ColonelBurton

Since this is Alpha, I generally see one scenario in which it is okay to combat log. If you've been on your way to find certain loot to do extensive testing or make a certain video that requires specific gear, have no intention of shooting other players, got discovered and fired upon and combat logged in order to avoid having to start your search from scratch. Since most of us just run around and want to play DayZ, there is no excuse to go hide in the game lobby when you come under fire. If you want to escape getting shot, find a way out of your situation and RUN FOR IT! The worst type of combat logger, btw, is the type that shoot your friends on sight then pussy out, run around the corner to hide and combat log. I've had that a few times. I like the idea of the logout timer resetting every time a bullet whizzes within 10 meters past you. Fire a suppressive shot at the building every 25 seconds to hinder combat logging. Sounds great to me. EDIT: Also, how about a specific server message when somebody rejoins a server but at a different position. e.g. Player deathlove has rejoined the server after 14 minutes 342 meters away from previous position

Nope. He shat himself the moment you made a ladder sound he hit Escape and logged out. He got his comeuppance.

You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you!? EDIT: You don't really have to answer that. I'm sort of done with this thread for now.

I thought the point of this thread was to just pointlessly troll each other, that's all.

You kiss your mother with that mouth??

Umm... I'm sorry if you felt... lectured. I was in fact commenting that footsteps are too silent in the game.

Also, playing on non-vilayer servers is a death sentence. I was fully geared with pristine gorka pants, jacket, face-mask and boots and went from normal to cold in fifteen minutes.

No, I've examined this with friends ingame and thought about what it's like at a real-life jogging track. Where people jog in tracksuits, not sprint with 40 pound backpacks. I have yet to do some real testing, but my first observation is that running is far too silent in the game. In real life, I swear you can hear joggers approaching at more than 100 meters away, depending on the ambient situation and the ground. In DayZ the range is considerably lower. Not to mention that, as I already said in another post, crawling is NOT silent at all in real life. Unless, of course, you crawl at a considerably lower speed, one that would make any motion sensor fail its' task. The only way to move stealthily is to move slow, preferrably in an upright (standing position), since your feet are your best tool at controlling noise related to movement. Not crouched, not prone, straight up. However, this too is dependent on several factors - Your own body weight and gear - The type of footwear (army boots are generally harder to sneak in than track shoes) - The type of ground (sneaking on forest = tricky, sneaking on pavement = easy, sneaking on gravel = impossible)

He probably "snuck up on you" by crawling on his belly. Something that anyboy who was ever in any army or militia knows is anything but quiet. Only in FPS is crawling "silent" No but I would urge you not to rely on sound so much. If the guy had had a gun and shot at you from 50 meters would you be here complaining? I do agree, however, that the "ambient" gurgle crunch thud WHAAA? nomnomnom is just IRRITATING as hell when you're trying to be eyes and ears. Especially the ambient footstep..... that one made my heart race waaay too many times. I always knew who killed me because I've never been killed with a single headshot till now. Always took a body hit first or a salvo of shots. The other times I died falling off stairs or ladders. But a little bit of last second nervous system overload on the way to death would be a way more playable solution than this type of "happily searching the bunk beds in prison building one second, you are dead screen the next second"

When I take up long-term sniping positions at the top of hills, I like to have a full canteen or two on me. Like overlooking Svetlo to save fresh-spawn from zombies. Because at some point, you might take a hit and then it's good to have your "hydrated" buff in the light green. If both buffs are up in the light green, you'll recover from unconscious quicker. Another advantage is that you are not as vulnerable as drinking from a well when filling it up. Afaik you can even cancel filling a canteen (not sure though) but not drinking. So I prefer not to hang around the wells, snipers like to keep their scope trained on them...

Oh, okay. I thought it was a Hind. Hard to tell, since it's half buried in the ground.

Same here. Hip? You mean Hind, right?

Not sure. I have one, and I think I picked it up in a fire station............. ... EDIT: That was the 1911 mag in the fire station. Bolts you can find in a log cabin for example

Exactly!? They shouldn't have access to this type of game. But for some reason, Steam seems to be exempt from taking responsibility for this type of thing. Please enter a "fake date" for validation of your age. That's your opinion. Mine is a world different.

It is actually already in my above mentioned post. It's quite a worthwhile read, you know! Beyond that, I don't need to tell you that killing children is, for good reason, widely regarded as even more morally bankrupt than murdering adults. Probably has something to do with the fact that they have had far less out of life, are not capable of being held responsible for anything ergo are considered innocent, are defenseless and vulnerable. This is why. Do I need to keep on philosophising or do you get the point? No children zombies.

