Lorax

My heart always races when I encounter somebody as long as I'm not a new spawn, it's why I play this game.

Your observation with the Payday masks is perfect. They are almost the new bandit skin. I don't like them as I think they break immersion, but they sure tell you who is a douche bag pretty easily.

I've had only one KOS and one person who wanted to get into a fist fight. I was kinda hilarious. Anyways by talking to people I usually can figure out who is friendly and who isn't. Of all the people I've played with only 1 I knew prior to the game. Granted most of them were met using side chat when no one else was really on or teamspeak, but there were a few instances when I came up on someone and decided to join up. You may just have bad luck, or seem sketchy yourself. Remember everyone is scared in this game, so you need to calm their fears just as much as your own if you want a good interaction.

Amazing, showing it to my friends

Has anyone noticed that your weapon sway is much less in SA than Mod. Maybe they increased the dispersion of the weapon to compensate for the lack of weapon sway. Personally I would like more sway and less dispersion. Maybe that is how accurate the gun actually is though, I have no knowledge on the subject though

Yes, I agree shots aren't loud enough.

Well if someone is going to rob somebody in the MOD it is advantageous to just open fire, especially if they attackers are out numbered. In SA at least items are damaged if one opens fire, so that will encourage holding people up instead of just killing them. KOS doesn't kill realism as long as it is the role you play. When everyone plays KOS style then it is immersion breaking. If someone is stealing my car I'm not going to tell them to stop and get out. They'll almost never comply and I'll loose my shot if I wait. But if I'm in a building and someone is walking up the stairs and I have the advantage I can open dialog while maintaining control of the encounter. Time and place for everything.

I just learned something today!!!!! Thanks

Interesting. I'll keep an eye on this post for updates. About the KOS I don't see how the playing of roles negates that entirely. Most of the time I don't KOS, because I play as true to how I would react in a situation. But when I see someone approaching my helicopter, truck full of my supplies, or in my camp the situation usually dictates that I open fire. There was even one situation when someone stole my car, I tried to just shoot out the tire but it blew up the car. I didn't want to kill him, just scare him off and keep my supplies. But he was thrown from the car and knock unconscious. Then zombies started eating him. I could have tried to save him, but was unsure of how he would react to me almost killing him...So I just sat and watched the zombies eat him, and felt ethically torn. Things happen in the apocalypse, bad things happen to good people, and good people do bad things sometimes. Sometimes inadvertently, sometimes on purpose when their character is tested or their well being is on the line. Also some people would be bandits, and dealing with that constant threat is what makes the game so exciting.

I think the exact opposite. I feel detached and playing a character instead of myself in 3 person. Also what the other guy said there is the field of view bar so you can get a greater peripheral view. The game breaking aspects of 3 person (seeing around corners or over hills, walls, etc.) far outweighs the reduced peripheral vision in my opinion. Also zombies are far scarier, and cover much more useful in 1st person. Can't wait for those servers to start.

I unfortunately have zero technical skills, but a roleplay server sounds fun. How would it actually work? Set missions up like there are medical supplies spotted out in some forest camp and someone needs to bring them to a survivor camp or one of the hospitals? Or have designated groups that fight for territory?

So has anyone found a map yet? I've ran from Zeleno, to Berezino, back to Stary and now NWAF. No map. I have everything else I could possibly want..I think. Are there maps or am I just not lucky?

pretty funny, I'm surprised no one else got involved with that being Cherno in the middle of the day.

My buddy has a silencer, I'll test it with him. Have him fire a round at 50, 100, 150, 200 meters with it on and see what distance the sound becomes inaudible. Really they are suppressors and not "silencers" . It should reduce muzzle flash so you won't give your position away at night, and though it is still audible you usually have a harder time determining the position of the source because of the dispersion of the sound waves.

Thanks everyone, for the 20 some hours I've played already I would have thought I'd come across one...In fact non of my buddies have come across one. Good thing we all know Chenarus like that back of our hands :)

It is a problem with Steam, they are working on it. There have been countless posts on this subject all afternoon

I've experienced everything posted from time to time with no luck of getting in. On other thing I've experienced but I didn't see skimming over the responses is I see servers that are empty, but when I try to join it says the servers are full. When I try to join full servers it just says connecting issue or something like that.

So I have the head torch and the only way to turn it on is through the menu. Is there a way to use it like a hotkey. I've placed into one of my hot keys but nothing happens when I try to select it. If there isn't a way to do this I'll post this again as a bug/suggestion, because you should be able to just reach up and hit the 'on" button.

I tried L, but I'll have to try the right click next time it's night. I would have to assume I used right click since I thought I did everything under the sun...moon I guess :)

Along with some of the other suggestions try turning down your shadows, possibly off. I find for me that shadows suck the fps from my....laptop. Yes I know I don't have a gaming rig yet.