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Give a player a % chance to spawn anywhere on the map, anywhere at all. Northwest Airfield, Berezino, Skulka, Khelm, all of those would be viable spawn options and would give players the feel that their character is one of the many survivors in the world trying to survive. Origins always, ALWAYS felt like deathmatch to me with spawn location choices unless you went random. Instead of giving the player a choice, just spawn them in as usual but put them in a different place. I get a bit tired of spawning on the coast because I know the map. I can look around and say, ok, i'm here. And this is without even looking at the out of game map. Giving me a random spawn chance to appear in various places on the map allows me to work to find out where I am. It adds confusion to the game. It ALSO may stop people from treating Cherno and Elektro as FPS areas and just MAYBE force bambi campers to get out of the coast towns. Just my two cents. Edit : Oh, and add female ghilli suits / hero skin / camo to the game. Come on, we can add razor blades and toilet paper to the game but not female clothing? Seriously?

Ok, I just wanted to link these three posts right here, just these three. Are you people playing the same game the rest of us are? Are you playing servers with more then 20 people on them? If you say you are playing on servers with more then 20 people then I have to say you're full of shit or EXTREMELY lucky or you have a camp you're restocking off of. Someone actually said that there needs to be less ammo in the game then there currently is. You know what's funny? I'm not finding any damn ammo, period. I have checked everywhere in a reasonable area for mags for my L85, and I have found 2 SD mags. Read that again so I don't lose you, 2 Silenced magazines. This is without going to the airfields where yes, of course, I will find mags there but i'm proving a point. I loot farmed the Komarov industrial (which usually yields good ammo believe it or not) and I got a lot of DMR magazines. Nothing for assault rifles, but a lot of 249 belts, 240 belts, and DMR magazines and some random pistol ammo. I spent four hours loot piling this stuff and getting rid of the trash on zombie bodies so it wouldn't overload the area and stop spawning. You're trying to tell me that the ammo counts need to be lower? The majority of ammo i've seen have been for things like MP5's which there seems to be a ton of, but the rifle on the other hand doesn't want to come out to play. Now on a side note, I have seen at least twenty two DMR's since this patch dropped. Every single time I go to a high end military spawn I more times then not find a DMR laying there without magazines which aren't a problem to come up with. Basic supplies like food and bandages come off of zombies but other then that there's really fuck all out there for loot. One of the most stupid posts i've seen in this thread was from the guy telling people "Just prone everywhere, zombies won't aggro". Yes they do. They aggro when you slow walk, they aggro when you prone, they aggro on rock, grass, whatever. They aggro, if the zombies has a clear LOS to you and is facing in your direction he is probably gonna aggro you. Some of you people need to play the patch before you come here and post this retarded nonsense. The ones who have their heads in the sand are MORE THEN LIKELY the people playing on the servers with pops of 6 or 7 people. Of course there's going to be loot, there's nobody on the damn server. So, what, were supposed to play on servers with less then 10 people? Another personal favorite of mine was a guy who said "Avoid zombies and you do fine!" ...... ...... ...... ......really? Just, really?

Protip : And tell us, oh great guru of the pro-tips how you expect a fresh spawn with nothing but two bandages and some flares to actually go out and set up this said magical tent (to be fair, having a tent does fuck-all for having an infection that forces you to eat constantly so you don't die). I really have never seen such a completely idiotic statement. Infections do nothing! Hur dur, you can just ignore it and constantly eat food to stay alive! So let's think on this for just a second and analyze your statement for what it is, a really shit statement. Food is fairly common if you're killing zombies constantly. Now, let's review this for a second. You're fighting zombies, with... i'll be generous and say a hatchet. So you're happy swinging away with your hatchet, eating every bit of food you come across. Now this doesn't take into account that you're AGGROing zombies while moving through the city, which forces you to be constantly fighting to fend off zombies. Now, let's say this is a normal server on you have around 13 people on it. BARRING that all of these players aren't clones of Ray Charles they're going to see zombies running all over the damn place chasing you down. Note, this even assumes you're IN a city when you get infected. You have about... i'll be generous once more and say a 1 in 10 chance when you run into the city there's going to be Antibiotics somewhere in it. Now running through a city like Elecktro with a hatchet, a horde of zombies, and looking for 1 box of antibiotics while constantly chowing down to keep your blood up? (200 blood per can of food, take into effect you're MAYBE gonna be bleeding somewhere along the line and taking hits from zombies) This also assumes you don't get your legs broken when you get knocked down.... because you're going to make a mistake and the chances are high you will get knocked down..... But that's not even what YOU said. You said, hunting game... ok so NOW we gotta get this fresh spawn a box of matches, a hatchet, some wood, a knife and then we have to find this fresh spawn an animal to kill.... now throw hostile players into the equation and yeah, you're boned. If you don't have antibiotics when you get an infection your chances of survival are very, very low. Again, shit plan. Solution? Fix infection rates instead of listening to above Guru. Please note : I DID NOT SAY AN ESTABLISHED PLAYER WITH A GEAR STASH SOMEWHERE ON THE SERVER. I SAID A FRESH SPAWN, SOMEONE WHO JUST SPAWNED ON THE COAST WITH NO FRIENDS AND NO ALLIES ON THE SERVER.

