UltimateGentleman

Yeah I know about those ones, would be cool if they were added too but I mostly mean one you can craft those are probably a bit complicated. Or maybe we could just use some kind of pipe? Fuck it I don't know, obviously it's illegal to make them out of sticks and stuff so not finding any guides on how to, either it's not possible and various movies featuring them have just been bullshit or it's just something like an engineer would know how to make without being taught. In The Grey anyway I think they just use a pointed stick and tape a shotgun shell to the top so that when they stab at a wolf the tip hits the primer and sets it off, so maybe it would work? It's pretty damn hard to find any info on them since it always comes back to the Boom Stick from Evil Dead...

I'm finding loot to be very very odd... I understand why it's everywhere currently but on a low pop server I went through like 5+ towns and the whole NW airfield plus a new military base(not sure how new) Within like 20 minutes I had a dry bag and more food than I could possibly need plus EVERYTHING pristine, which is just fabulous. Currently I have a yellow raincoat, drybag and summer hunter pants or something so I basically never get wet and actually overheat in the rain if I run around too much, I also have like 1 space in my inventory even with a high cap vest. About 10 tins of food, first aid kit, rice, threw away some cereal, two canteens, lockpick, sewing kit, leather stiching kit. Plus a few other bits and pieces like duct tape. But in all that, I found barely any ammo at all, couple of boxes of the 380 or whatever ammo and some shotgun shells was all I found before getting to a military base then the airfield. In the airfield I found about 60 Mosin rounds and some other ammo types but there was still barely any all in all about 100 rounds of ammo. What's that all about? Food and guns galore but barely any ammo, I covered a large part of the map too and very popular locations, where loot seems to spawn in buckets so it's quite likely that the ammo I found is a lot of all the ammo on the server, unless it's all cramped in one house for someone to find. Other than that it's been awesome I played for like 3 hours, didn't crash at all a few FPS drops here and there but not one crash before it would sometimes do it after less than a minute. The game seems to look better too not sure how haven't changed any settings.

1 But it's never going to be that unique though unless they make it so your clan has a red armband and only your clan can see that it's red, which is kind of dumb. On any one server with armbands for instance it's highly likely multiple clans will all have the same colour so I think a mechanic is fine it just makes up for what you can't tell from what the game shows you. 2 Again you shouldn't have to act like you're some military squad the game is built on an ARMA engine yeah but we're not soldiers, why shouldn't we be able to function as a group without acting like we are? 3 Yeah the dance that most people do, movement doesn't have enough variety that you could be safe with a signal like that anyone can just watch from the bushes then show up doing the dance and slaughter as many people as they can. 4 What about people who don't have voice chat though? Or people who don't all speak the same language? Or just have hard to understand accents. It should be possible without voice chat to form some kind of group.

I'd love it if we got that and a melee attack button but it probably won't happen since it'd make it easy to kill people so I guess people won't be a fan of this. But why the hell not? If you make the snap decision to stab someone they have to be freaking fast on their feet to avoid it, unless you're slow. You should need a knife and a sheath to do it, or anything else that fits in the sheath like a shiv or whatever. Having to press 3 to equip your knife and then slash is just inadequate not to mention useless for anything other than skinning. How about tap R or whatever to slash and hold to bring your knife out? (I sense urgh it's not CoD comments...) As long as it doesn't insta-kill people simply by you cutting their shoe there's really nothing wrong with the concept, I guess if you could stab people in the neck it'd be too easy(even though that's realistic) but still a quick slash is still going to be helpful, maybe you just want a bambi to suffer for attacking you so make them bleed or you don't want to waste the bullets. And maybe knives could actually be useful against zombies other than in desperate situations. Or maybe they could actually add a stealth attack for sneaking up on zombies and maybe people, if you sneak up on someone you deserve to be able to stab them surely? That would give a melee button great use you could stealthily work your way through a town taking out zombies instead of smashing them over the head really quite conspicuously. So please, actually think about this one instead of instantly labelling it a CoD/casual thing when it's really quite basic, knives are dangerous but in DayZ unless you're skinning an animal, might as well use your fists.

