Jex

Unless you're....... On a roof In a ditch behind a wall on some stairs In a room on a hill on top of a castle Or any one of the numerous places this poster doesn't know about.

That's a NEW camera mode? I know I haven't played for a few months but it looks EXACTLY the same as the old mode - oh ok I stared at it long enough and... WTF were the Dev's thinking? LMFAO!!!!! THIS is what they came up with??? BUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA That wasn't too over the top, was it? ;)

You do realise you're playing a zombie apocalypse survival game right? The premise of the game is to survive where most of humanity has been wiped out. Most of humanity means you not seeing other livings souls for most of your life. What this game isn't, is a setting for the last humans to congregate in electro and battle it until one man is left standing. If you can't get used to being alone then join up with some people and play with them. Why are "lone wolves" complaining they don't see anyone?

OH!! How did we EVER play First Person Shooters when they came out OH MUMMY!!! Oh that's right, we didn't suck at gaming.

Yeah and rather than chuck 10,000 more of these annoying buildings all over the map, how about spending the time to remodel the map to remodel the buildings - Did they fix the truck yet - have you noticed that Arma 2 cars had your eyes higher than the tops of the windows? I don't know what reality BIS come from where people ride in cars where the windows are so low they're fucking useless but it isn't this one. I suggest they start remodeling to match reality?

Except most people in the Mod ran everywhere, anyway so that was a BS reason and they needed to run a test on stamina for an entire year - considering we're all running everywhere, anyway, what does speeding us up achieve in testing? I'm calling BS on that, too.

No u misunderstand :) The stupid zoom level was when you could go into settings and use the FOV slider to get 20x zoom which was a stupid decision by the devs as much as running at ridiculous speeds was.

I bound my joystick throttle to it lol but I like the OP one :)

You're talking about VBS which is developed for the US Marines and the Australian Army iirc. The zoom view was as you explained, the view you would see in RL. The wider FOV is the false view - the "natural" state just isn't viable on a tiny screen.

And now we see what a bad decision it was to allow a stupid level of zoom in the game just like stupid running speeds. Take them away and watch the whiners run out and complain.

Last year when a poll was done it was 80% in favour of 3rd PP

So being in 3rd person helps your frame rates?

No make it 3rd person but 3rd person of my ass!

Yeah it's called "cheating"

THIS is the argument and no 3pp player has ever been able to counter it. Going to the point about immersion I'll tell you a story. We're looting a small town in the middle of nowhere and this was back in the Mod days. Next thing we hear a shot and our friend tells us he's down. There's 3 more of us in the town and because we were smart, we had 4 more of us in the town behind us providing overwatch. What happened next was one of the most intense times I had in DayZ. We didn't know how many there were but we suspected a single sniper. We were in the town, trying to peek through gaps in the wall or exposing ourselves as little as possible. Each time I leaned out to look around the corner up into the hills, I felt like I was going to get shot in the head. This made moving around the town a fight in itself to remain unseen. Our back up was essentially on the south side whilst this guy was in the north. Every now and then a shot would ring out as he tried to hit one of us but he never did. So our friends were moving up, but they couldn't move fast as none of us knew where this guy was, only his approximate location and of course, they didn't want to die either but we were stuck and pinned and we didn't want know who else might show up so time was of the essence. Then the call came over that they spotted him. They had no shot and they moved up tactically and we started moving more obviously in the town to keep his attention until they were in a position to take him out, which they did. It probably took between 30-45 minutes for the encounter which was intense and a lot of fun. Now take that and put in 3rd person and the story would be, "We lost a guy then sat behind rocks using the 3pp camera until we saw him and directed our guys to exact spot who took him out" Well whoopie fucking doo! You call that playing a game over my story?

So you play no first person shooters then.

7 days to die is great and...... it's first person only.

How is this different from any other FPS? DayZ allows you to configure it more than any other game so bullshit on that argument. Poor client performance? Once again, I'm calling bullshit unless you were playing on a shitty laptop like I was 6 months ago in which case - upgrade! I have no issues moving around in DayZ.

Oh look, more people prefer 1pp. I wasn't expecting that lol

What is the point of this thread? I don't know!

I have to wonder what makes a village or a town that is a replica of all the other cities and towns so interesting whereas before we had beautiful countryside to wander over and more than enough towns for a 40 player server when 90% of the building you couldn't enter! Nope, let's just slap more and more shit on the map because having 10,000 houses to search is fun! No - it isn't. Varied terrain is fun and interesting along with unique areas with unique buildings. All the castle locations feel exactly the same - why not a hill fort instead? Why not have big gaps between towns or is the player base that bad, they can't survive for more than 500m before needing another town to search? What about the sense of being lost in the wilderness - never gonna happen because walk in any direction and if a few minutes, oh there's another village with all the same buildings in it.

Did you spot the porn DVD?

I can't wait till page 3 to make a comment, this part of the thread is just too interesting. Love the "dual monitors!" lol ;)

The mod was great, it was a new concept but it's passed it now. It was limited in what it could do and one thing people always forget about with the MOD is that the zombies were always crap. Ineffective crap that only caught out the newest of players. A week into the game you would be hard pressed to get killed by zeds (in fact, many many times I'd deliberately run by as many zeds as possible and then play the Benny Hill theme tune through my mic. Oh what fun it was seeing people literally stop in their tracks and flee from me and my horde, running into the middle of Electro and then proceeding to run rings around the zeds (to the point where it looked like I was chasing them!) until some kind player decided to put me out of my misery ). Yes, zeds were pathetic and they better get them right in DayZ or what's the point?

Thanks Guys :) From further reading, I see that the game got harder and is now been reverted but it's super easy mode now. It's still alpha so it's not an issue right now. Going back on topic, who decided the prices for servers - does anyone know?