ZOMBIES are not a worry now, GETTING AN INFECTION is the worry. You people need to learn to read what everyone is complaining about, we're not pissing in the wind about zombies, we're griping about the fact we get infected every other hit. If you're liking that, then you're one of those tools that doesn't do anything but die, respawn, die respawn, die respawn. You're not surviving, you're suiciding with your hatchet then saying 'D'aww shucks, whelp! I'm not far from the coast should I should just get another hatchet!" Players were never a damn issue if you were smart and played the game smart, zombies were your main problem. 1. Zombies gave your position away. 2. Zombies told you if you fired or not. 3. Zombies caused infection prior to this, just not every other hit. 4. If you're constantly dieing to players and zombies weren't an issue, then consider being a bit more tactical about what you do. Here's a few clues : Don't run in the middle of fields. Don't run around throwing flares everywhere. Don't shoot your gun all the damn time. Don't pretend everyone is your friend. Don't run into an area blind of the tactical situation. Players were an issue, yes, but they were not the major one. Zombies have always been a factor and if you are one of those twits who says "No the were not." Then it's because you died a lot due to your own dumbass mistakes. So I guess what I am saying is that it's not the zombies we're fighting against, or the players, it's catching a cold? So with that in mind can we rename this mod to Day Sniffle?

I was gonna make this very long and well thought out post with a lot of valid arguements but I know the people who think the sun shines out of the ass of Rocket and Razor would say something to defend them, so this is what it boiled down to. People want realism in a video game. That's great, but it's just that, a game. You will never get complete realism out of it because it's not meant to be. I'm really unsure what was the point of raising zombie aggro to the point it's currently at now, and i'm no coder so I can't even give you any input other then : It's crap. The thing is prior to the patch we now have on the servers the zombie aggro seemed just fine to me. You're talking about the walking dead here, not a person. These are not standard Arma AI, these are supposed to be walking corpses. Read World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide and base your zombies off of that if you want a fairly realistic zombie experience. Yes, keep them running but give them the sensory input that a zombie would have. Zombies should not have good eyesight, but their hearing should be fairly good and from what the book says smell is kinda an issue but not really. Zombies use hearing more then anything else and thus if you're slow running across grass then really they should not be able to hear you. As I have stated in a lot of my other posts the rate for zombies giving you infections and just aggro in general is completely stupid. Damage wise? I would be happy with zombies being able to kill players super quickly, maybe give them crowbar damage and cause them to swing half as fast as a player swings. The way things are going now, DayZ is turning into a totally different game then I have known. It has nothing to do with difficulty, it has everything to do with zombies being over focused on. I feel I could have made a post that screamed OMG AWESOME PATCH DUDE, BUT CAN WE GET HARDER HITTING ZOMBIES? and you would probably would have given it more attention then this one will get. Oh well Razor, SA comes out soon enough, the question is how many wierd changes will you make to this mod that runs people to Wasteland and Island Life = /

I like the game just fucking zombies aggro from all over the place, regardless of day/night cycle, regardless of movement speed, type of flooring under foot. They're damn near impossible to lose and the ONLY effective way I have found of getting rid of ALL of them at once is to kill them. I'm open to suggestions if there's a better way, but killing them with a silenced weapon has been my only way of doing it.

Welcome to Windows, has nothing to do with the 'thread maker'.

