Magicks

I hvn't stopped playing, but if i do it will be because i'm waiting on these 3 game changing things. 1- zombies pathing correctly 2- audio fix for random noises 3- adding the ability to build lasting shelters (basically giving the game an end game and allowing you to live off the land,have a home, ect., to make actually surviving worth while) Those 3 things will change the game. Once they add a reason to continue living, people will immediately begin playing a lot smarter and safer.

I've seen one hacker in my 100+ hours played. Someone jumping threw walls isn't necessarily hacking, the game is very glitchy. Hell i do it sometimes just because its hilarious, follow random guy, when he finally sees you just start jumping threw a house or something and making him go crazy, doesn't always work because it's just a glitch and only randomly works, but its still funny. I've never used it to kill someone/avoid being killed, but yea its just a glitch exploit, not really a hack.

Just a friendly reminder that these servers make absolutely no sense and really take away from the survival experience that this game is trying to build. You are supposed to be afraid, you are supposed to question if you should trust people, thats how things would likely be in this sort of situation. Instead servers like these make it so really you only have to think about the zombies killing you (which right now there are barely any) and since the title is friend/ no kos it makes you think you can trust everyone on that server. This causes a lot of people to just use these servers to safely get a full kit before they server hop somewhere to use that kit. It really bewilders me why people would want to do this. I jumped on a couple of these servers to see what they were like. People were literally running down balota airfield without a care in the world. I was astonished they felt that safe. Hopefully now they won't ;) (if you know what i mean). Also too the one guy that i killed in the 2nd jail cell on the balota airfield, if youre laying down in a doorway aiming down the sights of your m4, friendly server or not, i'm going to shoot you. Anyone that would trust that you are not trying to kill them is dumb. TL : DR I really hope something is done about the servers, yes i believe everyone should have the right to play this game how they like, especially if it's your own server, but until something is implemented where you cant transfer items from a friendly server to a non-friendly server, i will be completely against these because of people using them to find a cheap way to get a full kit so they can jump on a regular server and use it.

You may be right. I did actually see one friendly server, joined it and then in the little server announcements that come up on the bottom left when you join it does say, hahah just kidding, we are not friendly.

I seriously hope once this is implemented soon after you will be able to cut eyeholes in the sack and spraypaint it. Would make for even funnier times if i could run around looking like scarecrow from batman!

Seems however you two did not read my full post, or maybe you did not understand it. I stated a bunch of reasons why i didnt like it, followed up by the one big problem i thought it caused (people using these servers as an easy place to kit up before they server hop somewhere else). Then i went on to say that right now i dont think they should be allowed because of this, however i do think people should have a choice to play however they wanted, but id like the issue of server hopping after using these servers to kit up to be addressed first. That's also why i put "ATM" in the title for the topic. Choice is always good i believe, but in some cases it causes more problems that need to be looked at first before people should be allowed that choice.

You should find some servers that restart more. I usually play on 3 different servers, 1 of them restarts every hour, 1 of them restarts every 2 hours, 1 of them restarts every 4 hours. No need to server hop if you play on a server that restarts a decent amount so that the loot is refreshed.

The only time i "server hop" (not sure if it would even technically be called that in the scenario im about to say) is when i have just joined a server and start taking fire before ive even had a chance to get my barrings. Then i exit out and join a different server. I.E. I decided to log off to go to work the other day and i logged off near the edge of the woods near the balota airfield. The next time i logged on again and joined the server, within 10-15 seconds (i hadn't even moved yet since it takes awhile for the whole screen to be rendered and crap like that) i was already hearing gun shot sounds and started to see a few bullets hitting near my feet, so in that instance i just immediately jumped to a different server. Im all about actually fighting and if i do die then i die, thats dayz for you, but if i just relogged on and immediately begin taking fire thats not really fair. So in those cases i believe its okay to exit and jump to a different server. But on the topic of server hopping to get geared out quickly/ghosting to an area to relog in and be better positioned to kill someone, yes thats ridiculous and i cant wait for them to implement something to stop that.

I was actually very pleasantly surprised the other day. I was roaming the airfield with my m4 and was near one of the jails when i saw a guy run in the door then close it behind him, then he walked into the jail cell and looked out the window at me, he was holding a mosin. I immediately pointed my gun at him and said come out with your hands up. To my surprise the guy actually walked out of the jail instead combat logging/running to the second floor to hold up. He walked out i told him to lay on the ground then i cuffed him. I was trying to be as nice as possible, I told him that i was basically fully geared out and just needed some food, but i would look in the jail for it and then leave everything else for him. I did a quick search of him just to make sure he didnt have any other weapons to screw me over if he got out of the cuffs to quickly, then told him to wait here while i searched the jail, searched the entire jail, came back and he still didnt combat log! But as i was getting ready to uncuff him and leave him be he had the balls to ask me, "hey man, you have any mosin ammo?" . Seriously guy? i just held you at gunpoint, cuffed you, looted you, and you think youre going to get supplies from me so that you could shoot me once i free you? So obviously i then took his mosin, left him cuffed on the ground, and ran off for him to fend for himself. Though i did thank him for being noble and not just combat logging. As i was running though the fact that he asked me for ammo when i was the one holding him hostage began to eat at me. So i then threw a long range scope i had in my backpack onto that mosin and hunted him. I watched him wriggle to get free from the cuffs, but i didnt want to kill him just yet. I wanted the capture and taking of his weapon to eat away at him just like his question ate away at me. He finally wriggled himself free, i watched him run into the jailhouse to grab some stuff i left there, then he ran across the airfield to the bathrooms to try and grab some more loot. He found a pistol, maybe some ammo for it idk, he picked up a nifty new hunter backpack. I saw him begin to be happy again now, he seemed to have that pop back in his step, running from building to building carelessly like nothing ever happened. He probably began to feel like things were turning around and he was free of the problems from his past.... Or so he thought. Once he tried leaving that airfield i took his life.

