UltimateGentleman

That helps how? It's only going to help for a few hours, the people that play the game 24/7 are just going to collect everything good and bambi's will have no hope. The game should be hard because of features in the game not almost purely because of other players, surviving is a walk in the park on low pop servers, shouldn't be. Nope but what does that have to do with it? Someone with a 75 round AKM and tons of ammo is going to be a fair challenge for fresh spawns, they're only going to beaten if they either do something stupid or you're lucky enough to find like 5 more fresh spawns to attack them, how common is it for that many people to spawn round a city at any given time? Not really, you'll be lucky to spawn near another person at all since spawns are all over the map. Assuming people spawn near you which is unlikely now that it's not only coastal spawns. Unless people hold a grudge and run all the way back to whatever city from the other side of the map, growing a fresh spawn mob ain't going to be easy especially since more than half the time they're probably just going to attack you too...such is the mentality of most players. Though I do like the sound of finally killing someone who held up a city for hours and having the group pick at their gear like vultures round a corpse.

This is just going to get annoying though KOS banditry is gonna suck, any one geared dude could just dominate Berezino since nobody is going to be able to look around nearby and find a Mosin, someone took that hours ago and it's not going to respawn since the KOSer is hanging around. Cities will be even bigger death traps. So I'm on the fence about it, I like that it makes the game harder...but I would rather they just made zombies harder and food more scarce. Loot respawn upon every 4+ server restarts would be fine, exploitable but people messing around with it still have to wait and they can't ramp up the loot count anymore can they? People with private servers are always going to exploit the system, just because something makes it easy for them doesn't mean it wouldn't be a good thing for people who avoid private servers. Just make private a whole hive so they can't take their gear from their server and kill noobs in public ones.

And for the people who got all the good stuff early to be nigh unbeatable since nothing good will appear for ages... Honestly I don't like this at all I would rather it just respawned every few server restarts instead of dynamically, it won't be "random" people will figure out patterns and know how to get gear, run somewhere to get other gear and then go back to the first place and get the newly spawned stuff. On the bright side at least server hopping will less often be a fruitful pursuit but it will be more common...

Can you imagine broken hostile animals? Wolves that run directly at you, through doors and attack relentlessly. Bears that do the same and swipe you through walls. Not to mention that they should be faster than players. Unless they finely tune them before adding them, meeting a bear or a pack of wolves is going to be hell we're all going to wish we had invisible zombies and silent ones again.

Yeah but, they're still going to be broken in some ways for sure like see you from miles away or one hit kill... And bleeding, probably bleeding ALL the time. Though at least if they run in a straight line at you they'll be easy to shoot...

I voted other. Specifically I would want craftable coats from animal skins and then specifically again, wolf skin coat complete with either a wolf head hood or like a scarf type thing that goes over your back and paws hang down your chest. Just to give your survivor a grizzled true survivor look, this guy has been surviving a long time. (or he managed to find a gun and a wolf very early)

So you find yourself a Sporter, CR, or any pistol except the Longhorn and Magnum or an SMG in a civilian area. No mag to go with it best you get is chambering the gun until you go to a military area and get lucky enough to find a mag for your gun...why? We need mags to spawn in civilian areas, almost all of the guns there are pretty much useless, once you find a military area you're probably just going to get an AKM or something anyway. Beyond the Mosin and SKS all the guns in civilian areas are virtually useless. A chambered gun is of course better than no gun at all but there's no benefit to going to an airfield or whatever and getting a 30 round mag for the Sporter or the SKS mag thing when you can just get another, better gun there anyway. In all my hours playing I think I've found like one FNX mag in a non military zone and that's about it, found more than that but clearly dropped by players.

And also died without much of a fight. I'm not asking for there to be ammo and mags everywhere but the occasional gun with a mag in it and like 2 bullets, to show that someone went down fighting. Or guns hidden away in a cabinet some victim never got to before they died, maybe we could have basements or attics to explore with them occasionally too. Suggested this before but also people who've killed themselves, could find decayed bodies with handguns laying on the floor next to them with clips. DayZ needs things like that, it's a desolate atmosphere not a dreadful one where most everyone has been killed. It would be cool if they added old rifles like Winchesters and put them in places like that, the sort of thing people keep in their family. It's just really unbalanced to have slim pickings everywhere but military zones they're treasure troves... Back to your point Funkmaster, so why would there be no clips and little ammo in random, untrained civilian houses who most surely died quickly when the apocalypse hit...but there's tons in military areas where trained soldiers would have been using it up and given that survivors have been around years, would surely have been looted by the time the game is supposed to start? Doesn't make sense, if survivors have been in the land for years military zones would be empty, yet NWAF has more ammo in it than you could ever feasibly need.

