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It's simple: vehicles that could add some sort of end game content aren't a priority. New endgame will be growing tomatoes. It's not like people will grow one plant and never bother with it again.

Disguised whine thread, gj.

The guy that is looting your body doesn't care if you call him a bandit, koser,12yo kid. If victim rage quits or starts posting rants it's just a bonus. In most cases mr bandito won't even notice this because while you're wasting your time trying to figure out which title will offend him the most he's probably looking for another target and having fun. Gotta say, situations where your victim goes on a massive rage fest are the best. I remember one dude that used to play on my server in DayZ mod. He was only online from ~5-7 a.m. when server was completly empty. He was farming zeds all the time so he could be the best in a pointless statistic "zombie kills". One morning before work I jumped on a server and luckily I was logged off close to him, heard shots, sneaked around and popped him in the head. He was at around 1,5k zombie kills before I reseted his stats. Boy, did he post some awesome rants. Ah, good memories ;]

Great reason to make a new thread. I didn't know that attention wh*res play DayZ.

I just can't applaud excessive camping and abusing loot farming even if you call it tactical waiting with lots of preparation. Our group actions were usually all about rescuing someone that was dicking around and for example badly needs new wheel because he crashed his UAZ into barricades in the middle of Stary. Most of the proper teamplay we had in Arma 2 missions, although I remember some successfull adventures: DayZ mod, private hive, no crazy amounts of high-end loot 3 of our guys were travelling from Gorka towards west in UAZ, around Novy they we're spotted by enemy team in heli. Heli's crew started shooting at them. My teammates managed to make it to Stary, but at this point the car was badly damaged and they abandoned it and run towards nearest buildings. Heli was circling around. Enemy team dropped 2 snipers north of Stary. At this point we had 3 more people online in our group: me - about 15 mins away from Stary when it all started, 2 more of my mates - travelling together SE of Stary, around 20 mins away. It was getting dark, none of us had nvgs. Our teammates trapped in Stary were poorly geared (some AKs and M4s) and getting overrun by zeds. I got to the hills SE of Stary. Carrying L85 AWS and M24. I was checking the situation with my scope, while waiting for 2 other guys to arrive. Spotted some sniper on the hill north of the tents. Seconds later it started raining, visibility got worse and I could no longer see him. Decided to flank around going E, NE, NW. Moving around unnoticed was taking a lot of time since the heli was still in the air. One of our guys in Stary tries to run towards the market and gets sniped. Reinforcements arrive - 2 of my teammates mentioned before. They took position S of Stary. One of them carrying L85 AWS and no backup weapon acts as a spotter. Second one is equipped with M107 and ready to deal with that chopper. I'm sitting in some bushes next to Novy when a moment of brilliance comes for our sniper. He decided to expose himself and take a shot at the heli. Secon shot - pilot dead. Heli starts falling down, the rest of the crew parachutes (2 guys). Weirdly enough heli doesn't explode but just sits on the ground and looks undamaged. At this point it's really dark. I can barely see anything without the scope of L85. Heli landed maybe 150m N of me. I wanted to make a run for it. But I don't have anyone covering me and there are 2 enemies around and at least one more N of Stary. I wait in my bush and overlook the heli. One of the enemies runs towards it but I manage to take him out. Then we hear sniper shot N of Stary and message pops that another of our enemies went down. I spotted remaining guy running away towards Stary hill and try to catch up with him. Not rushing it and stopping every 20-50m to scout area with thermal scope. I've asked for some support on our TS but guys were to excited. Sniper and his spotter rush towards Stary with spare wheel. Remaining guys in Stary grab the gear of fallen comrade and get ready to escape. Then one of them rushes to the chopper. I manage to get to the Stary hill. Guys in Stary repaired the UAZ and starting to gtfo, the other guy jumps into heli that can still work and gtfos aswell. I stop for a second to scout the area and notice two guys crouching over someone's body. Not taking any chances I unload my whole mag into them. They were 2 remaining guys from enemy team. Crouching over body of their friend that one of them popped by accident in the rush. That was great experience. Sry for typos.

Flashlight.

Would you feel better if I said: pathfinding, respawns, ability to detect players?

