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I like the "start" of the game, its the only part of the game where surviving is even an issue. You are quickly approaching hunger and thirst, you are likely to start getting cold, things are much worse if its raining... Zombies are actually an issue, you cant just 1 or 2 shot them, if you punch them out or even use a subpar melee weapon, you might get injured or a player might spot you... if you out run and or trap a zombie... you might pass by chances to find food and warmth or again a player might spot you. These few minutes of game play are great... hiding and looting to simply not die. Once you found a rain coat, an axe, and some bare minimum food. Survival is pretty much over... you should never risk being cold/wet, hungry/thristy, and the zombies are now easily dispatched... You still have to avoid player detection as youd be at a disadvantage trying to axe them a question while they have an m4 pointed at your face. Now you will go find a gun and the game gets pretty boring. You are as dangerous to other players as they are to you and survival is a non issue. Since most people are bored now too theres pretty much only PvP left. You of course can try to be social, which i think takes the 10 seconds of shooting a person, and stretches the rush over some time... not knowing if you really trust this person or if he has friends, not knowing if he might draw his gun and if you will react fast enough... those minutes of tension are worth more then the seconds of a kill to me. You of course give up a huge advantage in stealth by being social. Blah blah... long story short is... once fully geared we have little to do, hopefully survival becomes so hard that its always near the top of your "troubles" list, so much so that more people might need to ask other strangers for help. Also a quick thing about the recurring "3 weeks" to die of starvation conversation... I personally dont imagine my new spawn character having stood up from his all you can eat buffet, tipping the waitress, picking up his flash light and walking outside onto a beach where the apocalypse apparently just started. I think my characters been struggling to survive for awhile, and I picked up his story here on the beach... imagine his last meal was a 1/2 eat apple last week. or 2 weeks ago or whatever you need to imagine to put him in his dieing situation.

Maybe all aspects of time could be compressed... i kinda meant "hunger time" in my original post though.

Answer me this... in a survival situation is food important? Will you be playing your game, or have your character alive as long as it would take for REAL hunger problems to hit in? Time is collapsed for game play, youll be alive about x hours, but food is still a priority here in the apocalypse . To make it a factor your character gets hungry faster then you do.

I want to play a survival game, where the game is hard to survive... make sense? You want to play a first(3rd?) person shooter with just enough bare bones survival stuff going around so you can pretend its a survival game.

I hope you are at least talking about experimental... it seems vaguely difficult to keep fed there. If you mean stable, then wow you are bad... its comically too easy to stay fed, and needs to be harder.

The problem with tons of people is they read a statement like above... and completely ignore what it SAYS... they twist its meaning to something they dreamed up and quote it like it backs up their previous statements. In short... learn to read AND understand. To assist you in your future reading with the intent to understand scenarios... I will point out the words "estimate" and "more than" and the actual whole 2nd sentence... then Ill point out the total absence of a start date. Good luck.

I dont ever want to see an end from banditry... it should exist in some shape and form. Id like to see the game's PvE become so hard that relying on people becomes important for most to survive... the true pros can do it alone, if they dont slip up. Of course a gang of bandits might keep themselves alive and still go about their robbing / murderous ways. But right now theres nothing to do besides kill each other... surviving is easy. Things would hopefully play slightly different if NOT dieing was challenging.

My understanding is certain types of items will persist through a server reset the overwhelming majority of the time... and that the only time things like backpacks and tents might not be persistent is when the server is having problems such that it basically needs to be reset back to "factory default" My expectation is, without horrible luck, my tent if unfound will stay for a few days, and that as that turns into weeks id expect it to be gone every time i logged in.

I can see the tip my nose IRL... lol at first person being real lololol

Nobody has seen one... we are pretty sure they dont spawn at the moment.

Little known fact... in the real life zombie apocalypse... all of the spray paint thats not green or black will cease to exist.

