BIIdiots

The devs always forget about the mentality of the average gamer driven to play MP. They want to do nothing but kill others. Which is the reason so many of the survival based zombie MP games are so unrealistic and unplayable for the regular gamer. No point when you get shot at every encounter. You don't respawn in real life, making the online aspect a total farce for a real mental state in that situation. DayZ devs want to make the Zeds more of a threat. Can they....probably. will they...not sure.

The triggering can be a critical element. Picking up a note can also be used as a trigger to start a mission. Location triggers I prefer to use for events. Incoming AI radio chatter, once you find a radio can lead you to locations where the notes can be found to start the missions. With the editor and scripting capacity we should see some good ideas for a true sandbox.

Having to open a file outside the game to view your last visited server is not a feature. The feature would be allowing you to view it ingame with out the hassle. Please raise your expectations a little further. The world will love taking advantage of you if you don't. Think hitting "Play" at the main menu takes you to the last server......but the devs don't want you to know which one that was for some reason. Like how many players are actually on the server. So much has been done to eliminate needed info in order to force gameplay it is slowly becoming like a console ported title. You can't fool old PC gamers. We do know the difference, or should. Of course if you came from the consoles you probably don't know much about the difference anyhoot. Toddlers/young naïve types play the consoles, where these tactics tend to fly over their heads.

Then it gets more confusing when you forget you are on experimental looking at all the stable talk.

You really do not understand what is happening with most ea titles. They leave the game half finished with ugly features all over, then move onto the next scam. Of course DayZ is not one of those. But the concern is real, and exactly what the industry has taught us to be weary of them.

This is where the effects guys need their head checked. They want us to perceive we are viewing it through the players eyes but want to throw stupid camera effects on top...... IT DOESN'T FIT. ALL CAMERA EFFECTS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO 3RD PERSON ONLY. There is no need to simulate what our eyes are doing by themselves. Good thing is this seems to be one of the only effects that is done incorrectly so far. Other than outside being brighter while inside. Maybe they will limit these camera effects to only the 3rd person camera view where they belong. You should also notice the lighting at the edge of your screen is brighter than the middle at night. The effect is bad, and needs work.

Huh....What happens to them? They fly off again, or magically vanish? Think the community now prefers animations over logical gameplay. There should be animations of the chopper crashing when it happens, and something other than it vanishing in thin air when their time is up. Rather than animations for characters that are rather pointless.

We could but why? Funnier to talk about a feature that isn't implemented. Every EA title I've purchase has never finished what they claimed, and half the features they proposed that prompted us to purchase their product never even make it in the game. Question should be why didn't you before you started the post asking us to make a statement about it. If you didn't want hypotheticals.....then why did you offer them?

Think it's the largest survival map in the genre that isn't based on arcade mechanics. Can't think of one that is larger. Many of the arcade survival games are even smaller. The erroneous notion that you need to pass out when tired or exhausted would cause so much discourse on the forums and a demand to nerf it that it's a non talking point. Plus it just isn't realistic for an average person. Athletes trained to push beyond their limits it might happened, but most will just tire, slow down, then get eaten. What would probably be a better idea not only the stamina meter but a adrenaline meter. That is full and pushes your stamina beyond normal......When the adrenaline meter runs out then you start slowing, tiring, and eventually have to stop, drop a pack, or fight. The adrenaline meter would fill slower, and maybe some food/drink would replenish it faster.

Some one else posted that they didn't like them and they weren't as thick as the previous version...... WTH. They seem to be about 2-3 times thicker in certain areas Their is so much more undergrowth within the taller trees making the density even better. More than likely the complaints come from those that used to lie prone at the edge and pick off bambis. The new trees just made it harder for them to do that. Finding most complaints are from the lazy players who don't want to work for it.

If you only use a headset, or just 2 speakers you'll have a hard time understanding the surround sound side. Software based surround is not even a consideration.

Well that's all good, but from the initial idea the stories come from the players.. The setting and conditions are given, and you are on your own. We don't spawn as a team, or at the exact same spot on the map. There's some good stories out there. Finding your own without a director leading you through a predetermined story is basically what the game is about. Farcry was pretty much ruined by all the Hollywood crap after 2. The scripted events went from beyond overboard to get the hell off my hard drive. Make a movie or a game..... But having read a little more on your ideas. Little events that promote immersion and atmosphere are always good. Just as long as they aren't gimmick events. The bodies left have been collected by the military and put into piles.

Didn't at one time, way way back, they had plans to make the rail system usable? Possibly building your own vehicle to ride them, or being able to repair the existing trains/engines. Thought that was talked about.......might have been a different game though. Would be way way cool though.

Was having the same issue. Not sure what caused it after a patch many months ago. Didn't play again, or try to play until .62. No error this time. Someone had mentioned it's possibly something to do with the instruction set on our CPUs. Older CPUs even some quad core i7s don't have the set, but they apparently rectified some of issues. Mine works now.

