vision1776

The logging out for 10 seconds would be a bandage to the problem. A good one nonetheless. Only after the 10 seconds does your progress get saved. If you ALT F4 or quit somehow you would loose all progress. That would be a bandage to the problem.

nah. Keep it hw it is. The night problem is arising from NVGs and Thermos. Get rid of those 2 things and I will gladly play at night. Right now it is an unfair playing field and no one is brave enough to hop on for more than a few minutes.

Any obvious human sounds need to cause aggro. Shooting, is one of those. But foot steps? There are tons of zombies walking around each other and there is no distiguishing difference from the footsteps. Now, sprinting should atleast cause a zombie to investigate even if its another zombie sprinting. It isnt oridinary for their zombie compadres to be sprinting and they would know something is up.

exactly. How are they currently distinguishing human sounds from other zeds? +1

A ten second log out would fix it.

Please dont sell the idea to EA or some billionare company. I hate those companies. All they do is sell games. They dont make great games like simulations and such because people want instant action and gratification. Companies like the one that made Left for dead never listen to ideas proposed like DayZ. I asked them to make something more realistic and they just laugh cause its all about profits and nothing about gameplay. Then I find a smaller company making sims like this and I am on board. I would pay whatever you want me to if you made DayZ flawless. I am buying Arma 3 as well and cant wait for it to come out.

For Arma 3 maybe. I hope they add a player customization like in Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Add so many options for customization that you could easily wear a uniform and tell who is friendly.

Add a completely different server with objectives like domination (clearing out towns of infected) and keep the characters seperate from normal dayz. Lets see how popular that idea would get if tried out. It seems domination is already a popular game for Arma 2.

Slings to the weapons would solve all of our problems. Who knows how easy it is to add them though? Arma 2 is glitchy in many ways. I cant wait to see how much better the Arma 3 inventory will be! Everyone should be starting with a melee weapon and a bag. thats the nature of a survivalist. They are always prepared. Who on earth would ever have to go to a city packed with zombies just to find some sort of stick? You bring a stick with you to the city. Chances are you had a metal wrench or a tool of some kind in your car that you took with you when you abandoned it. Cough cough add crowbar to starting equipment...

YES! introduce AI players to guard the place and MAX out their difficulty. And introduce some sort of post apocalyptic fiat money that trade posts accept. You can trade goods for the currency. Add a board to the trade post that has the names of all bandits and a bounty for them. This would be awesome but a lot of work. If Dayz is to make it huge I expect stuff like this.

Let players carry players. +1

All you have to do is to create an object above ground that gives the impression of being hidden underground (weapons caches or whatever). As far as underground environments forget it.

This is a stupid idea. Shoot on sight wont ever be fixed unless you give players objectives like on domination. Clearing towns of zombies or something. I shoot on sight every time because I dont trust you not to shoot me back and I got some rare stuff on me I dont want you to have. I enjoy scavenging for food and supplies not knowing who's watching. It makes it all the more intense and realistic. Get in and get out. Dont spend 1 hour exploring a town. Spend 15 minutes looking at the map before you decide what place to loot. If you are really paranoid then clear the hills near the town before moving in. I have yet to get hit by a punk sniper noob. And for those "experienced snipers" Im carrying an M24 and 15 rounds with your names written on them! Bring it.

It could put an end to server hopping if the character follows the server...lol

Add more vehicles... period.

considering how Arma 2 works. I dont think it was ever planned that there be melee weapons. If you havent noticed, the Hatchet is a gun tweaked into looking like a melee weapon. It actually shoots and has like a million ammo. Thats why you got some strange range with the thing and you can even reload it. I suggest running into a building before using a hatchet on zombies. hopefully Arma 3 introduces some melee weapons. But for Arma 2, good luck.

haha I have tried doing that myself only to hear invisible flies.... =/

I shoot on sight because I have learned the hard ways not to trust anyone. Every time I kill a poor bastard I can hear that flies are there but the loot's gone!! +1

This shouldnt be too hard to implement unless you want to add a mini fishing engine... But just like gathering wood and filling a water bottle. The fishing poll could add fish to the inventory. +1

What are the chances of finding a 50 cal in this setting? Just get rid of them both. I agree 100%. There are enough snipers out there.

Make a dead player spawn into an AI zombie and give him that skin. Thats how rare they would be. Also put all the items the dead player had onto the zombie. Whats more realistic than that?

I have been playing this game for a while now and I remember when I first started playing this game. I agree, with the starting weapon as the crowbar. It makes no sense whatsoever to have to run into a city full of infected just to find a stick. Why oh why do people think its cute to go against this idea?? It makes perfect sense that a real life person wouldnt go into a city without a stick or a weapon of some kind. Please, please add this to the game.

The map is so huge that you need to have sniper bandits keeping you on your toes no matter where you are. I can see a smaller map removing snipers completely but not this map.

Golden guns? Why would the developer waste time adding something like this? Because its rare? In a survival game you keep things on you for their usefulness not their color.