Sheepdog (DayZ)

See thats how i felt about the day/night cycle too at first. But I just cant see SHIT at night. Like literally not a damn thing for some reason so I've actually grown to love the 24/7 day.

Haha you know it bro

Look no further. If you're new to the game or an experience played it doesnt matter - you will absolutely love this server. UMBRELLA CORPORATION 300+ VEHICLES SERVER. It has the perfect amount of vehicle spawns (not easy to find one, but you also wont have to run around for hours either) including a few helicopters (which make for awesome player to player encounters. Its epic). The weapon spawns are higher than normal but you're not going to play for 20min and find 10 DMRs in every building you check. Its a perfect balance of all aspects of the game. Not the normal annoying ass players you find in most server too. This one is filled with nothing but cool, chill guys (even the bandits). Note - this IS NOT my server. I just play on it and am spreading the word because the only thing we are missing right now is a few extra players to help keep things interesting. Check it out and feels free to message me in game - i'll hook you up.

Umbrella Corporation is a 24/7 day server with 300+ cars and 30+ helicopters. Its an AWESOME server and its very easy to get geared up on (could have decent stockpile after only a few days, especially with a clan). Only problem is me and my clan mates run that place right now and are in desperate need of another clan to play again. I just dont know if any of you out there are man enough to step up and take us on. Type "umbrella" in your filter and click on the 300+ vehicle one if you are.

This is what I had in mind. Not necessarily making zombies the central focal point of the game, but enough of a threat so that they provide an alternative outlet/form of entertainment to PvP combat. Therefore not only decrease the amount of KoS due to boredom, but also by promoting necessary cooperation with other players.

Okay, listen. You obviously didn't read the post in its entirety as I already mentioned this. But what if there were other fun things to do? IE killing zombies that aren't glitchy chickens with the heads cut off. And what if working with another player could make this more fun due to the fact that it would let you fight more zombies and go places you otherwise couldnt by yourself.

The fresh spawn is honestly understandable to me and is something that like likely never change. But they are very easy to identify/steer clear of. End game KOSers are another story however and that was more of the aspect I was focusing on.

Haha I know right, sat there for 10 minutes trying to think of a catchy title (otherwise people DGAF). Will change it to something better suited to the post

After reading yet another rant about the rampant KOS mentality currently permeating the mod, I considered a question that I have been toying with for a while now. Let me first say that I believe that the main reason so many people kill on sight is just because they're bored as hell. Once you've played the game for a while dying doesn't really mean shit, especially if you're playing with you friends. Its just not a big deal. You're essentially perma-geared which is the only real motivating factor to this game since there aren't attributes, XP or levels. So if you don't need to scavenge and if the zombies provide little entertainment because of how easy they are to deal with, then what would be the next logical step to keeping yourself entertained? Killing other players. Derp. Why Consider this though. It seems like the standalone is going to be implementing something i've long been hoping for - decreased spawn rates for loot (especially the higher end items like military weapons) and vehicles. Therefor making it much harder/more time consuming to gear up and reach "end game" and once you have finally managed to get some decent gear you would probably be pretty damn cautious about losing it. IE you probably wouldn't try to snipe some random dude just for the fun of it because he (or the newly improved zombies) might kill you. Buuuuut, it also might make people MORE likely to kill someone who is nearby under the "better safe than sorry" mentality. What do you think? I really do believe that dramatically decreasing the spawn rates and therefor making this game more about scavenging/surviving the zombies (who I also believe should pose a much higher threat to players) would be a step....no, a leap in the right direction. You should have to gradually earn your gear, not just by running around but by genuinely fighting with the zombies too. Do that and you not only increase the realism/authenticity but you continually provide players with something to do (other than killing players). We all love this game, but sometimes there really isn't much else to do besides hunt people. FOR NOW!

Shameless bump. Keep the input coming

I agree, 3rd person just makes it to easy to "cheat peek" from cover which takes away from a lot of the realism/authenticity IMO

Quoted from a different thread on the same page haha. I'm not one to lecture on the search button, but at least scroll down a few times.

Good questions Quartermarine. I guess I didn't really explain the sort of "vision" that I had in mind when talking about increasing the threat provided by the zombies. What I was thinking was not necessarily that its hard to survive against just the zombies themselves - meaning that you could almost always simply turn and run away to survive. But making them enough of a threat so that you couldn't expect to run into a town full of them and come out with any loot unless you killed them all first. Essentially just making scavenging certain area's far more challenging than it currently is or even impossible in some circumstances depending on your group size/gear/ammo/ etc. This would also mean that you would think twice before shooting at another player (or anything for that matter) while there are zombies in the area. Basically upgrading them from the joke that they currently are, but not to the extent of say Left 4 Dead. Somewhere in the middle.

Thanks, hadn't seen this before.

So I live about 2 hours away from LA and am seriously considering driving down to E3 for the sole purpose of getting a look at the new developments and to ask Rocket a question that NO ONE has seemed to address and yet should be one of our biggest concerns (IMO at least). "What can we expect in terms of lag/desycn given all of the new changes?" I can't believe no one has asked this and it hasnt been addressed by the dev team. Currently its my #1 #2 and #3 issue with the game. Really its the only issue I have with the game, everything else would just be an much welcome and added benefit. But trying to shoot something thats lagging and skipping all over the map is nearly impossible sometimes (not to mention absolutely infuriating) and then if you finally do manage to get a hit, it's going to see about a 1-2 seconds delay before anything actually happens. In my opinion this just completely takes away from the whole realistic atmosphere that DayZ is trying to provide and would be completely unacceptable for any other pay to play game. But given how demanding DayZ is and the amount of stress it can put in servers/PC's its still a serious question in my mind. Soooo....to drive or not to drive?