scaramoosh

Log out cause got kids or have to do things and the game punishes you for it, so fucking dumb, don't punish the gamer for having a life. If you have a problem with people logging out to exploit the game then find some other way to track and punish them, don't then assume every one logging out is doing it as an exploit.

What if you want to find a better starting location near your friends?

Yeah and my friend has kids, he's constantly logging out to go and feed them or see what they've done now lol. So all these mechanics will just have a big impact on him too because he has a life :\

My problem with all this trying to tackle server hoppers is it'll ruin my gaming experience.... Sometimes I join several servers before I find one that I like and sometimes I join a server where I think it'll be day and it's night.... I like playing on daytime servers. Then you have other issues like some servers have no loot or what ever bugs like still zombies and so I have to then find another one. There is other problems like the game crashes or lags out or my fps slowly drops over time for some reason. Right now I have no idea how to look at which server I'm on once I'm in it so I end up moving. You also get them annoying servers with the chat box spam so again I change server. Not only that but zombies aren't fun to fight right now, they lag all over the place and animate really badly so fighting them is just annoying. So normally I just run into a building and log because it's more fun than engaging with them. If you're unarmed as well then there is no fun way to try and lose the zombie, you have to glitch their A.I basically, I'd rather just log out and back in. I can be sneaking and doing perfectly fine and all of a sudden one will coming running from miles away........ like sigh relog. I just don't think the game is good enough yet to be focusing on this stuff. I want the zombies to animate properly and move at a slower pace so they aren't so jerky because you do this stuff. I've never disconnected when in combat with other players or server hopped, moved and logged back into the previous server. I just use these mechanics because of several bugs and the poor zombie A.I and animation.

I don't like how far zombies aggro, I thought they aggro'd from too far as it is. I just don't like how zombies act in this game, if they didn't warp around all over the place and animate so badly then they might be fun to fight. However right now you just run into a building and take them out one by one as they suddenly turn into Resident Evil zombies inside buildings. They need to make them less of a pain until they get them fixed, not make them worse. The reason why people abort when aggro'd is purely because Zombies are so broken right now.

A lot of the time I cannot remember and my friends ask to join, normally in games you can check the name or link the IP but I cannot find these options. Thanx.

Right now if you have a loud gun you get zombies coming from everywhere to get you and the whole logging off thing doesn't seem to work any more. That's great but people either don't seem to care still or just have silent weapons. There has to be a downside to being a bandit and that is why there needs to be NPC safe towns where people who are good can enter. With that there needs to be guards there and roaming NPCs which kill bandits. This is really the only way I can think of that will make people think twice about killing other people. Right now it's dumb because you cannot even wait, you just kill them so they don't have the chance to kill you. In real life that would never happen for 99% of people out there.

I wanted to play this game to be scared and instead I just find it tedious to play. I found myself having more fun on servers without zombies and just shooting other players but after awhile being able to get resources without risk is boring. The problem with zombies is they just don't have any consistent method of seeing you, always feels random and like you've done nothing wrong. If Metal Gear Solid decided to let guards randomly see you in different ways then it wouldn't have been fun. However there is a consistent vision cone so you know how not to get caught, this was satisfying. I'm not asking for DayZ to have the same method because there are hardcore people in here that would moan. However zombies need to feel consistent and they're not atm, I can be in an open field with nothing around and crouching in a bush and suddenly a zombie will chase after me. I hate how I'm crouched in a building and suddenly oh look a zombie see's through the wall and now he's running around to the door. I hate how you cannot crouch full stop in the game or zombies see you from miles away, even from behind fences. I can be be sitting on the beach and suddenly one comes from from a house miles away. I see videos of how they acted before and it seemed much better, now they seem to aggro and spawn out of nowhere and it's so annoying and isn't even fun. You HAVE to prone everywhere and if you don't then you'll get seen and I'm sorry but travelling round a town while in prone isn't fun. You should only have to sneak around via crouching and prone should only be for taking cover or hiding when you're mega close. The other thing about zombies is they aren't scary when you work out if you keep running they'll never catch you. They'll aggro from the front, run behind you and then join the train. Then it becomes about bugging out their A.I because the combat in the game against them is poor. You'll get punched once and then bleed, that's stupid and it makes melee so pointless because it ends up like Minecraft. They should have to do some serious damage to you to make you endlessly bleed, rather than a tiny punch. All I ever end up doing is going up a ladder and waiting for them to come up one by one, running into a building and wait for them to get stuck on the door frame. I strafe up a mountain because they cannot run of them fast, I go onto a pier because they seem to hate them or just abort and reload. Why do I do this? Because fighting them once they've seen you isn't fun.... They warp all over the place cause their A.I sucks and their animations are shit. The whole blood mechanic though is retarded, in fact the whole breaking your bones thing all the time is too. I stepped off like 3 steps and broke my legs, that's not realistic and nor is the cure for it. So I don't see why that mechanic is even in the game, the only time you'd ever realistically break your legs in this game is any large fall where you end up dying anyways. Tbh that is another annoying thing because I fall through so many building roofs or those metal walkways in cherno... Back onto the blood system though, it just needs to go because again it makes no sense and isn't realistic. I think a health system is much better, just have it so zombies bite you and you can get infected and then you need to find a rare cure to get rid of it. However you cannot get infected from just a scratch, they need to lock you into an animation Resident Evil style. The other kool thing too would be where if you died your character stays in game as a zombie and you can see the name tag. This would make zombies so much scarier than them hitting you, you bleeding out and just bugging the A.I and bandaging. You could even make it so you can only kill them by a blow to the head... Just do something because right now this game isn't any fun because of it. At the very least go back to how zombies used to work because they looked much more fun in all the videos I watched which made me buy ArmA2 for this game in the first place. I swear something has changed from 1.6 to the 1.7+ builds which I first started playing.