Murtag

I guess I'm confused about what people thought this was. I never played the mod. I have a few friends who did and they described it somewhat. Even then, it isn't that hard to understand what this game will generally contain.

I'd hate to run in to you guys but it's a cool concept. I wouldn't mind volunteering a few times because I'm curious about a lot of this stuff as well.

Everyone knows the red hoodie makes you run faster

That just sounds funny as hell. Only give them bananas.

I discovered one of the cities. No clue which. I actually killed some zombies. Died from a kiwi that went rotten in thirty seconds and I didn't notice. Picked up my first gun, although it was unloaded. A lot of new experiences.

I guess I don't see what all the fuss is about. Yea, getting killed constantly would really suck. The thing is that you go into this game knowing you'll die and that it's all temporary. The few times I've ran in to people I've moved around them if they allowed me to then watched my back for a while. The only time I've been shot right in the face is when I came up some stairs behind a guy and I had a hammer in my hand. He'd be stupid to not shoot me. That's the thing. Every person represents a threat. Even if their hands are up and have no weapon. What's stopping them from finding a crowbar and retracing their steps back to you? It would be hard to locate someone again when they're moving but it's still a possibility. Shooting new spawns is stupid and luckily that hasn't happened to me. Personally, I like trying to deal with other players a little. If they kill me then whatever, I guess.

Which doesn't really bother me. The game isn't about fairness. Why someone kills you on sight isn't terribly important I guess. You're still dead in the end.

Indeed. There are people who do it just to be assholes but I think the average person is acting entirely out of self-interest. Granted, I haven't the game that long. There's no reason to take it personally if someone decides you're a risk to their survival. The game is about survival.

This my first post here but I fucking love this game so far. I'm still learning the ropes and have thankfully stayed away from my fellow survivors. I haven't played an alpha before but I'm genuinely impressed with this. My question is about something that's been happening in the past few hours. I've had a lot of lag and general unresponsiveness when it was very smooth earlier today. Is this a pretty common occurence? It mostly happened if I panned over stuff pretty fast so I assumed there was a problem loading all that stuff at once. If it isn't too common I'll check out what might cause it on this side. And because I'm morbidly curious, are there places players usually end up? I seem to be on the coast in the same two towns a lot. Only a few zombies around. I've found a player corpse once (think they fell off a ladder in a lighthouse and the fall did it) but that's it. I know I'll most likely be shot if they every see me but I'm too curious for my own good.

Thanks a lot, man. I'll remember the server hopping thing. I discovered one of the major cities today and it was pretty cool.

I basically try to play like I would act in the scenario and I'm sure as hell not a capable fight. Every time I've run in to someone I've waved or put my hands up, if it my weapon would drop in the process. If I really have to kill someone in this, I'll plan it so I take the least amount of damage. I'm not going to brawl with random strangers that could possibly kill me. The trigger happy people are likely to kill that stranger anyway. So long as I stay out of their way and they stay out of mine, things will most likely work out. I end up killing myself in much less dramatic ways, like rotten kiwis.

I'm pretty sure the first live player I ever saw shot me right in the face. It was pretty damn funny, honestly. I had gotten really far but it wasn't a big deal. I've been shot by someone else and survived but I've also ran in to players where we went our separate ways. The non violent ones were pretty tense anyway where we just stared at each other for a while.

Kind of a tangeant but I wondered about it when I was playing today. Could we start forest fires? I'm assuming it would be way too demanding to implement but I kept looking at the firewood, matches, and gas containers. Lot of possibly open flames in very flammable areas.

I've only been able to play it a few hours but I intend to play this a lot whenever my schedule allows me too. How can it be boring in Alpha? It will be changing a lot of time with the various annoying/hilarious bugs and their fixes. There will be new features and shit.