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Spending time with "new friends" cuts into available time for old friends. I've got a life with a wife, kids, work, and friends have X hours. X-Y means less X for those friends. So when the choice becomes humoring people who knew me before my teenage daughter was born or trying to turn a stranger who likes the same setting in a game into someone as close... I'll take the former.

No, it's not more important. You have a view of your character in your inventory screen. So all that cool stuff can be seen there. He said maybe someday he could add a skill system, but not for a long time, however players themselves could act like a medic. Paraphrasing I believe he said something about how a person could act like a medic for a group and carry a bunch of medical based supplies. In a recent video he stated they would like to get splints into the game for broken bones and you would be forced to crawl until you splinted a leg and with the splint you would limp until someone could do a higher level of medical care that takes more time. That is where he would like to get to, but not there yet. You do limp in the SA though, I've seen the animations.

"Daddy, why do tigers have strips?" "Camouflage so they can sneak up on their prey." "Stripes?" "Yeah, they break up it's shape so it doesn't look like a big tiger in the long grass." "Oh." That or the Discovery channel. I know as a kid(which was long before discovery channel) I watched specials on animals and learned all about camouflage before anything else. That isn't even taking into account all the hunters who go out every fall. Only Rifle Season requires orange and even then you can wear orange "camouflage" that is visable to humans but still breaks up your form so that deer have issues seeing you. Those who don't hunt frequently know those who do. Camouflage is not as mystical as you make it out to be. Don't get me wrong, I agree with you that TPV is not needed for the purpose of making sure you are hidden in a bush. I agree that amateurs will not hide well enough to hide from professionals and that we can hide very well in this game very easily. I think you are thinking too much though. If you are assuming the hider is an amateur then you will have to assume that the searching survivors are not professionals either. I know it takes time to get into a position in such a way that you do not disturb your surroundings so that you don't give yourself away(now after years of woodsball) but even a rank amateur can hide well enough from another rank amateur in pine trees such as the ones we typically see people hide in. ;)

I would be, but I doubt I can convince my friends. That means I probably won't be playing there.

That was actually my first year out in paintball and I had played mostly on Air courts. You know, limited area boxed in with a net so spectators could watch and be safe, air bunkers, no camo, and gear covered in fluorescent colors. Heck my gun is yellow and purple swirls and my goggles have a rainbow sheen to them. That was this amateur's first try at camo. :) I mean I did read a bit about ghillies before starting but not all that much. The concept of camo is extremely simple and straightforward. Break up your form. Make it not be man shaped.

I can get a TrackIR with the clip for $170 or a decent webcam that is worth buying for about $100. Now mind you, the webcam can be used for other things like Video chats and such, however my wife also has serious issues with something that can record her wandering around without her knowing... I am not going to tell her about the remote app I have on my phone for the video camera we bought or it will have to be locked away. ;) So I HAD a webcam but it is old and crappy now since we have been together almost 9 years now and I haven't bought anything new in that time. So, $170 for a device designed to do that or about $100 for one that isn't and I will probably have to put away when I'm not playing which means recalibrating it every time I put it back? I'll have to work that out. You need to go watch the recent videos. It is already pretty far form a stale rehash with better window dressing. You have to really search for items and that alone will give it a freshness. So will all the status effects that can be on your character now. We now limp or crouch when hurt. It should be interesting and a bit more immersive... which is why I am wondering about keeping 3rd person in. :)

Reddit... UGH! Are you going to force me to talk about that place?

No vehicles. They are completely redoing them, not just bringing them over from ARMA. Just like the guns they will have some customizability. They want to make it so you can find some scrap metal and craft on some reinforcement to knock zombies aside or armor the windows. Even so it should have plenty to do. Finding a nice scope or stock for your gun might be a goal in and of itself. With items degrading with use you might end up on quests to find new shoes before yours get too worn. :)

