bad_mojo (DayZ)

Next time, why not post the details on the forums here and sit back and watch the chaos. I just can't see the fun in your story. You even had to post about it here in hopes of getting some reaction out the owners. Guess what....nobody cares, gear is worthless.

I'm just curious, how did you get inside the compound? I assume you were the one who shot me (unarmed female) in the back beside the stairs on the ground floor. Did you enter through the front gate?

What I did was start up Arma OA and went into the single player editor and just added soldiers with the gun I wanted and set control to player. It might take some trial and error to get the right weapon, but then you can even add other units at whatever distance and then you have moving targets that shoot back. Don't be intimidated by the editor, it's not very complicated if you just want to do simple stuff.

That was some fun dayz. I participated as a peaceful colonist. Arriving with an m4 with flashlight I found on the way. Greeted at the door by the guy who I had shot dead in defense the day before. I put my weapon in the tent as instructed. Ran into the "survivor lounge" and no sooner could i pig out on the tent full of foodstuffs then I was instructed to hit the deck, we're under attack. This lasted all night. A couple times we could get up and talk to the guards and other survivors. I handed out some ghillie suits I found last night. The server did restart a few couple times, but I was always right back on there with my flashlight and nvgs to watch the chaos. Eventually the everlasting drone of flies from a dead guard drove me to venture out of my safe haven. I checked out the body, tried to sink it into the ground. Then turn to go back to the lounge and was shot in the back. That's why I love dayz, my carelessness of going outside the lounge was instantly punished. Then I spawned, right on the coast near the colony. And ran back, but as soon as I reached the compound and started walking I was gunned down. Not going to be discouraged I respawned way down south and set off in that direction, I saw a barn along the way and stopped to loot, flashing my light all around I was was greeted by TheGrapist18 over voice chat. He couldn't hear me, but I typed back until he got banned. So I kept going north and somehow stumbled onto a nice white pickup with tons of ammo and a few supplies. Attempting to drive that back was a bit of a challenge. Somehow I ended up back at the coast near elecktro, so I kept going north and saw a survivor, I honked, and stopped, but he said he was waiting for someone, so I kept going north. Saw yet another person, and then a big truck. We all stopped and the person (pedro) jumped into my truck and we followed the truck back to pickup the first guy. The truck kept going to pickup more people and I turned the truck back north, we drove up to a sign to get our bearings and I started to get the graphical glitch so pedro jumped into the drivers seat and drove us the rest of the way...eventually. We had to bash our way into the barbwire fortress with the truck. And there was only one guard who had retaken the colony. So worried for my safety against zombies which spawn all around the compound, and were previously handled by the guards, I grabbed my m4 out of the tent and took up position in the lounge. I wasn't about to shoot anyone who came through the door, but if I had to defend myself I could have. Eventually the lone guard reported 5 guys inbound, I hear a truck, then another vehicle. Then a lot of gunfire, then silence. The server restarted and when I logged back on I could only find pedro. He had his double barreled shotty and was running around killing zeds. I see another female character run by and start to freak out a bit, but it turned out to be a hopeful colonist. Asking if I was security. I pick off a couple zeds out back because I hear pedro upstairs with what sounds like a hoard, then I hear it, SNAP, oh shit I think, pedros down, he'll need a bandage, at least I can offer that. So i start picking off zeds on the way up the stairs, not knowing exactly where he was, the unarmed colonist right behind me. We ended up missing each other and he was back in the lounge. But I had sustained an injury from a zombie, I looked at my inventory in horror seeing I only had 1 bandage. Pedro said he needed morphine, at least he'll live with a broken leg. So I use the bandage thinking our situation is hopeless. When I get back, pedro is spewing blood and asking for a bandage :( He screams over chat "DON'T GO OUTSIDE!" as I run out the front door in full sprint towards the tents, check them, no morphine, no bandages. Cursing my reckless decision I turned and started to run back but just couldn't help looking towards the source of those cracks, and then I'm dead. That was some of the most fun I've had in DayZ and you could sum it up by.. I walked a lot, drove a bit, sat around the colony unarmed, and died 3 times. Never once firing my gun at another uninfected human, and never shying away from them either. I won't comment on the hacks/bans/restarts. Since I had no clue what was going on most of the time. Every time an armed guard came into the room, I expected my life to end. No tags, no kill message. So much uncertainty.