Yeah I don't mean they should add it right now but eventually it'd be great, especially the sneak friendly part, so long as it requires you to not have a backpack full of loose bullets jingling around. I disagree though I think it'd be used a lot, since it went on Steam there are a lot more noob players than oldschool players, who'd practically have immunity but it's still going to be useful against a large portion of the playerbase who're new, just idiots or were focused on some other task. It'd be a good way to execute someone too like an unconscious comrade(I think there should be a penalty to respawning while only unconscious) Granted nobody is going to go on 40 kill streaks stabbing people in the back but it definitely beats walking up to them fists up like you're about to box and just slashing them when they're open to a fatal stab wound, if there's one thing that kills immersion for me it's how poor the melee combat is but there's no way to make it realistic without making it unfair or having QTE's or whatever else. Sneaking up on someone is just a situation where you should be able to kill them with a melee weapon rather than do minor damage and get shot even though in reality the person would have their head caved in or many stab wounds.

Suggestions like these need implemented, bleeding currently is just stupid, not even the fountain part. You shouldn't have to run around for like 10 minutes desperately trying to find a bandage or rags to stop a cut on your arm bleeding, why not hold your arm over it? Do we all have Hemophillia in the game? I think you should be able to hold your wound shut, mostly stopping the bleeding and provided you're not doing anything faster than walking you slowly stop bleeding. Stupid as it is I'm fine with bandages being an insta-fix but they and rags shouldn't be the only fix. Even if you can instantly stop a bullet wound bleeding you've taken a huge blow to your hit points which are currently non recoverable(hopefully that changes) so bandages aren't a cure all. It'd be cool if you had to get pliers to pull bullets out if you wanted to avoid infection making the danger more than hit points and bleeding also.

It exists because they want to make them even though all they get is donations. With being paid for it as DLC they have more incentive to make them and might get some better resources, it could only improve the modding community.

I feel like it works as a suggestion. I'd rather they actually expanded the map than added towns everywhere, there should be way more wilderness than there is there's hardly anywhere good for a base because you're always going to be near a village or town someone is going to visit sooner or later. It's way too saturated with towns so I think adding some extra area outside the map with more towns would be tons better. With persistence I want it to be possible to hide my base because the wilderness is so vast and with an expanded map if they add helicopters it won't take 10 minutes to find every base. I'm not sure how well they could expand the map of course but surely if they can edit large area's they can add more?

They still fall under the same category just in their own sub category. Why not just make them eat people to improve the atmosphere of the game? Would also explain why they're still alive, if they don't eat they should be dead unless they're supernatural.

So it's a pain in the ass not having warm clothes, not being able to find any and having to make a fire every two seconds just to survive. What about adding a thermos or hot water bottle for us to fill with hot water(duh) and stuff in our freezing cold jacket or whatever we're wearing? If any of you have played the indie game Don't Starve you know that it has a viable option for heat on the move...DayZ certainly should have one if a tiny indie does :| Not only does it burn through resources making fires all the time is just inconvenient and until there's proper base building sticking to one area isn't really an option unless it somehow has a continuous food supply. But who wants to play the game when you have to sit around a fire 50% of the time? Obviously how heat works will be tweaked but why not have options for us to stay warm on the move without having to wear rare gear? It's not going to be the ultimate saving grace but it should keep you survivably warm if you have a stove to top it up every so often. The two items I mention aren't all I mean but not sure what else would be viable, thermos is the best option I can think of.

Yeah brainfart on the thermos being warm but they could be useful for that too, even just some boiled water(obviously not straight from boiling point) perhaps you could pour it over yourself or drink it to warm yourself up for a while. In the military when they're all freezing when someone does a shit they wrap it up in a bag and pass it round, just to get a little warmth from the fresh poop so I don't think it's too ridiculous to have a hot water bottle.

