UltimateGentleman

Well soldiers regularly go on like 20k runs with gear on as part of training, so if it was that you're a soldier in DayZ it works out but your speed should obviously be dulled by having a lot of extra weight on. Or maybe not much, as it should running with heavy gear could just burn through your energy and hydration a lot but the speed could be only 10-20% slower than with no gear. I was thinking some kind of adrenaline shot would be cool too or adrenaline feature it could play a part, like when your leg is hurt but you don't have morphine, stab adrenaline in and run through the pain for a few minutes to escape whatever. So people running slower due to a high amount of gear could either use that or while being attacked gain a natural adrenaline rush.

Whatever you do don't become a noob hunting douche, check out the airfields or towns when there's a lot of people and have some gunfights. Best thing to do is go third person and watch people to try discern whether or not they're friendly, if they shoot some noobs get out there and destroy them. Feels rewarding but given that the map is so huge and so relatively little players can be on it, it can be hard to find a fight anywhere but battlezones like airfields.

Yeah it would be kind of bad if there was a slowing down animation like a few steps or a slide because what if it lags out and you fly off an edge it would be inconventient. I think what they could do is let you run fast almost instantly when you have really light gear on, so new spawns are the fastest and then when you have a backpack full of stuff it takes you longer to speed up. Instead of always being able to run incredibly fast that and how healthy you are should affect your speed. They probably plan this anyway, someone who's both starving and dehydrated and has also lost a lot of blood should not be able to run for 20 minutes non stop. For that though first zombies would need to be A LOT slower currently they can catch up and hit you a couple of times before giving up, or chase you forever so if you couldn't run faster than them will full gear on...big trouble.

I'm guessing that's a joke ;) For anyone with or wanting an AlienwareX51 with the cheapest package available the game works just fine, relatively cheap PC so if you just want to play the game it's an option that works. The standalone anyway I've not tried the Arma " mod.

I just joined today too so...hi :D Anyway I see what you're saying but the speed you can go in to a full run at is very necessary for running away from people. I'm not sure if you've encountered it yet but a lot of a**holes stand around spawn points shooting people who've just spawned, can't really defend yourself with a flashlight so if they could run as fast as you it would be terrible. Once you experience people doing this more you'll probably not care, it's the only defence you have. As for why the character can run so fast and seemingly forever, not sure if it's ever been explained but I chalk it up to your character being a soldier. Makes sense, the average person doesn't know how to use guns effectively, perform first aid, craft things like a splint or backpack and aren't nearly as fit as a soldier. There's no kind of "plot" to the game per se but I think it should be stated that you're a soldier of some sort. Something thats a bit...I don't know about running is that so long as there's one guy if you don't have weapons and they do you can run up to them and beat them up quite easily because they simply can't aim at you fast enough in close quarters. It's a bit crap but again it gives new spawners a chance so I'm not sure where they should go with that. Because you don't want it to be easy for bandits to kill people but at the same time need it to be easier to deal with them so for now I think the running system works.