DirtyscumbagLith

I think if you create a game where guns are near impossible to gather and the majority of people are running around with a potato for a weapon, lots of people are going to bail, jump ship and go play something else. i know i would. i have ZERO desire to hunt for a weapon for 22 hours. people complain about dying full geared now and its relatively easy to gear up. imagine the complaints if gearing up was incredibly difficult. Ehhh. No thanks.

I left Kamy last night & headed to Msta for supplies. I was on a fresh server & had an M4 & plenty of ammo. Ran through the treelines to get there & then crouched down for quick survelliance. No one. Looked empty. Doors closed & zombies- good sign. Started searching homes & found plenty of food. Entered into a home & suddenly a guy was in the backroom- we both stopped in our tracks. He had nothing, while I had an m4. The Cube in me flared. "Don't move! Dont move!" I yelled. "I'm friendly! FRIENDLY!" he yelled back. I stood there, M4 aimed at him. I could take his food, I thought. His drink. Gun this f'er down & hide his body. Dunno why I hesitated.... but ultimately, Lionel won. I let him go. "Back up and exit the door to your left & I'll go out this way." I told him. We left & never saw the guy again. When chernarus is 10 x more dangerous than Compton, I'm not sure how I felt about this exchange. I didnt feel any better than what I've done- just more cautious, more vulnerable, lots more vulnerable. People tend to be friendly when they dont have a gun, I've noticed, which is the ultimate bullshit line. But would he have done the same? Would he have spared me? I died twice last night in different, unrelated incidents, but can you trust anyone in this game? Dunno. But I think I'd rather be Cube than a Lionel for now on. Seems safer that way. Gun first, questions later.

I would want them make a confused shoulder shrug with character making a gun out of his hand and pretending to shoot himself in the head, because I feel like that when someone comes ranting french-piglatin-gibberish to me.

try another server when it wipes you. you probably arent dead- just join a few other servers to verify. this happened once to me- fully geared, joined and was bambi, went to another server and had everything again.

Great f'in post!!!! Big yellow building with piano on Kranostav. Found 2 there once.

I just started, having no clue what I was doing. Suddenly, a Z floated through a wall while making a loud gurgling sound- I screamed/yelled and everyone on Teamspeak told me to stfu. Floor zombies still scare me.

Solve the problem? Make weapons and ammo spawn-able in more areas of the game- houses, etc...anywhere you find food. You're telling me Russian civilians dont own guns? Its not unrealistic to find a weapon in a home. Why restrict weapons to airbases only? The server hopper "dilemma" (if it is a dilemma) is created because weapons only spawn in those areas. Open the spawn radius, location map-wide and it gets rid of the issue. Pretty simple solution.

respawn and run back to your body. youre going to be very very blurry if you wake up. blurry is annoying.

J H C- Im playing Dayz with a bunch of serial killers. Thank God theres not girls in bikinis in this game- no telling what you lunatics would do at that pt.

personally, i would have shot him when he climbed the stairs.

Yes. And he is going to bare knuckle box me and fast piano music is suddenly going to start once we start boxing.

i would have done the same. its pretty fun observing. and i dont consider than a bandit kill, more of a opportunistic killing.

maybe youre in a part of the matrix that only neo knows about? you should feel honored.

from reading where the game is headed, i think its going to become less kos (items being ruined, etc...) which will help, but you're always going to have the bandit element. dressing everyone who bandits in AC/DC tshirts or a flag over their head is really not going to have any impact if someone wants to play bandit. And ultimately, whats the benefit of creating such a system? Sounds like you're trying to get away from the danger of losing everything in an instant. That IS the game. Nothing you can do is going to make it safer. I dont consider myself a bandit, but I sniped an unarmed player 2 nights ago at the airfield and took all his food. If all my friends were dead in real life, a total collapse of modern society from the deadliest plague the earth has yet to see, and I somehow found a mosin with ammo and my stomach is aching because Im hungry, you dont think in real life im shooting someone to LIVE? Or do you think Im going to talk to him, sit down and discuss how he should share his food with me which complicates his life and chance for survival because now he has less food? Really? All while he can bash my head in with an axe or put a bullet through my brain to take my gun/ammo in an instant. You know whats a cure for bandits? Avoid Balota. We team in a group of 5+ and were always heading down there- always dying. I just told my friends F that place, Im not going anymore. It solved that riddle. I worry about bandits, but I also worry about opportunistic killers, which I think 90% of the people are going to be. I bet you are the type of person who wants to interact with people. Sadly, I dont think its the sort of game to interact much with strangers. You have a lot to lose if you're wrong. This isnt The Sims- Z Version. There's a reason why every person I've come across looting in town is crouched. Its not coincidence.

