UltimateGentleman

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 ^_^

I don't think it's necessarily that much harder there's just a learning curve to it since you can't just fire it like a rifle so I don't think it needs to be made easier you just need to be able to have more bolts and pick them up, excellent for getting used to it. Using it as a main you could be great with it if it's got a really high damage so I don't think it's useless, obviously at long range but not every gun is suited to that anyway. With a crossbow people just need to play smarter so it shouldn't be made as easy to handle as a rifle because the benefits of its damage should come with skill. As for the damage once a bullet hits a person depending on how powerful it is the impact can be greatly absorbed by muscle tissue where with a bolt it's basically certain to stick in there and rip through what it touches, except bone. Snipers should do about the same damage as a crossbow but with a crossbow there won't be any bandaging or morphine to fix it people will have to get somewhere safe and take it out, so it could be a great weapon for wounding your target and sneaking up on them. No the scope was still there on the Mosin just my character wouldn't bring the gun up to his eye it would stay in the same position and I'd walk slow as though looking through the scope. No zoom in either I could still hold the + key or right click to zoom in and out but not with the scope.

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.

Has there always been an issue with the Mosin and the PU scope? Because I'm sure it worked for me once but I tried it recently and it doesn't do anything. The scope does get used but it's not held up to the eye, walking around you go at the speed with the scope up but you don't see through it. Not sure if it's a new issue that came with this update.

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 don't think it could be unrealistically OP though, so long as people aren't getting shot in the foot and dying it actually makes sense for it to do way more damage than bullets the wound would be awful to heal in real life compared to a bullet which doesn't do too much unless it hits something important. Yeah it would make a far better secondary weapon I don't think being able to have 2 rifles would be so bad, it leaves people having to shoot zombies or use a knife on them which do little damage so two guns wouldn't make someone an overpowered badass as their melee ability is severely stunted, unless they fill up a lot of space in a backpack with an axe. It is quite a pain having to choose between a Mosin or an SKS/M4 at the moment since the former is so useless in close quarters. Can we actually cook anything in the pots/frying pans or has the system just been implemented? I look forward to doing it however food will need to be nerfed a lot because why cook your beans if it only gives you a tiny bit more energy? I'm glad they're adding it now, maybe we'll be able to pick herbs and make some kind of healing salve with it?

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.

I think the damage the crossbow does is going to be nerfed depending on where you're hit but it is a good weapon, or at least it will be when things like that are changed. It's nice and quiet, if the ammo capacity is increased along with the ability to retrieve bolts it will be great, at least for a starter weapon as a main it's not excellent. The frequency of which you find bolts is pretty bad though you only get like one and they're kind of hard to notice too, they should definitely be colourful. As a weapon it has some decent potential, they'll probably make it so that you can put poison on the arrows one day or maybe a knockout drug so you can go steal people's gear or bait their friends over. As part of a group a crossbow user could be very helpful. Guessing they added it now though for fans of Daryl Dixon on Walking Dead :P

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.

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.

Thanks for the info, you may have my first can of beans! I thought that every Wednesday they added some minor stuff and occasionally did a bigger update minor like fixing the Canned Sardines icon that disappeared last update. Also thought that a limited amount of stuff goes in each update so that some things are left out for future updates, that's more what I meant by focusing on fixing zombies. Not that I'm not liking what they're adding. Just hoping we're not left dead in the water when they add in diseases and stuff, having to deal with that and zombies running through walls to get you while treating yourself would be difficult, so zombies should be completed or mostly so before updates like that are implemented I feel.

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.

So I'm new here not quite sure where to look for things yet, this is the topic for last weeks update right? Was that an experimental one and now this week it's stable or is there another update today? (I read that it gets maintenance every Wednesday) Basically I'm not sure when something is stable or experimental, sorry to sound stupid but I'm sure every newcomer has been in this kind of situation :unsure: As for the update, digging the crossbow however only being able to hold 5 bolts per quiver and them taking up 2 inventory slots is quite inconvenient compared to taped stanag clips for the M4 taking up the same space but being 60 rounds. I think quivers should fit at least 15 bolts, or even 10. Since it takes so long to reload anyway having lots of ammo doesn't really give you a huge advantage but having so little is a big downer. And as for next update I think rather than adding things they should mainly get zombies fixed, specifically how they just run through walls it would make dealing with them so much easier while they're still being balanced out. Also they should be a little bit slower, I've had some catch up to me while I was running full speed and actually manage to hit me.