Death By Crowbar

I was pretty pimp at Quake2/3 (rail gun!), Unreal Tournament, Half Life, etc. Getting used to DayZ was a complete change of mindset for me. It's not twitch reaction time based, it's exactly what said - it's more strategy and planning than reaction time. The object is to survive, not to rack up kills. If it was to arcade style rack up skills you'd spawn fully geared and the map would be much smaller, and maybe we'd have jet packs like in Tribes. Or maybe it would be like Carmageddon and we'd drive over the zombies and get power ups that make them do crazy things such as become giants. To quote the game's main site on Bohemia:

It takes a long time to gear up, and a lot of effort. All of the running, avoiding being seen or shot at, winning skirmishes that can't be avoided, worrying about starving to death, worrying about falling to your death on stairs knowing darn well you NEED what's up them... and when you see a guy without much gear you know he's either a brand new player (unlikely), or somehow had his gear wiped by a bug (this can happen), or he got killed by someone - and more likely than not he was killed by a bandit style player or a clan. Because of the survival aspect of the game and all of the effort that it can take to find food, clothes, backpacks, let alone weapons and all of the running and surviving required along the way - of course you SHOULD feel bad when you kill someone. This isn't CoD nor is it CS. It's DayZ. You can play as an aggressive survivor but it's not the purpose/design of the game, thus why you feel bad. That's a good thing.

Sounds like you'd rather be playing Arma than DayZ SA. You also seem to have a fetish for a lot of periods, you appear to have used your daily quota on the subject alone!

PS4's hardware is likely better than a lot of the people who complain about lag in cities. Because let's be honest, if you lag in cities there is definitely something wrong with your system (not enough RAM, insufficient graphics card, etc). That being said, I'd only play a game like this on PC. You simply cannot play a first person shooter on a console the way you do on a PC. Put a console player head to head with someone who's got keyboard and mouse and the PC player would smoke them every time.

When I die I want to see dancing naked women. That's pretty much it. If that feature can be added this would be the best game ever.

You said a lot there, I'm trying to figure out if it was really cleaver tongue in cheek or if you meant something else. Do you mean if a sniper actually hits you you're a noob for not keeping moving eradically and being aware of your surroundings? Or do you mean sniping people is a noob way of killing people? Or a combination of #1 and #2 above?

So, this is a real thing! I've had it, and it's actually excellent: http://www.berkshirebrewingcompany.com/coffeehouse.html if anyone lives in the greater New England area where they distribute to, you should definitely try it. I've found it in Connecticut, Mass, and as far as Maine.

Well, the heads in the helmets and the story line were all good, I wasn't sure how much was fact vs fiction. I like the way you folded it together! Twice when I was bored I looted a small town and put every item I could find into the middle of the street, just for grins. One time I stuck around to see if anyone noticed and how they'd react, the other time I just did it and ran.

It's a great feature. The few times I've seen someone vomit I've nearly lost it laughing. you should make people vomit when they run too long without stopping... chasing someone down and all the sudden they start vomiting because they're exhausted and over stuffed, lol.

In honor of the pig, this story deserves some bacon. You're hilarious Shrub!

Why do I get the impression this is partially based on a real story? Either way, I like it. :D :beans: :beans:

I'm assuming the "Dean Hall" and "Beans" reference wouldn't fly over people's heads... "Dean" and "Beans" are sorta iconic to DayZ.

Play the game the way you want to play it. I used to ALWAYS play the nice guy. Spent a month and maybe 200 hours that way. However, for a week I got into a really bad run where everyone I'd approach or help would end up killing me, or if I was helping someone we'd both get killed while talking or something. Then I spent maybe a month or so playing the lone wolf and not talking to anyone and shooting first and asking questions later (only when there was no way to avoid). However, in the past 2 weeks I've had a lot of good interactions again, and just 2 nights ago I was in western Berezino in the parts up on the hill and I ran into 2-3 decently nice people ranging from a guy just looking for SKS ammo to another guy hiding in a corner who I ended up teaming up with for a bit to loot and look out for each other. That's the best part about DayZ, you don't know how people are going to react, in a lot of ways it really is like what I'd imagine the apocalypse would be like. Hang in there, there are good non-KOS people out there.

I attempted to enter either the police station, fire station, or crane all of which have the steep stairs. The last 3 times (in a row) I've tied have been in these buildings due to bugs and situations beyond my control. I simply had a broken leg then suddenly died. That's how I last died. It's not a glorious story... but it's true. I can't wait until they address this issue.

I never claimed that it didn't contain bugs or issues. I was responding to all of the whining that it's unplayable or impossible, it's quite the latter. Also in response to the complaints that zeds ruin all their gear and that zeds can't be hit at all and killed, if you're playing properly it takes things such as desync and bad luck for a zed to actually hit. So it takes you 2-3 swings before you finally connect, but so what? It's still playable and still not difficult That's my point, it's not chest thumping, it's not claiming there are no issues - I'm merely giving an accurate assessment of the situation and offering guidance (links to tutorial vidoes) for those who seem to obviously need it.

These are subtle or not in the Devblog that I've found so far. Anyone else notice anything interesting? Seems like a lot went into this release. Binoculars are back to a 1x2 slot item (no longer 2x2). Meelee has changed a lot - you need to be a lot more accurate, you can't just swing wildly in the direction of your target. Zeds seem to swarm a bit more and I'm noticing more hoppers now. Military boots are new - and they appear to have storage, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what to put in them! Nothing fits. The ragdoll effects are pretty neat, you can end up with dead people/zeds in all different positions, even kneeling like this (don't mind me bandaging myself):

DayZ has currency already, it includes (in rough order of value): Books Chem lights or flares Track Suits Spray Paint (yes, this is more valuable than Track Suits!) Real Clothes Backpacks Food/water Meelee weapons Range weapons Ammo Can openers (or other things that open cans, but can openers are the best) Your filthy stinking LIFE... you always pay with this now don't ya!?!!

I agree with this opinion.

Give them what they deserve!

The plan is to get them eventually, no? Will that make it a "Cyclist survivor game without dogs"?

:beans: :beans: :beans: :beans: Good work! Would have been awesomely funny if, say for the Mosin guy, if you just ran up and threw it at him and then ran away. LOL!

Don't worry - that one has been reported many times, even I reported it once a few days ago: http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=14949

DayZ Standalone is a competitive eating contest with zombies and people who most likely will try to kill you but might also merely handcuff you and force feed you poison.

No, I didn't thump my chest, I'm merely giving an accurate assessment of the situation. Even though the hitboxes are different now I've found that "leading" them works best, see this tutorial on how to kill them, it might help you. It still holds true with the introduction of navmesh and also works for hoppers. Hope this helps you.

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