EndEffeKt

Yep Berezino is a nice place to be :) I like the Apple-Tree plantage, where there lives this lonely Pig I kill from time to time.... Yes its lovely in Berezino ^^

Hmm I don't know about this running arround like crazy thing, I am more of a sneaky bastard, but I am absolutely d'acore about the big cities. You can get basic stuff and some nice weapons within arround 40min. Loot some civilian-houses, some warehouses and than head for the next firestation and hospital. You are now either dead or geared up and ready to go ;-) Hmm I really have to die some time, my character is fully-equipped and alive far to long...

And thats exactly the point: There is no backdraw for just eliminating a survivor.

On the one hand PvP makes this game what it is, but on the other hand its freaking boring if it turns into plain deathmatch. There have to be more reasons to play together. At the moment letting a fellow survivor live brings you no benefit at all, but puts you on the risk of beeing assassinated once you turn your back. I dont kill on sight, because I am a nice guy and dont like it, but I have to suck up the anger when I simply get murdered for my trust in people. More teamplay possibilities would do this game some good in my opinion.

All my itemduping was hard work!!! NO RESET! Just kidding, I would be a bit sad about my GPS, that took me ages to find :) A fresh start would be great, I personally dont need big-ass weapons, I stick with my trusty M1014.

I do agree in all the flaws the game has actually and the hackers are the topping on the cake. But a personal helicopter and a UAV are NO REASON for a private hive. You cant say "We want to play the game how it is meant to be played" and then wanna have your own admin-selection vehicles. Admins that stash their private vehicles are a main reason why so many servers are lacking vehicles for other players. Was on a server recently where 15 spawns were empty! Thats no fun and doesnt contribute at all to your theoretical server.

Took a break from DayZ for a month now, but I am one of the players that never ever started a firefight, because I think this "shoot on sight" mentality kills a lot of the games fun. I will be back when my new machine arrives and i can play the game with more than 15-20 fps ;-)

If you do stuff like that you should either see a doctor to talk about your problems, if you are serious about it. Or you are a little internet poser, who trys to compensate his RL deficiancies by beeing badass in a videogame.

M1014 is the most sexy weapon ingame. Its elegant, its cheap and it says: "Look at me I am a confident survivor that doesnt need omgwtf E-Peen guns."

Then you got a hacker in your clan

A very good post, but the flaw at the moment is, that rarely somebody here has been shot for food :) One of my friends really was in the situation some weeks ago, that his food-icon was red, he had nothing in his pockets, but a lee enfield in his hands....and then another survivor steps out of the forest. Long story short, yes he did actually shoot him for food. But at the moment the most people are shooting others for imba-weapons or just cos they can

Great story, true or false doesnt really matter :)

People like me are upset, because they have the wish, that this game could offer some really exciting things. PvP is a key-factor in this game, but not this boring kill-on-sight shit goin on right now. Damn it I am more than capable of shooting some players in a videogame. Why is any random badass here thinking, that people are upset because they lack the skill? We lack the interesst in a pure deathmatch game. Please keep your useless "get skill and experience" once and for all. Every nooblet can shoot random guys with a sniperrifle, I just decided that this is not the game I want to play. And so did some others. Thanks

Very detailed and interessting Suggestions, you clearly get beans from me :) Not on the rifles though, but this tagging thing is miraclous. Lets turn this game a bit away from the killfest it is now

The military weapons like assault rifles, M24, AK-Cobra and so on are found way too easy in this game i think. Every deerstand spits out assault rifles en masse and i think this is plain unrealistic and contributes much to the very very hostile survivor-community currently residing in Chernarus. It takes an halfway experienced player 2h to look like a US-Marine. In one of my first lives i managed to get a M1014 out of the fire-station in Cherno and thought "Very cool, the ammo for this baby is everywhere, just the right thing for a survivor like me." Some time later i realized that every weapon under an assault rifle is pretty silly, because its so easy to aquire one and get ammo out of deerstands. I think this is pretty unrealistic and for me it does not contribute to the atmosphere of the game. I would like to see the most people running arround with shotguns, winchesters and similar stuff. On top of that i state that the amunition is too plentiful. Especially because of the refilled mags at reconnect and the "combine ammo"-glitch that refills your .45 mags instantly. All of this represents my personal opinions and I would appreciate others and maybe even a statement of the devs :) all the best EndEffekt, a friendly survivor

