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When a 24hr persistance server has been looted, and food/drink becomes low & canniblism is an option then yeah. Sounds good. You capture a couple of annoying players who just wont leave you alone and relentlessly chase you with an axe til your friends arrive... then yeah. Kill one and feed his friend the remains. However just like others saying how eating human meat should come with negative effects, yes I also agree. I think you should get the shakes for a while & I do hope they introduce infections in game, like getting hit by a zombie causes you to get infected and randomly start coughing like you did in the mod, Until you found antibiotics. (Tainted meat, you all are stupid pricks I been bitten) Even have it so that there will always be a 25% chance of getting an infection from human meat regardless of them being sick or not anyway.

oh yes i fully understand that, but my point was why should we tame our game down to cater for people who its not actually intended for? If underrage people play graphic games or watch very horrific films, it shouldn't be the industry or the rest of us that suffers as a result. Cannabalism in an apocalyptic situation has been touched upon in many films and comics. Walking dead, The book of Eli etc... The fact of the matter is, whether you agree with it or not, it fits the genre, and truth be told, any personal opinion or prefrence on the matter goes right out the window when you lack the luxury of civilization and even the most stubborn vegan will chomp down on human meat if hungry enough.

and because you dont approve of canniblism doesn't make you right. whether you shoot someone in the face or skin them up and turn them into bobs burgers, it still ends badly for them, regardless of the moral highground people want to rub all over it.

are you even quiting the right person here?

Why should that be our problem? Why should the game get toned down to suit the audience its not intended for? People are always quick to blame video games for the deralied kids who shoot up a school or whatever, but here in the uk at least you cannot buy those sort of games unless you are over 18 and its an offence for a parent to buy a game for a minor knowing full well it carries a mature certificate. So for that reason alone, your arguement is invalid.

yep it is a video game it is 18+ and it does have some pretty dark features... But the fickle minded will still trip into the dark room of despair and complain

I can see the people coming to this forum crying shortly. "Wah wah! Me and my friend were walking through electro and these bandits captured us. They killed my friend and made me watch as they skinned him and force fed me his remains raw and left me with food poisoning. This game is too much for me now, i want my money back, I can't take anymore."

I decided to test the experimental servers just so that I could get to play with the new gear that stable has to wait for and oh my god its not for the noob. Firstly there are only about 5 3rd person servers and they are usually maxed out depending on what time you jump on. Secondly I haven't got to grips with when server restarts actually happen but from what i have been told they are on for hours, yet I do find i keep getting the "no message recieved" after about 20-40 mins of playing no matter which server I use, so I'm not sure if there is a connection issue there or not, but I do know that if you join a server halfway through tis cycle then you have to work for your survival. Yes, you can't go into a few buildings and get fully fed and kitted out, you can literally check every single house in a town as big as berezino and find nothing, the odd ruined top here, the torch and battery there but yes it is damned hard. What makes it even worse is this shoe degrading system at the moment. It needs some SERIOUS work, Spawning at the dock in berezino they start pristine, yet by the time you make it to the hospital at the top of berezino they are ruined, I mean come on, at least have it so you can get to the north west airfield and have them damaged. If i wanted to get from berezino to cherno I would need to get through at least 5 pairs of shoes. My final gripe that really grinds my gears because I have died a few times from this problem is starvation while stuffed. How is that even possible? Food is hard enough to find, but you are literally fighting a losing battle by having it stuck on hungry and going redder by the minute but you find an apple and eat it and you get stuffed. I have gone through a whole bunch of canned goods and some fruit that should have gotten me bright green energized yet the more i eat the stuffed i get and the more hungry i become and the screen goes black and white and i die. For the moment I managed to get myself to a stage where i have a shit ton of tomatoes from the greenhouse and a canteen but im on dark green for both food and water, I think it was because i jumped on this morning when the server had restarted and nobody was on, if I jumped on now, I would be dead within 20 mins. Well thats my little rant over with, I do understand that exp is unstable and experimental means experimental even more than the alpha stable, I just hope that when this build reaches stable its not as hardcore & some of the annyoing things listed gets fixed.

Yeah Experimental is much more of a challenge, You REALLY need to work for your food because there are only a handful of servers that are usually maxed out and they dont seem to reset for hours, so going to the usual places for food is a bad idea. You literally have to search every house you find even the shit ones because you have no other choice. It forces you to be a proper scavenger rather than just checking the medical centre, the piano house and the police station before skipping to the next town. Also on exp it takes over 15 minutes to cook food from raw, bit more of a jump from the 3 mins on stable

I love the idea of them reworking the blood effect, it currently looks like a red cloud falling to the ground. Would love to see blood splatter up walls when shot inside. I would also love to see a drippy blood trail when a player gets injured & runs away, this would make them feel they have to bandage up fast or lure other players to them.

