Al Bobo

They lose players every time they crank up difficulty. Timer would be just another part of the game... DayZ isn't about fast respawns and pvp at Balota. It's about surviving hours, days and weeks. What is 5 minutes compared to that? Unless you want to treat DayZ as a regular FPS.

Add 5 minutes respawn timer and people start to comply more eagerly. Problem solved. People don't care about their DayZ "lives" because you can just start over right away. Timer would effectively eliminate freshspawn kamikaze -types, too... If you die...tough luck. Go get a cup of coffee so you can keep your eyes open.

Just staying alive through difficulties is good enough reward for me. Though, if I could wish for anything, then I would like to be able to grow myself a ZZ Top -beard ingame Then people wouldn't look at gear, but the beard when estimating how dangerous people are! Scoreboard would show the length of beard when a player dies. Beards would be collected as trophies that you could show to your friends. "Look at this, guys! This beard is AT LEAST 25cm long! I shot the owner of this monster near Vybor. My kitchen knife turned from pristine to ruined when I cut it." The best shot in server would get the title Barber.

Who needs enemies when you got friends like he? Your friend needs a bulletproof helmet and vest right away! Oh, and your blood type changes every time you die so next time you play russian blood roulette, there's big bets again :D

Don't get shot. I spend 90% of my game time enjoying nice graphics and the last 10% frantically looking for food/saline/blood. It's ok.

Payday mask means trouble. Shoot all clowns!

As said above, remove balota military stuff, put "good loot" inland and make people spawn near coast. I would really want to know how many players leave DayZ when devs crank up the difficulty...

What a cliffhanger! Did he break those cuffs?? Video stops before the end. How cruel!

I say, ditch cuffs and put more rope in game. At least wriggling out of rope "cuffs" would be more realistic and a buddy with a knife could help you out in seconds.

I am against 2-hit KO. Yes, I have been knocked unconscious in DayZ and I have knocked people unconscious, too. My problem with it is the fact that the movement in DayZ is clumsy. When someone is near your face throwing punches at you, you can't dodge. If you strafe left or right, it's very easy to follow that movement and keep punching. So the punchbag's option is to either shoot and hope he dies before 2nd head punch comes or turn around and run and then turn around and shoot. It would be ok, if there was option to doubletap A or D to sidestep or leap back a bit or something. It's true that a hit on chin can knock you out in real life, but also in real life you can move way better than in DayZ to avoid those clean hits. IF there was random chance for knockout in DayZ, it would be fine. Guess it's the best compromise there can be...

A bedtime story for DayZ players. That John Rambo -part was maybe a bit too much, because no enemy would praise your skills in DayZ, ever, but otherwise it's good stuff. Let's keep your post up a few more days :P

I made similar thread some days ago with the same 3pp tweak OP is suggesting now, but it didn't catch fire then. I hope to see it patched in the game soon. After all, this IS alpha so it's possible to try all kinds of things. Many people are saying that it would be unintuitive, but we adapt quickly. After 1 or 2 hours, you would forget the urge to peep over walls or around corners with camera. Edit: BwickFS39, clearly someone sneaked behind you and put a burlap sack over your head. Sorry! Couldn't resist :P

Are you going to continue this when server hopping can't be done anymore? Keeping your gear pristine will be much more difficult then.

People like 3rd person because of fov, less motion sickness and you can see your character. My suggestion is that make 3rd person view only show you zombies, items and players you would see on 1st person view. That way 3rd person players get all benefits they want without having advantage over 1st person players. Then there would be no need for separate 1st and 3rd person view servers. I cannot think a single good argument why you should be able to see corners magically when DayZ is all about realism.

Well, this post isn't really meant for you guys. I just hope that devs might read these forums and maybe consider this kind of approach. That is, if they want to make this game as realistic as possible :P

My current book is Treasure Island. I might swap it to Dracula, if I happen to find it.

Maybe Faust would be a more fitting book for you guys :D

I usually avoid fights, but if I happen to see you guys at work, I may change my rules and go for your snipers first and the reseach team next. I bet there's a bible somewhere, but they should add priest suits, too :P

I prefer diary option where you could write and maybe even draw pictures. If spray cans are implemented, I don't see how much harder it would be to make drawing an option :P

That happens to me often when I switch item while moving. I have never been stuck when I just run/walk, though.

There should 5 minute timer preventing you to respawn each time you die. If you and your pal spawn to different sides of map....tough luck.

I demand that we should be able to use defib in combat! It's only natural.

Yes! That is the way you should learn things in DayZ.

You should try using large amounts of morphine on someone. The description says that it can cause...addiction? I would like to know if that's really true. Also, will the comsumption of painkillers and antibiotics cause ill effects on healthy people? How long it takes for a person to bleed to death if he's only hit once with a fireaxe and not bandaged? How many m4/mosin bodyshots do you need to kill a healthy person? You have to do your medical experimentation thoroughly or you are just a bunch of quacks :P

Ok. Thanks for the info :)