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Props for the classic ZAMN track.

OP: After reading the start of your post, I was expecting some intelligent criticism and suggestions. Instead what I got was complete drivel. We all know that the game is far from flawless, but your randomly hashed together complaints are both petty and useless. Spend less time formatting your post and more time coming up with something useful to say.

Well why don't you put HER in charge?!? Good job guys, although it sounds like some of you all committed server hopping yourselves in order to kill server hoppers.

For sure, ideally you'd have a whole host of potential threats to encounter (like the ones you listed). Right now people talk about the difficulty of PVE only in terms of how tough the in-town zombies are. There should be many more angles to the PVE experience. I like your rabid dog idea, I know there are dog models/AI in the game already. Maybe they could smell food on the survivors and selectively target players who have the most food... if you have 8 steaks in your backpack be prepared to defend it!

Man Electrolyte your opening post is hilarious. I really agree with the spirit of what you are saying. Both the infected and the environment are forces that should be reckoned with. I agree that the focus of the game right now is too far away from survival. For many people it seems to be more about stockpiling military weapons and finding novel ways to slaughter noobs. The reason for this is that it is too easy to survive. Note that it shouldn't be impossible to survive, but the game should require that more time/effort be put into staying alive. Rocket has talked before about how much he likes 'layering' mechanics so that you have to worry about several things at the same time. Maybe there should be a few more things to worry about, like the armored bear that can break legs and spread pestilence from a mile away with his mighty bear call.

This game is brutal, no doubt. There isn't anything stopping you from running into a group of fully kitted players who have experience with milsims and have tactical capabilities. There is no "balance" per say which guarantees everyone will have an equal opportunity to come out on top (for me, this is a plus to the game because when you achieve something you've really earned it). I think asking for sniper weapons to be removed is pretty extreme. I would say that some of the vision stuff like NVGs and Thermal are a little over-the-top, mainly because it does not seem to represent actual thermal and NVG vision. I've read comments from people on these forums saying that it isn't quite as easy to spot things in real life with this kind of equipment. But of course, it is always gonna be an argument between the haves and the have-nots - if you manage to get NVGs and thermal vision and ghillie suits, you will do all the hollering you can in the forums to ensure that they don't get "nerfed" or removed from the game.

That's great when people make a personality for themselves through direct chat. In the Gallery subforum someone posted a video of a guy with broken legs who was screaming his head off in an airfield. When approached, he'd call out to others for help and intermittently jam out on his guitar. I hope I run into one of these characters at some point.

Ruined church of Kumyrna:

Poltergeists man, it might be one of those secret new features that was rolled out with the last update... vengeful spirits of dead Soborites coming back to haunt us all...

Hahaha. Now that you mentioned it, I once crowbar-ed a rabbit to death. Had to smash it about 4 times to kill the poor bugger. I guess I was an 8 that day.

I'm a mix of 2,3, and 4. I won't shoot if I'm behind cover and don't feel immediately threatened. I will try to communicate to say that I am friendly, but I do not ask to team up. Instead, I tell them that we should be cautiously aware of each other so that we can go our separate ways.

Yeah I use Worrom's, you have to install the beta yourself but it still updates DayZ just fine, and the newest version is made to work with beta.

OP, I totally agree with your thoughts about the Ghillie suit. It should not make your backpack become invisible. At the very least it should show up like it does for other skins, and if you want better concealment you'll have to leave the uber-backpack behind. I imagine it works this way right now because the Arma Ghillie skin doesn't work with backpacks, or some inherent design issue like that .

The dude barely has time to play, for chrissakes. If you are doing an interview for a big time PC gaming magazine you'll want the play experience to be as smooth as possible, and not have a 45 minute (or however long) segment terminated prematurely by some pasty-faced stream sniper.