UltimateGentleman

Yeah considering protector cases would be heavy I don't think they should be the only option when they start making weight affect things plastic cover could be a godly item for rainy seasons too since you get soaking very quick. What if your fireplace kit got soaking? Protector cases are pretty rare I'd rather not have to server hop to have an inventory full of them it feels like cheating and frankly doesn't make sense, much like backpackception. Waterproof bags would be good, small one could have a row less slots than the standard backpack and then a large one could be the same as the hunting backpack or slightly smaller I think it'd be a great item. Maybe not right now exactly but in future when everything else is set up they'd definitely be helpful.

I found some berry bushes but couldn't take berries from them, it's kind of like that island hasn't been updated. Hopefully they do update it to have what I mentioned and when they add boats in it could be such a cool place for a clan.

So does anyone know of a server where people actually don't kill each other? All I want to do right now is hunt some stuff, fish and make a campfire but either the game crashes or people shoot me before I find enough of the ridiculous amount of stuff you need to be prepared. Then I'll go back to the standard experience...AKA everyone kills each other for no reason because we're clearly playing Call of Duty. Is it so much to ask that you don't just shoot everyone you see? If they have gun out and might shoot you then fair enough but if they're just casually wandering around and you don't need food or anything why even bother shooting them? Say hi or wave it's very simple and if like 50% of the players did it imagine how much better the experience would be for everyone... OR does anyone who hasn't hunted, went fishing or made a campfire yet want to team up? Because at least if there's more than one of us douchebags won't just kill us and we'll get to see the warm glow of fire. I don't have a mic or anything though but I'll happily join people that use them, I type pretty quick. Since it takes so long to find stones or a pick, a backpack to carry stuff, an axe to get wood or sticks, a knife, a fishing hook, matches, rope and ashwood sticks, a shovel and worms by yourself. Clearly these new features were intended for groups...it's just so much easier to find cans of food though... EDIT I'm in the UK but I can play until like 3-4AM over here just fine so should be game for most time zones.

But when you get the virus? If zombies are vectors then they need only scratch you to infect you and what then it would suck if a zombie could just hit you once and that's it you're dead no matter what. Would suck even worse if you had to take someones blood too since nobody would co-operate... I think they should stick to real world diseases that you can overcome. You must be one of the few then.

But how do you get rid of the virus? I'm not sure they should add that I think it just should have been an airborne thing that's died down. Unless there's just going to be cure vials around.... That nobody will really use unless they add winter seasons and snow.

Better than the boring, generic olive set to be camo which barely helps. There are lots of orange bushes and trees. Orange camo raincoat is superior. Top hat adds a hint of ridiculous that means nobody will want to shoot your ridiculous ass...until you shoot them. Tried and tested. Except the top hat part. Anyway OT above all issues I don't see how this is important it wouldn't be a good idea to wear the both of them in this DayZ situation as realistically the mask would severely limit your peripheral vision, might be smart to keep one but not wear it at all times.

Problem is most KOSers just kill on sight they don't consider things like that they're usually sitting waiting for someone to kill anyway, if you come across someone with heavy weaponry that might be a problem it's fine but someone who clearly has practically nothing is worthless to kill. Sometimes it's justified but most of the time it's because the KOSer is a kewl hardcore survivor Y0L0. Anyway after much time and incredibly no crashes I managed to kill a deer with an axe get everything for fire and fail at cooking now I'm food poisoned and the screen is black and white, it's looking bleak but whatever finally made a fire :lol: I was also in like 5 servers without it resetting my character, the gods watched over me this day. Except when they kept giving me badly damaged axes that couldn't cut one tree...

