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Never trust a server admin, especially one that owns a server that says "Do not shoot on sight, friendlies only" then he and his buddies try to shoot us on sight until we get the upper hand

We joined the server shown in the video because one of my friends had only just got the game and had no idea how to play so rather than jump in right at the deep end into a typical server with 30+ players that would shoot, rape and eat my buddy on sight, we wanted to find one that looked quiet and seemed friendly so he at least had a fighting chance of surviving longer than 5 minutes before we located where he was.

flame throwers? Why the fuck not? Throw in a BFG from doom 2 & a particle cannon from Command and conquer while you're at it. Why not add in some mech warriors too, really make Dayz stand out. Or try to concentrate a bit more on useful non weaponized items or a barricading system.

they may very well do, but thats like saying people only get the highly telescopic rifle scopes just to shoot long distance zombies

its not so much the flashbang, its the direction this game seems to keep getting pulled towards. Whats next barret 50 sniper rifle, full spec ops outfit, call in predator drone strikes on people at berezino? may as well get all the call of duty gear in, we already have the players

well done, because we all need flashbangs in a zombie survival game. Way to make Dayz lean even more towards being a pvp tactical military simulator with the odd zombie thrown in. killing on sight is going to be made even easier. Sigh. I think im going to play some state of decay, because at least i know where i stand with that

I like most are really looking forward to vehicles because it will be a big game changer, but I feel they should be unarmed vehicles. Civillian cars, trucks, vans etc... yes. I even think that civillian aircraft such as cesners and news/police helicopters will work too, because those are the sort of things you would find at an airfield. I think where it will all go wrong is when they start to militarize them, The one thing I hated about the mod was the fact I would drive around in an old pick up truck, then out of nowhere a fucking Blackhawk armed with twin miniguns would appear over the hill & open up on me. Because Dayz then just became arma 2 again. I even think the odd unarmed military Humvee would work because again as I said earlier, its what you would find at a military base or when a zombie outbreak kicks off. You should have the option as a car passenger to fire your gun out the window but not have any 50 cal guns or stupid high calibre missile launchers or miniguns attached to them. it will be a more ruthless kill on sight game than it is now if vehicles are armed, because you cant run and hide like you could if someone was chasing after you. That said i think it would be awesome to have the option as a passenger to shoot out the window. It at least gives you a better chance to run to the other side where he cant get the angle on you (unless there is one in each seat or you get run over first.) In the mod someone would be mounted on a 50 cal in a Humvee and spray rounds in your direction eventually getting a lucky hit. it was too easy. Can you imagine trying to shoot single rounds from the mosin at a player in a moving vehicle while the player is trying to dodge your shots? A lot more fair for the player and a bigger challenge for the car passenger. I also like the idea of customizing your car and repairing it when it gets damaged, those spraypaint cans finally get to be used for their original purpose. Cut down wood or smelt metal to create protective covers for your windows mad max style, that sort of thing.

A hot campfire or oven (Now an option ingame) would be able to smelt metal, apocalypse or not, we have been able to enjoy the miracle of fire since the stone age & had the ability to smelt metal since the iron age, that was a couple of years before the human race de evolved into retarded iphone/facebook addicts, but I think if an apocalypse happened, we would have the basic tools at our disposal to do it.

I think any vehicle in an apocalypse be it zombie or natural plague is an absolute basic necessity. Yes it reduces the risk when you are on the road to get from a to b, but there have been many times when playing the mod I would pull up to a building, loot it and run out to a hail of gunfire only to see my precious lada getting driven away by a bandit. Its no different than a bandit looting your corpse

Yeah i have to admit It did start to get stupid with the amount of bases and base building options you were given. some guy created a 100 foot high cross shaped base you could see for miles. I like the idea of keeping it down to the apocalyptic realism where you barricade and fortify with the stuff you have at hand, and can do basic crafting with certain tools. In fact i remember a time when I was in my base doing crafting and out of nowhere i heard "Ride of the Valkyrie" blast out of my speakers. I was like wtf is that? I went outside and there were 2 helicopters hovering over my base and they opened fire on it, the music was being blared out over direct chat. It was hillarious but also scary as fuck

