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Once he pulled the gun, that was it. Ammo or not, you had no way of knowing.

Well the zombies in DayZ are sort of slow, but can be marginally fast too. I am not a fan of creating an artificial setting for the sake of "challenge." I think if there are enough zombies in towns and cities, and they are able to go up stairs and not glitch through floors and walls, that will create enough of a challenge to be fun. If you need to be aware of zombies while searching a town, cautious not to get cornered in a house without a weapon, it will add to the tension and the PVP/Player interaction.

I want to see server bound characters too. I think that would solve a lot of issues, although maybe a hub setup where the same character can be used across a handful of servers (to avoid not being able to play due to servers being full).

Thank you for the clarification. At the same time, someone curious about the potential for a new patch shouldn't be publicly beaten up. I get that seeing the same comments about KOS, 3PP, and why SA is terrible get old for people with 1000+ posts, but it isn't exactly conducive to a friendly environment to beat up folks with legitimate questions.

They shouldn't be able to ever. 28 Days Later was a cool film, but no zombie should be able to move like a human. Granted, you need to have something to make zombies a threat, but limited ammunition and pure numbers should be enough to do that. The shuffling run they do now is enough to make it an issue.

A: I killed three new spawn when they were trying to punch me in the face. B: I KOS when I am afraid the other heavily armed guy is not moving in a friendly manner. I rarely do it, but I do when I am nervous or cornered. C: If you mean server jumping, yes. I don't exploit it, but if I am logging on, I will go get what gear there is, play in that area for a while and log off. I rarely have time to play more than 45 minutes at a time lately. I will then log in later that night and do it again. I am currently in Zelenegorsk and hit Green Mountain and the Jail and Barracks in town each time I log in. D: I don't know what glitching is exactly. I have never intentionally exploited the game. E: I combat logged when I was surrounded by 5 armed players. They started trying to handcuff me and I just couldn't bear the thought of trying to rehear so soon after my character had been wiped. I was a new player and had only just gotten equipped. We can't all be paragons apparently.

Right and this one is 32.114645.

I have found several in Zelenagorsk, in those little 3 bay garages. They are fairly common. Never really shot one with it attached to the M4.

I was new and I enjoyed it!

I combat logged once. I just find you and your high horse entertaining.

"Pathetic level of exploit abuse" That sounds like judging actually.

I meet nice people all the time. But more than a couple times I bet people have felt I was the KOS scum. I started a gun fight in Zelenogorsk and died. When I respawned, I met four guys who helped me get back. The guys I opened fire on out in Zelenogorsk didn't shoot first. My buddy and I surprised them and they surprised us. Instinct dictated we shoot. I think that actually adds to the game. It is amazing and real. Four armed me in the middle of nowhere. Can you trust the other guys? Maybe not. In this case, we were the ones who were the assholes. My buddy finished them off, but in hindsight, we both had some guilt and regrets. But I would say about half the people I met are friendly enough. I keep my guns trained on them most of the time and I rarely arm anyone with a gun unless we have friends nearby who can finish them off and allow me to get my gear back.

I have done all of those, you are right!

Jesus man, it is an alpha. You bought into an alpha. Have you ever been part of an alpha? You know, finished games, if complicated, result in patches causing some additional bugs. This game is only a fraction complete (disregard how finished the game looks when played) so patches are stapling in large amounts of new content, trying to fix existing bugs, and minimizing new ones. The entire alpha process will be a series of steps and missteps. two steps forward and one step back. It sucks, but in the end I think things will be great!

PEople really do love to bitch about virtually irrelevant issues don't they?

There is tons of loot still. One thing my buddies and I were noticing, some servers still seem glitchy. There are servers spawning with almost nothing in them after a restart. Might be what some people are complaining about.

Carry on. Or don't, but be chill baby! It will all be fine.

I am going to assume that 4 - 5 hits means shot from the buckshot. I killed a player with one shot at thirty feet. I killed another with two shots at 100. Not sure what everyone else is getting, just my experience. I will say the shot gun is my least favorite weapon.

I just died in zelenigorsk. My buddy and I ran into two people out in the open behind the grocery store. We shot first because he had no cover to get to. It was instinct and unfortunate. Under gun fire, I managed to get into the back room where one of them and myself gunned each other. I bleed him bad but miscommunication led me to assume he went out the back door and I stepped out into his sights. My buddy killed them and I got my gun back when I re spawned and I met four really nice clan guys in solytchniya. They gave me a spite, a compass, and a full canteen. I legged it back to zelgnigorsk. I brought the exchange on myself by kos, though I think it was the safe thing to do. I rarely shoot first, but two geared guys coming rom bolata are not to be ignored. We had nowhere to go.

People need to fucking get over the 3pp and any assumptions about Dean's opinion.

Add me. Steam name same as here.

I love that nervous moment where you risk exposure. Honestly, it is why I play DayZ, the interaction. I can mow people down all day on a dozen other games, with DayZ, you get to survive AND meet people who MAY not decide to empty a magazine at you!

How to stop KOS? Don't KOS. There, you have helped become part of the solution. Now go forth and survive the apocalypse.

I have killed some nice people because they surprised me and scared the crap out of me. It is just instinct and to be honest, I am okay with that! I really play as a nice guy. I don't bandit. But I am not about to risk a close encounter in a confined space!

Fire arms sounds and volume are completely off in this game. You should be able to hear a gunshot from any of the guns in the game from one end of Berezino to the other without trouble. Might be a balancing thing, but hopefully they increase gun volume.