"Zombies should one shot players, if you get hit by a zombie you die." I am expecting some dumb shit to say this. I'm 36 years old, and a gamer, and i've found the most amusing thing is this: People want shit to be extremely hard and then they just quit playing it. MAN WE WANT REALISM! MAKE THE ZOMBIES HARDER! Then one day, they get bullshit on by zombies, and probably die 4 times in one day to getting chain knocked down or whatever and they quit. They don't come back to the forums but then a patch comes out that changes zombies and back they come. In EVERY single game i've played there's this huge community who want 'hardcore' mode but then when they get it they don't like it. I'm a hero, I play against zombies and dodging bandits and zombies need to be tweaked right now. The knock down thing is perfectly fine, it's losing aggros in the way you're SUPPOSED to lose them that is the problem. They don't work most of the time and that's a bit of an issue. If I can go all through a city with 12 zombies, run through several buildings and then come out the other side with 10... then somethings wrong. We don't have the ability to close doors behind us, or make obstacles to slow zombies down. De-aggro was the way this was supposed to work, and yet now it's very very hard to do it. De-aggro needs to be tweaked a little, I don't care about the loot because quite frankly there was way too much to begin with. Hording and server hopping didn't help the number of things on a server so *shrug*. Oh, PS: Reset vehicles that haven't been used in 3 days. If you're not active on a server and you've got 6 vehicles stashed away then reset that shit.

I can't be assed to look this up because i'm heading to work in a few minutes and wanted to check for answers when I got there so here goes. Was 1.7. not the patch where you could mod weapons? I looked through the patch notes but I didn't remember seeing it in there and I could have sworn prior to that I read somewhere 'Weapons would spawn as basic weapons now, no scopes or grenade launchers or anything because you could add them on.' Is this correct or incorrect?

I have noticed people who have had multiple DayZ characters which they swap between. They may have one character in one area and another in another area. Now I know this involves multple CD's but is it just as simple as having a completely new Steam and a new CD key installed on that or what?

Question was answered, wasn't meant to spawn a debate, and if you want to have a debate over it then kindly take it to another thread :) This wasn't meant to start a flame war, or whatever this devolves down into, it was meant to answer a question. Admins could this be locked please since the question was answered?

Yes, Sacriel was the reason I had this idea as he has multiple characters in a certain area for his stream. The idea sounded legit enough to gear out multiple characters so you could just stay in the action longer. I am less tech savy then him and was wondering if using various forms of steam would be the way to do it.

I'm making this thread to just feed some info and ideas to those new players who just don't think they can make it. I'm no pro to this game, but I do think I have a lot of experience playing DayZ, so here goes. Tip 1: The crossbow, the best non-PvP starter weapon ever. The crossbow is one of the most underrated weapons in the game if you're fighting against zombies. It's silent, has an ammo capacity that rarely runs out if you're smart and is completely silent. If you're not expecting to run into players then I honestly recommend this gem as part of your load-out. It's fairly easy to find one of these in normal spawns, the ammo as well (barns are a good place, grocery stores, most residential and commercial) and the ammo spawns damn near anywhere. 5 bolts for this will actually take up 5 inventory slots BUT the ability to kill 5 zombies with zero danger is beautiful. If you get more then 5 on you, drop it and switch to your hatchet. With these two items (both of them very common) you can LITERALLY go through a city, hide the corpses of zombies you kill, and nobody will even know you're there.

Nobody sane uses just a hatchet due to the fact you have to be within striking distance to attack with it and it only takes one good zombie hit to break your leg.

Tip 3 : Pan. Pan (scan) is something a lot of people don't realize they can do honestly. I didn't know you could pan your camera until I actually watched a stream. Panning is the ability of using the alt key to look around the area while moving. This gives you the ability to move in one direction and have your attention focused on something else. If you're moving anywhere, look around and keep an eye on your surroundings because looking around can and will save your life. Keeping alert for zombies, bandits, and whatever else is around you is what elevates a novice to a more experienced level. When running in a straight line, press your alt key and swing your mouse left and right, this will move your characters head to give you a look in the direction it's facing. Notice things such as terrain around you, cover, ways to move and areas where you will be exposed. Always pan / scan before you enter a town for things like zombies, corpses and loot that shouldn't be in certain places. Things like this can honestly keep you alive for another day.

Tip 2: Can drinks and food vs. Water Bottles and Meat. While many people swear by meat and water, let's be honest, its kinda hard to find animals when you need them. So what do you do? Well, personal experience (now) I carry at least 1 can of food to use if I need to boil water. Can drinks are useful BUT when you use them there is always the chance you will aggro a zombie. Water bottles are easy to refill (boiled water is cheap) and they don't attract zombies when you eat them. Cooked food is also a wonderful thing to have on you specifically if you get shot. If you get shot, get to cover, and immediately eat your inventory of food. Then try to make your way out of the situation, note this applies to friendlies or bandits. Don't try to be Rambo, he already has sight of you and therefore has a clear LoS on your position. You still have to find him and engage him so he already has the upper hand on that engagement. Your best bet is to leave, or move off and see if you can pick him up as he moves off. As for food and water? I find it best to carry three food, and three water, especially if I am searching towns. This way I can eat everything I come across and keep my levels high and still have an inventory I can use as an emergency stash.

