XallZall (DayZ)

Yeah it already got me, I logged in, walked out the door, BOOM... ...you are dead... Its tricky, and will be a difficult task to solve if they decide to do it, for now just watch the hell out on persistent servers!

As soon as they add bicycles, maybe, or cars etc become a bit more common. It is quite rare to find any vehicle right now. But yeah, it needs to be changed sooner or later, but with it, hopefully the zed speeds as well haha.

I disagree, they have normal and hardcore mode. Instead of just changing the camera from first person to 1st and 3rd person, they should make all hardcore servers persistent and give lesser loot etc, like the .55 update almost but polished. I think the devs need to start focusing on the hardcore aspect of the game, since there is quite a few people that thought .55 was the best thing ever, they can add that then into the hardcore mode for all I care. Personally I thought it was more boring then challenging with the amount of time invested in berry and apple harvesting etc. And yeah it is very reckless, your going to kill random people, friendly or not, of course I know that traps are traps but hey, your going to be injuring anyone that stumbles across them, friend or foe alike. I for one tend to lean along the friendly line, I walked out and got blasted. This is bandit like behavior.

Bicycles!

Lol, is it really hard to see? I thought he was just trolling. You can always just highlight it with the mouse.

+1 Happened to me as well, my silenced engraved m1911 with flashlight and batteries and 1 chambered bullet, gone... : / I also noticed that if you have 2 m1911s and they are both chambered, (I dont know if this makes a difference but one was a engraved one with a flashlight the other one a standard m1911 with nothing but 1 bullet in the chamber) that you can fire the chambered m1911 that you have in your hand and then reload by pressing r! I tested this and you get a reload of 1 bullet this way, but the engraved m1911 then got bugged, since it somehow fired that bullet and it showed that the gun was pulled back (like when its empty) but it still had the chambered bullet in it. When I tried to eject the bullet it just read that "retrieving or receiving". When I tired to shot the chambered engraved m1911 it would not fire. I was able to get rid of the phantom bullet or call it whatever you will by detaching the flashlight off the engraved m1911. Very strange bug.

Pretty scary things these land mines, I spawned into the military jail since I logged out there the last time, I walk out the main door and boom. I take it that land mines and bear traps are persistent on persistent servers? If so then someone was pretty reckless, I usually am a friendly player, now I am scared for life, ever since that incident I been looking at every door step. It is creepy. Evil bandits! I mean all my gear is useless when they kill me like that! I must have been a random casualty...

Look, I'm not saying that the last update was an absolute failure. It had great ideas, and I did like the lesser loot, to a certain extent. But not so few that I needed to resort to hours of apple harvesting and that certain locations like the military bases and coast lines were practically obsolete. Problem would have been fixed by adding 4 things really: 1. Start player with max hydration and energy. 2. Add bicycles to the game. 3. Double or Triple the spawn rate for canned foods, since they were way to rare, like almost non-existent. But not increasing it to the point of making farming, fishing and hunting obsolete, more of a emergency food or secondary food. 4. Fix Military base loot. I liked the farming aspect of the last update, but since I had to focus all my time finding food or farming and never really finding all the pieces for hunting, such as cocking pot, frying pan, axe, cocking stove, matches, gas canister, a weapon with ammo, I never really was able to do anything besides farming and apple harvesting. When a friend of mine died, trying to be a good teammate we would try to meet up with him at the nearest spawn and supply him with food due to the early starvation on the coast lines as a fresh spawn, draining our rare food supplies and consuming to much time. If those 4 things I listed would be in the game, it would still be very difficult but at least one can travel with bike, being able to quickly regroup or head inland where the devs wanted us to go for more loot. And every now and then you would be able to find some canned food which one can then use in an emergency. The idea was great, only needs to be refined. I rather have the 54. until the .55 gets fixed, which will hopefully be the .56

So I take it that you never had any fun before the last patch on DayZ SA. And before the last patch, most of the community was thinking to themselves: "Why am I even playing this game, this game is no fun, it is remotely beyond me." According to you logic, those people with 500+ play hours did not play the game because they were having fun. I guess now that now that the old loot system is back, that you are not having fun anymore? Maybe you should take your own advise and start playing Left for Dead.

I agree with you, great idea, poor execution. It became apple harvester simulator 2015 for a fresh spawn. I spent 2 hours the last session eating apples because I kept harvesting just few at a time, then I would check houses etc, I really did not think food to be so rare, and hunting, yeah great idea when your on the brink of death from starvation and you need a gun ammo wood matches a frying pan or a pot and axe or a cooking stove with gas and cooking pot or a frying pan. Farming kinda helped me, but well, its a time consuming process and tomatos and green peppers did not really energize one, pumpkins are awesome but they take allot of storage place. Military bases having only seeds books and cloths, was a huge joke, making the the military bases pointless and obsolete, as well as the entire coast line, it should have had a moderate amount of loot, and the more one would have gone inland the more lucrative the loot.

