heretic (DayZ)

I like the splint idea and the that of an improvised crutch. Both doable in a real survival situation with fairly basic materials. However if you want it to be realistic this type of injury is going to affect your mobility for weeks. Not a good thing during the zombie apocalypse. Magic morphine is great for a game but is utter fantasy if you seek realism...

I've only played the 1.7.1.5 hotfixed version with an existing character for a couple of hours or so this evening and my observations are; 1) Zombie behaviour on the whole is better now. They seemed to react to my shots fired within a barn fairly quickly, but were unable to immediately determine where I was (no LoS I guess). So they hung around the doorway for a few moments until I purposefully aggroed them to claim a few more headshots. 2) The zeds are still coming through the walls. 3) A single hit from a zed about 10-12 feet away broke a bone, but only took a few hundred blood. Which seems overpowered to me. Not having morphine in my pack at the moment means a lot of crawling (nearly a km so far) in search of an enterable building, with a very low chance of finding what I need when I get there. Then I got disconnected... Will try and crawl on a bit later and see what happens.

Just a quick thought, How about adding Bows and arrows to the weapons list? It shouldn't be too dissimilar to the crossbow to implement and could potentially be improvised by players... Any thoughts?

But it's slow.... Not everyone knows how to properly fire a bow' date=' because it actually takes some practice and finesse to shoot it straight, much less kill a person with it. Seeing everyone run around with bows and arrows would not only be ridiculous but also severely unrealistic. Crossbows require little training to use, so even someone unfamiliar with the weapon can quickly learn to make efficient use of it. It not only makes sense, but already fills the role the bow and arrow could fill. Yes it's slow, it's supposed to be slow. It's a crossbow. [/quote'] After a few minutes further reflection, I would counter that most people couldn't just pick up any weapon and expect to hit every target they aim at without some training either. Your argument doesn't really seem to bear scrutiny. And as an archer myself, I have seen children pick up a bow and hit targets at short range within minutes. Admittedly to hit targets at increasing ranges takes much more practice and experience. Whether that is any different to trying to aim any other weapon in game is debatable. Either would depend on the skill and experience of the player with the weapon being used surely? And we get that you like the crossbow... That doesn't mean that others wouldn't prefer a silent, faster firing weapon for themselves.

But it's slow.... Not everyone knows how to properly fire a bow' date=' because it actually takes some practice and finesse to shoot it straight, much less kill a person with it. Seeing everyone run around with bows and arrows would not only be ridiculous but also severely unrealistic. Crossbows require little training to use, so even someone unfamiliar with the weapon can quickly learn to make efficient use of it. It not only makes sense, but already fills the role the bow and arrow could fill. Yes it's slow, it's supposed to be slow. It's a crossbow. [/quote'] Well, I guess that's the beauty of these forums.. We're all welcome to hold opinions and to make suggestions. Ultimately it's Rocket and the Dev team that will look at them and decide if they like ideas or not. That's fine by me, they seem to be doing a good job so far. As it stands you don't like the idea... no problem! Thanks for your input.

But it's slow....

I like the idea of improvised traps & trapping... Snares and deadfalls could be used for hunting food, zeds or other players... lots of possibilities.... May need to have string/rope added as a tool though.

One of the things that appeals to me about the idea of bow and arrows is that it's a damn sight faster to fire than a crossbow... Then again given a choice between a sidearm/longarm and bow and arrows, the sidearm/longarm are gonna win every time. At least until the ammo runs out.

Yes, i think both a modern compound, modern recurve and a wooden selfbow would all be doable. With appropriate restrictions re. arrow types as suggested... Would certainly give us some more options for those sneaky silent kills...

Hi trucksandtrains, Thanks for the helpful suggestion. I was aware that six launcher is often referred to re. updating, but was unaware of the extra information available re. which server version is being run... I'll give it a try and see what happens.

Hi there, Can only agree with Alfie's and others comments above. I'm still running with 1.7.0 and the latest beta patch but keep trying to join servers that say they're running 1.7 or 1.7.0 and find that they aren't! I've been server hopping since the update to 1.7.1 trying to find servers to play on, only to find the version descriptions are inaccurate... On the other hand, thanks to everybody that does run servers, it can't be easy to please everyone and must be pretty thankless,. But without you, none of us would be able to test this great mod.