Elle

I win.

hahah the sheer numbers, as you put it, are what pay the salaries of the people who are making the game - duh! - why do you want to hurt pocketbooks of the people who are making such a fine product that has such incredible mass appeal and TWO different play styles already built in. just stay the hell off of 3pp servers if its that important to you and if the 1pp servers die due to lack of participation I would have to say the paying masses, you know, those sheer numbers, will have spoken. don't be daft. stop trying to force your way on everyone else. simple.

oh I am well aware of the economics of arma2 and how the mod increased its sales but you have to understand that the mod, which was free, served as an advertising agent for arma2 which was not free - I am one of those people that watched all the videos thinkin to myself "well isn't that cool" while shopping for something else that did not require me to buy some game I had no interest in just to play. then the announcement of SA came along and I was all in. I tinkered with the arma demos and whatnot but they just aren't my kinda game. the standalone must serve as its own advertising agent and sell itself to the masses, therefore the masses must be appeased in order to maintain sales and right now the masses like their 3pp. that ability alone was part of the reason I bought it. I have no love for 1pp only games - they give me headaches. I do however like the ability to switch between the two, cause sometimes ya have to see what yer doin and sometimes ya have to see where yer goin. I rather like having the ability of playing this as a PvE game and really like the fact that the environment is getting more difficult as development progresses - I don't play it as a shooter, I never have and I never will so that 4th wall mod would be great for something like private hives but likely hinder those of us who enjoy a casual stroll thru zombie apocalypse. now if were a bit smoother in its operation it wouldn't make any difference to have it running on 3pp so I am no entirely opposed to that but I am very opposed to the overall removal of 3pp. damn that there is just freaky creepy - I did see a lil indie game where you get to play as a fly but this^ is something else entirely :p

just so I understand this correctly... you want the devs to take some precious time away from overall game development so they can add a toggle to let you turn the flies off. is that what I just read? on a side note: being an "uber-nerd PC gamer" one would think that you would already be aware that games representing realism in the outdoors are going to have appropriate outdoor ambient sounds so it might be more efficient to ask for the devs to make a toggle for ambient sounds overall. just sayin.

the huge difference is the mod was free to own and standalone is not. in order for a commercial enterprise to be successful one must supply what the majority demands. simple econ 101. private hives will make a big difference in how we all approach the dayz experience I am sure. I completely agree with everything else in yer post there ;) nicely done.

yeah my first real oops encounter with em was in a bunk room in a barracks building - too tight to swing the axe so I pulled the ole .45 and shot the SOB... his sister comes thru the wall behind me with her aunt and brother-in-law meanwhile the original has respawned and is coming through the other wall as I am steadily emptying one mag after another so I can manage to get a clear path to the door just terrified I've alerted every player on the server to my whereabouts and I would be shot runnin out. I was all bright green on all statuses when this all started but I was seeing hard greyscale when it was over. It took almost 20 mins a bag of rice and a few gallons of water to recover and I had to go find some more gear, seems I had shat my pants in all the commotion. so yeah I changed my methods after I changed my pants - I like the zeds a lot better now

aww jack ya beat me to it - nice by the way ;)

first off they are not dead they are infected living human beings that apparently can sprint and jump and in the game respawn - just like you but in a slightly different manner. secondly, these are just placeholder zombies, remember the A-word. thirdly if you had been following the devtracker you might be aware of server load problems with huge amounts of zombies, you do still want to be able to play right? I'll end it with that but it kinda looks like you wasted your money - oh and you can pass this on to the uninformed individual you quoted since you seem to admire his work so much.

hrm I wonder if this is what happened to me the other day - I was dancing with a zed using my fire axe and couldn't get a hit to save my life (yeah I really said that) when the zed finally got a hit on me I was instantly dead. of course I was in cherno so it could have been a sniper...

