Zombie Jesus

Can't it be both?

Im old as shit too and have met decent players on this very forum. Once I posted that I was a Californian player who was 28 looking for a group and found four west coast buddies within a day. We all thought the other might shoot on the first meeting, but we managed to trust each other and did some damage and took some deaths. I lost my 28 day old care bear character and have never looked back. I still play with them from time to time when IRL friends are over the game. Once your character dies go out with a good PVP or PVE crew and have some fun and take some deaths. Or join a lingor server where you will be fresh anyways.

I actually would be fine with some minor tweaks to the current injury system, I would just hate to make it incredibly hard to recover. If recovery takes too much time and resources most will just take a death over hobbling around for an extended period of time, so if the effects lasted 30 minutes to an hour of in game time fine, if it took longer to regain your step then I would just commit suicide and run for the gear from the coast. This game has a steep learning curve which I love, but I think they should be cautious in implementing features that makes the game even more difficult. Blood bags do favor groups or IRL friends, but it is literally one of the only cooperative experiences in the game currently. In fact it is the only dedicated cooperative mechanic in the game, although fixing vehicles is really a two + man job.

I hate snipers in every game, but I also do not want them removed because they add something valuable (fear of death at any moment, I have been sniped in a field near Devil's Castle) and just because I tend to dislike them does not mean they are playing the game wrong, it just means I am being a pussy. Edit: Maybe as a server option, but even then we get into the realm of unintended consequences. Say you log onto one of these servers with your favorite rifle and it takes it away, say a server owner is being a baby and just switches over making the server useless to certain players, or just take the fact that you can snipe people with a Lee Enfield (not as effectively). Do you keep the M14 Aim? Is the Fal going to be okay?

Hackers (skiddies mostly) will be a problem until standalone and even then you will still see hacking on occasion like every other game (just much less hopefully). Read up on the standalone and the reasons it can not really be fixed in the mod and you will understand why it will either take patience or just walking away until the problem is resolved. I at least understand the frustration and confusion with graphic bugs (unlike the endless hacker whines by people too lazy to actually understand a problem that has been discussed to death), but once again there is a reason they are hard to fix and that reason extends beyond the DayZ mod. If the fix was easy for either issue it would already be out.

Can we all remember that this is still a GAME at the end of the day. The injury mechanics are just fine as they are and no one should have to wait days to heal from an injury in the game, that is absurd. Should we have physical therapy after three weeks of bed rest? Do we get crutches or a wheelchair if we get in a car accident. I know lets add insulin to combat the diabetes we will all get from drinking a pepsi or coke every half hour. Maybe we have to farm organic food to get the right nutrient amounts, take breaks on long runs, or add a cramp mechanic. The game needs to remain accessible guys, I am not saying easy (there are plenty of easy games that you can pick up and play with minimal effort) I am saying accessible. I would much rather die than have to limp along for days due to a broken leg (considering how much of this game is a running simulator), so no I would not want some terrible mechanic that made the game worse just for the sake of "realism." As far as the actual suggestion, yes it would make sense to add a slow blood regeneration effect. The people suggesting nerfing the blood bags, we have so few mechanics in this game that encourage cooperation that we should not be so quick to discard one.

Was this thread ever on track?

If they are unarmed and I have high level gear I will help and then get out of dodge. I have even threatened someone with death if they picked up a gun on the ground before I got out of the building.

Thread should be moved or locked, the guy was probably getting griefed by some random hacker and is now making the server admin out to be something they are not. Plus it is in the wrong section to begin with, sucks that you died by hack, join the club.

Why the meed to justify hiding the body or trying to make it sound nice in the first place? You killed the person no need to be nice after the fact. I just own the act and say I not only killed you but I then hid your body. I expect the same treatment on death and only look for my body if it is not out of the way.

I hate this dupe because it got me killed earlier. I am so used to seeing this that I see a guy standing with a sniper rifle and as I am running he doesn't move at all, I walk up thinking it is another player dupe and he shoots me right in the face. Stop hinting at how it is done, the less people who know the better.

Too much agreement in this thread, what about my duped satchel stash. How will I ever replace my 8 NVG. Has anyone thought of that, how inconsiderate.

Don't touch the as50 TWS since it is cheap as shit.

I've been on the other end and really just had to laugh. Tell a buddy that our group is on the top of the clock tower in cherno, he climbs up and says he sees someone. We thought he meant on the ground and started looking all around and he shoots my buddy and I on the roof. Needless to say he gets mocked constantly and we always tell him our position three or four times when he is approaching. Same buddy is also responsible for crashing two offroad pickup trucks that killed all four people.

