sapien82

Im off work tomorrow but your last day today ! surely you dont go back to school on a friday ? that really sucks balls ! If your on tomorrow I could tag along , although Im currently on a quest to rescue my injured cousin at the north west airfield ! there will most likely be heavy resistance it's an in out rescue mission!

hahaha funny but karma will burn you all !

Does anyone remember the game based on HP lovecrafts books ! where your sanity was also part of the game , but there were no visual HUD indicators other than your heart rate and your vision ! I think that in this game your sanity should also be a survival aspect the more and more zombie encounters you see the more insane you become , the more you socialise with others the more you recover your sanity ! this would encourage social interaction to a degree !

I set you a challenge , repair a helicopter and do medical runs for the medics , pick up and drop off people for blood transfusions ! see how long you last !

Since Day Z specifically deals with civilians , then it would be a normal engineer without military background ! that is an example from the dictionary i.e. the sapper ! Mostly civil engineers !

Not all people are qualified engineers , most are just people who know how to repair things ! there is a difference !

Thing is though Most people already know how to read topographical maps and use stars to map , so it would be kind of pointless to have a skill for that if we can just do it anyway without actually finding the manual ! I see your point , but if you pick up a map most people can use them without even having looked at a map for any length of time !

You can have your specialist packs , and people can take on that specific play role for their squad ! However you can also have a "jack of all trades " pack which allows you to select an Item from each , you wont be able to be specialist in any of the individual styles but you can take from each the ones you prefer a sacrafice that you make as a lone wolf ! Also I think that people should have to learn the specific skillset , so finding instruction manuals on vehicle maintenance or basic first aid discipline, gun maintenance and protocol. These manuals can be found in garages , libraries , military outposts. Not so much an XP ugrade but once you have a manual you can start to learn its contents through practice and once you have used it so often you become better and better at maintaining or repairing or performing certain tasks until you reach 100% as in you start a novice and then become more proficient through time. of course certain manuals and booklets are common and rare depending on the level of the loot that you working with. Not everyone knows how to do a blood tranfusion so novice doing it will likely mess it up and maybe lose some blood , a more experience player will be able to do it well and give +5000 blood back , and an expert (doctor) will be able to do it perfectly. Gun maintenance , a novice will repair a gun and likely mess it up and so it will jam or backfire or something similar , an expert man at arms will be able to repair it perfectly and it will never jam and will likely perform without a hitch. Guns should never start off at 100% as if brand new from the factory guns always require maintenance. Same with camping and making fires and gutting animals or fishing or water purification, these are all learned skills and no one should be able to do them perfectly first time round. These are all elements which should be included in the stand alone game , without making it an XP grind , the incentive of the game should be survival and as rocket said if a player wishes to find out about the zombies they can venture around looking for clues and information. I also think that communicating over the direct channel should be limited over larger distances, so already you can hear people communicating over direct if your close up , but if you want to communicate with your squad over direct and your not on ts you should be able to repair communication devices like radios and such! - this is just a thought. It would really add to the game more than using TS/ventrillo/skyp because using external chat is in reality taking away from the survival aspect. Just my thoughts Also if your making it stand alone I'd love to have a map editor that is user friendly , I'd love to recreate my home town and have it full of zombies !

Changing server is really a problem ,because of updates Im never in the same server twice each time i login to the game ! Not through choice really but because I cant remember the name of the last server I played on ! Last night I attempted my long trek to rescue my cousin at the north west airfield, however I spawned in cherno and went to raid a pub hoping to find an alice and or a compass and matches then get the hell out ! I was in the pub with nothing but my bandage and my painkillers and was brutally gunned down at point blank range by a guy with an AK ! is there no mercy ? Spawned again along the coast just east of Electro and went into that power station with the fire station , seen a guy getting mauled by zombies he went unconscious , went to bandage him , and over direct comms said " yo you need a bandage friend , i can help" was in the middle of bandaging him and his friend with a M4 shot me down for helping his friend ! Seems there is no helping some people , both times I was unarmed , I only logged in last night to rescue my cousin from starvation and blood loss , I wandered without a compass almost in a complete circle from salinchy on the east coast back to where I started hahaha found a bear trap and tried to set it up then broke my leg ! So after about three hourse I found all the survival gear I need but ended back up at the coast and had to go loot my own corpse ! So tonight im on the epic , avoid everyone quest to make it to the NW airfield to save my cousin !

I spent the last 3 or 4 days logging into servers and looting each little village on my trek north through deer stands , I had a CZ 550 and a M1a6 with the m203 grenade attachment , had 6 clips of ammo for each and an Alice pack . I make it on my own to the NW airfield at night and im raiding , forget to check the hanger properly on entering I aggro a zombie , run into the hanger and Im gunned down by three man squad just sitting waiting there in the dark ! Gutted , but I will learn from my mistake ! Lonewolf is difficult , zombies are easy its those pesky humans you have to watch out for ! tonight im on a rescue mission for my cousin at the NW airfield he is broken legs and low on blood , need to run from the coast all the way to get him

Well they would be migrating to where the largest concentration of players are ! for brains ! So I know there are alot of clans that like to hideout in the north and harvest good weapons and build their stash , so it would make sense that the zeds get pissed off at this hoarding so they know they are hoarding ! So they think hey there must be alot of them up there , lets go ruin their day and zombie stampeded their asses! this would make it a little more challenging for the clans to defend their stash having to compete with players for them would be easy , but having to defend against a relentless zed horde might prove a challenge !

People eat mutton in the UK ! stroker hahhahahaha I remember it being just as addictive , cant believe I wasted 5 minutes on that there ! tsk tsk tsk !

How bout just a herd of zed's migrating like in walking dead ! but all of the zombies on the map migrating !

Man Cannon fodder and Alex kidd are two of the best games out there ! I played them to the death as a kid ! Half the kids these days would give up after no continues and no unlimited lives ! See you in the killing fields

Yeh so I purchased this game from steam , and today I tried to join three servers in a row to be met with the "cd key in use" message ! I find this very puzzling and highly unacceptable ! I feel cheated some reason , and now since last time I played my Day z is running really crappy its slow to connect to servers and when i do the FPS is so shit I have to quit the server ! its not even playable I had logged in and heard a gun shot and went to check out the market where I was and my FPS dropped incredibly low and then I spotted the player and he shot me! I lost all of my stuff id been collecting for days ! I was rather annoyed ! What the hell is going on ? I so cant wait for the stand alone for this !