hozzdutch

Well, it's the most intense situation I've been in while playing solo when not up against another player. Fun, yes, but equally as frustrating. I'd rather come against a big crowd of zombies and survive - knowing that I will (eventually) either win or die (or be forced to 'tactically retreat'). Knowing that there is just a never ending kill/spawn cycle kinda stops you from getting that 'I defeated the horde' exhilaration from creating a pile of dead zombies.

Respect :beans: Perhaps my wording was wrong. I want more zombies and making steps towards them is good, but having them just pop out of thin air really sucks and severely breaks the 'realism' of the game. It just seem that they went from one extreme to another. Things can only get better!

The windows are broken! It's letting the cold in.

Thanks for that valuable input. FYI, I am dealing with it. I know it's alpha and i fully accept bugs and unfinished content, I've beta tested lots of games and know there are issues. I'm a big boy now so I read the comment from Bohemia on the steam site about not purchasing the game if you're not going to be happy playing with bugs. I'm here to make a decent topic and discuss zombies and problems. Any post on these forums can be used as valuable feedback for the dev team. If the forums didn't exist and no one could post about the game, then really, what's the point of releasing pre-beta? Yes I did! Though a lot of gear was trashed and I probably only had a pint of blood left. Wish I had a vid to post :) Maybe i'll start frapsing for the masses

I did! I was in the middle of a field about 150m outside of town. They were spawning into existence in the middle of the fields.

No. There's a difference between making it more challenging and just having zombies consta-spawn the minute they're killed. It would be more of a challenge to have so 30 zombies spawned in a town. It's a whole different beast to have them pop into existence behind you and start beating you round the head when you just looked to that area and shot the zombies there. That's not a challenge..the game is cheating!

I lol'd at this :lol: :beans: Oh god yes. I was collecting as many weapons as i could for testing. From being at the town, I gained some food and drink. I used 2 rolls of bandages, 50 odd rounds of ammo, my UK assault vest was ruined, my ttsko jacket was ruined, my fnx45 was ruined, 3 magnum speedloaders ruined, 1911 ruined, both of the 1911 mags ruined that weird looking 22 pistol ruined, in my rush to fend off the zombies, i dropped my mosin and couldn't get back to it. /cry Yes. I've learnt my lesson now. Until last night, my normal tactic was; approach a town, kill the 7-8 zombies with my gun cos i have plenty of ammo (I really don't have to worry about running out). Loot, move on to the next town. I didn't want to come across to whiny because I enjoy the game and accept the bugs and failing as alpha stuff. But yes, I was playing on a server with minimal people so i could re-explore to find the differences in the map. But yes, this was awful. Every server I connected to was suffering huge amounts of lag. Zombies running on the spot, then hitting me invisibly a few times while I run in a direction I hoped that zombies weren't in, signature time outs, not being able to use items until the server unlagged, items not appearing straight away (as per patch notes) when dropped because of the lag. So yeah, that made life incredibly hard what with the huge amounts of zombies there too. And no, it wasn't my internet connection - I have a 100Mb connection.

Oh, don't see it as a complaint. I wanted more zombies and I enjoyed the challenge of it. I just wasn't expecting to chew through every spare piece of ammo outside of my ammo boxes. My main beef is against the fact that I could see zombies popping into existence in the middle of fields. A few times as I was running, they literally spawned 10-20ft directly in front of me. As I was turning circles shooting zombies, by the time I'd done a full revolution, another zombie would have appeared in a place where there was no zombie before. Now unless the zombies have access to Star Trek like teleporters, I just don't like the fact that they appear out of nowhere.

long reply short - lol :P

Yes but grenades would probably be pretty rare. The only place you'd be most likely to find grenades would be the military bases, and possibly the NWAF. I can't imagine huge amounts of them laying around the map as it's mostly farmland and residential areas. Maybe other types of trip-traps - a wire across the top of a stair case causing you to fall with a chance of breaking your legs...a wire attached to a flare or attached to a gun pointing a certain direction :-D I don't think this would work at all. For this to happen the landscape would have to be deformable to allow players to dig the pit. I doubt that would happen as it would require a major re-write of the engine and would also place huge amounts of strain on the server as it tries to cope with potentially up to a server full of people deforming the landscape at once. Not gonna happen! hell yeah! I like this idea :-)

It seems that even bulletproof vests may not be bulletproof enough.. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080721195514AAxO8sv Not sure how true that is though :-)

I actually really like this idea. for those really long stand offs when you have 2 groups of people against eachother, even with the log in timer, people can still server hop, move behind you and log back in to the same server again. This would be a good way of preventing that kind of exploit.

Nope sorry. It's happened to me lots of times and I've never come to the forums complaining about it. I know it's a bug, I know the dev team know about it. I know that it will be fixed eventually and I knew that this sort of thing would most likely happen with it being in a very early alpha. Am i bothered? no. I just sigh and carry on again. Gearing up again is half the fun of the game in it's current state.

there really isn't any point in coming onto the forums and bitching is there? Did you read the comment from the developers when you bought the game? Key point to note - "Be aware that our Early Access offer is a representation of our core pillars, and the framework we have created around them. It is a work in progress and therefore contains a variety of bugs." and "We strongly advise you not to buy and play the game at this stage unless you clearly understand what Early Access means and are interested in participating in the ongoing development cycle." Quit your whining and deal with it.

I met bumped into somone in a supermarket in Berezino. He waved, I waved. He asked if i have any spare food. I dropped a tin and he started to eat it. I then hit him with an axe while he was locked into the eating animation. I then kept hitting him while he was down. I made a horrible mistake there that made me feel bad,. I hit him too many times and ruined all the gear he had. I gained nothing from it :(

That would be major game killer - why would i want to own a game that completely locks me out for 15 minutes?

It depends entirely on the server. for most it's between a few seconds and a minute.

The nature of the game at this very early stage is that there really is very little to do.If you really wanted to just survive, all you have to do is raid a few buildings, fill your pack full of food and cans of drink a can opener and then go and sit in a far away forest somewhere and stay there. A few hours later, when your food is gone, come back and find more food. Yay. fun. Survival rocks. OR, find guns and hunt and kill people. Rob them, interact with them and kill them. I know what I choose at the moment.

Yeah. I'd most likely lose my wife and kids first through not being able to fight off the zombie horde, not be able to live with myself and then jump off a high bridge. Rating: On a scale of 1 to 10 I would rate my chances of surviving in a zombie apocalypse a -10

I have a logitech G15 keyboard. I used one of the macro keys to do this. One tap = instant run. 2nd tap = stop. Job done.

Wow. that's harsh.

How about you kill someone nearby. Find the loot at then plant it on their corpse. Then shoot them a few times :-) Lots of work, but might have the same effect.

I read this part of your post and then couldn't be arsed to read the rest. If you come onto a community forum and with your first post here, say you that don't care what others say, why the hell should I care what you have to say?

This makes me feel sad. nuff said.

I'm pretty sure wednesday is maintenance day and the servers go down..