ThePunisher (DayZ)

I voted yes, but only if the bugs from them are fixed. not just the zigzaging and weird aggro, but also, hitting through walls and also running/walking through walls. zombies as they are called should be headshot. but until they get all the kinks from them worked out I wouldn't worry about it. also i wouldn't call them infected either because website calls them zombies so i'm gonna assume zombie here.

thats currently what I do in game, i dance and salute when I meet others, but nothing makes up for lack of not being able to speak at all. for example, one time my girl and I was exploring the NW airfield. and I was covering her with a rifle from a distance away while she was running through the airfield checking the loot. well we ran into another player there as i was shooting the zombies clearing the path for my girlfriend to loot and he ran and hid inside the military building by the hanger probably scared out of his mind because he heard me sniping zombies, i seen him in my crosshairs but I"m not a bandit or cold blooded killer I had no intention on killing him, I wanted to simply tell him i was just covering my girl but he ran into a building and DC'd because I couldn't coummnicate with him and tell him that I had no intention of killing him. was funny and amusing sure but if i simply could have told him he had nothing to worry about he wouldn't have taken me for another bandit sniping newbs at the airfield

I'll be honest with you, I really don't blame you man, don't blame you at all. this is the reason this really needs to be fixed

i use six launcher for updating arma and dayz, the server is the newest version ones as its easy to tell because zombies can spot me from 24308967 miles away, (not a problem just saying as a way to confirm i'm on newest patch). direct simply isn't working for some people. there's a thread in the bugs forum, a thread in the trouble shooting forum. and like i said happened again today. guy was typing and typing and typing to us (my girlfriend and I) and we didn't see any of it, later he told us he was talking to us in direct but we didn't see what he was typing, he couldn't see what my girl and I was typing either, also comfirmed because my girls comp is literally in the same room right beside mine and we play togather, if i say something in direct, doesn't show up on her screen, if she says something i direct same thing. its really a game breaker not being able to communicate with anyone in this game, communication is kinda a big deal in this game lol

Honestly shooting people because they don't respond in chat is a bad idea right now, if no one is responding to you it could be you as well that is bugged. I've noticed it alot lately and it really really sucks, direct comms and direct comms voice is just plain broke right now or not working for a lot of people. I can't speak in direct chat, whatever i type no one sees, My girlfriend has same thing happening to her now and also ran into another fellow player and we couldn't talk to each other either because his direct chat was not working and my direct chat was not working also. they really need to fix this problem because its creating a lot of issues. for example server i play on has side chat channel still and we can talk in that channel just fine, but still direct chat isn't working at all. please don't shoot someone cause they don't respond, because I can't respond because nothing i type freaking shows up even though i'm screaming my lungs out in direct trying to say something. its buggy as hell and really needs to be looked at.

adding features and other things to promote grouping (class skills ect) are all fine and dandy, but making the game incredibily hard to the point you have to be forced to group is bad form and a bad way to go about things, some of us have lives and jobs and can't always wait around 2 hours for all of our buddies to log on or wait for a bunch of clan members to get everything organized before they are ready to go on a hunt / scavenge run, I'm all for PROMOTING group play and I'm grouping with friends and family in this game quite regularly but no one should ever be FORCED for group play. sometimes people play lonewolf cause they only got a couple hours to log on, or some have jobs that require them to work odd shifts which keeps them from getting into clans/groups. as I said. TLDR. Group play is awesome and while it should be encouraged and promoted it should NOT EVER be FORCED upon people. sometimes I just like to play alone, there shouldn't be something in the way of keeping me from doing so. <edit> esp considering that rocket is promoting this mod as a way to play how you want when you want, he wants people to play the mod/game however they want to. FORCiNG people to do things like grouping is against what he's been promoting and trying to do <edit2> fyi i can still solo just fine with these new zombies, sure its a little harder but i can still sneak into town and sneak out while only aggro'ing/killing a couple. i think they are fine except for running through walls, hitting through walls, funky crazy pathing, those are the things that need to be fixed and tweaked, then people would complain less i believe

i agree with slow zombies, I love Project zomboids outlook on zombies as well and I think this would be some good reading for you folks for the whole fast vs slow zombies thing. http://projectzomboid.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/fast-vs-slow-zombies/ be sure to check that out, another one of my favorite zombie games.

kinda hard not to find out about it when its posted every freaking where now, acrossed all gaming sites, gaming review sites, youtube videos. i guess you could say project zomboid swayed me to buy it though cause they was posting about it there as well and linked to the youtube video i'm sure you all have seen the dayz ahead or something like that. was really cool.

