Athaleon

If 3rd-person is an exploit, so are peripheral dots, turning off head bob, and changing servers when the one you log into is at night time.

One major reason to keep the survivor / bandit distinction from affecting gameplay is the issue of self-defense. For example, if: - Someone shoots at me (or a friend) and misses - A stranger points a gun at me - Some chucklehead sprints around trolling for zombies, and tries to lead them to me I should be well within my rights to kill him first. But if his character hasn't attacked anyone since spawning, it counts it against me as a murder. That doesn't really matter in the current version, but it would be BS to penalize me for that. And though I'm not a programmer, I can't think of an elegant and non-exploitable way to ensure justified self-defense isn't termed "murder", in game mechanical terms.

My personal favorite was when I unwisely attempted to shut the door of an outhouse I was in. Broken legs, severe bleeding, bled out right there since I was out of bandages.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser, and he can sleep 'till noon.

- Barns, as were mentioned earlier, often spawn "basic" weapons (double-barrel shotgun, Winchester, etc.) Grocery stores seem to reliably spawn basic weapons as well. - Factory and warehouse buildings sometimes spawn weapons and drinks, but naturally tend to contain more vehicle parts. - Military areas will spawn very good weapons, and all types of gear, but that causes them to be "farmed" by other players. - Deer stands very often have a gun and the appropriate ammo, and are basically always free of zombies. They are usually very isolated, and hard to find without metagaming it and using the map @ dayzmap.info

Cherno has a reputation as a death trap, so a lot of people just avoid it.