Wonder if that was my heli spawn on the south end of NWAF. A tactical shirt was the item I couldn't be bothered to remember.

I personally could care less about what uber-weapons are going to make it into the final cut. Because if they are all as rare and hard to find as the M4, it doesn't make that much of a difference to me. What I do care about, though, is the balancing and tweaking. I find it so pointless that you will find a dozen CZ527 but hardly a mag find a dozen Sporter .22 but for a mag you need to head to NWAF find dozens of pistols but never a mag (apart from Makarov for some reason) => making the SKS and Mosin still the best guns in the game until you find something better. I like the idea of military-grade weapons being harder to find, but being able to contend with people wielding them through tactics and higher numbers. But that is impossible if all you're carrying is a Sporter .22 with a singleroundin the chamber, or a CZ527 with a single roundin the chamber, or a M1911 with a round in the chamber etc. Either make the mags more common to find or make the non-military rifles and pistols spawn with one magazine in them. --------- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ --------- And the game does not need heavy machine guns and RPGs in my opinion, since the one thing you'd need them for is heavy vehicles. But since hopefully we won't be getting attack choppers, APCs, humvees and tanks, but only small vehicles and trucks, LMGs, sniper rifles and grenade launchers ought to be sufficient. Anyone carrying a G3 or AKM should be able to damage a truck. Anybody insane enough to carry an MG3 or PKM, on the other hand, will be able to destroy a truck. A well aimed shot with the sniper rifle will take out a driver. I'm generally for the less military hardware, the better the game will be.

Yes, that seems to be the current "workaround" if you're in full gear pants, jacket, hat and boots and still getting the "promptly cooling off messages" If you "freeze to death" within an hour due to not finding a jacket, or because you spawned naked in Vybor, or are running around in the cold rain with nothing but a t-shirt, well that's another thing. I was going cold within 3 minutes despite full gorka gear but since I switched to only Vilayer servers I don't have the issue anymore.

I for one didn't say killing adults is morally sound. I called this an "already lawless" game. But the fact is, that a post-apocalyptic first- or third-person-S-H-O-O-T-E-R requires this type of mechanic to, in fact, BE a first- or third-person-S-H-O-O-T-E-R does not mean you have to go further than necessary and implement slaughtering infected children, cannibalism, dismemberment and rape. Also, I do not have to approve of murder, rape, cannibalism or infanticide in order to be allowed to play a third-person-shooter game. What you are implying is that anybody who plays anything more violent than supermario bros. is a hypocrite if he thinks video games should have ethical boundaries. I also like how you called the children "killing virtual pixels", as set apart from "killing adults". Classic example of "how to strawman 101"

Wrong. The mosin bayonet dates back to the times when the bayonet was a more common tool to kill foes with than the gun itself, when armies would still face each other lined up in big units. The idea of a bayonet with multiple uses was already quite common after World War I. The Garand bayonet, the K98 bayonet, are thin and long but they are bladed! You could carve and hack with them in the same way you could with the SKS bayonet. Having said that, an M4 or AKM bayonet would be more practical for carving meat than an SKS bayonet (but also a kitchen knife, in fact!) due to the curvature of the tip. But that could be handled easily in the game by giving a higher or lower percentage of meat (or tier level of pelt) depending on what you use. EDIT: I just did some research and it seems that this SKS bayonet exists as a dull-bladed spike but also as a long-blade. Can't tell if this has anything to with the country of origin. It seems they are dull by default but can be sharpened. The point that I really need to make here is: KNIVES ARE TOO RARE!!! Since the 0.48 or 0.49 update, I have searched a dozen towns like Vybor, Polana, Svetlo and even Severograd, and I have not found.... ONE.... SINGLE.... KITCHEN KNIFE What kind of post-apocalyptic scenario offers thousands of 7.62x39 rounds, hundreds of cans of baked beans, dozens of SKS rifles but not ONE SINGLE KITCHEN KNIFE???? In fact, after raiding a military camp, I'd expect to find at least one combat knife tucked away under a bed somewhere, or on a commander's desk, or HELL even on a zombie I just shot down. Is this supposed to make the survival mechanics seem more exciting? Simple by making at item rare that, in such a scenario, would be common as dirt?

