muddyraccoon

First, you can role play and KoS! Maybe you have been effected by the virus, and have become a saddistic maniac without any damage to your brain lobes (since I am assuming the virus causes brain damage since people become mindless zombie-like monsters in this game). So you retain your motor skills, but have some serious anger issues. Get a gun in hand, you start shooting at anything that moves. The only problem with Roleplaying is, well, me. I get too good of ideas that most people don't get them. When I got bored with WoW about a decade ago, I tried the RP servers to see how much fun it would be. It was alright. But then I made a character with the best backstory. I was a Blood Elf with narcolepsy. I would join instances, and in key moments I would type /sleep and just type zzz's after that, until they roleplayed waking me up. I did it in boss fights, while waiting for the group to meet, when they needed me to crowd control, all the time. People couldn't handle my genius. My idea for DayZ is this: A character with tourettes syndrome. I would laugh so hard if I was in a squad who was stealthing through a town, then we spot someone, and sneak, slowly, sneakily, right up behind them....then in direct I start screaming "ffffFF%CK SH#T B!TCH" Then apologize and run away.

What a great way to start my day. Not only is this a good video that shows you play it cool under pressure (bleeding out is the ultimate 'ticking-clock' scenario), but it's all done, in the glory and wonder that is 3PP:OFF! All first person, and all very well done.

What i do, I watch a streamer (goes against everything I complained about earlier, but there is a reason) and wait until they bring up the Player list. Look for someone with a full/close to full server, and since there are maybe 10 servers close to full, hunt for his name. Then watch yourself kill!

I was making a case to argue this but actually it checks out. Although I think it is absolutely the lowest a gamer could get, to watch streams, I find your argument has made me eat my words. Thank you KindSir. I like changing opinions. Its like starting a new life. Not really but still. What I do in DayZ is Stream Snipe. In fact, stream hunting is one of the only and best End Game activities to participate in. Granted, this started as an outlet for my complete loathing of knowing that there were possibly tens of kids watching another kid play a game. Also the ego that I assumed would have to go into starting up a live stream. Why else do one? Reviewing a game? Oh, ok I can see that. Strategy? Yeah, good idea, but not for DayZ (Step 1, survive. No further steps). Because people love me and find my commentary hilarious? *slowly removes glasses, rubs bridge of nose, sighs deeply, defeated* I guess it is because I am from the generation that grew up with the consoles. Try doing that shit in 1997 with a SNES. Hey man, watch me play this game real quick! My response would have been hurling my Ecto Cooler at their head while screaming out fair arguments like "You've already had a turn, it's my turn! Well thats my controller so I'll just unplug it! MOM!!!" Plus my ADHD barely lets me run to Zeleno, let alone watch someone else do it.

Courage, honor, sacrifice. These words have something in common; they mean nothing if you're dead. "Oh, I'm a hero!" fap fap fap "I'm a sneaky bandit!" fap fap fap "I'm an explorer and take selfies near trees!" fap fap fap Trying to lend a helping hand, trying to get better gear, trying to see the world, Humbug I say! Self-improvement is masturbation: Nobody else cares but you wish they did. Self-preservation is where it's at. Alive or dead, no room for improvement. Me? I'm a survivor. fap fap fap

I need help, because I tried the mod and found it undesirable to the point of unplayable. The controls are wanky. Loot is...? Do melee weapons exist in this game? I do like how guns are everywhere, but so are zombies. I only tried Vanilla. Should I do Epoch? Origins? Also, Im not talking shit. I watched video after video for the standalone and am one of the best ever at it, but in the mod I found nobody and was killed because I kept throwing flares.

A Zombie on the roof :D A zombie on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a zombie on the roof. Tradition! Drink l'chaim, to life!

Haha! Cute idea. Not for DayZ, but I'd play a wingsuit game where you could shoot down the flier. But again, not in DayZ. It's just not the right feel. Like wearing 2 condoms. Too much going on to feel the real friction of the game.

The awesome planet where badasses like me want Molotovs! Make it so!

I am not aroused, but I am. Ahhh, perspective. Only it can take a seemingly simple act like, say, standing around, or wrestling, and turns it into something so much more.

It is the lecft alt button by default. Double click like the Gentlemen say. I found this out the hard way when I thought I would be clever and try starting a firefight. To make a long story short, i end up running through Elektro fields straight ahead, screaming out of terror in direct as I hear *pop-pop-pop* and bullets hitting all around me. All I could do was look around and run in one direction.

I would guess "Because they Can." This has staggering implications in the game though. If the zeds take place in some, uh, "extracurricular" activities, that implies they feel pleasure, which means they feel pain! Does this effect the discussion of morality of killing zombies? No, probably not. But good for him all the same.

The guy on the left, I love it. "Windex..." He felt simultaneously sickened and enraged. He lowered his gun away from his eyes, so he could unobstructively stare venom at the monster before him. When the countdown to fire began, he found he did not hesitate, and his hands were steadied by imminent justice

Does it click, so you know the trigger press is even registering? You already may have tried this, but try to use a mag/clip that has been successfully fired from. Then try to chamber a bullet in any gun, see if that works (pristine ammo, of course). Also make sure you can even swing an axe, and that the LMB is still your default attack masher (since you seem to have tried this), or go into controls, hit reset to default, then set Fire to something else (as in a button, not out of rage on your floor) see if that works. If you have a super sweet gaming mouse, make sure that it's shitty software isn't interfering (You know what you did Razer and your damn Synapse! I've moved on. I'm with Steel Series now) like mine did before I made an important life change.

