General Zod

I think it should be the other way around, they aren't supposed to be a minor inconvenience but an actual threat. Especially in military bases, high risk high reward.

Yes on all 3, even though I doubt the wind dispersing will ever happen

I had a quite a big group of people I played with in the alpha days, only 3 of us still play, myself included.

I don't agree with implementing any form of debilitating symptoms from killing, we shouldn't try to discourage people from killing by making their screen flash. We should give them something else to do with their time in game, and currently there isn't much. Partially because because even if you build a base or repair a car there's a limited amount of entertainment you'll get out of that. Map isn't huge either, you can effortlessly cross it couple hours and towns don't differ so much that's it's worth sight seeing. In real life that fight for survival would be your every day life, you wouldn't log in for few hours to entertain yourself and log off and go raid your fridge and watch tv. Most people will need more interesting things to do than fishing and growing crops. And since once you gear up the survival is so easy that the most exciting thing is facing another player. Here's couple ideas of the top of my head. Make ammo more scarce, a lot more scarce A lot more infected the further in land you go More aggressive infected, as in they keep their aggro longer, so that even if I hide in a building they don't give up 30 seconds after loosing track of me Make hunting harder, you can walk up to the game way too close before it reacts to you. And this one won't happen but a bigger map with more interesting places to visit.

According that graph, the game has less than 500 active players more than it did when it was released as alpha. Which means either not many copies sold since then or a lot of people left and never came back.

There is no way to get rid of voip outside of the game. You can't just have battle eye see every software with voip as cheating because steam itself can do that, there are also online chat rooms and so you'd have to filter browsers out too. You can't enforce always on mic either, some people share the room where the pc is. If people don't want to talk in game they won't and they will find a way to talk outside of the game. Rare ammo would be start, if I can find 100 rounds on a single visit to military base there is no reason not be trigger happy. But at the end of the day people who want a less murderous experience will probably have to band together on a move pve focused servers.

The problem with that is you're assuming the impact killing someone would have while you sit in a comfort of your room, with food in a fridge, all the utilities to make your life easy, access to healthcare and in relative safety provided by the state. Whereas in a situation of a complete collapse of a society which none of us here have experienced when you're in a situation of me or him/her you're going to choose you every single time and get over killing them. The only thing that would make people talk first and shoot later is the lack of respawn button in real life, which means any failed attempt to KoS would be your last one. Additionally in real life apocalypse scenario I'd be able to see that you're armed, I would see the handgun in your pocket and not trust you at all and if you started to rummage through your backpack I'd probably start to get suspicious. In DayZ I can't see the guns you may or may not have unless you have them on your shoulder, and since you can take an SMG out of your backpack without taking said backpack off or you can keep a glock in your pocket without it showing I cannot trust that you won't take the first chance to shot me in the back of the head when let my guard down. I recently was on the coast to meet my fresh spawn friend to be his armed escort while he gears back up, we were meeting in cherno and I decided to loot balota base, on a way through I noticed a guy with barely any gear punching zeds. I tried to be a good guy and shot the zeds with my ak, the second I did that the pulled a gun out his pocket and started shooting at me. And while attacking someone who has an assault rifle and is clad in Kevlar was a poor choice, it didn't stop him from trying to kill me and take all my loot. I shot him and decided to retreat to bandage myself, as soon as he regained consciousness he came after me, I killed him. Then once I made it to cherno I got on top of the gire fighter tower to have a look around, spotted a guy running around, he saw me too and ran away, 2 minutes later I got shot in the face by that very guy. Fortunately Kevlar saves lives and I woke up promptly not even bleeding only to hear him on the lower roof making his way to collect his reward off of my corpse. One frag granade later I took his food and ammo. KoS will always be around. Poorly geared players will try to kill better geared players to take their stuff and well geared players will kill anyone who gets close to keep their gear. If I see a fully geared player and can kill him and save myself from holding W for an hour and sneaking past zombies why wouldn't I if the only downside of me failing is being slightly worse off than I was when I tried ? The other thing is the survival aspect of the game. The only time survival in this game is hard in the first hour of your new character when you're at a risk of dying of thirst / hunger or diseases. Once you survived long enough to fill in your energy and water bars and have a gun to hunt and supplies to start a fire your struggle to survive ends. From here you have two choices, either get involved in PvP and kill one another or start doing things like base building or fishing and growing crops. The problem with number two is that it's massively time consuming and is not required to survive at all.

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Hi I just did a quick in and out of the military base in zelonogorks. I found 7 SKS in there, and it's like that with any gun, if you find just one it's possible you found one dropped by a player or it spawned randomly, but as soon as you find a second one you know it mass spawned. Found an FX ? How about 4 more, found an M16 here have another 3. It can't be that hard to programme something along the lines of if(goingToSpawn7SKS){ dont() }

I found those in zelono, got a night vision scope out of a box I found in a shed in a military base there.

Hi Can anyone explain to me how does the Christmas content works ? I know there are Christmas trees with gifts and randomly spawned boxes in buildings but how about that random Christmas music that ends with what sounds like a crash, I just heard that in the little hunting camp near green mountain and it sounded like it was very close but I couldn't find anything nearby.

Is that named after the books / tv series ?

After more thorough investigation I found a big gift box in one of the houses, but the sound seems to come from more of a general direction.

But I checked the nearby heli crash sites and there's nothing there, also I just heard it twice in Myshkino

That post was certainly not written by someone with a sniper rifle baiting people to go there.

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That's great, you can't sterilise them so they are useless until you can find chlorine tablets or you can empty them and still have to find a well.

I'm pretty sure I got salmonella from a canteen I found few days ago, didn't drink from any water sources beforehand just cans that I found, skinned no animals and punched no zombies so clean hands. Drank the contents of the half full canteen and started to vomit within minutes.

That's a dickish move, make fresh water containers have a chance of being contaminated and removing the option to sterilise them. And good luck finding medicine outside of hospitals.

So you want to give people epileptic seizures? Pain is already indicated by either limping and a fracture icon or grunting. And that does the job.

So the more people I kill the less negative effects of killing them I get ? Because that sounds to me like an incentive to kill more people.

Once you actually manage to get your hydration and energy full it's nearly impossible to starve again. The way I do is loot as many trees as possible where you spawn (coast buildings are usually stripped clean) and head in land when you find few fruits to keep you going.

I think the bigger problem with sickness is the availability of medicine, it is a lot easier to find a gun inside civilian houses to commit suicide rather than slowly dying from what ever you caught than some pain killers or tablets for a food poisoning.

I had the same thing in zelono yesterday, ended up frantically around looking for a player.

Trigger happiness can only be limited with reducing amount of guns and ammo on the map, which won't happen considering that every new patch brings more guns in. Cleaning kits are only really rare down south, and become more common if you head north. Military gun should be rare or very rare depending on which particular gun are we talking about but once we have one of those it should be able to last. Civilian hunting rifles should be more common but also have a shorter life span. This will also make people with military grade weapons bit more careful about picking their fights because losing their gear would be more of an inconvenience.