL - why on earth would you go out in a zombie infested wasteland?

I stopped playing a while back - I'm waiting for the SA to come out then I'm back in refreshed from my break and playing a properly working copy :)

Go into arma editor - airfield. Place soldiers from 100 - 800m - Note how big targets appear next to chevron (print them out) - job done

Pretty sure they do but can't confirm.

1) More buildings of significance and creepy looking. Like someone said above a Police station, a haunted looking farm, a big church with a creepy graveyard, Ye olde docks with fog - I want to see some custom buildings here and there (have zombies crawl out the grave for instance (yeah i know they're infected..)) and make the current landscape more overgrown. 2) Zombies - I want herds like in walking dead so when I'm walking through the woods I might hear something then look up and I'm like "FUCK!" and I'm shitting it because these zombies need head shots and will grab hold of you and pin you down and eat you alive ripping out ur guts in front of ur eyes. In cities I want them everywhere like a plague, where you have to plan a route around them, where you can't exploit the engine to beat them - you make a mistake - you pay for it (but I don't want it impossible to get around the zeds) 3) Items - I'd like less guns and more items of value. Items that you can do things with to help you survive. If I risk going into a city, I get better items. If I go to little farms, i get shittier items but maybe more of them. In other words make the items the key things that we want. A bamboo stick + fishing line + hook + worm gives me a 30% chance to catch a fish - go into a city and get a proper rod and real, etc I have a 45% chance or whatever. The poncho I'm wearing can double as a tent, the camping cook kit I have can boil water so i don't get infected - the more interesting things we have here the more there is to do and trade over and maybe less to kill over. Make it so we have to make things out of things.

I'm guessing that too but a little more calmly ;)

I was taken hostage and flown away in a helicopter. Some firefight broke out....I couldn't really see much. Next thing I know the pilot is dead and we're spinning out of control and we crashed. As I crawled out the wreckage to freedom, I saw man on a hill holding a Makarov.... :P

Having to take a shit in game is disgusting and ridiculous. What are we going to drop our pants and curl one out? I'm thinking this won't be the case but if it is it's just wrong.

They should have mushrooms as well and maybe fruit trees. Hunger should go down based on your physical exertion?

I closed a gate up on ......shivers........ and then a bunny came by, stopped at the gate, looked up at me and then opened the gate and ran through. Cheeky bastard didn't close it behind him though!

You can't hide a chopper. Due to the way Arma renders things it will stick out like a sore thumb - you're wasting your time unless you go and steal all the other choppers,

I have a week booked off work coming up. I'm loading up dayz and will be doing nothing but playing days the whole week. This means when I sleep the game will still be playing, when I'm hungry I can only eat what I have in my inventory so I will be stocking up on rabbit, chicken, steak etc. I have most of the cans of food but for the life of me cannot find "Frank N Beans" anywhere! When I ask at the counter I either get weird looks, laughed at or security get called. What am I doing wrong - I need to stuff my face with Frank N Beans or I won't be able to simulate Dayz the way I want to!

When I find mountain dew I'll ask someone to send me it and I will make a shrine.....I wonder if I can run a cable out to the woods and play out there. <_<

I'm in the UK just outside London but I want an authentic experience....oh fuck I forgot the mountain dew!

There's no such thing as pitch black above the surface. When you go caving the first thing you do is spend 20 minutes in the pitch black to get ur eyes accustomed to the dark. When you turn your headlight back on the difference is night and day on what you can see.

No you load a Ural up with MD and then drive it to..... that place that shall remain nameless. Once there you burn the ural, sacrificing it to the place that shall remain nameless.

OMG it's STILL going down in here. Dayzs longest surviving thread.... could well be going for the longest of the whole interwebz!

The zombies at least will be fixed somewhat in the SA - I'm not playing Dayz now till the SA comes out. I want a break from it (played it for 4 months practically solid) so when it does come out it'll be fresh again AND it will actually play towards how it was envisioned rather than how the arma 2 engine handled it. Looking forward to the updated map as well - I hope they add in a few easter eggs in for us.

If you're bored waiting we know of this alternative game somewhere out there....

what's the Zeus ACE AI like? Been playing since OFP - I would suggest try playing a coop mission against the AI with your friends and it'll be the most realistic experience in gaming you'll probably ever have as long as you play it right (and u don't get one-shotted with a pistol at 300m)

If it logs the key press then a crash won't matter - unless u pressed alt-f4 right before the crash so the point is moot. Alt-F4 is valid against hackers though.

The chance of you joining the same server someone joined is small. Private servers are their own hives so the only save to that character is done on that server. Either ur sleep-gaming or the server starts you off with that gear to begin with. Join a public game and see where you spawn. Run inland and quit and then go play on a private hive for a few days. Come back and see if ur in the same place with the same gear on the public hive.

If you are on a public server then you are on the public hive and it will carry across. Every other server running different maps are running a private hive (afaik) so each one will be a different character.

I think it's fair enough to say that Rocket and team have been active enough on the forums, asked enough questions and listened to the community that they will do ok come the release of the beta (alpha?) - let's face it - they are essentially releasing the same game we've been playing for months but without as many hackers and with things fixed that were broken before. We might even get new content as well and then can look forward to newer content as they develop it.