Since when? Like a few of weeks ago I was finding badly damaged ones only and I was in the NWAF military camp upon server restart so there's no way anyone came in and dropped it... So basically we can't get 100% of the meat ever...lol.

I've only found almost broken combat knives they are absurdly rare, we need some kind of purposed skinning knife for 100% a combat knife shouldn't be the best for that when there are knives specifically for it.

Hmm.. I like it and I don't, I think it would be good for some kind of PVP centric hive so you can't get the best guns from another server and come in you have to start new on the hive and get guns while the server is decently full. Only for that kind of server I like it, it's so annoying when you're just trying to check out new towns or see how good new guns are and you get sniped by some douchebag miles away simply for walking around. Or every building in a new town is just full of campers waiting for you to go through the door. I think my PVP hive suggestion could work out, on other servers we still have to suffer admins abusing loot drops but at least if PVP is what we're after they have to have 20 people or so on also.

Figured I'll make a topic instead. Not sure what the place is called but I was at that airfield near the coast by the town with the tall buildings. Randomly couldn't use weapons, could lift my axe up ready to attack, nothing. Aim my AKM, nothing. Met 4 guys and was looking for a fight but couldn't shoot any of them...none of them shot me either for whatever reason, one hit me with an axe...which only seemed to register like 30 seconds later when I'd ran some 200m+ away. It was like the server admins put some setting on where you can't use guns... Previously in the server there was next to no lag or rubberbanding so I don't know what the fuck was going on... What bug is this? Of the 4 dudes 3 had guns out, I think AKM's and I had mine out so surely they'd have all shot me instead of getting one guy to axe me? Seems like they couldn't shoot either. Very weird.

That the devs don't want realism and that they want authenticity? They are the exact same freaking thing, I've seen huge arguments over this and had so many people say it to me and it's just so stupid... Maybe the devs said authenticity once but that's just the word they used it means pretty much the same thing as realism. Realism: the quality or fact of representing a person or thing in a way that is accurate and true to life. Authentic: of undisputed origin and not a copy; genuine. The game tries to be genuine like real life, oh what's that? "true to life" in the realism definition. Golly, I guess they do mean the same thing. Now stop saying that stupid non argument and learn some words. Thank you.

But they don't in this case, they're making authentic features featured in real life, or realistic features featured in real life. As I said, interchangeable. They make authentic features to be as realistic as possible. How aren't people getting that?

Gee, I didn't know he created the English language too, talented guy.

As Rigor said, no system can create the kind of diversity real human faces have and you're not seeing them with your own eyes there's no way you can totally memorize it to your eyes it's not a persons face, you might memorize a few but not like you remember real peoples faces just naturally. Plus most of the time you're probably going to be killed by people with bandana's and stuff now, bandits and KOS's are going to use them oh so much, those and gas masks. I'd like to make my own face on it but it's never going to be a greatly useful feature.

There's no way they could get a custom face system so good that you would recognize people that well... You'd only recognize people who have like specific scars and things, assuming you even got a look at their face if they killed you and you're out to get them...how do you know what their face even looks like? They're probably going to be like "lel, n00b" in chat so you'll know their name, not their face. Some kind of ID badge would be best imo, then collect them and have a list of victims or bandits. Dog tags would be better, it seems fairly evident you have the skills of a soldier in the game so they should just state that as the "story" of your character and then add dog tags plus a keychain or something to keep them on. Simple. Kind of unbelievable that your ID card would stay in your pocket if you were out in the ocean, I guess.

(I know this has somewhat been suggested before) Be awesome if we could have some hives for game modes where there's like 10x as many zombies. Or you spawn with a few cans of food and a gun and besides fishing etc no food spawns anywhere else, so you have to hunt or kill other players to get their food, no high end weapons either, bolt actions, pistols and melee to make it even harder. Would add some fun/challenge in to the game, once your fully geared and have a base there's not gonna be much else to do besides PVP which easily gets boring, so it would be cool to have some PVP centric modes where you have to find people and kill them to survive or team up and have a better chance then backstab each other. There could also be a hardcore type hive where there's like guns and melee in a 1:500 ratio and you find like 1-5 bullets at most wherever they spawn, so it's mostly a melee fest and a few guys with guns that have to use their bullets extremely carefully, hunting or killing players? Also bows since hunting with axes and whatnot is troublesome, especially when the animal AI is better. Obviously you have a different character between each hive so you can't take things in or out.

