bad_mojo (DayZ)

We don't have the ability to maintain our weapons which we would in real life. A properly maintained AK would not stop working after 700 rounds. Even one that wasn't maintained at all probably wouldn't stop working that quickly. It's just artificial, and too organized, it lacks the randomization of real weapon failures. In real life your weapon could possibly fail after the 3rd round.

I think this needs to be approached from another angle, give us more options for skins/models so that people can visibly recognize each other. 3d markers have no place in DayZ.

I don't like it, too artificial.

Right now there seems to be way too much food in the game. And, your character gets hungry at a very fast rate. I can understand getting thirsty that often, but my in-game character eats better than I do. I suggest drastically reducing the canned food spawn rates. There are a lot of places where food can spawn, so a very low spawn rate would mean rare, but not so rare that you never find any. And there is always the option to hunt animals. Cannibalism would also add another source of food.

It's already easy enough, anything more would comprimise the core idea of DayZ and open up a lot of exploitation.

Half a mile is ~800m. I don't believe you.

I guess i'm part of a minority in this community. :(

I assumed it was for immersion sake. So people would pick the gender they wanted to have, rather than switch it up for the sake of a change. Girls would pick girls, boys would pick boys and the people in between would pick whichever one they wanted. It does suck if you've picked one and aren't happy later. But, we all make mistakes, it's just a game, not real life.

xapped, if a MTF is in the closet, they're going to pick the male character. That's the definition of being in the closet is it not? To appear to others as they expect you to appear.

Holy shit' date=' like you're actually serious with this thread? He warned us because it's supposed to be a big decision. Just like being something other than a persons born gender is a big decision in their life. He didn't want people swapping back and forth on a whim. I think you're reading way to far into this. [/quote'] What is wrong with swapping gender on a whim? It's not a choice the developer should force, it's an individual's choice. What if I decide that I want to be the other gender once. GENDER IS NOT A BIG DECISION IN LIFE THAT YOU CAN'T CHANGE. YOU CAN CHANGE IT, AND YOU SHOULD BE FREE TO CHANGE IT. What is wrong with all you people? I'm ignoring all the hate speech trolls, by the way. You're not going to offend me to boost your e-peen. Cross dressing or gender blending is not changing your gender. We're all free to express ourselves in any way we wish. But gender changing is somewhat final. When you undergo sexual reassignment surgeries, and take hormones/testosterone... you've made your choice. Doctors won't just revert these things on a whim. People don't physically go from one gender to another and then back to the original all the time. This would only really be an issue in my eyes if the avatar system was extremely complex but still didn't support males weaing female clothing or makeup and the other way around. But, the game is nowhere near that level of detail, so just wait. Or suggest this be added. Coming on here posting this thread is not the right way to go about it. Crossdressing is changing your gender. Sex reassignment surgeries are one time things, but Day Z makes it a zero time thing by preventing you from changing it ever. Also, males can't wear female suits and females can't wear male suits, so please know what you're talking about before your speak. Wow, you missed the part where I said "IF THE AVATAR SYSTEM WAS EXTREMELY COMPLEX...." which it is not. There's like 5 pre made models to chose from right now. Rocket isn't preventing the girls from wearing ghillies, it's a game engine thing. If he wants girls to wear ghillie suits, he has to modify a model or create a whole new one. There are more important things at this stage of game development. Also, SRS is a one time thing, and in DayZ you get to pick your gender pre-birth. Something the real world isn't blessed with. So I can't really understand why you would want to change it again.

Holy shit' date=' like you're actually serious with this thread? He warned us because it's supposed to be a big decision. Just like being something other than a persons born gender is a big decision in their life. He didn't want people swapping back and forth on a whim. I think you're reading way to far into this. [/quote'] What is wrong with swapping gender on a whim? It's not a choice the developer should force, it's an individual's choice. What if I decide that I want to be the other gender once. GENDER IS NOT A BIG DECISION IN LIFE THAT YOU CAN'T CHANGE. YOU CAN CHANGE IT, AND YOU SHOULD BE FREE TO CHANGE IT. What is wrong with all you people? I'm ignoring all the hate speech trolls, by the way. You're not going to offend me to boost your e-peen. Cross dressing or gender blending is not changing your gender. We're all free to express ourselves in any way we wish. But gender changing is somewhat final. When you undergo sexual reassignment surgeries, and take hormones/testosterone... you've made your choice. Doctors won't just revert these things on a whim. People don't physically go from one gender to another and then back to the original all the time. This would only really be an issue in my eyes if the avatar system was extremely complex but still didn't support males weaing female clothing or makeup and the other way around. But, the game is nowhere near that level of detail, so just wait. Or suggest this be added. Coming on here posting this thread is not the right way to go about it.

Holy shit, like you're actually serious with this thread? He warned us because it's supposed to be a big decision. Just like being something other than a persons born gender is a big decision in their life. He didn't want people swapping back and forth on a whim. I think you're reading way to far into this.

