UltimateGentleman

I don't see how it's fun, only in battlezones. What's so fun and rewarding about killing fresh spawns or people with practically nothing? I think it's far more of a thrill to KoS if they have gear, it's their fault for not being vigilant.

Yeah, have you ever walked around at night away from street lights? It's not pitch black your eyes adjust and you can make out basic detail and if the moon is out then you can see decent enough to navigate. But in game it's just blackness the stars are the only light source that isn't artificial and are basically all you can see. If they made it so you could see a little and then added things like night vision goggles I'm sure way more people would play at night.

I agree with this however I think they should make night not optional. Not every server should run at the same time though that would be ridiculous what about people in different time zones? No. All they need to do is make it a bit brighter at night, so you can just barely see without a torch. Who the hell wants to play a game where you can see like a foot in front of you for hours? That's not realistic at all the moon should give a nice glow to the landscape. Hardly anyone plays at night because without torches you can't enjoy it, and with torches some a-hole could be sitting on a hill looking at your "SHOOT ME I'M OPEN" light I'd love to play at night but it's just far too dark and hardly anyone does it. If zombies didn't spawn at night then night would be cool for some tactical PVP without zombie interference, that's another thing I think they should do. Maybe zombies get too cold and can't move properly at night could be explained some way like that.

I think most people aren't really seeing where they hit the zombies, in third person aiming at the head you're hitting their shoulder most of the time. It's a lot easier in first person, so long as you click on their head they usually go down. There's the odd case of them getting back up but when it takes like 10 hits you're just doing it wrong. What I notice is in first person, disregard the attack animation. If you click on their head you hit their head you don't have to try time the swing to hit them it just does unless it's lagging out. But they are too powerful and too fast. Why do they cause bleeding at all anyway? Punch someone in the arm, they're not going to start bleeding they'll get a bruise or a fracture at best. If some zombies had some kind of claws then that would be better but atm they just slap you and suddenly your arm rips open. I think they should add a zombie type that has claws for bleeding and otherwise they should cause rib fractures and make your character in pain, bruises(then painkillers could actually do something) The more pain your character is in the more likely they are to get knocked out. A pain status is the way to go bleeding should be relatively uncommon and more dangerous, sewing kit should be used to stitch wounds for faster healing bandages shouldn't be an insta-fix of course. Anyway I think he devs should just stop adding new features to zombies and making them more powerful until they can't run through walls, they can go upstairs now there is almost no escape it takes minutes to get ahead of them you only run like .5% faster than them...

On one server I some guy was blasting music from Rocky by the town near the NE airfield. Was looking for him for AGES trying to kill him lol it was like they were hidden in the ground or something and then someone spoke on chat but nowhere to be found o.0

In game it's a tough choice for me, I think the SKS is a lot better/more efficient, can always hold 10 rounds, accurate and powerful. It's a great find(although easy since it's in those big white houses like 99% of the time) and will last you. However against an M4 user or multiple it's quite difficult to take them on they can just hold down fire and not have to care too much about aiming, then in the off chance neither player dies they no doubt have at least two more clips to use where the SKS clips are rather scarce I find. So I'd say the SKS is a much better option but using the M4 is a slightly better idea, because almost everyone else does and it gives you way more of a chance against groups since clips are in no way hard to come by. I too think the M4 should be a hell of a lot more hard to find, pristine parts should be hard to come by too if you go to the biggest airfield and go through all the hangers on a recently restarted server if you don't get a fully pristine M4 something has went badly wrong with the world, it is too easy to get. The only thing I find semi rare to get is a good suppressor. Hopefully they make it spawn less and then hopefully people won't think having one makes them "elite" because it's rare... And also SKS clips need to be way more common, you don't totally need them but in a fire fight having to open your inventory is a pain. It's doable but those couple of seconds are all someone needs to run round the corner and rip you apart.

(this may have been discussed before but it's not coming up with similar topics so what the hell) Since the aim of this game is to be authentic or seem real, will we see some gore do you think? Like zombies actually eating dead people, maybe dead NPC's too, could have carcasses laying around in various locations currently it's just some empty land with the occasional blood stain. Right now it's almost a semi-reliable feature that you can spawn back, run a few miles and retrieve what gear whoever killed you couldn't carry or get it all back if you died another way. I do like that but if you were killed by zombies or zombies were nearby it would be cool if they actually started eating your old body, meaning you have to race back because after 10 minutes maybe everything in your pants has been ruined(along with the pants) after 20 everything on your torso, leaving the backpack for someone to probably find. Playing as someone who hasn't recently died you'd see their body being eaten and be faced with the choice of leave it since the zombies are distracted or take them on in the hopes that you get good gear or maybe just MAYBE be nice and wait to see if whoever died comes back for their gear. As for non death based gore it would be cool if when someone hits you with an axe you actually see the wound and your character actually applies first aid to it. I'm sure first aid will be a bit more detailed in the end but do you think we'll see the kind of gore I describe ever?

