philadelphia collins

Swing and a miss. You're making wild accusations about 800,000+ people. Anyone new to DayZ I would hope at least watched a Youtube video before blindly dropping 30 bucks on an alpha because "omgzzzz zambies". Anyone not new to DayZ and played the mod knows the zombie AI was shit in the mod and is still largely pretty shitty. I knew coming in what it was and it's a survival/exploration simulation, and that whole "survival" thing encompasses both the PVP and zombie dynamics of the game. One part of that dynamic (zombies) needs some work but that is absolutely nothing new to DayZ. In fact, I personally find the zombie animations and AI to be a pretty big improvement from the mod (excluding zeds walking through walls). The game has been out for slightly longer than 30 days and people on this forum are ready to march with the torches and pitchforks. They've already said not to expect this game to be in beta before the end of 2014...it's going to be a long time before this game is all nice and shiny (if it's ever completely polished). If you were seriously buying DayZ for the zombies you're either new and wildly misinformed, or in fact part of the "vast minority"

the real question here is where do i apply to a job I can play DayZ at?

Are you starin at my gut?

Might be worth your time to pick up rust and try that. If all you wanna do is play a FPS and still have some of the DayZ survival mantra in there then that might be the game for you. ...But it's not DayZ

Right my thinking on the gun bag is that you could conceivably carry an m4 in your hand and have a mosin in the gun bag. 2 primary weapons and you don't lose the immersion of holding a rifle in a backpack

You should be able to carry a gun bag in addition to the backpack imo.

mooky/10 Well done

The sounds of silence - Simon and Garfunkle

I currently have an Xbox One and tbh if I play it I only play single player. In my experience the playerbase for consoles is obnoxious and far less mature than PC. I don't want to get shot in DayZ and have to listen to some 12 year olds screaming "you're a faggot" over direct chat.

Bro, skin head army? Srsly bro...not chill

We lost 2 to friendly fire the other night. Situation became way too out of control, people got jumpy, friends got shot. No other game out there instills that adrenaline and paranoia that comes from gunfights. For example: We had one of our group chase down a bandit trying to kill him but ran out of ammo mid gun fight. In TS he's going "shit I'm dead i'm dead" not really dead but assuming he'd get blasted. I was holding down our original location and he ran back. I thought he was dead based on his previous outburst, and this time he came around the corner and was really dead. I blew him clean out of his boots. Adding in who's who would take away classic moments like this which imo separate the great squads from the rag tag ones like ours clearly is

I can't dodge boulders carry me plox

I kind of like the idea of someone being able to try and impersonate a certain squad. If we had ingame items that could be sewn onto clothes (or medic crosses on ballistic helmets?) then those items would be accessible to everyone in game. It adds that realism that somebody could take the time to mimic a squad and try to just casually walk into a camp and wreck havoc. Personally, I think it would be a really interesting thing to see implemented.

I do like the idea of some way to identify bandits but my post was speaking to the point of adding some mechanic like "insanity" that I continue to see everywhere as a way to gimp bandits. As far as hunting them just hang in a high traffic area and wait. They'll eventually start gunning people down and then you can step in and assist. It's worked for me many times and its pretty damn satisfying if you can save someone

I think what most of you fail to realize is that this is never going to be a game where everyone gets a trophy and the experience leaves you with a nice warm and fuzzy feeling. Stop trying to water the game down like every title AAA devs put out. Rocket isn't going to govern player behavior in game, period. You know who is? The community...and that's the beauty of DayZ. If you have a problem with bandits and people that KOS then find a group of like minded individuals and hunt them down. You aren't going to have shit handed to you here so knock it off with the qq threads because you were derping around and got blasted.