Some days ago I saw some newb with a crowbar running in circles in this dinner/hotel thing in Cherno. Me and my friends were standing at the windows of the house on the other side of the street watching him aggroing zombies for like 10min before we decided to leave :)

The PvP is what makes this game so intense and fun, but every playerkill should matter. It should give you reward (equipment), but on the other side deny you options (teamwork?), so you have to weight it against each other. Atm there is a minor group of people who like to kill players for the lulz and justify this with "In an postapocalyptic world i would kill your for food" WHEN ACTUALLY DID YOU KILL A SURVIVOR IN THIS GAME BECAUSE YOU WERE STARVING TO DEATH? (hilarious argument) The problem is, that this group pushed the normal paranoia of a dayz-player over the top, so now average players shoot people on sight cos they think anybody else would. If i get no reward for not killing you, why should i take the risk of you shooting me in the back? The only thing that stops some players from doing so is their moral and their empathy in the poor guy that just lost all his stuff without any reason.

That can happen if the server you just logged on is buggy and has no connection to the hive. Your character there will saved local on that server. Change the server and your char should come back.

I like this discussions its always the same. You say: "I hate this stupid shoot-on-sight, not the pvp." and sombody pretty badass comes his way: "LoL noob got killed and is crying, cos he lost his gear" Mate I dont care about the freakin gear, it takes a halfway skilled survivor 2h to completely gear-up, but it is boring as shit to just shoot anyone on sight, instead of at least trying to make some contact.

Friend of mine stopped playing for a while cos an almighty Power-Zed knocked him unconcious while at 12k blood for the entire 5min duration...resulting in his fully-geared death :)

And I was really wondering if there are normal players hiding all the cars somewhere on the servers....I would like to repair one, but after visiting 15 spawns I am a bit bored of that idea -.-

Problem is not the PvP I think. Its basicly what makes this game intense, otherwise it would be boring as shit after 3 days. The problem is the actual lack of alternatives to shoot-on-sight. I personally got not a single murder on my account, although i shoot at players from time to time, if they started the fight (normally i am with friends, so no, I am not too stupid to aim^^). I personally bought ARMA2 exclusively for DayZ and I am pretty satisfied with that decision. Problem for me is that i came here for survival-gaming and because i expected intense player-interactions with Bandits, Survivors, Traders and so on. I got no problems with banditry and even with people who just snipe me for the lulz (although i think its pretty childish). The problem is that there are a good bunch of people like me out there who would like to actually have a talk to others, team up or simply trade some stuff without shooting the other one in the back imediately after. But they got killed serveral times in situations where they did absolutely nothing hostile and are so paranoid, that their absolute golden rule is: "shoot everything that fuckin moves and is not in your ts channel". Thats sad and is limitating the game.

Primary: M16A2 Its accurate, not that loud and cheap. Gave my M14 Aim to a friend whose game isnt lagging like hell :) Sidearm: M1911 Role: Loner in desperate need for a car, but with no success ----> CarJacker at the Edges of the Map

Until now I never started a firefight and my mates think I am crazy to do that. In my opinion PvP and banditry is what makes this game so intense, but useless KoS destroys it. Some weeks in by now and no murder on my account.

I got a pretty old notebook (3 years) and it runs...not smooth but it runs. And it does actually make no difference at all wether i put my resolution to low or high. As far as i know the main problem with the bad performance of DayZ are the calculations sent from the server regarding the zombie-ai. They are all made on your local machine instead of the server. So the most stressed part of your machine might be the processor.