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have you heard the term "dead men don't talk?" thats because if you are dead, its lights out, you can't then teamspeak your buddies and say where you got shot from and where the shooter is running to or what he is doing. You are dead, your contribution to the game and your friends has expired, its up to them to figure out whats going on and how to deal with it providing they aren't also lying next to you leaking like a fucked fridge.

I mean yeah if you are talking about realism, 3 bullets to the head and 16 to the body, but by some miracle you are saved by electric current does sound a bit unrealistic, but when the game is about a zombie apocalypse and people dying from 2 foot drops you kinda need to be a little bit flexible. It will also make it a bit more interesting when you are forced to become a field surgeon and use pretty much all your medical supplies and hope that you are able to save your friend so it doesnt all go to waste. It will also soften the blow a little when it comes to being killed if you know you have a small chance of being saved, even f it means being incapacitated for a short time.

DLC? My, you're a bit keen aren't you? They havent even officially released the main game yet & that still has a long way to go before anyone even considers doing expansion packs. Other islands? yes it sounds great, but Half the current bugs and zombie wall glitching (Pathfinding) is map related & hasnt even been fixed for this version yet

I sure hope they get your memo.

I just like the idea of walking up to a trading centre (Mad max style with the barbed wire and metal sheeting) only to be told by people on the wall to put my gun away and walk to the entrance with my hands up. Then as the door opens I'm met by someone who cuffs me in order to search me & confiscates any weapons, then allows me into the inner trade area. In a perfect world, this would work and when it works it'll make for awesome gameplay and fraps footage, BUUUUUUUUUT as you know there will still be the odd few that just want to ruin it for everyone by trolling the system and rinse you out as soon as you get in & steal what you have to add to their "Stock list"

last night tried to set up a fire place, but couldnt get it working. I had about 4 stones, a chunk of firewood, kindling and matches. I managed to set up a fire place kit and put it down, I managed to combine a stone to it, but that was all, No matter what i did i couldnt add the fire wood to it or anything, I also didnt get an option to light it with the matches is anyone else having problems with fire places or do you have to be very specific on the steps needed to combine the items to set one up?

ah i tried it again and got it working, I know where i went wrong now

sigh, why does nearly every topic always resort to bickering on this forum? Seriously, some people are like a bunch of kids. So much butthurt

to be fair, after you pass the vulnerable bambi phase and survive to the point where you are able to defend yourself and have all the kit you need, you stop and think to yourself, "okay, what now?" I sometimes feel like putting it down for a month or two and coming back to see whats changed and if its any better, but find a few more features that are bugged, a few more weapons, but nothing in terms of the long term survival goal. It will only become a real game changer for me when barricading and base building becomes the norm. Its always nice ot have somewhere you can call home, because really, everyone in Dayz is pretty much a homeless mercenary. I am definatly going to try out "survive the nights" when that becomes an open alpha release, it has so much potential and a shit ton of features already. It doesn't look pretty or next gen, but I'm not a graphics whore and appreciate that the game is designed by a group of mates with a kickstarter budget.

...and you wish was granted, got to play properly last night for the fist time since the new update, me and my team found out just how dangerous zombies are now. All it takes is one gunshot in a town and all hell breaks loose, by the end of the night we were all out of ammo and using axes. Some zombies still do glitch through walls, but at one point we were hiding in one of the jaiIs to stop zombies from getting at us. We were so unprepared for the relentless waves of zombies that centred on our position we ran out of ammo so quickly. I sure hope this lowers camping and kill on sight players because ammo is now much more valuable. And now i hear they are adding bears too. Finally this game is becoming more progressive with the player vs enviornment aspect.

Hey there I want to extract some of the bullet whizz and mosin sound effects and convert them from .wss to wav file but I cant seem to do it. I use the unpbo file from armaholic to extract the sound files, but the extractor program i keep seeing about converts arma 2 sounds ok, but not the dayz ones, it comes back as failed to convert. Now before you ask I'm not trying to hack or modify any of the game files for any reason, I just want to use the effects for a dayz fraps video I plan to put together in sony vegas

Standalone wont be getting a hud for immersion reasons & to be fair the sound and visibility icons were only useful for about 5 minutes because when you learned how they worked you literally found that walking while crouched and on the grass meant you were quiet and hard to see. Running while on the road indicated you were loud and proud

was I the only person who noticed this? I call them the "wendy Zombies."

with any luck in the near future bears may sort out camping issues

i stand corrected. Its sometimes difficult to read into what people are saying.

you make it sound like you want them removed all together. the fact that they are annoying is a good thing because they are now a real threat, remember this is supposed to be a zombie survival game as much as people want it to be call of duty it isnt

I found the best way to deal with zombies now never fails. When they jump or grab at you side step them then line up and hit them while standing still As soon as they attack they give you a 3 second window before they can do anything else and are left vulnerable. If you go in swinging like a loon you will have a harder time. Always counter attack them never attack before they make their first move

it may have been chasing you from a distance and took his time getting to you

some servers reset your character just for that specific game, making everyone that joins a fresh spawn so they have like 2-4 hours to gear up just like anyone else before the next reset rather than joining as a bambi and getting met with seal team 6. This has actually freaked me out a few times, but when i join my normal servers afterwards, im still kitted out as i was before

thing is when you are running from zombies or running in general and you hear gunshots, you automatically think that someone is shooting at you and you return fire. Then the player will get the hump and say "Thats it, I tried to help him and he was clearly a bandit." The amount of time i have heard gunfire for me to run into cover and figure out that the person shooting hadn't even noticed me and was fighting off a zombie.

i played with the axe tonight, figured out how it works differently, and adapted. I wouldnt go so far as calling it bugged, or broken, just different.

sorry kid but if you play with feathers you're gonna get your ass tickled. Or in other words if you walk around with an illegal weapon, and police catch you with it, the excuse you use isn't going to cut why you have it. If battle eye detects hacking or cheating software on his pc, then you have to ask why he has it

why are you even playing this game?

also what knives attach to boots because all the knives i have found so far dont work with the boots i have

aaaaaaand on that note they have also found that the connection between video game violence and real violence is absolutely inconclusive. Its no difference than saying a scientific study was done and most child abusers drink coffee. The media use it as a shitstorm reason to blame someone for the reason why people are violent, but if video games are the reason for violence in society, please explain the romans,