MCNine

Imagine the change of fighting style and RP options. A really long underground tunnel would not only make for a scary zombie spawn but for an excellent bandit hideout. Think about it, in every zombie movie where do the scariest scenes occur? In car tunnels.. Having several medium caves or even small ones would be perfect for tents/fires/ raves. Dev team, if your listening please add this somewhere. Put a huge tunnel through one of the mountains up north, it would be awesome. Also, it would be nice to have an area where the woods were so dense i couldn't run in a straight line.

It is whatever you want it to be. I Roleplayed an orphanage salesman last night on experimental.

I came onto the forums today because i experienced something very similar just last night. I was on a full 40 person server in the grove in Berezino. I had been running around and saw no one. I stopped in the grove and some dude immediately appears and starts punching me so fast i couldn't react. I knew it had to be some script kiddies and this thread confirmed it for me. Pretty sad...

It sure seems like there is a decreased interest in the standalone game here over the past few months. Even with patches and content it seems like there are less people posting on Forums/reddit and less people in games. Has everyone moved onto the Mod or just to other games? I remember the beginning of this spring semester i was so ready for elder scrolls online but the wait kind of ruined me. Maybe some people are done waiting for BIG content. Go ahead, explain its in alfer.

Lets not get off track and bash the content that is being added. We are in alpha. Things will get removed and added plenty of times before everything is said and done. Boneboys, i appreciate that data. Very interesting stuff. Although Average players has dropped significantly, we still see those spikes of peak players which leaves me to believe that there are a lot of people waiting for features. I am more concerned about the community of the game. Its not as bad as BattleZ Terminix Diaries but maybe some of you guys need to learn a little patience. I mean I've been waiting since 2009 for fallout 4. Patience young Padawan.

Beans! Outdoor activities i will enjoy!

Edit: I meant Mod. I am talking about a decreased interest in the Standalone.

You need to look in zombie panic source. Essentially the same idea but with deathmatch gameplay. I would be all for allowing people to be zombies but it can still create an unfair advantage. Imagine how clans would abuse this. Remember, we cannot have anything nice.

As cool as that would be to relive my old "Zombie Panic" mod days that would create a great unbalance of the game. I can see this being a mod when they make weapons more scarce.

My and my friend join a (almost) full server last night with some hopes for some nice PVP berenzino action. Turns out the server we joined had a teamspeak.... 704.108.208.103? It was something like that. Anyways, we make our way to the roof of the apartment complex after finding there is no one around. I began to shoot an sks on the roof and blair loud music in hopes of drawing some attention. Luckily i hear some sniper shots and me and my buddy decide to go back down. Before i go i leave the sks... I hop on teamspeak after seeing their server IP listed in game. I can hear the guys talking about me and my buddy. "Where are they?" "Did they log"? With a sniper overlooking the building they sent some bambi in. The whole time i can hear his footsteps and he is telling everyone on teamspeak where his is. Oddly enough, i had the chance to blast him with my Mosin but didn't. Funny thing was the bambi they sent in to "investigate" didn't die even though i am sure thats what they expected. Good times.

If your going to troll at least read. I stated i enjoy "player interactions" and i let the bambi live. If you can insult someone then it shouldn't require much effort to read. Also: I will probably do this again, but this experience was enjoyable because i could hear my foes talking about me a my buddy. Just listening to them was fun.

Me too..without vehicles Berenzino is the quickest way to get player interaction.

Remember the dayz mod days when shootouts at devil's castle were some of your best times? Well, i do. Recently, i have visited a few castles throughout Chenarus and to my surprise i find no loot/ no people wanting to kill me. Is this just me or are the days of castle shootouts over?

This is a thread relating to the implementation of Ruined cities (i.e. burned buildings, charred corpses and ruined stone structures). Thread on castles http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/195320-castles-no-more/ Basically, castles offer little to no loot and are barely used. Ruined towns and castles would be a great way for bandits to RP and would make for a variety of interesting firefights. There already a good amount of pre-exsisting models for ruined buildings (that town way way north east) but it would be nice to get the option to find some super rare loot in the bandits den. Imagine finding loot in on of these towns but all the items were ruined. Then you run across an LMG. I think this would add a whole new dynamic to the game.

This is what i am hoping to accomplish. Maybe we can reach the dev's directly to give us some better loot options. You right about those stairs being glitchy. In many ways the castles were deathtraps if you didnt know how to move correctly. Still love them and hope we have a reason for people to go there. Make the top of the castle a prime spawn point for something extremely rare.

