PhillyT

There really isn't a difference. They may start as infected, but they are dead. The kind of decay and trauma shown in movies, TV shows, and other media make it pretty apparent that they cannot be living things.

I love me some Grimey, but Rockstar never said GTA IV was terrible, nor was it. It was a really fun game!

I have played several beta weekends too. IF you like Elder Scrolls, you will love the game. It has more than enough content for you to bury 400 + hours in it without much trouble. I am an Elder Scrolls fiend. I have 500 + hours in Morrowind, 1000 in Skyrim, etc. I have been playing since 1994 with Arena. Heck, I even played Redguard and Battlespire! ESO won't be as good as those games, but it feels like an Elder Scrolls game and I really enjoyed the betas. So I can't wait for the full version (the weekend betas are three generations behind the actual betas by the way I have a friend on the actual beta).

Hey, let me say, I have gotten every single cent out of this game. I adore it. This is not some kind of whine fest. It is more of a realization that as I sit here, on a snow day (6th grade teacher in Maine with almost 18" of snow on the ground) I have no desire to go in the other room and play Dayz. That bothered me a little and made me want to share a little because I am sure plenty of other people feel somewhat similar. I am not so much referring to my own experience as what I am observing with my friends. They are moving away and in many cases, don't for see a reason to ever really return. I am concerned that by not offering even a carrot in the form of an update now and then, they risk ruining the potential long term success of this game. I don't want to play experimental. Not enough servers. But there have been patches with over a month of testing that could get kicked down the line. Heck, add some guns every so often, it isn't like they result in strange glitches or bugs. A new gun or two alone can lead to another two weeks or so of play. The developers need to be aware that ignoring the extreme majority of their buyers can lead to apathy, which is difficult to overcome or erase.

If the AKM is coming, not having AK74 will be fine.

Zeleno is on the Path of the Warrior. I have had some great gun fights there. Two baracks, a jail, and a piano building, plus a shopping center make it a nice spot. Moving north to Green Mountain, then the base in Vybor is a strong regearing journey.

So wait a second, not shooting on sight limits the social interaction? Huh?

Jesus people, lets break this down: 1. .22 are about the weakest round there is. 2. People die from .22 wounds. 3. We are referring to a game where a .308 round doesn't kill with one shot to center mass. 4. Multiple 5.56 rounds are required to get a kill. 5. Complaining about the effectiveness of a garbage round in a game where actual sniper and military rounds don't get a one hit kill on a healthy human is the part of this whole thing that is absurd.

I am a Berezino hunter. I move through the area near the hospital, hitting the cafe's and the taverns around there. I then move to the various piano uildings and the school in town. Most of the time you can get an SKS, shotgun, M4, or a Mosin at the very least. I hit the construction site, then run to the inland construction site and Polana. By then, I am generally fairly well geared (though no military gear unless I got a rare M4).

The statement regarding "kills more people than any other round" is a classic case of correlation=/=causation. .22 kill more people only because they are the most common round in firearms by a wide margin. Additionally, the claim that .22 will bounce off bone etc. isn't a trait unique to the .22. When reading about .22 lethality, most of the time the danger is played up because some people almost treat .22 as toys. They aren't. They can kill. But their lethality is the very bottom of the rifle barrel. Headshots might be a point. though again, we have reams of data showing people who survive head shots, some at or above .44 magnum caliber. In terms of game usability though, the .22 should be a one shot kill to the head purely for game mechanics. In a game where you can be shot two or three times center mass with a .308 before going down, it should take a dozen .22 shots to do the same.

When you find any other long arm (other than the Blazer really) saw it off. Sawed offs are the best pack gun in the game.

Come to Maine son! We don't have those Massachusetts laws! I would generally prefer to have the caliber capable of killing with a body shot rather than needing to try for the head.

Into his fat little body. I swapped to a 22-250. Why would you bother trying to hunt a coyote with a .22? I wouldn't even try with anything but a .223 or higher. A .22 seems a bit inhumane! Regardless, .22 are barely real guns. Don't be surprised it is terrible.

People posting videos of .22 or claiming it should be a deadly weapon need to actually own one and shoot living things with it. I have dumped 6 .22 thunderbolts into a woodchuck only to have it still waddle its ass around. I felt fucking terrible and never used my .22 for anything but cans again. .22, even higher charge rounds, are so pathetically weak that they can be surpassed by some air compression pellet guns in terms of efficiency. They are very fun. I would rather stab someone with a spear than try to shoot them to death with one. 9mm are notoriously bad as single or double shot weapons, why would you assume a .22 would be anything but an extremely weak weapon? Is this a European thing? No disrespect at all, but is this a situation where unfamiliarity leads to the assumption that all guns should be lethal as head wounds?

I think he does, and unlike many, he isn't coming into this in a whinefest. It is a hair disappointing that they have had multiple experimental patches and nothing has gone to stable in ages. If things work in exp, bump to stable. The pace of updates has resulted in most of my friends quiting the game.

I am enjoying the game so much still. But I am getting a little bit tired of seeing all the patches running through experimental while stable sits. I initially liked the process of cycling from exp to stable, but now we are sort of stuck with this system of stable sort of languishing while the exp servers are having all the new stuff. If more exp servers were available, that would be one thing, but with the limits in place it makes it a tough wait.

Ah okay. Hey, I would love to see the experimental/stable process work a little better (as in, test on experimental, push to stable before testing next phase) but it is what it is I guess.

Is this about the experimental patch or the stable? Excuse my ignorance, but is there any word on the next stable patch?

I'm not sure about the M4 being a one hitter, but the Ruger could be a cool side gun. I have shot the charger quite a bit, but really can't say I have fired a 10/22!

Compared to an M4 or AK? Essentially useless. IT was a bizarre addition from both a game perspective and a real one. How many 10/22 are laying around Russia?

Oh goodie, another .22 "weapon" for us. I guess it makes sense since they added a .22 rifle, they may as well throw in a pistol, but where the heck is the AK47?

The mouse acceleration would give you such motion sickness you would vomit on your high prices Virtual Boy.

Shit, if not being able to equip a weapon is a hack, then the zombies who are near me as I frantically pound the hot keys to pull ANYTHING to kill them need to be banned on the next round by Battleye.

Pretty odd. Certainly sounds like a desync issue since yeah, two barrels of buckshot, even when you take into account the randomness, will kill most anyone at 10M or less.

I think it is quite obvious who is the immature one in this. When was the last time someone came on legitimately asking for 1PP to be removed from the game? Get over it. It is a silly argument framed as some sort of two tier system of elite versus rookie (which isn't in anyway accurate). That anyone would point to Dean's play style and comments for support is laughable.