StoutAle

I'm all for throwing items in the game, not only because I want to hit someone in the head with a rock (or is it a stone?) just for the fun of it but I also can see a time when smoke grenades (even if not the huge military ones, give me the fireworks one I can toss in a room someone is camping in) and such are around. Getting the physics down now just opens doors (that may or may not be used) for the future.

While your right, the other side of the coin is many forums will bash you for adding to an old post (resurrecting it as it's called) so honestly you can't win on the forums someone will always complain.

Not true at all. The thing about this I don't get is the time penalty was put in to prevent combat logging then ghosting. You can't ghost if you log onto the same server so remove that time restriction. Also going from hardcore (one character) to standard (a different character) shouldn't have a time restriction. It seems the devs have forgot why the time restriction was put in the game.

Seen many a video where one smart player encounters two or three players and the one kills the two or three. Numbers help on here but they don't guarantee you win.

All this will do is cause more KoS. See someone, he might have one of the five (insert great item here) so you kill him and find out. If they want to slow down or reduce KoS and get players working together this is the worst thing they can do. Right now I wouldn't KoS anyone, never have and have no reason to. You tell me this guy could have a LRS in his back pack and I'm looking for one for a week or two already I'll smoke him and check because there is a chance I'd never find one because they are all looted.

I have recently been playing the DayZ mod since I hadn't played it before I started Standalone. As far as what I do in SA after I'm geared, honestly I usually jump from something really tall and start over. Gearing up is kind of the fun part for me right now.

Judge you? How about quote you? Most times you talk to someone you shoot them, your words not mine. I don't care if you shoot everyone or don't odd are I'll never run into you so why would I care. Even if I did I wouldn't care, shoot me or don't it's a game. You said you tried to be a nice guy, that's the topic title you wrote, then you shot a guy that simply didn't want to deal with you. That's nice? Again I didn't judge you, I don't have to you pretty much spelled out how you are in game. Posting a video of you being nice is great, but yet you said yourself most of the communications you have end up in you shooting the person and you shot a guy that simply was ignoring you. Nice?

I didn't say it was hard to believe (although I don't believe it, that's my opinion). You said "most times" you have said hello I'm going to shoot you defend yourself. So someone says "hello" back and you shoot them, they don't respond you shoot them. Not a lot of choice with you is there?

Had he said "hello" or such back would you of simply let him walk away after?

I know there are 100 man servers, but are they actually full enough to get a good judge of what it's really like? We have 30 and 40? person servers on stable but rarely do you see many servers full.

You honestly think that the current map can handle 100+ people? Wouldn't be anything but corpses for miles. I can't honestly imagine 100 people on a server, every 20 seconds you'd be encountering someone, which means that often you'd either be shooting or avoiding being shot most of the time.

Well if it's playable to you that includes the loading in "issue" because asking for a major game change without really thinking about what could happen if it's actually put into the game just because your computer doesn't load the game fast enough isn't really the best idea. IMO.

I'm not assuming I WAS exaggerating though. Clearly you don't have a system that can handle the game (in Alpha it's not optimized for sure). If it takes you that long to get your frames up the problem isn't with the game. I understand the problem, my friend (brand new nice system) loads in faster then me for sure, but I don't load in near as slow as you are talking about. Again it's not a game issue, it's your computer's issue.

This would create more issues then it would solve by far. Don't ask for them to change the game just because your trying to run it on a Tandy computer with the equivalent of a dial up modem. This isn't a game issue, it's a computer issue.

Honestly if you play on the same servers you usually get the restart times down anyway. I know the servers I play on reset at either 840 or 940 am and then every 4 hours after it's at them times within a few minutes almost always (unless there was a server crash/unexpected restart which almost never happens).

Yes, I only play SA when friends are on an want to play. I'd currently rather play the mod or various other games then SA. Not because it's a bad game, but simply because it's limited in it's current state. I'm confident it will get better but currently the only fun I have with this game is when I'm gearing up.

Almost all exterior doors open out (IRL). Interior doors usually open in. Exterior doors open out for safety reasons, if you have multiple people trying to leave a building opening it into the building can be very hard (people rushing the door). This is also why CQB teams have a "door man" who's job is simply to open the door and hold it for the entering team sense exterior doors open out. I don't have a huge problem with doors in this game, gates are a different issue. I also found out that targeting is very much linked to first person vs 3pp. My friend always had issues drinking from streams and such. I never had this issue, I asked him once if he was in first person or not, once he went to first person he had no more issues. Doors are like this also to some extent.

