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10+ CZ 550's seems really suspicious to me... Everything else looks totally legit. Whoever was stashing in that land rover has an excellent taste in weapons and clearly spent some time finding those specific ones. Love the L85, M4, MK48, and the SA-58V CCO/ACOG

Wait! wait! I just noticed the achievements next to the completion %... How about: "Lightfoot and the Devteam - Achieve a lot, complete a little" P.S. I'm joking, please don't "FLAME ON!!" or anything

I'm with GOD on this one... The little bird is by far my favorite thing to fly.

Make sure you let the bandage animation completely finish before you do anything else otherwise, a lot of the time, the bandage won't actually be applied. Don't ever rush bandaging unless you've been shot and are at very low blood. Keep calm, make sure there are no incoming threats, find a secure location, and then bandage...

I was really tempted to circle the "21% game completion rate" and make some stupid joke about that means it must really be Lightfoot... ... probably would've if I wasn't at work right now :)

I couldn't agree with you more... Zombies were a total non-factor prior to the update. I had actually gotten in to the habit of letting the first zombie I see chew on me for a little bit to bring my health down to about half, just for the "challenge". (Though I would still almost always die to a player, never anything else). Now my primary objective is to not take a single hit from a zed... and it feels right to me... it feels like it did when I first started playing almost a year ago. I even had to go prone and crawl across a roadway while checking to make sure I wasn't in a zeds line of sight. I've seen a lot of people complaining about how they have to "crawl around for hours in the mud just to find a bunch of useless garbage". I believe these people have not really pushed their own limits of zombie avoidance, experimented with line of sight and sound distance, or practiced losing zombies in as many different ways as possible. I can almost guarantee that 90% of the people complaining have never thrown a can or smoke to draw zombies away from an area. And they're so used to CoD and L4D that they don't have the patience to LEARN how to survive...

You do realize these are all ideas that are intended to be implemented AFTER the alpha is released? Millions of people enjoyed playing DayZ Mod with all of its shitty bindings and glitchy bs... Do you honestly believe those things are what make the gaming experience? The game will be excellent because its an open world, zombie survival, sandbox. And because it will have more immersion and variability than the current mod... The End

Love, love, love the idea of a tin can noise trap... Muchas Frijoles!!!

I just reread the first page of this thread... and I think OP and tobias should too... No one was being a dick, the first half a dozen posts were congenially disagreeing with you, or were looking for some sort of clarification... but Disorder was coming back with some pretty blunt and aggressive comments that completely dismissed what others were trying to say... After the way Disorders first 4 or 5 posts went I'm not surprised people started being dicks right back... I'm confused why OP got so upset at the responses he got... Clearly from the tone of his posts, it was "If you tell me I'm wrong, you're wrong"... not very conducive to a conversation... EDIT: Wow, just realized Tobias was on of the posters on the first page... I guess it was the second and third that really got bad... Still, I think disorder wasn't really being open to other peoples opinions, and that right there will quickly lead to the degeneration of any thread. ALWAYS REMEMBER that tone doesn't communicate well via text! Read through OP's 1st page contents a couple of times, and depending how I read it, it can seem really dismissive of others posts and opinions... just food for thought.

"Only two things are infinite... The universe, and human stupidity...and I'm not certain about the former" ~Albert Einstein

DayZero and when DayZero Podagorsk comes out I'm pretty confidant that will be all I'll play until SA comes out. I hadn't really looked in to aftermath at all, but with all the votes it has gotten I'm going to have to check it out! Thanks for the thread/posts

It all depends on how the milestone review goes... I know they're seriously worried about getting a working alpha out in time for whatever gaming conference is at the end of August (can't remember), and if the review goes well it could definitely be out by the 12th or 19th of this month. However, even if the review goes well and they intend to release the alpha within the next couple of weeks, I still don't think they will announce a release date given their PR history. No, I don't think they'll announce a release date until they absolutely have to.

Obvi, their initial use will be for the crafting system. However, I'm hoping to be able to bind players wrists together so I can t-bag them without fear of reprisal...

I agree it should take longer to set in, and there should be other ways to fight infection besides just AB's (though they may take longer and be less effective, the tools required should be more common). Personally, I love that my attention has been brought back to the zombies. I feel like I've been completely ignoring them for months. And I enjoy the difficulty, It's still pretty easy to lose a zombie by running around and through buildings and over fences... Though early on I spent what felt like over a month just experimenting with the tracking and figuring out the easiest and most effective ways to lose zombies, and losing zombies is probably the one thing I feel like I'm awfully damn good at... I think spawning with ONE AB and being able to have a realistic %chance of fighting off the infection by staying warm and well fed and resting etc. would be all the balancing required

It all comes down to the way you started the thread... "Melee is now pointless" was a bold and very pointed opinion that almost seems geared to get a rise out of people. With such a statement, one would've expected ample examples and relevant experiences that would prove your point. Particularly various styles of melee utilization... As has always been the case with DayZ, steep learning curves are an intrinsic part of the game. The 1.7.7.x patch re-established the learning curve and forced everyone to re-evaluate their play style... From my observations, those players who were quickest to abandon their old play-style and adopt a new one have been the most successful at surviving. Had you started the thread by saying "I've tried everything and can't manage to melee without getting infected every single time, this sucks, it feels broken." I can guarantee you would've gotten a much different response. You seemed pretty confident that "melee is now pointless"... But 3 deaths isn't enough time to determine anything that concrete in this game