I like the story, but I do have to point out that you could have looted his morphine if you killed him. So, therefore no more broken legs. Not that I am suggesting you should have killed him or that I would ever do that myself, just couldn't help but see that fault in your post. Tip of my hat to both of you, I hope to run into more people like you.

This game should never "punish" bandits.....or anyone.

Would be pretty neat to have a "naked" skin in boxers(or bra/panties for the ladies) that gets applied to the dead body after taking their clothes. It would be scary to see a bunch of bodies stripped of their clothing. Then all we need is cannibalism and mangled corpses.

If you came to DayZ not to get killed around the spawn points, then this game is not for you. I'd suggest a game that suits you better, but fuck if I know any crappy games like that. DayZ is about survival, if you can't survive the spawn area, don't bitch about bandits, learn to survive.

I would like the option to wear some obviously non-threatening clothing. So when a player sees me, he knows I'm peaceful and don't want any trouble. The camo clothes and ghillie suit both make players look more threatening, and keeping the default skin does nothing. What I was thinking, was maybe a hunters outfit, with bright orange hat and vest like this.... http://www.dnr.state.il.us/lands/landmgt/programs/controlled_hunt/images/Hunters_sm.jpg Giving the clothing non-camo aspects like the bright colors might be enough to discourage hostile players from wearing the "peaceful" clothing. Of course there will always be those tricksters who act innocent and then pull a gun on you. I don't expect this clothing to be immunity, I just expect people to look at me and think twice about killing me. There is just no way for a person to appear peaceful right now, only your actions can show your intent, which causes a lot of killing on site.

I like it, the loot spawns differently depending on the players humanity. But, I wouldn't want to see it go any further than just clothing. Nobody should be punished for their humanity level. For example, I could see people suggesting bandits get more/less weapons & ammo. Actually I would suggest the chance of this clothing spawning be 0% for bandits. That way the peaceful players wouldn't be spawning ONLY peaceful clothing, yet bandits would likely never spawn it.

I would like to see "lonewolf only" servers. Servers that make it impossible to group up with outside friends. Not because I'm scared of groups or have no friends, but because it would create a place for people who think that DayZ should be played alone and that teams should only be created inside the game world.

My scout leader always said a trade is fair if both parties leave happy. If you want the NVGs and have something to spare, go for it.

Why? When you watch movies like "The Road" and see people in that apocalypse, it's pretty obvious. Of course looks can be deceiving, and I'm not suggesting you lose your clothing when you commit murder, I just want the ability to chose my appearance. I would rather look less threatening. For fucks sake the camo and ghillie make you look more threatening, are you suggesting those be removed? Make us all PMC clones?

Salute, leaning & surrender are great, when you know someone is looking at you. When you're running through a field, nobody knows you from the bandit that killed them previously. I know bandits will kill you no matter what you're wearing, that's not the point. The point is if a "carebare" ran in front of me with an orange vest on, I would make an effort to talk to him. Instead of being paranoid and avoiding him. Also, some players resort to killing on site because they fear the consequences of not killing someone they see, perhaps if they saw his orange vest they wouldn't be so quick to pull the trigger. If a bandit wanted to run around in orange clothing and kill people, he will be seen and killed quicker than if he was in a ghillie suit. So I don't think there would be much of that going on, since most bandits do everything in their power not to die.

I posted a thread about possibly being killed by a hacker, guess what happened? The guy I assumed was a hacker turned out to be the admin of the server and we ended up tracking down the real hacker and banning him. But, I do agree with there being too many hacker threads. I had a legit report, I wasn't just being a sore loser.

Wearing this clothing should be a choice you make, not imposed on anyone without a weapon. I don't think you guys are understanding what I'm suggesting here. I'm a player who doesn't care about dying. I'm not stupidly careless, I like the survival aspect, I just don't care if people see me or murder me. People doing that improves my experience. I'm cautious around strangers, some people are crazy, but I don't make an effort to hide myself when nobody is around. So what happens is people spot me, and I just look like anyone else in civilian clothing. They have no clue of my intentions, they have no clue of my friendly attitude. So they assume the worst and act accordingly. If I was wearing a bright orange vest they would have a clue to my intentions, they might let me pass or even befriend me. It gives people a reason to not kill me

Yeah maybe 1000 more threads about hacking and Rocket might realize it's a problem. Or you could just open your fucking eyes and stop spamming the forum?

