Mukaparska

My biggest expectation is the decreased difficulty with semi-automatic weapons and melee weapons. Now with melee weapons, it's basically two laggy guys running in circle trying to hit each others. And with bolt-action and semi-automatic weapons, it will be a lot easier to hit a moving target so you have bigger chance against fully automatic weapons.

Yes we should, but of course we must make quite a few exceptions, for example those blood transfusions. But I don't think a helicopter is one of those. I even think that a helicopter doesn't fit to this game at all. As I stand behind my original point, I think a brand new flyable helicopter would make things even worse looking from that perspective. Of course wandering from city to city would feel even more boring when you know that you could actually get military gear AND a helicopter. The system in "7 days to die" is pretty cool where you must read guidebooks on different things to learn to craft them. Sadly such system would be very impractical in DayZ. But even a guidebook wouldn't teach you how to fly a helicopter, but maybe it would teach how to make blood transfusion.

Taking care of a bleeding wound is not rocket science. Neither is shooting a gun. But flying a helicopter is entirely different (and so is indeed the variety of "crafting" you can do).

Wait, a helicopter? Really. I'm sure all the average Chernarusian people who are lucky enough to be alive can easily fly a bloody helicopter with no training :D Not even mentioning how such a complex machine would be safely operable. How many people would actually even consider trying to fly a helicopter in a real apocalypse when they have no knowledge about is condition or how it operates.

This is what I'm fearing. Every time there's custom servers in games, it goes the wrong way. Vanilla is more and more uncommon, and especially when players start decreasing at some point, there's too many custom servers and vanilla ones have very little players. Like in BF2. There was like 3000 players in 2010 and fucking two real legitimate ranked servers left where you could rank-up. Now there's zero.

Of course, of course, and you know, the mistake has kind of happened already. But this game could be a better one if there wouldn't have been military gear in the first place.

It feels as if majority of players are only after good military gear and playing in areas close to military bases, of course understandably, since such gear supposedly gives you a huge advantage. Why bother wasting your time in places where you can't get an assault rifle or any better weaponry? Why bother wasting your time searching for empty barracks when you can just change the server until you find something? Why risk your gear trying to interact with others? Of course DayZ has always had military gear, but it feels like nowadays most players have just gotten bored to wandering through cities with no action and with no proper weapons or gear nearby, and eventually they end up mostly looting military bases and KoSing people out of pure boredom. At first when I started playing, not long after the release of SA, I had tens of memorable encounters with people and awesome fights and firefights and memorable situations. Like once I met a guy who I played with for a while, until we found some new guys who claimed to be friendly, but one handcuffed me and then some completely random guy came and shot us all. All kinds of random events like that just stopped happening at some point last year. I barely ever see anyone anymore, and if I do, they are most definitely just bambies. Then eventually I get KoS'd by someone. It feels as if there's barely any "moderately" geared guys anymore, when in the past they used to be everywhere. Either complete bambies, or then fully geared guys with AKs and so on. I don't even remember when I had a good melee fight last time. Well, it's a long time since I shot someone as well, and he was most likely some poor bambi. Now, after having a 6 month break, I decided to give DayZ another chance. Once again. During these three hours I have now played on two different occasions, I yesterday saw someone with a gun very far away and heard a shot. Later I found the guy who he shot. Today I saw one bambi running. So basically, two players sighted in three hours after searching through three cities which two of them twice. Well, enough of that. IF DayZ wouldn't have any military gear, I believe it would be a better game. No such obsessive attitude towards good gear, and also the best gear would be a rusty Mosin in some small house in a village and a warm jacket, and those things are a lot more scattered throughout the game world than just few military bases.

I've played DayZ since the very beginning, so I do know the dynamics pretty well, or at least I knew them before they were changed. It just always goes I don't even have a chance to shoot when I'm already dead. I could maybe run away in some cases but then the smartest move would be to donate my weapons for someone. I think I should instead let my guard down more so I wouldn't be as fucking paranoid and play more relaxed.

1. I don't think I'm attached to the gear, but having good gear clearly changes my play style. I become a really careful and paranoid, instead of being as trusty as usual. It's more likely all the "work" I've done to get the gear instead of the gear itself. 2. Yeah, I've thought about this as well. Sprinting speed is pretty much as fast as Usain Bolt's, and combined with lag, long distances and all the obstacles, running is probably the best solution. I usually play very careful when having good gear, so that could actually be a reason I'm an easy target, even if spotting is harder.

That can be a good idea.

Hackers and lag problems are another major disappointment in this game. I mean, it starts to feel your survival in pvp-situation is determined by that and luck instead of "skill". I remember how I was once looting barracks and suddenly there was a guy behind me. I started spraying him and thought "Oh yeah, finally a kill", and then I died... I'm not sure did he die as well, but I surely emptied half a clip to him before he fired a shot. That made me very unhappy. Same was when I saw two fully geared guys running in a distance. I went prone behind the railroad tracks so they couldn't see me and they soon started to approach my position. When they were close, I was like "surprise motherfuckers" and opened fire, just to get killed by them. I don't know did they have some god-mode on or was it because of lag.

That's indeed fun for awhile, but not endlessly. Walking from a village to another identical village to get beans tends to get pretty boring at some point. Yeah, fleeing from a fight is usually the best solution, but in a situation when you haven't shot at anyone in two weeks, and you actually have a decent gun now, it's not really a fun solution. It's like voluntarily deciding not to take advantage from the only semi-interesting situation you've encountered in several days.

But the thing is that this fucker was the first guy I saw in three days. There was no one to talk, no one to kill, no one to team up...

I ended my 4 month break like 2 weeks ago...

I do care, because it's not that nice to lose many days' work with zero gains. It makes me wonder why I'm playing this game in the first place. No goal, no enjoyment, no purpose... I remember how I USED to have great time with DayZ SA when it was released, and now my friends are playing it and telling how awesome shit just happened for them, like it used to happen for me as well. Yesterday I was playing with my friend (or we were trying to find each other) and he said he encountered 5 players already. It was two days when I saw another player last time... It makes me sad how this "awesome shit" never happens for me. And by never, I really mean it. Well, PRACTICALLY never.