So I assume at one point things like starvation and hunger will affect us in the game by lowering our stamina, disallowing us to run fast or even at all. Hopefully motor functions will also be affected. Fizzy drinks have very little hydration value but if you were dehydrated, drinking one would definitely make you feel better, it might not actually hydrate you much but you'd feel better. Which motivates you to run faster in the game and improves your action speed also. Another thing it could do is make the screen a bit more colourful instead of black and white, or perhaps that could stay just to signify that yes you are still dying. So you're not sufficiently hydrated but for a short time don't feel like you're going to die. With hunger the same thing eat an apple or some berries and even though that's no sort of meal and you're still deteriorating just having some food in your belly makes you feel better. Basically you get 5-10 minutes of the next stage of hunger/hydration up as in if you're at red hunger, hobbling along feeling like death is just around the corner you eat an apple and then you can move like you do in the orange-ish coloured hunger status. Up until you're at olive coloured hunger and can run and perform actions at a neutral level. Would be a good way to give virtually useless food items such as berries, apples and tomatoes a use, it's only going to help a little bit but it might save your life all the same.

As I suggested in another topic they could just have zombies feast on dead bodies so if you're away from your body 10 minutes you come back and there's just a carcass, perhaps with some gear left. Any longer than that all you find is bones and blood and some really really happy(and fat) zombies. That and the option to drag bodies would be good enough magically making them disappear is dumb. Dragging would be great for if your friend got knocked unconscious too, drag him to safety.

...completely the opposite :lol: Who wants to spend months, even years making a mod and get nothing in return?

I don't think zombies need to be faster, they're fast enough and it doesn't make sense already. When stamina is introduced we won't be able to run 20 miles non stop to get away from them, though they should have stamina too.

Yeah I heard that too but don't know if that includes the PS4 version. I'd love to play something like that Jurassic Park ARMA III mod on DayZ it would add a really interesting new depth to gameplay. I'm sure Sony wouldn't mind funding that kind of thing as paid DLC. It'd be great not being able to lone wolf it so easily, else you be hunted down by a pack of raptors... Plus it would keep the game fresh, people might stop laying for a few months and then a DLC like that comes out they'd surely come back.

That's...that's not what I said at all at the bottom there. It wouldn't take only an axe level weapon to take someone out in one attack but currently it's the only option so yeah you can stealth/surprise kill people with axes and that's fine but axes aren't the only thing that can kill people with one attack if someone stabs a knife in to the side of your head it's miraculous for you to survive and you're not fighting back at all. I really don't get what you think is so hard about killing someone. IF you get the drop on them it's easy nobody can defend against a knife piercing in to their neck or head from an attacker they didn't know was right behind them. And it's only IF. V.A.T.S. is a very poor example not sure why you're comparing that to my idea, what you described is nothing like it at all that's the same as Battlefields counter knife thing where if you attack someone from the front they need only press a button and they stab you instead. How about reading this I am only suggesting an instant stealth kill from behind It still requires patience, judgement and luck to pull of it's never going to happen to extremely careful players for instance. Attacking from the front just results in a regular slash because it would be unfair if you could take a combat knife and go on an unstoppable CoD rampage. Stealth killing would be an act of skill and/or desperation, it's a huge risk to take but if someone pulls off sneaking up on you they damn well deserve the pay-off. Instead of what we currently have which is: *walks up to guy laying on the ground aiming a gun, not paying attention* *takes out knife* *slashes the guy doing basically nothing but causing some bleeding* *guy turns round and shoots them with their Mosin, bandages himself and continues with what he was doing* ^tell me that situation makes any kind of realistic sense and type that with a straight face and you deserve money my friend. What would happen is the guy would get a knife in his back/head/neck faster than he could defend himself. Once again it's only possible IF you pull off sneaking up to them, which against a lot of players is a big if it's not like everyone would succeed.

I wouldn't like that because unless on a low pop server there's also like a 75% chance you'll encounter someone who aims to kill you and you can't really waste time looking at every inch of an area from a distance when you have thirty minutes or so to eat before you die. I think it should be a lot easier to just barely survive, to get enough food to stay in green hunger status like by being able to smash open cans of food at the lost of at least 70% of the food, it's still going to be a struggle until you find an axe or the god tier item that is the can opener.

