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Good point! Perhaps tubes of triple antibiotic ointment and other more powerful oral antibiotics should be around. I would also like to see players getting their clothing damaged by barbed wire fences and for the zeds they should be dumb enough to get stuck in a barbed wire barrier once in awhile. And being able to set explosive traps for our infected brethren would be swell. Note: I nailed a trio of zeds with a hand grenade the other day...they looked good doing their final face plants.

I really don't buy that for a second. I have purposely attracted a half a dozen zombies and led them to the gate house at the NW corner of the NWAF tent city. I go inside, close the door and a growing crew of zombies surrounds the building (12 in one case). They swing the screech and do nothing and I can pop them at my leisure with the 9mm through the windows. They can't reach me or YOU. That is why I think they should be able to kick in doors and hit you through a window.

1) Haven't seen them clip through walls in quite a spell, 2) Zombies are supposed to be dumb (just about brain dead). 3)When they see you or hear you or your shots they head straight for you, 4) they come in greater numbers than they used to, 5) When they chase you they tire out faster than you do and stop. That's better than them chasing you across the map as they did in the past (I got one to chase me from the NWAF to Zaprudno ~2.4km once), 6) they hit harder than they used to. 7) In an area like Vybor (among others) when you shoot one every Zed in a +200m radius heads for you from all directions. 8) their wild pivot swings are more likely to hit than their old straight ahead leaping attack. 9) they turn around faster than they used to (as fast as you do). Things needed: a) they need to attack doors and break them down to get at you. b) Their attacks that cause bleeding should get infected 90% of the time..Treatment/cure = clean wound with alcohol, bandage, and take a full run of tetracycline. if you don't have any tetracycline you should get sicker and sicker until you die. c) add more zombies especially in wilderness areas. But hey the devs are working on all of that.

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The infected should: 1) Attack doors and batter them open when they detect people inside a structure to get at them 2) Infect players when they draw blood (cure=antibiotics) 3)Detect players by sight at twice the distance they do now 4)Hit harder than they do now. 5) When hit with a lethal shot continue their attack for five seconds before face planting into the dirt. 6)Be attracted to water holes. 7) possibly have a small item on them that can be looted (Compass, Matches, A can of food etc etc etc) What else shold they be able to do?

Your crit is well taken. I should have said that thorax hits that do not sever the spinal column allow the crazed infected to function for a bit on pure rage (Like PCP stoked assailants). Of course head shots and high spinal column hits should instantly kill a zed. Good Post IkaikaKekai thumbs up.

Select fire modes for AKM, AK74, STYER,M5, Double barreled shotgun. I haven't seen an M4 in quite a spell but it seems that none of the weapons mentioned above have both Semi and Automatic firing modes. In the past the M4 had Semi and Automatic but the other weapons have just automatic and you have to tap the left mouse key to achieve single shots. I hate firing doubles and tripples its a waste of ammo. For the M4 and the double barrel shotgun pressing T used to put the weapon on semi (is it still so?) and the same was true for the double barrel shotgun to give the target both barrels. It would be swell if all select fire weapons had semi and automatic modes. and it would be extra nice if adjacent to the Zero data a S or an A would appear to tell you what mode you are in. JUst a thought

Good deal. However unlike some I would like the added complexity of being required to adjust sights beyond the weapons 'battle sight range' Most of the rifles in DayZs fine selection of weapons have this capability via the Page Up & Page Down keys (Good Job HICKS). Note: Battle Sight Range = a range at which the rounds trajectory will hit the target anywhere between the neck and groin with a center of the chest aiming point In any case thanks for all the work that you guys have done in building this game You Guys Are Appreciated. But I stil would love a Mosin Nagant Sporter like this one to compete with the Winchester model 70. If I am not mistaken they are quite popular in Eastern Europe as well as here in the US. Aint she sweet! (I have one just like this in my gun safe.) CHEERS!!!!

I played Jaws Unleashed by the same people that made Echo...I liked it for awhile.

I just had an interesting bug, my character got glitched away into the void. I was on a server that had always been reliable there were a few other players on the server but I knew that those characters we shooting up the zombies NWAF. I ended my session in a dense thicket of pine trees about 4km away from the NWAF. When I logged back on to the server I was on the Coast. I exited and tried a couple different servers...on the coast on all cases. I gave the situation a mighty Fuck Me!!! Then I spent ook a few hours to get completely geared up and resupplied with consumables again. I accept this kind of thing after all the game is in Alpha but I have to tell you I really am looking forward to the day when glitches like the one I experienced are as rare as hen's teeth. Am I bitching nope But hence forth I am going to steer clear of that server. There is indeed hope, and even if you get glitch-killed you have the pleasure of going back to square one, assembling your stash again, and using your wits instead of your firepower for awhile. Cheers

I have never played Echo the Dolphin but I have observed a few people playing it. It seems like a game for weenies. "We are pampered today", I agree playing some Wasteland or an old Infocom text game like Infidel is proof of that

Good question. To my understanding it took about a year to go from creating the game design document to the Alpha release.

