Liquid Man

Hello everyone, To make things as simple as possible. I do not expect that these kind of people I am writing about is you - people on the forums who care a bit more about DayZ Standalone game, than other average player. I was waiting for this Standalone version for quite a while and I bought it just after the release. I love the concept of DayZ and when I was younger, I played some other Role Playing games where you weren't able to talk by pushing the button like you do in DayZ. Let me just tell you this short story till I get to my point of ''why I even created this thread''. I played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on multiplayer mode, where this such special game in my life had it's own, serious Role Playing server with 300+ slots, while in DayZ at this moment you have servers up to 64 players. There were fractions like police, medics, firemen, army, gangs, mafias or just normal companies driven by people, such simple but necessary Gas Station. To have your own business, first you had to make your business plan on a special website of the server and tell the admins, why it's you who should get it. When you wanted to be a policeman, then you had to send a real but of your in game character CV + cover letter, then successfully pass your police training in game. There was so high level of role playing. It was really serious and big community. Most of the time the server was full and it was beautiful time in my life as far as I can remember. DayZ remainds me of everything I just told you and it isn't even 0.5% of what you could do there. Everything you wanted to say with your in game character, you had to type in chat by using some special comands. As I said before, I love the idea of DayZ and I do get it, that it is early alpha. However, the number of people who is playing this game even at this early alpha stage is incredible. Now is the point of the thread which are basically the poeple playing this game. I'm always trying to play some role playing, I take my character like it would be me in the time of zombie apocalypse. A lot of times, I've been attacked by some mad people with axes on the very beginning for some reason. When I get a bit more into the game and finally, I manage to get some equipment like backpack or some weapon and ammunition, everyone who sees me is shooting to me without any warning. People just play to get their ''Mosins'' and houndreds of ammunition to it, then they hide and shoot random people for no reason. My quesion is: Why do they even buy this game ? This isn't even funny. I got really disappointed to see such big number of people doing this. Such nonsense it is to shoot everyone you see without playing any roleplaying. What is wrong with all the people ? They just ruin everything in this game. They don't have even any idea of Role Playing. Role Playing is what this game is made for. You are the writer of the story. I havn't really seen much normal people with some brain. I know they exist, I know they are somewhere but even they are too scared to play something because they know, that most of the retards will just shoot them on the first contact. I have played 67 hours of DayZ. Do you know my best actions which I can share with you ? 1. I just got started a new character. I was walking nearby buildings to find some food and water. There was three russian guys with everything they could possibly have. One of them aimed at me, said ''hands up'' and then asked me about my favourite football club, then I answered that I am not really interested in football and they let me go. (It's a zombie apocalypse, they meet a random person then they scare him to death by aiming a sniper rifle to his head, then ask him about the favourite football club ? Wasn't possible to just ask such a stupid question while during the zombie apocalypse without aiming the ''Mosin'' into my head...) 2. I was playing with a friend and somehow, we managed to get to the airport. We found some good, useful stuff, then we went on the tower to see what is there. We found the biggest backpacks and was kind of happy about that. Then two douchebags got us from behind. One of them could be about 15 years old and started to shout ''Don't even fucking move!'' after those words, I didn't even moved my mouse and after 2.57 sec I got a bullet into my head. Then the other guy who didn't even got his voice mutation said something and I didn't even understand as he was talking by some kind of a rock. 3. I was playing with my friend again. We were in Electro searching some buildings. Then from nowhere, we got under heavy fire. We ran into a building and hide. We closed all the door possible, I took our first aid kit and started to bandage my friend as he got shooted. Then I did him saline transfusion to get some of his health back to be able to see better. Then three of the ''bandits'' got into our house. I had mosin with me with ammunition and I was protecting the door. Then one of them said: Put your guns down, while I was aiming at the door. Then after not even 3 seconds, he ran into the room and started to shoot to us with his M4A1. My friend killed him with his axe but then the other two got inside and killed him as well. And... that's it. This is the role playing people are able to play nowadays ? Where are the old, good players who can think of something more than shooting everyone who get on his line of sight ? Why this kind of people even play this game ? They don't have any idea of the concept of this game. It's not a damn shooter. It's about role playing with other players. Who are they with their full bags of ammunition and with ten guns in one hand without other players to play with ? They are just a damn piece of texture which can't do shit without other people. I do not understand why most of people play this game in this way. Try to group up with someone. Ask if he needs something, maybe you can share some food, some water. Try to interact with people, don't try to be the ''bad ass'' all the time. If you want to be the bad guy, play it in the proper way with some kind of role playing. If you have to kill someone, do it for a purpose. Think of some good action you can play with this guy. Don't just randomly shoot people, because of this, you ruin the whole idea of DayZ and it will end with private servers, where people will have to register first. It worked in the past, so it will now but really.. People, you have brain, you have only to use it sometimes. Tell me what do you think ? Aren't you annoyed because of this kind of people ? Wouldn't you want to have some good memories with this game ?