Your comment about not wanting to draw zombies inside to attack them gave quite a bit of insight... Also, for everyone who is melee-ing successfully, the only situation that would be apparent to them is that: "you're doing it wrong".... Not that there's a right way to play. But when you complain about a mechanic that others are having plenty of success with, they're going to assume you're not utilizing the mechanic correctly... makes sense? This ENTIRE thread is opinions. Facts do not belong here. It is a FACT that melee is a method of attacking in the game. It is a FACT that attacking a zombie will always pose SOME level of risk. You started out with your opinion and wasn't expecting people to share their's? This isn't a community with it's head up its ass. It is a community that is very passionate about this game and when they feel that a mechanic that they love is being undervalued or slammed, they're going to respond. You ask for input, but when people explain the way they play and make things work, you offer no understanding and only resistance. I'm upset that I wasn't included in this :P EDIT: I take it back, I don't want to be roped in to anything with Vicco after that post... I can't stand that sarcastic BS... Some people manage to be effective enough with melee to utilize it as a relatively safe method of attack/defense... several of them, including myself, tried to list a few suggestions for honing those melee skills, and got labelled as condescending douches... sorry you don't agree that melee is viable or that vanilla is survivable, but don't write a sarcastic novel about it for christ's sake. The drop rate hasn't changed (as far as I've heard/read). But obviously everyone is stocking up on them now that they're so much more necessary. If you show up to a hospital and there's no AB's but some other stuff lying around, be sure to loot the entire building and then come back to it in 10 minutes... chances are another player already looted the AB's and you have to clear EVERYTHING out to get stuff to respawn. Personally I don't think drop rates should change... I just think fresh spawns should start with one pack of AB's instead of flares or whatever...

Hmmmm... The whole point of the game was surviving against zombies... making them hard enough that people would really have to think twice before attacking another player. Prior to the infection patch the game had become pretty much a death match and zombies were pathetically easy to avoid/escape/kill. I still can't understand your not wanting to melee zombies indoors because "its not the way the game was intended to be". I'm not trying to be a dick, I swear, but I do think you're misunderstanding what it is that the game was ACTUALLY intended to be. And your posts DO come off as just trolling/hating the game because you can't play it the same way you'd BEEN playing it prior to the patch... ..."Adapt or die", as they say...

lol what? it's called utilizing the game mechanics... So you don't outrun zombie and duck around corners of buildings to escape their aggro? 'Cause, you know, the zombie path-finding is all over the place and their supposed to just run right at you and maul you, and the fact that they don't is a "bug"? If you follow that logic about (and I can't believe I'm even typing this) not wanting to draw zombies inside to attack them because the devs couldn't making indoor running work, then you could argue against doing anything (I need a drink and have an empty water bottle but I'm not going to fill up at this pond because the dev's couldn't put in the "boil water to purify it" mechanic that they ideally want). That logic reduces the game to the point of absurdity. Also, you're complaining that melee is useless, but rejecting methods by which melee weapons can be useful. I'm having trouble following you on this. If melee-ing zombies indoors is really that terrible, sit right inside the doorway of a building. this way they still run right up to you without getting slowed down, and the doorway keeps them from running around you and hitting you on your side while you're trying to melee... Honestly there are so many broken aspects of the game, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole concept of "zombies should ideally run indoors so I'm not going to fight them indoors... the zombies were made particularly tough and given high infection rates with the whole "kill 'em indoors" strategy in mind... this isn't breaking the game.

1. Play on a FULL server... preferably with a friend/partner so it doesn't become too frustrating. 2. Play one of the many other mods (origins, overwatch, zero etc..) where things are closer together and you don't have to do so much running. 3. If you find zombies far too easy (as I do in non-vanilla mods), let one chew on you till you're down to about half health and then begin your attempts to survive... If I feel like playing on an empty server (non-vanilla)(just want to kill zeds) and making a challenge for myself, starting out with low blood and the shakes is a great way to keep me on the edge of my seat!!

Just another reason why DayZero (and DayZero Podagorsk when it is released) are my new favorite DayZ mods!

Kudos and beans for you good sir. Hella impressive.

Disorder, I think it really has everything to do with the strategy you employ with a melee weapon, as with any other weapon. Prior to the infection nerf I would've agreed with you... the slightest mistake (or just a zombie glitching through a wall) and you were toast. Though that would happen whether I was trying to melee a zombie or not... Melee weapons are absurdly powerful and when utilized correctly, can always take out a zombie before they get a hit on you (except for when they be glitchin'). Draw a zombie inside a building and learn exactly what the range of your melee attack is so that you can step in an out of range in case you miss a headshot. And don't ever bother trying to attack one outdoors... that's just begging to get infected. Hatchet is pretty much still my favorite weapon in the game (for vanilla DayZ at least).

Would seriously love a chatbox of some sort... Anything to distract me from work, ya know?

I'm pretty much always holding down my freelook button. Always. I bound one of my thumb buttons on my mouse to freelook. Absolutely love having it there. However I use it as a melee attack in nearly every other game I play soooo, yeah. I end up knifing the air repeatedly the whole time I'm running around. It is painful not being able to freelook in other games.

Panthera and Lingor are probably two of my favorite maps. I thoroughly enjoyed both of them for a few months... Lingor tends to have better pop. servers than Panthera...