HarryPotter (DayZ)

Have some beans

Yeah I see what you mean mate but its only really half way into early access. Im not trying to play the 'Alpher deal with it' card, but stuff is gonna brake and there will be changes that loads of people are going to hate. I suppose I'm lucky as I only came into it at 0.54 and have only 200 hours. I can understand why twitch went the way you say.... who wants to watch someone play DayZ post 0.55? Not me.. I love to play it... but watching live = epic boredom. Much has been said about the 0.55 loot/zombies and from what I see those hardships are only going to get harder once the system is in place properly. They are not game braking changes... they are the game in a very rough form.

Yep it will...... Game in development....... Devs make a load of stuff...... Chuck it all in........... Some of it dont work............. Its gets made to work............ It gets polished up.......... Its gets released as a game........... We are still at the bit where they are making bits and chucking it in.... I doubt they care much if you think anything they do will make the game 'unplayable' at this stage. Sorry bud

happens if you aggro them when your driving... they get locked onto the truck and just chase it then jump on the back when they catch it up.. zeds are hard as nails but slow and thick as fuck

There is one thing I would really really like to see when the system is complete and that is a loot 'honey pot'....extremely rare and in a random out of the way location. In the event of am apocalyptic event there would bee the odd person who stored guns ammo and food in a bunker/shed etc out in wilderness, they would be the 'doomsday preper/planner' type of person. Finding that stash would be the golden moment like when they find that bunker in "The Road" thats full of canned food and drinks.. It fits with the theme of the game and imagine when the loot is really hard to come by in the future and stumbling upon it when you wet and starving out in woods!!

You in the HELL buddy :bandit:

So I've had a character on a private server since before 0.55.. He was nicely geared.. Mosin+pso, food, makarov etc etc. Logged onto the server 1st time since 0.55 dropped. I'm in Cherno and decide to stay in the area and see if it's really that hard to find loot around here in post 0.55.. It's not! I find a good amount of stuff around in the usual buildings then I head up to the appartments to check the new loot hot spots. It's a gold mine up there.. So much stuff in all the wrecked cars up there. I soon had a 2 bags of rice, a repeater with a bunch of ammo to add to the mosin, a scope for an AK, soda, canned goods.. So I'm feeling pretty good about myself at this point then I hear a guy shouting for help. He's being chased by a zed and has no gun just a big hammer. I tell him I'll help and take care of the zombie with my repeater... We start to talk and he seems very nervous of me so I get him to drop all his stuff incase he kicks off. Then bang. I'm dead. I hear him laughing as I die.... Don't trust anyone he says... I'm gutted. They must have been watching me for a while forming that plan. He must of dumped his stuff got aggro on a zed and made sure to run past me and got his mate to creap up behind me while we interacted... Still feel they could have just robbed me but I suppose I was a threat if as I was armed. Moral... Don't trust anyone.... Especially if they are wearing a clown mask :)

Only problem with a huge map is you would need like 5000 players online to stand a chance of bumping into someone

I think the problem "the minority hardcore mode braggarts" (as you put it) had was the huge amount of people who have been running their mouths off for two weeks about how they went on 50 servers and didnt find find one can of beans or how all Elektro and NWAF had no cool loot... I mean the amount of over the top negativity has been unreal! So much so that SMoss had to remind all the wingers what the development process was really all about in this weeks update.. If that didnt make a lot of people feel like dicks they must be blind or stupid. So for us lot that really enjoyed 0.55 lets not fall into the same trap of crying like children... the loot scarcity aint gone for good, just for a few week... its all part of the process In the mean time im grabbing a repeater and a pink dress and heading to Elektro .... remember what everyone was saying last week to the 0.55 haters......"adapt to the way the game is" and all that... works both ways!

Mmm thinking now about covering landlines under back packs...

I have a mid tier computer (I think) and get 15-25 FPS in cities on medium settings. I just turn off all the fancy processing stuff but the game still looks nice... I dont think people are ever getting over 30 fps in cities and 60 in the bush?

Yes please..... imagine roaming in forest and coming up against a bear that wanted to eat your face :D

Anyone been on after maintenance yet.... anyone confirm what actually got done?

I must say I enjoy 0.55 more. Only play private and stopped server hopping after my first few days playing the game ;)

Hopefully only for a few weeks!

They have said it's off so pack up your tents..

Kind of have to agree with you there mate... but I dont think the Devs should have back tracked on this

lol yeah

works better with petrol.. I try to keep one bottle of gas in my pack at all times for a dick KOS's me and steels my shit..... ooooh..... I have a funny taste in my mouth!

This experience has made my last 2 encounters much more tense... These happened yesterday both around the military base south of NWAF... 1st one a guy sprints round a corner past me and I follow... He says hi and I put my gun away as he asks me not to kill him... He the starts to comment on how nice my gear is! Im thinking yeah it is and I want to keep it and politely go on my way.. 2nd time.. Same place different character (better gear!!) I'm rounding up the zeds and trap 3 or 4 in the guard house so I can look in the barracks on safety. I spot a guy in creeping around and bolt to the otherside of the perimeter wall... We talk and he asks if I'm friendly. I just tell him to stay on the other side of the wall... He doesn't listen to me so I start shouting.. Dont come any closer or I'm gonna fucking shoot you!!!! He backs away and I run off into the bushes.

Yeah it definitely needs to be like that

The thing with choppers is that not every guy would be able to fly one.. Like if you just came across one you would not be able to fly it unless you had years of training.. So a DLC flight school would kind of replicate this. Maybe not make it a finical hurdle but more of a skill/time thing where it would be prohibitively hard to fly in the game. You would also have to find parts and all that to get the choppers in the air. I just don't think everyone should be able to fly a chopper that easily, like in ARMA3 you just jump in and 1st time off you go!

Had a funny dayz today. I've got 2 or 3 private shard characters I play serious on who are really well geared.. But I decided to play a fresh spawn on a different server just for a laugh. I logged on at Berezino and immediately got in a fist fight with a guy who chased me around until I saw another freshie who we then decided to punch down.. Then all of a sudden there 5 or 6 of us having a punch up in the road. I died and got an Elecktro spawn. I decided to round up all the zeds in town and deposit them in the fire station. I had much success! At one point I must have had about 12 zeds in tow... I learnt a few things about them. They don't seem to hit you from behind if you walk infront of them and other players can aggro them if they are locked on to you. I managed to trap a whole load of them in the fire station in the middle of town and went looking for more... Then things got a little messy! As I was heading back with a few more infected I could see players everywhere.. Some geared some not.. Someone opened the doors of the fire station... Zombies and players were everywhere, gun shots, people shouting, hand to handing with each other and with the zombies. It was propey funny... Then some guy then a guy pit a bunch of 7.62 in my head. Fun while it lasted.... Who said 0.55 was all doom and gloom? :)

Please please please let me rest the barrel of my gun on a wall or window ledge

You know what at fist I though bullshit but, you got me thinking about the choppers.... I'd really like to see a paid DLC + flight school graduation program before you can fly choppers in dayz (if they ever come into the game) It would be a great way to stop every person on the server thinking they can just jump in a chopper and fly away... In reality only people who have invested time and money into it would have the skill to be able to fly one.