kryvian

they have said they will support both the game and mod after the game is released. keep in mind the mod is still a mod and is limited to what arma 2 has to offer. the hacker issue is arma 2 related, and thus out of their control.

they're getting desperate

welp since this has been necro'd being able to drive/pilot everything right off the bat. being able to kill yourself with a door being able to walk off a helicopter crash but break your bones from a 1 meter jump (ok I'll be fair, it's 1.5 meters) getting killed by going near rocks getting killed by trees getting killed by tents vehicles flipping because of train tracks even tho you take it as humanly fucking slow as possible being able to enter only a handful of buildings finding weapons and ammo for it conveniently placed across the map on the floors of buildings. not being able to fix the broken down cars on the streets of cernarus. hackers *brace yourselves for the QQers* being able to dupe yourself by accident because of relog in attempt to fix graphic glitch graphic glitches STAIRS! being able to carry 2 AS50s in your backpack, but not 2 primary weps on your back not being able to have 2 pistols equipped (srsly, the holster is on the right leg, mite as well put one on the left leg) I could go on and on and on all night long

heh, well in a way I agree that there should be some boundaries so it doesn't become pure disgusting (the horrors of real war, not just the funzies of BF3/etc), but more diversity and rare spawn in the game *similar* to the fallen survivor zombie in l4d2 would make it fun w/o the pain of making it unreal/arcade like, would be fun.

if you agree with it, you could do a sum up of viable variables of the mechanics of the riot shield further suggested so that whoever comes along is up to date w/o having to read the whole thread.

they most certainly do. I really like this idea, but the short mind of some individuals would make it crappy for the rest.

I'm all for large variety of melee weps and diversity, but that's not the subject of this thread. stick to it. PS, you can't randomly say you no like X idea it is cod it is unoriginal, wile thinking this sincerely then come say haa haaa I found your buttons.

Then the loot tables are the standard loot tables that can be found on the dayz wiki. (also your buddy sucks at administrating)

originality? what does originality have to fucking do with an item being viable in this game or not? riot shields have been around for millennia, daggers/knives for more. It is not a CoD thing, it is not a BF3 thing, it is not a CS thing.

despite thebirdolux's opinion, riot shields are perfectly viable, and the fact that COD has them doesn't mean it's a COD thing. (Christ) Riot shields should be able to stop most handguns and subsonic (SD) weapons, rifles should get a damage decrease and AS50s should go through it like butter. Edit: before you say "THAT IS BROKEN ASDFAWDAWDAD", remember, you give up having a primary weapon here, so you only have puny pistols to shoot back with. imho shields should be a one hand thing, so you can use it and a pistol. when you have the shield equipped, right clicking toggles between holding it in front of you and holding it to the side wile you aim down the sights of the handgun. when you have the pistol equipped/selected/etc, it's on your back. Oh also, as long as you have it equipped you can't really run with it, tho I wouldn't slow it down to walking speed either.

point blank range kills of freshly fresh spawns that are standing still. :facepalm: Yo momma, she be proud.

it still is a caveman approach, I mean if I bump into someone I'm sure we'd both be trigger nervous, but I've started to develop the go back and hide/talk over direct chat to see what his intentions are, then I unload FN FAL mags in him if he is hostile.

no. I can say I had a 40 minute helicopter battle with a hacker, then he finally got the engine and I hit the ground @ 100km/h, at which point we all decided it's time to alt-f4, and we all got away with 3~4k blood each.

15k :V my piss fighting skills aren't so good.

Tried multiple times to jump off the hotel (choppah rides!) onto a bed of barbed wire, destroyed vehicles (usable and scenic) and zombies, always died. Ugh, without breaking legs? The platform of the back of the market? XD I think I once even managed to jump from the middle of the bottom stairs of the 2 story barn without breaking my legs.

Private server. he can set whatever items he wants for the loot tables. Ask the admin of the server if you want to know this.

May I propose a suggestion to your problem. how about the 40 or 50 or whatever zombies you spawn by simply being in cerno linger about 5 to 10 minutes after you logged. People won't be able to use them as player detectors, not as accurately as before anyway, you will still have to wait 10 mins if you want to be sure you don't log in to a character that's being chewed off, if you logged off in the open where any zombie detects you; but you can log back in immediately, so it sorta isn't fair because ppl with bad internet connections will still risk having their faces chewed off, but they won't have to wait for a 10 minute timer, that is totally a turnoff. They still despawn once player that spawned them is over 200/300 meters out or if it's been over 5~10 minutes since he logged out/lost connection. you may give me your beans.

I would agree, problem is they aren't zombies, they are infected.

I... what? Are you serious? are you a potato? @ TSAndrey, yes I know, but to the narrow and slow minded ppl that come to the board to open AN EPIC WARNING ON HACKERS, you need to explain to them as simply as you can, it is not a dayz issue, it is part of arma 2, over which dayz devs have no control of.

It's funny that people think the forum team and development team do not care/flip dayz players. They oh so care compared to some too many other MMOs out there. They are actually reading and considering most/all suggestions. Do you know how many threads have been considered even in the other MMOs? under 10 per MMO in most cases. I understand your pain. I've lost 2 helis, 2 solo repaired helis, over 4 completely geared *radio and all* chars, and some other 10 normally geared chars. Guess what, each time the monotone game feels fresh again, unless you have a tent somewhere. Then that just becomes a chore. I'm not saying I support hacking. Or that it's acceptable, but please, qqing over each and every hack is annoying. Quit your bitching. Enjoy the game or quit. YOUR QQing WON"T CHANGE ANYTHING AT THIS TIME. IT IS BEYOND the dayz dev's power as long as dayz is a mod of arma 2. But when you make an alt. account on the forums to bitch. saying each time you quit, then why the fuck are you still here? if you truly quit and uninstalled dayz, why the fuck would you ever want to be here. I suggest you find a more productive way of using your time. I mean seriously it's fucking sad.

>get one hacker encounter >come to board and bitch about it. it is a very known problem, it is beyond dayz dev's reach atm, it is an arma 2 issue.

has been suggested, the radio was in the loot tables, it isn't anymore, so all radios are either remnants of the past or hacked in.

Zombies are hardly a challenge as it is. no. In fact keep them coming, preferably tenfold.

Use dayz commander. I personally failed to get dayz to work for me. I had to install Six Launcher and let that program fix everything for me. But right now Dayz Commander is better.

even tho I'd find this bothersome, it will sure as hell make the game interesting. A few days ago I died with full belt, AS50tws +5m, M4A1 CCO SD +6 mags and a shitton of med supplies (suspecting hacker; only 3 ppl on server me included, I just walked into a 3 building village, that had my aggro just spawn in, got one hit killed, headshotted). Previously I had accidentally duped my body *woo bugs* wile trying to fix graphic glitch, so I could have run back and gotten every little thing, but you know what? it would have been boring as fuck! I said fuck it, start fresh, and I really had more fun, found my first GPS in a firehouse, 4 hours later I was rolling in a ghillie with everything but nvgs, rangefinder and radio, with an FN FAL. I'm all for it being harder/more troublesome. It's easy as it is right now; especially if you have friends.