Private Poptarts

What if you get the munchies during a fight

Well, if that was the case, this mod would run short of players real quick. If you want permadeath hyper-realism take a hike and go to Somalia. No offense, but it is a game after all.

I had this happen to me too. I logged out on character one, the the next day I join a server (RUS ## or similar) and have to make a new character. I thought the first one died (I was hidden in a pine tree so I found that odd) but that wasn't the case after all. Could it be that not all servers use the main server, but their own instead, for character database or something?

Haven't noticed much difference (yet), performance is smoother though, or atleast I think so. Also zombies don't seem to magically hear you from mile away if you're inside a building/in a walled area. I am NOT looking forward to the bear traps, we all know that people will exploit and whore with them. Also barbed wire should degrade in x amount of time - it's annoying when every damn place is filled with wires that are older than jesus. But, I spawned in the debug plains. No gear, lost it all and most importantly - my ghillie suit :(((( Died of thirst.

....what... just what:huh:. Lars, why would you post something like that?:)

There's quite a few loot spots. I've been there once, found a person there. Shot her semi-accidentally. The other time I was in the slope below, and heard gunshots... I believe there is a copter spawn there at Rog? So that's why I would classify it as a risky spot.

E; Making a new thread, the issue still persists...

see op

Try to join one that's 100 and below and make sure you have a good connection. Also close any downloads you might have (I was surprised that my ping was still high but they didn't close after all, had to use task manager. Ping fixed.).

NW, Cherno, Elektro, Balota... that's it mostly. Haven't really come across anyone elsewhere. I went to NWAF, out of curiousity, expecting to find something. Just rubbish, even though I had two server changes due... issues, still nothing. I decided to make one last turn to see if there's something new spawned but no, just a bullet to the head. Lost my dear Mk 48 and some other stuff. Boredom gets you careless... :P In my opinion, you're better off in Stary and NWAF is overrated. Atleast I found some useful crap there. You can go all "carebear" on me, but that's my opinion of the place.

See op

Dey see me rollin'... Dem hatin'... He's a post-apo nut/douchebag, there's bound to be more or less of those. Next time park your Toyota and your little camp a bit farther away than the first treeline :) Can't say I agree with you op, but it's kind of funny. Imagine all the ffuu's you've caused

On wednesday I was just strolling around, enjoying the view, chillin' with some zombies, looking for ammo for my M16 M203, and then... I come across a WOMAN. In the castle of Rog. So I shot her. Whoopsy DayZ (pun). Sorry about that, didn't expect you to be there. You did have some pretty nice stuff though, my toolbelt was almost complete by that point. I log out 300 meters away under a pine tree. Next time I login my character is gone? I guess that's karma for you... Anyway, I have to spawn as a new character, no problem I just miss my tool belt. I ride around Cherno, dodge zombies, get some stuff, manage to hop and crawl and wigglewiggle over some obstacles in the fire station and find a pretty AKS74 Kobra. Yay. I gather a bunch of morphine, supplies and head inland to Zelenogorsk. Being totally careful and totally slowing down when crossing a road so I totally don't alarm them zeds while I go to the supermarket I alarm a bunch of zombies. No problem I just shoot em up in the building while I get the stuff I need. I leave in peace and then outside, suddenly, I start glitching out and have to alt-tab back and forth. Then I notice this monkeycrawlerzombie all over me and decide to lose it. I hop fences, run around buildings, run inside of one. I thought I lost that bastard. But nonono. He followed me inside the damn building. Bastard. So I shot him. Then, after that, about 10 more come in line to the little room. I glitch out AGAIN, and when I'm back they're all over me. Shit. I shoot em, bandage myself, see some more coming back, pass out, wake up, shoot the rest of them. Now I have about 500 blood, but fortunately some cooked meat. Phew. I survived. Or atleast I thought so... I decide to leave for the forest. I pass out and get eaten. End of story. The irony in this is, that I've been saying that they're too easy and you can run through them. Well you can, I still think so. I just managed to fuck up big time. But I guess that's karma for you, like I said. Have a nice friday y'all and look out for them zeds.

Definitely check that out, and also; http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=A_Beginners_Guide You might wanna do the ArmA 2 bootcamp too. Get a feel of the controls and tweak settings, they are quite complex at first. Also don't use six launcher or atleast close it once you're in-game; that bitch lags like hell and made me/others appear invisible lol.

That would be a way, distract the zombos and I imagine that if they were more in numbers, especially in cities, you probably wouldn't be able to go and loot it all by yourself, but would feel free to try. So this would create a need for teamwork. And for the KoS -matter, if there's more zombies especially in cities firing a gun would be quite risky and make the shooter think twice. Not sure how that would translate to in-game, how it would work in practice. And for the zombie amount matter, check the thread by sw1ch here http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3420&page=2 . I think it has some good points - dynamicism is needed in this game, and it would hopefully reduce the amount of "I like to kill newbs out of boredom lulz"

I'm not going to quote anymore because then this thread is just gonna turn into the chinese wall of quoted responses or even better, Quote Wars :) Starting with a meelee weapon wouldn't be that bad idea after all, because let's face it a new player will die pretty quick, axe or no axe. So they would still have to be a little sneaky after all. But would that turn into a big axe hack fest in Cherno/Elektro? I've read something about Makarovs and the cities being worse deathmatch arenas they are now... :angel: The thing I was referring to with the hopping from easy server to difficult one, was this... There's no good loot on easy servers, just a little bit of basic stuff, so exploiters wouldn't gain anything from hopping from easy to difficult server. E: There's is this thing though. Experienced players -could- jump to easy servers to kill noobs. But I doubt they have the will to do that, especially if there's no good loot and limited PVP zones...? Also, I was referring to the +1 when I said "I'll just leave this here...". FOR YOU TO PICK UP YOU GET ME? :D

The word "zombie" is quite an umbrella term that has subcategories. Kind of like the word "guns", a rifle isn't the same as a pistol but you can use the word for both of them.

