Hillbilly (DayZ)

I'm not sure if your trying to be sarcastic since this game already has a crap load of barbwire, sandbags and tanktraps that was supposed to be for defense, but is mostly used for griefing. This isn't necessarily defense, but concealment. It can only cover the position of a vehicle not a person. Of course ghillie suits are used for concealing one's position.

I will heavily advise you to try not to take the advice to head into every barn to quickly. Barns can easily spawn zombies and it is so congested that you will almost always alert them. The op makes a point about defense. You should have some means of defending yourself. The op isn't saying give him a MK48 at the start. He simply wants a way to stun a zombie and get away. That won't somehow become broken or force people to player kill more at the coast. It will just help keep a zombie of someone's back. Hell even flashlights could be used as a weapon.

I'm bumping this since it is something I've wanted for awhile. It should be a feature added in that should be as rare as camo clothing or ghillie suit and allow it to only cover a single vehicle.

This seems more likely and more preferable.

Me and a group of three other guys were raiding Stary. We were being shot at so we hid in a long house to take out the zeds and get a position on our sniper. When the ghillie suited ass came in he took out one of us, but promptly got his face filled with led. Literally seconds later his body disappeared into the ground.

I've provided examples that shows how pve players want to actually add things to the game that in general improves both the gameplay experience for both PVP and PVE. Hell simply going to Day Z suggestions thread and looking at a few of those pretty much proves my point. Again PVP players are also many of the people who work in groups and will support features that can easily hurt those who do not have groups that can help them survive.

Make it either kill or pretty much cripple the zed. Enough shots could force it the crawl on the ground slowly towards you making it less of a threat, but still present. The thing is no one will want to put 10 or more bullets into a zed to put them down. A headshot would be something everyone would go for.

I like the idea of slow zombies, but I would like to make it so you have to shoot them in the head to kill them.

You ignored what I put in parenthesis and a previous comment showing that PVP players can at times simply want to keep the game as it is. I never said PVP players always do one thing or the other' date=' but usually they may want to keep the status quo or possibly add things that would simply make the game far more unfriendly to new players. Of course using the examples of PVP vs PVE isn't accurate since many PVP players play in groups. Its more of a difference between players who want the game to become even more difficult (even though they have a shit load of equipment and teammates) and those who would like things added to the game to encourage PVE play and make it a bit more friendly to newer players. I'm not exactly sure why you think PVE players want the game to stay the same. Many try and come up with options and fun things that can encourage it. Some of these proposals can easily promote both PVE and PVP. For example some people would like the ability to take over a small town and make a base. The only way to hold it is to have a good team, but the only way to take it from another group is if you can get into a good team. [hr'] PVP players play in groups a lot and many PVE players actually do try and make the game more fun. The problem is the newer players who simply are joining a game that is far more harsher to anyone who simply wants to meet up with a random survivor and be friendly. Those are the majority of the complaints and honestly those can be fixed easily. Give more incentives for PVE play that can easily override the short term benefits of banditry. The incentives for PVE play can easily enhance PVP.

Date/Time: What happened: I died a few seconds after joining a server. Where you were: Seattle 15 v1.7.1.5 93825 Prud Lake What you were doing: Just crouched in the cover of a Pine tree over looking the lake. *Current installed version: v1.7.1.5 Beta Patch 94209 *Server(s) you were on: Seattle 15 v1.7.1.5 93825 *Your system specs: HP pavillion dv6 notebook AMD A8-3500 APU with Radeon HD graphics 1.50 GHz Installed memory 8.00 GB (7.48 GB available) 64 bit system *Timeline of events before/after error: Was sitting in a NZ10 lobby while I was AFK. When I came back I did a search for servers that appeared low pop and possibly night time. Seattle 15 popped up and I joined the server. After a few moments of waiting, I was in the game. It was a bit laggy, but I assumed it was temporary. It was dark and my friend wasn't hear yet so I left. When I knew he was in the lobby I got back in the game. 3 seconds after actually getting in the game. Maybe less I simply collapsed in the spot I was and I could see the ocean. If this needs to be fixed I will simply modify it, but I heard absolutely no gunshot when I died. When I attempted to back in the game I kept getting some battlescript error as I entered and was promptly kicked. Many others seemed to have problems since they weren't in the game for no more than possibly 10 or 15 seconds.

Interesting idea, but in the end it is unlikely to be put in this game. Not necessarily because it is a bad idea, but because this game is a military sim. It is far more likely Rocket could add the ability to take over a town (as long as you can hold it) than allow for reproduction elements in the game. Both encourage PVP, but the former actually fits more do to the element of the actual game and mod. There are better ways to add to PVE elements in this game instead of putting the possibility for reproduction. The problem is that this forum is unfortunately filled with a large amount of people who wants the game to get more and more difficult to the point where it discourages PVE much more. Right now it isn't extremely bad, but it is at a point where you simply can't really take chances with most people.

sevetron has an interesting point. You shouldn't necessarily need to use out of game methods to actually be able to make friends or form a group. Sure in game methods such as direct or maybe side chat can work, but lets be serious. It isn't really good and team speak is simply superior period. Radios can be used as a way to get into contact with someone from a distance, whistling, yell etc. Don't give me shit about people having radios somehow being unrealistic. This game makes many concessions for gameplay. It will never be to totally realistic. Someone I played with offered a possible suggestion. With radios you can have different types. Your standard radios in which you talk to each other on different channels and encrypted military radios in which people can't listen in on your channel. Direct Chat isn't necessarily horrible, but the in game system of communication could use some work and radios are useful. It isn't really unrealistic since people in a post apocalyptic world simply will have working radios sometimes. Day Z in general isn't necessarily an example of realism. Its an example of how douchey people can be due to internet anonymity.

