wearelegion (DayZ)

I have a great idea!They should just make it a server option! Like some servers can turn it off, and others can leave it on! there! problem solved. I'm a genius! (btw i prefer 1st person for pvp without a doubt)

The game seems pretty racist against Zombies imo, Oh wait, are we still aloud to use the "Z" word? Side note: It's a sad world we live in that allows this thread to flip out over the mere idea of racism, but murdering people for fun is completely acceptable.

out of curiosity, does anyone know another engine that could handle the scale of chernarus? i mean sure many of the more recent engines can crush arma 2 on a technological/graphical level, many have would probably be easier to develop with as well, but the map size would likely suffer tremendously, which would blow.

I've always felt that each character should be bound to a single server, if you go to a diff server you spawn a diff character. Being able to hop servers is the most broken thing to realism in this game imo. But if it were done my way there would be issues, like why your favorite server containing your best character is suddenly no longer online and never gets heard from again. Still with personal buildings and fortifications and what not eventually getting worked in, there will need to be something done about characters freely jumping servers or every time a group of players starts taking over main areas thus"winning" all competition will just server hop. If The only solution I can think of is instituting a 1 server per Time Period kind of system, You get one character through all servers but can only switch servers once every set number of hours. That would solve a lot of abuses of the current system, and may be the only practical solution to cater to all kinds of play.

I admit that online maps are often overused as a crutch. But honestly i see see no fault with them, i think of them as general knowledge of the area, similarly to using voice chat prog like team speak or mumble as having a radio as a starting possession. Besides the online map fails to pinpoint current random events, When stuff like the downed choppers are reintroduced you'll find potential surprises everywhere. edit: I would like to see the ingame map actually offer some use... perhaps it could provide a function similar to the gps of old. Maybe looking at the map could tell you your estimated location by highlighting a 10 km area. not pinpoint, but enough to be worth carrying.

A holiday alpha adventure by me. I'm roving about on a low pop server at like 5am, no ones around and i seemingly have all of elektro to myself. The night prior left off with Me and Brush hiding in the woods outside the town, He had taken a few hits and needed some grub to start getting himself back up to par. However since we're playing alpha all the food I handed off disappeared thanks to the server crapping out leaving us both low on supplies. So my solo mission this night is clear. Load up on food and water so I can get my buddy back up on his feet, healthy for our inevitable trip north. I was tricked out with a trusty axe, a mosin nagnant and the fn pistol with a good amount of ammo for both. But most importantly i had my little usa mask. I weaved my way in and out pillaging a mostly untouched town, dealing with the occasional zed and not before long my bag was full and i was seemingly on top of the world. Then came the inevitable weapon chambering sound effect synonymous with a player logging in nearby. Now I'm on alert, I duck low and try to find where he is, likely he's a new spawn, logged out in a bad spot in hopes of grabbing some easy food in the city or something. Then I see him, walking down the road. no pack, holding a butcher knife. I could pop him right now but i don't. No sense in telling anyone else I'm around. then i start heading down the stairs and i hear someone say "I hear you bitch, I'm coming for you.". He must have heard my footsteps 'Oh really?' i think to myself. Moments later he comes rounding a corner. "Time to die fucker" the man with the knife says as he closes. I take my time, I aim my nagant lining up a headshot. I pull the trigger, and miss. The round slams into the wall behind him, that should have been a clean kill i curse at myself, my next round should be ready in a moment. And the next round never comes. The mossin fuckin glitched! r doesnt work, dragging ammo doesnt work, its a useless chunk of metal, he's closing on me, I draw my pistol. and my character arms it and then puts it away, i try to arm it again, and he puts it away again,(btw i am trying to move while this occurs but of course my character stands there like a retard as he fumbles with his gun. I sadly and quite embarassingly die and i hear my killers voice saying "yo bro thanks for the loot, Next time you got a gun try shooting me." I respawn as the fucker steals my fully loaded green backpack and sifts through my goods. I wake up on the beach near balotta airfield, Enraged at my completely humiliating death i begin to progress through the scavanging process. Mind you... this is a newly restarted server, and the airfield was good to me. My new M4 came with conveniently placed mags nearby. And in the barracks was a fancy alice/hunter backpack. i resolve to head east. Theres about 6 other on the server at this time, and their names handt changed at all from when i died. Newly respawned cherno goods loaded me up on the basics. and i head continue east... Just west of electro and south of the big mountain is a 3 house spot with a well, a good place to max out my drink and fill my empty canteens. I'm thinkin to myself i'm tired maybe i should log for the night. And then i see movement on the horizon. A dude wearing a mask and a green backpack. I kneel down in some brush overlooking the well. The dude runs right up and holsters my old nagant. He starts to drink. I aim and say I say "Easy come, easy go. Merry christmas!". One burst of the m4 into my old mask and he was a corpse. I walk up on him and open his inventory to see all my old gear mostly in place. His body disappeared very fast which apparently is a bug happens when you rage quit and exit off a server. so i only had time to get my handgun back and some ammo but Revenge is such a sweet sweet feeling in this game it made the whole night worth it. Moral of the story, don't trust the nagant, dont switch weapons in combat because your character is apparently retarded, Every night is a make your own adventure, and avenging yourself is awesome.

I'd like to see a group spawn feature implemented tbh. Perhaps any in group not currently alive could be sent an invite to spawn together(would be pretty handy for a squad wipe as well) could just Cap allied spawns at 2-3 or some low number or maybe limit 1 group spawn per 24 hrs or something. .. As much as I love the sheer cruelty that goes along with this game, the OP is right, There needs to be a few social tools in place to aid those who are more interested in just casually surviving with their buddies,otherwise you'll just push away potential player/customers.

I'm pretty sure anyone who sets up a no kos server are just bandits tempting the carebears with another form of bait.

I'd honestly like to just see characters bound to servers. Pick one and that's where its stays. Or perhaps just Lock a character to a server for 30 mins or something once a shot is fired or loot is taken.

I think a good way to reduce the chain resurrection battlefield franchise effect would be to attempt to simulate using one a bit more, on a player death there should be a percent chance roll to determine if the defibrillator even can shock the patient/target(AEDs inform the user if a rhythm is shockable before charging up) , Then there should be only a 33% chance that the shock will work, meaning multiple shock attempts might be needed. Now imagine doing all that under fire, and we get back in line with the stress levels dayz should offer.... Now if only we could add CPR and precordial thumps too :) .

i wouldn't mind using the compass they way it is if i didn't have to completely disarm any weapon to do it. Given the fact that your character kind of has tourettes when it comes to equipping and unequipping things, I'm just waiting for my next death while im switching to a compass or not. A good example of how it could work is like the motion tracker in aliens colonial marines(Shitty shitty horrible waste of a game... but this they did right.) right arm lifts up and out of view, left brings up the tracker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HvgOgKx79QY#t=9

yeah the overdependance of the mid mouse button is problematic & Combined with a very finicky door hit area it can be quite frustrating... once you start accumulating mags, coupled 60, 40 rd cmag, 30 round cmag, 20 round cmag, 10 rd cmag, .... All i want to do close a frikkan door.

Even Tzeentch finds this funny!

Players spawn the best loot.

same happened to me, lost all weapons and active slots, but kept the survival items and the contents of the backpack, was running aorund weaponless for a while then lucked out with a few good deer spawns. there was talk of a hacker randomly spawning things on that server last night as well, perhaps related.