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And how would i know the phone number of the unknown player? A radio would be the best choice since a lot would use it to communicate IRL.

The only thing you have to fear is the radiation, there will be no mutants in DayZ like in the game. If zeds would move there it will kill them, too.

...and get bitten in the process...i wouldn't want to get that close to a zed nor to a person if i had the choice. A simple club ( bat, piece of wood or metal you name it ) would be my weapon of choice prior to a knife. A knife fight aming layman can be the longest and bloodiest fight you can imagine. Even a sword is more effective and takes less practice to master that a knife imo. Just swing the edge towards your target, it does the rest for you. Well yeah that's what most people expect here because we are all elite space marines. What brings me to one thing...when i saw a video demo of DayZ i somehow recognized the stance when the avatar was moving forward then i knew where i saw it: it was the high ready position from Magpul Dynamics...so it looks like every survivor visited "Динамика Magpul" in Chernarus before the apocalype happened.

You don't just stick a knife into someone like in BF3 and they magically die. You won't get through in the first place since everyone seems to wear body armor...Also throwing things like Shuriken don't one hit kill, if yo why do we even have weapons when you can just throw a hand full of bullets like in i think that was Hot Shots...

Why not...add side missions and gun shops, too then we can play DayZ Wasteland...

Prototype state, most regular US weapons, even civilian versions of the Armalite system and equipment don't even get exported due to security reasons/weapon regulations. Otherwise we wouldn't have Oberland Arms in Germany if you wanted an Armalite system ( OA-15 ) for whatever reason...i've read even a german competition shooter had a tough time to get one of these. Guess what they will do if you wanted a .50 sniper...

LOL "only" :rolleyes: If the threat is high enough you would even wear a 50kg armored suit. But we are talking DayZ here, it's not the military running around in the afghan highland trying to smoke out some extremists who don't have anything better to do that shoot soldiers with AP bullets and mortar shells every 10 minutes. You will even get to the weight but the avatars in DayZ are not your highly trained space marines but your average John and Jane Doe who would have enough problems carrying a backpack and weapons. I hope the game doesn't end with everyone wearing thermoptic camo, a class XXX armor suit and helmet. If so i can play ArmA 3 instead...

Well...trying to get the thread BTT...running around with a heavy body armor, even with "normal" body armor add a large burden. How many people wearing body armor except military and police have you seen in zombie movies/series even the military guys in "Falling Skies" didn't and they have like a insurgency type world war going on...i mean those people have to run really fast. And normally in a zombie apocalypse beeing in a gunfight won't happen as much as beeing hunted by whatever "lurks the dark" afterwards. Most of the time it's the weapons and they show no interest in body armor.

I wonder if every civilian has one or two in his closet. Must have been from the ALDI...9.99 for a set of two.

Too many people bunch up in the big towns anyway ( Cherno and Elektro ). But i know what you mean, if there are too many people around it's heavy to breath with all the lead flying around... You don't have a feel of the aftermath of an apocalype like you get in the movies when you see empty streets because where zombies or whatever monster would lurk around a corner there could also be a player or a bunch of players. If the important towns weren't so important they would spread more, most of the time 90% of the players where at Cherno or Elektro, 9% at Stary/Novy and the 1% would be either running around with no goal or be in Berezino. Since Chernarus is based on the Czech republic the latest info suggests a population density around 130/km². Maybe less than 5% of the people would have survived the effects and aftermath of the DayZ virus which would be aroun 7/km² which would be far beyond 1000 survivors. No server would be able to hold so many players. How many of those survivors would have moved away by now? Maybe 75% which still leaves a good anount of population. IMO Chernarus is still to small to let the player experience the aftermath of an apocalype even with only 32 players running around because you know where most of them will be most of the time. In a warfare or evolution this would be below minimum but this and that are two different game types.

Dont think every country will mobilize it's army to help evacuate a region ot at least have units to spare, imagine the helpers having enough problems they can't even think of spreading their forces. And with all the guns that are supposed to be lying around...even armed they died and they might not even be numerous to begin with because it's a rural area. Do you think if the DayZ scenario would happen any army could mobilize that fast? It's not like they have a company in every town, the first defense would be the gun owners for the US in one case and i'm sorry to disappoint you most countries don't have the gun laws like the US and let's ignore the few illegal weapons that could be in Chernarus ( let's face it there aren't many people living over there anyway ). Now imagine yourself: no weapons, no food, your only luck was you beeing immune to the virus...actually you are the unluckiest person alive because you have to hope that everything you find is still usable, the weapons are still worling and hopefully have enough ammo. etc.

Could be too much micromanagement, good idea though that you can't always have ever tool you need instead of having a magical toolbox.

