TheScruffyBandit

I have to agree, KoS mentality and the lack of attachment to characters lives is drastically reducing the amount of potential DayZ has for unscripted, unique player interactions. Unfortunately this was bound to happen with the popularity of DayZ attracted the Battlefield Gears of Duty: VXI crowd. I'm hoping when they get bored and move on to the next bandwagon, we can start playing DayZ again instead of rougelike ARMA2 death match.

Yep, the fact that all the spawn points are clustered around the east side of the map near the coast just helps fuel PvP in the major cities there and leaves there rest of the map empty, why we no longer spawn on the SW side of the coast or have inland spawns I do not know.

I wouldn't mind a few heads on sticks along with hung corpses around my base, just to show potential looters I mean business. >:(

You say Sadist like it's a bad thing. ;)

A few points in reply to the OP:- 1) Zombies are a joke, even as a complete fresh spawn. Punching the head will knock both players and zombies out cold for a few seconds after a couple of hits, which is most likely what happened to you. 2) You can reload a gun whenever you like, you just need to remove the existing ammo first. If you have a snap loader, stripper clip or additional magazine then you can already reload just by pressing R even if your weapon isn't empty. 3) People will take you more seriously here if you stop typing like you're a 12 year old who's using a mobile phone with predictive text.

Everyone is death matching & hunting bambis along the east coast and down to electro. :rolleyes:

Every god damn thread. We know. That doesn't instantly block any criticism or airing of concerns, the whole point of being here is to play the game and give feedback, hopefully improving the game along the way. OP is most likely worried about nothing, but he's still doing his job as a player of this ALPHA by reporting and discussing his concerns for the games future.

Yep, some cheating buggers got sick of dying all the time and instead spent 5 minutes on google finding out how to glitch into walls and decided to be assholes to their fellow survivors. Not much you can really do about it I'm afraid. At least you can rest assured, if they hadn't been glitching little wimps, you'd most likely have killed them.

Watch the second video, it explains why.

Anyone who hasn't watched these two videos already should watch them. They shine a lot of light on exactly what is good and what is bad with zombies as it stands.

Generally If I'm on a low population server It's because I'm hunting server hoppers, they're by far the easiest way to find a long range scope... sit at an airfield, watch the server list for someone logging in and listen very carefully, then teach them that server hopping isn't as safe of a way to gear up as they previously believed. I find it amusing how many people log in right in the ATC tower, surely they can't think that's wise, right? So, chances are if we bump into each other on a server with only 2 people on it, I'm going to put a few rounds in you I'm afraid.

I personally prefer the SKS and Mosin honestly, But then I play with two people who heavy lean towards the M4, so as a group we make a fairly balanced fire team.

the .22s are useful zombie plinkers. Hell I killed two people with a Amphibia S yesterday, one had an M4 the other rushed me with an axe and I didn't have time to Mosin him. Infact, if you're looking for a sneaky weapon, I'd take the silenced .22 Amphibia S over a crossbow anytime. The case for the Sportster 22 is even easier to make, if a server is picked clean you could do far worse than grab one, if you dump a few rounds into someone at 50 meters, they'll go down fine just like with the m4. Don't turn your nose up at them if you're running around without a gun and don't underestimate someone with one, or you'll regret it.

head shots or several body shots, kind of like how the zombies respond to .22 now, if it doesn't hit them in the head, you better shoot them a couple more times, but obviously how many body shots are required should depend heavily on the type of weapon used. High caliber rounds like 7.62x54r from the mosin should effectively punch a hole through a Zed anyway, so it's realistic that one shot in the torso should be fatal for them. Lets not forget that these are infected "rabies" type zombies, not technically dead, so massive systemic damage, like being shot in the heart with a Mosin or shotgun from 10 feet away should certainly prove fatal. It's not unreasonable to expect that finished zombies might respond like someone out of their head on PCP. They may not respond to pain in the same way a sober person would and will continue aggression even after taking damage that may ultimately prove fatal, giving weapons with increased stopping power such as shotguns, magnum, large caliber rifle rounds and hollow point rounds an advantage in taking down zombies from body shots, and requiring accurate and well timed head shots to quickly dispatch zombies with a single shot using rounds like .22lr, non-hollow point/magnum pistol rounds and lower caliber rifle rounds like 5.56 nato. I'd also like to see military zombies taking more rounds to kill, due to their armour... perhaps even being able to survive a single headshot from a lower caliber weapon, much like players can when equipped with a ballistic helmet.

I'd love them to add the AK74u, but it's not a SMG. It fires 5.45x39 intermediate rounds. It's an Assault rifle, just a kawaii little one.

Any gun is an ambush king. They can't hear your gunshots if you blow off their head and by extension, their ears.

Congrats. Now you'll desync through a wall and die to broken legs. That's how it usually goes when people find something nice.

I'd rather they made it so you couldn't obtain items you've previously owned. Stop people looting their own bodies all together and stop groups holding gear from bodies so their dead friend can regear quickly.

What's pussy ass about standing upright in an open field in lines and shooting the shit out of each other? Hell, we even wore brightly coloured jackets so we'd be clearly visible to both our own troops and the enemy. The only way we could have been any more hardcore is if we refused to use guns and instead walked up and stabbed the enemy with our bullets.

"I play battlefield 3-4 so I am not a baby." Okay. :rolleyes:

I love how 3pp kids think abusing a camera angle makes them skilled. :rolleyes:

Silly OP and his bandit "clan", they think bandits need to kill to obtain people's equipment.

He isn't talking about seeing the shadow cast by the player who has disabled them, he's talking about people being less visible while in the area darkened by shadows.

Beans for video and not being a 3pp baby.

You forgot your video. :D