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Had the exact same thing happen to me and a friend earlier, though. We were the over geared people in this case. We were hunting bandits in the outskirts of electro when suddenly we see this newspawn run towards us at full speed shouting unintelligible things in proximity. Naturally, I assumed it was a stray dog and put it down. Moral of the story; Don't be a retard.

I think that is intentional to take of a huge load from the servers. Zombie corpses stack up pretty quickly and it's too taxing for the server to keep them all in the game, especially during alpha.

Yep, the server will create them in the last known state and position they were before death. So if you get shot in the head and instantly die then you recover with full health and all your items. However, if you're wounded before death the server will recreate them at that state as well. So my tip is: Wound them real badly before killing them, they'll get stuck in that state until they man up and respawn. :)

Your character is rendered and calculated by your client and only upon death and release will the server take over your character and transform it into an NPC corpse. If you don't release your body and respawn the server isn't allowed access by your client since it's still registering a player entity presence. So lets say you kill someone and the person rage quits by pressing alt+f4 then the server will never get the information of that persons characters death and will still consider him to be alive. The server will then remove the character avatar from the gameworld as it normally does upon logging out. It's pretty shitty, but hey, it's in alpha.

You drained him then.

I have logged out several times when in combat without being aware of it initially. Would be quite shitty if you got a global ban because of it. Instadeath on logout seems more fair tbh.

I agree, a more in-depth Character creation would be nice. The thing with giving newspawns useful and potentially valuable loot at start is that people start systematically farming them in spawnzones. I don't see what can be given to newspawns that wouldn't give a good enough reason to KOS them down at the beach? :p

I like the concept of stealing though. It could be fun if ammo was so rare that you're pretty sure the guy with the gun doesn't have any but you can never be 100% sure, he might have a bullet to shoot you with. It's fun mindgames like that which makes this game so great. :)

No, but knowledge about which type of blood is suitable for transfusion is very helpful. If you find a player with the blood type O negative then you know you need to dry him up because he's a universal donor for all blood types. And if you have the rare AB positive blood type then you are a universal receiver and you can receive all blood types without rejection.

Everything in this game is about knowledge, that's how you survive. Do you know where all the water pumps are? Do you know the quickest paths to NWA? Do you know which medical supplies does what and how to combine them into something that fits you or your "patients" diagnosis? This is knowledge that make you stand out as a survivor and can make you more valuable alive than dead. It's necessary complexity and an advantage for those who has the knowledge. More complexity=Less people will know everything= Players have more value= More depth. It's a good thing!

I agree. Trading should be more common. Unfortunately, at the moment there isn't even a remote chance of trading as KOS is the go-to-solution for everything.

I'm not going to use this thread to report bugs and issues, that's what the feedback section is for. Instead I want to share my own and other peoples opinions and thoughts about seemingly finalized features within the game that I don't fully agree with or that I believe is in need of a rework. Hopefully somebody important will read this thread and consider some of the points. Anyway, I'll try to make this TLDR as formal as possible not to cause unnecessary eye cancer, brain aneurysms and other unpleasant sensations. -Balota Military Facility- -Zombies & Hordes- -Ammunition & Guns- -Overall/TLDR- Add more uncertainty and risk to the game. The current system barely have uncertainty at all. You know you'll get shot by an armed player. You know you start bleeding when engaging zombies. There is too much certainty and once you're fully geared and have 5000 mags of ammo there's really nothing left to do than KOS until bored or dead. The survival and conservative aspects should ALWAYS be the main focus for all players no matter how much gear they have, that is the essence of the game. No one plays DayZ because it offers such a good and well polished shooter in the FPS genre because DayZ doesn't offer that at all. KOS play has simply become endgame because there's nothing else to do when fully geared. You won the game, that's it, now go shoot people in the face for no reason. Need less of that and more tactics. Well, those are my two cents at least, thanks for reading. :)

In chronological order- least to most annoying. 1: Tacky movement and interface controllers. 2: Not being able to run/jog up tiny hills and plains. 3: Not being able to squelch thirst by drinking directly from a water pump. 4: Random zombie noises without a source. 5: Unlootable items. 6: Seemingly unnecessary conditions for food items. e.g, Can of Beans is badly damaged - Contents are pristine. 7: Zombie aggressiveness during day time. I swear to god these fuckers are solar powered or something. 8: Not being able to turn off mouse acceleration. 9: The constant and never ending audible and literal bitching from your character. It's worse than Sims 3! 10: VOIP Global channel. For the love of all that is good, don't double tap Caps Lock!

Yeah same with my guy. He started moaning because a zombie graced him. From the tone of his moaning I knew he was just throwing a hissyfit. So I dealt with him like I do kids - Ignored him until he stopped and then reward him with a can of soda. Although he managed to drink disinfectant spray earlier and is now throwing up and moaning again. I swear it's like dealing with a retarded person.

You could use SweetFx to add a color and shading filter to get a result similar or exactly like that photoshop. Not sure if third party software enhancements are allowed though? Can somebody shed some light on that?