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OK, bumping this back because this feature is most definitely functional on stable as of the .44 update. So who can offer some insight into exactly how the multiplier works?

This is bullshit. Zombies make it easier. Targets lose focus on their surroundings and pay too much attention to the zombies, making them easy 1 or 2-shot prey- after which you bug out, reload, and wait for the zombies to chill, and either head back, or get ready to face the dead guys friends. Zombies rock, as aggressive as they are right now. (Pathing and AI still suck as does the clipping through walls- but those can be dealt with easily enough by the player.) The only ones QQing about zombies are the baddies.

The only reason I have a twitter account.

Now? Hell, I havent seen any traffic in those areas since they removed the stary/novy spawns months ago. I love going to NWAF no matter how many people are on the server. 20 or so minutes of running across empty countryside, culminating in more loot than I can carry with 2 backpacks. Makes no difference that i have to run another 20 minutes to get back to NEAF for the fun.

Well isnt this interesting? Someone bashing the devs and mods gets banned, and then a new account is created shortly thereafter asking about bashing the devs and mods. Curious how long this'll last, haha.

I honestly can't remember. It was 4 months and almost 500 hours ago. But I also cant remember what time I woke up today, nor what I had for dinner last night without looking to see what leftovers are in the fridge.

I have more hours than I ought to in SA, and those bugged ambient sounds dont even register anymore. There was a time when I would hear soda cans popping, and I would hunker down for a loooong time waiting to see someone move around... then I realized them for what they were, and all was good. By the way, those bugged sounds are not the full sound of a can being opened, nor of food being eaten or ammo being split/combined... they are just little snippets of the actual sound file. Once you learn to tune out those little snippets of sound, you really won't even notice them. They are just background noise, like the chain link fence rattling, or the oil drum getting thumped.

dafuq was all that about?

So... this rant is over a temp ban about a prior rant over what you deem to be a lack of appropriate information, over an alpha where the lead developer has come right out to say NOT to buy it at this point? Maybe the spotty delivery of information is part and parcel to the plan? The game is in alpha. Not even beta, but alpha. It is broken in more places than can be counted, yet you would have the devs take time to notate every little change they make in this broken alpha, to highlight something else that is (or probably soon will be) broken? Sorry dude but I don't agree with your line of thinking. Maybe you ought to go play with those other new IPs before you start making empty threats about how you plan to refuse to sell BI products anymore, or those from whatever rocket decides to create in the future. Being butthurt over an alpha is not the way to conduct a successful business, nor the way to behave as a serious gamer (as you claim to be.)

Yeah, the kneeling and sitting animations are already in the game, would just need to adjust the character models to accommodate holding a weapon. standing sticks might be a little much; they are awfully cumbersome IRL as it is, and legitimately would require another model in game. but sitting and kneeling could probably be tweaked appropriately to make sticks, walls and windowsills viable as shooting supports, i would think.

i can get behind this idea. both sniping with functional bipods, and supported shooting (window ledges, walls and the like) ought to be added. would that require an alternate stance system? im not a dev, i have no clue, but i would be very happy indeed to see this implemented.

question: why would said zombie be drinking some weak-ass shit like heineken?

I see what you struck through there...

Everyone dies. I don't care what you are wearing, I am going to shoot you. I may die in the process but I shoot everyone with impunity.

Well I have a favorites list thats about a half dozen servers, including my own. Whatever peeps are doing on those other servers really dont make much of a difference, since I just dont join them at all. Find a few good ones, add em to your favorites, and there ya go- no problem. I don't have time to waste, worrying about what people are doing on other servers. I want to play, I know where to go.

Jake had a carebear moment. Come on guys, give him a break. He had his moment, it passed, then he did the right thing and shot the fucking idiot. Glad to hear you came back to the dark side with no ill effects, brother. Semper Fi.

Mini-14 for sure. Mini-30 as well, because it chambers the same round as the SKS. And frankly, the Mini-30 is a far better weapon IRL than the SKS is. I would also love to see a 700BDL added as another long range, bolt action sniper/hunting rifle. I don't care what it would be chambered in, but preferably something like .30-06 or .308. Those would be realistic enough in that they among the most common chamberings for hunting longarms. Personal preference> I would love to see a ruger M77MK2 in something like 7mm Rem Mag, but only because I have one and know it intimately enough to make confident 1-shot kills at 750+ yards. Got carried away and forgot this was about 5.56 only. Sorry :D

I didnt realize server admins had any access to BEC at all, on SA servers. I certainly don't, not with gameservers. Let alone bein able to set up a whitelist, or actually ban people. That is kinda fucked up if there are GSPs allowing access to those files in the backend, when we as admins are clearly not allowed to do any of that.

