Knautscher

Loved OFP, liked Arma, bought ArmaII for United Operations and most of all Project Reality. And then I stumbled upon (= got my face shoved into by hype) DayZ.

A can of my finest beans to you good sir, great song! Inspired me to do one myself. However I lack both the talent to play the guitar or make a decent video, so: http://soundcloud.com/knautscher/bugs-gonna-cut-you-down-dayz

Call the rescue force or the medics. Also might better get away from NEAF, before you ask for people to come help you.

I also think the map is just fine, it just feels right. Wanna meet people? Go to the hot spots. Wanna avoid them? Plan your route through the woods. And meeting someone in the wild... yeah it's rare, but all the more thrilling imho.

Edit: Mephasto was faster :D Congratulations you have caught the INFECTION! And no it's not a cold, it's not a tapeworm, no it's the genuine cause of all those undead walkers you see everywhere! I had the same thing recently, here's what you gotta do: Go to a hospital and pray that you'll find antibiotics. Nothing else works. Spawn chance is 0.2% I think. Good luck.

Nice metaphor. ALL HANDS ON DECK! SET SAIL FOR THE NEW WORLD!

Crawl. Recently I got hit by a zombie and caught the infection, so my blood (~9k) was running out and on my way to the hospital I glitch-aggroed a zombie through a wall who hit me once to break my leg. I then crawled all the way to Berezino hospital and finally found meds and morphine at ~5k blood. After that I left for the wilderness, got me some boar meat and am currently up and running at 11k blood. Don't quit once you break your legs, things like this makes staying alive interesting.

EDIT: What NoxZA said.

We have to bitch deeper...

This probably has been suggested before: You could get your starting gear at random: some get a crowbar, some a makarov with one clip and some get nothing (maybe even more variety). People, of course, would immediately start exploiting this (killing themselves till they got the makarov), so the better items should have a smaller chance of being in your starting gear and every death should add a penalty on your respawn counter. This is done in Project Reality for example: if you fuck up and act against your team's effort (includes dying, suicide, breaking vehicles etc. as they all = ticket loss) you get 15 or 30 or 45 or sth seconds stacked up on your respawn counter (depending on your actions) up to a maximum of 2 full minutes. Since they can already track what life counts as a "life" for the counter on the homepage (2 mins or more), they could also track how long someone has lived before they kill themselves. If they suicide and respawn in the first 30 Minutes of a life (or more or less, just an example) they get 2 minutes respawn time. Because this would be tracked via the Hive and player acc and not via the server they play on, server hopping would not help to prevent this and thus: You'd have to make the best out of what you got this time. Got a Makarov? Holy shit protect that motherfucker! Got nothing? Deal with it. But wait, wait, wait: That's some "gamey" penalty system you're trying to introduce here, Knautscher, wtf? Well, schizophrenic me, in this case it affects nothing ingame, it just keeps people from exploiting and it does so with no bonus or harm done to others. Everyone has the same chance to get okay starting gear and if you get worse gear, yeah the game's gonna be a little harder, but if you don't want a challenge why play DayZ at all? So, since this only affects the player outside of the game (respawn time) I think a penalty for exploit suicide is okay. Don't be a quitter just cos you didn't get the biggest slice. What do you think?

Oh no, what have you done?! Crouch walking will never be the same now...

Take Russian, it's awesome and not that hard to learn either. If you have basic knowledge of Latin it's gonna be even easier.

Shame I don't speak Danish (yet), but your English appears to be fine. We're definitely in the same timezone, so I'll maybe add you on skype later and we can chat a bit, I'm looking for a group as well.

Yup, everyone's an asshole in this game. Because nothing they do has actual consequences for them and collecting uber-gear and racking up kills is more important to most players than just exploring and surviving against Zeds and Bugs. I'd say it's natural that this leads to a reaction like this I've been annoyed by this Kleinkindverhalten (lacking a better word) from the day I started playing, but since you can't change other people it's not worth bothering. It's sad really, but you just have to avoid every player you see from a distance, because they will kill you, just to get a +1 on their "score" or to tell themselves that they are in fact incredibly skilled badasses. The only thing you can do right now, is to stay out of the contested areas and stay the fuck away from other players, just do your own thing. Everyone's a greedy bastard with no remorse. There'll always be those that say "it's a game hurr durr, I can't shoot people IRL, I HAVE to kill them ingame! Be a dick like us or you're a pussy!" and you can never get rid of them. Don't waste energy on that. I also think that PvP should be one playstyle and one aspect of this game, but not the dominating one, that right now it is. I hope in later version there'll be Zeds everywhere, even in the woods, and firing a gun will always attract a horde. That way, people might think twice whether they "need" that kill. However, right now I think these are all the options you have: Avoid them, join them or leave. You obviously care enough to write a reply. :D

Yup experienced something similar. Was on my way into Polana, to the supermarket. Out of nowhere 7 zeds came running at me as I got in sight of the town. Wtf...