HedonismBot

I don't think it's an exploit but it does sort of ignore the whole point of the game. Personally it feels like the game is over once I have all the resources and gear I need. Then I just start taking stupid risks to inject some excitement into walking around empty forests.

Starting out is always such a pain unless you already know the map by landmarks. I spend literally 20 minutes holding down the W key, running through featureless woods looking for a sign of civilization. 9/10 times I come to a village consisting of a dozen or so small houses and shacks with 10-20 zombies (may as well be 1,000 with no weapon). On the RARE occasion I can crawl on my stomach and a Z does not magically see me through a wall or miraculously sense my presence, I spend the better part of an hour painfully crawling from pretend house to pretend house only to find they're nothing but boxes with facades painted on them. I know veterans don't have this problem as you probably know each settlement by sight, I know DayZ uses the existing Arma 2 map so it's those designers that made them, but can we get some random loot generated outside of these "houses" at least? Maybe some dead bodies that spawn with a few items? It seems when I do stumble upon a location where loot spawns it's a place I've already seen 10 times despite my very limited play experience. Basically it makes the world much smaller than it appears when there are so few places that are worth visiting.

So you have the best rifle, the best handgun and all the tools. You have piles and piles of food, soda, and meds stashed at several camp sites, and you've circumnavigated the entire map 100 times. What keeps you playing at that point? Once DayZ is finished will it be the addition of new maps that keep people playing?

Has there been any word as to how long before the zombie movement is fixed? I can live with just about everything else but silly zombie dance they all do.

I've turned head bob off but when in first person mode, even when standing still, it looks like Michael J. Fox simulator. Constantly shaking like Mohamed Ali even with more than 10k blood.

Is anyone else still experiencing this? Even with a zombie in a house, not only do they see me but they step right through the wall like it's not there. I thought I remembered reading a previous patch note saying that this had been fixed and just want to make sure everyone else is experiencing the same.

If I have binoculars then I've already found some loot. I know about looking through the windows but you can't see all the houses from the outskirts. There's no avoiding getting closer to investigate houses that are blocked.

I need someone else to give me blood right? I think we all know that's not going to happen in this game unless I arrange for someone to meet me in the same server and even then I'd have to know the person in IRL or I'm just getting killed for my stuff. My guy can't even see straight at the moment, in real life humans regenerate blood but is it safe to assume in this game once it's gone it's gone?

I had two cans of beans which i ate but I'm still at only about 700. I will try to stumble my way to the farm in the distance and hopefully luck out. I think i have everything i need to cook meat (minus the meat) but ive never done it before so best bet may be beans.

Dude lives in France. That's punishment enough.

You didn't pay a dime for this game. You paid for Arma 2 which is a finished product so go play that instead. This is a pre release alpha so cry me a river. No one cares about you or your nerd rage.

Or even requiring tools to unboard houses or barricade yourself inside?

I never played Arma 2 so had no idea this was just a map from that game that they dumped zombies into.

Yeah it's also still possible to agro them thru walls while crawling if you get too close. I'd imagine it's going to be a long road of baby steps before they behave with any discernible logic.

Can anyone comment on whether the spastic zombie movement will ever be fixed? I asked earlier if this is ingrained in the Arma 2 engine and have not heard anything. It's not even about them being hard to hit, more about how stupid it looks.

I'm not talking about who fast they run, that's cool. I'm not talking about how aggressive they are once alerted, that's cool too. I'm talking about the way the zip around like agile flies when they go agro. left right left right they zip all over the damned place with no rhyme nor reason. Is this a path finding issue that will be corrected? Is it a permanent limitation of the Arma 2 engine? Having zombies run in crack induced serpentine patterns is a bit wacky. They should come straight for me not bounce all over the damned place. Yes it makes hitting them harder but I can live with that, I just don't like the fact that it looks totally retarded in an otherwise great looking game world. Yes I know it's early and Alpha but I just want to know if this is something that is on the to do list or if we are stuck with it. Did a search on path finding and zig zagging but found nothing.

The handful that are running the latest release are all full. Anything with a free slot is locked. What gives? Is there a new release in the pipe already so no one is bothering?

What few servers have updated and are not full are locked.

I just run until I don't hear the screaming anymore. It seems there is now a limit as to how far they will follow you. I'll try to avoid running up hills since it seems to add 7 earth's gravity for some reason.

Logged in today to see maybe only 1/20 servers is running the latest patch and they are all either full or locked.

I have more than one post here bitching about the lack of weapons. I spent two entire days of playing without finding ANYTHING but empty tin cans. ever since the last patch however loot has finally started to appear. If you are in an area you think should have loot try DC'ing and RC'ing to see if it spawns (hopefully some king shit admin won't ban you for interrupting his attempt to hunt you).

Wow a king shit admin exercising power over the one facet of his life he has it. Never seen that before.

Can someone please advise how I pick up backpacks? I tried dropping my starting coyote pack for an alice pack and ended up losing them both (had to just leave them sitting there on the ground) I looked at it and pressed enter but it only lets me take items out of it or put items in, no option that I can see for taking the whole pack with me. Thanks

The only people I've seen that don't shoot you on sight are the ones without a gun. If you see another survivor head in the opposite direction.

You have committed the cardinal sin of the DayZ forum. You've suggested they change something.