dallas

A beautiful white plastic bag twirling in the wind for 15 minutes.

I think what makes DayZ so completely unique, is lost on many players. OP you should congratulate yourself on being able to experience this authentic remorse, even if it made you feel bad. Even thought it's weird to feel emotions in a shooter, you still had the ability and imagination to generate more advanced feelings than just "PWNAGE!!!111oneoneone." I think that's what Rocket set out to do with DayZ. Any other shooter, you'd feel a limited range of emotions, but because DayZ is constantly making your second guess the other players' motivation and intentions, you are often put in situations, where you have to justify your actions, without having black/white answers.

Welcome to DayZ, congratulations on your first player interaction being a good one. Some new players are defined by negative experiences. Keep it up and don't let the bandits get to you. :)

I ignore members with less than 2000 posts and members with more than 4000 posts, clearly needs to get a life.

I really hate the AA12 noob canon. Whenever they are added in any ArmA mission, there's always someone running around like a headless chicken with this noisy bitch, depleting it's ammo within 2 minutes.

Just play on a server with first person only, with all the support, you guys should be able to fill a server by now. Your precious first person servers doesn't fill up automatically, if you constantly join 36/40 full 3rd person servers. Don't forced it upon others, just because you're not patient enough fill a server yourself.

The ability to learn from your mistakes/deaths. The ability to decode DayZ/ArmA gameplay mechanics. The ability to balance your greed for gear with your need for survival. The ability to withstand the temptation to visit Green Mountain. The knowledge to drink Mdews instantly and not store it in your inventory for more than 5-10 seconds. Also wearing a hero skin.

It's called freelook. I bound mine to my thumb button on the mouse.

If only there were a way to add dubstep to screenshots.

Before we decide what ArmA has become, we also have to remember ArmA has had 3rd person since it was called Operation Flashpoint in 2001.

Depends on your definition of sandbox. If you define a sandbox as a space, where only your imagination puts a limit on that you can build, then no. The ingame mission editor is ArmA's sandbox and I predict, initially the standalone will launch without it. If you define a sandbox as a place you can choke other kids, stab them with sharp shovels, bash them with heavy spades and fling old dog turds around without getting a reputation as a troubled kid, then no also. I think Rocket is forced to keep some kind of humanity indicator in the game, not only to protect us, who are clearly unskilled, bad players, but to maintain authenticity in the survival experience. Without humanity gameplay will again be limited to pure deathmatch, where every interaction concludes in a murder. We tried than and we then re-implemented humanity. The only thing that changes by having bandit skins, is bandits who shoot everyone on sight, now are equally engaged by those they before hunted with immunity. Bandit skin actually enhances PvP, because us unskilled coop-playing-AI-hunting bads now participate in PvP and shoot your bandits down on sight, like you did us. But maybe that's the problem, that you no longer can prey on scores of survivors and get away scott free?

paypal, visa, beans.

A-10 Thunderhog all the way. If we're only choosing between the M4A1 and the M16A2, then it's all about the sexy compact M4A1.

In the famous words of Baz Luhrmann: Sunscreen.

I'd like it to be more complex.

Regulators... mount up!

Around 15 euro for everyone. Everyone?

Logging out to survive in a game, where the entire goal is to survive, seems like completely defeating the purpose. I like how you've dramatized the whole post about how you're scared, outnumbered and cornered and then alt-f4 to save whatever loot you have. In my opinion losing connecting while in combat/aggro should result in a instant death, so noobs are forced to learn to play the game, instead of mastering how to shut the game down fast, because they are more attached to their loot, than the gameplay. What I think:

I took severe psychological damage after playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein MP. Whenever I play a game with Voip, I have to constantly restrain myself from shouting "Ima engineer!!!!" over and over.

Who doesn't like a Kinks DayZ parody song. Nice choice, you got the singing just right. :)

I played on a server that carried over my official character, but the loot piles seemed to yield a higher rate of good loot. Maybe the statistics were just on my side for once, but the server wasn't restarting regularly and it often seemed to load old loot, when it finally reset.

Not my video, but it illustrates how to best get killed. In a very popular area, in an open field, crawling slowly, below a hill called "sniper hill."

Forty mike mike HE is where the difference lies.

Friendlies in Cherno? Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang! Piece of shit bandit!

I don't like hacking, so I don't pick up anything I know for certain is hacked. My hypocrisy goes only so far.