Jex

Well the guy you met was probably the biggest cock on the planet and lost an opportunity to help out a brand new player. I'm glad you punched the prick to death though :)

blond hair?

Looting on high pop servers are a waste of fucking time. Unless you want to do all the work for me and meet me at the coast, why the fuck should I add to a high populated server just so you're not annoyed? LOL Now if you meant people who server hop all over low pop servers I would agree but even then, it's hard to get geared up sometimes and with no other point to the game other than Staying alive Exploring the map Meeting new people Finding fun things to do running in the most retarded way possible....

Is there a way to randomise the character? I want it to pick for me each time I die.

To the people that are losing gear, have you been playing on private servers and to the people that haven't, have you been playing on private servers? Maybe the character info is getting confused? I've never played on a Priv Hive and I've never lost my gear. I have played on both reg and HC servers. My friends I play with are the same too - never lost any gear and we must have put in about 50 hours so far.

When I was playing the mod DayZero over at the BMRF servers my character had stayed alive 39 days, I was 2nd on the leader board (1st guy was something like 90 days and I was going after him lol). No, I hadn't been living in a bush. I'd been in several scraps and raids on airfields etc. One day, exiting devils castle I was catapulted off those wooden stairs and my life was over and I was pissed - for about 5 minutes. I liked the leader board idea but there should be something on the start screen to tell you how long you've been alive for. Personally, I can set myself an objective of staying alive and gear is gear. Yesterday we logged into the server we left last night and were by the NW airfield. The server was empty and in the firestation we found 2 M4's laying on the floor with suppressor, acog, bipod, RIS hand guard and a butt ton of ammo. Gear is everywhere. A leaderboard would be a great idea as long as they worked it so you couldn't just sit in a bush all the time. Other things they could do would be to make you healthier. This would be making your hunger and thirst go down more slowly and being able to sprint further and having a less chance of getting infected. To stop campers, anyone sat still for more that x amount of minutes gets buttfucked by a wandering zombie.

I come across them fairly often tbh.

I think that's the shitty loot spawn mechanic at play. It happens with everything and it shouldn't and it needs addressing.

Actually Bob Munden is genetically different than the rest of us but my point was that people are different and older people may not be as slow as you think (hence my post about bob).

You should have ran to the sea, dived in, swam out then logged. Oooh did I just find a new exploit for logging? If you log in water, you'll sit but can u do that when ur in the water? Will it sit you on the ocean floor and hidden from view?

So you don't care they cheated then? Nice.

Adding anything like this is always good. More options and things for players to do is a good thing and being as we're going to survive, what the fuck does anyone think they're going to do in an apocalypse? The canned food will run out and people will grow food like we've been doing for 10,000 years. However I don't want some knob to end up planting corn on every available plot of land or rearing 10,000 heads of cattle. There has to be limits on what the players can do.

I wonder if we should have a rifle skill. You start at 0 and as you use it more.....actually forget it it wouldn't work unless you made it for each zed or player kill and having to do it for each life....hmmm actually another punishment for dying!

Bob Munden laughs at you all. He's younger in this clip but he must have been 60 in the other video I saw and he managed this. Skip to 1:30 and then on to 2:20 and be prepared to pick up your jaw ;)

Some of those corpses need to stand up too and start shambling after you.

The humanity system never worked - when you can become a bandit by defending yourself that has dumb written all over it. The medical system needs to be more complicated but they shouldn't add in heart attacks just so the defib has a use. In fact, get rid of the defib it's not needed and WON'T run off one of those tiny batteries ffs helloooo???? reality??? Why is everyone going to be suffering from heart disease anyway? replace the heart attacks with something better.

