seanmcloughlin7

I liked it when it didn't feel like one giant open world deathmatch. I also liked it when not everyone knew every little thing about the map and the mechanics. Now everyone knows all the good spots for everything. I suck at the game because I can't devote enough time to it to get really good and everyone else just always seems to know where I am. Sure a lot of it has got to do with me sucking but I liked it better when a lot more people sucked too lol It's actually quite intimidating to play the game now

"Don't notice anything different" OR "So What's new in the standalone?" OR "Should I get the standalone or just play the mod?"

I got to the Airfield down south and one of the hangars had Barbed Wire in the front but a little gap between, not enough to run through but I managed to aim a vault right and get though it fairly handy. But I couldn't vault back out. I was stuck inside the hangar and my only option was to agro zeds and respawn

Exactly. Seems rather pointless otherwise and is only used to annoy other players.

I found 2 in the same barn yesterday lol. Put one in my pack and brought one with me. They're awesome to use. Something I love about a good old hunting rifle design. Not high tech military rifles

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I want a full on hobo look with a beard and everything with flies constantly buzzing all around me

I understand what the game set out to do which was player interaction. Of both kinds. They didn't want it being all out war where everyone shot each other on sight without trying to communicate. That's what it has become now, but rocket himself expressed how he was trying to change things to try stop some of this. There's nothing wrong with killing other players but when it's just for funsies or killing right after spawning in then it's ridiculous. It defeats what the game is trying to convey.

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Some bullet points on it: - Securing the game from hacking/exploits is the number one priority with the game. - New crossbow looks bad-ass, Rocket hints at a chainsaw. - The game will draw on assets from all of BIS's games, talks about the helicopter mechanics from Take on Helicopters. - Distribution will be a lot more streamlined, so they can push out updates a lot quicker/easier. - The game is going to be a lot more optimized, especially the zombies themselves, which will presumably allow a lot more zombies at once. - Content/Images/Videos to be up on the blog soon. - Focus on authenticity, tension and freedom. Survival vs Wild. He wants to make the players body and nature being the antagonist. Things like broken ribs, different walking stances depending on where you have been injured, diseases (Malaria, Dysentery, Cholera) - Locations with more players will have more chance of spreading disease. - New medical system. - Zombies entirely redeveloped, graphically, animations and AI. - Weapon will have durability, they can jam, NV Goggles will need batteries, if you get shot in the head, the night vision goggles might get damaged for example. - UI removed, talks about a vomiting animation and other cues to show you are sick. - Chernarus Plus is done, new towns, facilities, water fountains balanced, many more fully enterable buildings, eventually all will be enterable. - New Crossbow, new melee items (some may come to the mod) also talks about a bow. - More parts to vehicles, different parts for different effects, for example a battlebus created by adding certain parts to a normal bus. - Timetable (Stable build out this year, November/December for a very low price point, January/February a lot of regular new content. - Working with community to try out new ideas in the mod.

I played once where all the people in the server were killed and teleported to a little arena area and told to fight to the death. At this moment I alt F4'd because even though I had nothing to lose or gain, I just wanted to go play normally on another server

Even people with beefy PCs have trouble at times cos of how much power is required to render each zombie and when you have 200 spawning into an area it's a pain in the ass. Even rocket said it and they're drastically increasing the optimisation for the standalone. Don't condescend people and tell them to upgrade. Not everyone can upgrade willy nilly or are made of money

Now I am a huge fan of this game and I adore it. I took a break of about a month to play some other games and I recently came back to DayZ. I cannot get over how many people are playing just to kill other players now. I don't mind if a guy sees me with my M16 and kills me to steal it or any other gear or whatever, but when I literally just spawn in and a guy shoots me in the back to steal nothing is a joke. I thought I would try a server with more than 5 people in it (14 in this last one) and I was shot in 5 minutes, and have been shot only a few hundred metres from my spawn 3 times in a row now and it's just not fun. It's taking a lot away from the experience and what was once extremely fun and tense/tactical to play has become an absolute free for all of who can kill the most players. I was even nice to a dude and there were 2 lee enfields, I took one and the ammo and the other guy just got the gun so I gave him some ammo in the confidence he wouldn't just kill me instantly and sure enough he kept his word. So we parted ways only for me to leave the shed and be gunned down by some other dude. I am not a whiner and usually take it on the chin but when it stops me from having fun or even playing the game for any length of time it's a huge problem.