No wonder Rocket removed the bandit, it too was unclear which gender it was. I'll be the first in line for post apocalyptic sexual reassignment surgery. Who's got a hunting knife and hatchet? I've got the morphine and bandages.

I would rather see a full on MMO style pricing system. Charge us monthly and give us dedicated studio run servers. Integrated high quality communications servers for radios and such. Paid admins. It's not about Rocket making tons of money, but rather building the best MMO our money can buy.

Depends. If the whole "players able to spawn shit as if the game is The Elder Scrolls with console commands" is tied to the actual engine then i'm sure Rocket isn't stupid enough to go with it if he makes a standalone Day Z. Arma2 lets you run scripts because it tries to be a mod friendly game. They want people to do crazy things with the game engine. But, that freedom is a double edged sword when it comes to cheating. I would expect a DayZ standalone to be a little more locked down.

All the loot in the world doesn't matter if I die. You can take your high risk high reward areas, and I'll stick with my safe filler.

More like 10s of stupidity, you just don't know when to give up. It's alpha, outhouses are bugged.

Oh' date=' look. Someone else trying to tell people what the game is supposed to be. How about you play DayZ the way you want and I play it the way you want and you butt the fuck out of my business. Deal? [/quote'] This isn't a thread about telling people how to play. It's about discussing possible game mechanics to further emphasize the apocalypse experience. You can pull a sentence out of my long post and make it sound however the fuck you want. But, I imagine most people will read it in context and understand. Most people...

What an amazingly moronic logic People rage about zombies breaking their legs because in any other version you could sustain a decent amount of hits before actually breaking them In 1.7.1.5 even on full blood a single zombie hit can break them' date=' which makes no sense at all OMG IT'S TOTALLY RELATED TO COOP FUN TIME THEY ARE JUST MAD BECAUSE THEY CAN'T HAVE COOP FUN TIME Oh and good luck trying to get DayZ to actively prevent people from communicating and coordinating Might as well write a virus that shuts down every 3rd party VOIP active on the system....same thing You mean like accidentally pulling the trigger while hovering your crosshair over a known friend that you're currently talking to over Skype? Or maybe throwing a random grenade into the group of people that you were just talking to over Teamspeak We have to prevent those people from playing together after all!!! So does DayZ have mechanics to ACTIVELY support playing with friends? Any squad spawn mechanic that we missed? Map indicators showing you the position of your friends? Compass and map for free at the beginning? Free taxi ride to your friends camp? No? Oh....ok What you're saying makes no bloody sense AT ALL Hey, thanks for the post. I welcome all feedback, no matter how insulting. Yeah, perhaps the broken leg was a bad example, it's just the most talked about bug in the game, so it instantly came to mind. My point was that when a stupid little bug like that kills you, it's more annoying when your tied to a group. You feel like it's your mission to meet up with them again. If they're not playing with their friends, it's the end of the world. If you see other people, avoid or kill them, you've got friends to meet up with. Not really sure where you are going with the accidental click stuff. Seems like an irrelevant rant. Notice I said "almost every game"? It's the lack of those mechanics that made me interested in DayZ. I just wish it worked better. We still have server names and server hopping. LMAO' date=' you are actually believing the crap that you are saying No point in further discussing with someone believing in such a ridiculously retarded idea Move along people, nothing to see here [/quote'] Guess what? Some of us actually speak from the heart and believe what we say! It's crazy I know.

The issue isn't that people are coordinating with friends, which is completely impossible to stop, by the way, it's that finding actual friendly players is impossible due to the game mechanics and high player turnover from server to server, which means coordinating through external means is 1) the best way to survive and 2) the only way to group. Nothing is impossible to stop. But, that's not the discussion here. I don't know how many times I need to stress this.... what happens in the current system cannot be carried over to a hypothetical system that doesn't exist. You say people aren't friendly. That's great, it's true. But, it cannot be assumed that if we removed outside groups form the game, it would remain the same. It might, it might not. Assuming it would is just that, an assumption. I understand what you're saying, it's just irrelevant. Yeah, that's the biggest obstacle to removing these elements. I personally thought that DayZ would more actively prevent me from playing with friends. It's one of the things that drew me towards the mod in the first place.(people on another forum complaining about the lack of squad system) Almost every game on the market today has extensive mechanics built in to support playing with friends, I wanted to try something different. I haven't teamed up with people outside of DayZ so far, and I've really enjoyed it. But I've also been affected by outside groups, despite my stance on them. The community is already too corrupt, everyone is infected.

After getting a knife, axe and matches I usually don't eat the canned food. I just don't trust that crap, I'm sure it's expired. You can't beat some nicely smoked beef jerky. Lasts forever and is healthier. But I'll mix it up with some chicken wings, maybe some rabbit if I'm feeling lazy. I don't like the goat tho, eww.

No, and no to the random stuff unless they fix the respawning exploit. People will just keep clicking that button until they get the "best" load out, making the randomness pointless.