Guys, chill down, look the sad reality is that, there are more casuals out there that do not have the luxury of time. I for one loved and hated it, but once I died a few times, I gave up, to much time invested in gearing up and farming to stay alive, I had no time for anything else. So the game died for me because it was just to time consuming to struggle, and sure playing alone made it more easy but as a team, whenever a teammate died it was just a disaster, we had to try to meet up with him and try to keep him alive. And military loot was broker and zombies 1 hitting. Dont get me wrong it had great ideas but, it became to time consuming, its already time consuming enough, with that I mean the % of walking in this game, which would be fixed for me with bikes lol.

I know, I am much like you, I just thought it be funny to ask, since the topic was that everyone wearing a mask is a psycho more or less, apparently the ones wearing a clown or gas mask. Which kinda holds some truth, most people I ran into wearing those masks seemed like crazy people or bandits. I too am more of a opportunist more then anything really, but I try to be friendly and avoid KOS.

I was unable to vote on the poll for whatever reason, might be already closed. I picked all types of aerial vehicles. Make allot of them damaged with missing parts, such as no weapons or rockets etc, and make them rare. Maybe even have only improvised weapons on them, or weapons from land vehicles etc.

I wear a Balaclava, would you trust me?

I think this may be the most professional way to handle the situation. You help but you take no chances.

What a bastard, but don't give up on trying to be friendly like you were, you could have killed him but choose not to KOS, I respect you for that, but learn from this and be even more suspicious of your surroundings, maybe lure him to a big warehouse or anywhere where you can feel safe, or have an easy defense. We have to be better then them.

New patch is interesting but maybe only for people with allot of time, or hardcore vets at best. - Like the new sneaking with the zombies, it gives a more tactical feel about lurking around the cities. - Like the idea that you have to go inland for a change. But for average players or players that do not have much time, I think, it is a waste of time and it is better to play something else, in its current stage. - I had to pick apples for 2 hours straight to stay alive, no fun at all and it felt like a huge waste of time or felt like playing apple harvester 2015. - Zombies can 1 hit you and ruin your gear, pure frustration, especially when one of the invisible ones that make no noise attack you. - Melee vs Zombies are no almost completely pointless due to the large risk of ruining your gear and being almost 100% of the time attacked and hit by the zombies, the zombies also have allot more hp and they attack super fast, leaving you to just run as your best option, around back and forth tiring them out or trapping them into buildings (is what i do as of now). - I was not able to cure food poisoning, I used and tired everything and if you get sick this way, your a dead man. - Loot seems to be completely broken, large cities like Electro or Cherno now have little next to no loot, I know this is to make players go inland, but seriously? Now there is no point visiting those cities making them obsolete, a waste of time to even visit, the entire coast line is a barren waste land. - Loot locations seem to be random, or broken or I don't know what up with it but, military bases have now mainly books and t-shirts, really annoying and making them now also obsolete. - Canned foods are now ultra rare, I don't know if this is by design, since I did read stuff about the dev's wanting us to hunt more etc, which is to be honest fine, I like the idea, and I was forced more then enough times to go farming but this is still to rare, when starting as a fresh spawn, starting hungry, you will starve to death on the coast lines, forced to run inland, when you do run inland your dying of starvation already forced to do pretty much the only thing left which kinda guarantees you food: picking apple trees. - Hunting which links to canned foods is okay but when you are left picking apple trees to just remain alive, you don't really have much time to do anything else until the hungry is dealt with, and even if it is, I have yet to find a cooking pot or a frying pan, both which I never encountered since the latest patch. Gathering a knife, a gun, bullets, a frying pan/cooking pot, a water bottle with water, an axe to chop trees or gas canister and cooking stove, seems to time inefficient when you are on the edge to death. - Farming, due to being mainly on the edge of death, I figured farming was the best thing to do after keeping myself alive with apples. A pickaxe, farming hoe or shovel is not to hard to find and I found allot of seeds on the coast line, you can even farm without a fertilizer and water if the ground is good enough, so I found this to be the safest way of gathering food. But even this is not so effective as canned food or hunting for meat so food IMO is very difficult and time consuming, and to be honest, I don't ever want to pick an apple tree ever again after my last session. So I'm gonna wait for the next patch before playing again, food needs to be fixed along with the loot to allow for hunting and other methods of staying alive as well as fixing the medical stuff to cure food poisoning.