I think it all depends how you want to play: 1.) if you want to experience barely surviving, randomly come across towns and enter each building, gathering the items you find. You won't have a weapon (usually), but you'll experience the game to its fullest. 99% chance someone will kill you and all the gathering you did of food and supplies goes rocketing down the toilet 2.) if you want a weapon, go to an airfield/military base. once you get familiar with the map, you can get to one in roughly 20 minutes. just haul ass, grab water, dont search houses along the way, get to the base- maybe you'll find a gun, maybe just an axe- at least its something. then gather food, supplies, etc... it always astounds me the people who gather supplies BEFORE they have a weapon. you're basically gathering and doing all the hard work for the person you meet with a weapon, who will most likely kill you, and take all your stuff. dunno about you, but id rather have a weapon before i gather. to do so before a weapon, to me, is pure insanity.

Thats too bad. I would love to get 7 of my friends, gear up real quick and then meet from Kammy or Solly to survive. That would be fun. It would eliminate the Tardo Factor of some random coming up and looting your body. Would be fun to play with just friends.

it happened to me 3 times last night- all after running about 15 minutes. i changed servers. issue fixed.

I am in Kranostav last night, grabbing what food I can, but the town has clearly been gone through, but I am still finding the occasional item. My character is hungry tho- a yellow status bar. I head to the NE airfield and spot a player laying face down- I check his bag and he has a mosin rifle and a few bits of ammo- no food. I'm expecting to get sniped at any moment, but it never happens. I run around the hangar and check the ATC- no movement and it looks empt....ahhh, is that a backpack? Oh yes it is. I definitely see movement. Orange backpack moving ever so slightly. I zoom in and see the guy slowly go outside the top of the ATC....he waits and gives me the opportunity I need....*BLAAAM* My first time using the mosin & a pretty far shot and very satisfying result. Down he goes. I continue to survey the area for about 20 seconds, no more movement. Doesn't look he was with anyone either. I run to his body and see he has a ton of food. I grab it all. He has a ton of mosin ammo, I also take it all. I leave his m4, m4 ammo and all the items I dont need. I disappear into the bushes like a super ninja. I eat 6 cans of beans and get to a healthy status. Then I depart, off I go to Kranostav.... Bandit? Or doing what I need to do to survive?

LOL! I skipped brunch and felt like someone needed to die because of it.

Why would they stop and put their hands up? So you can handcuff them, waste their time, force feed them a rotten kiwi, or inject poison into them? All while they are running to Balota, the NE airfield, etc? Unless you're a cute Japanese schoolgirl in thigh-highs, F off with your hands up and handcuffing. I'd rather run and take my chances. Usually, they are a shit shot and can't hit me anyways. Worst case, I spawn in a better spot and without you near me. Win win, I say. Do you look like this? No? Then I'm running.

I wish I knew that. I broke my leg walking off the last 2 steps from the ATC. Nobody around to kill me, I crawled 500ft to a dumbfounded zombie. Who knew nirvana was just a log out away....

ive seen people hiding using an m4 bayonet and it gave away their position. really good non-functional item that is bright and stands out when hiding in the bushes. id throw it away. the mosin bayonet is almost as bad. why use it?

Dunno what the fix is. All I know is if they get rid of server hopping, there better be ways to get weapons/ammo in a legitimate/timely manner. I have zero desire to run around in that game for 12 hours with a can of beans and sunglasses as my weapon.

Is the goal to give medical aid and food to those who KOS?

i really hope not. i think its pretty damn easy dying in this game, all i need is some douche canoe to start hurling gernades in the ATC while im looting. seems too easy, esp when its so easy to die.