Well medics do have trouble now if medicine gets rarer and rarer, that's where a community/group comes into play. If players want a working medcare system they should support the meds and not keep the medicine for themselves and maybe die in the following days and either lose them or give them to the next hoarder. If they have excess supplies they should actively seek the medics and give it to them. Afaik the medics have their "base servers"? If so then it will only work by visiting them.

As long as you can hop server you can't really build communities since players who get bored are easily tempted to go to another server and seek action. I know from experience when we had a server a majority wanted to go pvp on another server because they were bored although we already had a lot of pvp traffic ( well they lost almost every time maybe that was the cause lol ). You can't build a community with that kind of people. Avatars have to be server bound for their entire life span then maybe we can talk, if they want to join another server...different avatar.

Yes like packs of wolves that tear you apart because you are out of ammo....srsly this is a vague idea but it would bring life to the empty night servers although i don't know what items they would carry around that we absolutely need... Please no "weapons, ammo and medicine" wishes. Sounds like "I am Legend" where they are afraid of sunlight but we already have a background for the infection. It would be logical for more zeds to roam the streets than during daytime, they still have a bit of survival instinct where they would stay out of the sun to not "overheat".

This one is a true survivor!!!

While ripping open an artery with bare hands / punch is close to impossible i guess it has something to do with the collision system or he cracked your skull in one hit and your brain came flying out :lol: . Maybe you already had this encounter, a player runs into you, voilà leg broken or loss of blood.

Would be a good option and the data would be saved on the server until restart. So until restart you spawn where you logged out then after restart everyone starts on the coast again. Kind of a "race" to the good loot places.

They came to play the wrong game, they claim to just want antibiotics, next come more weapons and an ammo plant...DayZ is supposed to be harsh. Even in the day when i was still playing ( that was the period when pvp started to become more popular since you had an overabundance of loot you didn't know where to put it ) you were happy to actually find antibiotices in the medical boxes and not just bandages, epi, morphine and painkillers and then there was already too much of that stuff in those boxes imo. Then private hive servers started catering the needs of lazy players and pvpers and spoon fed them with a game that wasn't supposed to be played that way and a lot of players who joined dayZ in that phase thought the game was like this all the time. I you want the same boring game you have to stick to the mod and hope someone keeps developing it because the SA will evolve far from the modded mod that you will only recognize it by the name.

This is good news, i hope they keep this course until the SA. Less people playing it for the wrong reason, the game shouldn't be "fun" in the first place. Why do you need an SD weapon, are you that triggerhappy? As long as i played the only problem i had with unsuppressed weapons that it attracted the wrong type of player when i actually took a shot. I could live off a magazine or weeks without really needing to take a shot. During the "good times" i had a SVD with 7 mags i barely touched, 3 shots fired in 2 weeks. I wasn't even dressed up as a wookie. Most of my group died from bullets of pvp players rather than the aftermath of a zombie attack. So i welcome the fact that bullets will be the least to worry about in the near future. Maybe i'll sneak a peek just to see how much it went back to the "old game" since i stopped playing after DayZ became a pvp paradise.

That's something players must decide for themselves. Do they want to rely on external sources like the loot map, game tracker etc. and miss all the fun the game can be? Do you really want to be helped? It's like playing a game while reading the walkthrough book...

That would be a surprise element, you should still see how many players are on the server when you filter them in the lobby but on the server you shouldn't. Yes your friend could tell you how many are there before he joins 30 minutes later but who knows...maybe ten others just decided to connect while he was in the waiting screen?

It's not just low res..it's stone age res. Let's wait for the full HD version to come out. The target price should not exceed 400$ (???) is what they say. Let's see what they do the the excess money. I read something about at least 1080 per eye, so it's possible it will be even more. The challenge is to create a display that is fine enough that you can't see the pixels from that distance. Even if it costs 500€ over here when it's released it's still a bargain compared to your typical 3D system with an expensive monitor, maybe even three, a pair of glasses or not depending on what system you use and of course a rig that if strong enough to deal with the load, provided they hold their promise. I expect a lot from this. For most games it's just another 3D experience, in ArmA which is one of the few games i know that support head movement ( let's keep GTR aside ) which gives you 1000% 3D experience since your own head will be on the avatars shoulders in the game and not just your head that follows the controller input or your head "only" to aim.

Battlefield ftw??? Nice idea but to have a really good effect you should have to aim pretty well and hold it there for a second or two, just swiping across the face shouldn't be enough. An NVG should protect you from the effects since it will likely break immediatley. Snipers won't be much of a threat anyways in the SA if they can really control the spawn rate of military grade hardware as well as flying with the ToH physics, limited fuel and there will be no gunship around anyway.