How does having a gas mask and ballistic helmet make you seem more of a survivor? Neither of those things are hard to find. I think generic survivor when I see them not badass tactical pro. Badass tactical pro to me would be wearing an orange raincoat and still kicking ass. So yeah I don't really care don't see why they should go to the effort or changing it. And they certainly shouldn't if there's ever a point in having the mask though I'm not sure what point there could ever be, poson gas areas? When someone had too many beans? I would rather they make me a Abe Lincoln style top hat so I can look bitchin'

They need to do something about the durability for sure, I don't think the axes should get ruined from it because how the heck does an axe get ruined that quick? They should just get to badly damaged status and take like 30-40 chops to cut down a tree which also takes away a fuck ton of energy. Took me forever to get my first camp fire going because all I was finding were badly damaged axes that couldn't even manage one tree... Did not know about sharpening with stones, is that a joke? I have no idea but try throwing the axe on the ground and holding the stone? I'm not sure if that guy is being serious or not I've never heard of anyone saying you can do that and seen tons of people complaining about axe durability...

How would they do this though? I don't really trust that system if you have no set logout and login point it's probably just going to reset your character which would be bullshit if it's not your fault it crashed. The "don't get attached to your character" motto shouldn't apply in the full release. I love the idea of not spawning in or logging out in military zones at least we could have non cowardly fights where people combat log the second it gets serious. However, what about snipers outside the zone? They could just abuse the fact that nobody can logout and escape them but if anyone finds where they are they can log out, in to another server and mess with some more people without even moving.

So I FINALLY got to make a camp fire and cook some deer steaks. Food poisoning. How do you know when they're cooked? It was bright red round them and I still got food poisoned, I even left one steak in for like 5 minutes and it never got burnt is it just fish that gets burnt right now? I hope they change it in future raw meat does not poison you and certainly not outright. Also my screen is black and white after only being poisoned half an hour or so, the "sick" icon is also the olive green colour but I can barely see, how long do I have? Is food poisoning different/faster from meat because I had it before and it was a few hours before it got this bad and the icon was red by then... Kind of hard to find charcoal tabs in black and white...

Ah, considering you have to wait and you can burn it I thought you had to guess from how red it was. But I left one steak in while I ran away to a town to look for charcoal tabs and it still wasn't cooked when I came back... And as one dude said might affect it only like 5 people were in the server. I thought it slowly got worse and worse over time? It's still showing that it's not severe but my screen is so dark even during the day I put a flare on and it almost blinded me. This is what's confusing me had it a few times and it never got so bad so quickly. Really hope they let us eat raw meat it should just fill you up quicker but give less energy because that's what happens in real life it takes longer to digest and isn't as good for you. I had some raw steaks just the other day, totally fine. And I'm not some crazy super human that can run non stop for like 40 miles get hit by zombies tons of times then have a gunfight and win. Although I haven't tried that yet.

I've only died when I stopped running. Mainly out in the open, there's usually a sniper somewhere. Nobody expects someone to do something so idiotic as run round a corner so when you do they have no idea what to do and can never aim quick enough, run round a corner take your weapon out and let the battle commence!

Then what good are they, time consuming to get all the parts, difficult to maintain, easily stolen, difficult to fly, difficult to get, difficult to get and thus practice flying, don't last long with the wrong fuel, right fuel is hard to get. Nothing about that sounds interesting or rewarding, I'll just make a base and be happy with hunting animals or people as most people should be satisfied with. That and have a car I can maybe spraypaint things on or booby trap and leave on the road. There's never really a situation you need the kind of speed a helicopter gives to get somewhere. Unless there was an air drop or something but that's silly.

But again what's the point? This isn't a war game there are plenty of other games with attack helicopters people can play why cater to that mentality the game is a big enough deathmatch as it is. Why get all the things for a helicopter when people can take it and destroy your base or just destroy the helicopter, all that time wasted and for what? You could go to a town faster and get some food? You could run there and get the food and waste no resources. And with a car you waste only relatively common fuel. Actually that's another thing, the fuel for helicopters would need to be in a specific place like a tank(which realistically could be blown up) people would just crowd round them and nobody would get a helicopter. Or should we find a canister of helicopter fuel in some random garage? Makes no sense.

