bad_mojo (DayZ)

Hatchet. You need to stop causing bodily harm to any uninfeced humans. It gives a bad name to the hero skin. Just run or take the death, no reason to sink to the bandits level and start killing people.

I'm not sure which game you're playing, but I've teamed up with random people more often than not. And I haven't been on a side chat enabled server since it was removed. I find if people would just have the balls to approach someone and communicate they would be surprised how many folks respond positively.

Wouldn't that also effect the direct chat? Edit: damn ninjas

I assumed he was talking about the people who use side chat to find or lure victims to their death.

6 or 7 times you've died like this? Why are you letting yourself get hit by zombies? Try this... play your next life with no weapons, none. You'll become much better at avoiding and losing zombies. Try to fully gear up with 0 zombie kills. Carry a weapon for protection against players if you need to. Just remember, loot is cheap, your life isn't. That can of beans will still be there after you run around the block and lose the zombies. Basically, if your game includes getting hit by zombies, you're doing it wrong. Accidents will happen, but 6 or 7 deaths are not accidents.

Jesus, there's a lot of Jesus in this thread.

I don't like it because it's not authentic. You shouldn't be able to ask who is shooting at you. Bullhorns & radios are needed, but the apocalypse chat room just ruins the game in my opinion.

It's extremely difficult to find any servers with these settings that are always populated. Sure, there're thousands of servers with lots of settings, but 90% of the 30+ player servers are the "worst" settings.

So what is your favorite channel on youtube for DayZ videos? I've been trying to find good DayZ videos lately but all I find is crappy ones with boring narration. My favorite is an older one, but good one... Chkilroy He also has a lot of great Arma2 videos.What's your favorite DayZ youtube channel? (please no self promoting, make another thread for that)

Looks like a hacker set that up for when he gets banned.

Hundreds of thousands? Seems about right, and with ~80k player in the last 24hrs, that's at least 1 cheater for every player. EVERYBODY CHEATS!! Oh shit!

How are they the "only answer" when they have more hackers than regular hive servers?

2000 bans just means the hackers need to find a new cd key. They're just encouragement to stop hacking. They could ban every person that ever ran a script, and the next day most of them would have new cd keys and be teleporting everyone again. Still, I'm glad they ban the hackers, make those fuckers pay and get more money for the developer. I'm just not foolish enough to think any amount of bans will protect me or change the situation in this mod.

I'm going to start posting tutorial type videos on my youtube channel. Suggestions welcome. First one is simple, losing zombies in the bushes. I know it's pretty obvious, but I've met people who didn't know(or think) something that simple would work. Hope it helps a few people at least.

I like to get the trust issues out of the way as soon as possible. I offer them my weapon or any of my gear upon meeting. It doesn't always work, but the majority of the people I've done this with have been friendly.

I see you miss the point of having poll threads on forums. It's not to look at some numbers and decide which is the superior choice. The point is to have a discussion about the question that the poll asks. The side of the debate with less votes doesn't automatically get dismissed because it has less votes. This is a poll, not a referendum. I said people will corrupt this thread(discussion) with their justifications. Rather than address the actual debate about 3rd person being unrealistic, people resort to things like saying "IT'S JUST A GAME" and "you have your option to play 3rd person only servers". My whole point is that people justify having 3rd person view, so doesn't that mean we can mostly agree it's unrealistic? Should DayZ be what people want? or should DayZ be what people need? I mean, I personally hate 3rd person view being in a game like DayZ. But, I still use the fuck out of the feature. What I need is a game that doesn't allow me to exploit the fact that it's a video game. You guys take these debates too personal. I'm not trying to enforce my way of playing on anyone, I'm trying to give my opinion of how the game should be changed. I'll suggest shit for DayZ to become more "hardcore ultra-realistic", even if it goes against the way I currently play.

Someone runs up with a train of 20 zombies, you throw a smoke and all the zombies go for that instead of you two. Yeah... pointless.

That's actually the first good idea I've heard concerning illegitimate items. Perhaps they could even go one further and replace it with a legitimate item. So if you have a AS50 TWS it gets replaced with the regular AS50 and notifies you with text on your screen.

So...? This isn't Arma2, this is the DayZ mod. Not to mention, other mods for Arma2 have removed third person view. So...

You make my point beautifully. You think because there are servers that offer first person only, there should be no discussion about the unrealistic nature of the third person view. Play it how you want... brah. I just want to see the game changed to reflect what I(and others) believe is realism.

I guess the OP wants to go around and educate every dayz player about which guns are legit and which aren't?

This whole thread will be corrupted by the people who can't handle giving up their precious third person view. Any discussion about realism or simulation goes out the window because they get their jimmies rustled every time someone suggests removing 3rd person view. They'll complain about field of view, situational awareness, and anything else that will make it look like they actually care about hardcore realism, when in actuality they're just doing anything in their power to protect their way of playing DayZ. I wish they'd just admit it was unrealistic, but they prefer it that way, rather than trying to win these arguments and save face. /rant I started a thread a while back about helping people use first person better, it led to a lot of 3rd person discussion. If anyone wants to check it out... http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/74438-people-who-play-3rd-person/

2. When you have no weapons it toggles it.

I always thought the DayZ system would apply itself well to an insurgency simulation. The zombies could be replaced by conventional military forces, while the players would make up the insurgents.

After he didn't shoot you instantly, you should have put your arms down and moved around a bit. You looked like you were waiting to be executed.