Good one! Hahah ^^ I will make an army against canibals :) We will burn them alive!

Probably you are right, people may act like this because there is not that much in the game yet. I am not gonna insult anyone as it is not the point. I cannot really understand why I became the ignorant while I am trying to argue almost every single sentence with resonable, at least in my opinion arguments. I said a few times already, I did not force anyone to play any different style than they like. I just asked to put in the gameplay they create by themselves a bit more effort insted of just pulling the trigger. I also keep fingers crossed for DayZ in the future and I hope that it will become a really great game. It just needs some time :)

Well, that's why I'm gonna play on private servers as fast as they will appear. To avoid for example your stupidity :)

That's why I will look forward to play on a serious RP server in the future insted of playing on public ones. I had very similar situation where me and my friend started once again from the beginning. We were in Electro in the hospital and I had a mosin without any ammunition + backpack and an axe, however my friend didn't find that much good stuff and he didn't even have the backpack. I just noticed someone in one of the longer corridors where you can find some useful stuff including mosin. He had a backpack and I had handcuffs, so my idea at this moment was to make this guy surrender. Then I wanted to handcuff him and look into his backpack with the idea of taking the whole backpack for my friend as he didn't have any yet. Then I would leave this guy free but as he just heard ''hands up'' he ninja quit the game. Do you know how this guy got in the hospital while not being seen by me earlier on ? He was randomly switching servers on a purpose of loot. This is unbelievable from my perspective. There should be some kind of single player for such people, so they can gather as much loot as they can handle in peace and without any risk of meeting a living human and playing some interesting and exciting scenes. It's just more fun to have full backpack and quit the game when there is someone nearby. I cannot understand. I just can't understand for what purpose those people bought this game. For quitting the game in action, they should re-buy this game or get banned forever. At least in my honest opinion.

Indeed. Once again, I have nothing more to add. You just know the pain, when you want to do something more creative or you just simply expect some creativity from other players. Just love this part: ''a good way to get rid of the D-bags that swim the waters of public servers. and my god there are a lot of them. like an army of mutants whose brains haven't evolved to the point of morals or common sense.'' When I read this, I just felt connection between us :P Good Luck to you as well :)

I am pretty sure, that when they add more stuff and mechanics, more zombies, body temerature where you will have to make a campfire at night to don't die from the cold and still risk because someone will easily spot where you are, so you will have to better find a good place till the night comes. Also things like better melee combat and much more.. I have really big hopes :)

Agreed. It is still a fantasy movie made on guesses of people who makes this movie. A real zombie apocalypse never had its place and people can only think of how they would act but the reality could be absolutely different. You are 200% right :)

I have nothing more to add. You are another rare person who understands my way of thinking and that's just great :)

Makes sense. I will even watch this movie today. Thanks for your ideas and great post :) Well, I think that it can be most likely to see more people Role Playing when this game will be more polished. For now, I think I will take the role of a hunter of other hunters/bandits and rescue others if possible :) Also, exploring the map to have better understanding of the most populated areas and military bases. I really appreciated, that you explained everything insted of flaming and you even understand my concept of the whole thread.

No one said about removing 95% of the bandits, read my replay to ''MuddyRaccoon'' just right above. Hopefully you will understand my point of view.

It's not a complain. What for are the forums ? If my thread annoys you, then why do you even bother ? I wanted to have a short talk with other people playing this game and see their opinions about the level of role playing people put into this game. Posts like yours really annoys me because I spent some time to write everything I wanted in the proper order, then you come here and write to me that I cry about getting killed. If you do so, then you don't have any idea of what I wrote in this thread from the very beginning. It's not the fact of getting killed and losing my gear which annoys me. It's THE WAY people do it, whcih gives me a headache. I don't really care about the damn items which I can get in 40 minutes of playing. If most of the people as you say, want to play their own way then that's fantastic! But their way of playing and what they do in this game is just over the top. It's not one or two guys who just randomly shoot to everyone or some idiots running with axes and killing newbies or even other people begging to kill them because they want to respawn nearby big cities. Most of the people don't play ''different'' as they play exactly the same. What I wanted is to give some fresh breath at DayZ and put into this game some action insted of one shooting each other. That's why I wrote about role playing and you don't have to explain me what is alpha as most of the games nowadays are in alpha. Selling unfinished products is just something normal these days and I got it, alright ? It's good if there are bandits and you never know what you can expect from a stranger. Being careful is absolutely fine in this kind of game but being careful, doesn't mean to just become a bandit like everyone else and shoot everyone without a word, only on a purpose of ''I have to defend myself''. If you don't understad my point, then I don't think so if there are words in humans language, which may help me to explain everything better.