Bandits with good enough gear are unlikely to kill for food. Honestly they can easily get the food by cooking meat or simply raiding small towns. Getting food isn't impossible and people spawning without food has not stopped or even really slowed down spawn killing a lot. Now you are seeing people killed for no reason at all. Personally I would rather not waste bullets on a survivor for some beans. The same beans I can easily get by raiding some house or barn out of the way.

Actually I would be find with zombies who simply walk, but you have to shoot them in the head to kill them.

I'm sorry but do you really think everyone doesn't pay attention when they are crawling? that simply isn't true since people who crawl want to get good loot. To get good loot I have to be in towns or cities. For that I crawl scared shitless that my next mistake will get me killed. Hell I found a Alice pack, AK, M1911, blood bags, bandages, water, cooked some meat and dead a lot while crawling. If I had turned on the tv while doing that I would have been dead. The thing is even with that you should start off with morphine or something else other than just painkillers, bandage and a flashlight. It pisses me off when you are supposed to be a survivor and you don't have any of the damn essentials for survival.

The Crow idea was perfect for handling bandits. Of course so many people cried about it (I expect half of them were bandits) when it is nothing like the bandit skins and actually rather more realistic. Hell lets say for example someone does here a crow. So the fuck what? You don't know where the bandit is all you know is that they are around in the area, but not where. You know what the noob player would likely do? Haul ass which would giveaway there location. Not many people will keep going the same way and even then there is still a chance they will die. Seriously any of the actual bandits would stay bandits and still be successful. Any of the people who are just wannabe player killers would mostly say fuck it and go the survivor route. It wasn't a bad plan, but some people seem to truly believe that there would be a halo of crows right above someone's head.

Yeah there are some things with the zombies that really needs to be tweaked. If you are going to have zombies run at least have them run in a relatively straight line. They simply zig zag everywhere which is freaking annoying.

Um. Zombies actually are a threat when close to you' date=' can potentially knock you out and more often than not break your leg when they hit you. Coupled with the fact they move at Usanin Bolt speeds, zig zag around, and can detect you at ridiculous ranges both from visual and audio standpoints.... yeah they are no where near the same Zeds of 1.7 [/quote'] I can actually sneak by plenty of zombies as long as I stay out of their eye sight and prone. hell I crawled through an entire airstrip with walkers and hoppers everywhere. The only time I was spotted was when I was surrounded by too many patrolling zombies outside of a small building. I just fired on them and killed them all. I did all of that while my legs were broken and was low on health. Seriously it is difficult but I'm not getting seen from a mile away.

He's just baiting people for responses.. Which you just gave him. Killing fresh players aint so bad' date=' you're only wasting maybe 5 mins of their time, as well as teaching them a valuable lesson, perhaps even giving them a chance of their next spawn being more favourable, and sans zombie train. killing well equipped players who have been surviving for weeks and have killed hundreds of zombies and or dozens of bandits or players means you are flushing their days and weeks of hard work down the gurgler. But kudos to you because they no doubt had some heavy weaponry and equipment. But that's the game. Everyone dies, its just a matter of when and how. Nothing is right and wrong, within the boundaries of the game (Hacking and exploiting is another story)... [/quote'] Your talking like having a zombie train on you is a instant death sentence. I can actually lose a horde of zombies unless I have a broken leg. Really the only reason to spawn is either because you are simply bored, really need a bandage, or just want to be a douchebag. Someone can easily teach that player a lesson by tell them in chat that they can easily get shot on the beach. Not saying its right or wrong, but usually spawn killing while you have a lot of gear is simply just being an ass for the hell of it. Now if you try and take out heavily armed players without simply disconnecting when your in trouble then it is more respectable. If you are killing players when you actually need something then that is more understandable. I'm not saying you shouldn't kill players, but spawn killing is simply retarded.

Same here. I'm getting the exact same error here.

That is for people who purchased the game through steam. Its different if you have it through retail which frankly is pissing me off since it seems far more difficult to update my game due to getting it through retail.

I'm sorry but the Retail version installation on here doesn't help at all since it is pretty much what you do if you get the game for Steam. I installed the game and Day Z already using worrom updater. Unfortunately it won't install the Day Z 1.7.1 at all. It keeps getting an error. I was able to play this game fine until now.

At a certain point I don't think a zombie being able to see you a hundred meters away is fun or even necessarily extremely awesome. It pretty much makes going into towns a death trap unless you want to slaughter the whole town. Now I would love to do that sometimes but it isn't neccesarily within my capabilities all the time. Plus the zombies seem to spawn irregularly with this mod. Zombies would be less challenging if they don't instantly get a speed boost every time you aim at them. Running zombies and Day Z zombies are different. Running zombies basically run towards you in a relatively straight line. Day Z zombies actively zig zag around you. I'd rather take the former.