I guess I remember when the game was a ghost of what it is now and see that improvement has been steady. If you take a crappy game like Fallout 4 one has to remember that it took 4 years of development time before release. DayZ early Alpha came out in Dec 2013 it is now March 2016. For a complex multiplayer game like DayZ 27 months of dev time (thus far) is not excessive or out of the ordinary. For $30.00 I rate the early access Alpha as the best bargain I have ever gotten from any game. Bohemia had claimed that mid 2016 would see the release of ver 1.0 I think late 2016 is more realistic (Xmass?). And if it takes longer I am not going to have a duck over it. But hey Echo the dolphin and my little pony have been completed for long long while perhaps those games would attract the weak sisters more than DayZ

I couldn't possibly agree more. The image of that worthless old crone blowing a gasket and taking a flop into the dirt for good makes me feel good. Then we could have... ZOMBIE HILLARY I would increase my playing by a full order of magnitude to hunt for and gun down the Infected Hillary Zombie.

I think the game is coming along nicely but I guess (shrug) there are those that require instant gratification and they start the water works (Boo-Hoo).

Given the fact that Chernarus is an eastern European country I think that the Mosin Nagant is under represented. Especially since Mosin Nagant Sporters are quite common in eastern Europe as is the 7.62 x 54R cartridle. The weapon should be able to take either a PU scope, a hunting rifle scope OR just the iron sighte. Just an idea. Would this weapon have a place in the game?

That sounds cool although I am shitty with an axe (maybe I should man up and get some practice at it..the worst that could happen is ending up on the beach) . But for now I will have to (as I have been doing) clearing towns like Vybor , Grishino, Zelenogorsk, and the NW Airfield by standing off at around 200m-300m and glassing the area from a crouch half in and half out of a bush and popping walkers with the SKS + Pu scope combination when they show themselves. In the current state (as you know) they will vector in on you and create a target rich environment. I just whacked all but one Zombie in Grishino (10 to 12) with the SKS and then checked out the police station and found a much needed box of .357 ammo. I heard a remaining Zed blubbering and hunted it down with the silenced Glock. Its great now that the silencer really seems to work as the other children of the grave do not alert on the noise unless you are really close. Sometimes I'll clear a town with the silenced Glock only and that forces me to use cover better be quiet keep a 360 alert make a kill and then walk away quietly to find another target. I have to say I love seeing a little herd of the slugs converging on me at a dead run and blasting them down. It is satisfying to see the streets and fields littered with Zombie corpses IMHO. Well happy hunting bro. BONUS: Hide and Creep (low budget but funny as hell)

In my humble opinion Fallout 4 sucks balls. I bought it played it once all the way through and haven't desired to play that preachy linear piece of shit since. Perhaps when they release a hard corps mode where you can starve to death or get killed by a single shot and then get sent back to having nothing I might get interested again.

Once again BioHaze displays his common sense and wisdom. I admit that I often use public servers and I don't have to hunt for a nearly empty 1st person server they are the norm now from what I can gather. I have my filter for 1st P set for between 3 and 30 and very seldom can I find a packed 1stP server these days. Because of that I will join a server with a low player count to go zombie hunting which is a big part of the game for me. I like observing how infected operate and taking target practice on them with an eye towards getting a bunch of them to chase me and once I have a slobbering crew in tow I'll stop turn and engage a few move out and repeat the process until I have a good body count racked up and then move on to the next series. My goal in that game is to hone and speed up my DayZ shooting skills while remaining alert for the non shooting cunticles that haunt nearly empty servers looking for a cheap shot while they imagine themselves to be bad ass PVP studs. I now know some of them by name now and if they have fired at me in the past I do hop servers looking for them. Yesterday I joined public server with 6 players on. That count dropped to 3 in twenty minutes and then I recognized a clown that I know took a few pot shots at me a week earlier from two locations. Knowing that this clown likes to hang in the tree lines near the NW AF and also at the opposite end of the field I checked out several tree lines as quietly as possible and was lucky enough to spot Mr Bad ass PvP punk hunkered down in the kneeling position and completely unaware of his surroundings and locked into tunnel vision mode. I gladly sent him to the coast immediately after I did a /(text insult message here). I call it practice. Note: I may have to start playing 1st & 3rd person to enjoy packed servers again. But I do not interact with other players very often. I have had many experiences with poorly or even well equipped players that I helped out of a Jam that were getting stomped by zombies only to be attacked for my trouble when I have rescued them..the .357 Magnum is the perfect tool for those lazy fucks. Note: I actually don't like the PvP game much. I do like hunting, fishing, cooking, crafting, scavenging, farming and touring the map But above all else I like Zombie hunting and I will like it more the more formidable they become. Note: I agree I like the game best in 1st person on private servers