Actually, it is not as hard as you think. I play paintball with a group of people a few years back a couple of my paintball friends used to host winter matches of woods ball. Now in Minnesota winter paintball gets interesting, but that is an aside. They did it because there were not normal matches going on. We would get a big group together and hit the woods behind their house. Having been in their woods in the winter before I knew what the terrain was like and what was out there. There was a good deal of Jack Pine and White Pine as well as a lot of bushes that look like Red Oak and similar things. So I made my own camo. First thing was a base for which I found an old black cloth duster although a trench coat would work as well. I got it large so I could wear heavy clothing under it since it would be winter but then I could also wear it without in the fall and spring. I then put bleach in a spray bottle and began to stripe the coat by spraying it with bleach in wavy stripes. When I was done it was still mostly black but it was approaching the, "White with black stripes or black with white stripes?" point. On top of that base I added a bunch of "Pine Garland" you can buy at any craft store any time after august. People use it for Christmas decorations. I added that to my goggles as well as some strips torn from socks then dyed. Over that I put some fall leaves like this: Which are nice because they have wire branches so you can actually wire them in and have them stick out as I did on my goggles and one of my shoulders. What I ended up with broke up my form enough that while crouched in a bush I was able to sit there and watch another person who scanned the bush I was in twice right in the goggles. She jumped so much she fell over and swears she had no idea I was there until the paintball hit her and she was less than 10 feet away. She wasn't the only one. In fact her husband afterwards went, "You know, I was laughing at you when you put that on, but damn did it work out in the woods. How did you make it?"

It would. I am seriously considering saving up for a TrackIr. I could wait for the Occulus Rift... but that looks to be a few years out before they have a consumer level product and not a developer kit. 2 more screens, I more video card(then I can roast marshmellows over my case) and a TrackIr and we are talking a really nice setup for FPV immersion.

I have to admit that landing a chopper in FPV can be DAMN HARD. I play in Breaking Point when Vanilla gets too frustrating where you can actually lift some vehicles with certain helicopters and fly them to other locations. TPV makes that trivial while FPV means I basically need a spotter or some good guessing to know when I am nice and close and can lift or drop a vehicle. Lately I've taken to forcing myself to fly in FPV and it is a challenge. Landing is probably the worst but it can be done. I've also taken to avoiding Auto-Hover if I can. You have more control without it but one mistake can throw you way off. I will definitely miss having my TPV while flying a helicopter but I think the challenge of learning flying without it will be kinda fun and envigorating. I am slowly easing my way to switching my sever over to FPV only and trying to get my friends to follow suit. Where it WILL be a pain is HMMWVs. Most of them I have been inside in game have windows far to small and low to be of use looking out the side view. As a driver it is nice to swing your view to the side when turning to look into the turn and you just can't in those things.

Yeah, because some of us are going to go out and magically find people we have known and hung out with for over 10 years to replace our friends. Sorry, not 16-18 where I'll change peer groups about as often as I buy new socks. Don't be daft, Some of us play online games to hang out with our friends who have moved a good 13 hour drive away from us and stay a part of their lives. Like I am going to tell them, "Oh, sorry... I prefer 1st person view so I'm going to go play with this guy I chatted with once online in Cherno instead of hearing about how your dental practice is going... because a game is more important than you." Look, my friends play Borderlands and such in FPV and never even consider wishing it had TPV. The ONLY reason they use TPV in DayZ is because it is there and it makes the game easier. My friend has admitted he likes it because he can see zombies and avoid them and drive vehicles better in TPV At least he will actually admit he likes the ease of it... I just wish a few of the TPV proponents would come out and say, "I like to see zombies around corners, okay?" The would garner some respect. Instead we get, "It's not an exploit." and "It doesn't make the game any easier."

What is funny is my buddy and I wandered through Zelenogorsk all geared up coming from the North but made note of how much we would have loved the location while gearing up, how the industrial and farm spawns in the West could net you a Hatchet/Crowbar for silently taking out Zombies as you worked your way through the town. Moving back East and into the town proper would let you hit the grocery store for sundries and maybe a backpack. From there it is from house to house for all the little spawns, barns Northeast then Northwest and out of town on toward Green Mountain is so inclined.

If your sever has a whitelist when you or someone else bounces off of it it logs their PID.

You should try some of the other mods. Breaking Point, for example, has a bunch of interesting skins available. The issue is, once someone puts on another skin you can no longer tell their moral status. Since skins are EVERYWHERE in that gamef it becomes very difficult to determine who is a bandit/hero/survivor. I, for example, have a Hero skin but you can only tell while I am in Civillian clothing and then I stand out like a sore thumb everywhere in the landscape. So I put on Woodland Ranger, Woodland Bandit, Camo, Spec-ops, Urban Spec-ops, or whatever and bled in more, but now people might thing I am a bandit. There are even 7 different ghillies in the game. I honestly think more mods should lock clothing to specific moralities OR have it change appearance some. While it might be hard to tell the difference between a Hero/Survivor/Bandit ghillie while they are hiding in a bush, Woodland Ranger and woodland Bandit seem like opposite ends of the same scale and look fairly different while still letting you blend in a bit.

