Gareth_Sims (DayZ)

Rocket himself has stated that these are not infact "Zombies" as we know them they are infected people, This is a fact that i do not mind, infected people i can deal with if they worked properly... what i mean by this is as anyone who has played this game for a bit of time knows once you get a gun or even a hatchet the "Zombies" become a non issue, you can run through cherno or elektro or anywhere for that matter with your only concern being other players, the Zeds are only a problem when you are a fresh spawn, and even then they are more annoying than a danger, now let me clear this up, I am NOT complaining about the game i like it for what it is but in my opinion for this game (Mod) to succeed in the long term it needs to do one of two things, either fix the AI to make them more like Zombies and turn this into a true zombie game or just fix the ai so they dont glitch around and call them infected :P, all in all tho i am pleased with the game and will continue to play and support this great team of Devs, Happy hunting, and if you see me before I see you, Shoot me or I will shoot you XD

SNIPER RIFLES IN THIS GAME ARE SO BS THEY SHOULD ALL BE REMOVED AND WE SHOULD ALL JUST LOVE EACH OTHER AND HAVE A BBQ IN CHERNO!!!!!! loljks I agree 100% with op they are a valid weapon and are only good under the correct circumstances, granted we do have the dicks who camp people who have their flashlights but that is a problem with the players not the gun, the amount of times i have seen .50 cal cherno/elektro campers die to an enfeild lol IMO skill/tactial awareness > what weapon you have, Good topic OP I have a feeling you are going to become a Fat ass from all the Beans you will be receiving :)

I guess I will be the guy who adds more fuel to the fire, Im sure a lot of people did buy Arma2 just to play DayZ BUT and yes there is a but Rocket and his Dev team DID NOT get any of that money... people mod games all the time and normally the mods do nowhere near as well as this mod has done, now here comes the tricky part, This , mod is not your average run of the mill Change something small and release mod this mod Is basically a fresh game using another games graphics/physics and gameplay engine, the ammount of code that has to be custom built for a mod this size is crazy, I remember doing some work for a mod team on Sins of a Solar Empire we had a team of 6 people working on a mod that changed skins and weapon fx and stuff like that all we had to do was change some game code and Getting that to work took a long time, Rocket and his team decided to LET us play this ALPHA, and its an early alpha at that they owe us nothing we are their testers it is us that owe them for allowing us to be among the first to TEST not PLAY what looks like it is going to be one of the great games of our time. In short because most people dont read entire forum posts these days Alpha = early in dev not at all close to a full retail release and it is a privilege to test this mod not a right. so rather than people bitchin about bugs use the forum for bug reporting and let the dev team know what you have found.

I am actually surprised with this entire thread... I am actually seeing some discussion on this topic and I must say GG DayZ forum :P on topic now, My opinion is that if the zombies are too hard then go play on an actual Arma server, this is DayZ a mod designed as a zombie survival simulator, if you have watched any zombie movies or seen the Walking dead you would know that firing a gun around zombies is going to cause you problems, It's like "If you Pizza when you are supposed to French Fry, You are gonna have a bad time" sneak don't shoot, learn to move through town quietly and out of sight as I assume you would want to do if zombies came to be in real life, Agreed that zombies need their glitches fixed but that is what this thing Called "Alpha" which this mod is still in is for, to find and report these glitches so that the Dev team can fix them for the time that this mod goes standalone and gets its much awaited full retail release. If anything I would love to see the zombies get harder to kill and need maybe a Headshot only to kill them, once the glitches are gone then and only then can we see how tough zombies are to kill but untill then id rather not say that they are too hard or too easy. Cheers

You know what, this reminds me of when MOST people posted on the forums when they REMOVED the spawn with weapon feature, IMO I don't see the problem in starting with a Hatchet or a crowbar, all these people saying GTFO BABY need to grow up, this mod will still have the feeling of "OH SHIT, I have zombies chasing me what do" even if you start with an axe, all it will do is give you a chance at the start, the number of times I have been fresh spawned and had zombies glitch their way to me and follow me untill the end of the earth is frustrating, An axe to keep them off my back in a legit way would be fine, It may promote more PvP in starting areas... but lets face it, you go to cherno/ elektro on a server with a decent population you are as good as dead by the sniper on the hill with a 50 cal anyway... this is a survival simulator and an axe is not too much to ask. Cheers for reading :P

It seemed like a good idea at the time...

It was not exactly what I had in mind, but it made for some good footage :P Fail indeed but at least this fail was caught on film for all to Lol at :P

now that i have your attention (Insert trollface here), if you are one of the few players who wants to be spoon fed PvE only servers from Rocket who himself has said this will never happen, quit bitching on the forums about how this game does not cater for you and do something about it yourself.... Rent a damn server and run a private hive set up your own rules and get all the free loots you want... OR suck it up and play the game the way it was designed and at the end of the day if this game does not cater for you then don't play, if you don't like something then just don't do it... Enough said Peace out.