I am an old player of DayZ who came back. It was boring as shit before and felt like a call of duty remake with zombies. Now it's actually fun to me and i'm needing to clear something up. How do I boil water? What do I require to boil water so I don't get infected? I've got three water bottles on me with water and I don't have any boiled. How do I boil this?

Got it, thanks

Can I use the JSRS mod with DayZ on public hives? If I use the right @line when I launch the game is JSRS compatible with DayZ public hive? I prefer JSRS over the normal sounds and i'm hoping there's a way to make this work without going to a private hive.

Huh I may have to try this out and see what happens. Worst thing that COULD happen is the mod doesn't load or I get an error, right?

So apparently a hacker comes on this server and starts teleporting to people and killing them. Well, I had just logged in (after getting teleported with a broken leg to debug forest) and was running around in my first town gathering gear when Kyle (2) says over the chat : Yo why you teleporting around killing people dick? Kyle says : Whoa there's another Kyle on the server? Me : There's a hacker on the server? Kyle (2) : Yeah he's teleporting around killing people. Me: Why do I have to join servers with hackers. Why can't I find a server with a nice hacker? Furthermore, why can't this hacker give me NVG's, it's freaking dark. You have been kicked by the admin. [Dick] You have been banned from the server. [Dick] Nice admin, no research about who the hacker was and just decides to ban me because he hasn't got a clue who the real hacker is. Super! Another server I won't be wasting my time on :P I would be impressed to hear the admins side of the story, because had he did any research he would have seen I had been on the server for about... 7 minutes. Tops.

So I went to this server to give it a try because I am actually looking for a server with custom weapons not normally in the mod in it. So off I go to give it a shot and I spawn outside Electro, fair enough, off I go to take a peak and gear up. Find a Lee Enfield in a building and immediately hear a chopper flying overhead. Admin sends the message "Get in the chopper for a free ride". Now i'm suspicious by nature, and a bandit by nature, so I go into the firehouse to get a rifle of some sort. No such luck, I see a ghilli with a M4SD (heard the shots) running across the street looking for me. I put a round in him, and he keeps running back to the chopper now. Second shot misses and then the guy in the chopper opens up on him and kills him. Sweet. Chopper flies off, one man down, I go to loot the corpse. Corpse is fully geared minus the GPS and a side-arm so I loot everything and take off. New M4SD and AS50 for me, good start on this server. The chopper goes north of Cherno and levels off, so I go into the woods and range it and then blow the engine apart with the AS50. Chopper crashes, everyone dies, i'm pleased. It's about this time I see another chopper flying up to the crash of the other and I wonder... how many damn choppers are on this server? Chopper lands, player gets out and once again admin sends the message "I see you XXXX and XXXX, come to the chopper for a free ride guys." Okie doke, free ride? Sure i'll take a free chopper. I open up on the chopper as it's takes off, engine goes red but it doesn't crash and the player ( I assume the admin ) gets out. I put three rounds into him, one hits, he goes down. So this is the admin from before, I wonder what gear he has now since he has a chopper. Oh look, fully kitted out minus the ghilli suit AGAIN. Least he has the common decency to have an M9 and a GPS this time. It's as i'm looting him that the admin teleports behind me and opens up with what I assume was an AKM. I have enough time to type out "Lol cheating admins" before he finally gets a head shot. My advice, steer clear of the server. It's not legit, and the admins aren't legit. Fair game if this is the kind of thing you are looking for, but I wouldn't recommend wasting time here.

Moral of the story : If you make a server and people come to the server to play the game as it was meant to be played (sandbox) then don't get mad when your chopper is shot out from under you twice. Furthermore, don't hack simply so you can grief the people who killed you because you're mad at them. I don't care who you are on a server or what you're doing, if you want to be a carebear then be a carebear but don't get mad when someone shows up who is not. By what you're saying it's ok to hack as long as I own the server and as long as it's a private hive. It's ok to grief people on my own server because i'm the admin and if you don't like that shit, tough. I mean like I said, no harm no foul, I killed the admin twice and apparently pissed him off enough he decided to teleport to me and grief. All said and done, it's a fail server, good luck with your brony community though :)

Is it running yet? Are you planning on releasing it? If the server opens by all means let me know about it.

Starfish, tell me more about your server. I like the sound of it so far. The fact you're adding custom weapons to your database really peaks my interest.