Unless the game detects you are trying to ghost or spawn inside an occupied house and will automatically kick you back outside even if you left the game inside the house on a seperate server. Only way to make it fair really, that way you can ensure nobody is going to suddenly appear in the room next to you Maybe when you spawn out its classed as going to sleep

so basically what he is saying is "I dont want any distractions while i sit on the roof of a building to snipe bambis, eating and drinking is taking my attention away from my killstreak." Seriously I facepalmed after reading the first sentence of your original post. If you dont think that eating and drinking is classed as an important role for a zombie survival simulator then you best jump back into call of duty where you belong

Um, yeah, this gets a little bit rapey

freshspawn was actually our buddy in the team and he asked to be killed after he stripped down so we could collect his gear, but fine don't visit the channel again, our sense of humor is for people who can take a joke.

if the main arguement is griefing, then you get that in game anyway and i dont see the handcuff and force feed options being taken away, in fact i think it will make the game more fun and certainly beats just getting shot for the sake of it when there are more options at hand to use as alternates. and as for sex, well i was all for a rape option but i knew realistically that wouldnt happen cos there will be too many people seeking psychiatrist help

looking at the comments here, and I laugh at the crybabies here "If pooping is implemented I'm leaving the game." "Someone will abuse they system" "Bandits captured me and poo'd on my face, The internet will hear about this Wah wah wah!" Seriously I think some of you really need to go play the sims to save your fragile minds from the terror of lawless bandit dominated zombie survival.. It seems we have eating, drinking, getting hot, getting cold, getting injuries, unconsciousness and death, but oh my god, you want to add in another natural realistic body action in and now shits gone too far (yes the pun) So what if you get captured by bandits and the poo all over you..... i mean really its not like the smell rubs off on you is it? You aren't going to turn around from your monitor and look at your wife with a log on your face are you? I would be more pissed off with having my leg broken and left in a field miles from anywhere, but hey whatever is worse for you I guess. And yes Needing a poo while in a gunfight, yes that can be annoying, but then so is the same thing for soldiers fighting in real life. Its just another survival issue you would realistically have to face and think about. I tell ya, the amount of beans, cow meat and canned tuna I have eaten in one life on Dayz I do wonder where it all goes.

A funny trolling video where one of our team members (L3mming) pretends he is a bambi and sees what happens when the rest of us capture him. None of us knew it was him

I am not sure what the Dev's intentions for the wallet is yet, But I think it should be spawned on a player everytime they start a new game. Make it so that it doesn't use any item slots, it can't be dropped & it cant be stolen by other players.... BUT it can be inspected, revealing the identity of the player. This can serve 2 purposes 1. We all have an actual identity in game, so that you don't have to check someones pulse to find out their name, you can check their id instead which would seem more realistic. 2. Some players & hackers change their names whenever they want in the menu, mainly if they want to shake off a bad reputation, but I think it should be compulsary that all ID's display your unique Steam name or Game user id that is locked into your purchase of Dayz. This way, if you encounter and kill a hacker & have the fraps footage to back it up, you can then report the player to the dev team so he can get a global ban for it, but only in these instances where you have concrete proof, that you caught him hacking or with hacked gear, would make it much easier to identify players, even if they change their dayz name it won't help them. I think you can press F12 to take a steam screenshot & it would be perfect if when you inspect the ID with gamer details in the same shot as the hacked mags so it would be an open shut case of guilt

I admit, the reporting someone via their id/steam name isn't perfect & there are loopholes for trolling and abuse but at current, battleye, cheater reporting and hackers adapting their scripts and tactics is just as frustrating as it is now. There is never going to be a perfect solution that isn't going to be manipulated or someone falling victim to false guilt, its literally a 1 step forward 2 steps back no matter what happens, if you go too extreme in one direction, it sacrifices the game, makes the security too over the top & will annoy the community. If you don't do anything, the hackers win and the community will give up hope anyway and move on to other games. At least if there was a bit more hands on help from us the gaming community that can do that little bit extra to expose some of them, upload fraps recorded footage that makes it a clear, black and white open shut case & those responsible get punished and banned, then word will spread around the hacker community and at the very least, some of them will think twice about attempting it if they know all it takes is someone to kill them and find a load of duped gear and hacked mags that they claim they apparently found on another body, but decided to keep... you know for safe keeping of course. I also think the laoding screen disclaimer should be revised with text saying "Do not take hacked ammo or scripted gear, it is your responsibility as a player to leave it alone or hide the corpse with it." that'll also stop those from saying "but i didn't know, i just found it and thought it was a bug."

Here is something I have been working on for a while, Its how I think Bandits would end up looking if they lived the harsh chernarus land for over a year

by inspecting it like you can with any item in game, you dont have to take an item to do that

by putting them on a battle eye watch list or something, I'm not sure how it works, but if they haven't done anything wrong, then nothing will get detected. If its been reported that they are glitching or in possession of scripted mags, then boom Global ban next time they connect

but at the moment there is very little chance of reporting someone. "uh, I got attacked by a hacker, i fired 20 rounds and he glitched out the way, I don't know his username but he played on a server by gamer deluxe.co.uk. Can you ban him please?" Like I said, you can see who was in a server with you by checking your recently played with list in steam, not only can you have a better chance of reporting hackers and glitchers, but you can also befriend and add steam players to your friends list if you meet someone you end up getting on with. The only hard hackers to catch out are the ones that glitch out the way when you shoot them, because you wont get close enough to check their name or id, but there seems to be more than enough hackers that die with duped gear and hacked mags. "oh hello steam name Demitry1985 ."

yes i know, i kinda explained that, but your steam name always stays the same

um, you miss the point