I understand the novelty of it, I really do, but it gets boring very fast and I actually feel bad killing other humans in the game. Feels counter intuitive to what the game is about. Player interaction is more than shooting on sight. Best DayZ experience I ever had was spawning when I just got the game about 4 months ago, it was my fourth time into the game and I met a dude who was geared up with a pistol and he just let me team up with him and go on an adventure together and he showed me the ropes. Not once was there ever a "will he shoot me" type of mentality

It was some terrible luck I think. And the server had 14 people on it :/ I found it odd. I spawned near cherno at the docks and ran about 10 yards (not very far anyway) and saw a guy with a turban and he had no weapon but kept going to my back and when I ran away he stopped but followed soon after and shot me in the back. Now he could have stopped to spawn in some gear or whatever to kill me but he was still right there when I spawned Then spawning in three valleys I met 2 dudes. One died from zeds, he allowed to spawn elsewhere I assume. Then After I helped the remeaining dude another guy with a shotgun started blasting me. It was so frustrating to be killed twice at spawn. I was killed more after that but these two stuck out the most

There was a kill count, not everyone could see it but you could.Also the rest of your post kind of contradicts what you said before. You said you would shoot every person on sight? why is that exactly? Im hoping the new changes that rocket said would be in the standalone stop this shit

Knowing the players. they would just shoot you on sight

My beans... you have them

Damn after watching that video, the standalone sounds way different to the mod. Adding weapon jamming and durability, batteries for NVGs and if you shoot a guy with NVGs on it will damage them and you can't really steal them or use them well. Sounds like a good way to try combat guys who just kill for no reason or try to rob your stuff. If your gear is damaged while they attack you then it might stop them or make them think twice about killing you

They were arrested for taking pics of military strongholds but informed the greek officials that they were on holiday. Apparently the shots were of them posing and some buildings were in the background. I don't think it was them literally standing in front of the building deliberately taking pics of it

Have you read the thread? I specifically said that I died moments after spawning in with no gear worth stealing or gear that was a lot worse than the people who killed me. I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever if a guy shoots me when I have an M16 or A good rifle. That's fair game then. buy being shot 3 minutes after spawning in when I have nothing of value except bandages and painkillers isn't good

Hacking isn't as big a deal as people claim, I have been victim of 3 hacking occurences and every other one was dealt with by the server. Now about realism and real life, this isn't even close to it. Real life during this type of outbreak would have deaths, I admit that. But not where you would walk down the street and just pop every single other human you saw. Only if they were acting like zombies and you weren't sure or they fired first would you do this. But in DayZ you can clearly be seen with no gear and you can spot the new spawns straight away. Shooting them with your high powered rifle is a waste of time and bullets. it has absolutely nothing to do with survival or anything, it's just a guy who thinks he's better trying to troll low geared guys. The thing you mentioned about not seeing other geared players is because you don't actually want to find them. If you did you wouldn't be sitting around the cities where obvious new spawns come in. If you really wanted to run into high geared guys you would head north, everyone knows it can get hectic up there in Stary against the guy with good stuff. But you don't want to go there because you know you have a higher chance of getting shot and losing your gear so you would rather pick off guys who can't fight back

But that's the thing. they're working on the standalone so I would honestly prefer them to stay at it than fix the game right now every week. It's not ideal but the problems aren't lack of features or something they can implement very easily without the community lashing back. Im sure they hate this as much as I do of people killing on sight and not trying to even communicate anymore. After all Rocket said he wanted the mod to be about player interaction surviving the apocalypse, I think he meant a balance of bandits and proper communication, and in the beginning that's what happened.But because they didn't implement any consequence system then, it was let grow and gorw into more and more bandits and now it's at a point where if they implement it, they will lose a lot of players

There is a difference between it being harsh and unforgiving and not being given a chance to do anything in it. I never said I wanted it to be all fun and games all the time, but being killed right after I spawn when I have nothing of value to be stolen or just killing me because they can is frustrating. In a post apocalyptic time, sure people are edgy and don't trust each other, I get that. But in real life you would at least try to reason or communicate with an unarmed person rather than just shoot them in the back 20 seconds after they spawn in And let's not forget that at the end of the day this is a game. And the idea behind them is to have a fun factor to them. Even hard games have a way of not disadvantaging new players

I agree, a lot of spaces will be left blank me thinks.