"All lives are mundane, it only depends on how much you settle for." you should state this as your opinion as well. My life has never been mundane and satisfaction with reality is something that comes and goes over time. If your reality is permanently unsatisfactory then you really should look at changing your reality. You seem to have a very limited life experience.

what no square dance?? I'm disappointed.

precisely. its all fiction and it doesn't bother me in the least that other players can see around corners in 3pp, I can too so its all equal and its all fiction. I like 3pp for the ease of navigation as I rarely engage in combat - I didn't buy CoD. I don't play video games for the sake of "immersion" to begin with - I play them to enjoy the talent of the creators and the writers (if the game has a story) and to take a break from my housework. the only thing that actually provides "immersion" is real life so in reality I play video games to break the "immersion". as for the titles you have mentioned, I've never played them, not my type of game. I bought DayZ for the survival aspects and the zombies, not for some pretend "immersion" experience. it is in the end just another video game. I'm sorry you have a mundane life that needs spicing up, I don't, but I do enjoy a good game.

umm the point was about immersion not realistic textures and environment - I agree its a very well done piece of art and I truly enjoy just running the countryside in the game to see the beautiful environment. I love the fact that I can read the little manufacture's stamp on some of the items I carry. all of these things are very well done but in the end immersion is broken the second I see the actual fiction that it is and that tends to happen most when I encounter the completely fictional zed. I love the game but I'm an eyecandy whore and I couldn't give a shit about supposed immersion. as for what the game is about.... its a sandbox, its about whatever I want it to be about. edit: so I just re-read my post and as I had suspected I never called anything unrealistic - even tho the zeds are - maybe you should read it again too.

interesting considering that the majority of the community plays 3pp. why do you think that is? another question is why do you want to piss off the majority of the community?? and yet another question is why in the hell do you think you know more than I do about how I want to play MY games??? it has been stated repeatedly that there are HC servers for 1pp only gameplay, I know because I play on em. I also play on the 3pp servers after the HC gives me a raging headache from trying to navigate the high grass. seriously if you have a problem with 3pp play, stay the hell off the 3pp servers but for the love of god stop trying to force your playstyle on everyone else, its just a bit Nazi-ish. as for immersion... I didn't buy the game because "omg its so real..." its a fictional apocalypse, key point being fictional - there is no true immersion in fiction and every zed I see reminds me of that - kinda blows the immersion.

except I am not a member of any steam group unless I have somehow been added without my knowledge. edit: just checked the group tab and it is indeed empty

hahah so it is! I really need to check the banner before I reply ;) thanks!

I've noticed that as well - I was looking for the server that my friend was on the other day and it showed that I had 4 friends on one server and one friend on another, he was the only friend I had on at the time and I only have 3 friends that play.

well I have to assume that since you are asking about the player/channel part of the map you know how to open it so that's taken care of... as for what that does, its anyone's guess, I have spent quite a lot of time myself messing with it and it doesn't seem to do anything - yet. it's possible that more functionality will be added at some point but I don't think the map does much but allow you to put notes on it which reset once your game session ends. other than that its a really nice and detailed map, I have a complete one on my stable regular char. oh and I have found that the new police stations spawn them quite often. in the end however, you will get to know the real estate well enough that having a map just takes up inventory space.

probably not the best life but it's my understanding that they still make zombies in Haiti.

not a big rap fan but that there is just funny. well done gents!

funny, I was in Haiti a couple of decades ago and met a voodoo zombie, he walk the grounds of the hotel where we stayed and was quite harmless he was also quite mindless. one of the hotel employees informed me that at some time in his past he had crossed a voodoo priestess and she subsequently poisoned him to very near death and had him dug up a couple of days after his funeral. he was in many ways a typical slow moving Romero style zombie but he was still alive and not hell bent on eating brains, he looked very nearly dead all the time despite the fact that the hotel cared for him. oh he smoked too, one of the drivers at the hotel says "yeah just put a cigarette in his mouth and light it..." so I did. very creepy. anyway voodoo zombies are just poisoned people that have had their brain burned out with some toxin but they are quite alive.

open your Steam client and click on "store" type "dayz" in the search bar

burying the victims...

yes and yes :)

damn I was so caught in my passion that I forgot to mention that I don't have any problems with tossin someone in the trunk or draggin em around after they have been legitimately subdued. picking up wounded people or dead bodies is not out of the question either as they both have merits for different reasons. so 2 outta 3 aint bad... or something like that.