miniboss (DayZ)

"preemptive combat logging" it is now? :rolleyes: lol this gets better each day. :lol: you pro killwhores stop at nothing to force everyone into your game. either there is combat or there isnt. following your logic noone is allowed to log because there is always someone somewhere trying to kill you. if there is no combat you can log if you want.

my suggestion would be to have a community agreement for the alpha: full kos pvp on the airfields and in cherno, and the rest a neutral zone. so if you want to duke it out, you go there and know whats coming to you. the neutral zone would be a place to test stuff, loot, gear up, and basically learn your way around. but thats utopia, because there are so many ignorant pvp killwhores in the sa already, who will deliberately grief ideas like this just because they can.

the sa has only been out for a few days, and already the forums are flooded with kos and combat logging threads. guys... dont be mad just because you cant be superbad killwhores, or are denied your "earned/legit kills" by logging, or whatever. its the least important department of the game right now, so just chill. if you cant kill the guy in time you are just too slow, too bad, or have bad luck. why are you so eager to kill anyone anyway? its not a killing game, its a survival game. killing as last resort for survival yes, actively chasing people just to cause grief? no thanks. the timer should be there, but short. 20 seconds maybe. and only if not bleeding etc. (if you are bleeding you are taking damage and cant log). so that i have to get away after being damaged, bandage myself, and then be able to log if the enemy is not within a few meters. i understand the pvp aspect is necessary and part of the game, but i dont want to be forced to play a certain way by bullies who want to kill everyone just because. you want to kill me? come and get me if you can, and if you are too slow or have bad aim i might be gone. and for the server hopping: flag everyone for 10 minutes after a fight where they cant change servers. "you have recently been in combat and cannot change servers right now" or something. ghosting problem solved...

i started the dayz mod when it was in early alpha like this. it was horrible. i stayed. i got wasted so often, at some point i lost count. i stayed. i died a million times from blood loss with full military gear. i stayed. instead of running away i tried to get better. learn the map/geography. think about how and why i got killed. dayz is meant to cause frustration, rocket wanted it to be like this. you are meant to have fear. you are meant to be pushed. you are not supposed to find anything useful in the first house you enter. its a constant fight for your life, against the zeds and the clock. do i fight this zombie in the house and risk getting infected, to find some food that i need? can i engage this player who has a rifle, or do i try to communicate? this is early alpha. its not done. not for a long time. you can move you character, put on some gear that sometimes doesnt even have its descripton done, and use some basic stuff. you cannot expect it to work perfectly, and that has also been said/written on numerous occasions, in blogs, reviews, and the store page on steam. comparing it with epoch? please. epoch is the most casual, instant gratification newbiefriendly mod of all the mods out there. its no longer an apocalypse game, its a zombie pvp themepark. trading, gold currency, safe bases, buildings, gazillion vehicles with almost free parts lying around everywhere? its NOT DAYZ as it was intended. tl;dr instead of complaining, change your mindset from demanding to learning. use the opportunity to get better and learn the game now, while there are less zombies and less dangers. learn how to avoid players and how to survive. then you will be the vet on full release.

i found a pristine acog in the barracks at zeleno.

:D haha this thread is so funny i couldnt stop

maybe consider copying and pinning this entire thread over to the general discussion as well, as all the unfiltered "omg kos" "omg dark" omg wipe" threads seem to amass there.

wrong! its jinxed, like the axes. if you have no axe, it takes hours until you find one. but once you have one, they are all over the damn place, no matter where you go; farms, houses, barns, factories, axes everywhere! i bet its the same with can openers. once you have one, it attracts its fellow openers.

its not impossible to kill with fists but it takes time and effort. i personally dont want to fight outside for too long. see the kos threads why. B)

if you dont have a weapon, use fists to knock them down, then run away. it takes a few punches but eventually they fall and it takes them a moment to get back up. in the meantime you can take off and put some distance between you. breaking line of sight and all that. alltho i have noticed that it is very hard now, as they seem to know where you are once they started chasing you. running around corners doesnt work well, try to use houses (in from one side, cross the building, out on the other side). you can draw aggro from all the zeds on the street, lose them in an outskirt building, and then loot in peace (if you are alone). i also found that its pointless to use anything but axe or shovel. axe is best, shovel works ok but you need a bit of luck. knives, screwdrivers and whatnot are useless and a good way to lose blood. havent tried baseball bats.