PVE = Player vs environment, PvP = Player vs player... Do i play wow? yes i do, did wow invent pve and pvp? no GOSH :P I am pretty sure that this game has AI (Zombies) and they are part of the environment thus = PvE in dayZ

.... thanks for the input mate, really helpful but the thread is named correctly, there is context to the topic, put forward in a pretty trollish way but it is there if you read it that is

IM TYPING IN CAPS SO THAT MAYBE PEOPLE WILL READ ALL OF THIS... READ THE ENTIRE POST AND NOT JUST THE TOPIC NAME PLEASE

I guess the classic (Not so) Subtle troll thread is lost to some people :P

FUCKYEA

You do know that Skalisty island is not pointless as of the most recent patch right... it is a chopper spawn site, i have had many firefights on the island recently, no need to draw more attention there untill all the choppers are snatched up :P

From what i understand (I may be wrong) Battleeye uses client and serverside scripts to send and receive its update/version and client history, this making it harder for it to see the difference between a (Cheat) script and a required one, as i said I may be wrong but i beleive i read that somewhere

There is a simple solution to this, Battle eye just needs to flick the "Enable client side scripting" switch to off... that would make it harder for mods and even admins to change things that are needed but in the long run it would be worth it

It seems that a lot of children now play this game..., and im not talking about the people who want PVE, I am talking about the people Nerd raging at other people for wanting something different, I personally love the way the game is, it is the only game of its type, you are in constant danger from PEOPLE and zombies (When the Bugs are gone) people have a right to say their opinion on what they want BUT PVE servers will not and should not happen in DayZ, this Mod was built my a man who has clearly said what he wants the mod to be, he wants a gritty zombie survival simulater where YOU chose how to play.... people are misinterpreting that as please tell me (Rocket) what to build) NO it means you dont have to be a bandit, you can play this game without shooting other players it just means you have to be more careful in doing so because if a player who wants your stuff or just wants blood sees you before you see them its over, all in all what i am trying to say, lets use L4d as an example, i dont see people posting for hey lets fundamentally change this game to suit what we want as opposed to how it was built, why would you ask this of Rocket and his Dev team?, this is dayz, this is what it was made to be, if you dont like the play style please dont ask for it to change just go play a game more suited to your style, It sounds to me like people who want this to change are just playing it because it has boomed in popularity, if its not fun for you then dont play it. That is all i have to say on that topic and if anyone made it to the end of my post i salute you sir, I salute you

so my squad today repaired our second chopper after losing one to a server restart, shortly after repairing it we took it to our base and saved it in our usual spot, upon coming back to the server with our nvgs, we had saved the chopper in our normal spot at the top of a slight hill and we came back in to find it had slid down the hill (Not even a hill really more of a slant) and is now stuck in a tree... the rotor and engine are red so we cant try to fly it out, im guessing we will need to find another vehicle and nudge it out or it may return to the save point upon the next reset, if anyone has had this or something like this happen to them or know what will happen pleas let me know. Cheers

Guess we have to find a vehicle on that server then :P

anyone? any help would be greatly appreciated, me and my group are stumped

If you don't have matches then i am guessing you are still relatively fresh to the spawn, correct me if i am wrong

OP HERE..., lets take a step back here and for anyone who did not read my entire post before commenting, and I am guessing that some of you have... not once in this post have i complained, simply stating my opinion, I do not want this game to be dumbed down at all i love the feel of the game, but I am a zombie fan... at the moment to me this game feels like ARMA 2 with some "Zombies" that do not really hurt or affect anyone other than new players or fresh spawns, lets face it for those of us who do regular NWAS or stary trips, when was the last time a Zed killed you... this is a survival simulator, and in my humble opinion in order for it to be called a Zombie game it needs either the traditional zombies or the infected model type, now I am well aware that it is in alpha and this is NOT a bitch post and I am not ranting for Rocket and the dev teams to Fix it, i support them and love the work they have done, just please lets not turn this into the World of Warcraft community forums and all bicker at eachother, lets all let others have their own opinion please.

EVERYONE CHILL THE FUCK OUT :P , this really changes nothing... it means instead of clicking a button to respawn closer to your friends you just have to find some Zeds to kill you... you normally spawn close enough to zombies that it will add 2 minutes to the respawn option at max, its no big deal, and to the people who like the "Realism" of this game, just because the respawn button was there in the first place does NOT mean you have to use it, i will admit that i have used this button from time to time, the only thing that bothers me is when you do get that spawn stuck in the ground bug and will be stuck without an option to get out, other than that i want to see the arma "Suicide" option come into play. peace out

got me some nvgs of a horribly hidden sniper in cherno :), I have a dmr but would love an as50 if you have ammo for it i may be interested in a trade off

As the title says, if a real life zombie crisis occurred and you managed to survive the initial outbreak, how would you act in the new world?, would you be a 'friendly' or would you be a 'Bandit', I would like to think that there is a mix between the two like a "careful friendly" if you would but at the end of the day i think with the world the way it is now days the people who look after them selves and their loved ones would be the people who survive, an interesting topic on this matter was done by The Walking Dead in season 2 "SPOILER" the group becomes conflicted on what to do about a survivor they found, weather to kill him, let him go or join their group. I would have to say that I would not shoot on sight but i would be very cautious and would not welcome newcomers to my group (If i had one) my first priority would be personal protection and that of my friends/family that survived also, its a shame i know but after surviving the zombie apocalypse, the last thing i would want was for someone else to either kill me or get me killed, in movies and things of that nature you always see that the people who let people join them always seem to meet their demise shortly thereafter. I am interested to see what you think that you would be after the zombie apocalypse, after all it is coming, I mean come on you don't really think it was really bath salts do you? :P