Voice of reason

Firearms make this game to easy for those who have them and more difficult for those who don't. I would like to see how it would look like without firearms and more melee weapons and overall better melee fight capabilities. Maybe add some selfmade weapons like bows and spears. What do you think?

I have an idea and I'd like your opinion please. Since there is a lot of KOS going on in the game and I don't really like to KOS myself even though I do when neccesary, I was thinking that maybe it would be good idea if people die for good. Let me explain. At the moment if you get killed in the game you spawn back on the beach and then the same with m4 (like me) can find you again and KOS again. Why not since you don't know me and there is no way you can find out who killed you I can do it over and over. But what if players I killed would become invisible to me for good until my character dies. I think that would make people more willing to talk an less willing to KOS. Reason for being less willing to kill is the fact that if you kill all the users on the server and they spawn back you never get to see the player again and you are alone until your character dies for whatever reason. Obviously at first you would jump server and get at other players but the more you kill the less you will see. I'm sure the list of players can be easly saved to the character just like your inventory. The idea needs to be polished to actually work but i think it ads realism to the game because if you kill someone in real life you won't see them 2 hours later runing on the coast. What do you think?

Yeah that makes sense. You run around and loot alone, get all the great gear and then ..... hmm I guess you just have that gear and well you are alone. That sounds like great fun. I guess the poll said it all. Cool. Thaks all for your input.

Yesterday I had a weird situation where I found a gun, I walked out a building, shot 3 zombies for fun and heard a shot fired at me. It missed so I ran back into a building, walked upstairs into a room to have a look through a window and as I was trying to keep as close to the wall as posible I just walked through it and ended up droping from the first floor and "You have died" obviously. I would prefer if walking through walls would be impossible in any case.

Its just to get peolpe interested in what I try to say. Again if anybody is actually reading all the post you would have noticed I said reduce the amount of guns and make melee RELEVANT in this game which at the current moment it isn't. And for those who say there is plenty guns because I'm in USA and thats the same everywhere - its not true. I live in UK and guns here are illegal fro the most part and extremally rare in public. I come from eastern europe and trust me, guns are rare there as well. And to sum up what I said before. I started this topic because everybody seems to shout "MORE GUNS!!!!!!" Make zombies like "world war z" style and amount and I'll screem with you.

Your comments are childish and silly no matter how funny you think you are. I have a suggestion then. How about you go outside and try to find a gun in your neighbourhood and then come to me and tell me how easy it was to find.To those who think I have a problem with KOS - I don't and you can be sure that when I see you I will shoot you without a word out of a distance.In this post I was trying to say there is not enough options and it gets to easy with all the guns people opt so much for.There is an idea. maybe in face of disaster countries send countless amounts of guns to the shore with plenty of ammo and when I spawn on the beach I just pick up one and look for some people to kill. It makes perfect sense in my opinion.

I am aware its an alpha and if noone is going to point out issues then it will stay alpha for ever. Internet conection shouldn't have any impact on characters location but I have very good connection so I don't think it was a problem in this case. Thank you for acknowledging my post. Its greatly appreciated.

I have the same problem recently - log out somewhere log back in to the same server and back on the beach. No reason given.

I thought I will be the only one voting for more melee and it is nearly equal to my surprise. It may be weird when I say it but I personally think that there should be a lot of guns in the game but for the moment the game has way to many guns and noone pays attention to melle any more. I was just hoping to put more attention to that. Personally i dont like to have a gun because there is always someone trying to kill me over it but I deffinitely want them in the game. Just more balance please.

Looking forward to that. :D

You misunderstood what I said. I'm not talking about the power of any weapon being to high in the game. I'm saying that having sniper rifles in this kind of game is not neccesary hence "overkill".

I'm sure you are correct but I still want to know what people think of that idea. I had good weapons at one point and I decided it was time to die because there was no more fun left in the game. I just walked and killed zombies safely without any challange. I was just hoping this game is going to be more difficult and challanging in the long run.

And thats the kind of compromise I think is fair.

I'm not saying get rid of all guns but scoped sniper rifles are a little bit of an overkill. Keep the handguns and see what its like.

Every opinion is a good opinion. Thats why i posted this. I want to know what people think.

Great idea. Then i can pretend to be a hero and shoot you in the face fron close range so you have less chance to escape.

You Are right Rhodes about searching for guns in that situation but it could be more challenging if there where none to be found or at least no highend sniper rifles.

It looks to me like you are 14 or less because for one I mention Hitler as example of how evil people can be and I don't want to debate or compare people to him and second, you didn't answer my question. It doesn't matter how many people KOS, it doesn't make the game unplayable. Just because you die by players hands it doesn't mean there is something wrong with the game. From your story I gather that you just walked into a place where KOS happen the most and expect everyone to be your best friends. Thats not a problem with the game, thats the problem with your way of playing it. You behave like spoiled child. I want to walk safely wherever I please so I'm gonna post in this forum until I get what I want. I'm sorry for you. Once again in life you just don't get it your way. You must be the only one.

And just so you acuse me of being a bad person of any kind - I have killed other player once when he asked me to do so due to broken legs and I have no intention to do so again but I was killed by other players. It never stopped me trying again.

Ok lets NOT mention bad people ever again and then they would never exist and the problem of evil will be sorted for good. Fine. In that case explain to me how NOT having the PVE option harms your ability to play the game as it is. Everyone else seems to be able to play just fine.

It is quite amazing really to read this whole "I want / I don't want" exchange. This game's purpose is to show people what would it be like if that kind of environment really existed. OP the game is here not to please you. It is here to show you how quick you would really die if you were who you are now in case world would happen to become dayz place. There is no point playing this game if people are not people. Read a little about what this world was like before governments and police started to exist and you will find out how many people died because of one bad man. Even easier example for you. Read about hitler and you will see how many died because the didn't manage to survive. You might want this game to be PVE but then there is no point of this game at all because there is no full range of human nature involved. This game is about survival against human nature and not about casual killing of brainless creatures.

I like this idea. Maybe, just maybe it would make people feel more personal about just killing anybody they see. I think if you kill someone and then read a tag saying am a doctor here to help you would at least consider not killing another guy on sight. I killed a player once after he asked me to due to broken legs which i couldnt help him with but i prefer not to just run around killing everybody i see just because they might want to kill me just for the fun of it.

I'm doing some martial arts and i seen some fights, both in everyday life and on the ring. One punch knockouts are rare but they happen even to a healthy well trained man. I have never been punched in the game so I can't really say what is the effect of getting punched but in real life I took some serious blows and some of them did knock me out clean. Rare as I said but happened. Considering my experiences and the situation where the character is in fighting for his life I think one blow knock out is very likely. I think though that it shouldn't be an everytime situation regardless. 25% chance sounds very reasonable to me but depending on your health in the game and so on factors should change. Thats just my opinion.