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Just some ideas that might be interesting or might spark other ideas in your head. Why not have characters locked to specific servers? What if when you log out your character pitches a small, hard to spot tent or sleeping bag and goes to sleep and can be killed by other people or robbed? Would make you think twice about where you will fall asleep (log out). Definitely wouldn't do it in the middle of a battle or when being chased by zombies. This would open the door to multiple characters and also force players to play during the night time. I know its tough and there are countless problems with it but I hope it might spark some ideas. What do you like or dislike?

Why cant there be a more vehicles in this game that you can repair? I have only once seen a bus. I feel that vehicles could make things more interesting if there were more of them. Im not talking about fully functional ones. Im talking about broken ones in cities that you can repair or whatever. Just add more of them I never see any anywhere. Bicycles, sedans, maybe even a humvee crashed in a tree in a forest with military zombies guarding it. I dont know, Im not the expert here. Just know I have yet to see any moving vehicles because all of them are stashed outside the map or something and there's only like 7 in the whole map.

It will need more than that to get my attention. If its going to be a FFA deathmatch with zombies getting in the way then I will pass.

All the idiots that said that making zombies more difficult would make people play coop failed and we all knew it would. Now we have zombie line backers running through walls doing 1 hit KO to worry about on top of every other player that shows up and sniper fire from the hills. How much harder does it need to get for the honest players? It really isnt worth game testing this alpha anymore. I rather let everyone else go through hell and back while I wait till the game comes out. The game is an FFA death match where zombies annoy the hell out of everything and you have to get through them to get to a weapon to defend yourself. Most of the bandit/ clan fags are already setup with tents and vehicles while the rest of us are starting to quit. The community has turned murderous. They shoot you even though you declare yourself a friendly unarmed player. Artifacts started appearing commonly near military loot (Only military loot buildings), coincidance maybe but annoying as hell. The matter of fact is that I am done until the game comes out. It's taking forever and the gameplay for this mod, which is the only incentive there is to test the game, has become disgusting and almost unplayable.

It's an alpha, and that is exactly why you dont play this. If they want free game testers then the developers better fix the bugs and problems that are causing their "free testers" to go away. I wont be playing Dayz anymore until the stand alone and I dont have any confidence in the developers to get anything right. It's time to stop hoping and start seeing some results. He is absolutely right, The game is a free for all death match with a bunch of a super, ghosting, zombies getting in the way of finding a starting weapon. People kill unarmed players now and brag about it on the forums. The community is destroying the game-play and there is no incentive for the game-testers to keep playing. The game is full of gltiches and headaches like picking up back packs or zombies flying through walls and KO you in 1 hit. Where's the incentive to keep playing this until the stand alone comes out? We are free game testers and we get payed in new content and fixing the buggish crap that bothers us.

I had a hacker give me the sickness. I was already in 3rd place on the server. Interstingly enough the disease went away when I want to another server. Hackers spawn wherever they want. I killed a guy in berezino because I heard the heart beat on him and he pretended to be a friendly. I saw the same guy again within 5 minutes in Berezino. Some japanese punk named "Hands."

I would like to see a stand alone game for DayZ with different game modes. One of the game modes would be cool to see is like a "rebuild". A coop server where a group of survivers starts at a town that has been isolated from zombies and defended and with limited supplies they must go and clear other villages and gather more supplies. If you dont know what I am talking about check out that game called "rebuild". It could be similar to a domination server but different because of the scarcity of items and needing food and water. Would be an interesting coop game.

All they got to do is add a safety feature that you can change just like you switch from full to single shot. Right now, lowering the gun only happens with rifles and shotguns but its tricky and it would just be easier if the safety option was available. Real guns have safety features. I understand a lot of pistols dont have a safety button but they have safety features nontheless.

Makes you wonder what the hell BI is doing anyways

I read about half way. I agree with every idea so far. Physics should be introduced so that when you shoot an incoming zombie in the chest with a shotgun, it stuns them or knocks then down. Wouldnt that be sick to see. Im pretty sure Arma 3 is adding the rag doll effect so maybe... Yeah I also like the idea where zombies are just lying down or sitting and react when someone passes by. Right now the zombies just walk around endlessly like guards patrolling the town. I understand that Arma is the one at fault here but it would be cool to see more movie like zombies or infected just chillen and not necessarily walking on patrol all the time.

Would it help servers by not having to respawn zombies all the time?

Its retarded that the 45 revolver 1 shots Zeds while 1911 doesnt.

Its time to move from Alpha to Beta. When in the hell is Arma 3 coming out? Damn the wait

did he say 4 head shots? I guess we arent playing Arma 2 anymore.

Crowbar is useless right now. That should be the starting weapon.

Thank goodness. That makes sense

I like this idea. Heres another idea: I would also like to see a DayZ domination server in which players work out of a captured town or base with limited supplies and have to go capture all the towns on cherno. Food, water, and the scarcity of Dayz should still exist and no Over powered vehicles would be in the game. Increase the fog to make zombies harder to see. It would be fun. Stuff like this is what I expect from a stand alone Dayz. Give different game mode options.

I would like to see characters saved per server. regardless if the server goes down atleast I would not be stuck waiting for my team to join me and it would promote more coop among strangers.

why does arma not have a PVP server? If we did, maybe people would be less trigger happy in DayZ and more trigger happy in a pvp server. It would be nice to see some capture the flag or destroy the base on Utes. Dont say: "Go play COD" cause COD doesnt have the physics and simulations this game has. How about it? Someone go start a PVP server on Arma 2

arrows are pretty glitched actually. You cant always get them. The crossbow will continue to suck until they let you stack arrows and let you pick them up. Would also be cool if you could carve new arrows out of wood or something.

Dont see why not... but here comes the people who will say: "NPCs will never be in the game.."

Vehicles are pretty much a non factor at the moment. Apparently they are reserved for clan members, server hosts and hackers. While the rest of us would like to atleast SEE ONE drive by once in a while. Make them a factor. Maybe make the repair items a bit more rare and make vehicles a bit less rare. But right now they are a non factor. They dont exist. Everyone that disagrees with me makes it sound like I want a ton of cars everywhere playing bumper cars with players or something. Just make them a bit more practical to find and repair. that is a msision in itself.

I think as far as the party goes that your friendlies should be marked by something when you look at them and have a clear line of sight on them inorder to distinguish them as friendly. In real life you can tell who your friends are but in this game everyone is an exact replica of each other so there is no way of knowing who is who.

That's a great story but where are all the tanks and weapons? Did the zombies eat those up?

The arctic suggestions is fantastic. I would also like to see a party system implemented but friendly fire always on.