Yeah i should have specified in my opening post, I played the Epoch version of DayZ as I didn't enjoy the basic mod on its own. I used to be on a server where there was an equal amount of heros and Bandits and everyone got along on side chat. if you died by another player you didn't bitch about it, but towards the end, the server just got Fraped. People were flying around in armed Blackhawks and blowing up peoples locked vehicles when they weren't online and generally being a menace. It became a competition to see who was top gun on the server who had the biggest and best armed vehicles and they would wipe out anyone else who tried to follow in their footsteps. In the end it just wasn't DayZ anymore it just felt like it was a bad day in the Ukraine... with zombies thrown in. The admins decided to change servers (I don't see how that really solved the problem when anyone could just join the new server) As a result everyone lost their bases and gear which killed off the community because it took fucking ages to build up a really nice base with a helipad on the roof, not to mention the ultra rare items you couldn't just get from a trader.

Gamers will descriminate no matter what the reason if they are losing or are keyboard warriors. When getting beaten or losing an argument in side chat they will resort to belittling, racism, making mom jokes or generally just swearing. Experiencing this as a woman doesn't mean you jump to the front of the queue waving the discrimination card about. We all get it one way or another, its the way it is. We are all grown up and can handle a bit of name calling or what not because for god sake we teach children about sticks and stones, why is it that the older we get the more offended we become and find it harder to deal with name calling or discrimination? We all say we want freedom of speech & freedom ff expression until someone says something we don't like then we start whining that we need more censorship. Now im not saying i agree with racial or sexist descrimination, but I'm big enough and old enough to brush it off and feel pity for the poor unfortunate fool who feels he is angry enough to use it on others in a computer game.

My wife plays the Dayz epoch mod religiously and she is known on some servers as the black widow because she is deadly and takes no prisoners. If you are nice, she will help you, and she has gone on quite a few missions with other players on numerous occasions. if you upset her, she will hunt every corner of the map to find you. Theres no prejudice against her for being a girl. Armed only with an axe she went charging at an armed player, swinging away like tiger woods on crack. Injured and unable to get a clear shot at her, he jumps in his car and runs her over and drives away, with only a broken leg she fixes it with morphine and notices that in his blind panic, he left his base open, so a woman scorned craving vengeance with warm blood still dripping from her hatchet, what's she gonna do? That's right run inside and destroy all his cars and his aircraft. Not leaving until everything is burning behind her. That poor guy is gonna return home and see that yet again the black widow left her mark. My wife is awesome. So if you feel you are getting prejudice in game, shoot them in the bollocks, then you will have bigger balls than they do.

My fps dropped considerably making it almost unplayable for me. I thought they may have turned on some of the graphics options, but even whgen i lowered everything down to low it was still about 5-15 fps

I thought the same, but we had an hour of flawless gaming. Yet the second someone turns up, My screen glitches, and my buddy loses all game controls and is unable to do anything. Yet this guy is able to run into a building (Skip all the loot) find my mate directly in the room he was hiding in. shoot him then shoot me. We set it up so the building had all the doors closed and we remained hidden, nobody had any reason to suspect we were there or had even been there so it Doesn't sound the like normal actions of someone checking a high loot building to me. He was the only one in the vicinity that has full control when 2 of us were glitched or lost controls

I Spent some time putting together a nice and peaceful cinematic of the Chernarus landscape. I think it looks amazing without human interaction, like a ghost town, left for nature to claim it back. Anyway, hope you enjoy

I was frapsing our game and caught a hacker/glitcher in the act. Its just such a hard thing to regulate and report, so i do hope this PBO issue fixes a lot of this shit. Check my vid