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This is the next level of understanding the game to which OP will inevitably come. I'm on it as well' date=' killing everyone you see is damn too easy and boring. [/quote'] I applaud you guys, I myself refuse to shoot other players at all, even if they're assaulting me. When there was still a humanity face on the side of the screen, mine looked pretty saintly. I also walk everywhere fully upright, at the slow speed, with my weapon lowered. If you gun me down, you've accomplished nothing. Only a coward would even try. I think a big part of being able to rationalize this apparently risky behaviour is accepting that you can't win this game, there simply isn't a condition for it, and the only reason any of us are here is to experience amazing and awful things that can translate into interesting stories. "man sees man, man shoots man in face" is a crappy story.

OP is a lazy jerk ass. Get off your lazy jerk ass, go find a hatchet or a crow bar, and try chasing down your prey. Get your hands dirty.

If it's not too late, can we also get the murders/bandits killed stats removed from the debug monitor? Looking forward to this update, sounds like it'll change the game pretty significantly. Can't wait to see how. Edit: haha, didn't realize it had been rolled out. That'll teach me to read the title of the thread I'm posting in:P

That's generally a good rule for survival. My rule is not to log out in plain sight, and not within 100 metres of a lootable hotspot. Otherwise there's just too great a chance you'll log in right in front of someone who'd like to shoot you, and they'll probably see you before you see them.

In my defense, a google search of 'arma 2 suit' comes up only with pictures of ghillie suits, and somewhat surprisingly, an Armani suit that I'd be willing to bet does not feature in the game. I'm not going to spend too much time researching whether it does or not, though. It's still not the tux/top hat/cane/monocle combo that I'm fantasizing about.

Dunno if you've seen this yet, but PC Gamer highlighted your vid in this little top ten article: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/15/10-awesome-dayz-moments-freaky-stalkers-blood-fountains-tractor-rampages-and-more/ So I guess we're famous now:P

I think this is too much to ask, for a while at least. It would require new art assets, which as I understand, aren't happening for this mod any time soon. I'm fully on board with your suggestion, though. I've asked in another thread for an Armani suit. I'd even pay real money for it if it persisted through my death.

Personally I go into this game like I would a game of Tetris, knowing full well that eventually it will end. It's just a question of when. Death never comes at a convenient time, but if you can accept it's inevitability, you'll deal with it better. If you can go a week without being shit on by early/flawed/buggy game mechanics, or other dastardly players, then you're doing pretty well, and should be happy with what you got out of it. Also, expect a wipe or a relocation for each update, then you'll be pleasantly surprised when your character survives the update intact.

Edited to remove inaccuracies... which was everything I'd said.

I'd just toss it. An M1911 is by far the most practical sidearm, with a Glock being the coolest and second most practical, in my estimation. I give the Makarov a third place, as it's easy to line up headshots with, and it's ammo is so common. I would pass on all the other sidearms; they either don't have enough ammo available, or don't do enough damage, or both. With the PDW, it's the low damage combined with terrible sights that discourage me from using it.

I want a Red Ryder B.B. gun. I could put zomble's eyes out and then hide from them, while they then stumble around, swinging their arms erratically in the direction of any sound they hear.

I'd really like to see this taken a step further and have the death notifications disabled, too. It's a bit annoying seeing "dillweed22 has been killed" pop up 14 times in a row while some knob respawns for a better location.

I'd just like to see a space on the site where we can plug in our guid, (or link it to our forum account perhaps) and see a fairly detailed breakdown of our own stats. I'm very curious about my own personal average life expectancy, my personal best for longevity, which weapons I've had for the greatest amount of time (or have fired the most rounds through), my own distance travelled on foot and via other means (though for me personally it's all on foot so far), my total/average/record zed kills. Ander, if I pm'd you my guid (or whatever info you'd need to identify me), could you tell me my average life expectancy and/or my record? Those are what I'm most curious about.

Woah, woah. You actually might be onto something here... could we get some feedback from lonewolf players? I'm not wanting to make things easier or force playstyles, but adding some psychological tension would be awesome. Something related to being around people, that could be medicated if you want to lonewolf. Thoughts? I'm disagreeing on this one, on the sole basis that I'm one of those rare humans whose anxiety level rises around other people, and need extensive solo time (usually spent gaming or watching movies) to decompress after a day of human interaction. It irks me because it would force me to adopt and adapt to a psychological requirement that's alien to me. If anything, Budiak's suggestion might work, but I think we should just leave this notion alone entirely.

YES how about also losing more humanity for killing someone who has lots of it?

Remember back in the day when the only way to kill a zombie was to remove or destroy it's head? Let's bring that back, seriously limit the amount of available ammo in the game, and get rid of the relative volume mechanic of the non-silenced weapons. Gunshots are fuckin' loud, whether from a Mak or an Enfield. Fire either one in Electro, and you should bring every zed in at least a 5 block radius down upon you. The idea would be to make you carefully consider whether to fire your weapon, though something will still need to be done about those that dc to lose aggro. Maybe the game could detect if you have zombies after you, and if you dc while that's the case, you're just dead upon reconnecting. Thoughts?

I lost a day 6 character today, though I probably put more hours into a day 3 character I had about a month ago. As far as hours played goes, I think I've hit 10-ish.

I just don't understand the folks that play the long game in DayZ. If you've got an organized camp, and so many supplies that you need tents to hold them, then what do you actually do in game? Do you just compulsively hoard more stuff? If so, why? If you've already proven you can collect all the things, then why not start again? You're still just collecting things, what does it matter how many things you already have? The motions you go through are the same. I play this game like it's a more interesting version of Tetris, accepting that it's inevitably going to end and I'll have to start again. It's not WoW, people. There's no endgame, there's just lots of short stories to experience and create. All life ends in death.

If the 'no starting weapon' change is indeed implemented, then I say yes, most certainly, let's have a character wipe, or we're all extra-doomed. I say this as someone who has recently lost a week-old character, but every time I get to where I have all the loot, I just run around shooting my guns in the air in the nw airfield or starry sobor anyway, so I can start again fresh.

I feel the need to pipe in with another 20 or so words: Let's make ammo much scarcer as well, so that firing one's weapon becomes a potentially very expensive action, and a decision to be made carefully each time. To limit the amount that freshly spawned players are preyed upon, they should start with no food, too.

YES I've tossed my gun at the start for fun and it worked. Might as well try it while in alpha.

Your maths are arbitrary and prove nothing. Also, forming groups in game *is* enabled, I've done it many times. Just last night, I was fired upon, shouted "don't shoot, I don't want to shoot you!" into the direct chat, and made a new friend. I posit that it is you that is antisocial.

For folks like myself, who probably represent the average hardcore dayz player fairly well, this is a terrible idea. I tend to survive for a week or so on each attempt, with no hacking or glitching or alt+f4ing whatsoever. The odds then of your monthly reset rudely interrupting my progress would be around 1 in 4. That would piss me off more than any pvp death ever could. I just wouldn't play at all for the two weeks prior to the reset, and probably wouldn't bother starting a new character after, either. It might not be the death of the game, but a significant percentage of the competent players would call it quits, I bet.

There's other issues here, but I'll be damned if I know what they are. My bro and I have machines that are nearly identical numerically (although his is Intel/nvidia, whereas mine is all AMD), and we're using the same 1.7 w/ the latest beta build, and for unknown reasons I can hit 60+ fps on near maxed settings, and he can barely crack ten no matter what his graphics are set to. It's not a 1.6/1.7 issue in all circumstances, certainly not in this one... maybe it's an nvidia thing? I dunno.