His post was on topic and had a point. You yourself just reinforced the OP's point tho, flaming his post because you might have a different opinion. Tisk Tisk.

I got that message last night.

I just hate how the alt-f4 epidemic severely limits the interaction between players. It turns it into your run of the mill shooter with kill or be killed being the only course of action. The videos I've seen of people being mugged or held hostage and forced to fight to the death are epic. Sadly, that helplessness just isn't there when you can tap out at any time.

First off, this is not a complaint about hacking/cheating/scripting. I simply want to know if I was a victim of cheating, or was I legit killed by Harrys friend. Story time.... I haven't played in over a week, so I haven't been witness to all the hacking stuff that's going on, but I follow the forums so I'm not completely in the dark about it. Anyway, I was running north'ish of Berezino in a forest, I couldn't tell you an exact position, I was just running in a random direction because I was bored. There were less than 10 people on the server, it was expert difficulty, I believe US 1040. So anyway, running along in the forest in the middle of the night with my NVGs, and all of a sudden I hear a burst of automatic gunfire right next to me. I was beside to a large rock formation so I kept jogging and put that between me and the shooter, and then waited with my sights up, he came around the rocks and we exchanged some rounds, he died, I had broken leg, very low blood, and all that good stuff. I didn't notice a kill message, so I put some more into him for good measure even though I heard the flies after he fell. Patched up my wound, shot up some morphine and then ate a couple steaks to regain a little blood, since I was in the in danger of passing out. So, then I walked over to his corpse hoping he would have some food, inspected the body, "Harry" was his name, but before I could even look through all his stuff, shots right behind me, maybe a few feet away, I quickly closed the menu and tried to turn but it was too late and I was dead on the ground. I wasn't upset, or mad, I was actually kind of relieved that I could now start all over and have fun finding stuff again. And I was still pumping with adrenaline from the encounter. All in all I enjoyed the death. When I respawned and ran to a barn that was right in front of me, I started hearing strange noises, sounded like a crossbow or something, maybe a distant gunshot, but then I started hearing footsteps really close. I looked around, called out over direct chat, and couldn't help but notice some bear traps outside the building I was in. I didn't think much of it, I came in another door so I figured I lucked out not stepping on them. Then more footsteps, all around, like someone was running circles around the building, so I moved to another door and saw even more bear traps, I looked at a couple and they seemed to be opening and closing on their own. And by that time there was a LOT of them, spammed all around the building. And then someone on direct says "I see youuuuuuu" I just laugh and tell him to look out for the bear traps, then ask if he was the one I just killed, no answer, more footsteps, so I just disconnected and found another server. First thing that makes me suspect foul play was the fact that I was engaged point blank in the middle of a forest by two people, one with the same weapon I was carrying, on a server with hardly anyone playing. Second thing, no kill message. Third, no murder or bandit kill in my debug. Fourth, no footsteps, just gunshots when I died. If Harry had a friend sitting next to us during the firefight, why did he wait about a minute after harry died before engaging me? Fifth, on a server with less than 10 people, I was obviously trolled by a hacker minutes after spawning. It seems like I killed the hacker, and he was pissed off so he teleported back to me and finished me off. Then, unhappy with just that, he teleported to me and tried to get my to step on bear traps. What do you guys think? I just want to educate myself so I can avoid situations like this in the future. If I wasn't so pumped with adrenaline I might have just aborted when I saw no kill or kill message, because thinking back, that was a huge red flag. Here's a pic of Harry after I killed him http://i47.tinypic.com/2crplxt.jpg

Pic of traps (looked like that all around the building) http://i49.tinypic.com/2h693qf.jpg Pic of names when I aborted http://i50.tinypic.com/9iuz2s.jpg

Ha! Nice, I was on day 20. I recorded a bit of video after seeing the bear traps. The player list was as follows... badmojo pegz wesley solomon fungy JacksonGleeman Harry So if you had 4 friends with you, that leaves 1 other person. I can post the video or send you some screens if you need to see the traps.

Thanks for the reply. And I wasn't aware that you could turn off the kill messages, I will certainly be back to your server, since that's one of the suggestions in my signature :D Sorry for questioning your honor, I wouldn't have even thought twice about it, until I saw all those bear traps shortly after. Enjoy my gear.

We need guns....lots of guns.