Just wish they would get a fix out for this desync already. I've tried everything and havn't been able to succesfully play this game for a week now.

Did you even read that guys post before you commented? Go re-read it then come back please. It says "Good to see someone else who plays Bandit correctly." Okay now read that again. Someone who plays BANDIT correctly . Now re-read the bolded, italicized, underlined word. Now let me provide you with some definitions of Bandit - A robber, especially one who robs at gunpoint. - An outlaw; a gangster. - One who cheats or exploits others. - an outlaw who lives by plunder;especially : a member of a band of marauders Okay now that you've read all those let me get to my point. He said good to see someone who plays bandit correctly. Not good to see someone that plays this game correctly. Not every person in this game is a bandit, some people try to be medics/switch between random things/hunt everything . But then some people also try to be bandits, however a lot of people think being a bandit is killing everyone on sight and then looting them, when in reality, according to the definitions of bandit, that is not completely true. So he was saying the person played bandit correctly because they actually threatened the person with some sort of weapon, and then robbed them, and then went on their way, which according to the definition of bandit, is more closely related to the correct way for a bandit to actually act. So before you try to assault someones post, please make sure you read it right, then please do some ground work. Don't be like the rest of the people on this internet that just immediately attack someones opinion.

I dont think the thread title really goes along with the questions.... No, i do not support killing on sight, i think its more fun to rob people if they have gear you want, or just help some people from time to time that need help. Do i think it's okay to kill on sight? Yes, definately, this is a survival game and in a real survival situation where food and such is scarce i think a lot of people would kill on sight. So i do think it's okay that people have the choice to do this in this game if they want.

Yup ive been threw this 3 times in the past 2-3 days. It happened to me for a like 20-30 minutes at first. Couldnt use any items. Then it was okay, then yesterday i couldnt interact with the server at all. I had all the same problems as you except now it was like i wasn't even connected to the server in the first place. No other characters were there, zombies wouldnt interact, and when i went to look at my ping and desync i realized that they were zero's for everything, including my bandwidth, on the list of players in the server it also showed zero's for all of them. Basically meaning im in the server and able to move about but nothing is registering at all. I did however conduct a little test. I ran around on the airfield for about 15-20 mins talking on my microphone trying to find another player because i wanted to see if i could die, reset and that would fix it. (i couldnt use the jump or climb and zombies dont attack me so killing myself like that wasn't an option really). I finally had someone say I'm in the jailhouse second floor, so i walked over there went up to the second floor (still unable to interact with doors/items (thankfully all the doors were open) ) . However no one was on the second floor, but i could hear the guy reloading his gun, eating food, and talking to me telling me he was up there. So i walked down the stairs then back up the stairs to see i checked in the entire building couldnt see him, the guy kept insisting he was up there, he couldnt see me either though. Finally i told him i was back upstairs and to just shoot around, next thing i know i finally got the "You are dead" message. So honestly i have no freaking idea. I couldnt interact with the server, it showed zero's for all my values (ping, bandwidth, ect.) and everyone elses values, however i could hear movements/players talking, and my character was still able to register being killed. So confusing and so annoying, but i guess that's what alphas about, hopefully getting this fixed soon. To add on to this, i respawned without my flashlight or battery, couldnt do anything again besides run around, thankfully this fixed itself after about 5 mins and i was able to use items and my flashlight and battery appeared in my inventory, however some random kill me like 5 mins after that, i respawned and then i had the same problem with not interacting with the server and was able to do anything, so giving up till this is fixed.

First off, this isn't the real world. Secondly, because of that you don't have all those added benefits of being in the real world. It's harder in game to quickly acknowledge certain characteristics of a person because A.however slow or fast your ping is B.random lag spurts and C.there just isn't enough distinct body characteristics to use on the characters. If you want to use the real world thing, well guess what if i walk up to a someone in the real world that i know and theyre not wearing a mask i can tell i know them because of theyre facial details, their gate(which is how they walk) and so on. Also even if i don't know the person, if i've seen them before i'd know or not. The human brain is very very good with facial recognition. In the game you cannot tell that at all, also a player can just die and change his defaults and then respawn as someone different looking. So don't use the real world thing as a basis for your argument about identification. Something needs to be implemented whether it's name tags on the player or allow a lot more choices for character customization (not items, i'm talking different facial traits, body types, ect.)

Honestly, the quickest to make this game less about KOS is by displaying a characters name above his head when your close/when you zoom in on them. Most people tend to pick a server and then play on the same (or a few of the same) servers and probably end up making contact with a lot of the same people. If player names popped up and you were more responsible for your actions then players would start to learn who is nice and who isn't. Personally if i saw someone who was nice to me in the past theres definately a greater chance of me being nice back and not immediately shooting them, then if its someone that just kos'ed me and i know kills people all the time.