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I'm not getting people who don't like vanilla to switch, I'm saying that anything implemented into private servers, like spawning with guns, ruins the experience for the vanilla player. I would love to have a server with 40 people in the mod being pure vanilla, but that has not happened ONCE for me when I played the mod link?

I do. Your argument is invalid. I play vanilla for the challenge of survival. Today, I crawled all the way to a hospital to fix my broken legs when I was a fresh spawn rather than committing suicide. The game should be harder rather then easier.

I don't bitch about KOS, Yet I feel having servers that give donator perks, adjust spawn rates, etc. changes the survival aspect of the game. That is wrong, and affects the public hive as a dirrect result

servers cannot be private atm because that violates server rules, report servers that kick people upon joining.

Amen, This is EXACTLY what happened in the mod, If I were BI, I would make private servers have very limited options because what happened in the mod was a joke.

because more options makes the game that much better of a game.

Defeating the purpose of survival and giving donator perks makes it a pay to win deathmatch in which people have even less a reason to be friendly because there is no reason to be. I like having KOS in this game, it would not be fun without it, but the fact that it becomes a deathmatch defeats the purpose of struggling to get gear, because there is no struggle. Dayz deathmatch server = COD deathmatch server

If I had donations on a server, I would only allow people who donate to have maybe a headlamp instead of a flashlight, anything that gives that player an extreme advantage, I feel, should not be in Dayz. Better yet, make a no micro transaction policy in Dayz SA! It was when I first started off the mod that I encoutered this blasthemy! I prefered spawning on the coast with: -Painkiller -Bandage -maybe a flashlight Rather than: -Winchester -3 slots of ammo -blood bag (self applicable) -a glock with ammo -3 bandages -a fully cooked steak -and a check backpack this is pretty much defeating the purpose of survival completely

Imagine joining the server and you immediately have a fully operational helicopter sitting there on the coast. Or having a SH*& ton of barracks added to the map. It ruins the atmosphere and makes it truly feel like... wait for it... Call Of Duty

servers that do this NEED to be reported.

I remember killing a guy who had a guile suit and a DMR, seconds later, he spawns on the coast with a guile suit and a DMR again. -_- <_<-_- donator servers are really, really, dumb

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/169564-let-me-tell-you-about-the-heroes-of-cherno-dayz-sa-experrience/ This is my story that is eerily similar to this video, the people in mine also combat logged.

I shot outside a window at a group who was holding up a fresh spawn, The bullet, instead of going into the bandit's skull, went into an invisible wall in front of the window. They surrounded the building and I had nothing, what I did was I took off EVERYTHING, and I walked outside. They murdered the crap out of me, but I was still enjoying myself because they waited 10 minutes to finally raid the building because they thought that there had to be someone else in the building besides me. Back to the post, did anyone else have this problem with 'invisible' walls clipping you shots?

should I report the building to the bug forum?

