Death By Crowbar

I failed to note - I chopped down some trees and bushes by it and had made a fire right there. I also moved a backpack. Whoever it was will surely realize someone had been there...

Joking is forbidden on these forums.

This and being able to poop in game seem like no brainers. I can technically eat paper, clothing, bullets, etc, there's even TV shows that chronicle people like that. Let's add that too. I'd like to be able to chop my own arm off and eat it. And I should be able to drink my own pee. Or maybe those ideas are a bit silly. I just want bicycles!

I use: Road signs. Compass (or sun). Landmarks or geography (coast, radio towers, etc) Dual screen with the map up on the right for reference:

I was on a server which rebooted, and I logged back in and I was solo - seemed like everyone else jumped to anther server. After 5 minutes, some dude -CJ- logs on. I'm waaaay out west on the map looking for heli crash sites. I head into Zelenogorsk and wouldn't you know it - there's the only other dude on the server. We had a good laugh about the unlikely meeting, talked about staying warm and some other changes, strategies for finding heli crash sites, and then waved and went our separate ways. Even if there's only 1 or 2 people on the server, never think you're alone. I will say it's pretty obvious when someone is AFK, it's kinda garbage play to kill someone who's obviously taking a "time out". Then again, NEAF has a lot of zeds, all it takes is one you didn't see or that you thought you'd outrun to follow you and kill you until you die from it.

LOL it should say, "You are in a coma" rather than "You are unconscious".

The point is - DayZ Standalone hasn't even been released yet. It's in Early Access Alpha, at least a year or two out from an actual release build. This is what people forget. How can you negatively criticize something that's not even at a release build yet and also the devs are keeping an eye/ear on what the community is asking for via Reddit, the forums, and also the Feedback Tracker?

Shrub Rocketeer ™ as many have read is a devout defender of pigs. Well, I wanted to share my experience with the pork. First - are there both pigs and boars? Or are they the same thing? Anyway, I found myself a nice fat boar while adventuring today. Real juicy looking. I figured, I'm cold and starving, I must survive! So I shot it and harvested my bounty. Then I was cold and damp and the text was red claiming I was cold and shaking. I figure, what better way to warm myself up than fire up my camp fire kit and cook some nice pork steaks? Ok, so one of the burned a little (it's tricky to wait there for 10 minutes and then have literally a 5 second window where they turn to cooked and then quickly to burnt, very tricky) but the others are going to be REALLY tasty I'm sure. Shrub Rocketeer ™ if you'd like any of this fine culinary delight that I've prepared off this pig carcass, you're more than welcome to it and I'd be happy to share! I know some cultures don't eat pork but a man has to survive in this post apocalyptic world one way or another. I just wish I could figure out how to make bacon... mmm... bacon... not Tactical Bacon, I want the real thing!

All I know is that guy sure loved the pigs/boars. This: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/207238-pig-killers-make-serios-mistake/ And this: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/208512-pig-miracle-see-is-beleve/#entry2088554 The guy worships the bacon.

You can already poop just fine in game. Tactical dumps are important.

Here's a pic of me taking a tactical dump today. No need to add pooping to the game, I can RP it in np.

Long story short often when I play even though I have a headset & mic I can't use the mic because of my desk's proximity to the bed and my wife sleeping, not to mention the talking could wake the kids in the nearby rooms. Basically - it's the same as playing without a mic at all. Anyone else have this experience (no mic or cannot use mic when playing usually)? One of the things I struggle with is it almost guarantees I'm playing lone wolf - the reason why is because if I approach someone with arms up and comply typing can sometimes lead to random character movements and a lot of times people don't even read the text let alone have the time to wait for it to show up. Impatience seems to lead to a "F this guy, kill him" mentality. In all of the times I've played this way with no mic only maybe 3 times did I connected with people who seemed to "get it" and work with me or cooperate as a rag tag group. I usually set the expectation that "I'll follow your lead, tell me which way you'd like me to go or where I should stand watch". I break it up by sneaking up and throwing chem lights and people and running away, sometimes acting silly can find you fellow survivors willing to take a risk. No mic makes things interesting, sometimes it can work out, but the majority of the time it doesn't and I end up having to fly solo, the ever vigilant lone wolf who most will find less trust worthy than nearly anyone because I cannot speak. Anyone else stuck in this boat? Curious how others deal with it.

I agree with this... and also agree that on 1st person (aka Hardcore) there's in general a trend towards better experiences.

Hey bro... late at night, there's always 20 mins to an hour. You. Can. Do. Eet!

This is a non-starter. You've never met an OCD wife have you? Then there's the 2 kids both under 4. I'm currently set up for failure. All my base are belong to them...

You gonna log in anywhere anytime soon so I can throw random crap at you and run away?

I just pooped a little reading this. I just wanted to say, although it may seem like a crappy job you do good work, especially weeding through the diarrhea that can ploop on the boards. I don't want to leave this thread on a brown note, but holy sheet, it's the cow pie. This post is coming across like a well formed skidmark but I just want you to smell the nugget I'm trying to convey. I mean, turds, it's not coming out right. Maybe it's a turtle head poking out, or maybe we're prairie doggin' it? I've smeared this post all over the place and I'm not sure it can even be wiped up. From floaters, to pies, to logs, to bell ringers (if someone asks I'll explain what this is) orlok I just wanted to give you a little dookie about smelling your way through such a duece of a topic. Man, the shit you guys deal with... pewp. If they do implement pooping I hope I can at least hit G and throw it. Hopefully the throwing mechanism will be fixed by then - it would be embarrassing to throw crap at someone and be stuck standing there for 20 seconds in the throwing animation while your turd went a measly 5 feet (throwing distance is also rather gimp at the moment). It could also be fun to throw onto someone's camp fire and see what happens.

