Abolition

dgeesio I only had to look at the titles of your DayZ video's and all i can say is you are a complete douche your "style" of play is wasteland go play wasteland you rooftop camping bitch I don't care if this is out of line players like you infuriate me and you have no valid argument on this thread

Thats what i was saying in the OP, No game mechanic will stop KoS without completely changing what DayZ is but peoples attitude towards surviving needs to change. Dayz isn't having a can beans and a pepsi in your back pack running around elektro shooting everyone so they don't steel them, It's about having an adventure while surviving, meeting people in arkward standoffs, possibly teaming or helping each other out and going your seperate ways to run into each other another day. Anything can happen. If you shoot everyone, your alone that's it, you miss out on a massive aspect of the game while i suppose using the KoS aspect to your advantage but having the advantage often gets boring like spawn camping BF3 Metro it's not a challenge. Truly surviving and risking an adventure thats a challenge.

For me it's more of a rush trying to hold someone up and in the reverse hearing that voice over direct chat, it's that oh shit moment. Just from saying something over direct anything can happen but if i just straight out shoot someone that's it their dead, that's not very exciting. Obviously this can't always be the case

Agreed The title means what DayZ use to be for me, but from this thread and peoples feed back I am realising that it's not as bad as it seems and there are things i can do to change my experience like Finding a good community which i have been part of some really good ones in the past, just sadly the servers died and I wont argue the fact that it's easy to get lazy and not check an area properly, and it will always be a big risk trusting people you haven't met or played with before. and at the end of the day risk is a huge part of Dayz, It's what makes it fun. I'm am surprised by the feed back, I think I expected more negitive replies. :)

I do understand there are still friendly players around but i haven't seen it in a very long time. Maybe i'm just dwelling on the past to much, on how it use to be. Maybe I've just had really bad luck with the player's I've been incountering. TheRedScare has a prime example of the kind of attitude i'm talking about the "This is Dayz" Attitude i come across almost everytime i play. I am glad to hear that other people are still trying to play friendly :)

There are so many different forms of DayZ now Origins, Epoch, Overwatch, DayZero etc. They are all fun but they all have one fundamental flaw the players. For me teaming up if great fun, getting shot in the back while looting or climbing a ladder is not (Thats what Wasteland is for). Now some versions promote KoS with lots of military, That's fine for those who like to play that style of DayZ. But for those that play DayZ to team up, fix a car and go looting the KoS players ruin it and no matter what version I play its always the same who see's who first. I know some of you will say " Harden up" or "Go play on a PvE server". Don't get me wrong I like the PvP in DayZ it add's alot of excitement to the game( We all remember the heart pumping gun battles when you first start ), The main problem is no one talks at all. It use to be that you shot someone because they posed a genuine threat to you and your gear ( once you had some good gear ) or because you wanted their gear (meaning you had crap gear) Now its just I've got shit gear he's got shit gear lets shoot each other or I've got good gear im gonna shoot the guy running around with a makorov. Alot of Dev's and Admins have tried to find ways to promote team work but nothing seems to work for very long. This is always going to be an issue even with the standalone and I personally don't think it can be fixed in game, The thing that needs to change is people's attitude towards what DayZ is. People use the excuse everyone KoS so i have to, otherwise they will just kill me ( Thats fair enough i say it aswell ). As a a gaming community we need to be working towards changing this not just the Dev's and Admins there is only so much they can do. So please join me in this discussion and help bring DayZ back to life Cheers for reading and i look forward to any and all feed back.