soapmak3r

Currently it is way too easy to be a bandit. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. There is no recourse to anything or consequence for it. Anyone can camp, or just shoot you in the back and that's it... So yeah...Basically, as it is, you are rewarded for being a murdering psycho and punished for trying to practice non-violence and cooperation.

This is a suggestion forum, if you don't want to read people's suggestions, don't come here. If reading this thread was all it took to turn you into a bandit, you are a pretty fickle tool...

Yeah...It asks you if you are sure you want to 'abort' the server, but not if you want to respawn... To add...Having to press abort, then ok, then disconnect, then disconnect again, then cancel to get back to the main menu is totally overkill... haha

If you have a water bottle and it is raining, you should be able to fill your it with rain water, but make it take a few minutes or so. The amount of times I have been walking in really heavy rain and the thirst meter is flashing...Just makes no sense really.

The zombie AI is currently broken. It operates on proximity, but only on a horizontal plain. It doesn't matter if you are 3 stories above the zombies, on the other side of a wall etc. If you are within a certain radius, they just automatically know you are there, regardless of line of sight, and regardless of verticality. It's completely illogical. If you are looting a building and they happen to wander by the other side of the wall, they become alerted, then warp through the wall and attack you, or just hit you through the wall as if the it isn't there. If you are on the roof of a building, 3 stories up, and a zombie walks by on street level, and you are within their radius, they become alerted. If one zombie becomes alerted, it seems like every zombie in the area are all telepathically linked and become alerted too...then they attack regardless of whether they saw you or not. Once the zombies have been alerted to your position, even if you lose line of sight with them, they still know exactly where you are. They all have x-ray vision...This makes losing them really, really difficult. All of this makes looting building in a stealthy way, without confrontation incredibly difficult and frustrating. Especially as a newly spawned character. Most of the times when I have died, it has been because of the bugged zombie AI. It completely breaks the immersion and sucks all the fun out of the game at times too. I have heard that they next patch is going to deal with zombie AI, I just hope that these things are fixed as they are so bad that it would keep me from playing until they are addressed.

Rocket said in the PC gamer interview the other day that they planned to have more enterable buildings.

I already have to wait for at least 2 minutes for the bloody servers to respawn me...and that's annoyingly long. Not sure, but I'm thinking that you are just trolling with these suggestions...I hope you are.

Until today, I have been launching the DayZ beta through the desktop command line prompt shortcut. I'm pretty sure most other people are doing the same. It makes playing with friends really difficult because they don't know when I am playing, and the Steam overlay doesn't work in game. So yeah...A DayZbeta.exe that we can launch the game from, and add to Steam, so people on our friends lists know that we are playing and can join us. This is pretty much essential.

Yeah, I know...I am launching CO through Steam with the launch parameters, but if the DayZ beta had a proper .exe launcher, people could very simply add it to Steam. Adding the launch parameters is hit and miss. I have tried about 4 times, following (poorly explained) instructions from various threads and have now randomly found a set that work. Sometimes making things simple is a good thing. ;) These are the launch settings I got it working with in Steam... -beta=Expansion\beta;ca;Expansion\beta\Expansion -mod=@DayZ;ca -nosplash (you will first need to replace the normal ArmA2OA.exe in "steamapps/common/arma 2 operation arrowhead" with the beta one from the beta folder in "steamapps/common/arma 2 operation arrowhead/expansion/beta")

I would like one profile that I can use to play with my friend when we get a chance, and another that I can play on my own... If we log out together, we can log in together and carry on...but if I play on my own, we obviously end up splitting up. Which kind of sucks.

It seems to me like every time I enter a building, even if there is a wall between me and the zombie, or even if I am on an upper floor of a building... If they get too close to me in terms of horizontal radial proximity, they get aggro, then every zombie in the immediate area joins them because they appear to be telepathically linked... I have no way of accurately knowing where the zombies are when I am inside, and I have nowhere to go once I am inside a building because they are massive choke points... But somehow the zeds know exactly where I am without line of sight, or me making any noise at all. Often they get aggro and then clip through the walls, or hit me through the walls... It makes looting a building way more difficult than it should be, especially as a beginning survivor. You can have perfect stealth, but then get ganked because a zombie wanders too close to the building you are looting and somehow detects you through the wall...then teleports through the wall, or just punches you through it. It's not logical and you can't reasonably argue that it shouldn't be fixed. It's faulty AI.

Yeah, dogs could be cool as companions and for hunting purposes. If you could use them to lure away zombies and then rejoin you, that would be very useful.

Fishing pole would be great, especially if we had working rowing boats that we could use on lakes, ponds, dams and even the ocean.