guys... it makes no sense flooding the thread with "cant join" "same" "still cant join" "nothing yet" for 10+ pages. just wait until its solved. ;)

thats just a good example of mindless killing, wich is the reason why the moral of most players has gone out of the window. then again, id never sit down and eat out in the open. always in a safe place with only one way in, while watching the door and turning the volume up so i can hear footsteps. im just too paranoid to stand somehwere, like there wasnt any bloodthirsty maniacs playing this game.

afaik this is a known issue and related to the whitelist status of servers. if they arent whitelisted, or properly introduced to the hive database, they do not save/reload your characterdata.

from what i gathered from other sources, you would need to use some means of desinfection like alcohol or spray on the items, before you use them. you wouldnt use non sterile syringes in rl would you? now imagine a post apocalyptic zombie infested world... i would never use any medical item on my body before some desinfection. ;)

i think we just got pwned. :D

what i did: before i posted feedback or anything i read the forums, known issues, etc and noticed, that everything i found has already been posted by someone else, so i didnt post itagain. it would be much easier to browse through all the problems if there werent 20 copies of them each. before you post your problem, read the feedback page (you should visit there often anyway; alpha test and all *hint hint*.) most of the stuff like server hopping, character wipes, odd spawning, darkness etc, has already been mentioned somewhere. i guess a lot of the "wtf noob its alpha" flak comes from the many repostings of stuff.

i see many people. they dont see me. :)

Found a post about it, sorry for the double post. (Has anyone tried to use Shadowplay on DayZ? I have used it on Planetside 2, Alien Swarm and BF4, but I cannot use it on DayZ for some reason. The icon is there but its crossed red and I cannot use my hotkeys; the game just freezes as if it was trying to send data, then goes "ah, whatever" and then continues. I have read that you need to start the game as admin or it wont save files, and I have set DayZ's properties accordingly, but it doesnt work and Steam complains when I want to run it in admin mode. Besides, setting only the game to admin works for Alien Swarm, wich is also a Steam title. But it doesnt work on DayZ. And yes, I have Fraps and it works fine but Im just interested if someone has got shadowplay to work with DayZ.)

i honestly did use that but it didn pop up. sorry. and thanks for being nice anyway.

there are no friendlies.

i know. im not complaining i just despise kos because i think its not necessary. too bad that some people have to turn dayz into their personal turkey shoot and make everyone paranoid. but i dont care because i play smart (mostly) and havent been shot in cherno (yet). what bothers me is the reasons people give. "i was minding my own business and got killed now i kos everyone too." yeah better watch your step. "someone said they were friendly and betrayed me, now i kos everyone too" dont trust anyone and never turn your back on someone. "i waved at someone saying im friendly and he shot me now i kos everyone too" seriously? running in the open in a apocalypse game? if you get killed ask yourself why. and stick to your mindset. either say youre a bandit and shoot first, or be a careful non agressive person. that doesnt mean you have to either kos or play stupid. still i personally think shooting weaker people just for fun is bad. its much more fun to just rob them. ^^

as i said, im not against killing, per se. part of the game blah blah. generally i stay away from people unless they have something i want. holding up people is fun and if i get you first you either drop it or i put a hole in you. i might also steal your shoes. i just dont spend all day camping in cherno, because thats gay. thats all im saying. and while all the kos threads are a bit annoying, people replying in EVERY single one of them "im superhard and im gonna kill you because kos is elite and part of the game" are just as tiresome.

altho it is the game, the op has a point. this item damage system does nothing against pking. "the targets gear is destroyed? who cares, mine's better; i just want to kill him just because." people still grief bambis, they still camp fully stocked in cherno just to make the game suck for everyone. dont get me wrong i love the pvp but its just childish to hunt weak players. find someone who is a challenge. i like to lay traps inland, fight looters at the airfield, hunt people who reload in stary etc. so when i win it feels good, and if i lose i learn from it. ganking bambis is for scum without skill. yet, there is this type of people who call themselves "bandits" when all they do is behave like asshats.

there are enough onehit weapons to kill players with. if they quit before you kill them, oh well, mybe next time. we all know its lame, but everyone has done it before. if you say you havent, youre probably lying. :) i know i have, altho i know it blows. but my equipment is worth more to me than the ego of some random guy at his pc at the other side of the world, whos trying to kill me just for fun.

its a huuuge experimental flashlight with a chewing gum dispenser in it.