General Zod

Bumb Give hunting rifles - Blaze and CR527 a scope. Do it now !

If there are other people on the server do not walk around with your gun holstered, you'll either die or you'll find yourself in a "who can draw faster" contest.

Those aren't Romero zombies, you can knock them out, they pause in their assault when you hit them. Devs already said that those are infected humans not your classic undead.

Something like that 1337 Leet post (god damn I can't post any more or I'll ruin it)

How is that our problem ?

With that I completely agree.

Well I don't see how z zed can ruin a metal object (eg a magazine) with bare hands.

If you get hit with a 20mm bullet, hole in your clothing will be the least of you problems.

@Evil Minion Functionality : for a vest Pristine - all slots available Worn - same, just cosmetic difference Damaged - Some slots unavailable Badly Damaged - most slots unavailable and small risk of loosing items Ruined - almost no slots available and risk of loosing items Same for bag pack but arm strips can rip.

We'll see about the loot rarity, that being said. "People don't want survival game". For now we don't any other survival elements other than rain and cold, it's too early do judge. But if people will leave the game because guns got rare than all the better for it. In the end your analysis system will never work, too much data, too many variables and don't even get started on what a mess will it be when larger amount of people will get into a fight.

The other type of experience being getting shot yourself. That being said I ran into a fresh spawn today in Novo, he had nothing I had blaze in my hands. He was so close I could shoot him with closed eyes and till hit him. I didn't, I let him live. I let him live because he started running away. If he was to run up to me with "hey buddy I'm friendly" I would kill him. Later on I killed two guys looting town hall from one of the big grey apartments with my LongHorn At least one of them was armed I loaded a LongHorn that was lying in there and they had a IZH-43 so they could be a threat. (admittedly this is being an ass hole, load a gun that is on the ground and than kill people who found it because now they have loaded gun)

Not exactly third world in chernarus is it. As for getting used to, I safe to assume that we play citizens of chernarus and already have some immunity. And like I said yes there is still a chance to get sick, just not very high one. So yes small to moderate chance of poisoning from water depending on what you drink (running water or still, close to industrial area etc.) will be good, but let's not overdo it.

Yea well today I was being hit by a zed that I locked on first floor of police station, while I was downstairs.

That's true, but we can't make every body of water seriously poisonous because fresh spawns will die before they find all the things needed to boil water. Quite often contaminated water can be smelled.

Killed two guys with LongHorn Bodies lined up in a kinky way.

Overly complex system for something that is not a problem. And will be even more of not a problem when proper survival is introduced. And that's on top of ridiculous amount of data that will have to be recorder and analysed for over 2 million players.

If I were to set up a high profile research facility to deal with apocalypse class virus. It would not be in major city or mill base. It would in a remote hard to reach place. So that when everything else gets over run it can still function instead of being in the centre of the shit storm. Just because they released Bieber into the world doesn't mean they would go ahead and create a world ending virus. Than again I don't know which one is worse.

That would be one reason. Other would be as engineering student I follow the redundancy rule. So if I carry 3 snap loaders for my Blaze each will be in a different piece of clothing so I don't get all three ruined from one shot.

It might come to you as a surprise, but people who live in poor parts of the world (such as Chernarus) have considerably stronger immune systems. Simply because they are constantly exposed to some pathogens, yes they can still get sick, by far less likely or less severely than people from sanitized world. Which is why constant use of antibacterial hand rub is a very bad idea. Your immune system will become "dormant" if does not have much to do. And than when the bad guys come knocking it will get caught with its pants down. And a simple flu will take you down for 2-3 weeks. Same goes for water. If all you drink is bottled water or heavily chlorine purified water than you don't need badly contaminated water to get sick, because your immune system will not be able to fight those puny pathogens. But if you were drinking water that is not 100% purified than your body will be able to handle some low life scum pathogens and it will take the tougher ones to make you sick.

And he has a sandwich in his avatar.

Get shot in the back and all your important stuff is gone. Spread your gear. some important items in pants, some in the vest some in the bag pack. This way one shot will never ruin all your gear.

Well you get hit in the lest side of the chest, than the items on the left side of your vest / jacket / shirt take damage. Left leg ? Same deal. Simple hit detection.

Looking for scape goat to justify parents failure to raise their kids not being psychos. Well that escalated quickly.

What do you mean randomized ? Only the items that were hit should be damaged which means no more than 2-3 items per hit. One bullet does not ruin vest, pants or jacket it makes one rather small hole. Unless the bullet is 40mm HE grenade. Than yes.

I was just going trough my screen shots and I realized something. DayZ is not taking place on planet Earth. As shown on the screen shot above the main sequence star of the planet system where dayZ is taking place is blue. Blue light is given of by O type stars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-type_star. The O type stars are very rare and most main sequence O type stars are located more than a 1000 light years from us.