I was going to guess a friendly survivor.

Dayz commander. Enough said.

I will be honest and say I do hide bodies strictly to be a dick. No justification needed here.

Too funny man, experienced almost all of those. Lived for over 20 days, killed by a rock.

I've lost so many vehicles near the ural spawn I've lost count. My offroad pickup hurt the most, give lingor a try before leaving for good. It is more casual playing legit since there are military spawns all over the map.

You can find one with a grenade launcher in the van when it spawns, otherwise it is fairly rare. It also has an MK Mod, NVG, and satchels.

Yea I have never understood this argument since there is already a solution with servers running first person only. Also it is a huge pet peeve to see people calling it an exploit when it clearly is not an exploit. If they want to argue which is harder fine, but I refuse to accept the exploit argument.

Right now Hackers (really Skiddies) have an extremely easy target due to issues with Arma2, when the standalone is released it will cut down on hackers (Skid marks) because it will not allow the script based commands that Arma2 allows. Most of these skiddies are too stupid to understand what they are doing, so it will reduce their numbers in a significant manner. Actual hackers will still exist, but go play Battlefield 3 on PC and tell me how many times you see obvious hacking. Then again I doubt you are stupid enough to believe the epic logic fail that you just posted.

I can see your point ont he lack of communication lately, but on the flip side it is a small development team that has been understandably busy in the last month. They announce a standalone and started working on it this month, they attend Gamescon, they are currently at PAX, and they are from a small company. How many times can you hear people complain about tents and vehicles (it sucks sure, but at the same time it is still in development and is not supposed to be a polished product) or graphic glitches before you just hunker down and start working on the fixes. What do you want them to say, "we are working on it" when anyone with common sense knows they are both aware of these problems and working on these problems. I am starting to think Rocket messed up by allowing the alpha to stay open and saying it will receive periodic patches during the lead up to the standalone. If they had pulled the plug or just said this is what you have and handed it over to the community people would have just waited for the standalone, but since they pledged some support they are now burdened with hundreds of whine threads everyday by those who think this mod should be priority number one. Many of us see the potential and many of my friends have come back to the game after a couple week break, while the others are waiting for the standalone. I still find this rough product fun but if you do not take a break and read the reviews when it comes out as a polished product, hackers and bugs will continue to be problem for the mod so if it is too frustrating just hang it up for awhile. Most of the community is mature enough to understand that the developers are focusing most of their attention on the actual game that will be released and we are also hoping for some new features that increase the ways to play this game while not breaking the immersion.

This thread topic is stupid as shit, maybe remove the backpacks at spawn but beyond that they serve an important function in a game like this, looting. If I can only carry one gun then sure I have to make a tough decision, but after I get that MK I am done looting for weapons instead of looking for an awesome backup sniper rifle. Currently I have a MK, M107, and AS50 (I normally would put one of the sniper rifles up but I put it in my pack at the end of the day due to vehicle and tent bugs), without my Coyote (which is rare the guy who always finds them is incredibly lucky it took me over three weeks to find mine) I would have given up long ago at looting and would have resorted to newb killing in Cherno.

I'm a dick and that is my thing, so I never expected an apology. I was going to add to that rant that nobody should assume their playstyle is somehow more valid (as long as playing legit, like survivor versus bandit, not hacker versus non hacker), but it was already a long winded rant from a raving lunatic so I left it out (once again my style). If you would have said that about third person instead of referring to it as an "exploit" I would have left it alone, it is not an exploit it is an optional in game mechanic. Notice how I said I do not like nameplates so I avoid those servers, I never said it was cheap, an exploit, or acted as though I am too good for nameplates I just do not like them. I avoid high population servers like the plague and get nervous when more than 15 players are in a server due to hackers. I usually do not die to hackers because of my constant paranoia allowing me to see them teleport in as a hatchet wielding zombie, but we all have to deal with that nonsense (sucks because I enjoy occasional PVP). You still are using the word exploit though, an exploit would be server hoping to grab high level gear at the NWAF because you are using an in game feature to gain an unfair advantage (the feature is hive connection saving your place for other purposes and you use it to gear up). Using a feature on a server that is available to everyone else in the same fashion IS NOT AN EXPLOIT. Just leave it at not your cup of tea and stop using the word exploit as a descriptor and we are cool (or don't, but just know you are using the word wrong we could always disagree if you said it was cheap but I tend not to tolerate people making up definitions). Other than that you can have my beans for calling me out for being a dick.