soapmak3r

Since the last 2 updates, it seems like more has been broken than has been fixed...on the surface anyway. I doubt that zombies walking through walls/objects etc is intentional...It only happens when they are in 'walk mode', when they are running, as you say, they navigate as normal. It's only when they slow down that they start warping through everything. It is fairly game breaking at times...Especially when combined with an infinitely spawning zombie horde and all you have is an enclosed space...that might as well not exist because it doesn't provide any cover.

All of these things need to be fixed before issues of balance, or new features are added...Zombies warping through things, or suddenly spawning all around you 10 ft away from you and then instantly aggroing is the most game breaking thing right now... Seriously. Please fix these things before you do anything else.

http://youtu.be/wZvuZ52OUsM

lol...I have no idea why fixing the zombies running/walking through solid objects hasn't taken priority over everything else...Since 1.7.1 it is the only thing they have really, really needed to fix. I am actually kind of baffled that they haven't fixed it yet...It's been the cause of my death so many times and every time that it happens, it makes me want to quit the mod out of sheer frustration.

A guy in my clan found one this evening and not long after he got almost killed by a horde, then I died on my way to give him a blood transfusion and lost an ATV, 16 raw meat, 17 jerry cans, alice pack, 4 blood bags, 5 morphine, an M4A1, some Stanag mags, some DMR mags I was carrying for another clan mate... Before that, the server reset on the way to him and the ATV was sent back to where I last parked it...had to go back to get it...After I died and was on my way to loot my own body and get the ATV back and all my gear...A server admin reset the server for a 2nd time...Lost all my gear and my other clan mate that was in the area couldn't find the ATV... DayZ - How not to raid a chopper crash site :'( I blame Mountain Dew...

I am not name calling, I am stating a fact. The hill billys are a plague in this game and currently, everything is ridiculously stacked in their favour. The only reason the CoD/BF crowd are playing this game is because it is so easy to camp with a sniper rifle and kill other players, while avoiding detection... They are playing DayZ because they hate dying in CoD/BF, and they love killing people from great distances because they are cowards. It's the If you are playing the game in this way, you are obviously not mature enough to understand the point of it...or so immature that you find it fun to ruin other people's experience/enjoyment by just shooting everyone on sight. Thankfully, most of you never make it off the coast, where the real game begins.

Your progression comes from learning how to survive. The better you can read the terrain, read your map, compass, know what tools you need to stay alive. The point of the mod is to help people learn survival basics that would translate to real life. The psychology of the experience is also a big part of it. The longer you stay alive, the higher your 'xp'. If you get a gun and shoot random people to steal the stuff they have worked hard for, you are not a survivor, you are a moron...and probably 12, or have the mental/emotional capacity of a 12 year old.

Great guide! Cheers! :)

That would be great, but I have no idea how to get Rocket's attention to see if he would want that. Anyone have any ideas?

Bringing it back...

DayZ - My First Bandit Kill! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg64Iy9qLgk Followed soon after by...My first tractor! (and a decent chopper crash!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhKTHDQn_k

Man...I had been itching to off a bandit since my 20 days of survival was ended the other day by what was probably some 12 year old...Or an adult with the mental capacity of a 12 year old...It felt good once I realised I got the fucker! :D In my other life, he shot me while I was in my inventory while looting a house, waited for me to take care of all the zombies first...fucking bottom feeders, the lot of them... We need to tighten up our squad, he died because he broke off from our group at the end of the day, which was silly. If I can find myself an L85, I might devote myself full time to killing bandits. I just wish there was a proper way to identify them.

Thanks...I thought I would, you know, offer suggestions that would actually improve the game, rather post a load of crap... Given the response, I guess most people would rather add stuff to a broken game rather than fix the game first, then add more features... I guess if you hide in the hills/woods and snipe people from a distance, most of these bugs aren't an issue for you...Probably explains a lot.

I was thinking earlier that it would be cool to be able to use the hatchet to cut down branches that could be used to hide/camouflage smaller vehicles and make them less visible to passers by when they are not in use. It wouldn't make them impossible to steal, but it would make hiding them easier and a more viable option.

I was so pissed at the time because I thought I hadn't got the kill because of the glass not breaking and he seemed like he ALT F4'd...Yeah, it sucked that he died, but it was kind of silly of him to go off to the other building without properly letting us know first, or waiting for cover. Hopefully he learns from it. We'd just had a massive shoot out with a seemingly endless zombie horde and everything seemed so quiet afterwards. You just can't afford to let your guard down in DayZ though. I'll check out that steam group tomorrow. :)

Clueless kids will eventually suck all the fun out of this game if nothing is done about it...

To think that I have probably been murdered by ignorant little shits like you and your friend (that you treat as if he is your bitch btw)...It's sickening. You are ruining a perfectly good game. In a real apocalypse, if people behaved like you do in this game, you would be the first people to die. Looking at your debug monitor, you obviously never live very long and basically just murder people and take what they have worked for by shooting people in the back like cowards, with no honour and no integrity...Something to be proud of, eh?

"Leeches"? Seriously? Have fun playing on your server alone like a bunch of cowardly, girly cry baby control freaks...

I think the problem is that 1 person can be such a destructive force in this game... Maybe they shouldn't have names, but "xxx died to horde", or "xxx died to player" or "xxx died because he tried to open a door"...or "xxx died while walking over a rock"... That kind of thing :P

http://youtu.be/exRwIZSopTg

It's been in there since 1.7.1...It only happens when you are at specific places too. Like these 'super barns', as we call them :P, but only in certain towns. When it happens in Pretrovka or somewhere like that you are in real trouble, as there is nowhere to 'herd' them to to get any breathing space! Notice at the start there is a desync and all the AI seemed to freeze. I am wondering if it has to do with that...I was also wondering if it was my friend's FN FAL, as my M16 doesn't seem to aggro zeds further away than 50ft or so.

Whoever can fix all the major bugs in DayZ, get rid of all the hackers and dramatically improve the zombie AI and animations...gets a prize!

So, it is realism at the moment when 'xxx was killed' pops up? Man...My real life HUD mustn't be working, because there aren't millions of death notifications popping up in my peripheral vision every day...I'd better go consult a doctor...

I probably should have clicked sooner...When the British police car pulled up beside me...Or when the guy seemed to have infinite bullets in a magazine...I think I was just caught up in the absurdity of it all.

Is that graphical glitch crap related to hacking, or is that just the most mind numbingly obvious bug that they somehow didn't detect when testing the patch?