Sebidee

I think the OP's complaints are valid enough. The game is easy for geared up players and very difficult for fresh spawns. The result is that you will most likely die several times before getting any proper gear. How many times are you going to die, repeat, die, repeat, die, repeat, before you eventually just give up the game? Everyone wants to have gear and it's not really fair to have to suffer through an agonising fresh spawn phase that's based completely on luck. I read over the last two pages and saw a lot of people saying/bragging about how gear is easy to find when they are elite players like them. Jesus fuck, quit that, no one likes it and it's the reason I dislike this forum most of the time. The OP wants gear because he's playing a game and whats to actually enjoy it. God forbid anyone would actually want to get enjoyment out of a video game. I for one think it would be best if melee weapons should be seriously buffed. 5 hits from a fire axe to kill a zombie?? 21 hits from a crowbar?? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?! That's ridiculous. I really don't see why melee weapons should be in the game at all if they are that weak. I was playing today and killed 2 zombies with a fire axe and it was an incredibly difficult battle lasting several minutes. That was only for 2 zombies and even small towns could have half a dozen. That's not sustainable. I was dicking around in the game earlier with my friend. We were both fresh spawns and I was trying to kill him with a sledgehammer. Honest to god it took about 7 hits. Basically if I was facing a guy with a gun I would never have won, even if I snuck up on him and hit him in the back he'd have more than enough time to take out his gun, reload, carefully aim and blow me away before I completed my 7 hits. That's not realistic in the slightest. One centre mass overarm hit with a sledgehammer would knock anyone down or even kill them. Even if melee weapons were 4 or 5 hits maximum (honestly, I don't think even small weapons like hammers or machetes should take more than 5 hits to kill human or zombie) then they would never beat a gun unless the melee weapon wielder was very very good at sneaking, and if they are that good then let them win. TL;DR 1) Go easy on the OP elitist snobs. 2) Buff up melee weapons about ten times.

If I had my way I would make it so that you can only kill a zombie by destroying the brain. It fits in with all the other zombie franchises (except 28 Days, but they aren't really zombies) and would somehow feel more like how I expect or at least feel like zombies should be. I also think it would improve gameplay. People want more zombies but they also want them to be more of a challenge. At the moment if you are armed with an M4 you can kill at dozen zombies at a 100 yards in only a matter of seconds. Armed with any other gun, even a pistol, is pretty easy as well. By forcing us to take very careful aim it would make zombie encounters much more interesting once you're geared up. To conserve ammo you would also be forced to allow zombies to come closer before you shoot them, making them much more dangerous. So, do you think Zombies should be headshots only? EDIT: I changed the poll because someone made a good suggestion. I think you can change your vote if you want to can't you?

Don't look for specific items, if you're committed to the game then you'll just wander about for days on end and stumble across them. That's if your an elite player of course. If you want a puppy you've got to feed and train it so quit your job and dump your girlfriend. Dayz needs your attention! lol.

I was thinking today that I never ever get to experience all of the cool updates that Day Z adds myself. I was playing with my buddy and we decided we'd try out some of the new features. He really wanted to make a gillie suit so we went to Balota/Kamarovo to find some netting in the boats. Nope, none there. We hopped around a couple of servers to see if we could find more but again, no dice. We decided to forget it. We'd go to Balota airfield and find some really cool military gear and guns that they added in the last patch. Unfortunately, we found nothing. We again jumped around a few servers but the best thing we found was an old pistol without ammo or a magazine. AKA, a useless weapon. So we said forget guns!! There's only one thing that people are talking about with the new patch, the truck! We looked up the spawn locations and knowing that we probably wouldn't find a truck in the first town we visited we instead planned a trek across the entire map which would bring us through most of the central towns. We spent hours running across the map, switching servers in each town. We didn't find a truck. So, why does Day Z hide everything away from us? No matter how hard I try I can't find any of the things added in the new patches. I've never seen a crashed helicopter, or an AK47. or a ghillie suit, or grenades, or trucks. I've seen and killed some animals but I never got to eat their meat because for some reason knives are absurdly rare in the game. I've never used a bow and arrow or a crossbow. I have managed to go fishing but only because I was INCREDIBLY lucky and found all the parts needed to fish (unfortunately I couldn't eat the fish because I didn't have a frickin' knife). I understand that the game is in alpha, but aren't we supposed to be testing the game? How are we supposed to test features and items when they are made ultra rare? I've pretty much gotten sick of hiking all over the map in search of stuff I'll never find, while having to eat and fight zombies which only makes it take longer. I don't like to server hop since the timer makes it take ages. So instead of playing the game to test out new features I instead look up a showcase on youtube. I've seen pretty much everything in those videos and enjoyed them greatly, which basically means that Day z is one of the few games that are actually more fun to watch than play. I'm going to make a bold claim and say that my Day Z experience has only marginally changed since I first got it 9 months ago. I still spent hours running from place to place. I only eat canned food since fishing, hunting and cooking is just too much hastle. The only guns I use are the ones that have been around for ages, the Mosin, revolver or if I'm lucky the M4. The biggest change is probably in clothing, but more often than not I find myself wearing the same things. I find it hard to get excited about new features being added with patches since I know that in all likelihood I will never get to experience them. So, can we please, please, please, please see more of all the cool things the game already has so that everyone can enjoy them rather than only those who are lucky or instead have an unhealthhy amount of spare time?