Was a fresh spawn and got one shot from a zed while adjusting inventory. Never even heard it approach. Thought it was another player, but after a few seconds at the death screen I finally heard zed breath. Sometimes they get lucky. What annoys me more is their hits never match their attacks. As if fighting a ghost that is about 5 feet in front of the zed. You get hit before they get close.

The SP version and editor should make modding the game to play the way you want an actual thing. Luckily the devs aren't from Ubisoft, or they would gimp the editor to prevent that. Problem being that the console version may highly hamper the PC version of the editor. That was one fault with Farcry and other PC games once they went console.

Noob figuring out the forum functions....me. I got it right this time. I successfully quoted a post. All through the OPFlash and Arma series the largest complaint from anyone coming from FPS games to the mil sim was the player control. This is one reason the DayZ devs re-built the engine from basically ground up. We haven't even seen what they have planned. With the mil sim background and how many players don't want to see it become like a FPS bunny hopping adventure the devs will keep it as realistic as possible. Would be nice to jump on a ladder without having to go through the process of having to find the trigger to do it. Many things will or should change with the new player control. What has changed will be determined later. Hope we like.

This is where the devs can throw the game in the trash or make it worth their effort. If they do the stupid sound trickery like so many other devs because they can't accomplish it with actual gameplay by creating tension where tension doesn't exist only for gameplay purposes the game becomes IMO a POS. Like the stupid baby cries they added to 7D2D for no other reason...plain stupid, and makes you wonder about the devs mentality. The 7D2D devs pulled their heads out and changed it. I haven't really heard any unwarranted sounds other than mis-represented directional sounds from zeds and your own footsteps which need to be fixed. The sound lag can also make you feel someone is right on your back when it's just your footsteps catching up to you. Most of the sounds are done well.

Kinda threw the whole realism thing off from the beginning with a 8x 12x time acceleration. Nothing remotely real about that.

Sorry Pilgrim you didn't' write that. Don't seem to be a way of just highlighting and deleting it. Just bad devs and dumb users trying to use logic where none is available. The devs trying to make it all easy for the stupid wind up making it so aggravating for the intelligent we give up trying to use it. Kinda what happened with Windows and most other tech. Sounds like a some tweaking needs to be done to the spawn system to fix problems like the one you experienced. Interesting to have happen, but probably shouldn't have.

Since the quote tools don't work on this forum. Wolfgiest said "Probably to discourage any kind of cheating. Can always jam a good ol' nickel into your keyboard." Using 3rd person is way more of an advantage than a macro key to run. There are so many more ways to get the advantage over others, this makes no logical sense. What does make sense is the consolization of the game. None of my PC game device axis will work with the game now. Arma they continue to work....DayZ no longer. They only thing that works is a freaking console controller. Eventually these ahat devs will force us to use one and not let us use a mouse. Which is like telling a pro athlete they needs to wear flipflops while running.

Wondered what was going on. Keep hearing many say there is tons of loot. Must be them coming into the public servers stripping them clean. After playing all weekend I never found much. Ate apples and luckily found 3 bottles for water. The server I play on is always low pop, rarely more than 3 at a time when I'm on, and I've never seen much loot at all. Plus the algorithm used seems to work like Googles crap. I wind up finding multiples of the same loot in the same town.

Your are talking to a large majority of snowflake types. The probably want a point and click game, and autoaim for their controllers. Your analysis is way off. Conclusions faulty, and plain irresponsible. Implying all soldiers that are bored would shoot an innocent in the back is beyond stupid. And only shows your mentality as being deviant and missing the point. Political correctness servers no purpose in war other than to prolong the suffering. More than likely that soldier watched several so called innocents blow up half his squad while using a baby as cover or some other barbaric act. The immorality of the enemy leads to most of these incidents and nothing more. Political correctness is just a scam to nullify the truth.

We feel for the OP....or should. I've been right where he was at. The new learning curve. No instruction for learning. No logic behind it...or not enough yet. But it is much easier to survive the initial start when you find out about a few things you didn't know about before. Don't give up.....re-invest some time into the new curve. Apples are your friend. Fire is good. After that it became easier. Still the loot is basically none existent and spawns as if a bad Google algorithm is being used, and the inventory system still throws out items without warning. What happened to the axe......gone. Why....don't know....Oh because the game can't tell me if I don't have a spot to put the axe in so it just drops it on the ground without warning. Yeah just like in real life. If I don't' have enough pockets I just throw it on the ground. We all do that right? Joke aside, I think they'll fix it. It works well when you have a weapon in your hand then take a drink or use a bandage. They just need to apply that mechanic to a few other instances where you could loose a wanted item. All the wang flappers belittling ignorance are funny. Noob rage. We've all been there. You are lying if you haven't.

NO...plain and simple. No need to prolong or allow the brutality of others just so Neanderthals can have giggles. If that is the case then we most definitely should have a dead list that anyone you kill goes on, and they are not seen by you again, unless you take them off your list. If you go on someone else's deadlist, and they take you off you'll need to verify that action. That way a griefer can't constantly grief the same dude.