buy server slots

To begin this story, we must understand that I have played the mod (and enjoyed it!) and nothing that has happened in the mod can match up to what happened in SA one day when I was entering the east side of Cherno.... I decided to soloplay as a fresh spawn (If you have never tried to soloplay, you are missing out it is fun) and I was entering the industrial city of Cherno. The first thing that caught my eye was a bleeding bambi survivor who was booking it out of the city. I tried VOIP but he just kept running. I shrugged it off, thinking he was hit by a zombie or something. Not discouraged I ventured on. The first thing I did was enter a building that surrounded the plaza, the one with the tank statue. I began to go building to building, keeping a low profile checking corners with lean. Then I heard a BOOM! I shat a brick! I instantly went into the neighboring building and checked as to where I was being shot from. I had not been hit, but the shot terrified me. I was not too sure if I was the one being shot at. Nonetheless, I went onward. By this time, I had food,water,medical supplies, a helmet, and a firefighter ax. I felt pretty good about the gear I collected. I crawled next to the crashed plane in Cherno and got to the clock tower, hugging the wall. I got to the climbable gutter (protip the gutter on the clock tower acts as a ladder, the loot up there is good and has a mosin spawn, the reason I went to check up there). As I got up... BOOM! (this time even louder). This time around I dove into a prone stance! I was sweating by then. my head pivoting, trying to see where these shots were coming from. I then saw two brown blobs shifting positions near big giant letters at the tallest spot in Cherno, two bandits with mosins (long range scope) camping in the typical spot. HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO COMPETE WITH THAT?!?! I realized they never saw me. So I decided to get off the clock tower and make a plan once I was on the ground. I felt like an idiot, I went into a town even after seeing the bambi run for his life! I had no gun, The only weapon I had was a fire ax, no way to compete with a high powered firearm. I was getting ready to leave Cherno, the city I loved. And then I realized, for every shot they got off, it was another survivor dying. THEY TOOK MY CITY! I felt obligated to protect my city and rid it of the filth known as bandits. Still hearing them firing away, I made my choice: This is my city, the survivors are victims of these terrible people. Somehow, I had to put a stop to their actions against humanity. I HAD TO TAKE BACK MY CITY! So I did about the stupidest thing I could ever do: I went to the base of the ladder, gripped it, and proceeded to climb up. This was stupid for multiple reasons: first off, If one of them checked the ladder, BOOM! "You are dead". Secondly, They could hear me make loud banging sounds as I ascended. Finally, anyone who saw me climbing up, from pretty much any area surrounding Cherno, could have easily offed me. But, knowing I could not back down now, I continued. I ascended almost to the top, only moving between each loud BOOM that came from the mosin rounds going off. I was inches from the top. The bandits were now facing me. SHIT! If I climb up now, I'm dead. They had changed their firing position so that they were shooting at the newly added apartments in the SA. I then took something into account that gave me a huge advantage If I timed it right: 1. When they were scoped in, their FOV was a circle with high magnification. 2. They were prone and bunkered down, adding to their limited mobility. 3. 5 shots, reload, 5 shots, reload. Taking all these things into account, I climbed over when they only had one shot left in their rifle. My heart has never raced so fast in my experiences of playing dayz. What felt like 5 minutes was only 15-30 seconds. I climbed over, and ran straight to the first bandit as he was reloading, I roared in VOIP as my ax entered his skull. He was dead. As his buddy got up and tried to pull out his sidearm, I yelled in VOIP "This is what you get when you try to take my city! This is what happens!" The last words he heard as I slammed my ax right between his eyes! He dropped and my mouth dropped. HOLY SHIT I DID IT! I took out two armed bandits, plaguing my beloved city, with only a fire ax. Before I could access their gear, their bodies vanished (logging out) as they had just been taken out by a man with a fire ax. (oooh they must have been pissed!). I did not need their guns, they were blood guns anyway. I actually felt like batman, (aside from the kill part) in which I apprehended wrongdoers without the aid of a gun. This is not the end of my story, however, as something even cooler happened that really puts this as my best moment in Dayz. Remember when I mentioned the bandits were sniping towards the new apartments. Well, those two men were essential to my plan being a success! I ACTUALLY MET UP WITH THEM! I descended from the ladder and made my way to the firehouse and then, between the supermarket and firehouse, I saw a friendly player using VOIP to try to talk to me, putting my fire ax away to make sure I was not threatening. He told me the bandits in Cherno were dead as "a man with a blue motorcycle helmet and a fire ax killed them." His friends heard the shots from the apartments and, felling it was their obligation as heroes, went to the top of the apartments and began to shoot those bandits. As the sniper battle went on, They saw me climb up and go onto the platform, They were scared for me and were thinking "no! don't go up! They have guns!" They were in awe as they saw the entire event take place as they were aimed in with their high powered scopes. I told him my story, they told me theirs, and we were in awe at the events that unraveled. We were heroes. I thanked him over and over again because his distraction was what provided me the opportunity to save the city. We exchanged steam accounts, added each other, traded supplies, and went our separate ways. Events like this is the reason why there is so much more to the game then just surviving. Events like this make your heart race. The best part is: THIS ALL HAPPENED IN THE ALPHA! As for us, we will continue to be the hero Cherno deserves! [EDIT] bad punctuation

thanks man, I shall continue as is.

In the mod, I met up with three other people and we all went up north, next to what is now known as Guba, and we... HAD A GODDAMN FEAST! We all brought our own food and had fun doing a lil role play. And not once did someone decide to take out their gun and kill the rest of the group. Creative role play, when done maturely, can be just as fun as following someone without them knowing you are there. I hope they make cooking more interactive, and with better animations, then it was in the mod. Where would you guys go if you wanted to have a feast?

they should add some sort of cliff on the map, like a rapid drop area. Imagine people plummeting to their demise in a car. Side note, really excited for rag doll physics

Post made me think of this song, The struggle to get to your friend who is across the map. IT'S REAL!

bu..but I want to share a bag of dry milk with you in peace :(

fixed, the SA should keep the vanilla ideal, and no donator perks please

I'm curious because of what happened the last time I got myself a walkie talkie, I saw it had different channels that overtook the direct chat (, and .). Will this eventually become the new global chat? I feel that the global chat in the mod was really annoying because, correct me if I'm wrong, there was always that ONE person who joined the server and began to spam global chat like an officially certified ass hat. I would be immersed in the mod, only to have someone enter the server and spam the "N" word and giggle like they just farted in a quiet classroom, completely destroying any sense of immersion. Will something be done to prevent this in the SA? What is the general consensus guys/gals? How do you feel global chat should be handled?

i need to try this myself, in the meantime, thanks for the tip. You deserve this ----> :beans:

I never knew that the walkie talkie could do that! Do you have a video showing such example?