Yeah, I regularly butt heads with INTJs the two types are alike in many ways but one wants concrete conclusions and the other wants wiggle room, so to speak. Your type tends to come to the point you actually did in saying, "Yeah, yeah, but MOST OF THE TIME that doesn't mater so lets just say X." and my type tends to go, "Wait! We still have to consider those other times." just like we did. ;) Both types actually like to discuss things and dig a little deeper.

Actually, that is not my argument. That is you misinterpreting a statement as to why I do not play FPV only servers all the time and just ignore the TPV servers as my reason for wanting only FPV servers. I honestly do think FPV enhances what this game is supposed to be about and that is a semi-realistic portrayal of survival in a zombie apocalypse. The game is much more intense in FPV where I can't simply see zombies around corners and over walls and I think if more people pushed themselves and joined FPV only servers and tried it they might appreciate it. I also think the vast majority of humanity given an easy path and a hard path will take the easier one even when the harder one would be more rewarding. This goes back to a whole, "journey vrs destination" philosophy. I think people might find the everyday avoiding zombies part of the game a bit more rewarding in FPV than in TPV but even I get lazy and "like" TPV for how simple it makes the game when I am feeling lazy. It makes gearing up in zombie infested areas a lot easier and when I am, "I'll meet you guys as quickly as I can I have to get food and water and a gun before I make a run up there to join you." I can appreciate having that extra tool so I am not respawning again.

I think you miss the point of arguing. Arguing has a negative connotation these days. What you need to consider is that I am NOT arguing with you(I am but not in the fashion you meant) but that I am having a discussion. We hold differing views on some points and can discuss those differences. Now, you might think that I "Know" I am right and nothing is going to change my mind but that would be incorrect. Given proper evidence and logic I will actually change my mind and even admit in public when I was wrong. I will still probably state the reasons for my beliefs prior to the evidence that altered my perception of it, but I will admit when I am incorrect. That doesn't mean someone can repeat the same things over and over and bulldog me into accepting something. You also need to understand that I am not in the least emotionally invested in the discussions on the forums. At least not in a "I hate this guy." or getting angry over posts. I can see by your statement "but as a rule (hair-splitting..." why we are continuing to discuss this in this manner. I know why I bring up the hair-splitting and specific situations that the "rule" doesn't apply in and it is very simply my nature. You see, my personality type is INTP in the Meyer's Brigg's and it very well fits me. That is what my type does. We tend to judge things based not off of general rules but on a case by case basis and that hair splitting and specific details are what drives us. I have, in fact argued that the self proclaimed "hardcore" faction does not get to dictate game play for the rest of the community. In the case I was arguing a specific power was basically broken in a certain end game pvp raid. The "hardcore" raiders wanted it changed in a manner that would basically make it worthless for the rest of the content in the game. I could see their point, that it was influencing the majority of their gameplay but I did not think it fair to ruin the power for the majority of the content to basically fix one particular PvP experience and something the majority of the players would never even be involved in. Like I said though, I tend to base arguments off their basis and as an individual case and so can actually swing from one side of an argument in one case to another side in a different case. I can also see exceptions to the general rules you want to set up and feel the need to point them out for the simple fact that too many people will take general rules as absolute rules and apply them as such and need to be reminded that they are general rules and there are exceptions.

I ran into an industrial barn and found another guy already there. Bandit skin and a new spawn and had a hatchet out. Needless to say I decided to get clear. Well, I got out of there and circled around to a slightly different area to loot houses and still hadn't found a single weapon. I ended up stupidly agroing several zombies and trying to lose them made it worse until I heard shots. Hey, if he shoots me he will have to shoot the zombies to loot and I don't have anything yet so why not. I head toward the shots and see the hatchet bandit looting some survivor, must have killed him with the hatchet. I run past him as fast as I can and vanish around a corner. After a tiny bit of running I hear shots and once up on a hill get to see him running from my old horde firing back with his newly looted pistol blood spurting out of him.

I know the longer you sit in a place the more zombies seem to spawn around it. I got trapped in the Rog Castle last week. Got near the top and ran face first into a zombie and had to shoot it since it was on the stairs. Normally the other zombies will wander in, not see me, and wander out. Nope, 4 got stuck in the door. Since it was night(part of the reason I ran face first into a zombie) I tossed a Road Flare in hopes of attracting those by the door and waited it out. It seemed like a never ending stream of zombies started wandering by. Still those 4 decided to plug the door up... so in my next life...