I think that there will be more vehicles in the final release. The truck is only one of them, there will be plenty of cars and jeeps too. When they are around more then all of you hardcore survivalists here will be complaining (and I'll be there to to tell you to stop being a bitch). However, I think that the devs have added only a few trucks right now because they are all of the TRUCKS that will be there on release. The other vehicles will be added along side them to bring up the total numbers. My problem with that though is that right now the vehicles are not simulating what they will be like at release, which is what we are supposed to be testing. So why not put more trucks in in place of the other planned vehicles? Then they can replace them as they make the models for the new vehicles. We need to know what the game and the vehicle situation will be like on release, so add more (maybe like they were in experimental). Then we can test them and the devs can get their feedback. Simple. That's what they have been doing with guns the whole time. At the start there were tons of mosins and M4s, now there are less since they have been replaced by other guns. The total numbers of guns on servers has not decreased, but the numbers of certain kinds of guns has. Why not do the same for vehicles?

Not everyone, there's only a couple of assholes. Guess who I'm talking about. Luck, incredible luck. YES! That was one of my points. How can we test things when we can't find them? We could end up having things that people don't like in the release. I only server hopped in an attempt to find particular stuff and test them. When I'm just playing I don't do that. But sure, make all the assumptions you want. People are reading want they want to read I guess. HAD being the most important word there. It's almost as if commenting on the game (when the devs encourage us to do so) is not allowed. No I'm fine with the fact that it's in Alpha. I don't mind bugs or broken mechanics. However, very low spawn rates is not a bug, it's a design decision. Mate, you need to learn to read. I said in my OP that I was looking for the stuff for hours, I think I actually played for about 5 hours non stop. My puppy is well trained.

Damn, this forum is full of a**holes. I mean, I come on to the forum for the first time in a week after playing the game to say that I'm a little annoyed that there aren't enough trucks. But it turns out that I... Am a COD fanboy who doesn't understand that this game is a simulator.Don't know what Alpha means.Should play the game instead of being on the forums.Should get better at the game and shut up.Am not as good as the elite players who already found 16 trucks, 10 of which were before they were even added since they are just that good.Want to have everyone running around in ghillie suits.Am a whiny little girl.Don't know how to play the game.Think having cool loot is more important than hardcore survival RP.Am not smart enough for the game.Should work harder at the game than my job since it's more important.Should just get better and shut the f**k up.A**holes, I swear to god. Jesus Christ, I just want to drive a frickin' truck. How does that make me so evil? Like, yeah, I get it. You're good at the game and want to brag about it. But that doesn't mean you have to get in a L33t circle jerk at my expense.

They are very difficult to get, which is not fine. And of course I would want to get a truck, why would I not want to get the stuff they've been adding? I've been playing 9 months with the same old gear - need to change things up a bit. Oh come on mate, grow up a bit. I'm saying that spawns need to increase, that's not whining it is literally the purpose of the forums.

