alsmir

Exactly. DayZ "skills" are about what a player can do, not his/her character. It becomes clear after you spend a couple of months or years playing with other people. My group started playing DayZ over 2 years ago. We all started as noobs but then we started to learn. Now it's very clear to me how each of us improved, got better. Some of us learn faster, some slower. You could even go as far as saying we have different character classes: out of 7 people we have one brilliant pilot (as long as he's sober) and at the same time we have designated drivers (2 of us just kept crashing cars to the point where we no longer let them drive). Some excell at sniping, others are great in cqc, there's a guy that always have extra food and water to share etc. Just enjoy the game. Sooon you'll realize how unique experience it offers.

Driving a quad on the road from Cherno to Elektro. Going pretty fast ~90km/h. Suddenly, a bloody rabbit out of fucking nowhere. I run it over but... it flips the quad, sends me flying a couple of meters with bleeding, shock and broken leg. When I'm bandaging myself, quad explodes. I stayed away from quads and rabbits since then. Edit: Oh yeah, trying to run over a zed with a bike gives similar results, minus the explosion.

Play with friends, seriously. They can patch you up or at least help you respawn...

You should add the option for the 3rd question: "Because I can" Anyway, looking forward to dark nights, where every idiot starts running with a light source making them a perfect target. I assume people will be stupid enough to try looting places during night time.

Shit man, and here I was thinking DayZ isn't rl. I refuse to surrender to wannabe bandits that only go after unarmed people, especially when I have nothing to loose. You want to feel better about yourself? Try harder.

Say whatever you want, but couple of times I was running around shortly after spawn, no weapon, no gear, meeting random geared player. He aims at me and says "Hi". I don't want any trouble, so I just turn around and try to run away. He would chase after me yelling something like: "Hey man, stop. Stop, lets talk. Stop or I'll shoot you. Stop." Bam, starts shooting. Social freaks.

Around 1 month of active playing in the mod. Survived 1 heli crash - damn those power lines, 2 car accidents, running over a rabbit on a bike and faling off with a broken leg, mulitple quad acidents, got shot a couple of times, got shot at a lot. Fun times.

People can't handle it when someone tells them they're shit. They're used to games that give them special treatement: Do a trival thing - experience points + achievement. Make a mistake - start from last checkpoint/load game. Game is too hard? Choose easy difficulty, where absolutely nothing will go wrong no matter how bad you fuck up. DayZ is different and they can't grasp it. Get better or get out situation, which leads to: "But getting better takes effort and I don't want to put any effort, I just want to have fun without using my brain like in other games"

Abolutely no info about who shot you, how many times, weapon and distance. Get some bloody awareness if you want that info or tell your alive teammates to get a clue, because this is what you want: quick info for your group who shot you and from which position.

Gtfo and use your fists.

Well, once I spawned on the roof of the building. No stairs, no ladders. Didn't survive the fall...

Just do whatever the hell you want. There's a lot of options, use your imagination. If it doesn't work for you I suggest sticking to the games that guide you from one objective to another.

3-6 imo 2 - easy to communicate, can work quite fine for the most of the time, but if you get ambushed and one of you gets immidiately killed - you're fucked 6+ is too much of a clusterfuck on TS/Vent, in combat you will have people talking all the time, because they need to if you don't want to pop your teammates by accident. @ Munson_fry Meh, you just need to babysit them. It will work as long as they can shut up and follow orders. But it can get annoying: - Where are you? - What? You were behind me just a second ago! - I don't see you. -Look to your right... You're other right! -Ohh...

How about no?

Arma 2 ACE ballistics

From my experience cooking works differently depending where do you make a fireplace. Indoors preferred: barns, houses, etc. When cooking outside my character keeps randomly bitching about the strong wind that makes it hard to make a fire and meet took like 2 times longer to cook. Moreover, fix the goddamn time it takes for meat to go from cooked to burned. Obviously whoever implemented it never cooked anything irl. Btw, priceless experience when I told my teammates to not eat burned meat. They did it anyway and started to vomit in the middle of a firefight later.

I don't want to see any achievements tbh. I like how pure DayZ gameplay is. People do what they do because they want to do it. Nothing like: must complete the mission objective or need this and that for an achievement. Isn't it better to see what people do for fun and how creative they can be rather than giving them objectives that will make some activities extra popular?

Mods didn't destroy shit, players did. If some dipshits want to play ezmode overwatch or epoch forcing them to play regular DayZ will just make them quit.

Sure. 1.5 year ago I bought mine for around 350 dollars and it runs DayZ just fine. Just don't expect flawless performance but it's engine's fault.

Sorry for the late reply, but you know - weekend and stuff. From what I've seen on different servers it depends on server preferences. Server adims are able to set it up. Typical options were: Tents - don't despawn on server restart. If a tent is empty or not used for ~2 weeks it despawns. If you interact with it the timer is reset. Popular setting was - after death you have x days to interact with your tents (usually shorter timer here) or they will despawn. It worked quite fine. You didn't have to log in every day to keep your tents, but bugged tents that can't be open, and tents that are no longer used would despawn regularly. Similar situation with cars. They'd despawn if nobody would use them for a certain time (1-2 weeks usually), after that they would spawn on next server reset on one of their spawn points. I've got absolutelly no clue how it will work in SA, but since the previous system worked fine I really hope they will re-introduce it. On the other hand I've seen enough great mechanics that worked in the mod changed for worse, to not be a bit afraid.

I was new and clueless once. But I've made some reasearch and I knew that others could kill me, so I was bloody carefull. It was all that I needed to survive my first moments. I just stayed away from major cities and run like hell whenever I've heared a gunshot. How the fck is that complicated? Pople can do whatever they want so... they do wahtever they want. Call the cops! Lmao. Carebear PvP hater talking about a challenge. No fcking wonder CptLobster called you a dipshit so many times. Balistics are for idiots, the real challange is picking up berries.

As long as the server is good - I don't care. Played both, like both.

Berries + apples, learn where you can find them. Water sources: lakes, rivers, pumps. You can survive in SA without a single item in your inventory if your only problem is thirst and hunger.

You do realize that you'd still need to gear up a character on that other server? When we get tents people will have an easy way to stash extra gear so dying won't be such a problem anyway.

1. That's how it works in the mod. You can stash all the stuff you want but there's always a chance somebody will find and take it. 2. Map gets new locations in almost every patch. 3. Don't see it happening any time before the final release. 4. Wrong type of game. 5. Same as 1. Works in the mod just fine, so it should work in SA when they got implemented. I've already got memorized all the fuel tanks in safe, isolate places + a number of favourite locations to hide cars.