Thanks for the video... Ive found 2 tents in 4 attempts trying this method. 1 on a roof, 1 on the 8th floor. Protip for how not to be an idiot... I lost my first one putting it down to get water, the world swallowed it. Im holding my 2nd tent now and am thristy... im not putting this baby on the ground till im setting it up though... so drink all the water you can before tent hunting -.-

He didnt really get in how great the possibility was... or really confine his statement to only bandits... in a way hes right.

Im gonna start a pool if anyone wants to get in on this. I got 5 bucks on black holes.

If a guy with a gun out, at your back, who could have murdered but instead talks to you.... theres a chance that he doesnt want to kill you.... it would have been easier for him if you were totally unaware of his presence but he chose to talk to you. Now I will agree... A LOT of people will just kill you regardless. But your life was over in most situations when this armed person got behind you.... the conversation that follows gives you a slight chance to survive.

In my experience, normally gearing up with 2 friends, traveling to 5 bases/airfields before switching servers... My 2 friends wills have their AKMs EACH with several clips or drums in about the same time we are able to find 1 single ak101 clip. The AK101 is slightly less common then the AKM, but in no way can the gun be called rare. The 556 ammo and the 39mm ammo are both equally if you dont counter heli crashes.... if travelling and you come across Helis the ak101 ammo is actually way more common. As far as the clips go... id expect to find 2 drums and 4 clips (or more when dayz hates me) for an AKM in the time I can find 1 AK101 clip. Personally completely satisfied having 2 ak101 clips and just refilling them as combat happens... even just 1 clip isnt a horrible situation in my book.

They are infected not zombies... so the definition might not apply. I like the idea. It would be a fairly short meaningless life, but i can think being an infected might be a nice change of pace every now and then, for the infected and maybe the player you maul.

Its not spelled out, and its really just a change of units and also terminology. A 20 dollar bill is worth as much as 4 5 dollar bills. 7 hits to the chest with a weapon kills you is roughly the same as 7 hits losing 7 hitpoints each kills you if you have 49-50 hitpoints. Zombies needing to do approximately 7x as many hits vs a wrench explains where the factor comes from.

Id actually like to see a mixture of sprint zombies and slow zombies. Assuming dayz could magically just handle all of it... it would be be nice to see something like 2-3x the current zombies in game as sprint zombies and in addition to that 10x as many slow zombies, visually Id hope we couldnt tell the difference, until they moved of course. In my own mind, if all of those were sprint zombies.... youd just collect all of the zombies in a town, and lead them out of town... or into the ocean... and go back when you lost them and loot a much safer town. The slow zombies would be much harder to do this with... atleast more time consuming. In a walking, not looting through town, scenario only the sprint zombies would be remotely dangerous, youd navigate around the slow ones. The slow ones would only become dangerous in surprise situations... you were fighting 2 sprint zombies, but 10 slow zombies heard it are right around that corner and your about to get overwelmed... or worse yet you are looting a third story building and didnt notice that 20 zombies followed you into those narrow corridors.... or worse yet a rival player lead them to you. Being able to lead 20 zombies to somebody camping a location sounds like a really interesting tactic to me.

Go watch wobos bone spinal fracture video on youtube. It has all the proof, the OP in this thread just changed the terminology.

I would never be able to find it, but maybe somebody is a better digger then I am.... but I think Dean Hall said something along the lines of its an unintended side effect of an unfinished system.

Its not day 1... you washed up on the shore... you were probably with a large group on a boat and shit went down... now you are here with a flash light

I dont think anyone confirmed the "bug" they said it doesnt exist... where did you teach how to deal with this non-big bug?

That honestly sounds like a pro to the system.. mistakes happen and maybe youll regret it and thats a good experience over all. Again not overly supporting the system, i like it in theory more then i think it can work in practice.

Its very rare to drop something and have it disappear now. Often its on the otherside of a wall or down stairs.... very rarely did it get to somewhere you cant get it.