1st off: THE TEMPERATURE SYSTEM IS BROKEN ON MOST SERVERS Play only on Vilayer servers, since you will freeze to death 5 times as fast on non-vilayer 2nd off: when starting as fresh-spawn, try to find a server that hasn't been running for more than one or two hours. My first hours on DayZ I obviously spent on servers that didn't restart often, and all I found was rotten fruit 3rd off: the loot tables aren't at all tweaked properly. Since 0.49 I've found more guns and ammunition, even more bayonets than knives, for example. Even kitchen knives don't spawn in towns like Polana anymore. How are you supposed to skin and quarter a deer if a bayonet won't do it? It should also not be a necessity to have an axe to be able to make a fireplace. Give this game some time. Maybe at some point it will have some decent survival mechanics, but at this point... it's just an Alpha.

Then let's meet up and trade. I find 80 to 160 rounds on one single loot run from NWAF to Vybor Military Camp.

Well I just found my first Mi-24 Hind spawn on NWAF and BOY OH BOY was I excited, since the server had just started fresh. Since the UH-60 always spawned attachments to the M4 (but never an M4......) and I already had the AKM, I took the chance of getting sniped by one of the other few players on the server and ran right out to look for a picatinny handguard and a PSO-scope! Imagine what a wonderful feeling it was to find - Badly damaged boots - Damaged boots - A pristine gorka helmet (that, apparently, offers no melee protection btw) - A box of 7.62x39 ammo - some other common item I couldn't be bothered to remember I've spent roughly the past 4 hours running from Vybor through airfields almost getting killed in the process to look for a heli-crash site or a regular handguard spawn. Then I finally find a freshly spawned heli crash site and it has the same garbage I would have found in any of the hangars across from it? I think there should be a small reward for finding a heli crash site. Some, any item that is rare or impossible to find. Like in my case, the minimum I would expect to find is a PM-rak magazine or a CZ-527 carbine magazine. Not just some rancid old BOOTS! Apart from the fact that it is POINTLESS to look for heli crash sites (one of my mates is now at around 10 hours look for an M4, found roughly a dozen blackhawks)..... So the developers decide to add a new weapon to a game that is in Alpha stage They allow us to find some of said weapons, like the CZ-527 carbine, but make it extremely difficult to find magazines for it? Aren't we supposed to test this stuff out? Shouldn't this new stuff spawn somewhat more commonly during the introduction version than "super-mega-stuff-of-legends-rare"? I personally would have loved to try the CZ-527 out instead of always carrying Mosin, for example. But since it is ridiculously difficult to find mags for it, I decided not to. Same goes for the Sporter .22 - I have never bothered to carry one because for a matter of fact, I was only ever able to find a 30 round mag or 10 round mag for it in the sandbag bunker @NWAF So, in order to find a magazine for a civillian firearm, I have to head out to a military location. Same goes for speedloaders and snaploaders, btw. I only find them in said sandbag bunker.... I also don't get why it's harder to find mags for pistols (except the damn Makarov, obviously) that it is to find an SKS. This type of thing makes the SKS an overpowered start-up weapon.

Well I just found my first Mi-24 Hind spawn on NWAF and BOY OH BOY was I excited, since the server had just started fresh. Since the UH-60 always spawned attachments to the M4 (but never an M4......) and I already had the AKM, I took the chance of getting sniped by one of the other few players on the server and ran right out to look for a picatinny handguard and a PSO-scope! Imagine what a wonderful feeling it was to find - Badly damaged boots - Damaged boots - A pristine gorka helmet (that, apparently, offers no melee protection btw) - A box of 7.62x39 ammo - some other common item I couldn't be bothered to remember I've spent roughly the past 4 hours running from Vybor through airfields almost getting killed in the process to look for a heli-crash site or a regular handguard spawn. Then I finally find a freshly spawned heli crash site and it has the same garbage I would have found in any of the hangars across from it? I think there should be a small reward for finding a heli crash site. Some, any item that is rare or impossible to find. Like in my case, the minimum I would expect to find is a PM-rak magazine or a CZ-527 carbine magazine. Not just some rancid old BOOTS!

Some ambient noises should occasionally show up. Like I disagree with you on the bird noises. In fact, I'd like more different ambient animal noises. At this point, I don't need bird animations in trees (yet) But sometimes I hear sounds like some animal munching something, or like you said, gates closing, and no matter how little wind there is or how far away I am from the coast, there's this constant rushing noise that annoys the hell outta me. Not to mention the weird "WHAA?" animal noise I can't define. So yes. Please work on the ambient noises.