I was talking about this with my friends last night as we were making our way to the NW airfield from having just left the NE. We've been sticking to low pop servers to learn the game and get some gear and we don't server hop. We've circumvented the edge of the map pretty much and have enjoyed seeing the new things they've added and alos liked the feeling of "where the fuck our we" when we're in a place we knew well (in the mod). So anyway, on the way to NWA the server reboots and we're like, fuck we better get up their quick before all the server hoppers get on. Literally the server population had doubled when we logged back onto it so we just made a beeline there and about 20 mins later, we hit the north tip and start pushing south to loot. Too late, we've been beaten here. Not that we didn't find anything but you can't help feeling a little annoyed at these people. You're in the server and have been in it for a couple of hours then the exploiters move in - you feel you have more of a right to the gear because you've been on the server longer which is obviously bollocks but the feeling is still there. I don't know how they knew the server just restarted, what do these people do write down times FFS? Constantly hit refresh and look at any that say restarting? It does highlight the main issue with the game though - when loot doesn't respawn what you going to do on a server that's been looted. What's the dev's plan to retain players on one server. If all the servers were full of people, how much gear do you think you're going to find? Let's say you and your friend log in 2 hours after a reboot - you'll spend the next 2 hours literally finding nothing. Maybe loot spawns needs to be tied to the player in some way.

We need more relevant weapons. Finding an SKS in a police station just seems wrong unless the Czech police issues these out? Where are the AK's and why the M4 over the M16 (which is more popular). Is an FNX a popular model - i never heard of it until dayz. The other question is, do we want the guns in dayz realistically modeled for the region we're in? Or are we going to be more lax and have say 4 snipers rifles, 6 assault rifles, some sub-machine guns and a variety of pistols (Shouldn't there be more pistols than anything else?)?

I was pointing out it's easy to hit a target at 200m because it's easy with an assault rifle at 300m. You then erected your strawman by introducing all these other, irrelevant conditions that we weren't even talking about and I believe the OP had said he was laying down and relaxed and nobody was shooting back - so why did you come out with something nobody else was discussing. Hence the strawman comment. I was pointing out it's not that hard to hit a target at 300m (I was no great marksman). His comment seemed to be saying that a 200m shot is incredibly difficult with anything but the most pristine weapon.

OK but you have to hold them up with absolutely no ammo in your gun too ok??!! You crazy fool, I know you'll just do it too! ;)

Someone must develop a 2nd person game now!!! Wait...isn't that octodad?

Go read what I was replying to and then read the OP and it will give you a condition of the shooters conditions which suggest, prone, no one firing back and still can't hit a target at 200m. What has what you said got anything to do with this? Edit: Kind of Ironic your username is strawman lol

So yesterday I logged in on a HC server. Having died a while ago and been playing on a regular server mostly (due to my low fps, 3rd person is easier to handle). So I'm at the coast at Three Valley's (This is one of my favourite spots on the map. Head up the road to the red roofed barn and look up the hill to the right and you'll see a radio tower. Climb that and then take a look at the view). I look through the 3 houses there, all looted. I run to the brown barn then the red roofed barn and the house further up, all looted. I come back to the coast and see another fresh spawn (who doesn't have a mic) and then another FS runs by so all 3 decide to go to Electro. We get to Electro and no gear anywhere (my friend later joined me, he spawned at Berezino and that had been picked clean to), everywhere has been picked clean. So the guys I'm with decide they're going to swap servers. I did mention we should push north but no go. So I'm starving to death and just go for it, taking the north road out of electro. The first house I come to (about 300m up the road?) has one can of food in it. I then proceed to carry following the road and every town i pass, all the doors are closed. It's not until I get to Stary that a few choice houses have been looted (Garages, the piano house - you know, all the ones that spawn guns) - it was quite odd seeing these specific places looted, obviously someone had been determined to find a bang stick. So I got geared up pretty good for my efforts. Energized and hydrated, backpack and a fire axe (found that in the house with the tuna) and a few other bits. I have a double barreled with 2 bullets lol. It was touch and go for a while, but going through and looting inland saved my life. So why did the other players choose to go to a different server is my question? Does everyone just stick to the coast and if they find no gear, just server hop?

Hitting a target at 300m with an assault rifle (SA80) using iron sights was easy - what you on about?