weresmurf

CTD all the time. Can't be in the game more than 3 mins 30 seconds (timed it) without it doing so. Unfortunate. I sighted a truck, noone was around it. Ran to it... was about to run right to the door to get in... CTD. Cue me shouting 'NOOOOO' like Vader.

In regards to, well, all this, I have to admit, without all these play styles, the game would be boring. Without heroes, Bandits would run rampant. Without Bandits, Heroes would be rather boring and everyone would get along way too much. Tension brings randomness, randomness brings fun. It makes finding friendly people just *that* much more rewarding for me. I'm a Hero in the game, well mostly, but I don't begrudge Bandits, I think everyone has their place. This is why DayZ is the perfect open world experience, we have the absolute please of doing *exactly what we want* and living exactly HOW we want in the game. People can now be peaceful farmers, fishermen, bandits, heroes, psychotic murderers. My mate and I gather all our food hunting now, we don't bother raiding towns. We get it via meat. Works awesomely for us. Because we choose to. Embrace the difference or you might end up with something like The War Z (sorry or whatever it's calling itself now), where you have absolutely zero choice.

Place your reticule over someone, when it's over someone, their name comes up. When the reticule is moved, it fades and disappears. Limit the distance to say, around 30m (100ft). It's simple, not overcomplicated, I've seen it done this way before and it works well.

I completely believe you. This is what happened to me... I have no issue with people doing KOS, as long as it's 'honest'. If you're gonna shoot, fight or whatnot, do it. If you're gonna be friendly, be friendly. I choose not to KOS, I try my best to help. We were at Balota airfield tonight and helped out two guys, gave them compasses, water bottles and some other stuff. When we were running away from there, parting friendly, they shot us in the back and killed us. Goddamn cowards. Nothing but cowards. That annoys me. A pussy shoots someone in the back. There was no need for the fight, we weren't a threat, they had established that. We were all armed with 5.56 rifles, but they chose to do that. But, that's part of the game at the end of the day. It just makes me more wary. Soon after when I spawned back in, I was approached by a guy with an axe, decked out in camo gear. I thought I was doomed. He ran up, gave me some stuff and told me he would help me. We ended up talking, later on got onto Teamspeak with each other and we met up with his mates. 5 of us ended up running around with each other and now we're on Steam with each other, forming our own group to adventure with. So out of something bad, came something good at least. Had a bad experience which led to a great one. Oh and we found those assholes later, easily distinguised by the combo of masks and helmets... I clubbed one of them with a shovel and my mate unloaded some pistol rounds into them and killed them :D what an evening!!! It's things like this that make the game worth playing!