Firewarrior64

Add L4D Tanks, profit ^^

I would generally not shoot him... Expecially if I don't have an AS50 or something strong enough to either insta-kill him or incapacitate him.

Darn, I didn't think about that you have to land a chopper somewhere lol... Anyways, I think if you aren't stupid enough to land near cherno you won't encounter 200-250 zombies- even with the increased zombie count. If you land in the middle of nowhere (where you're probably going to build your camp) you'll just face ~50 zombies, I think. And what you said about L4D is true, but the difference between L4D and DayZ is that you won't have enough ammo to shoot all of them- you will have to run, you will have to hide... Think of it as an outdoor amnesia with guns and pvp. "rocket said that you should be able to feel safe in Dayz but ONLY when it is by something YOU have done" Oh, I didn't know that. Well, rocket knows more about gameplay decisions than I do, so I guess that's right

Yes, that's right, but still that means that once june has passed people think: "he said that it will be after june so it will come out soon!" which is sad because that's another hope which will get destroyed. I know that I shouldn't think like that but I'm way to excited about SA D:

Perhaps he just meant another devblog with some ingame footage of the new map. Well, but next week was one week ago :P Geez, I hate it when people make promises and break them. Why the **** did Rocket say it wouldn't come out prior to june?! A lot of people now think that it will come out in june- It most likely won't. He could've just said it will come out this year...

Yes, choppers ARE awesome- and that's why I want them removed. Let me first explain what MY personal opinion on how the game should be is. So, I think that the zeds should always be dangerous- when you're on the shore and still after succesfully looting NWAF. I am not a fan of endgame content because that makes zombies not your primary issue, but hunting down players. Let's take a look at the DMR. When you can kill every zed instantly, they aren't dangerous anymore! I think the CZ550 is the best sniper rifle because it's pretty rare, has somewhat common ammo so you don't run out that fast and its fire rate is slow enough so it's not good for close combat. I think when you're in choppers you are basically safe from the two main dangers of DayZ: 1. players because they won't hit you if you fly fast enough (unless they are VERY skilled) and 2. zeds because- well, zeds can't fly. That's my point: You should never have the feeling of being safe in DayZ. Even cars are somewhat safe, but players in cars can still be attacked by zeds and shot by snipers, so they are not that safe.

I think repairing choppers in a zombie apocalypse would be the most reasonable thing to do. You can fly away from the hordes, you can save other survivors from everywhere, you can basically survive way better than without one. For the sniping, yes, this wouldn't occur in reallife. In DayZ however, there are way more hostile people than in reallife. I personally just use my sniper rifle for counter- sniping.I think choppers should be removed- just because you are SAFE in them- you should NEVER be safe in DayZ.

Oh, okay, thanks guys.

That's something I really don't understand. WHY THE FUCK do they keep adding new stuff to the game instead of releasing it?! I know that the server and client architecture overhaul was desperately needed, but that's basically it! They could have released it as a standalone which is almost identical to the mod (except more hacker-proof) and then continued on developement with patches.

Just remove helicopters. Forever. It's just unrealistic and a civilian (which your DayZ character is) would never be able to repair a helicopter in real life. I really loved helicopters when I didn't have the game- You know, endgame dreams. But that's the point: ENDGAME. DayZ shouldn't have a fucking endgame! The endgame is just survival and you shouldn't have a helicopter to fly away from the zombie hordes! That is my main point: If you fly fast enough and are not stupid enough to auto-hover above elektro, you are SAFE in a helicopter. You shouldn't feel save in DayZ. EVER. Of course, you could weaken the helicopters so a single cz550 shot to the rotor destroys it, but still that's not possible if the person flies to fast. I wish for no safety in DayZ ever. I personally miss the .50 calibres a little bit.. I never had one, but it gave me the feeling "okay, there might be an AS50 sniper watching me right now... one shot and I and my precious little car are history" I think they should be either added again or some other kind of anti-material rifle- or rocket launchers.

I meant the thousands of cars just as an example which would only apply to NYC. Of course Chernarus is poorer and there would be way less cars but what I intended to say was that there should be more damaged but repairable vehicles... (which is sort of redundant because it has already been said)

I doubt that vehicles will be included at all... I know that they are going to be missing in the initial release because they are being remade (at least that's what I've heard) and then patched in later... But I don't think that's going to happen. The devs will probably be like: "Hey, you had no vehicles for five months now! It isn't that bad, eh? You already got used to having no vehicles, so we won't include them at all." Nothing against you devs, but I'm just pessimistic. However, IF they get added again (which I hope) the Idea of having more vehicles is very cool- I mean, most of you know those wallpapers of post-apocalyptic New York with thousands of wrecked cars on the streets. It would be awesome to be able to repair more of these. However, I'm not entirely sure whether or not it would be a good idea. I personally very rarely find car parts- and it would be impossible to fit everything to repair a car into a single backpack- expecially if they get even harder to repair.

