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It will be fun to terrorize people shoting from vehicles, bonus points if I could use a pistol while driving Sort of related

I don't really see how painting your weapon in stupid collors is not serious. Maybe I paint a golden m4 and drop it somewhere to ambush someone. Or maybe I just think it looks good and actually don't give a fuck about camouflage because I got a diferent aproach on risky situations (roleplayer or something). You see, in a realistic and serious apocalipse situation there would still be wierd people with wierd tastes, or dumb person with no self love that likes to wear orange raincoat +pink sks. I really can not understand why more options is bad. If something, its realistic. Imo it only adds to the game. Don't you think you would see wierd shit in a zombie appocalipse? People do unpredictable stuff mang, you never know. I mean, military dudes, at least for me, its KOS without remorse and a lot of people has this in mind too. So if one wants to avoid this, he could dress himself in a wierd collorfull way in order to cause a diferent first impression on the other survivor. I'm all for more collors.

Death is bad in game now and lifeless, if you understand me. A well made gore (maybe not dismemberments, but ugly wounds you know) would do great to the game's atmosphere imo. They should use "sound gore" too like, imagine being hit in the leg by a mosing fire, you would scream in pain and cry for your mother in fear of dying lol. Same with zeds, they should rip your face'n arms flesh in a pretty gory way each hit they land, if you don't have a decent protection, and your character screams in agony each hit they take while your clothes start to get wet in blood with a beautifull effect like the wet look reain leaves in everything in .50. This adds a lot man, things have more meaning or deepth imo. Imagine axing someone in the neck with realistic gore and sound representation. We need characters drowning in blood while they die, doing wierd spasms and shit. You know, this kind of realistic gore, that shocks and makes you feel kinda wierd by doing things to other people. Idk, I belive that Manhunt has some nice examples of well made gore. Some are over the top, but some others would fit really good in DayZ imo. The gore we have now is a joke, seriously. Its a heavy imersion breaker for me, that ridiculous blood effect lol, its a joke.

Game is easy mang, git gud. I was some time without playing, came back yesterday and on my second respawn I stablished a good char. I also have no problems keeping it healthly. The survival aspect is easy, game even gets boring due the lack of challange.

Melee was so good in this build :(

Hero mantra? I need to KoS someone right now

OOHH the bravery of being out of range... KILLTHEARCHERRSS

Why have katanas when we can have some of these european beauties right here Or a true medieval spear, the big ones!

I belive that would be panic, or something like that. Sound really helps to create general panic! Gore too, imagine a zombie destroying your skin with his nails, open wounds and blood everywere while your char screams in pain. Dayz mod had an optional ost, in standalone could be optional to have a dynamic ost that, you know, helps with atmosphere, panic and all that (this is a game after all), the graphics by themselfs are not nearly enough. It would have to be much better for that (see interiors). Just some well made wounds for melee/zombie/shots and blood effects would be great imo, the dynamic music idk if its a good idea. I guess people don't want that, thou if well made it could add a lot to the game imo.

Nice post man! Even "knowing" how the tracers are drawn (imo bohemia should demonstrate this to us somehow, in Chivalry:Medieval Warfare there is a console command that shows the tracers), there are plenty of inconsistencies caused by lag and whatnot In my opinion the range and the fast release times (that is, the time it takes to draw the full arc of an attack) are what makes this game melee bad. But that would be b0lonce and probably is better to fix when in beta. Bigger release times could do miracles to this game's melee mechanic.

Yeah my experience with the bat was the same. Had to move foward and aim a bit lower to hit him. But don't you thing you should be abble to hit a zombie with a baseball bat while standing? I mean, the thing was phasing through the zed. In final version I belive it will be fine, but now at least in my experience, there is a lot of bullshit moments until I find out how to compensate because this mechanic is kinda wierd/unbalanced/unfinished. I think would be good for melee a bit more range and increased release time of the animation. What? You never had any bullshit moment with melee? I do all this you say, but when I'm fighting the zombie with many kinds of weapons, sometimes hits doesn't register. I don't take damage from the zombie, but its really wierd to see your weapon phasing through it and nothing happening. This never happened to you?

Do you guys think that melee is 100% reliable? If not, how close to that it is?