I like this idea - killing zombies can't be healthy for you mind, even though you're not killing people. If I'm correct, when you're low on blood and have a chance of passing out it's calculated every second and the chance is 1%? I remember this guy on youtube, Dayz Guidez (daniel?) say it on his video about blood loss. So, what if it was like this: You kill 100 zombies or 10 (25? 50?) people, then at that point the game calculates the chance for the condition. The calculation would be every 15, 30, 45, 60 in-game minutes? The chance would be, let's say, 5-10%, since it is calculated seldomly? Thoughts?

Cool idea. Imagine finding a body and then going through his camera... fun little aspect that adds interest to the game. But then again, would people start killing people for their pictures lol. SHOW ME YOUR PICS NO *BLAM*

Well you're right about that. Fortunately I used a map on my cellphone from day one. "GPS" if you will, lol. But then if you have the map at the start, the game loses some of it's mystique at the beginning and don't have to find a map. Hmm, I believe this is because if you have a weapon at the start you just start hacking everything, die, rinse repeat. Now that you don't have any means of defense, that means you have to sneak around atleast a little until you get hold of something. Even if you've been playing for a while already. Rocket/DayZ Team has said that one of their biggest challenges is to make the game easy enough for noobs, hard enough for the more experienced ones? I would like to see servers having different difficulty settings, so noobs could go on an easy/regular server and learn a bit of the game. Then, when they think that they've gotten the basics they could move on to a more difficult one. But the problem here is, one starts at a noob server where PvP is limited, loots all the great rocket launchers, AWS, ghillies and what not and hops on to a hardcore server, so this would need to be countered somehow? Perheaps low high-end loot drops on easier servers, and normal on the difficult ones? Also, I'd like to see a feature that forces the player to commit to 1-3 servers. But the problem here is, there's so many players and so many different servers so you would probably have to queue for a looooong while. I KNO RITE?! This game needs dynamicism though. Right now it's just here is safe, there is dangerous, there is no loot, here is loot. Oh zombies, run around. Rinse repeat. Danger/safety should be everywhere, not just the one static spots. See the links in my signature. Well, you leave it there. I'll just leave this here... +1

The whole distillation/funnelparachuteraingatherer sounds a little difficult to do (in programming/developing kind of context), and one wouldn't have to go anywhere to find a drink, and like you said, OP, not many would camp in a forest for days :D http://www.lifesaversystems.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeSaver_bottle But how about that? Normal canteen lasts, when filled, one use when it should be two in my opinion. And I think that being able to fill your canteen in any mucky yucky dirty green-brown pond you find is a bit, well, easy. Let's say that you can only fill your canteen in a well/water pump you find in town. But, with the LifeSaver©®(ETC), you could fill it with seawater, mucky pond water and other dirty/celan water sources? It would be rarer than the water canteen. And yes, I think you are able to pee in it in real life...? (insert Bear Grylls face here) THOUGHTS?!?++1

I agree in some ways... I like the fact that they're the fast and dangerous, 28 type of "zombies" (and it does say, on the dayzmod site, "zombies". With quotations. See what I mean here?) They should be perheaps a little slower (not sure if this would make them too easy), but they're not numerous enough. You can just run through them basically now, you might get surprised from behind a corner but besides that they're not that difficult right now. They should be able to run/almost run indoors, but the problem is, zigzagging and warping and teleporting and whatnot. And yes, they should be able to climb ladders - there's no safe havens in towns, you should be under constant threat.

OH NO NOT THE COLA...!!! OR THE BEEF OH OD NO:(

Nice thread :D I think my character's been alive for... 8 days now? Or 4 if we're talking about in-game days. Spawned near lighthouse between Komarovo and Kamenka, get chased by a zombie, find a hatchet, start trekking inland... I come across some simple houses and barns for basic equipment & shotgun. I go through Bar, again see if there's anything there but didn't find anything. Then eventually I come across Zelenogorsk via Green Mountain tower, and see the supermarket. I carefully scout the area from near the wall, hear some shots, two guys come out and don't see me(?). I come to conclusion that they've gone, go inside and find this dude shot and loot him. Then... SWEET BABY JESUS MATCHSTICKS ima cook some meatins tonigt 8) Also got the czech backpack and bunch of stuff. I hit some deer stands, get connection problems, log back in on another server and there it is morphine just sitting there. I grab the drugs and back to Zelenogorsk foodmart. This time I'm playing 1st person view, and hadn't really got used to it. I alert a couple of zombies and bam my bristly bones get porked once again. I kill the zombos and inject the stuff, and decide to hit some more deer stands. After about 13 of them I still haven't found any, and think that damn I have to hit Scary Sobor or even worse, a hospital. Off to the woods it is, looting deer stands for stuff. I arrive in Stary Sobor and nada nada nada, no drugs. Just some guns here and there... zeroing? Pff like I know how to use that shit... :) Off to Berezino Hospital it is and more deer stands... I come across an ATV on a field, thinking it's a trap. (:D !!) Nope, just ran out of gas and nothing inside. Nothing in Gorka either, but after running like a Kenyan I arrive in Berezino hospital with no-one around (odd), loot half a dozen of morphine injectors and leave. TRUE STORY BRO. Perheaps a little boring but I'm still alive lol.