Solopopo

If only the 300 knew about this; they could have defeated the Persians.

That's because he knew what you were asking by your title alone, since you are far from the only person to have experienced this.

My hero uniform is a hoodie and baseball cap with jeans. Sometimes I'll throw on a beret. The most normal looking clothing is hero clothing. If you see someone wearing any type of mask at all it's probably a bandit. Just as in real life, you can't trust people who hide behind masks. It's funny how you can read people by their clothing the same way you would in real life. People tend to dress for what they intend. If they intend to murder people, they look the part. I try to look as unconventional and nonthreatening as possible when I play, whether I'm playing as a hero or a bandit. I don't want players shooting me out of fear no matter what my intentions are. My advice to a typical bandit wearing typical bandit gear would be to do yourself a favor and don't scream "I'm coming to kill you" before you even get a chance to open your mouth; even if you are coming to kill them. ^_^

One can only hope. By chance is your avatar from the old 90's video game Roadrash?

You can run it. I'm running on an amd 2.4 ghz quad core (2 wasted cores and a low ghz) processor and a radeon 5770. Mine is just barely good enough to run it. It runs like shit though. In fact I think my set up is literally the lowest you can go and still play. Certain parts of big cities can get pretty laggy, but fortunately everyone is having performance issues, even people with beastly computers, so it evens things out a bit. You should have no problem on that comp if I'm playing on this one. Just be prepared to make some graphics adjustments. You might need to lower view distance and screen complexity.

Bows and arrows are something we all know is going to get put in the game already. Beans for effort.

I don't think you understand the ideas being discussed in this thread. Who's whining? Who mentioned getting killed while camping?

Brilliant. Instead of a penalty on how long it takes to log in, it should be how long it takes to log out, and it should increase when you do it too frequently. Like I said in the original post, I don't think they are approaching this the right way. They need to focus on how quickly players are logging out, not how quickly they are logging in. The idea of DayZ is to keep players IN the server, not in server hopping limbo, which is where many players will stay, locked out of the game, instead of locked into the game, where they can be punished the way it should be. Exactly. Long, defenseless, log out timers would get in the way a lot, but it would not stop it completely. However, it would make server hopping an unattractive prospect. If you kill the desire to hop, you kill hopping, or at least most of it.

Ah, so they are already planning something like this. But I think combat timers alone would be enough to stop hopping. I don't think server swapping penalties would be necessary if the log out timer was longer and if the animation could not be stopped once started. No players would be logging out in the popular server hopper rooms, because they wouldn't want to sit in a high traffic area completely defenseless. They would be required to leave the hopping site, and seek refuge somewhere else, at least if they wanted to live. This would really get in the way of hopping. It wouldn't stop it altogether, but I think the risk would be enough to keep it under control. The hoppers wouldn't be the ones that end up keeping that loot. It would almost always be lost to legitimate non hopping players camping. I can see the current "solution" they are implementing bothering hoppers and non hoppers alike. Long, defenseless, combat timers would only hurt hoppers, not legitimate players.

But they can still combat log <_< They should have added a log out timer instead of penalizing players who are just looking around for a good server to play on. So combat logging still exists, but server hopping will be stopped. Loot will be much harder to find, so players will combat log CONSTANTLY to avoid losing their gear that took them half a day to gather. This is just bad.

I do the same thing every time I die. I stare blankly at the screen trying to figure out what I did wrong, or what I could have done differently. Then I respawn and try to get revenge. You would be surprised how often you can get your stuff back. Chances are your stuff will still be there, or at least most of it, and your killer will still be in the vicinity. I've avenged myself several times. That always makes me feel better. I've gotten pretty efficient at regrearing and killing my killer. The only thing that really bothers me now is dying or getting wiped late at night. It's too late to regear so I'm forced to stop playing earlier than I'd like.

That would be cool if they would bring writing back.... Does Ctrl+v not work in game? I started playing after writing was removed.

Anyone else experiencing game crashes recently? I crash about once an hour now.

Teamspeak/Skype is not a problem. Gamers use these programs when they are playing games competitively with friends all the time. It's an advantage..... no shit. It's the same for all games and it isn't even close to being a problem. Suggesting it should be "stopped" in any way is ludicrous. This is the worst suggestion I've ever seen ever. Do you have friends? If you had friends to play with you would hate this idea, as would anyone that plays games with friends. You are actually suggesting that friends should have no way of communicating with each other when they spawn great distances apart from each other? How would anyone ever find their friends? How would anyone ever play with friends? They wouldn't, and the game would suck so much I can't even fathom. Worst idea in the history Day Z suggestions. It takes a pretty heinous idea to provoke such an aggressive response from me, but this takes the cake. It would be impossible to implement anyway. Even if DayZ did implement some kind of 3rd party VoiP restriction, players would just call or txt each other, completely defeating the purpose. It would be a futile waste of time. Can't you just pretend they are communicating with radios? -1

Being healthy has saved me way more than once. You can take more shots in battle if you are healthy. Not only can you take more shots, but you can heal from those shots rapidly as well, especially if you bandage early. Last night I got shot by a mosin, a magnum, and an M4 in a 5 minute peroid. Each shot came from a different player. Each died to my axe :D Stay healthy, stay happy, stay alive.

Don't an hero hanger on us.

Thanks for the heads up. Beans.

This is what I do every time I spawn. I find a mosin, and I kill people with it. You might catch shit for it, but you are not alone. This is what many bandits are doing right now. You may chose tobe a hero, that is up to you, butt dont kill freshspawns. Thats just lame. Maybe try holding someone up sometime.

They dont really have AI. They just chase you if you are in their line of site, which stretches very far.They dont respond to your actions the way one would expect of typical AI. They just bee line for players untill they dont see them anymore. If this is good AI to you, you'be been playing some pretty awful games.

Speedloaders are like mags for weapons that dont use mags.

Every one I've found I've taken off a player I just killed.

There needs to be a take beans button for posts like this. The OP makes a solid argument, and seeks to engage the community in a discussion about the future of the game, and you respond with this shit? Why do you even post?

Its true. Punkbuster is more of a nuisance to legitamate players than a solution for hacking. I remember so much frustration constantly getting kicked from Americas Army because PB wouldnt authenticate. It was the downfall of that game. No one plays it anymore.

I have 130 hours and I havent encountered one hacker.

I logged into the top most part of the military base above balota air strip after not playing for a few hours. I hadnt seen a player in a long time. I was fully geared with an M4 which I had yet to test. There was a player on the platform bellow me who went prone when he heard the sound of me logging in. I watched him crawl around looking for me for a little bit, then unloaded on him. Shitty way to go if you ask me. He had probably run a long distance to explore that base. He had a purple taloon backpack, a fire axe, and a loaded pistol.