Calvin Candie

I helped couple of people get fully geared, and even managed to bandage a fresh spawn once in the middle of a gun fight. My goal in this game is to make the most out of every social encounter. I think of it as a sucess. After an encounter in-game, 3 minutes later people add me on steam by themselves. It means I am a human being inside the game, not just in real life. Of course there where backstabs and KoS sometimes. But hey. If you want to be the good guy, takes more guts and mental strenght than being that KoS guy.

You punch by pressing space to raise your hands and left mouse click to punch.You wave by pressing F1. All other keys up to F11 give some form of social action or stance.

Yes, the job they are doing on expanding north of the map is excellent! The developed countryside, towns and bigger cities blend in seamlessly with the enviroment. Looks really really good.

Cant wait for several combinations this will produce. Damaged Mosin with Pristine LRS =the outcome??? Damaged AKM with Pristine PSO scope =the outcome??? Will damaged and worn weapons jamm or have bad accuracy? Or both? Will some attachments not even be possible to couple together with a damaged weapon? Maybe the weapon is so damaged the new handholder or magazine cannot jump into its place? How will the negative effects of damaged parts be calculated towards total accuracy, durability, mobility and final performance of a weapon? Im going crazy with these questions.

Nice holdup!

It is realistic. Because if you were running that much in real life...or if it was actually possible...you would need that much food.

Please do not go. :) All that will be left are fanboys. Or, as I like to call them, fangirls. I have always admired realists more than blind optimists. Sorry I cannot give more beans for this poem.

They brake immersion for me, when they are broken like this :P

Looking at the development roadmap currently posted on the official web page, it will be quite some time before improvement sadly. Best they remove them entirely before first improvement.

What would be the purpose of a dog? The game is a military PvP fest yet to be developed into something more meaningfull. A dog would do what? Follow me around? Do not want to sound negative but I just do not see it now. Horse okay...for transportation.

Praise threads do not get deleted, don't worry! :grin: Edit: player base has yet to see any significant improvement over the game. Performance is droping every update with very little new stuff added. Zombies are a joke. The negativity is justified. When there will be improvement in performance, zombies or persistance, I will be the first to post a "job well done" thread, believe me. I am rooting for Dayz, or I wouldnt spent my time here or in game.

I like the tetris system! People are visal creatures. They just need to improve it,so the items take up space they actually would. Not that hard.

I totaly agree with you, BUT. Most people are not weapon professionals or even enthusiasts. For EXAMPLE, we now have The Derringer in the game. Talk about breaking immersion. In what scenario would this gun be present in post-soviet country? So, I am all for realistic sniper rifles, but until then, give back the only one we have. Bipoded Mosin. :P

How did people make videos then? Experimental? Wish this was stated publicly, so we do not have to search like idiots

Mosin with no scope? What are we going to do with an SKS then :D Bipod with the Mosin should be brought back. And should totaly eliminate sway when deployed in prone position. Thats how I see it.

