Merk1b2

How about I shoot you and end up with both. -Thought going through anyone who actually wants to trade with you. Trust me.

I was playing on a large server and stumbled upon a fresh helicopter. Too lazy to kill the zombies myself and excited to try my new DMR (for this life), I instead throw a frag grenade in the distance to attract any attention. About twenty minutes later (watching TV) I start to hear gunfire, I look and see four survivors shooting at the zombies near the helicopter. Keeping eye from the distance, I see one of them stays back with his M24 and keeps watch while the others raid the copter. I pull out a my second frag (dem military gais haz em @ dear stunds) and throw it away from my position. It goes off as soon as I scope my DMR, all of them look away from me as I put a bullet through the snipers head. I then put two into the guy with the AK and two in the one with the M4. At this point the last guy with only a 1911 probably shat bricks and started to run towards me (unaware that I was there). I stand up and he stops to take aim but I manage to put one through his head. And that's how I got my free can of beans (with other useless crap like NV, Coyote, M9SD). A few lives before this one I spot a newly spawned-ish survivor crawling with broken legs in east Elektro. I decide to be nice and go up to him. He asks for morphine and I say "How about you take this M4". He is excited but asks for ammo. I say "Like bullet casings?". Confused, he says "Ah sure dude". I respond by pulling my Lee Enfield, shooting it in the air. "Here you go" I said as I backed into the shoreline as a hoard of zombies started to run towards me, him in the way. I let him keep that M4 though, bandits can't be mean all the time.

Fallout 3 & New Vegas had a similar concept where sprinting into an enemy would knock them down. It was extremely useful for melee and unarmed people.

That is a great idea. Would rewards those who actually venture out to explore instead of camping major cities and places of importance. I for one would love the excitement of finding a crashed ambulance for medical supplies, risking the chance of falling into an ambush for valuable antibiotics and morphine, blood packs.

I think bean bag rounds would be the most realistic option both in game and in development.

I gotta say that's one of the worst ideas I've heard on this forum... Would be scary playing at night knowing that somewhere, a zombie is running full sprint to rape you. Worse knowing at most it will take about ten minutes before contact is made.

That's the main idea, to promote exploring while decreasing server hopping and camping at fixed locations such as airfields.

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Great to hear that things are being balanced before releasing 1.7.2. Don't want another super zombie scenario...

DayZ is just an extra jackpot for the people at Bohemia. It's good to know they are going to have a constant high revenue during the entire 2012 year with DayZ and ArmA 3.

Had a similar issue just opposite spawning. Dispatched about ten of them with my Winchester, went to loot, and three more scared me.

I doubt anyone who exploits a system to get an advantage over someone else is an idiot/noob/ etc.

Zombies feel allot better compared to 1.4....I can crouch walk through zombies at airfield or most cities. I usually prone when I need to be very careful. Crouch walk is the best movement in my opinion as you are quiet enough that most zombies will ignore you but if you do alert one, or another person/bandit, you can run quickly to cover.

I had tough times surviving with my gear.... I had made my way north of Benezino and decided to take a swim. After I come back I see that my gear is gone (backpack / main inventory, I still have tools) and I start to head back south to Benezino. I find a hatchet but a zombie breaks my legs. After killing him I crawl from N. Benezino to the hospital. Afraid to break the glass I try to explore the roof. I climb up the back and fracture my arm (glitch). Bleeding heavily and already low on health I try to bandage my self up. After my guy finishes, he automatically moves backwards and I fall off the roof. I go unconscious and wake up with 600 health. I re-bandage with just over zero. Being dark outside, crippled, and vision black & white with blurs everywhere I give up and crawl to the front of the hospital and start breaking down the glass. Surprisingly I don't alert any zombies and I grab morphine. However, still at near zero health I begin to crawl quietly out of the city, passing out every five seconds. I stop by a barn and grab firewood and I head out into the forest eastward. I crawl up to a sheep and chop it up. I make my self five steaks and head back in the next day for new supplies. Crawling across Benezino took maybe twenty five minutes, crawling eastward to find animals in the dark took another twenty five.

Devil Worshiping Execution Cults? In DayZ? Cool.