I'm still concerned about the future of SA. DayZ SA is like a wobbly tower. They keep adding more floors, polish the walls, paint it and so on but it might fall down at any time. I'll regain my faith when the most basic mechanics get finished (like zombies).

I don't agree with everything. Firing a gun was a huge risk because of other players, not zombies. There were plenty of zeds but they couldn't hit you if you were sprinting, you could easily loose them if you run through bushes or pine trees. Zeds could only walk inside of building and pathfinding wasn't good, that meant that even with ~40 zeds on your ass you could run through a building and leve all of them behind. Melee was horrible and unreliable but it's not any different in SA but I do consider zeds now a bigger thread than they used to be in the mod (no talking about latest version of the mod which is fubar). Just because you were clueless at first doesn't mean there was mystery. There was no base building in the mod and it worked fine with just tents and cars. Yeah mod was (is?) better. Buggy Arma 2 engine was 10x better than what we have now. Guns actually worked, zeds kinda worked, vehicles mostly worked (dem ATVs tho), so even with little content you could still dick around, shoot some people/zeds and have fun.

Serious question: Do you feel better about your death if you think that you got killed by some "CoD kiddie" or someone similar?

Oh the horror, someone enjoys different things than I do.

I look around. That way I know what's going on around me and don't have to bitch on the forums that KoS is a huge problem. "I'm cosnatntly getting killed when runnning around, pls PvE servers" Nvm that I was running through the middle of an open field while reading a book. You guys disguist me :/

But Myshkino was my favourite location to chill out when I wanted to avoid other players :( Where am I supposed to go now?

How will it work on private servers?

Running through open fields. Shooting zeds rather than using melee and all the unnecessary noise making in dangerous areas. Eating/drinking/checking map/sorting inventory when you're not in the cover. Starting a firefight: when you have no cover around you; when you have a shitty gun that you can't use; trying to snipe when you have no clue what weapon zeroing is; when you have no chance of winning; with a bunch of innacurate shots; when you're about to loose los to your target in 2s. Dicking around in towns/villages/military spots. Shouting "friendly" when you spot someone in NWAF.

Yeah, I give them to my teammates if they die and have no weapon.

You can enjoy the game just fine playing on 1pp servers but you rather suggest that everyone is forced to play the game "your way". Whether we like it or not some people like current 3pp. We can either keep bitching about it or happily sit on 1pp servers. Guess which option did I choose? Heh, typical.

Looks like it will turn into another flamewar really soon with the usuall whines: 3rd person is for noobs, lets force people into playing 1st person. Honestly, I don't get it OP: You can choose between 1st person only and 1st/3rd person servers. If you want you can stay on 1st person only forever. If you don't like 3rd person, don't play it, why the hell suggest changes to it? Oh, and btw: I play both types of servers. They aren't that different, so I don't care.

You should loot the military spots in SA in the same way you do your shopping as a man: get in, get your shit and get out. Even better: send a women to do it while you enjoy a cold beer.

My mistake I thought testing was about reporting bugs and giving our opinions. How come, whenever someone says that he likes something about SA nobody shouts: "Alpha! The thing you like might be changed by the time SA gets released." Double standards?

Don't put the words in my mouth. It's not absolutely broken but it has some serious issues that concern me. The really interesting thing, though, is how some people still feel that "Alpha" is ultimate answer for every question.

Quite interesting how so many white knights just like to pretend that there is abolutely no reason to complain rather than trying to understand what is wrong. "Alpha, alpha, disclaimer! Nanana! I can't hear you!" Lovely attitude.

I remember my first lives in DayZ. I was extremly paranoid and run away whenever I've heard a shot or spotted a player. I've observed a couple of naive guys screaming "hello" and running towards strangers only to get shot in the face. I didn't want that, not risking my beans. I used to travel thorough forests (and getting lost) for more cover, loot isolate places and scout every city for a couple of minutes before I'd try to loot it. Never had the issueas you exprienced, I guess that's the advantage of not being stupid.

I've been waiting for SA since the day it was announced (october 2012, was it?). Now I'm waiting till it reaches "playable" status. Just ignore the morons that say SA is fine while they've never played the mod. Hopefully it will get finished one day. Untill then I'll check the updates and try to avoid brain dead forum users.

Tbh, the worst thing is the community full of people who never played the mod (I don't count Epoch/Origins cancer as DayZ).