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Made another DayZ related article. Probably get flamed but eh, has to be said...love this game though.

Great suggestion, terrible demand. Title might just be ignored.

Ok cool, I guess I'll just abuse exploits like many other people do to advance past the starting level of gear progression? That's so immersive and realistic! Also, I don't even necessarily want a gun, I want a way to get rid of zeds outside of abusing LOS tricks by hiding in a tree, making them fall off of a slope due to pathing, or DC'ing. I don't think it's asking for too much? It would be a tradeoff to fight hand to hand with a zed as they could break your leg or poke a hole in you, but that's much more preferable to running around and getting even MORE of his friends on me, only incentivising me to abuse exploits more. It wouldn't tarnish the oh-so-holy difficulty of the game, it would just give another dimension and tradeoff to the player that I would add another layer of realism to the game, without the need to constantly be fiddling with zed AI and putting so many production cycles into QA with em Who said anything about abusing exploits? I haven't done any of those things to avoid zombies. As for using a rock...sure let them get that close....even in real life you wouldn't last long. No exploits used, and only died to zombies 3 times in about 6-7 hours of gameplay. First time I had no idea what I was doing and aggroed zombies right after spawn. Second time it was me not realizing a slope was too steep and I slowed down so they got me. Third time I got major wounds FIGHTING HAND TO HAND with the melee weapon provided by the game. My third life was the longest lived. This fourth life I am in cherno and have found the most gear, and kept zombies at bay by the provided safe zone of the docks, and raiding buildings when it's safe.

I haven't found the zombies all that hard to get away from either. I moved past several last night while crouched and prone, and a couple got very close. If people are still on the 1.7.1.4 then yes the zombie AI was broke, but it's been toned down since. I did notice a lot of servers are not up to date.

oh and added to my above, again, look for campsites. Not technically a 'loot' spot, but if someone leaves their stuff lying around, no much chance of zombies and their loss right? Yes, buddy of mine played last night for several hours, 1.7.1.5 with the beta for AO. If you look at the interactive map you will see that zeds do not spawn 100% of the time. You will also notice that most tree stands have a 0% spawn rate for zombies. The barn I hit must have had the zombies killed right before I got there and I was lucky enough to get in get loot and get out before they came back.

I have hit four tree stands with no zombies and a barn with no zombies around it. Patience and ability to adapt is key in this game just like it would be key in a scenario like this game simulates.

^not for me! I keep seeing people having a hard time "I crawl through town and die blah blah" Don't go into towns! For frak's sake the map is HUGE. There are plenty of places to look for loot without going into towns. Tree stands, barns, edges of towns. Look for camps, other people, etc. If you have no weapon, and you keep dying in towns, and keep going into towns...and keep dying, it's not the game that's faulty!

I started playing after guns were taken away. Have about a total of 6-7 hours in game, on my 4th life so far. Last incarnation lasted 5+ hours. This current one is in Cherno on the docks and I'm near a church that I raid when the zombies wander away. No weapon, but it's not impossible. Go in the hills, look deer stands, barns, edges of towns with no zombies, or do what I do and hang out on the docks in a big city and loot buildings that are close, get in, take stuff, get out. It's not impossible!

Storm that's not how reserved slots work. You don't decide what slot to log into, the server has a list of VIP members and those slots are filled first. Also the assertion that those slots would always be empty, resulting in servers that are 45/50 0/5 is also false. I've been gaming online with a gaming clan for years, and this is never the case with servers that have reserve slots. If a server is so unpopular that they can't even get 5 VIPs in all the time, they are not going to be full of pubs either.

Graphics are actually pretty good when turned up. Not as good as the newest games, but as good as COD4. My machine can crank the graphics up pretty high with good anti-aliasing which helps.

OP, let this be a lesson to you. A. Don't listen to any hype, even from friends, without doing your own research. B. Don't spend money on something without doing your own research. All in all, if you remember the mod is in alpha, and running off an already older game with it's own issues, it's a very fun mod. If you come here expecting the best of the best polished zombie survival game, then I can see where you'd be disapointed, but the only person you have to blame here is yourself, and your friend, but mostly yourself.

Title is flawed survival game =/= rewards or punishment. Object is not to win. PKing is punished by people willing to kill PKers on sight. Friendly play is good because easier to get stuff. Either way, there is no winning when the objective is surviving.

Started playing after they took guns away. On my third life and have been alive for almost 4 hours, still no gun but still alive. It's not that hard to adapt, if you just try.

I started after guns were taken away. On my third life now and been alive for almost 4 hours. Went through one town, got out. Granted, I don't have any supplies, but am alive and searching. Adapt and overcome.

Seeing tons of locked servers, too many to name. Kinda ridiculous.

Does anyone know if the steam version of arma2 is auto updating to the beta patch?

Might run alright, doubt it would run well. Thing with laptops and mobile vid cards is it's a crap shoot whether they will run or not and games don't really support mobile cards so if there's an issue not much you can do about it. General rule of thumb...laptops =/= gaming machines

Doubt it but if there was it would not be cheap. Even 'gaming laptops' are terrible at running games, especially online shooters.

G3 assault rifle with supressor and red dot sight, semi-auto fire option a must.

Thanks Archon, I try to keep up on posting every couple of days.

Right on Spriggan, that's how it's supposed to be and how it is on a lot of servers. Gets tiresome with how some people generalize about how 'every' clan is. It's just not true, there are a lot of great gaming clans out there, especially the ones that have been around awhile.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone that popped in yesterday to check out the blog...and shamelessly bump the post ;)

I have enjoyed it so far too. I also work at a game/software company and I host/dev on an RPG style server so I understand what Alpha means and what the team here is going through. Some people just have no patience and feel so entitled that they demand what they think they deserve. I'll keep playing until it stops being fun and I'll quietly go away if that happens. That's just me though.

Ok unknown you still don't get it. We are talking about the example in this mod, the world that we are given. A. Religion? Forgive me but religion has led to some of the most heinous acts in our history. B. Power? There is NO POWER in the mod, we must assume something happened to reduce it. Survivors are outnumbered by infected, meaning we don't have time to run power plants, make things, etc. We are busy surviving. Power doesn't grow on trees and plants don't run themselves. C. There is no such thing as non-perishable food except for military grade MREs and even they are only good for about 25 years. D. Why would water be dirty? Have you tried drinking water that isn't pumped to you from a plant? Surface water, rivers and streams are not all that safe to drink and there's a limited supply of portable filtration. E. Are you sure humans would appoint a local leader? In the case of a societal breakdown the strong would take control, only so far as they can hold it. Democracy is not our natural state. Please for the love of Gods, read something! Read the words of people that know more than you and me. As for crime during the black plague, again if you aren't going to look things up before you post/refute things, I'm not going to waste my time showing you. Have fun my man, pray the world doesn't go to pot because if you go into a situation with that mindset you won't last long.