I felt much the same today, because I pressed "Drink all" when my cantine was in my hands by mistake as a Zombie was running towards me. I immediately pressed, cancel current action, but of course, there was either a lag or it bugged out. So I was forced to watch my dude drinking his water while being butchered alive. Then the lovely black screen coming with the words: "You are dead". But in general I was already annoyed with them, they are hard to lose and its not worth fighting them in their current stage, you are guaranteed to get hit in a melee situation. As humans we all have a predators mind, which is to target prey that cannot put up much of a fight, the risk being low of getting harmed and there being a reward, or even if the risk is high, at least the reward is high as well. But, with these new infected, you are 100% guaranteed to get injured in melee fights, and is there a reward? None at all. So is there a point of fighting them? No point whatsoever. If you fight them with melee your going to get hurt or your stuff ruined. Once your spotted it means, the best thing to do is not even fight them, just run around, like there is not enough running in this game already.

I will agree that the direction might be going the right way, but the current implementation is just really bad. MrCactusMan is right when he said that, melee against Zombies now are useless. Fireaxe is now as useful as a hatchet. Cutting down trees nothing more then that. Might be okay against other players, but whats the point, people usually only go PVP when they have firearms.

Hmm, you got a point there with the guns. I feel also much like this, there should be hordes, and zombies should not be super strong, at least the common ones. Implementation of Zombie types would be great, making fast types tank types, or even zombie animals, we have normal animals now, we could have infected ones as well etc. There is so much potential.

Hello Max Planck, thank you so much for the theme change advise, this is so much better, my eyes were starting to hurt. Also, thanks for the info about the zombies not being dead, which is new to me but even so, they should not be in top notch conditions for the way they look. And last but not least, I am very glad to hear that, I just can hope that they will be optimized soon. It has been a long time since anything annoyed me this much in Dayz, up until now I liked all the improvements, anti cheat system, new items etc. The last time I was annoyed to the point where I took the advise to stop playing this game for half a year, was when walking up stairs would kill you in the firestation. By the amount of time that has passed, I also would have expected to see at least bikes by now, as in bicycles... I hope that, that will be coming soon.

New Zombies are horrible. Hello community, What do you think of the new Zombies AI, movement etc? I have to say that I hate it. They attack like crazy, I know, most of the people wanted stronger zombies. But this? I go behind the zombie, and it seems it has 4 arms or something because the damn thing can attack me from behind. Just be remotely close to the things and they will attack you 360 degrees auto hit, is how it feels to me. Then there is speed, they make the living world Olympics champions look bad, and they are dead. Being dead, I'd imagine that they would not take very good care of themselves, having broken bones etc, but these Zombies, holy cow are they fast. It is getting annoying more then anything. Annoying that you have to either run or fight. And speaking about fighting, unless you got guns, or a firefighters axe, I don't really see a point of fighting them with their 360 degrees auto rapid attack system. Either you will start bleeding, or you start going grey really fast, like one zombie can do the job now, or your gear just gets wrecked. So not a wise thing to fight them. I tried and my gear is always damaged. They are now so strong and fast that, a simple mistake is enough to get you killed. I was running away from one of these annoying things, I had a cantine in my hand, and by a mistake I pressed drink all. I tried cancel current action but of course this only works when your NOT in a crisis situation, which its designed for. So unable to stop my current action, the zombie killed me within that small time gab. Of course I get spawned millions of miles away, lost all my great stuff, for such a silly reason. Zombies should be slow or medium speed and in great numbers. Not freaking Olympics sprinters that have 360 auto rapid hit systems. I smack em in the head with the fire axe and they just continue their "new awesome" ignore rapid attack. Even the older AI was better then this, were that felt that they were broken, now it feels like they are just cheating. I understand that there is a reason to fear them now, but that is the issue, they are not scary, they are just annoying. Annoying enough for me to stop playing this until they do something reasonable with these zombies. Bodies also fade to fast, they should not even fade at all, I know that currently fade to reduce lag etc, but still, they need to stay, this needs to be implemented. What do you guys think? Are these the zombies that everyone wanted? Are the Zombies now better or worse? Was this a great or horrible choice from the devs. And having white text on a black background is not very nice for the eyes, makes reading annoying here as well. My eyes start feeling strange after a few moments reading anything on these forums.

Hello Gentlemen, I wanted to share you my adventures as a bandit. I am open for recommendations for future hostages.

Hello Community, this is my second topic. I wanted to share you my expirience with a cheater and what he claims to have. Enjoy the video. 5:30 for the Ingame Footage. To sum it up he claimed that he had a mini-map that showed all the players. He broke my legs just by punching in the air. In the end he claimed to have spawned 20 zombies, he sure spawned some but they were invisible. Look for yourself, its really stupid.