No, just no. The ONLY advantage is if someone playing in 1PP mode decides to join a 3PP server- and that is a choice made by the player themselves. There is NOTHING inherent in the game that puts that player at a disadvantage- it is his choice, and his choice alone, to join the 3PP server knowing full well the majority of players on that server are playing from a perspective that disadvantages him. There is no advantage granted to someone playing in 3PP over ANYONE else playing 3PP- it is a completely level playing field. 4th wall aims to cripple 3PP players with the goal of making it "fair" to 1PP players on the same server. There is no fairness at all in restricting the gameplay of someone playing in 3rd person, on a 3rd person server, by removing the inherent ability to see everything in third person. 1PP players simply have no business playing on 3PP servers if they are unwilling to accept the difficulty they are going to encounter when coming up against a player using 3rd person. The mod balances nothing and breaks everything about 3PP- peeking over walls and around corners and seeing nothing is a broken 3rd person perspective, period.

That was fixed a while ago IIRC, when they removed the ability to jump/vault indoors.

This thread has turned into the anti-TS thread, in the same vein as the 4th wall mod thread is anti-3PP. Two things that are never going to change- 3PP servers, and 3rd party VOIP- yet the anti's just cant leave it alone.

My post is nothing compared to the vitriol and hate being spewed in that other thread, which is why I havent even looked at it since it was on page 10 or so. I said nothing spiteful or hateful in my post, I just told how it is. I am not saying all 1PP players are like that, but the vast majority of them who posted in that other thread certainly are.

It is certainly from hardcore players. Maybe not you, but go look in the thread about the 4th wall mod, or in any other thread on this or any other forum, that discusses 3PP servers and how "everyone" thinks its a hack/glitch/cheat/exploit. When I say everyone, I mean those who play 1PP exclusively, yet still feel the need to belittle and deride anyone who plays 3PP despite NOT playing on 3PP servers at all. If a player chooses to play in 1PP on a regular server, they are automatically putting themselves at a known disadvantage over the rest of the players in the server who are using 3PP. Thats fine, I understand that. What I don't understand is why someone who wishes to play in 1PP, would ever bother to join a server running regular mode. The answer they usually give is that there are very few HC servers out there that are, and remain, populated. Infer from that what you will. I see it as though the game is generally far more appealing and fun to play to the masses in 3PP than it is in 1PP, If you insist on a first person gameplay experience, then get used to playing on low pop servers. Don't force me to inhibit my own experience by a mod that forcibly disables the full 3rd person perspective, just so you can join my server and play in first person. Doing that is giving the 1PP player a crutch so they can play on 3PP servers, while at the same time forcibly removing a key gameplay element of the 3PP server- an element that ALL 3PP players can make use and take advantage of otherwise, thereby ensuring a level playing field among all players on the server.

Why does 3PP have to always be a crutch, in the eyes of the hardcore elitists? Maybe we, the scrub noobs playing 3PP, happen to like to see our environment from a different perspective? Maybe we don't want to play a pseudo-RPG from a 1PP perspective? Maybe we just happen to like the way we play in 3rd person, on 3rd person servers, that have absolutely NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on how those who wish to play in first person servers, enjoy their own experience? Why is it that the incessant bitching and moaning about 3PP by 1PP players, has no counterpart from 3PP players over 1PP servers? I have been playing first person shooters since DOOM and RTCW. Probably 90% of my gaming life has been in FPSes. I do not consider this game to be an FPS despite the fact it offers 1PP. Do I care that there are people who want to play it in 1PP? Hell no. Doesn't affect my gameplay one bit, which is why I fail to grasp how those of us who choose to play 3PP seem to generate such animosity from the 1PP crowd. 3PP needs absolutely no adjustment at all- the only adjustment needed is that of the attitudes of 1PP players who think they are above the rest of us. Trust me kids, your shit still stinks like shit. You ain't any better, you just choose to play a different way. Get over yourselves.

Well, I can say that in my case, I stream for the benefit of those I know personally who either A) do not own a gaming PC, or one powerful enough to run the game itself, and B.) for my younger nephews whose gaming is done on console alone. I tolerate it when they are visiting, but simply cannot stand when someone watches me play anything, over my shoulder. It inevitably leads to back-seat-driver syndrome, and I want to punch them in the face. STFU and let me play my game! Personally, the only streams I ever watch are youtube highlights that other people link to me, Never watched a twitch stream on its own for more than a couple of minutes total, because I PLAY the game. I don't want to sit and watch someone else play it.