*Sigh* not what I said mate. You're exaggerating. Not what I said either! Jeez guys, come on. I'll try again: I do not want top tier stuff to be so easy to find that you practically spawn with them. I simply want them to be easier to find than they are right now, right now they are almost impossible to get. Why is it that the only things you can comprehend is either A - Everything you want can be found in 5 minutes or B - You need about 12 hours of gameplay to get anything worthwhile? There's plenty of things in between.

I love how everyone is assuming that I wanted stuff to be easy to find, as if I wanted to spawn with them. People read what they want to read I guess. I'm saying make stuff easier to find. Right now it's almost impossible to find a ghillie suit or truck or half of the other stuff they've added recently. Ghille suits require something like 5 or 6 pieces of netting that only respawn in one of 50 spawn points on the map. Only 3 trucks spawn per server in a dozen towns (which take hours to travel to), almost impossible to find. I think that we might be experiencing the usual downsides of a gaming forum. You guys are the more hardcore fans, you might play for hours every single day. But most people, including me can only play for a couple of hours on the weekend. Jogging all over the map in 10 hour gaming marathons are not going to happen, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to enjoy most of the stuff the game has to offer. So, you can act smug and pretend you're great because you are willing to play repetitive gameplay where half of the features are missing. But I'm not. Yeah, the top tier stuff shouldn't be too easy to find, but they should be accessible. Right now they are almost a non feature. Why, why, why, why, why? Why should a game ever be a chore? Games are supposed to be fun.

What exactly is the difference between persistent and non persistent servers?

Nonsense. You shouldn't have to play hours and hours and hours of boring gameplay just to get something cool for a couple of minutes. That's not a good game. You can take pride and consider yourself an elite player if you can do that but it's not a good thing.

I think what annoys me most is that people said that 'vehicles would change the game and end the running simulator' and then they add 3 per server!

What's the point in spending ages trying to escape zombies when you only have a t-shirt! If you die then you might get a better respawn.

I think this is something they will need to change, zombies are far too hard for fresh spawns. At the very least you should be able to outrun them. All you can do is hope you find a decent weapon before a zombie finds you. Try to keep out of sight and scout everywhere before you pass through. If you get hit and start bleeding then you may as well let them kill you and respawn.

There's no way either of you could have survived taking that many bullets. It was a bug or desync.

The point of the game is to test it so that the devs can make changes and get feedback on their patches.

Can't find any fault with that.

What is advanced loot distribution? How will tht change the game?

I for one would like to see more vehicles. The truck that's in the game is absurdly hard to find on a non empty server.

Has anyone noticed that zombies have much higher hitpoints now/mele weapons are near useless? Yesterday I hit a zombie in the head with a crowbar about 20 times before it died, that's insane. Also I am being roflstomped by tiny groups of zombies. It's insane! Zombies shouldn't be tanks, it makes the early game too difficult. Also they shouldn't be able to outrun you. Running away from zombies should be an option rather than having to stand and fight every time you see one. I would rather have large numbers of weak, jogging zombies rather than small numbers of Olympic sprinting tanks. It really takes a lot from the game.

So there are bikes in the mod? Grand so they'll probably end up in the standalone. Has anyone played the free game Heroes and Generals? Absolutely terrible game, but they have bicycle to go around in and it's really fun. Could definitely be good in Day z and finally get rid of the running simulator thing without having over powered trucks everywhere. On a side note, and this has probably been said before. But what would you think about some kind of teleport feature where you can quickly get to your friends? The one thing that stops me from playing Dayz is the fact that it takes 40 minutes to meet up with my friends at the start of a session.

Yeah, and then you would have to find a random wheel or chain lying about. Maybe the broken down ones are also not locked up, so if you can't find something to break the lock you can just fix up a different bike.

I don't think you will ever be 90 degrees to anything in the game. If you are only able to travel on roads then you definitely won't face that problem. You could make the bikes relatively small like a cheap mountain bike and you won't get much of the top heavy problem. Of course having a bike look a little strange because it is sticking out at an odd angle wouldn't be a major bug in a game like Day Z. Also I don't really understand why bicycle physics would be such a big deal in Day Z when they aren't so troublesome in games like GTA.

Yeah you can get tired but not so much as running. I figured that in the game having much greater stamina with a bike would be a good plus. When thinking about the bike breaking down I figured the chain or wheel might be damaged. Those are simple things to fix (at least more simple than fixing an engine) so for simplicity just omit it.