deepfried

+1 I like it. its got to be worth a try to see how it pans out anyway. However this will just make SD weapons king, and every f'ing bandit will have SD weapons. Something would need to be done to balance that, extreme rarity of SD ammo maybe.

So, these guys are exploiting and griefing... I'd say thats due a report+ban nevermind shooting them.

No agreed, I like the mechanic but it shouldn't carry over.

@OP The problem here is that you're loosing sight of the fact that this is a game, and so the people taking part will not act as they would in real life: they know there are no "real" consequences or risks other than maybe loosing your gear. In real life people would be much much much less likely to kill others and very very few would do that just for the sake of doing it (which is the primary motivation for 95% of banditry at the moment). We have to use some sort of artificial gameplay mechanic if we are to have any hope of the gameplay (I.e. how people behave in the game) being even remotely realistic. Without that its just another pvp shooter which happens to be in a sandbox.... this game is aiming to be more than that and we as gamers deserve more than that.

Leave the coast. most of the mindless pvp goes on at the coast as this is where all the newbs are that don't understand the game yet. Also, the first time I played the game I didn't see another human player for 5 hours. I suspect you're doing something wrong if you are coming across so many people. There are survivors, plenty of them (me included), and I met 4 yesterday not including the guy I was playing with. OK so one of them had no ammo so he might just of been an impotent bandit but i'll gie him the benefit of the doubt.

THere are lots of guns to be had once you know where to look. Usually inside 10 minutes I have more guns than I can carry. You just need experience playing the game to know where to look, e.g. which buildings to look out for and what locations to go to. Trust me, within a week you'll be back here complaining that there are too many weapons everywhere ;-)

How realistic is it that a virus would make "super zombies" as well as zombies? the whole zombie thing is already a stretch... don't make this into another L4D! (great game but completely different design goals).

Please stop ammo automatically moving with guns when you pick them up or put them down. In other word please give us full inventory control with nothing moving automatically. I lose count of the number of mags I've lost to the backback glitch because the game moves ammo that I did not choose to move. I realise that is a glitch that will be fixed but none the less I would rather choose what ammo I put where and what I pickup/put down.

clearly if this is accurate as reported then it is bugged. Don't judge a feature on how it works in a bugged state! IMO we need some sort of indicator that someone has low humanity, in the end it may not be this, but we need something to improve gameplay for survivors. At the moment its basically open season on survivors with no negative or downside for the bandits... irl there is always a negative or downside to murder, not to mention things like conscience or morality, but in the game these are simply not factors... we need something to balance that.

* [FIXED] Generic Loot not spawning (such as food etc...) Although this is needed, I think having food and drink be sparse really adds to the survival aspect of the game and forces people into towns and imo makes them more likely to cooperate. With the old food and drink spawns survival was too easy.

THe problem is: what if you're "in combat" and your connection drops... guaranteed death.

I spawned for the first time today without weapon, it was a little freaky at first and I had to shake a zombie train at one point but I survived. I found 4 (!) guns in kamyshovo and another 6 at rog, i'm still alive with a Ghillie suit 3 full canteens and 4 cans of food. So yeah it seems to work fine, but i'm sure new players are finding it hard. On another plus note I found my first friendlies today after a week of playing the game! a coincidence? maybe, or maybe the lack of starting gun and sparsity of food/water is making people work together more...

I found one with ammo but i wasn't about to drop my winchester for it.

throwing axe? Wait what? melee? I dont think I like the sound of that. Zombies are supposed to be scary, your supposed to want you keep your distance... not run up to them and hit them with an axe...

It is too dark rly, I mean for the most part it is darker than it actually gets in real life. I was walking though some woods in the dark only a couple of weekends back (irl), ok it was damn dark, but once my eyes adjusted i could just about see where the path was. In DayZ when its fully dark its pitch black, like literally having your monitor turned off. I have no problem with realistic night being in the game, but its just silly dark at the moment.

yeah loot is bugged at the moment, but it'll be fixed soon enough. In the mean time I just lucked out and found a survivor corpse with 3 full canteens and 4 cans of food :D Found so many damn guns though. I found 4 guns in kamyshovo, then like another 6 at rog. you should probably just kill yourself.. in the game' date=' i mean. please stay alive irl [/quote'] Yeah I had exactly the same thing happen to a mate of mine at rog. Had to put him down in the end, was the kindest way.

I can see where you're coming from but is it necessary? from pretty much any point on the map you're not more than a few minutes run to a water source that you can fill a canteen at.

-1 Its a survival game not a pvp shooter. That said I was against the removal of the Makarov in the first place, I thought it would result in bandits spawn raping and from what I hear that is happening to a degree. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a change to this in the near future, but then this is alpha of course so they are still developing and testing core gameplay mechanics.

I have never been to Cherno (other than the outskirts) and i've only been to elektro twice, i've been playing for just over a week now and I can go from spawn to pimped out with full gear in about 3-5 hours. You absolutely do not have to go to Cherno/elektro at the start, infact doiing so is a massive risk. Going to a castle so early on is also a massive risk. You should loot 3-4 of the small to mid size towns + barns inland before you even consider it.

if you want my opinion just wait for 1.7.1.1, its a mess at the moment.