sixbarns

Just like real life but with death. If you think otherwise, you're a youngin'.

7 hours isn't enough time to even begin to experience the game or even master the zombies. That may be enough time to pwn some noobs in CoD or Halo but seven hours isn't jack in DayZ. Read the wiki. STUDY the map. (if you don't know what contour lines are you should google that right away) Watch live streams. Read more threads here. (there are helpful thread for getting started, you just have to use the search sometimes)

Black screen happened to me. Turned out I wasn't completely updated and I when I was updated I was trying to join servers that were not 100% up to date. Works now but I'm going to wait until the update madness ends and things settle down.

Occupy Elekro. I was thinking about becoming a street preacher. I find it odd that there are no zombies running around with doomsday sandwich boards proclaiming the end has arrived.

Please make sure you've updated your ARMA beta AND Dayz. Make sure you're connecting to an up to date server. You've done something wrong if you log in and see only black or the screen fades to black again and again.

The hardest thing about going solo is getting morphine. Once you have a few of those you can pretty much do what you want, with a few exceptions, and live for days and days in dayz. The exceptions, if you want to camp around Cherno and Elektro like a moron or if you want to hunt other players. If you enjoy exploring, surviving, finding stuff, or killing zombies then gtf away from the coast. It's that simple. There is nothing in Cherno and Elektro that you can't find elsewhere. Only the lazy, the stupid, and the bandits go there. Again, leave the coast if you don't want to get killed for a bandage. Edit: I'm all for big changes. It just seems like a lot of the community (on the forum at least) want the bugs fixed first. Big changes require a lot of work as well and any change is going to cause a shitstorm on the forums. Look at all the people crying about how hard the easier zombies are.

A lot of the problems came from AMC and their attempt to penny pinch their biggest hit. I found the story interesting though. It was brave of them to focus the show on a mentally handicapped child and how many people he could get killed.

How this would actually work. Deathmatch bandits from other servers would join the easy mode server and kite 30+ zombies towards easy mode server players. Without the ability to kill the DM bandit the easy mode player would die by zombie. DM bandits from other servers will come to easy mode server to find vehicles, call out friendly and offer free rides, fill the bus full of easy mode players and crash into a building. BOOM. Everyone dies. Hackers will still come to easy mode servers and nuke everyone. That's just three ways to kill people without using a gun. OPs idea would only create easy places for bandits to gather up hassle free gear if these servers were not separate from the main game. If you think alt-f4ing and ghosting is bad now, wait until they have a safe server to jump to.

Get morphine before leaving coast or be ready to suicide.

How to spot a bandit: Is it a zombie? No. It's a bandit.

You didn't even mention the biggest exploit. Printable maps! Why do people feel the need to cheat? /s

We need an official "to the guys that alt-f4'd" thread.

You pretty much described this game.

A world where only a handful of people are surviving a zombie/infected apocalypse has nothing to do with our current societal norms and rules. The two settings are completely different and have very little in common with each other. Trying to impose the human behavior of a society that has plenty into a game about surviving zombies with limited resources isn't going to work. Ever. Oh, and our current society norms are not very old. As for the guys sniping and camping the major towns, some of them just have nothing to do and shooting other players is definitely entertaining. Anyone who says otherwise must be living under a rock and failed to witness the largest driving force in all of gaming, shooting people for fun. Once you're geared up you don't really have anything to do than look for hard to find vehicles. I imagine a good portion of these guys would stop if they had something better to do. Not all but many. I only ever do this after I die up north and want to kill some bandits. Next day, back to the wild.

I didn't spare a survivor in Stary, put a g17 mag into him, he DC'd, came back, bled to death. His screams were music to my ears.

I didn't know he played the game. http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m72k35mo0V1rxtvvmo1_1280.png

Meh. The invisible swordsman got me too. I could tell he knew he was invisible by how close he was getting to everyone before killing them. Glitchers gonna glitch. That's life in any game. Just more so here. semi related:

Oh yeah? How many flashlights do you have?

Can we have infected AND zombies?

Just to see if you can? Not everyone gets off to the same things you do. Perhaps someone was laughing maniacally while flattening the tents with a bicycle. Wait a second... Op had a bicycle!

And not in open fields. It's possible to run backwards (while standing of course) and still keep the zombies at a safe distance as they follow you to eat your brains. When they stop to take a swipe at you, take aim, fire, run away again. Repeat until all zombies are dead. It'll take more skill if you have to pop them in the head each time but that seems like a good skill to acquire. Edit: I'd like to add, after shooting a single shot and missing/hitting your target you should start running backwards again. Otherwise you're just standing there like a slab of beef.

I don't see lag THAT bad. That's nuts man.

A lot of the links are now dead after the forum changeover. Which is pretty bad in my opinion. Nearly everything a person googles about Dayz will lead them to this forum but the link will be dead. Someone needs to throw up a redirect or something.

"Hey guys, I have a problem, here are the symptoms, does anyone else have this problem? Is there anything I can do to fix it? Here is a list of my specs and connection speeds. The common things like leaving a torrent running in the background are not the cause because I'm at least that smart." Or "Someone please call me a waaaahmbulance as I'd rather complain and trash the community than join in on a discussion to help find the a solution."

I play on 2 gigs and it sucks sometimes but OPs system is much more capable than mine and I'm not complaining. I do plan on getting some ram, it is extremely cheap and worth every penny.