The Power Nap

I think non/less than lethal weaponry would be a great boon to the game. Griefing someone by constantly knocking them out to me is less annoying than losing a two week old character to an unprovoked ambush.

I find it odd that it's an AI thing, as opposed to a physics thing. Unless BIS devs coded in some fudge because the AI kept getting hung up on random geometry.

It might not spawn them, but there is a bug where you're visible to zombies once you're inside a building. When you fire a loud weapon all the zombies hear it, and now that you're visible they come a running. I've been trapped in an apartment in Berenzino, where I killed 50 zombies and more were still comming.

Is it possible that a zombie only comes though a wall when it performs a massive damage attack?

Lost my 2 week old character to this today, was in the side room in a horse barn. Was facing the entrance to fend off a hoard when about 4 warped/attacked though the wall. I went from 9k blood to 2k in one hit. Later today I ran my new char to Berenzino, aggroed three zombies and ran into an apartment building. I was on the second landing gunning down the endless hoard (i killed around 50) running through the front entrance. I moved to an apartment to better position myself and about five warped though the wall into the apartment and took me down from 11k blood to 3k in about 2 hits. One more warped in and finished me off. Installed Version DayZ 1.7.1.5 ArmA 2 93965 Specs* Intel i7 920 Nvidia 570 1Gb 12Gb DDR3 system ram 1 Tb HD Onboard Audio Server LA 7

Eh, I like the Keys idea

Throwing my hat in with a 'yes' on this

Snipers will snipe, not much we can do about that. These suggestions will assist people making contact with one another. As this is a simulation we can't accurately model non verbal communication, might as well introduce some replacements that hint at what a player is doing. Letting other players know that someone has been firing a weapon recently allows them to make some judgment calls without specifically telling them this person has been PKing. Could make something like a crossbow more attractive to bandits as it doesn't use gunpowder.

YES for some type of Melee I don't see why a melee weapon couldn't be something that fired an invisible projectile 1m with the firing/reload animation being the player actually swinging the weapon model. It's the way a lot of FPSs do it.

Overall I think these are good suggestions. De-escalation by holstering/lowering your weapons needs to happen. Right now to not point a weapon at someone is to not look at them, which is problematic. As for your inspection method, biome travel is accumulatory so someone who has been alive long would show signs of all biomes. Maybe an adjustment would be if you could smell a freshly fired weapon. Anyone who has any experience with guns would know if someone has been firing a gun recently.

YES This is a step in the right direction. We need simulacra for gut feelings.

Dark Souls is hard, it is also acclaimed. You spawn with a plank, and a 50/50 chance of killing one zombie with it.

YES IF Melee is added. You've stated adding Melee would be resource intensive, but it's worth it. End 20 words. | | | | Due to the ghillie suit glitch I swam ashore with nothing but a knife, would have been a good story if I didn't bleed to death from that ONE zombie who saw me grab a canteen. Running around like a green muppet in a benny hill sketch.

I feel should be Fixed: Most of these have been mentioned, just putting my vote in 1. Desync 2. D/Cing to avoid consequences, put me in the log-out timer category 3. deathmatch, add a respawn timer. Seems to work for other games. Currently there is a strong penalty for trusting the wrong person, but a weak penalty for running around guns blazing. I feel should be Added: 1. Melee. 2. Roaming Zombo hoards, add some spice to the country side even if they just prefer open fields 3. UI Grouping tools: some sort of challenge/accept system to allow people to see each other's tags.