Are they expanding the map north.. or are they just adding stuff to the north? Big difference, some of us have been to the northern edges even with nothing up there just to see if stuff is added in and trust me they have been adding in up north slowly patch after patch. Foundations and roads have been added long before towns were actually in place. If they are expanding the actual borders then that changes things. By the way, half hour run isn't really all that long in a survival game. If you don't have long areas to cover then food/drink/elements etc etc etc mean nothing. IMO at least.

I brought up CoD and ARMA (but you excluded the second.. of course) because they are wildly popular games that this game attracts players from simply in pointing out of your a FPS fan the map probably feels huge, if your a MMO player the map is small. Simply explaining my point is all, wasn't speaking negative (or positive) to other players coming from any other game. Oh, as far as cars and choppers? Well hell I liked using a nuke in Starcraft it was a blast (haha), doesn't mean it's suited for this game as it currently sits. With cars and choppers Bandits/Highwaymen/Robbers/insert other non derogatory name here would be able to basically lock down newbie land and that's simply not good for the game.

Yes, map is small. It doesn't take all that long to run anywhere in the game currently. Sure for the CoD players or the ARMA players it seems like long runs but again I come from a MMO background and compared to the area they have this is a very small map.

Well if you change the mechanics of the game then my opinion would possibly change I admit that. Even with that said the most I would ever want to see unless the map is expanded is smaller vehicles. Bikes, ATV types and such. I just don't see this game as big enough to have great vehicles in it. This coming from a guy who's gaming background is probably different then most on here though. I am more MMO then FPS. Meaning I played Everquest at launch and loved the fact it would take you forever to run across the areas because it made it feel like a world. So my thinking is a bit different then others I'm sure.

None. I'm the minority and I know they are coming but honestly the map is to small already. Vehicles are going to make it so quick to get across from point a to point b it's going to make the area feel like one or two towns and that it. So if I have to give an idea I say a unicycle. You asked.

This would be fine, if it was right, unfortunately it's wrong. You can't "take it slow" to clear a room in first person, at some point your only choice is stick your head around the corner. Someone in there watching that door has you and there isn't a thing you can do about it. The huge difference is in 3pp you can't avoid a dangerous situation, every corner, ever room every turn is dangerous. You can't simply "use care" as you want to say because again at some point you have to expose your character around a corner in the hopes someone isn't there. 3rd person doesn't ever make you do that, meaning first person is more dangerous/difficult. I also play both servers (HC is my solo Normal is with friends who are to pansy to play with dangers) so I understand what you are saying, in both servers everyone faces the same pros and cons, your absolutely right there. Your wrong in "use caution" because all the caution in the world can't make it safe to go around a blind corner. You say if you go ball to the wall in first person your dead, that's right, but what you don't say is even being careful you have to stick your head around a corner, in a room or up a ladder while your defenseless and someone could be there. In 3pp everyone is equal, they can all look around anything. In first person you can have defenses waiting on someone to come around a corner, up a ladder or through a door. That's a huge difference that simply can't be discounted with "use caution". Edited because I typed so many 1st's and 3rds I confused myself thanks Solodude23

I'm thinking most people have yet to try to play as a fresh spawn since the last patch (I died on purpose to see how the new patch worked from new spawn to fully geared). I love it though "get a fire axe" "shoot them". Really? Fresh spawn.. no gear and two bandages (your t shirt). Zombies now cause bleeding really easily. Two fights and you are out of bandages. It's fun as a player who knows what buildings are good and what are always empty. When you know where to go it's still a bit of a challenge, as a new player just joining the game this would suck a bit. Especially if the server was fully looted in the respawn area. I said from the start if you have respawning zombies you need to have respawning loot. I'm not a game developer at all, but if you have an newbie area that's fully looted in 20 minutes (or less) but you still have an endless supply of zombies that's a bit of an issue. For most of us that have played it's not bad, think of a guy that just bought the game and it's a whole different story. Oh, and zombies don't give up as easy as some are saying on here. They chase you for quite a ways before they give up and at some point you have to go into an area and loot it, you can't "find and axe" without going to an area that might have one and that area is going to have zombies you have to deal with.

After I have already gone 3 rounds like Rocky vs Clubber Lang? When I'm bleeding so bad it looks like a silent movie and I'm going to die if I don't bandage? Yes I would. This military zombie is wearing full military gear, I'm pretty sure I can find something that's not completely covered in rotted corpse seeing as though he's wearing multiple layers of gear. Spray some disinfectant on it or some alcohol tincture and your good to go. Would you really drink out of a stream during a zombie apocalypse?