Check around Prud. Lots of boars and deer as well

---This was supposed to be a short post, but I went in detail as this may relief some of the concern that many people have in the future of Dayz--- I strongly believe the Standalone is going to be balanced for several opposite play styles upon completion. To back up this statement, this was already done once. How you ask? There was a server in the original DayZ Mod, which had been tweaked. It was not Epoch or Overpoch, nor was it any of the popular role playing servers which enforced some strict rules on how you play (no KoS or you get banned ect.) IT WAS A SINGLE SERVER, avoided by many and cherished by few. It was vanilla DayZ, no admins 24/7, KoS allowed. Yet KoS was VERY rare. There were bandits, but in the true sense. They would hold you up! Most of the players were so friendly, it was like they were relieved and happy to see you! Almost like you would expect in actual apocalypse. It was the closest thing you could have imagined to what many people want from DayZ Standalone. So how did they pull this off you ask? The server had these settings: - massively increased zombie count. Towns were an undertake to loot. For example Elektro itself had 100 or 150 Zeds by my rough estimate. May have been even more. They were litterary 20 meters apart from each other. Will come back to that later. - weather cycle, including dense fogs. You wouldn't believe how your playstyle changes when you cannot see beyond 40-50 meteres. So intense combined with lots of Zeds. - General loot, weaponry and ammo were on the rare side. I remember to have carried shotties and lee enfields for quite a while, almost 2/3 or even entire of my life span. -THATS IT!!! Let me shortly describe one play session. Logged in near Elektro. Time of the day was dusk. Sun was setting. Weather was foggy as hell. Visibility up to 100 meters, beyond that even binoculars were useless. That was fine, as sometimes even denser fog occured. I had decent gear and a shotty. My goal? Get some food in Elektro. It was too damn foggy to head to some God forsaken town in this fog. Too easy to get lost without the compass (See how the fog and lack of light friggin changes your way of thinking!? And I know the map by heart! Finnaly some real choices were to be made, will I go to safer, harder to find, abandoned town or Zed infested but easy to find city). I make my way to enterance of the city and pass the crooked "Elektro" sign. After a short run and climb over the hill, the firestation with the power plant is in my sights. I get closer, only to find out there are 5-6 Zeds inside the firestation yard. Probably more around the complex. Better weapon would be nice. But I need food now. So better skip the firestation. Besides, how the hell would I take on 6+ Zeds at once with the old double barrel. Not to mention a lot more that would be attracted by the noise. Coming to the houses, the sun is barrely making enough light to see anything. There were aprox. 10 Zed silhouettes which I could spot on the main road. Even more in the darker spots, in the yards, behind houses. I ducked down as this made me far less visible to them. My target was The Store. Long story short. It took me 10 minutes just to pass 50 meters and reach the damn store. Got some food. But still have to get out of damn Elektro. Zombies are not just standing still, many of them are shambling around, like they are "patroling", making you constantly adjust your route. Every couple of meters passed are a succes. This was so freaking intense. And just for 2 cans of food. Imagine this in the Standalone! Being a Hermit who lives off the land would be an option now! A medic would actually be INVALUABLE in case you got hammered by a small horde of Zeds and went black and white from blood loss and your wounds infected. No easy way to get food and just rub it off! Want to be a bandit? Great! Hold someone up! If you shoot, both your victim and you will probably be teared to pieces by Zeds. You can still execute the victim by melee weapon, but the trick is to get them restrained in the first place. Ok I am done. You get the picture. I want THIS again!

My longest shot was back in the Mod. It was from the top of the Black Mountain Castle (or some similar castle, do not remember which). It was not recorded so I do not have proof except my story. I was in a firefight with a ghillie suit guy. We were inside the castle, trying to get a shot on each other. It lasted quite a while, possibly half an hour in which shots rang every few minutes from different positions as we tried to outsmart the opponent. I took position on the highest tower and he was on the opposite one. A bullet missed me by an inch when I peeked out behind a wall. I knew. I knew he will land a shot next time if I stay exposed more than 3-4 seconds. My plan was to wait until he fires the next bullet. Then pop out of the cover immediately to catch him exposed. A shot ranged. I exploded out of my cover, zoomed in on his silhouette and fired away. Got him in the arm. He ducked behind a wall immediately. I ran down the my tower and went straight to his tower to suprise him while he was bandaging. I went in SWAT style,covering all corners,making my way to the top. Toughest part is to get to the roof itself. No cover on those stairs. So I sneak up, listening. No sound. Final peek of my head on the top of the stairs. Hoped I do not loose it hehe. He was not there! Damn. Now I am paranoid again. He could be anywhere. He might have me in his sights right then and there. I am fucked again. Not waiting a second,I make my way back to the highest tower to get the best position again. 10-15 minutes passed by. No glimps of him. No shots. Nothing. I start being more and more dominant, finnaly standing out of my cover, entire castle under my scope. Is the castle mine? Looks that way. But cannot be sure. Never saw his body. Did he log out? Ran away? Yep. He ran away from the castle. Saw him accidentaly from the top of the tower. He was running accros the big open field, directly away from my position. Very little horizontal movement, only vertical as he sprinted away. Zoomed in, adjusted range to 700. Lead the shot about 3 cm on the screen. Bang. Direct hit, he dropped like a wet bag. I tried to imagine his thoughts at that moment. He must have been so dissapointed. I felt good and bad at the same time.

I think garage is the best for finding LRS. Had trouble finding one in houses, but garage is the constant spawning place of LRS

Cant wait to encounter an axe wielding bambi wearing one of these vests. It will be like trying to slay lord dracula

Yep. Pretty lame. And bugged as hell. But hey, they said it was a lot of work. So...how can we, mere peasants, question this. I sense a delete, lock or smthing else :P

Relax. Look at other games in pre-alpha. For example Carmageddon. It was very ok for early alpha. Now, after half a year of upgrades it is unplayable! But it will get where it wants to go. Same with DayZ. Hopefully :D

What about long range scopes? Cant find any

@Wookieenoob Yep, loot distribution is ridicolous now. Not sure if they can even fix this with the arma engine.

Totally agree there OP. Second post from some other dude is hilarious. You can justify any bug by saying "Alpha". Jesus. They do need to work on this. If we are going to talk realistic, almost any impact from automatic rifle to center of mass would leave you on the floor, either dead or soon to be dead.