Once they remove the action mechanics from the scroll whell, I think it would be nice if we had diferent melee attacks (slashes'n overheads'n stabs) using left click, scroll down and up. Right mouse button could be used for a defensive move like blocking/parrying or dodging. If you parry sucessfuly an attack, you could make a riposte out of it. In order to make people miss they parries, we could use a "feint" mechanic, where you start your attack but if you press rmb during the windup of said attack you cancel it, making people panic parry lol. Due the tracer system already present, other method of making people miss parries is "dragging" the animation to make it hit latter or sooner, fucking with your opponent's timings, or to hit them by the sides, making the parry more dificult. Would make melee pretty skillfull, like it is with firearms now. I really don't understand why melee in this game can't be complex, it would add such depth. Add your kick idea to all this, and shit would be pure gold man. One can dream, right

Imo you can't say someone sucks at a mechanic that is barely finished, melee is ridiculous and has the skill celing of washing your hands. There is like 2 viable melee weapons, the animations fuck up if you spam lmb or when strafing with certain weapons, the tracers doesn't match the swing animation properly, game lags to much and so on. Hard to tell if someoe sucks or not at melee, even more if what you have as a parameter of melee skill is player vs zombie. Cattle prod and stun batton are easier to use because of the poke animation. It is somehow precise, like when you are poking with that stick that you use to craft the bow, forgot its name lol. The tracers kinda match, now on swings like the axe and baseball bat, they are pretty off, same with "spear" weapons like the pitchfork

This was at Balota too man, copy and paste

I belive this is relevant to your question OP, I posted in another thread What you guys think about this? PS: For the record, this image here shows what tracer based melee system means: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/209229-status-report-week-of-25-august-14/

Well I belive its caused by lack of endgame cooperative stuff like farming/vehicles/bases + the thrill of being a muder you know, assassinating people for them lols and tears. This will aways be a thing in this game imo. If you want to have more friendly encounters, you gotta make that happen by leaving the other player with no other option if not talk to you. You will need a gun and some steath skills to make that man. As a fresh respawn, you are safer by hiding your ass at all costs.

You can find them also in industrial areas. You know those big industrial buildings that are in Novo? the ones that you have some ladders'n stairs to climb up? There you will find man. Its a good loot place imo.

Well but it is. People are assholes in real life, they will be assholes in game. How to solve the asshole problem in our society? Good question.

The thrill of being a true asshole without that bringing any real consequences I guess lol Its fun for a time, you should try it!

What, freshspawn hunting is all there is to do? He could be hunting geared players in high interest areas you know, thats what I do when fully geared anyways. Imo its a pansy thing to do, to hunt fresh respawns. They can't even fight back and don't have a single interesting loot to make those bulets worth, so no challange and you get nothing as a reward. The only reason I can see someone doing it is that they want to get some kicks from pvp aspect but are too afraid to go somewhere where people can fight him back. But yeah, killing people who can't fight back is fun, I don't denny that lol, just not my thing. We saw eachother at the same time, he was going downstairs and I was going up, the fastest thing I could do to try save my life was to talk and thats what I did, but as I told ya, he raised his weapon and started to chase me around that industrial area, shit was scarry man hahahhhaha. This helmet now brings me bad memories, such a sadistic dude :(

Yes this idea will go well with canibalism! Human bacon + rice and beans!

I was at Chernogorsk industrial area, checking those big industrial buildings looking for a weapon, and when I was going up a stair I stumbled uppon him, you see. Dude was in a low interest area as far as I know, and when I saw him I tried to talk my way through it but the answer was an m4 to the face lol. I even managed to run down stairs and through the industrial area, but dude came after me! I coudn't lost him so then I tried to at least deal him some damage lol. I mean, if it were you there, in a industrial area all geared up, would you shot a fresh spawn with a pitchfork in hands? Well I woudn't unless he goes agressive. Thats camping and hunting fresh respawns man! Kind of guy that gets killed fast in places like the airfield so he goes the easy route and camp chernogorsk lol

Yeah I found one, it was in the face of the dude who machinegunned me with a m4. "Oh hey man how are you doing, hey, nice helm.." dude point that shit at me, I go running like crazy to scape from him and I though "ehe I'm just a fresh respawn, dude will not come after me". I look at my shouders and the fucker is behind me! Wtf do you want a pitchingfork? So I end up hiding behind a building, pitchfork in hands readdy to poke his ass. Manage to hit him twice before he unloads his m4 at me! Such is life in Chernogorsk spawns. Its a nice helment, I have to say.

At those static helicopter crashes! There is one in the Balota swamps, the other one is close to the sunken ship, and there is another in a ruined city south of Guglovo I think. Once i was at the one close to the sunken ship, and the loot there was all messed up you know, so it had 3 RAKs, like 3 sks, some helmets, boots, maps, Rak magazines... But no smersh vest. The MP5 was the same thing, the police station at komarovo (I think thats the name, its west of balota) was spamed with loot. 2 MP5s, mags...