Judopunch

Best way is for them to join a lo population server to get the controls figured out. After they get the hang of it, you need to beat these three things into them. 1) Your going to die, players and bugs are both bitches. Your going to loose your shit, often, dont get attached to it. 2) Its alpha, read and think about the disclaimer. 3) Your going to die, no one cares. Than have them join a real server and have fun! The game is about interaction, play, meet other people, die, rob, save the day, do what ever you want!

Twice since release. When you know the glitches you can play carefully and avoid them.

Na you just need to be smart. I wouldnt have the scope on me, and bring a friend with a gun to cover.

I'd rather the professionals develop their game in the way they best see fit.

Great, as if that single gunshot didnt make me jump hard enough. Now i can open a door and be greeted with BWARGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGZZOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!

It is a known bug, possibly fixed with the patch that came out today :)

DINGDINGDING, we have a winner!!!!

I believe they probably just fixed a couple bugs with the last patch, to make sure when it got pushed to live the fixes wernt going to cause any more problems :)

Im not convinced the blood type system is fully integrated. I remember reading a report of one character changing blood type after being alive for several days. Testing often on the same character would provide insight anyone has extra kits :)

This has been part of the issue to my knowledge. Many of the hardcore servers are set to Euro time, making most of the US ones night during prime-time in the US. That being said I dont think that a ping of 200 has had much impact on my ability to play.

This is a genuinly good idea at its core. Two factions competing for survival. The implantation however, would need to be done with great care and forethought, or it becomes just another first person shooter. Things to concider: How much does each camp start with? Do they start with a camp? How common are guns? Do you start with guns? Maye each camp only has 3 pistols and a rifle to split between the 20 people. What prevents both sides from having a truce? What kind of natural problems do both camps have to deal with. It would be nice for a moderator to move this to the suggestions or general discussion forum. This forum is for new players :) This takes the core ideas of DayZ and gives you a pre-built society. But tread carefully, or else you delv into first person shooter. How can you make the game about survival and interaction, instead of just who kills who. What gives life meaning, and death pain?

Just remember "Soon" in game devs is about 2 months, if it doesnt get pushed back :)

OP doesnt know what an Alpha is.

I met two cool dudes yesterday, both could have shot me, one gave me a gun. Your logic is flawed. The real challenge in the game is how you deal with evolving situations. If you are continuously getting shot 'every' time, your doing something wrong.

Hey, HEY. You STOP RIGHT THERE, you and your damn logic. We dont take kindly to your kind 'round these parts.

Read the disclaimer. You are for some reason not expecting to die? You shouldnt get to attached to any one character, it will only hurt you in the long run. It also sounds like you were killed by lag. You should never allow another player to get within 20 feet of you or you risk getting punched to death.

I mean, you have a point. But helmet dont have attachments currently and it would probably be the best slot for it. On that point it would be nice to be able to put nvg and the torch on a helmet. Not using any current slot.

Hey, if he likes running around by himself he can go nuts. I mean, there is much more to do than to run into the forest and hide until you only see one unarmed guy that you may go talk to. But if he wants to play hiking simulator 2014 he can go nuts. However, I do have to say I dont have much respect for your 'guide' because you basically say 'stay away from populated servers, less people means less chance to have a situation you dont like'. May as well play with 0 other players at that point.

Accepting the fact that its a game means you need to be realistic with your expectations. Calling it cheating makes you sound silly.

Probably the same one that the masks take.

Err.... You got killed, in Elektro, and you are surprised at this? And you run your own server? Seriously? Edit: The test server has already found several bugs that crashed the servers multipul times. Part of the changes are how bodys and loot despawn on death. Items are now taking damage and getting ruined from damage delt to the player holding them. For most of these, you need to kill someone. To test it.... But your surprised you got killed in Elektro?

Well we do need to remember it is a game. Now could this be turned into something inturesting where the gps sometimes totally goes out of whack and sends you bad info? Absolutely! But should it be in our out of the game is a gameplay question more than a 'would they still be working' question.

This would allow people to take trolling to an entirely new level. KoS trolling would kill the game in a day.

1 DayZ isnt even closed to finished, ALPHA. 2 even out of alpha players will still kill other players being at least as lethal as environmental factors. Skills in this regard could actually encourage 'skilled' players to kill other players preventing them from developing skills and becoming more effective competition for limited resources.

Well outside of a contained environment there isnt much that you can do about it. I agree that it would be more awesome, but I get this knee jerk negitive reaction when people call it cheating. reaction wanting to call people morons for equating it to things like cheating. You may be able to set up a custom server with an honor system but there is no way to actually stop voip, or even a couple players together in the basement.