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Without humanity DayZ is just another shooter. I wonder if humanity will be removed entirely, since it's already rendered obsolete.

Think Rocket said something like that it's fairly easy to locate the dudes disconnecting often or disconnecting often, while someone is shooting near them, but that it was hard to prevent false negatives and might be something that would be easier to incorporate into a standalone code. I think he touched the subject in the Gamebreaker interview, so you could check that out.

"How's that working for you, being cleaver I mean?" :lol:

Entitlement is a wonderful thing... bla. bla. bla.

Key: You were both thinking. ;)

These strange encounters is what make this experience great, shame only few hessitate long enough for such to happen.

Do you have a hatchet? If you do right click and remove from toolbelt, then your hatchet can be used as a weapon to break glass. Press escape to open menu, press the respawn button to kill yourself. Remember whenever you change any settings, the only thing you have to keep in mind is to not to press respawn by accident.

Agree, there's somethign weird about hospital glass. A few days ago I broke the glass with one single shot from a 9mm Bizon. Another time I used about 15 .45 ACP rounds to break the same windowns.

Need the hive to auto-detect cheating ghosters and to issue 7 day ban for first offense, perma for 2nd.

As DeNiro said in Ronin: Where there's a tractor, there's a tent.

If you log in inside the baracks and sit and wait for your friend to log in inside the baracks and get killed by another player logging in inside the baracks, then I share your complete outrage.

Found: M9 M9 SD Glock17 PDW MP5 MP5SD6 M16A2 M16/203 AKM/AKS/AK-74/Kobra Rem 870 M1014 M4A1 M4A1 CCO M4A3 CCO M14 AIM DRM But I also found boatloads of trash, chemlights and empty cans.

Of all of your whole setup Horrgakx, I love your penholder the most. :) I have a TR4 somewhere in the basement, but I never got used to it and having freelook on my thumb button, seems to work as good for me.

Pretty much, there's no big secret to it. Both Cherno/Elektro offers a great variety of loot and as long as you know how to move around in cities and don't stay long enough to get cornered, you can pick up the basics. Or you can go to the smaller cities and hitting a few deer stands on the way. Or finally if you have a camp and some firends, you can do very well, very fast. Doesn't matter if you fail, you might lose some nvgs, but you really don't need them much, unless you're into PvP. You can be up and runnng with an alice pack, handgun, rifle and basic survival gear in no time and If you got a squad on teamspeak, you can have top gear in no time. My problem is survival isn't the focus, gear is. That's why to kill other people, just in case they might have something you need or to prevent them from taking yours. Life and death doesn't matter, it's a minor inconvenience and thus bandits become survivors and survivors become bandits. The struggle for humanity is no longer a part of the gameplay, which was what made DayZ interesting to begin with. Any end-of-world tale revolve about the lost of humanity and the struggle to rediscover it. When the psychos get to reign suppreme, decent and humane people have to struggle twice as hard to survive, without needless killing, canibalism, rape ect. However DayZ currently are enforcing a culture where mankind of spiraling down the toilet, where the majority think the purpose of the game is to kill other people, not to survive. I'm not arguing for the removal of PvP. I'm just pointing about that the humanity aspect of the game has dissappeared among strangers, that cooperation mainly exists between groups outside the game, in preexisting communities/clans and teamspeak. That what made DayZ "The Road," was the struggle and mistrust, has been lost and DayZ has become "Braindead." Why fix direct channel, if teamspeak/vent/mumble/skype is mandatory.

DayZamalamadingdong?

Stupid me, I thought it was about survival. Makes more sense now to render communications obsolete, while implimenting new griefing mechanics. ;)

Banditry decrease your life expectancy... sorry. There's a big difference between taking a bag of rice for your kids and stealing a plasma tv. There's a big difference between being desperate and doing something, because you think you can get away with it. Completely disagree. You don't fail, you're set back 30 minutes. There are plenty of reasons to cooperate, but not with strangers, because strangers shoot. If you want to experience the random coopteration we saw in the beginning of DayZ, you have to rely on your childhood buddy dave and your twinbrother and meet up on teamspeak, which is ironic, since we finally got direct channel to work ingame.

Nope. There's no trade off, no logic, strategy, reward, penalty and no real attempt at survival. Which is reflected in the average life expectancy. Players engage in risky behaviour because there's no downside to it, if you die you can gear up in 10-30minutes and since they only thing we have to show for character progression is gear, there's no difference between a character, who have managed to stay alive for 45minutes and somebody still living at day 45.

DayZ? Day Zero? Day Zedro or Day Zeero?

DayZ clearly proves some people are leg-humping thermostats. I think the bitching and whining come from the people who remembered back in the old dayZ, when there were bandits and survivors. You never knew for sure if the person you meet was friendly or not and that made it interesting. Today you know that the person you meet is not friendly and will shoot you on sight and now the game is purely about who shoots first. Someone who plays DayZ purely for PvP, probably can't comprehend the concept of two strangers looting a supermarket with gear enough for both, without killing eachother for a spare set of road flares. Alot of people don't care about survival in DayZ, they only care about gear, which is why they have to murder everyone they come across, why they die often and why the average life expectancy is 35minutes.

If would be pretty cool, if a tree takes enough damage for a vehicle or an explosion, it will fall. However if the tree falls too easy, I guess it can be abused and will be. :)

Helocopters are disabled at the moment, so it's from a hacked, crashed aircraft. This bug mostly/only occur when an aircraft crashes and explodes. Some players see the small fire grealy magnified. The fire is harmless, but some burning vehicle fires still cook off, so if you get all the way up to the vehicle, you might take a little damage. I think the only way to fix it is to restart arma.

-Right click on bandages/food/drink/morphine to use them yourself. -If another player needs bandaging/morphine, you get the option in your mouse menu, if you're near. -Flares is a thrown object, like empty cans/bottle, chemlight, smoke- and handgrenades. -Press F to switch weapon mode to flare/throw/grenade, use left mouse to throw, the longer you hold, the longer you throw. -Don't throw while lying prone, holding a handgun, it's bugged and you'll end up sitting up and probably accidentally throw the item at your feet. If you need to throw prone, make sure you have rifle. -Zombies walk slowly towards road flares, investigate the light and then continues(only at night?). -Zombies investigate the sound of thrown whiskey bottles and empty cans. -Zombies rush and attack smoke grenades. -Chemlight highlights the person carrying it and lights up the ground around, blue is best(decent light/hardest to detect). -Throw it to pick it up and carry it, but be ready to drop/extinguish if you think stragers are close(100-200m). -If you use a road flare, throw it a bit away from the place you want to search, so zombies walk away and stay away from the light, so hostile player wont spot you easily. If you use flares in an area, get in and out safely, but remember, people will easily spot the bright light from 500-1000meters, so don't stay in the area for too long.

Killing your buddy who failed you, will make you feel a little better.

These private servers/hives, did you get permission to rip off DayZ or are you just doing it anyways?