It was just nice taking all the time to get the gear, cars, and friends and head up to devil's were there may or may not be a a crew. On several occasions in mod i would be on a low pop server on run into 2 man teams just chilling. If the developers could give the few castles a little more attention it would make for some interesting raids.

So basically i just need to convince people that i have a lot of loot and that i am held up in a castle. K. Thanks

I personally believe that with the games current state and the size of our community we certainly have enough "good minds" to help with the developnment. Think about it this way: Say you give a predetermined group of modders with access to source code/ basic utilities. If the community had 50 people who were developing/testing new weapons, towns, physics then we may actually find something that would be great for the game and then the real developers could implement this. Not only would it save the development some time but it would give the community early access to good content. I understand there is a development schedule and to deviate from this may cause problems but giving modders the opportunity to create loot, guns and buildings (at this moment) shouldnt interfere with the development unless there is a feature that everyone likes so much that it is implemented. We could even assign a server on the experimental. Developers and Dean, I know you want to wait for to the full release to even consider mod's but look at some of the best content for many great games. It is user created. If your concern is truly about building a great zombie survival game then why not let the community get involved in development considering the most popular games are mods. Had dean not gotten the opportunity to mod Arma 2 there would be no Dayz. -Novem

Was in Berenzinio playing as a hero when i come across some guy standing the in middle of the street across from the grocery store. I say he man, whats up i am friendly. He goes "whoa whoa whoa". I try to ask him if he needs anything while telling him to keep his distance. But he keeps trying to get closer. I offer him a weapon and he said he would give me his can of beans for my magnum. They guy starts talking all sorts of shit. Just talking to me as i am his read headed step child. He then says "Forget this, im going to knock you out and take it". At this point i tell him "good luck kid" and started running in order to difuse the situation (As i had just died a little bit early and only had 6 shots.) This kid not only talks crap to someone with a gun (He had nothing) but he turns his back to me as he runs off. I think to myself, "this kid is going to learn the hard way". I draw my gun and at the last second i holster my weapon. Five minutes later i found his dead body lying next to a wall. There is no benefit of talking crap to every person you meet. There are in fact nice people who enjoy playing with others. Generally, your smarter more dangerous players won't respond to immaturity and will just shoot you.

If you were Valve's Gabe Newell you would understand that crowdsourcing is the future of gaming. Giving "us" at least a better input in part of the development is what we all want anyways right? Why else did we all buy an early access game in alpha. They expect us to submit bugs as they should but why shouldn't the community have a good forum to turn our ideas into realities?

Please read. Developers will get the final say on any content. Obviously the community would only consider things that are related to the current zombie survival game. I highly doubt the community would agree on T-rex's holding hand grenades while making a rueben sandwhich.

Let me be perfectly clear. This is NOT about giving the entire community the code to run with it. What i am suggesting is for the developers give the community to create our own content for a developing game. A group of 20-40 (who have signed an NDA) could take suggestions from the community, create this content and then present the developers with this. Developers will get final say what goes into the game. This is not modding like you are thinking of as no one will have access to this select content. The idea of this is to take some work off developers but most importantly it allows the entire community a way to pick content and get an idea of how that content would look before everyone gets bent out of shape. Really guys, no need to be negative about this. I would like to see what communities come up with. Through polling and dedicated volunteers imagine the speed of which we could present the community with a new gun, village, food, animal. If anything your being negative about the progression. Like TheWizard14 says, paranoia. Breath. It will be okay.

I am in. Just hope no one tries to troll by any means.

You got played? Every encounter i have with someone starts with me being friendly and ends with them dying( or me). I was running south out of NEAF the other day. I see a guy running towards me on the road. I go "hey buddy, wait wait wait.". I go "i am friendly, do you need anything". All the while i do this i am analyzing the situation. How armed is he? Is he alone? After playing dumb and telling him i am unsure what ammo i neeed for my gun i ask him to takea look at it.... So i shot him point blank in the face with a sawed off shotgun. He now has to respawn and get geared which can take an 1hr+. I just saved myself loot time and kept myself from getting shot in the back. Never. trust. anyone.

What are your thoughts of this type of playing? Someone waits in a highly populated area and shoots with no communication whatsoever. In my opinon, this ruins the gameplay because if everyone had this mentality there would be no player interactions because many players would be holed up in some hallway or in a tree line. Still you can get geared but in softcore servers you can almost can get in a 0 person server. I just got killed in a 14/30 hardcore server by some stranger as i got my freshly spawned toon with a m4 (yes i know, but no ammo) and a hat. He shot me as i was walkin inside and didnt even say a word. Maybe we all should hole up with Mosin's...