Except preference can actually be relevant in terms of having a valid opinion especially if that preference is being used as supporting evidence for an argument or prevents someone from properly understanding the issue at hand. Yes it can and often is taken to an Ad Hominem attack such as, "Well you don't understand because you aren't Hardcore." but it can be valid. If someone states, "I don't think KoS is a problem." but then only plays on severs that are mostly empty and logs out when more than 10 people get on or maybe plays on a private server with a password they might not be the best person to discuss that issue. Asking them, "How busy of a server do you play on?" is a perfectly valid question in determining their experience with being KoS or KoS. Now if the conversation goes away from KoS being or not being an issue or how to prevent it to something like, "How does it affect server populations." and they chime in that they prefer to play on low population servers because they believe that will avoid KoS then their preference becomes relative to the conversation again. Oh, and I have NEVER stated you don't use a feature. I gave an example of conversation and used your name in it. Please stop insisting I don't read your posts unless you want someone to start using the word hypocrite again.

Just to point this out again. You realize Zombies are stuck using FPV, so to speak. They can't agro without direct LoS to you or hearing you and even when hearing you they agro to an area and then search to get LoS on you. So while you can see them they can't see you, which you stated was part of the majority of the game. Basically TPV gives you an advantage over the "antagonist" of the game, the Zeds.

Maybe you could stop being condescending and maybe point out what I have missed instead of just going, "You missed the point." You have to realize that sometimes it is the student, but sometimes it is the instructor. I have been trying to understand your point beyond you thinking that no one has any right to discuss possible flaws in the game or point them out to the development team so they can maybe be changed in the future. That seems to be the gist of your posts, mainly, "You have not right to tell me how to play a game." You are correct in that. I do, however, have every right to tell Rocket what game I want to play and point out where DayZ does not accomplish that. I can even go so far as to say, "Hey Chabowski doesn't really USE this feature/setting so I don't think his input to the discussion at hand is very relevant due to lack of experience." That isn't me seeing myself as better than you or even above you. It is logic dictating that we weight opinions based up on experience and gathered facts. Do I look down upon people playing on servers with Nametags turned on? Eh... not really but I refuse to play on such servers because they are not the experience I am looking for. I still think the opinion of those who play on such servers should not be held very high when talking about snipers in ghillie suits especially if they go, "Oh.. they are easy to deal with. What are you complaining about? They can see you and you can see them." That isn't me looking down on them that is me actually coming to understand their point of view and why it differs from my own and how their experiences have influenced their opinions. I've actually treated them with MORE respect in taking the time to figure them out.

Here is what is wrong with FPV... it doesn't allow people to see around corners or over walls. It doesn't allow players to see zombies before they could agro or to scan a building for loot without exposing themselves to danger. That is the main reason FPV isn't used. Yeah, I am one of those, "FPV advocates that plays on TPV servers." As I stated I have friends and when given an easier route they will often go down it because they are human. Well, who am I to dictate how my friends and other people play? Well, I know my friends. If I ask them most would be okay with FPV but we have 1 that would just stop playing. So he is actually dictating my play style and unfortunately I want to play with people and since "people" insist on TPV then I end up having to got to TPV servers to play with them. I can tolerate 3rd person although I prefer 1st. He can't tolerate 1st.

Um... actually I started actively avoiding discussing FPV vrs TPV, since it seemed a sore point for you. I moved on to other settings that make the game more or less difficult to try and explain to you what my point was. Which I will reiterate. My point was that some settings/playstyles lead people to make conclusions that are not true given other settings and playstyles. I specifically chose Nametags and Thermal scopes to point out that when you can sweep a bush and see someone's nametag pop up or see them on the map then a Thermal Scope is not that huge of an advantage or all that unbalanced but when you can't see such things Thermal Scopes suddenly become MUCH more useful. So somone playing on a nametage enabled server might have a different opinion about Thermal Scopes, that of them being hardly better than normal scopes, that does not fit with the general idea of DayZ which is typically with nametags off. Notice Thermal Scopes are not in the Vanilla DayZ loot tables. I have to agree with the comment I saw just a moment ago, that there are not really Hardcore Players but instead Hardcore Servers. However, if you don't ever play on those servers enforcing those more "hardcore" rules then you really can't form an experienced opinion of them or the play. You can certainly extrapolate a theory based off of other experience and that can definitely be valid or relevant, but it could also be the wrong conclusion compared to actual experience.