Hunting is good enough for longevity. I see what you're saying about giving people something to do but once they got it going they'd almost never use it for anything other than killing people. Would you enjoy it if you spawned in servers as a fresh spawn and more often than not were being chased by people in helicopters? That's what they'd be used for 95% of the time maybe some people would take up a noble cause but given that most people in this game aren't very nice...it's not likely that anyone nice would bother with them. If they added some new island with incredible things on it then it could be a good addition along with boats for others to get there, a fortified base thing people could take over and survive in. But I doubt that's happening. As I said cars are good enough for transport, people can race each other in those too it will be fun. Of course cars can be used to hunt people too but at least there's escape in the wilderness. But they can just take the helicopter you worked for and it it's an attack helicopter just attack your base with it it's never going to be that hard to find.

But what's the point, what "end game" purpose does it serve? There is no end game in this game except having a base and a helicopter would suck for that because everyone could see where you land and attack you... It's just entirely pointless especially if your helicopter deletes after a server reset. The only thing I'd like is if all the PVP lovers just stayed wherever it was and stopped shooting everyone on the coast then maybe people could enjoy the game while they play CoD up north.

I'd like to ask people who want them a question. Why do you need them? If you get to the point where you and your friends can run one you sure as hell have everything you need, guns, food, ammo, medical supplies and they last ages so why even bother with the helicopter? It doesn't take long to run from town to town at all and get supplies and you could never be playing so long without a server restart that you would actually need more food. The only thing they're really useful for is finding and killing people, the ultimate tool for that. Beyond that they're completely useless the time it takes you to find all the parts and fuel you probably could have run to the other side of the map anyway. Cars are enough, helicopters are just ridiculous if the map was big to the point where it could take real life days to get to the other side maybe they'd be useful but it takes like half an hour to an hour, helicopters are a waste of time cars would shorten that to like 10-20 minutes. So again, why do you need a helicopter? Not why do you want, why do you need. TL;DR you don't. "I would, as I did in the mod, to get where I needed to go, to kill who I needed to kill." Lol, this should be encouraged why? Go play the mod or Battlefield or something then.

It's not going to take weeks for people to server hop and get all the stuff they need nor would it be all that hard to find for a focused group. No. Cars are all we need who the fuck would bother with a helicopter in this situation unless they were leaving? Noise practically always attracts zombies if you landed anywhere but an island you'd be swarmed, it's just stupid to have them. As stupid as it is to have your character know how to fly them at all with no explanation.

So is this fixing what broke in the latest stable update?

1. If someone doesn't have a gun don't shoot them 2. Offer them a bandage or something helpful if they seem fresh, to be a light in the everlasting darkness that is the playerbase as perhaps they'll remember your kindness before turning to the darkside. 3. At airfields NEVER STOP RUNNING IF YOU STOP YOU DIE 4. Don't get carried away and try to find every possible good item in one place if you're there too long someone will find you. 5. Tactical Bacon is god Always shoot at groups in case they are bandits and then run away, if not it will at least liven up their session.

I've read multiple peoples posts saying they still don't work after this patch must be bugs then.

Well that sounds awesome. What all got changed in size? I heard binoculars take up 4 slots now...correct me if I'm wrong but they don't even work yet anyway so that just seems stupid to change now, if they were usable and good maybe it wouldn't be too annoying. Why 4 spaces anyway that seems retarded honestly unless they're infinitely better than a scope just get a scope PU's, SKS's and Mosin's are everywhere then you have a monocular that takes up no space. They should have stayed 2 slots or maybe you could break it in half to have a monocular.

People are so negative to changing the game at all when it's so plain... I think this would be good, people would be useful. For example if there was a recipe for a splint, some bandits find a guy and are torturing him he could explain that he read the splint blueprint when none of them have, relying on random morphine drops. Instantly he becomes helpful to them. Same with anyone, see a guy in the distance "maybe he knows how to make what I need..." instead of "lel thers a guy shoot him" If guns were a lot rarer and crafted items were a lot more necessary then it could work out and at least some of the whiny bitches would stop playing the now "ruined" game. Realism =/= ruined Plus more crafting items would be needed.

That would make it way too easy plus how would it be regulated do they have infinite fuel? There needs to be some element of challenge to them.