coolboynaked

I've hit myself in the face while aiming at a zombie with a hatchet before and 1 hit ko'd myself.

I think you misunderstand the point of the zombies OP. It's not them alone. The point is that they add additional elements to the player interaction. You don't not want to aggro zombies because they'll kill you, you don't want to aggro zombies because if you shoot them you'll make a lot of noise and alert other players, and other players will be able to see your position from the zombies chasing you. More zombies, of course, will also be attracted to the gunshots, which causes you to be exposed to other players even longer. 95% of the tension and challenge in this game is created by the threat of other players and zombies are no different. If anything zombies should be easier to sneak by and stronger if alerted, since right now it's incredibly hard to loot anything with zombies around it without alerting one unless you're willing to prone for 5 minutes.

If you're careful with a lee it's not a bad choice at all. It has super long range for a non-sniper rifle so if you sneak up on towns and scope them out with binoculars from cover/hills etc, you'll easily be able to take out anyone you see. I actually prefer the lee to some other more modern weapons, like ak's or any of the carbines, because it does such high damage and has super long range. As was said, sidearm is for zombies anyway, but not having an option for long range vs other players can be a big disadvantage and lose you kills that you would've otherwise gotten.

Having it as an optional server config would hurt no one.

Yeah I would very much like to see a server side option for "Server only characters" or something like that. This alone would fix 99% of exploits.

lee is better vs players, crossbow is better vs zombies

why did you stop and then just stand in the open and try to shoot lol

you're going to get killed if you keep being so nice it's a post apocalyptic lawless world filled with zombies the morphine guy should have killed you

people who play the game

so basically a free loot/kills zone

Game needs characters that are unique to servers. If it already exists which i think it does it needs to be more prevalent. This would fix 95% of dc cheats. Server hopping to "ghost," loot, etc. It would also kind of fix dcing from combat since you can't just join an empty server to wait out your incap.

and the longer you're killing zombies the higher chance you'll die to other players. durr yesterday I headshot a zombie and literally 2 seconds later another respawned right where it was.

I found my first yesterday literally 5 seconds after spawning. For about 2 hours I ran around in a ghillie suit with a hatchet :P

A smart newb would've taken advantage of you chatting to some guy to give you a makarov to the head.

The people who have illegitimately gained gear will lose it. No one lives forever in this game.

In those barracks you can look through the windows and see virtually every square inch, theres nowhere to hide. You didn't do a good enough job of scoping it out. You could also use 3rd person view to look around corners before entering if your server allows it.

No what both of you are doing is equating any PvP as being "CoD" and something negative. To him, anyone who might want to do anything other than group up to kill npc zombies is 12 years old. It's really pathetic and petty.

That's why you start in big towns. Morphine.

Random spawn literally anywhere. Most people who have one either got lucky or server hopped.

Who plays the game like it's CoD? No one at all. In CoD you don't travel across the countryside for hours being super paranoid and watching your back at every turn, scoping out towns for minutes before feeling safe to enter at all. The only part of the game where people kill eachother a lot is in Cherno/Elektro after spawning, and they're doing it because they have no items and there is a good chance you will have items. They want these items. Explain how any of this is remotely like CoD aside from "there is shooting" Every game you've mentioned has been some non-competitive casual crap so I don't get how you stumbled across this game anyway. There's nothing remotely relevant to Day Z in Minecraft or Dwarf Fortress and the only thing relevant in CoD is the fact that both games have guns. Don't mistake the game not being for you as the developer being bad, rofl. I didn't like Minecraft because it was boring and pointless but I didn't make rage posts on the forums about it blaming Notch.

Yeah you're definitely right. Pretty much the only way to get a sniper rifle as solo is to farm on low pop, get lucky in a deer stand, get lucky and find an untouched and unwatched crashed heli, or farm barns and hope you get a CZ. #1 I'm not doing, #2 is very unlikely, #3 is even more unlikely, and #4 is probably the easiest way, but still unlikely. Hell when i'm playing solo I practically feel like the goal of the game is to avoid everyone until I get amazingly lucky and find one, because thats just how the game is. Snipe or be sniped.

I get really bored after a couple of days when I have good gear anyway. Running through Cherno with a makarov or an axe and pvping can be very fun compared to running through the wilderness being deathly afraid of losing your stuff. Having nothing to lose is refreshing.

that's not really a gunfight sounds like a massacre caused by bad driving