I have never been saying how people should play. The replay you just quoted was to a guy who said, that he wants to have some intense shooting experience in DayZ after 6 hours of work. Because of his ''hard work'' everyone should not even appear as He is going to shoot everyone on his sight because he is simply too tired to do anything else. I can understand, if someone is tired and I know this type of people who comes back from work, then join teamspeak, tells everyone how hard day he had today, while playing some game. I do not really like this kind of people and I keep away from them, however my arguments are justified. It's just misunderstanding as I proposed him to better play some shooters, which should satisfy him more than DayZ where everyone who is playing this game, should put a little bit more of themselves than just being a killing machine and saying ''I have to defend myself'' as someone before me already wrote.

Yeah. That's what I will probably do in the future. And agreed. ''I have to defend myself'' which couses to kill everyone on my sight is just... :huh:

Well, I hope that we will never meet in game :)

Yes, some people I think hates me here but ^^ I can resist them! Well, let's be a bit more serious. It's great there are more people who feels like me. Some of the people think, that I am running on the middle of a road and jumping like a bunny with hope of not getting killed. They are extremely wrong about me but what can I say... I gave them a few examples of my deaths and I gave the arguments of why I don't like it. If they don't understand, then I can't help them to achive this. Thank You for your invite and I will consider it! Much appreciated!

Exactly :)

I hope it's because of the lack of content. I can't wait till some new features will be added and who knows.. maybe I will finally meet someone who won't kill me on sight :)

I am sorry to hear that.

I personally think, that most of the people just shoot as they are not able to think of something else. They don't even try to role play some, they don't even try and that's the main problem.

You are everyone ? Good to know :) Maybe you just don't know how ? Maybe it's worth a try ? Maybe you will like it ? :) Never say never.

I am happy, that there is at least someone who understands me. So far, most of the people here are hating me as they think, I want to force them to play DayZ my own way. I didn't want to have this thread turned like this, however.. I am tryign to explain my thoughts as good as I can. I am glad that there are people like you in the game :)

Well, your post is just annoying and useless. If you don't have anything to add, why do you even write such crap ? ...

Once again. I am not complaing about style of playing of other people. I just would like the people to be more creative and think of something cool, exciting for both players insted of sending bullets with high priority. I got an example to some other user in a respond. Read that and maybe you will understand me.

You just simply don't understand my point of view. I do not complain about getting killed or loseing my gear. I do not want to force people to play the way I like it. I just want to give an idea to people who play like that, to be a bit more clever and think of something more.. interesting insted of just shooting to everyone they meet. Let me try to explain my thought here. Imagine situation where you play your character about 6 hours and you are still alive. You have the best gear, weapons and tons of ammunition. You try to be a clever guy and you roll on the ground between trees to minimize the possibility of being detected. Then from nowhere you get shooted from behind without a single word. Now, imagine the way I would like to see people to play. They can do whatever they want. I DO NOT FORCE to play my style to be the friendy guy to everyone as I am even not but it seems you see me this way. You have the best gear, weapons and tons of ammunition. You try to be a clever guy and you roll on the ground between trees to minimize the possibility of being detected. Then from nowhere someone got behind you and ask you to don't move and don't shout or you will get killed. You fallow the instructions, then the guy handcuffs you and says to go forward. He walks just right behind you with aim at your back, then you get nearby a cliff. He says to take off your gear and the backpack including weapons. Every piece of your gear is on the ground and you are almost naked. Then the guy says ''jump off the rock to the water or I will shoot you in your back'' then you jump off and you survive. Then you come back to the cliff after some time to look, if he left something of your gear. You take what you can have good use of, and then you look for some gear to wear etc... It's just some words written on a froum but in reality, I mean in the actual gameplay, it could be really exciting experience insted of getting a bullet in the back of your head. That's why I would love to see. I don't want to see all the bandits becoming friendly and to play as I WANT TO. I don't. I hope you understand me now.