Gahhh!!!! You're not allowed to say that Inception.! You're missing out... unless real life is just getting the best of you. That's always understandable. If you want to learn how to burn yourself on a camp fire or try putting wierd things in the camp fire (like pens and batteries) to see what happens look me up.

Yeah, well, I got his back too. I realize these threads are common but they all have a unique twist and it's what makes the game great. I've got OP's back too.

I have Everquest raid lead typing speed (pre-team speak), I don't know what my words per minute is but it's classically trained, reinforced by old school mmo's and AOL chat type fast. I'm no super hero, but I'm fast enough, and even so either my stenographer short hand isn't quick enough or people simply don't read the text in the lower left. Inception., do you run with a crew of friends or do you end up having to lonewolf it a lot? I can't even run up on someone and type, I usually have to hide and keep tying until they see it so as to not aggro them.

If you're at NWAF, shooting first and asking questions later is acceptable. It's a very high risk area, only the most adventurous or aggressive players go there. Everyone knows what the price to pay could be for making that trip could be. As much as you'd like to be the hero or good guy there, the odds are never in your favor of it ending well there. I applaud you for at least having a conscience about it. And if he has a payday mask on at NWAF - he's asking to be shot, even under the best of circumstances. If you want to read about my recent encounter that was sorta similar in many ways, check this out: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/212020-the-amount-of-a-holes-in-this-game-share-your-stories/?p=2131533 I ended up a statistic, you lived to tell about it. Who handled it better? I don't know... but you survived.

My recent run in with a dbag, oye vey! So I was at a random military base southeast of Vybor, looting the barracks. I always shut the door behind me to conceal myself. But then I hear footsteps! I go to a window in one of the rooms and see a guy run by. so I lie down a wait a sec, listening. 2 minutes I hear nothing, and decide to get a move on. I stand up and open the door of the bedroom I'm in and I see him out the row of windows, and he sees me. He charges trying to shoot me through the windows with an AKM or something automatic heavier than an M4. Then I *think* I hear another guy saying "I got him!". I had retreated to my bedroom because I only had a Blaze and 2 shots isn't a good gamble against a fully automatic. So after hearing "I got him" I got back out into the hallway and I see the door is still closed, but I see him through the glass of the door waiting. He yells, "You cool?" ... I responded, "Of course, I was hiding and watching, trying to avoid conflict." He's like, "Well come on out, I'm cool." I said, "I'd really like to leave - you can see my weapon is on my back, can you put yours away too?" He says, "I'm carrying two so I can't really. Here, I'll just turn around." I'm thinking to myself... F. This is going to get ugly. I say, "Ok, I'm going to come out and simply run, I'd like to go about my way with no trouble." He says, "Works for me, I'm cool!" 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... *deep breath* I open the door and sprint zig zagging like mad, he opens fire, missing for what seemed like a whole clip. I think, "LOL!! You suck, I'm going to survive!!!" But the clip never seems to end! Was it a drum mag? Has he been server hopping and camping this place and he's got tons of mags? Oh crap! I get hit, once, twice, a third... I duck behind a building and I'm bleeding, I hit 1 to bring my Blaze out, but for some reason I start drinking a soda. A SODA????? F***ING SODA??? I hate you you loot a soda and it goes to a hotkey! WHY BOHEMIA???? DAMNIT DEAN HALL!!!! It was a 3rd person server so I check around the corner and in my grey blurry vision I see him coming. I cancel the drink action and attempt to finally arm the Blaze. As the Blaze gets into my hands he says, "Yeah, sorry about this..." BOOM BOOM BOOM (boom?). You are dead. That last (boom?) I *think* was a single shot from my Blaze. I think I might have gotten just one off. I hope it landed. I was pretty annoyed. As I rethink how it all went wrong I think it was all the same guy and he was playing me, he probably shot a zed he'd aggroed after trying to shoot me through the glass and then tried to claim he got the guy after me. Good guy down. :( Trust noone.

I have to imagine this is interesting feedback for the Devs. Even though the loot tables, frequency, etc aren't settled yet I've noticed a trend on balancing them out and keeping things sensible and interesting. I'm actually happy with the changes over the past 3-5 months in that regard, it also encourages more use of the map with the heli crash sites and encourages dispersal from the biggest cities and biggest army facilities - there are neat things in other niche locations that are totally worth the effort to seek out.

This is a brilliant idea. I already always carry a note on me announcing who I am, well wishing whoever I was with or who tried to save me and cursing whoever killed me. That's totally a brilliant option!

It certainly warms you up. I find that when my gear is in bad condition especially I have to stop and light a fire every 10 minutes or so to get out of the red text complaining about me being cold. Fire kits are easy to do if you have an ax and matches. However once I get pristine gear and energized again I find I'm able to stay warm without needing to have a fire every so often. Maybe someone else can answer this - do/should portable gas stoves provide warmth? I've tried that and it doesn't seem to do much.