I love this piece of modern weaponry in it's world premier promotional video being shot in an 80's action movie's warehouse. Of course this would be sweet, but even giving it a quarter of the spawn rate of the Press Vest will still warrant cries of unreality and Go Play CoD or other such nonsense. As of now, I'll be fine with any ole crossbow in DayZ, but I want the Tac-15 for myself. Maybe the 15i, but I live in the midwest, so a spare lower receiver for an AR-15 is probably available at Walmart (Jokes, I got 'em). What does intrigue me is the rubber stops they use to reduce vibration/noise. Might be an idea to implement, but they are pretty quiet already.

Don't knock it until you try it. AppleJaxc ideas are not only clever, but some of the most entertaining DayZ experience come by behaving this way. I once did this, killed a guy during a trade (he was bent over to get the Canteen) and I told him it was a huge accident, and if he spawned nearby I would let him loot his own body. Not even 10 minutes later "Hey! Don't shoot! It's me!" Axe to the back of the head. I mean, he did have a pistol.

Yes I did. And so did 12 other people that used the filters too. It was boring. So I had to play the others, which were all fun, just lacking a population willing to work for gear. Epoch. Epoch still has some good servers out there. But i prefer SA. And I wouldnt mind mods if they added depths of realism to the game. But I am guessing that more realism will be removed for vehicles, and others. I like the community, and don't want to see a rift come between it. It won't be a single rift, either. It will be many many rifts. But then again, i could be the crazy guy with THE END IS NIGH! written on a carboard sign standing on street corners shouting to nobody.

*gazes into crystal ball* I forsee cars, lots and lots, vehicles, everywhere. Easy to get. With storage, and weapons! I forsee weapons and ammo littering the streets. Most will complain openly, but still play the easy mode. This will be done with "improvements in mind, but will tear the heart out of the game, and let it sit twitching in the gutter as Helicopters are added, with more and more military loot/guns/vehicles/buildings! I see maps! Maps with coordinates automatically displayed, GPS maps, mini maps in an overlay! I see damage meters and health meters, and very few graphic or textural mods. The future of DayZ looks dark indeed.

The moral of my story: There are all types of people out there. You'll only run into some. It doesn't mean it will be the best sampling of the human condition.

I'm a United States citizen. I have a messed up work/sleep schedule, so I usually only get to play nights. That gives me so many opportunities to interact with our brothers from the old world (Europe). These interactions gain me vast insight into our country's visibility to the "outside world" and, wouldn't you know it, our shortcomings seem to stick with them. Somebody who spoke like KoS writes (unfortunately without the smilies) asked me why Americans thought that Ukraine was a part of Russia already. Before I had to time to do the undesirable act of answering a question with another question (What the fuck are you talking about?), I was promptly shot next to some hostile sounding words. I was bound once by a chipper group of British teens who, upon hearing my American accent, laughed hysterically for an awkward amount of time. Turns out they had an inside joke about the obesity problem in the USA, so they decided to handcuff me while they filled me in on the joke. "So, you're fat, right?" "C'mon, he must be fat, he is American after all. Or, is it only the kids that are fat?" More laughter, some heavy accented British Speak in which I couldn't make out everything, although I thought I caught the word punch, and a series of punches to the head and out I go: Unconscious. More THC-induced giggling, then "oy, you reckon we should revive him then force feed him all our food?" I respawned. After sharing stories with some Italian guy, I told him about my recent connection to Europe. "Yeah, my grandpa actually met my grandma on the boat over to the US. He was Irish, and she was Irish-Polish." ..........a brief, but noticeable silence follows..........I assume he wants more. "I don't remember too much, but he would always say 'I love me wife with all me heart, but only the Irish half of her' and then he got angry when people laughed at what they thought was a joke." ........more silence, this time painful. He then proceeds to call me an ignorant Mick and a "Bog-Irish potato farmer." I did't know I was being insulted until I Googled that later. But after saying this, he stormed off indignantly and didn't kill me. So thanks, and fuck you Italian guy who I won't use as my archetype for all Italians!

Corner cafe. It has no doors, so it is easy to spot.

No offense, but you only commented to criticize a post which you, through thinly veiled sarcasm, implied is a waste. Then you repeated previous posts. Very constructive... I'm sure you've heard about it by now, but server hopping is going to low pop servers to loot, usually in just an area (like one of the airfields) then switching to other low pop servers to loot the same area clean of it's potential military firepower. Then you go to a high pop to "pwn noobs" though in fact that is being a complete tool. What you CAN do is go to a low pop server and stay there, run around, learn the land, find the places you can loot. then when you are ready, start playing on mid-high pop servers. I will warn you, however. Doing this will leave you woefully unprepared for what this game can unleash on you. I suggest sticking with mid pop servers, or better yet, join one of the many amazing clans this game has to offer. A helping hand is better found in game than using Google or DayZDB (an excellent excellent map, yes, but many here would agree that learning by marathon hikes through the hills is much much better**). Also, using the search function on these forums, look for a post about which buildings to avoid. These offer no loot at all. It can save you time, and save your life. **totally assumed by me and my assumptions. This game is a sandbox and can be played however you want. Server hopping and combat logging are crimes equal to murder and kidnapping in this community. And if you play hardcore, so is peaking around corners using 3PP, though most think of them as "fanatics."

Well, maybe the persians knew this, thus they defeated the 300... or just sheer volume of arrows... Nah, they knew about dirt.

Thats a long long run. When you were at the warehouse with the water tower, the NW airstrip would have been nearly due south, maybe a but SW. But all the same, this thread made me smile. Glad you're still alive. Now I'm gonna hop on and kill you! I kid, I'm not that kinda guy ... :|

Ok, as a Hardcore player that made me laugh. I may be in too deep and need to step back. Your distaste is shared, but I play where my clan plays, and I will not be taken (3PP) advantage of. I feel like I try to remind people of this "fun" community, and I myself have lost sight of it.