Thanks man. Well, here's my awesome set! (picture won't work now) My character got reset. For no freaking reason I just went on a server I've been on before with no problems to take a screenshot of me holding the awesome M1911 and I'm on some damn railway line as a fresh spawn. This crap is annoying I JUST found what it says is an extremely rare gun, christ sake. "Don't get too attached to your gear" and all but still it's really shitty when this happens. So my gear now: T-shirt Jeans Flashlight Battery Pure rage

One tip I would have if you don't know already is to run diagonally, zombies can actually catch up and hit you if you run in a straight line but if you suddenly go diagonally it takes them a second to register and by that point you're far away enough that they'll slow down and stop caring(you still need to run a good 200m though) I'm really needing a mic too you're so helpless having to stop and chat and half the time other players will just kill you if you don't talk back >.>

Okay, how the hell do I take a screenshot? Print screen isn't doing it, just takes a screenshot of my desktop >.> I don't have a camera or anything, except a crappy iPod one. For now I'll describe my gear: Got a DPM boonie hat, bitchin' Assault vest, awesome Some tan coat thing, not that bitchin' Winter canvas pants I think, great Main weapon is a fully kitted out M4 with a pristine suppressor first one I've found in that condition. BUT BEST OF ALL An engraved M1911 pistol, it is beautiful, anyonw else have one? I'll post a pic when I know how might have to resort to the iPod cam so it won't be superb. Seriously though this thing looks awesome, got a white handle with two skulls on each side and engravings all round the metal. No clip for it yet but damn am I hunting for one.

I agree we don't really need new towns right now, there's only a few buildings worth visiting in each town there's nothing really unique in places except the one crashed ship. In my opinion what it badly needs, as far as world design goes is unique places like a prison or as in a topic I mad, some gore, more blood around the place. Essentially what we need is things to add to the desolate and creepy atmosphere not forgettable looking towns with one of those blue clinics, a police station and one of those big white buildings that almost always have an SKS in them. I like to explore but there's no real value to it once you know what buildings are going to have food or ammo in them it's pointless. A prison or underground area would be fantastic for fights and exploration, especially underground since it forces you to use light sources it would be very scary to go through alone. So I think the map part of the team need to work on aesthetics right now rather than adding stuff(other than prison or underground area) In real life what two houses look the same inside? Give us some different furniture, toppled over furniture, more blood stains maybe even a few bones here and there. Just some more variety, adding more towns adds to how long that will take.

That would be great to have in the standalone at some point! I get that with the engine it would be difficult to have body parts flying around in any realistic way, but I'm sure it could handle static body parts that have been taken off. So like if nobody is there to see it a mutilated body is swapped in there, so anyone coming up doesn't know the difference it doesn't have to be so detailed that you could sit and watch zombies rip each and every organ out(though that would be awesome) but seeing some half eaten bodies or bloody bones laying around would add so much to the atmosphere. That about the couple sounds like some great detail, now this is off the point but I was also thinking they should do away with paper mostly and leave diary entries about, from people before the game starts. So that couple could have a note next to them explaining what happened, the whole "I'm sorry" deal. Obviously the way injury and bleeding works right now is just a place holder but if they're going for authenticity I think they definitely should look in to gore. When they add animals too, pigs, wolves and bears if they add them could be found eating bodies. So you could be all "Haha I spawned right near my body!...*runs*...holy S***! A freaking bear are you kidding!" (quick question are we allowed swear words here? I've not seen that many don't want to go getting warned thinking they're fine)

Yeah it was such a surprise, I seen some other guy walking around the area too so hopefully he caught the show.

It's so awful isn't it? I hop they add the ability to hop soon if only one of your legs is broken you shouldn't have to crawl or roll everywhere >.<

