bad_mojo (DayZ)

No. Just no.

The problem with raw input isn't so apparent right now, but if they added for example a large .50 cal sniper rifle, or something like an m240b light machine gun, I wouldn't want to be able to swing that thing around ready to fire with the slightest twitch. There should be some advantage to clearing close quarters with a close quarters weapon. With 1:1 raw input, everything moves the same, physics are ignored.

Not that I complain about being killed at military spawns, but those guns & equipment are useful against the flesh eating monsters that used to be our friends and family. Just cause I'm at NWAF with an M4 in my hands doesn't mean I want to kill you.

Isn't that the whole point of starting without a map?

I actually avoid reading too much of these forums after updates, it spoils the fun of figuring things out on your own. Wouldn't want to cheat myself out of some fun.

No choice? I've never server hopped and I've never had problems finding loot. I only ever play on high population servers. But then again, I don't get discouraged when I visit one military base and don't find an M4. It just gives me more reason to keep pushing on to the next military base.

Not really, that's a coat, this is a vest. But, yeah, I already wear the orange raincoat.

Bitches use glitches.

Why not? I've met a ton of great people in DayZ. Some of them I've added on steam, some I wish I had of added before it was too late, but they will be remembered. After the masses flooded into dayz mod a few months in, I tried the whole teamspeak meta-gaming stuff, but I quickly got bored of the endless running to meet up anytime someone died, listening to people playing in another area, switching between multiple channels, people constantly bitching about hacking or the admins. I would usually end up muting my teamspeak until I was physically beside another player in the game, sometimes that even got me killed, if I don't respond in teamspeak, I must be enemy. Eventually I just fell back into my old habits of total immersion into the game and I've never looked back. I don't like when people say not using teamspeak is anti-social. If anything playing DayZ only in direct puts more emphasis on the social game because you're basically in an interview every time you meet someone. You can't exactly hide from someone in a teamspeak server, but I've actually ditched people in DayZ before. Or there have been times where I've flat out told someone I don't feel like teaming up, and we parted ways amicably. It's a more realistic social interaction experience with actual body language and context, not to mention atmosphere and sometimes crisis. Compared to the conference call feeling you get on something like teamspeak. I don't play DayZ to chat with people. I play DayZ to play DayZ.

In arma2 you could always hear a player in direct when they spoke on any of the channels. I haven't tested it in DayZ, but I can't imagine they would remove that.

I would. Depending on you approached it of course. You can't come up freshly spawned demanding all my gear with fists up. But, if you asked nicely or made up some crazy reason/backstory(UN special forces, etc).

After you attach the battery right click on it in the inventory. You should see options to turn it on and change the frequency. After you turn it on you can change from direct chat to frequency by pressing the , and . keys. Then just hit caps lock to talk.

I'm not saying people should be punished, but... I still think it's cheating. Like when you're playing cards, if you sent a text to your partner across the table.

Actually you did call me and anyone else who agrees with the OP... ass backwards. also.. Your whole attitude towards me is so disrespectful and dismissive. Just because you don't agree with our suggestions doesn't give you the right to tell people to "move along". This is supposed to be a discussion, not a final decision on who is right and who is wrong. Getting to the point of my replying, while I agree it's very early and it's hard to tell where this game will ultimately go, there has already been things that indicate this game is going in a more casual direction. Sidewinder24 might be a little quick to write it all off. But, I share his disappointment. I feel like Rocket has lost his harsh attitude towards the game and its design. I feel like he's too concerned with not disappointing players, and it's holding back the difficulty. I saw more "development" of the hardcore aspects of this game in the first couple months of the mod, than I have in the last year. While it may still be early in this games life, it's also the most important time in its development. Things changed now will have a lasting impact on the rest of the development. If stuff like 3rd party software is tolerated, the players will shape their view of DayZ around that. The community feeds off of what the developers decide, when the developers aren't clear on their direction, and ultimately try to please everyone(separate hives), everyone feels like they're right. The game loses it's direction and ends up doing everything semi-good, instead of doing one thing really really well. I will continue to play DayZ as long as I find it fun. But, I have this picture in my mind, that Rocket painted when he started the mod, and it seems they're getting further and further away from that picture. I'm not blaming Rocket either, because I don't think he's doing it intentionally. It's just the nature of the beast, when you are surrounded by people demanding something, eventually you start to forget what you wanted in the first place. Whenever I hear him consider something like spawning with friends, I die a little inside.

Funny how you say my example of the problem with teamspeak makes your blood boil, right after calling me an ass backwards whiner polluting the forum with stupid suggestions. Just chill out with the name calling. I don't really care what you call me, but the moderators do. I'm sorry if I come across as an asshole, I can't help it, that is just my personality on game forums, up front and in your face weather you like it or not. But, I try to respect everyones opinions and only attack their ideas, not them personally. If you feel like I'm being dishonest with my desires and have secret motives, please speak up and confront me about it. Don't just make harsh statements about me personally based on nothing but your own speculation. I cant' count the number of times I've been told "I have no friends" on these forums. It's like people want to judge me based on my dayz character. If I don't sit in teamspeak with a bunch of peopel while playing, I must be a loner with no social skills or friends. Gamer logic.

I fear you are correct. DayZ has more potential than any other game to become a real hardcore survival experience, but at this point it looks like we'll be waiting for mods to see that dream become a reality.

I knew you'd avoid the question.

Let's pretend we live in a totalitarian dictatorship where everything can be controlled. Why shouldn't this be controlled? What's the benefit in not controlling it? Why is circumvention of game restraints a good thing for us?

Nah you weren't getting worked up, but your posts were getting others worked up, the point of personally insulting me. Wouldn't it have gone down the same way if your clan were carrying radios turned to the same frequency?

Exactly. There's no point in getting worked up over the terminology used when it boils down to us having different opinions. The point isn't that I call it cheating, so it's cheating. The point is that I consider it cheating. The reason I consider it cheating doesn't disappear when it's called by another name. I don't think it's bad because of the term used, I use a negative term because I think it's bad. It's like server hopping and combat logging. I don't see any rules that explicitly state that those acts are cheating. Yet the majority of the community looks negatively upon those acts. I personally consider them cheating, you might have another term. No matter what they're called, the actions are still the same.

It's not my thread. The point, from what I've read, is to shine light on the fact that a portion of this community thinks it's cheating. To discuss that idea and see the difference of opinion that comes from the discussion. I guess the point is for people to see where we're coming from when we call it cheating. When we get off-topic discussing the ability to control this, or lack thereof, we completely skip over the debate about weather or not it should even be controlled.

Looks like he saw a piece of you and shot you. From those angles I bet he saw your legs while leaning towards the railing, since you were standing, you saw nothing from your higher vantage point. I'm wondering if you sprayed a bunch of bullets into the ceiling while they were in the corner, wouldn't you have hit them? Or do those floors stop bullets? Also, man up and play on a hardcore server. Looking over and around stuff is so lame.

I don't really want to get off-topic, or discuss fixing this "problem". But, how is a game checking for skype or teamspeak not exactly the same as anti-cheat software checking for cheat software running? It wouldn't be illegal because you would have to agree to it.

Discussing possible solutions is rather pointless when so many people disagree on the legitimacy of the action.