Um...no. What if you don't have a gun? What if you don't have bullets? What if you don't have a silencer or sub sonic rounds? Shooting would be daft if you didn't, you're going to alert their buddies and/or zombies. A knife to the throat is a much quieter option than an un-silenced gun, it's unreasonable to assume everyone would have access to silencers it's not TWD where they have infinite ammo and silencers unless the plot demands otherwise. Stabbing in the neck or temple would be a great way to kill someone, slash them or stab them elsewhere and they might fall to the ground, whip out a pistol and shoot you. They'll probably die anyway unless they have a doctor and supplies handy but you'll probably die too. Guns are a huge risk unless you're in open combat where it doesn't matter anyway. Unless it's stated that we're all trained soldiers with martial arts skills there's no reason why stabbing from behind shouldn't be possible. Again if someone does it to you then that's your fault just like in real life you should have been paying attention not sitting looking through a scope for hours on end or just waiting for noobs to round a corner. Melee weapons need to be a lot deadlier than they are it shouldn't require a headshot with an axe or pickaxe even to take someone down, that of course takes someone down but nobody with a pickaxe stabbed in to their back is going to live very long without divine intervention. It's true that knives aren't insta-kill everywhere, there's a woman in my town who got stabbed 50 times and still lives but there are area's on the body you can insta-kill or as good as if you have the opportunity. Any horizontal stab to the neck is going to be fatal, downwards in to the shoulder potentially not but elsewhere and the side of the head = dead I don't see the problem with being able to kill people in one attack, it's not like stealth kills would be easy, not as easy as just shooting them but that's not always going to be an option if you sneak up on someone sitting waiting to kill people it's not a viable option to run away and find some handcuffs or a gun then come back 20 minutes later and shoot them. Unless they have no sense at all.

That makes me think, I wonder if we could ever get mods for it like on Steam? Of course they'd probably be paid DLC but so long as they were good I don't care.

It'd be great if that wasn't the only option though I'm sure they'll be rare. The problem is getting healthy to survive like that though, unless you get lucky and find what you need early on the cold is harder than starvation to survive.

Are you suggesting fighting an unarmed untrained person or a zombie with a knife would be a fight? Unless a person knows how to disarm you, you're not putting your heart in to it, you're an idiot or they have something to defend themselves with they should be dead humans are quite weak and fleshy, knives slide right in. Obviously stabbing in this game wouldn't work for combat I mean what would happen if two guys use knives and stab at the same time? It'd be silly but a take down move, nothing wrong with that. Maybe you could even aim it as someone said and just stab them in the leg, leave them as bait or something. Nobody in their right mind would slash someone wearing a thick jacket that's a good way to get yourself punched in the face and knocked the crap out.

But...why not? Are we always going to have to take on a horde of zombies with a 75 drum mag just to loot a city? It should be possible to sneak in zombies aren't very aware of anything that isn't in front of them(regardless of distance seemingly) Sure you can 1 hit kill them with an axe chop to the head from behind...but doing so should make a big noise, can't remember if it attracts zombies but it should. A quick stab in the neck or temple is not especially difficult, not to a stupid dying creature with no peripheral vision. It's still going to be damn difficult to stealth your way through a town but imagine the rewards, you could own that town essentially go somewhere high up and then someone comes along shooting zombies you have a perfect opportunity to kill them or just wait for the zombies to do it if you're not geared enough. Just because CoD and most other FPS use knives doesn't mean they aren't legitimate weapons, they're just not so deadly a cut anywhere equals death...

I live in Scotland and bloody hell that's hot :P I had issues with heating up too last time I played had a raincoat on I think a hat, gloves and trousers all in decent condition. Made a fire outside and would only get "My face is melting!" up close and more than like a meter away "cooling down" Meaning not standing ON the fire or leaving it at all would send me on my way to hypothermia...

Yeah but DayZ lacks a lot of the production needed for those games like voice acting, a soundtrack, motion capture by many people, new engines to build on(though the devs have done tons of work with DayZ), scripts, the story, monster and area design etc etc. So without those things it's taken a very long time, it will still be a good game in the end but other games coming will surpass it so I wonder what Bohemia's next game will be like now that DayZ will have given them so much more resources. I doubt it will die on PC for like 10 years at least still there'll always be a community that never leaves it but I wonder if it will be the same for the console versions? Can see it getting dropped if not enough people play it.