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thanks for this post, not really because i needed it cause experience has already taught me all of these things. but because new players that DO need to know these things will complain a lot less on the forums about how pvp is bad in this game because they may understand more why they keep getting killed.

no offense to you at all good sir, but the only one who has tunnel vision here is you. rocket is working on the problem and has stated so several times and to be honest these singled out experiences on the forums is less then 10% (yes i'm pulling a number outta my hat but its just an example to get the point across) of the population that is actually playing the game. If you looked at the player population of the game as a whole with the stats that rocket has access to we would probably see that for ourselves. not everyone is a KoS bandit. I'm not for 1, my 4 other friends/family/girlfriend are not kos bandits. others i've ran into have helped me ect. the bad times are just easier to write about and make you remember them more then the good times. Keep your chin up, things will improve. :D

you mean i actually have an option now of finding military loot without being pigeon-holed into a sniper playground? you sir have my thanks. people posting about this ruining immersion is a joke, if you don't want to use it you don't have to. only people probably complaining are snipers who camp newbs and funnel them into hotspots.

the sooner i can get rid of six launcher the better, its kinda spammy and kinda buggy and a weird performance hog. I can play this game on max settings on my rig pretty easy and for some reason six launcher still causes my internet to disconnect and have to reconnect, it causes windows 7 64 bit to change my color scheme to basic due to memory problems. I appreciate the person for making it and giving me a simple way to install updates for both arma and dayz but its honestly quite buggy.

Bumpity bump. still playing this game as a mute hiding in the woods to avoid people :(

m1911 is my favorite gun in this game. decent amount of ammo, plenty of kick to do the trick and the sound isn't as loud as the revolver. and ammo is everywhere for it.

