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Compared to what exactly? It's like every other FPS out there. My god, where have you been these last couple of decades? Do you know you can change the FOV? Did you know you can run 3 monitors if you wished. So point statement 1 is, Arma has the same view all FPS have which is unrealistic compared to reality. How does it need to be fixed?

One of the glaring issues with TPV is the obvious exploit of seeing other players whilst completely hidden. Since the aim is to survive, the longer you do this and the more gear you collect makes you more protective about your gear. People do get attached to their gear even though they shouldn't. Spending hours foraging only to have it taken away by a guy with a Winchester is one of the reasons your adrenaline gets pumping. After doing all that you then get killed because someone used 3rd person to look over a rock at you? So if you choose to be the player that sits and waits, exploiting 3rd person for those other players that make the effort to actually play the game and collect gear so they can survive and with no clear way on how to make 3rd person available AND unexploitable there will be some people who just don't want to waste their time. The average life expectancy is just over an hour right now. I don't know many games where you die so much and achieving so little. Some people want to achieve more and don't want their day ruined by a 3rd person cheater. So it looks as though Rocket is trying to find a way to make 3rd person not exploitable which I hope he can achieve and if he can't I hope he removes it.

Problems arise on servers with no crosshairs - how does it work then?

There should never be a mechanic in a game that kills you simply because the game decides it's time for you to die. Do you actually realise how annoying it's going to be if food is as rare as antibiotics? It will also make the game nothing more than look for food simulator 2013. Make food rarer that's fine, but I think you want it where you're constantly looking for it and that isn't a game.

I'd like to see more horror aspect added to it. I played on Namalsk recently, I was the only person on the server but one of those demon bloodsucker things I could hear in the woods. Because they had name tags on I picked it up and all I could see was MAN 42m MAN 41m MAN 40m MAN 39m I turned and ran for it, it was night, I'm running up hill. I look behind me as I running as I hear it roar and all I see is a pair of glowing eyes - the thing is invisible (I didn't know this then), it scared the crap out of me. I thought I'll lose it running up (well walking) a steep hill....nope...I didn't last much longer. That was probably the first time in DayZ the AI had actually excited me enough to say it was a really awesome experience. The new sounds in BP i think it is can scare the crap out of you only because they're so loud but not really the same effect. I'd like DayZ to incorporate more horror aspect to make it more interesting. I don't want it to be a case of irritating zeds stopping you from looting. Maybe they could make the zombies look more gross and scary too - they're not that good right now.

Do you ever read or watch anything? Your posts are so uniformed sometimes I think you pull things out of the air half the time. The animations are placeholders, they're still working on them.

Shoot them first though so you can witness the limping and bleeding animation first hand! :D

First rule of camo is - "movement kills" I could tell you a story which would fit in very neatly with this but I cba to write it out :)

You don't need a ghillie suit to be camouflaged and dayz is not like rl at all! Where do you get this from?? I can spot a survivor skin laying under a tree at 400m not even zoomed in like he had a sign over him. Camo isn't much better and is easy to test - get a mate to hide under a tree 300m away and see how invisible he is laying under it. One other point, the adrenaline you feel is 10 times more on a FPV server :P

It's way easier to hide in rl than in dayz. For one thing the foliage doesn't disappear after 100m.

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The reason I don't play on these servers - infection is ridiculous. Also, if a simple case of antibiotics cures the infection, why are there so many zombies? It doesn't even make sense. Infection should kill you just like in every zombie movie ever made but to do that, the zed behaviour needs to be spot on (not hitting through walls, not seeing you from hundreds of meters away, etc).

Exactly - it isn't an issue there, it's not an issue here - it's a fabricated issue. People will play the SA in FPV if that's what it ships as as the polls that have been run indicate.

Except it doesn't go to the exact point you're aiming and could be disabled in 3rd person view too for the SA

I thought it was more that TPV couldn't be fixed in a way that you couldn't exploit so why even bother trying? I think the issue never would have come up if there was never a 3rd option to begin with. If that's true then there should really be no issue now if it goes 1st person only.

I play with friends so it's different. We also mostly walk the map as well but we'll set objectives for ourselves - we're survivors after all so we go around the map to various locations and occasionally run into other players. In a 3 hour session it's easy to only get one thing done. I also love the map - I don't think people truly appreciate the work that went into it. Stand on the north ridge line of 3 valleys for instance and look across the hills or look out over Pobeda dam. How about the creepy ruined village that has no name, maybe that's where the outbreak first started, maybe there's an underground laboratory there. You need to make up your time in DayZ but if you're just going to sit in the woods then yes, you will get bored. If you never take a risk, yes it will be boring. Don't be that attached to your gear, if you loose it all then you get to start again.

Infection killed off the vanilla servers for me - I won't play them anymore. I moved onto DayZero instead and even play some of those "COD" servers but when I do, it's not dayz - there's none of that adrenaline you get on a proper DayZ server or it's very watered down. I think quite a few people are going to be disappointed with the SA and fuck em if they are.

Please go to this thread to discuss http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/145895-first-vs-third-person-discussion-dslyecxi-video/ and please keep this thread just for the poll :) So if DayZ SA came with only 1st person and NO third person, would you still buy it? Would you want to miss out on one of the greatest games this century (let alone decade) just because 3rd person was disabled? Did I screw this poll up - it's my first one here - should I make a poll about screwing up my first poll? No they are not in the poll here, should I make a poll about including....

FFS - BMRF have some things you can get as a donator but nothing major - that video up there is just ridiculous - the guy has everything! What's the point of even playing the game moron if you're going to start out with all your loot. One thing is for sure, that "player" is going to hate the SA,.

Why does the Lee Enfield have under half the trajectory of the M24 - is it a larger round? Can I put a scope on the Enfield - wouldn't that be the best sniper rifle out there? lol

Check out DayZero - the BMRF crowd left vanilla to play DayZero and both bmrf and zombies.nu 1st person only have a lot of players on them. Out of those servers, which ones are running vanilla dayz?

Why are people in Ghillie suits hated so much - I always feel exposed in survivor gear, knowing it's the client that dictates what you look like. Think you're wearing all black survivor gear think again, on someone else screen your in light blue pants and shirt sticking out like a sore thumb. I wear any camo I can find and it works well too.

it would be great if they could scale the zeds for the location, so the castle would only ever have a few but towns would spawn a lot more.

First person players are not dictating anything - where the fuck did you pull that out of, your arse? BIS are developing a game - that game will run whatever way they want it too. Saying you can't dictate how people run their servers on a game that hasn't even been made yet (and there's no obligation for them to add in 3rd person view btw in a brand new game). Should I start a thread about adding in Jet packs and laser guns and then call everyone "hardcore" because they don't want that in it and then scream "I want jet packs and laser guns, don't tell me how to run MY server" Let's get one thing striaght here - BIS are under no obligation to server owners. If they want to operate a server that's up to them to do it but they get no special case just because they run a server - whoopee fucking doo they shell out $50 a month or less. Big deal.