Fraggle (DayZ)

I had a nice chat with a player in an airfield control tower yesterday. We'd never met. I heard him coming up the stairs and told him I was up top and not to shoot. He said he was just looking around. I said cool, come on up! After a quick chat we decided to team up for a bit to leave the airfield safely. Then we swapped some ammo, I gave him a morphine injector and we went our seperate ways. This is just one of hundreds of friendly encounters I've had. Instead of trying to break the mechanic of the game maybe just have a think about how your approaching it. If you stroll into Cherno trying to high-five everyone, your going to get shot. If you choose your moments carefully, you'll have more luck. Just to recap: I don't want the simple gameplay mechanic to be tweaked to make it easier/less frustrating for players. It's supposed to be challenging, it's supposed to be stressful. That's what bought most of us here. A unique game doing things that haven't been tried before.

Please God Noooooo! I play as a survivor for the most part, so do bandits, they just have a more aggressive strategy. Here's what I do when I get fed up with them: Identify a group of bandits, this takes a lot of patience. Find a good spot and wait, a scope is usefull for this. Watch the behaviour carefully and it won't take long to find out if they're killing and robbing. Track them for as long as it takes. Usually they will lead you to their tents if they have some. Wait for them to drop off the gear and head off. Then rob the tents. Destroy anything you can't carry and even better come back with a vehicle and flatten the tents, it's very satisfying. See, no need to mess with the gameplay mechanics, just a bit of imagination is all that's needed. The whole point of DayZ is that people play how they want. Fed up with snipers? There's ways of dealing with them too. I won't bore you with my technique for this but it involves smoke grenades and flanking. If you come accross something in DayZ you don't like, half the fun is thinking of a strategy to deal with it. I don't like any of the suggestions that try to re-balance the game or punish a certain behaviour (unless it's cheating).

I've no idea.

Nice one! It's pretty much as I thought. Not a hack, just another pissed off admin being bitter about being outsmarted on his home turf. I see so many posts about people being kicked for engaging with the admin. I'm tempted to go to this server just to hunt them all down like you did. You did nothing wrong, in fact, you did exactly what I would have done.

I had this problem yesterday. I walked away from the carcass (after it had said how many meat were on it) then came back and it let me pick it up. Weird but it worked for me. Maybe theres a delay or something now. Seems a bit buggy since the update.

I smell a trap!

I see your point but when I find a sever I like I usually wanna stay on there, not be forced to move on.

Sounds like a graphics card ussue to me. Have you updated your drivers and so on?

http://www.armaholic.com/ Have a look on here, it may help.

I wish more people would either use the salute sign or lower their guns if friendly.

So you had some luck then?

a) I have read every word of the thread so far. b ) Like I've said three times already, speculating about why he had those items in his backpack is pointless. There's just too many reasons people have for carrying different things. c) Maybe he was part of a group, maybe not, we'll never know. d) Maybe he was a hacker, maybe not (I've said this already). e) I apologise for suggesting that you were sever hopping. Your original post made it sound like you were. f) Essentially, we'll never know. Let's hug it out.

I don't mind snipers it's part of the game and there's ways of dealing with them. I was referring to people running around the city COD stylee. Up north people have more to lose and tend to be more skillfull.

If your fed up with the death match thing then just avoid Cherno and Electro. Head north, it's much more fun up there.

It's a fair point but I still think there's more fun to be had for a noob by having to find someone to help them. That's what I did. It was tricky but it worked, got some gear of a nice fella too. I like that this game doesn't hold your hand like every other game out there. Most people will have been pointed towards this game via threads on gaming sites and so on and will probably be aware of the darkness thing. Almost every initial article I read mentions how dark it is at night and how steep the learning curve is.

I agree but I don't think global chat is the way to do it. I loved my first experience in Day Z, not knowing what the hell was going on and then figuring it out. I think that's what lures people into the game. Also on one of my first outings i found a guy who was really helpful and explained some of the basics to me, he even gave me some gear. Maybe I was lucky but it's these random encounters that make this game unique.

I disagree. And you sound like an Arma snob. I've played Arma for years before DayZ but I'm happy to see it finally getting some of the recognition it desreves via this mod. Strangers still help each other. Yes it's hard to know who to trust but that makes it more tense and adds to it. It would get boring quickly if we all just ran around comparing guns and high-fiving each other.

I think it's 60 metres or so. It always works a treat for me. Also you can double tap CAPS to leave it open when your chatting. Maybe your mic isn't set up right? Try talking to a few noobs to see if you get a response. I find it rare that people don't respond so I think you might not have it working. It really adds to the game and will make it easier for you to contact people.

The only problem with that is it changes the mechanic of the game. That's what I don't like. If your a noob just spawned and you can simply just start talking to every one on the map it takes away from the "survivor" element greatly.

I think there's a public teamspeak server with 500+ slots. That should sort you out.

No, I'm a lone wolf and I don't want global chat. Seeing constant spamming of the same bollocks "anyone in Cherno?" or "I'm on a crane?" just ruins the immersion for me and it's unrealistic. If you want to talk to people you just have to be carefull. Try and get in a position where you have the advantage (or they can't see you) before you make contact. Radio's are the answer but they probably won't be introduced until it's a standalone game.

Agreed.

Practice makes perfect.

I did the same with a tractor yesterday, took me a couple of mins to bleed to death.

I think they're ammo boxes, maybe hacked into the game. Not sure though. .