BadAsh (DayZ)

So you die instantly to these zombies or what? You analogy doesn't make any sense.

So the game was a walk in the park before the updated zombies? I see this "annoying" thing a lot. Seriously, did anyone sign a clause that stated "Zombies should not be annoying" before buying this zombie survival game? I didn't. What should the zombies be in such a game, a pleasantry?

So in the mod, could your sniper fire off his dinnerbell without attracting any zombies to his position? If so, then I don't really see why the mod should be used as an ideal model here.

That's not quite true now, is it? You said it was hard for your sniper to snipe people because of zombies. That qualifies as hard in my book.

No, you actually can loot one door houses quite easily. The original poster not only exaggerated, but kinda lied. So please don't take that as facts.

So basically it turned your loot simulator into a zombie survival game?

Thats is a blatant lie. First of all it is entirely possible to maneuver around zombies at close quarters in buildings, you can even sort of push them away if they are positioned in doorways. Secondly there wont ever be 30 zombies in that building if you kill them with a hatchet unless you have taken your time to visit every single zombie in that town and dragged them with you to that building. If you kill the one aggroing zombie with a melee weapon it will eventually respawn somewhere in an off-place with no aggro, perhaps not the first time, after a few kills. However if you have fired a gun at them you will aggro every zombie within a radius of several hundred meters, and zombies you kill with a gun will automatically aggro when they respawn no matter where they spawn. So no, if you act accordingly they are not "unreliably dangerous" in any way, except if you are completely incompetent. But to be honest I cannot think of a game that would not suck if you are completely incompetent.

Both of them had their one chance of killing their victim, and they both blew it by missing their shots. I wonder whether they learnt the valuable lesson that if they want to kill someone in cqc they should either 1) learn to aim 2) choose another weapon than the mosin. I seriously doubt it though since one of them was even wearing a clown mask.

Haha. Zombies ruining the deathmatch experience. I figured that was the reasoning behind this thread and all those defending OP. And that in my mind is the most important reason not to remove zombies. For anyone truly interested in the technicalities about zombies and walls I refer you to this older thread, which contains some dev input and probable doas of non-wall glitching zombies.

You mean the "Yes zombies are currently crappy, but if you know how to deal with them they are no real threat, and we know they will be implemented better in future patches" kind of defense? Because that is the only kind of defense I have seen for them in this thread, and it is also the only logical response to the nonsense that is the OP.

Never played the mod either. I am quite familiar with it though, as I followed Frankie and other youtubers playing it for a long time, but then got tired of it without even having played it. And yes, the inventory system alone is enough for me not to consider playing them. All the content they have will be added to SA along the way, so I don't really see the purpose of having to downgrade. With the sales figures of SA I doubt it is the majority anymore.

Lemme see if I got this straight: You hold up an unarmed guy at gunpoint with the purpose of doing "medical" experiments on him that may potentially kill him, then you inexplicably choose to present an m4 with unlimited ammo to him. What did you expect would happen?

Problem is that server owners can just change the name of their server and still keep up the practice of kicking players.

I haven't got any video, but I took this shot of Cherno a couple of days ago. It is a bit far away, but I wondered what all the zombies were doing down in the water by the dockside. Now I think I know.

I am rather fond of DayZ SA because you can't do that kind of thing in this game.

Please provide a more detailed response as to why this gun is lame and ugly (and a less punchworthy in the face answer).

Even more difficult closing them. Not to mention gates, especially the big ones around industrial facilities. It is almost impossible to find the right spot to close them. Add being under pressure to close them again because you are being followed by a crew of people and you don't want them to notice you passed through there, yet you still have to spend a couple of minutes twisting and turning to find the exact goddam pixel that closes those huge gates. Not a pleasant experience.

These latest patches I have been real careful looting garages, because I know nice stuff spawn in there, For example theres 11 nice garage facilites in Zelenogorsk around the police station, I have been there a lot. Not to mention in the suburbs of Cherno, or in Svetlojarsk or in Stary Sobor. But I have yet to find any LRS in there in all my time of playing DayZ. I did find one in the military tents back when they first spawned loot, but never since. However I have yet to find a riders jacket, or magazines for the CZ95 or the 1911, even though they are all apparently incredibly common, not only in said places, but in other civilian spawns as well. Well I call bs, server hopping or duping for any of those items to be called easily obtainable.

In Chernarus? I would bet they are more common than the Blaser or the Marlin 1894. But yeah, gun prevalence realism is obviously not an issue in this game, so common according to what? Unfortunately, I don't think the devs are really bothered by any thoughts about weapon availability according to the initial game scenario.

If you try to snipe please use the ironsight. The dot is worthless for that kind of thing at that range. Sorry, I really liked the video, kudos for 1pp, and that first guy and the sound. He really did sound like Will Ferrell as the bad guy in a movie, really creepy when played back several times, and you made a good call. But you had these guys, and if only you had, you know, actually aimed at them, you would have killed them, they didn't have a clue and you had the drop on them, but it is a bit frustrating to watch the video and yell "press right mouse ffs, what are you doing?".

Stab vests wasn't that rare when loot spawned in military tents. Never found a press vest or a riders jacket, though.

I have Windows 8 and I am really not satisfied with Windows 8 in any way. I consider it a big decrease in quality over Windows 7, but I must say to its credit that it causes no problems with DayZ, so that should not be a worry for you.

Real interesting to watch how zombies now are definitely an annoyance to deathmatchers. No more freebie sniping near populated areas. Thanks for sharing.

It is truely becoming a problem finding a server to play on. I know there are the handful of public servers hosted by various server firms. They are usually alright. But every other server is becoming a problem. Not only has the "Experimental, dont join" "Character wipe dont join" servers mulitiplied, it also seems that most of the servers in existence now are so called clan servers. Some of those are good, but unfortunately in my experience most arent. There are still the usual ones kicking everyone without any warning, then theres the ones who kick everyone not joining a specifically named teamspeak channel, and of course then theres the vast majority, stating that it is a private server, some of them are even passworded, but most of them aren't. And most of them doesn't even mention it inthe server description in the server browser, you just notice it when you are kicked alongside all the rest of the players on the server. Since I have experienced this on the majortiy of servers I join, I think this has become a major issue with this game. Sure, I have read all the guides as to how to report these servers, but they are actually the majority now. It is hundreds and hundreds of servers. It is a rather cumbersome system in the first place reporting a server, enough of a deterrent if it just concerned one of a couple of servers, but it is hundreds, in fact the majortiy on the server browser list. Reporting all those servers throught the usual channels would constitute a full time job for weeks. This is a major problem, and I say big enough to be a developer side problem. Finding a server you won't be kicked from randomly has become one of the most pressing issues in the game in my experience, and this is a issue that really needs to be dealt with.

Rather strange death, I will give you that. It could be a number of things, lag, zombies, silent snipers etc, but it certainly didnt present itself as such. It seemed you proned yourself to death which is of course nonsense. Still, alpha, but I reckon you are already aware of that, and just wanted to show us some very strange happenings, in which case you succeeded and we thank you, because it was it indeed strange.