Strawcrow

Crashed helicopters have the best guns and top shelf gear and sometimes have medical loot as well. Would not call them safe, but those barracks are cramped and you can get traped easy. At least at a heli you have more ways to escape if need be

I play L4D, great game, but it I like DayZ because it is not like L4D, or other games.

I really like that DayZ does not use things other games have used and hope the no rules sandbox survival stays intact.

I do not get why killing on sight is such a sore spot. In a situation where you, maybe your family or friends were in a fight to survive, you would have to be extremely careful. It is like this for myself and many others. I do not go out of my way to kill others. I have been party to killing for loot with others, yet I have not killed all, or tried to kill, all the people I have seen. Yet if you see me and come towards me, I consider it a threat, no matter how much "I am friendly" I hear in the voice chat.You have any idea how many times I died believing that. Play with those you know. An apocalypse is no time to be making new friends that you can not trust with your life.

I had something like that take place. My friend has a server and another friend and I were on at the big lake and dam in the north. We all were in teamspeak, but the friend who has the server was not in yet. All at once my friend and I in the server turned into cows, then it looked like we were teleporting to other places so we decided to DC, but before I can, I see an error message that said honeybee. Our other friend was watcing the game console and said everone was DCing. So I assume the whole server was going through the same thing. So he reboots the server, I come in and assume my gear is toast, but hey, I still have it all.... but now it is nightime. I switch on the NVGs and the sky right above is clear but the ground around me, even near my feet, looks foggy. I can not tell where I am at. so I walk slow up a hill and now I see clear and realize I was walking at the bottom of the dam in and under the water. Now that I reach the surface I am swimming. Crap, well there goes my gear for sure now, but once I reached shore I still had it all. WTF just took place?

I am already trying to survive in real life. For me to play a game or mod, I need to enjoy it. My group can not all play together all the time, I need to be able to lone wolf it some. In a real breakdown of society people will kill you to eat you, which is what I would love to see, killing and eating of survivors . The reason to team up, or one reason, to gang up and kill others. Easier to snipe if others are watching your back. The core idea is great, make the enviroment a bigger factor great, but making everything a two person event like the blood packs is taking enjoyment away from it. I remember a mod for the original Medal of Honor, instead of killing others in multiplayer, you went around handing out cupcakes and party invitations. The one who gave away the most won.....maybe that is what some of you want to see. This is a game with guns, if you were just going to hunt just animals a shotgun and a decent rifle is all you need. Military gear is meant to hunt/ kill people, not frost cupcakes.

So if your connection goes out you are screwed with these ideas. Not to mention joining servers that let you spawn but say the server is running older files in flashing white text on the screen... or the server is running like crap. Or if you are like me and have real responsibilities, like kids and those they care for, and sometimes you must find a bush or tree and leave the game fast to deal with the real world. I really do not like the idea of my char there for minutes after that. Could you just make it so when you come into a server there is a timer that will keep you from picking up loot or firing your weapon? That way those leaving for legit reasons can come back in, wait a few and go about their play. This would make sure you choose a good place to leave a server as when you come in you cannot fire guns or loot items.

Most times they will shoot you anyway. If they want my stuff the should shoot me before I see them, because I will shoot back/run or whatever. Just like in the real world, if someone pulls a gun on me, I assume they intend to use it and I rather die fighting or running than to just drop all my gear when someone barks orders at me. I will admit, if I do not know you and you are not in TS with me, I will shoot first if I see you first. My goal is to stay alive, if you are a stranger you are a threat.

To be honest fences, tank traps and sanbags are a waste of time. To get around them you need only go to another server, move in, and reconnect to the other server. The amount of people putting them in loot spots is crazy. Not sure what they think they are doing since they are so easy to get around. I would like to see them removed until we see other tools for making camps and bases.

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Anyone know what beta build 6 updater has on it now?

A friend and I were at a tree line near an edge of a field. Both of us crouched, he was looking for movement at an area some 800 to 1000m away as I was looking at my map. We had been motionless for almost 5 minutes. Then out of nowhere 2 infected come at us. Nowhere near a building or chopper so we have no clue where they were. We lost them easy in the woods though. To be honest, I would like the random infected encounter to mix things up away from structures every now and then.

Sniped, if it is a one shot kill from a AS50 or M107, you will hear nothing. It does so much damage you die instantly. That is my guess.

Glad to hear, I do not want to be on a server that does not run BattlEye.

You can live off the land, my friend and I have been alive over 20 days. and we have only been back to the coast once and it was not to a big city. I never get near any big city on the South coast. That is for new players and people who just want to kill others like it is any other shooter. Sometimes it is kill other players or be killed, or you kill them before they get you, or maybe to get their gear; but the amount of folks who wish just to be sport killing, well I am just glad they stick around the Electro Cherno area for the most part. We eat mostly boar, cattle, sheep and goats..... those rabbits are really fast lol, seriously they just do not give as much food as other animal is why I do not eat them.

The thing about having two primary and a handgun is this. It would be realistic to have one primary in hand and one slung over shoulder. As long as it is not a light machine gun, but just a rifle, you can have a rocket launcher, rifle and handgun Arma 2. So why is it so far fetched to have two rifles? It is not unrealistic to have them in my opinion.

Starting everyone over would mean you would not get feedback about those who have and use rare items and weapons. You always have a steady influx of killed players who come back and fresh noobs to get feedback on the things you start with. I see it as counter productive to wipe players until the mod is out of testing.

My friend and I vaulted over wire rolls to get in a building last night, we vaulted to get out as well..... so I take it that we should not have been able to?

At the Large airfield I was checking an infecteds body when I morphed outside the building. I was on the second level of the fire house and the infected was half morphed out the wall. I saw more morph through walls than before. Is infected respawn up in any way? Because at the airfield my friend and I battled wave after wave of infected after we had to shoot one. I kid you not, we must have killed like 50 or more. After which I thought the area must be clear. but I saw more before we made it to the woods, barely alive. It seemed we spooked more infected tonight than we did with 1.7. Some places seemed that loot was not spawning. Some places sounded like infected were in the walls, like solid fence locations.

[attachment=1052]Awesome. A lot harder to slip by infected, but liked how I was able to hide from infected after a lengthy mad dash around trees in the woods. Love this mod and hope more of my friends will start playing.

[attachment=918]I like to play a game. This mod is an awesome game. When I play games I use TS not just to talk about the game at hand, but also lets me talk to friends about how they are doing and catch up while I am playing the game. Since DayZ is something I play for 2 to 4 hours at a stretch, it is fun with others in TS while I do it. Plus we can all share a laugh about whatever we just did, or freak out together because we heard shots fired near us. Zombie RPG/sim, no matter what it is called, it is a great game, and I enjoy talking to friends while I play.