Admiral_69

3:6 is by far the most amusement I have ever had in game... I gotta do that again!

Never played the mod, but the idea of having a server wide text feature when using a walkie talkie is a brilliant idea. It will finally give it a use.

I can understand bugs and errors (e.g. harder zombies), but what I cannot for the life of me understand is why the devs added "free-to-play" features like unnecessary timers! Sorry I am really angry because I have already wasted 30 minutes of my time just trying to play this game. Typically sequence of events: Join a low ping server - realize it is hard core and quit. Join a low ping non-hardcore server - realize it is night and quit (... because I cant seem to remember that the sun is set at 1700 - 5pm in Chenarus) Join a low ping non-hardcore server during daylight hours - wait ten minutes - Get kick or a CTD because I ran out of memory by leaving Chrome open Join a low ping non-hardcore server during daylight hours after closing Chrome - wait 10 minutes Come on forms and rant.

Sorry folks, but this doesn't actually matter to loot hoppers. It is still way more efficient to loot hop in the NWAF. Ghosters... I can't comment as most battles are over too quickly. But server hoppers are severely punished by this. These are the people who are punished. People that are trying to join their friends, stop playing in the dark, kicked by admin, crash to desktop, server restart, etc.

Yes and no. I have ~100 hours in the game... but I am now kinda bored of the game... So I got my moneys worth, but I dont know if there will be anyone left to play / buy the finished product.

Yes, I agree in principle. BUT, by the time you make it to Cherno, you are already fully geared. And... survivability is over rated. All you need to do to have an immortal character is not log in.

Just thought you folks would want to know that you can now zoom in while looking down iron sights. Sorry I dont have any pictures. It is late and I dont have the time to figure out how to take/post screenshots.

Well, I think it is better than it used to be... I didnt really have any way to measure it (and I only had a damaged one)

As a newish player, I have actually never been to Cherno, and rarely to Elektro. Why throw away your time by running for 30 minutes just to die. ZINO for the win.

Hi folks, sorry I wasn't able to post screens last night , and I won't be able to today either... BUT the zoom is also fixed on the PU scope. (found one, tested it last night... And then the baby woke up. It still has a fixed zoom. I couldn't find any of the M4 sights to test them last night. FYI to join an experimental server : Opt into the beta in the steam game properties. Change your server filters : ping 0 and battleye No Then the servers should appear.

Honestly, they need to set the hive as a server filter criteria.

Honestly, I just really hate the current spawns.

I died of starvation in my first playthrough. It took, at most, 2 hours. I was brand new to dayz and did know jack. Note you didn't start hungry back then. I also starved on the high pop experimental servers. Started near the large fuel tank South of Berezino. Everything was almost completely looted. Didn't make it much past the north of Berezino (searching desperately for overlooked food, found a can, but no way to open it). And thank you for that last line. The point I am trying to make is hunting will not work for a new spawn. If food is too hard to find you will starve to death while looking for the tools to hunt. If you find enough food in the city to survive, why spend time hunting... Finally, if hunting is too hard, why not server hop for food.

Well a can of beans is about 330 calories ... How many cans are needed to make you full? Even if we are not eating enough, it takes a hell of a long time to starve to death. Unlike the few hours in this game. So it is likely that the hunting in the game is relatively easy. Biggest challenges to making hunting important/relevant : 1- Small Game: you need time to catch small game if using snares. Time that you don't have based on the current hunger mechanism. And why bother taking the time setting snares when you can collect food in cities. 2- Big game: you need a gun. If you have spent enough time in cities to find a gun, you have plenty of food. If you change the hunger mechanic so you have longer to eat, so much so that you can find guns and ammo in the city, what is the point of hunting. Please understand that I am thrilled that they are adding hunting to the game. I just don't see how they can make it relevant without making it gamey or destroying the enjoyability of the game.

Well, the problem with making it realistic is you will starve to death long before you ever see an animal... I mean wtf, a human can go weeks without food IRL, but in this game you can starve in a couple of hours. Also, the availability of game would be dependent on zombie activity. Are they actively eating the animals? How long has it been since everything started? Once human pressures are removed animals breed like crazy.

What I want from the crossbow is quite simple. Poisoned bolts, or at the very least let me soil the bolt before I shoot it into you. There is very little you can do about feces in a deep tissue wound.

Personally, I only want chainsaws once I can attach them to the trained attack dogs. Boom, your legs are broken. Also,I would like craft work gloves with kitchen knives to make freddy Krueger gloves. I

+1

I don't think the doors will be openable as that, I think, will require rework of the buildings already placed. I agree that all doors should be openable. Maybe you need a fire axe to get in.

Hi folks, Does anyone know how to report a server for kicking players? I was just kicked by an admin on a server (2/30) and I would like to report them to the appropriate host. (Thankfully, they had a unique name) Thanks in advance!

I was able to talk while dead this patch, so I think it is still in.

So when I first started playing. This came was awesome, everything was new and scary. Boom, someone shoot over your head and tells you to drop on the ground. So you drop to the ground think OMFG, what is going on. They take your blood and let you go. You explore the map, and find more guns, food and ammo than you will ever need. You get your first loaded gun, and thinking you are OP waltz into Electro. Heart pounding you see a player running and blast through your 60 round M4 clip shooting from the hip. You miss all the shots. Then you are dead. You hold up your first person, a freshie, heart thudding in your chest. You panic and blow their head off. You are armed and stalking another armed player. He sees you and starts shooting. Heart pounding, you take your time to line up your shot, and you win!!! You go to celebrate your victory by looting their body. You are dead. Battles go by, you win some and you lose some... After a time, you discover where people like to camp other players, and you start camping there too... But you have lost the fear, the adrenaline, the exhileration of the confrontation... Now there is only emptyness... TL:DR - How do you keep the "feeling" of DayZ alive? How do you keep the fear / thrill of combat?

So from the sounds of it, there are two options: 1 - be friendly-ish, and see what happens, for good or ill. (Probably better to team up as freshies) 2 - actually take the time to hunt people, as opposed to the "fishing" approach. I did enjoy my last rampage, as I limited my starting material to an FNX pistol, two mags, and 30 extra bullets. That was a challenge. I don't really consider "surviving" to be a challenge, as all I need to do is _not_ log in to survive. That is why I still have a 2 month old hardcore character (didn't want to risk losing my LRS...) How much did group play alter the balance in the Mod? I doubt I am a good match for a clan, as I have very sporadic availability. Does that even matter?

Does it make more sense to play Arma? I assume the mechanics are similar to DayZ, with the exception that ammo is much more abundant. (Is Arma just a BF / CoD product? Those games have their place, but I don't have the time for them)

I demand the addition of Fanny Packs and Purses. How am I supposed to look like a tourist without my fanny pack?