Rags!

The whole idea is that in a game about survival, sitting on the top of a building with a sniper rifle or machine gun and picking off every living human you see has zero survival benefits, yet constitutes the majority of what players do. If we were all plopped into a scenario of survival that DayZ strives to be, or when we all think about what we would do in a situation where society has collapsed and there's basically nobody left...none of us say to ourselves "I'm going to sit on top of a building and shoot any surviving human being I see because teh lulz." The key is to make surviving challenging, or at least something that must be tended to at all times so that players are more focused on their own wellbeing instead of what jollies they can get from hitting somebody with a Mosin Nagant in a neighboring county.

This game shouldn't have even included a third person mode. But it did. Now people are used to it. They have come to rely on it. They do not want their magic floating personal Hubble in the sky taken from them. Seeing over walls and around corners is far too powerful and unrealistic for them to surrender.

My roots are Halo. DayZ needs more aliens.

Make up your mind.

This effect on deer populations is based entirely on how many people are actually left alive by whatever plague or virus that occurs. If a scenario like DayZ occurred and left 10% of the population still alive and kicking, there would have to be an astronomical cervine genocide of unfathomable proportions for it to negatively impact the total Bambi population overall. Plus, we have to consider how many of those survivors would actually hunt at all...and of those that would actually go out and hunt deer specifically, whether or not they are actually capable of killing it, which I would wager most people are not.

/me frantically creates Itty Bitty Titty Committee Female Only Server.

Girls with short hair are hotter anyway. #henriettamydarling

This is DayZ. It will spawn your ass on a rooftop with no escape. Mark my words.

Okay.

Yea. Then five minutes later they'll die.

Patience is a virtue. And also a survival strategy.

Meanwhile, the ever-useless CZ Carbine continues to gather dust...

I'm actually currently uploading a video to Youtube where the same thing happens to me. It seems to be some sort of phantasmagorical ectoplasmic pugilist. I was originally being hit in Solnichny, and I logged out for half an hour after running away. I came back to the server, went to Kamyshovo, and after killing some players it happened to me again. It followed me and followed me, I couldn't kill it, and it only hit me when I didn't move. Zombies can hit you while you are moving, but I was never hit on the move by this . I would stop, it would hit me. I would run away and it would hit me. I couldn't lose it, and it never gave up or attacked anybody around me. Also, sometimes it missed me and hit a body I was next to or a tree trunk. It clearly didn't have zombie-aim.

Thanks for including an example. I didn't know what you meant by "drag bodies.".

That would be fine. Anything is better than the Arma 3 Wasteland style of you just "Poofing" onto the ground dead. If your ragdolled character popped into a position similar to proning everytime you regained consciousness...that would give the animation a place to resume anything from.

First. Take that, Hicks.

I completely agree with you, though I think the trouble...well, the "trouble" with that would be in Bohemia's ability to make the transition from whatever position you land in back to a proned/standing/crouched position. Ragdolling can put your character's model into some odd looking positions. Making sure that the character transitions back to a conscious posture from there...that could prove very difficult.

I never trusted public transportation then, I certainly don't now.

You can absolutely do this thing.

As the 3PP camera is finally worked with, the more and more I believe that DayZ is far too complicated of a game to have the simple standard of Stand Crouch Prone While there are things that I don't like about Arma 3...well, lots of things, one thing that is excellent in that game is my ability to micromanage the position that my character was standing in. For those of you who didn't play the game or who did and just don't utilize it...Arma 3 allows for a wide variety of different player stances and positions. You had the basic "standing, crouching, proning" positions, but you could also raise up your gun just a little higher while standing, lower yourself a little more while sitting, even lay on the ground with your ear to the dirt and your rifle as low as possible. You would position your body to the side and around corners for a peek, you could even lay on your side with your gun at the ready around a wall. So you would have, instead, something along the lines of... High Standing Standing Low Standing Crouching Low Crouching Proning Low Proning This ability to manage your player profile and minimize the area that your character shows to a potential enemy would be even more useful in DayZ where (hopefully please god almighty) players will not be the bullet sponges they currently are or like Arma 3 had them. As the 3PP camera finally winds down from Peekaboo mode that allows you to see everything and expose nothing, more and more will the desire for me to want to put myself into reasonable positions grow. DayZ, I think, is far too comlicated and intricate to limit itself to leaning your body to the side in an honestly unrealistic and uncomfortable fashion.

There already is a skill system in DayZ. The more you play DayZ, the better you get at DayZ.

What makes your channel better than the 17,561 other channels devoted to DayZ?

When you hit somebody with shotguns point blank, causing a shower of blood and they still don't disintegrate like they are supposed to and act like nothing happened.

Just have those big ass gates open away from you. Doors are fine, really. But you can always just push a gate.

I am a cold blooded murderer and I don't feel bad one bit.