Aw man I'd kill to see that :P Looks like I just beat you to it, maybe a mod will merge the threads? Nice. Too many people are just instantly murderers, I try not to be if someone doesn't have a weapon readied or doesn't have a gun at all I'll leave them be, can't take the chance otherwise. I need a headset though having to type that you're friendly is a pain, you usually start getting shot at before then. Now that I can survive easily I usually just fight people but saving new spawns can feel so rewarding. Another experience I had: The other day I had the decision of "no more mr. nice guy!" because almost everyone in this game just tries to kill you and I used to be nice. However I spawned and instantly found a pristine hoodie plus a couple of cans of food, walked down the road and there's this black chick running up. So I figure screw it I'll put my hand up even though she had her fists up, she went on her merry way though then I thought I'd go back and be a good samaritan y'know, two cans of food I couldn't even open so why not give her one? She stopped, I stopped, started typing "Hey, here's a can of food"...then she starts punching me in the middle of the message, hit my twice but I finished the message, now looking like a retard put up my dukes. Ran round her punching like crazy she must have hit me like 4 times(think she was lagging out) I hit her like 8 times and then finally we came face to face..."You are unconscious" ohhhh! Dammit she's going to kill me! But then I wake up and she's just laying there on the ground. A double knockout. Didn't even know it was possible in the game... I was going to spare her life for the epic battle but turns out she respawned it's a shame she'll never know my act of mercy. At least I got a couple of pristine rags out of it, shortly after a zombie caused me to bleed ^_^

How cool do you guys and gals think it would be if there was some kind of Super Zombie in the game? Maybe, as a server setting every so often one would spawn in and wreak havoc throughout the land, perhaps it could be really loud to warn people or maybe lightning could signal its arrival. Being super, hard to take down, fast and strong and maybe it can open doors or smash them down(when zombies can't just run through them anyway) I think it could be a great feature, it would encourage people to work together and take it down rather than just kill each other and it would also be a nice challenge for solo players, you would feel epic if it came up saying "Player X has slain the super zombie single handedly!" And maybe it could be attracted by dead bodies so if some player has just killed a few guys it's going to come near them, or if there's a group of people you could kill one and the zombie would go to them while you watch the bloodbath from a roof. Making it have non exploitable AI would be hard though but breaking down doors and not falling through stairs would be good enough. Failing that, typical zombie types like spitters or howlers that attract more zombies. Would that be cool? After a while zombies become a complete non threat so different types like that would be great in my opinion. And of course there could be servers with standard zombies or only super zombies etc etc for people who just want to kill each other. I hope it's not just going to be standard zombies in the end game anyway if they add different ones it will set the experience apart from others.

Yeah piracy is a huge problem and it's only really PC players that do it, so I don't think PC gamers have a right to say they're better than so called "casual" console gamers, at least we pay for stuff. Of course not every PC gamer pirates but enough to make devs lose a lot of money. So if people want to see more from the DayZ team after it's finished, being on console and thus getting a lot more money almost guarantee's they'll produce some more, much better games in years to come it would be a great move. For controls maybe it could go on both Xbox One and PS4 if it came bundled with a small keyboard? That would be decent, it would be handy for if you don't have a headset too if you have to type in DayZ you're basically defenceless where with controller and keyboard you can stop typing quick and use the controller to defend yourself. PS4 still seems the better option though the touchpad can be split in to being 4 different buttons and be used as a touchpad, perhaps swiping left or right could scroll through the hotbar? There seems to be plenty of people without a decent PC that want it on the new gen consoles anyway and for ones that don't know about just having zombies in it is enough for people to jump on the bandwagon.

That's an opinion I can get behind for once. However PC doesn't just offer a superior experience as far as I'm concerned, compared to the Xbox One and PS4 graphics in games are not so different that you really notice, without obsessing over it. Like so what on a PC a rock at the edge of a map might look a little bit better it's not detail you notice unless you look and for people bragging about 60+ FPS like they love to, the human eye can't even process the difference so that's a waste of money. No sensible console gamer will say a PS4 or Xbone is more powerful than a $300000 PC but the overall experiences aren't too different. As for the whole "casual" thing (this is at the thread now), because playing PC makes you a hardcore gamer? Right. Sorry to go off the point. To bring it back I really hope they do port it, Steam just isn't my thing and none of my friends are involved in the community either so I'd love to be able to play with them on PS4 and it would be cool to share the your gameplay you need to be recording already on PC where nothing interesting could happen but on PS4 you can share the past 15 minutes where some crazy stuff happened without having to be constantly recording. What's bad about that really? I got in an epic battle with some woman earlier in the game and we had a double knockout situation which was hilarious, would love to have shared it with people.

So I updated from NVIDIA GeForce 334.89 to 335.29, should this fix the crashing to desktop problem? I don't know much about these things. Using an AlienwareX51(most basic package) Played the game about 90 hours and it's only happened recently, I stopped for a couple of weeks and during that the game got updated so I don't know if the update itself has done it or if my GPU isn't updated enough to keep up. Anyway I'll test it and check back here anyone experiencing the same problem will know if it's a fix or not. Really inconvenient, always happens when zombies are attacking me so have to try run away blind and then end the process, usually end up dying of course.