+1 to them! I've been in 3 encounters with snipers on my current char and haven't not logged out once during a fire fight and my char is still alive! I was gonna delete him and start fresh but after surviving 3 separate sniping encounters i must continue on with him cause killing him off would feel lame after surviving all of this. the key to surviving snipers I've come to believe is patience. the first time is what made me turn my char into a vigilante and start calling him the punisher before that his name was Eddie. (rl name) as the punisher i make it my job to actively hunt and kill snipers at popular locations (hospitals/ airfields) business is picking up and its really keeping me busy and giving me something to do. :D 1st sniper i encountered was at NE airfield, me and my friend decided to get dangerous and go there. we were crawling to the first hanger from around the back and right before we got inside the hanger bam! friend gets killed instantly by the shot and i get shot at twice but they missed. honestly thought I'd freeze up and just turn around looking for him but that would have gotten me killed as well but nope, i quickly kept crawling around the hanger door corner and ducked outta sight. knowing for sure that the sniper wanted to loot my buddy he got. I pulled out my trusty 1911 put myself in a crouched position and waited, and waited and waited. seemed like forever but i'm sure it wasn't but maybe 5mins or so. I knew the sniper would eventually want to come loot my friend (just outside the reach of the hanger door) so that's why i waited. most likely he thought i probably disconnected but I refuse to wimp out like that in this game. sure enough just before i was about to giving up playing the waiting game he pops his head around the hanger door. BAM BAM I blast two in his chest. honestly thinking two would be enough but it wasn't. thats when i thought i was really dead, BAM he shot me, but it didn't kill me. was a bad shot i assume and simply made me low. well i'm stuck reloading so i roll left and right as i'm reloading my 1911. well he was reloading as well about to put another sniper round in my chest/head but my trusty 1911 reloads faster then his sniper gun and BAM, 3rd shot got him, right in the head and down like a sack of potatoes he went. right before he was raising up his gun after reloading. I shot another round in his head just to make sure he was dead and not simply unconscious. had to fight off a few zombies afterwards but i finished them off and check his corpse. OH man this sniper had everything, sniper suit, military grade sniper rifle, silenced sub machine gun, almost all tools ect i mean the works. I'm sure he didn't expect to die that day. (oddly enough he was still using the default backpack even though everything else he had was awesome) it was such a freaking rush and felt so greeeaat. I smile as i loot his gps and entrenching tools (first time seeing them in game for me) left his silenced sub, looted his military sniper because i didn't want anyone else having it even though it was pointless to me, later discarded it in a lake along with the ammo. thanks to that fight, killing snipers has become my goal in this game. thanks dude whoever you was, I'm still enjoying your gps. 2nd fight was when me and same friend from first game (cousin irl) was heading to brez hospital for supplies and seen a couple snipers in the tree line hitting the hospital roof. we watch them for a bit but neither one of us had a long range gun at the time, I stupidly and no knowing the range of the handguns started opening fire on them from to far a distance with the handgun and didn't hit either of them i think, scared the heck of out of them though i'm sure. they dropped to the ground and turned around and me and my friend ducked behind some trees. well my friend decided to pop his head out around a tree to look where they were and bam was killed. he told me to run or disconnect but i wasn't about to do either one. running would have just made me end up with a bullet in my back, so i turn quietly around into a pine with low trees and hide then for a good while, just listening, waiting and waiting, well i hear their footsteps and hear them approaching but can't see them but I hear the guy pop open a soda and drink, (he's right beside me though he didn't realize it) and finally they took off in a different direction and they left and i snuck out. (didn't get to kill them but coming out alive was a blast and a rush as i didn't want to die i had the first sniper i killed gps on me still.) 3rd sniper was at night time in brez military tent, i'm assuming he had nvg's the sniper shot at me and my fiance (she plays as well with me sometimes) and hit her but did not kill her. we ran inside the military tent both of us with our guns pointed at the entrance for a good 30mins before we decided to run out and leave. they must have left because they got tired of waiting for us to come out of the tent. my girl ran out first because she was kinda fresh didn't have many tools and is not as patient as me. nothing happen to her and i followed. didn't get to kill them but still a rush. morale of the story, have patience grow a pair and stop disconnecting. odds are you will catch them off guard or wait them out till they leave. that was the first 3 anyways, wont bore you with the rest. but just keep on sniping people bro and i'll keep on sniping you. :D good times by all is had. :D

they aren't that hard to id when they are in a tree line by cherno/brezino ect in a sniper outfit with a sniper rifle out pointing down at the hospital roof, i always wait for them to fire the first shot, then i take them out a full friendly server would be cool but then i would be bored, I like having servers with snipers/bandits on them, otherwise i wouldn't have any snipers to snipe :D

this is why i named my char the punisher, killing bandit snipers is my goal, have killed one at NE airfield the other day after he sniped my friend, was really fun. so now i go around in the treelines of the popular sniper hangouts looking for them. Sniping the snipers and trying to keep the hospitals safe is a blast for me. thanks for the gps bandits. i'll be watching for you so think twice before hitting those innocents at the hospitals looking for supplies. Killing snipers is what I do and what I enjoy

bumping this, still having same issues, fix asap please

got a post in the troubleshooting forums but thought i'd post one here as well, seems alot of people are having this problem and no one understands why and it is bad because communication is a key part of playing this game, and if i can't chat/talk to anyone its pretty damn game breaking, i really hope someone finds a fix soon or it gets fixed in a coming patch. direct chat typing or voice is not working for me at all but is working just fine for my girlfriend who is sitting right next to me playing on the exact same server. so i know its not a issue of the server we are playing on because she can chat and type just fine. someone please find a fix for this asap

I am also having this problem and would love a fix, my direct chat or voice is not working, my girlfriend's is working standing right beside me and i can see her chat just fine but she/anyone else can't see or hear mine, this is quite annoying and would like to know a fix

Cheaters in online games need to be shot, cheaters who get banned for cheating then attack the server like little 12 year olds calling names, need to be set on fire then shot. It makes me really mad, cause its just plain childish and a waste of life. btw first post, freaking love this game. been wanting zombie survival hardcore game for years. Rocket i just want to say thanks for having the balls to make something different and thinking outside the box. you showed the big name companies what gamers really want, and we proved it with our wallets and now these other companies get to set back and regret it because they was to scared to make something new. just..... thanks man