I thought you were going to try say that that's the way it's meant to be played there...thank god. I have honestly only found about 4 people who didn't instantly try to kill me and NONE of them had guns. One guy I was partnered up with for a while, he didn't speak at all... I was just using chat but I told him to not if he understood and stuff and he did...why does nobody ever use chat? Only experienced like one person using it beyond myself. It leaves you open to attack sure but there's no need to be that paranoid, unless you're a slow typer or try it in the middle of an airfield.

Compared to ammo and guns though fishing gear is absurdly rare, namely fishing hooks not only are they rare and essential they're pretty damn hard to see against most flooring. It's just not worth it compared to hunting, it's only good if you're desperate and have the supplies or just want to do it for roleplay or testing reasons. They should add some kind of craftable, less efficient and flimsy fishing hook as well as a real fishing rod(rare obviously) then it would be viable currently it's just some niche feature to use if you're bored. Also one thing they should do is let us spear fish that would be great, knife + duct tape + stick, simple.

Assuming you're not getting attacked while all that is going on, not to mention you need to find a non broken axe for wood and throw it away while you get worms, which take up a ridiculous amount of space. It's just not a good option, finding canned goods, foraging for fruits or berries or just killing people for their food is insanely more viable.

Try the second definition of the word, being realistic as a person is completely different from something being realistic. Realism in a game has nothing to do with being a realist. A thing being realistic is having qualities similar to real life, just as something authentic has qualities similar to the real thing, in this case, real life. They do equate, their definitions are slightly different but they come to the same point and not nearly as different as people decide they are, not when it's a game trying to implement realistic features in an authentic manner or making authentic features as realistic as possible. The words are interchangeable, because they mean the same thing when it comes down to this game. Until we figure out that it's something different from dehydration we don't understand. Until we get better equipment to measure it which finds it to be 340.30 meters per second or 340.2999934847 same with the speed of falling. "facts" change very frequently. It's not really something you can disprove our understanding of everything changes over time, once it was fact that God created Earth 5000 years ago. Absolute fact and yet today it's obviously not, there are trees older than that. Anyway, in relation to this game and the things people try to separate with the words, authentic and realistic are exactly the same.

What's wrong with the Mosin having a rail? I'm pretty sure it would have only been used for hunting anyway, just say they're all custom and be done with it. I wouldn't mind needing a screwdriver and time to tinker with it to switch or just remove scopes though.

This is the problem for me it can take forever to find an Ashwood stick, rope and a fishing hook and you have to do away with all that space. I think things like the hunting backpack should just have a slot for it, maybe for a bow too. It's just so much more viable to hunt or find cans of stuff. I mean on top of all that you need stuff for a campfire too as well as a safe place to fish and cook... They really need to streamline this whole fishing/campfire thing.

1. Just because it's a game doesn't mean it can't be as realistic as possible, it still tries to be realistic or else we'd just have health packs and ammo everywhere, there are merely limitations to what a game can achieve. 2. That's just how science and our understanding of the world works, go back to school everything they're taught will be different to what you learned or if you are still in school check back in 20 years, this is why most parents seem dumb about their kids studies because it's different. Our knowledge of everything changes with time, nothing we call "impossible" is until proven otherwise, we don't have the technology to prove otherwise much like we can't have definitive proof God doesn't exist(not that I believe in any) 3. Still trying to be realistic. They can't be fully realistic but it takes qualities of real life and incorporates them in to the game, it's not trying to be 100% realistic, it can't be but it's trying to be as real-life like as it can be much like a simulator. 4. Not wrong that's simply the limitations of the game, of every game they couldn't incorporate "butcher and skin every animal ever simulator 2014" in to the game. That's exactly the same as how you can use every gun and weapon in the game without issue minus the bugs. Unless they add some kind of activity(which would lead you open to attack) to skin and quarter each animal it has to be like that and such an activity is most likely something not possible for the games engine. That you have to skin them and not just hack them with an axe and instantly have some steak is a realistic feature, just limitedly realistic.