And then you could see a record of your past life with that music.. I would cry every time :D But seriously, I think music would be a good idea. Although I personally hate it, because it would not be realistic and I don't like being influenced in my emotions, it would make death even sadder and people wouldn't just run in cherno like "I can respawn, I have nothing to lose!" I really disagree. I would like it more when the death is 20 seconds in the future and not instantly. Because if you die instantly you don't even have time to think about how sad that is. You just say "GODDANGIT" and click respawn. I would find it way more painful if you knew it would be all over in 20 seconds and there would be nothing you could do about it. You would just have to sit there and watch your character die and remember everything you have gained is lost, perhaps even your companions are gone. And I really wouldn't like a third-person-death. It's just way more intense in first person, in my opinion. However, I like the idea of "seeing the world trample over you like you meant nothing to it".

Maybe a tandem which would reach speeds up to 60 kilometers per hour on-road seating two people... But I would add a second seat to the old bike where the other person sits on the back mudguard :P

I think it should be a death scene similar to left 4 dead and (spoiler marked in black) the ending of bioshock 2 meaning that you stay in first person (I really hate 3rd person death scenes) and the colors slowly pass out while the screen gets red with the last heart beats. If shot in the chest the character could put his hand on the wound, cough blood and look at his blood-covered hand... then he falls down to his knees (at which point I as the murderer would headshot him just to give him the final blow) and if not headshot yet, fall to the ground and see the zombies approach while the screen gets black. And it would be pretty cool in my opinion when the game recognizes if the dying person was in a squad with someone and then call the name of the person who you were with (using text-to-speech) or move the hand in their direction (somewhat like: save me!) or if the killer was a squadmate, shout out "WHY?" while gargeling blood. Of course, a headshot would just mean instant 'you are dead'.

I would not like persistent gear like compasses or such things, but I would really like persistent clothing (unless it gives you an advantage like bulletproof vests). For example, you should get a 'medic uniform' after 50 blood transfusions but be able to put it off, unlike the hero skin which you have to wear at all times (unless you find a ghillie suit), if I'm correct.

I think he used to be good when he showed some actual in-game footage- searching towns for food'n stuff. But since he uses hacks to spawn the best vehicles and the best guns in the game, it gets boring for me... DayZ isn't all about pvp activities with the best gear.

You guys have my respect. I wish I could shoot innocent people and care- but I don't. Basically I always shoot on sight- not because I like banditry (which I absolutely hate) but just because of paranoia... soul-eating paranoia. Every kill I just think "yes, he shouted friendly, but if we teamed up, he would've shot me in the back and took my beans"... but every kill something dies in me. I'm jealous of you guys who can team up with people... I wish I could do that without my heart bursting every step until I pull the trigger because I'm to feared of my companion,

Hello people on the internet. first of all, I know that the survivor HQ is not the right place to post this, but I haven't seen a questions forum. If a mod sees this and knows the right category, please move it there. thank you. (oh, and excuse my awful english) What I wanted to ask you is how the hero skin and bandit scarf will work with the new clothing system in DayZ standalone. Will you be able to take off your scarf? Or will heroes and bandits be entirely removed? Because I would not want bandits to be able to take off the scarf- players should always be able to tell if the player is a bandit or not. If players could take off the scarf, other players wouldn't know that they are going to kill them and so they could think they are friendly and then be shot in the back. I know that regular survivors do that, too, but after a couple of kills they become a bandit and so everyone will know they aren't friendly. I would appreciate an answer. ~Firewarrior64

Oh god, I imagine bandits dressing up as heroes... the end has come.

Oh, I didn't know that... that would be pretty cool. Well, but the hero costume (= medic uniform) would show your patients immediately that you are friendly... I think as a survivor you would get shot more because people are more paranoid when the bandits look like survivers, too... (in my opinion) I think the pvp activity in general would increase... right now about... let's say 60% of the survivors are hostile and 100% of the bandits (of course). So if the bandits would get the survivor "skin", about 80-90% of the survivors would be hostile (Yes, I did the math wrong, but you know what I mean... hopefully). And then the 10-20% of friendly survivors would probably become hostile, too- simply out of self-defense and paranoia.

Wait a second, there's something that just came to my mind: If you would want to snipe properly and be able to fly a helicopter, you would have to buy ArmA2... Because that's the only way to practise sniping and flying without wasting ammunition or risking a crash, or am I wrong?

Well, I still think that there should be some kind of hero clothing/reward, but I agree that it would be an interesting new experience when there are no bandids.

Okay, thank you... I'm gonna buy it then :D (although I feel bad for buying a game just for a mod because I don't like ArmA at all)

I have a different opinon on that. I find it more interesting right now, because regular survivors might be friendly, but also might not. When there are ONLY survivors, they are most likely hostile because DayZ has gained so much popularity that many people (let's just take the generic CoD player stereotype) who just want to kill people have joined. The main thing I'm sad about is that heroes get removed- I really think you should be able to tell that that guy is probably friendly (and it also would be a reward for 'good' players because then they are less often killed because of paranoia)