I don't really know what a GTX is not used to all the terminology yet but if I open up Nvidia it says the GPU is GeForce GT 640. I think that's what you mean so I don't have a GTX probably...this makes me sound dumb haha. It being an alpha isn't really the excuse I think it played fine before, when I first got it I played it for like 10 hours straight with Firefox on, even though my computer isn't all that it managed but now I terminate all but essential processes while playing for better performance and it crashes this way, usually after half an hour. Actually. It comes up right at the start saying that it can't load textures of some motorbike helmets, is everyone getting this right now since the latest update or could this just be me? Perhaps whatever is causing it not to load the textures is what's causing it to crash. Though it seems to be lies it usually says it can't load the texture for a grey helmet...then I find a grey one minutes later... Maybe the latest update corrupted a file somewhere, reinstalling the game could work. As for updating my driver I played the game for like 30 minutes and it seemed ok(had to stop playing so not a big test)

Yeah bears in RDR were pathetic. I guess what could work is, hordes of zombies in towns and bears, wolves/dogs etc in the wilderness. Imagine how cool it would be if you could lure a bear(or zombie bear whatever) to a town to take on a horde for you? That would be epic. My general idea here is just to get people to work together and/or make it more interesting, maybe all the good gear should be in cities usually there's just minor stuff and everyone runs to airfields. So when you go to a city you have to work your away around a horde to find good medical supplies or guns(weird that you find hardly anything in the actual hospitals right now) It is fun to play but once you get all pristine geared up...there's not a lot left other than killing people when you have everything surviving is simple. I think spitters could possibly be the best inclusion as far as actual zombies go, perhaps rather than acid or something typical like that what they spit at you seeps in to your clothes and makes zombies notice you a lot more? Meaning you have to find a way to wash them, get new clothes or perhaps spray them with disinfectant. That would add so much tension to being stealthy, spitter gets you then you have a horde after you. Working stealth weapons included it would bring a great element to the game.

I don't get why people have to bash consoles so much PC isn't that great controlling games with it is awful have the time to the point where you need a console controller, hypocritical as heck to say consoles suck when you need to borrow from them. I think the PS4 would handle it just fine, better than Xbox. Mainly due to the touchpad since it could be used for many buttons, possibly inventory navigation like a mouse. It could be great on PS4 the movement ability analog sticks give you is far better than arrow keys or WASD keys. Not sure they'll bother though H1Z1 will probably get on PS4 first so everyone will jump on that, I'd like DayZ on it too and it would still get them money but H1Z1 would hog most of it. If they up their game and finish DayZ sooner it might work in their favour. PC gamers aren't some illustious master race online, have you played DayZ? Virtually everyone tries to kill you no questions asked I've met like 2 that didn't attack me and probably just because I had weapons. So the whole "cod gamers will play it!" argument is retarded as plenty immature people play it on PC.

Well a super zombie could just have such a huge health pool that taking it on alone would mean using all your ammo so you have to either escape or find help. I don't see anything wrong with being cliché the zombie genre has been done to death there's nothing really original in it, it would be a cool kind of easter egg to have since as of now there's nothing really rewarding for you to find. They could also add some more weird zombies like maybe one stuck in the ground somewhere that can sort of speak "weird" occurences like that could be cool and could be something to hunt for, maybe they could have unique clothing items like a party hat or sparkly glasses.

Well I think they'd be decent to have just to try bring people together, as would hordes though I guess but they'd be easy enough to run away from or cut down with an automatic weapon where with one powerful zombie people are going to die if they don't work together. Patient Zero could just be worked in to it I guess, maybe they could add a lab showing how the virus was made so that a more powerful zombie that's been experimented on makes sense instead of just being there for no reason. If they were to add super ones they should be last though the other types are more viable.

Stuff like that too I was going to say about ones missing limbs but didn't want my post to be too huge. And I guess like Patient Zero(never played that mod) Yeah, I'd like a super one more but just a lot more types of them would be good enough armoured ones sound cool you find tons of ammo in the game but the only thing to use it on is people since one headshot does it for zombies. I agree about more although not until the hit boxes and them going through walls is fixed fighting 10 you can't escape from would be awful. When they add functional animals in infected dogs and things would be cool too, perhaps even the occasional bear, infected or not. I think Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare had the kind of variety they need to add just somewhat more "realistic" ones. Well I'm sure they could change them to work that way, maybe some doors could be breakable like wood ones and metal ones not breakable. Or maybe the zombie is just smarter and can open them nicely... I don't mean break the door in to pieces exaclty just take it off to the point where it's on the floor, if they can function well enough to open like doors they should be able to fall down once they develop the physics more.