The The Russian PU scope is a piece of crap compared to any of these German optics. And when you add the fact that the Mauser K98 is a far more accurate weapon than the Mosin Nagant. I cant see how the PU scope makes the Mosin Nagant in any way superior, except perhaps because of its simplicity. The bottom line is that a select sniper grade Mauser K98 with a 4X ZF39 scope makes a Mosin Nagant 91/30 PU sniper rifle look like a farm implement. . More recently The Mauser ZF39 4X sniper rifles were used to a horrific effect in Kosovo by yje Serbians. My German built K98 with its ZF39 4X scope can and does turn in 1" to 1.5" Minutes of accuracy or expressed another way can shoot groups of 10" to 15" at 1000 yards. In general the Mosin Nagant rifle has this reputation...... The Mosin Nagant is the first rifle mentioned in this hall od shame. Since I own a Mosin Nagant Mosin Nagant 91/30 PU sniper rifle I can assure you that it is inferior in every way to The Mauser K98 sniper rifle, The Springfield 03-A3 sniper rifle And the Lee Enfield No.4 MK I (T) Sniper Rifle. I own all three of these weapons and have had them all tuned up by a very good gunsmith and the Mosin is dead last in terms of accuracy, smoothness, handling and ease of use.

I dont know if the Madsen M47 is as good as the k98 ( I tend to doubt it), my interest is that it is simply an interesting rifle. I like this one as well the M1903A3 Rifle in 30-06 its a Mauser pattern rifle. These served as the US Army /USMC sniper rifle before the M1 Garand. Considered to be the best Sniper Rifle of WW-II (But hey its really a Mauser) THis was the springfields replacement I agree the Germans made some great weapons in WW-II the two most interesting ones to me are The FG-42 and the MP-44 Sturmgewehr Assault Rifle

Yes I am from the USA. Something that confuses me is why many Western European countries are against their citizens owning guns. It seems especially strange to me because the USA's tradition of gun ownership and sporting arm manufacture for civilian use comes to us from the American born Dutch and German gunsmiths of the early 18th century. And it seems that the Eastern Europeans have an easier time owning rifles and shotguns. Take a look at this Rifle it was the last bolt action produced for military use. The .30-06 Danish Madsen M47 rifle If I could find one I would buy it instantly

I agree I I have three k98s two Yugos and one early war german made gun (my favorite). I would never make a sporter out of any of them (dont fuck with perfection) I did however have my best Yougo Mauser K98 refitted with a Lothar Wathher barrel in .308 winchester, a replica scope and mount, a Timnet trigger and had it glass bedded. it can hold a 1.5 min group out to 1000m (thats 15 inches at 1000 meters. The German real deal can hold a 2min group out to 800m right out of the box.

A replica of what the !Z18? That's horse shit the IZh 18 is a BREAK OPEN single shot rifle in 7.62x 39 while a Mosin Nagant of any type is a 5 shot BOLT ACTION in 7.62 x 54R. The weapon is only comparable to the Winchester Model 70 (but in 7.62 x 54R instead of .308. So please tell me how is that a replica of anything. The last thing I want to see is DayZ devolving into ARMA because some fan boys want to sport military arms and even Light Machine guns. I want to see wat people would really have like this semi automatic Remington 742 OR The semiautomatic HK model 940in .223 (5.56mm or .308)) and this Mauser K98 in 7.92 x 57 Mauser K98 sporter in 7.92 x 57 and now for the absurd bullshit 23lb M240 or this 20 pound PKM So there are clowns that want a M240s and PKMs belt fed machine gun. But that's just swell as long as the 240 weight +23lbs and uses 100 round disintegrating link belts and the PKM weights 20lbs and uses a non disintegrating belt (how hard should those be to find?) .**Enough with the boring military small arms for the Fan Boys**. here is a CLUE these LMGs are CREW SERVED weapons not individual weapons they make as much sense in DaZ as the terminators mini gun.

I would say more Sporting and obsolete military arms should be brought into the game. Weapons like the semi-automatic Remington model 742, and the Hk 940, the Mauser K98 in .308 or 8mm Mauser,and the 03-A3 Springfield and perhaps a S&W .38 special