malphos101

No hate here, its just pretty much a given that these clowns will play on their private server, get tons of good gear, get bored, and eventually go to a public server and harass people playing legitimate.

If you are complaining about their description of DayZ then you should know they aren't affiliated with DayZ. So any misrepresentation of the mod is on them.

I have respawned before after dying with all my equipment, best I can gather was the server wasn't synced to the hive properly. In the 15 seconds or so it took me to respawn, the server didn't sync my death with the hive so the hive sent my pre-death data back to the server.

i watched like 5 seconds of it and felt like i was going to hurl. Seriously, wtf was up with the camera?

nope, no ports. Avoid major towns unless you know what you are doing because most people will sit on rooftops and hillsides to kill people running aimlessly into town.

I'm confused, what exactly are you complaining about again?

Private servers: "We just want a pve experience! Now that we got all this awesome gear though, we may was well go check out a public server..."

probably a little overpowered, but not one of the craziest things i've heard. I wonder if there are any technical limitations to doing this on the arma engine.

If you don't have NVG then you should be carrying a pack of flares at night. If your group (yes group, if you are playing solo at night with no nvg then you deserve to die) runs into a nvg hostile, everyone needs to pop their flares and use them as a shield to get into the woods and escape.

I came in expecting to hear another bandit sob story, I left happy that someone took the time to enjoy the pvp for what it was and tell a cool story.

I'll be frank, no one is going to trust a stranger on the forums with 5 posts to meet up with their group and fly a helicopter they repaired.

Here's a thought if you dont want to be sniped.....DON'T GO INTO MAJOR CITIES WITHOUT AN OVERWATCH. I mean, you walk into a known pvp hotzone with no backup and you act surprised and indignant when you die. Really? No you are right, its not your playstyle, its clearly a bandit problem that needs to be stamped out so you can go into any zone you want without any preparation and get out unmolested.

or the legs, then as they crawl towards you shoot them in the head. Standing in place against an axe wielding maniac who is probably high on pcp isn't advisable no matter what gun you have, though.

I agree with you 100% (though i disagree with your font color 10000%). The problem with all these threads about balance, however, is that alpha is not meant for balancing. Alpha is meant for implementing as many features as possible and testing for compatibility/relevance/usefulness of said features in relation to the ideals of the game. Its pretty common knowledge that it is way too easy to survive. Balancing that is something best reserved for the beta when all the cool features are in place because if you spend your entire alpha balancing current features, nothing new gets tested and you end up with less material for your games beta.

Except most of that anecdotal 70% don't use that fact to try and leverage what they want out of the mod. I definately bought Arma2 and OA when i heard about DayZ, and when something really bugs me about the mod I go contribute on the forums then go play some single-player mode in the game I bought.

Who has run across the same bandit more than once when they were actively trying to survive? (actively trying to survive here means that you don't keep running back to cherno/electro/nw airfield/etc.)

I heard name-calling makes you sound important. My comment was directed towards the attitude by the op that people who play DayZ are owed something because they spent money on arma2 and OA to get it. That's your mistake if you are ignoring the wonderful completed game that Arma2 and OA are. Please read my previous post to understand why no one here cares you spent money on a completed game just to play an incomplete test of a mod for said game.

I had noticed this too. I wonder if the gun was nerfed? Not too concerned as zombies aren't really a problem lol.

I am against trying to curb any kind of pvp. That said, it would be interesting if shooting someone had a chance of damaging (deleting) a random item in their inventory for every shot they take. But that probably strays too far into the hyper-realism that Rocket said he doesn't want.

That's your hangup then. I can pay for warcraft 3 just to play dota, but I have no right to complain about dota using the "I payed for this game so i expect a certain experience" argument. Are there legitimate issues that need fixed in DayZ? YES, but you should not complain about how you spent 17-20-30 dollars and you want your money worth because you didn't spend that much on dayz, you spent that much for the plethora of released features ARMA2 and OA offers. You just happened to get access to DayZ as a result. Those are the facts. If you have a suggestion for a new feature or mechanic then make a suggestion in the suggestion forum. If you have feedback for a particular issue, then use your search bar and post in the myriad of other feedback threads. If you came here to complain that you wasted your money on an alpha version of a mod for a released game, then go somewhere else because nobody cares.

...so I'm going to go outside for a walk. See ya in a few hours!

Running at them with a random zig zag pattern is the best option. Not only does the sniper have to hope you wont suddenly change your trajectory, but he also has to kill you before you get to him.

Its breaking the letter of the law, but not the spirit. But at the same time its pretty ineffective so better to just avoid the grey area and the potential blacklisting.

sorry, the burden of proof is on you buddy, saying "some guy probably hacked" doesnt really do anything but clog up the forums.

Server: US328 Cheater name: Semih Time: 7:24pm CST What happened: I had just got done looting balota airfield and was heading to the medical tents when I heard a very loud explosion. I turned around and behind the hangar nearest the control tower was a billowing cloud of smoke. I ran to investigate hoping it was one of those helicopter crashes. When I neared I found a player with a skin that I have never seen before. He began shooting at me and I ducked into the hangar, then popped back out and shot him down. He had severely injured me and i was killed by my tail of zombies. I respawned and ran back to check his body to confirm my suspicions. On his body was a M4A1 CCO SD and a full inventory of magazines for it along with other things like gps. I looted the M4 and as soon as i did I was shot by what Im assuming was a sniper. I think it may have been him but probably not because he was respawning alot while i was running back. Screenshots: none Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBCdWd52u3Y&feature=youtu.be (Video was still processing when i made this post, should be up soon.)