rickyriot

I'm not judging anyone, other than having dreadful fashion sense of course.. ;) I've lived and travelled all over the EU, I wouldn't say I have a "corner". Yet this is the thing, since they have been introduced it's currently running at maybe an 80% chance of CH wearers shooting on sight. I'm not judging, I'm going on personal statistics. It seems an awfully high ratio, so hence the thread.

Right, well for a start I'm not surprised the English lads are wearing cowboy hats. That's to be expected from the English.. ;) As for being hunted down, I wouldn't say that, more that I have encountered more trigger happy cowboy hat wearers. Personally I am a helmet guy, not for any reason of fashion but purely from a defence point of view. I got into a firefight with a guy wearing a cowboy had up in NWAF and we both landed a similar number of shots. Me? I was unconscious for maybe 30 seconds, him (or her? who am I to judge) was out for the count despite both having M4's and presumably both aiming head shots. No, it's really not. Ever. Trust me on that. The only people who wear them are rather confused Germans.

"60% of the time, it works every time." This is the reply I tend to give when any player on any game is adamant that somehow it's hacks that have befallen them or their crew. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing you or your clan's ability, deepfry, but if I was a betting man, I would be placing money on it not being a hack and the guy just outplayed you. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's my opinion.

My proposal wasn't a proposal though, I wasn't countering yours by suggesting something different. I was merely stating that in game and in terms of having differing levels of characters; whether that is skill or score based, I am not opposed to a skill tree but I am opposed to a generic score based on the metric you see beneficial to how you play the game. Let's just put this in perspective to the way I play the game. I spend very little time in cities, and tend to do so when I need supplies. Does that mean I should have a lower "score"? I also think you misjudge the value that those who would KoS would care about some arbitrary metric. I'm not knocking you for suggesting it, no harm in doing so, although perhaps in the Suggestions section as it might not have bombed so badly there. Edit: I also think that the idea that you are less likely to "mouth off" when captured is a just not thought out. Not only does it make very little difference what you do when captured, most capturers have a pretty well defined end game to any hostage situation long before you are taken hostage, but the idea that you would have a score at risk may even increase hostage taking/killing. Personally when someone tells me they are going to take me hostage I either flight or fight, I certainly don't stand there and await my fate.

Look don't get all uppity because people don't agree with you. I understood your idea fine, I just think it's rubbish.

Not sure about anyone else, but having no loot respawn on the server is my primary reason not to get shot. In terms of length of life indicator, wasn't it mooted that beards be used as an indicator. Can't remember if this was bullshit or genuinely an idea put forward.

Are we making this into Mario? Do we need to now spend enough time in Electro to "Level Up". This is meant to be a survival game. Just camping out in towns in order to gain points sounds a daft idea, imo. Now in terms of ladders, I am in no way against a skill tree of some form within the game, although I have yet to see a sensible implementation plan to make it work even if makes sense that nobody should be able to fly a helicopter of perform certain medical tasks from the first minute they join the game. In no way should a skill tree affect the ability to aim a weapon though a la CoD.

I feel you may be missing an option in all the answers given. "Keep an eye on them to see if they act suspiciously." There is no way I am going to just turn my back and ignore them, but in the same way I've got no desire to interact with them either on a friendly or aggressive manner.

Do you remember MoH:AA and how great was that? Then the first couple of CoD games? Damn fine games, created by the same team responsible for MoH:AA. They were all designed for the PC, built on the PC by PC gamers. Further games however were not and the lack of realism, the dreadful hit boxing and utterly shameful aim assist are down to the game being switched to focus on consoles.

I've seen the safety helmet, not sure what they are called in game, but they are the type of thing you would wear at a building site except they are all brightly coloured (blue, green, etc). I've always thought, "they must provide a lot of protection, after all that's what they are meant for", but with them being so brightly coloured it's just too much of a bullet magnet. I like the idea of the beret though, and would wear one, however it's incidental head damage from swiping zombies when close in combat I am worried about and instead tend to find a motorcycle or helicopter helmet.

My opinion? Sure you could survive without a backpack, but ultimately you are allowing vanity to affect your chances in game. Now that said, if I have a choice between a hunter backpack or a mountain one, I'll choose the hunter purely because it blends in better. This isn't about looking good but more blending into the terrain better. I do hope that somewhere down the line there will be the ability to use the spray cans on the backpacks as the orange mountain backpack is a serious camouflage killer.

I wish people would stop calling it 3PP, the correct terminology is lamecore; lamecore and hardcore. People who play lamecore need to accept they are just not as good, either as people or as game players, as those who play hardcore. This comment will annoy people but it will only be lamecore players as that type of person will always react badly when they are correctly identified as being ethically and morally of lesser fortitude. It's also statistically true that those who play lamecore are more likely to cheat, teamkill and KoS.

There is a chance that zombie respawning might make some form of appearance. To what level I'm not sure, but when the big "undead" bug that forced 34 live before it was meant to be, Rocket had said he was meant to be working on the zombie respawning rather than fixing that bug. Cooking might make an appearance too, we have stoves, gas, cooking pots, water and rice. The natural progression would be to combine them. This could then lead onto boiling water to purify it meaning pumps and pond could start being set to infected. Berries are now put into your inventory so it'll be interesting to see if they will be used in any other way (dyes perhaps?).

I'll maybe be a little closer in, all depends on the terrain of course. I think with SA not quite as "serious" as the mod that people will just go rushing into towns without thinking.

Cowboy hats, both virtually and in real life, do make people look like utter cocks. There, I said it.

In forests and open ground I'll have nothing in my hands. In cities and anywhere with military loot then I'll have gun in hand and it raised (but not iron sighted). Anywhere in between I'll normally have it in my hands but not raised. I do wonder if people stop and spend time looking at where they are going. If I am approaching a town I'll find a safe place to view it and spend maybe 5 minutes watching before I enter (this is the same tactic I use for sex..;)).

Just so you know, antibiotics don't seem to work at first. You'll get the "not well" message for some time after taking them. It's only a little while later they show the positive effect.

Personally I am disappointed.... ...not that OP killed a bambi that had been nice to him, but that he didn't deck out his body with loot and leave him as bait to entice other bambies to the slaughter.

Personally I think the solution is to have those who persist in evil and malicious banditry to have their clothing slowly morphing into Tim Curry's outfit from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Starting with a little charcoal for the eye liner, working up to a bushy black hair wig, to high heeled shoes and by the time of their 20th unsolicited kill they look like this.. Any further violations would have the game replace the users microphone chat with Frank-n-Furter's, "Oooh, Rocky!", sample.

What a ridiculously vague question. "handy work laptop" :lol:

So why are you continuing with this thread when the answer is clearly to contact the dev team directly.

This. I was sick and all I had was lots of water and charcoal tablets, munching on them and drinking a lot seemed to remove my sickness. Took quite some time but it worked.

That adds a nice subtlety to it. Clearly something for further down the line but the idea that you have quite a lot of gear but don't have enough time to get a weapon out it would be nice to see someone shed stuff bit by bit in order to give them enough distance so they could pull out an weapon.

So... did we ever get an answer? Would someone suck a dick if Rocket told him to? It think it's important we lay down the foundations before discussing the minutia of the abstract.

Could you explain why it's not? It's the reason given in Rocket's streams when the question has arisen. Oh, and this of course.