Zombie Jesus

Yea unless he was looking right at you I do not see how you could have died like that, plus he said sorry he had to do this (he also thought you were hacking) so it looks fishy. Funniest part about Dayz is the people blaming hacking for every death. I killed a guy and then saw my name on a forum calling me a hacker, had to laugh because I am a fan of strict gameplay and will not even combat log to avoid death, much less be the scum of the earth and resort to hacking. It is starting to sound like CoD players who said everyone was lag switching.

Still trying to figure out what Buttstroke (or Buttstoke) means. I get that you mean hit someone with the butt of your rifle, but not sure if there is an actual word for this (also afraid to Google that information at work).

Post link or it did not happen. Kidding, sort of. If you say you have it recorded (you must be old like myself using the word tape) then post the link. I hope he at least ran at you firing an AK-47 shouting Allah Akbar (God is great). Or maybe he threw a satchel charge on himself and then detonated it when he was in range, either way it would fit the name.

I hate everyone on this thread. I have been looking for a coyote backpack and NVG for the past week and have gone to the barracks at the NWAF a total of 40 to 50 times. I have murdered 8 people looting there and still not NVG or Coyote backpack. One bright spot is my tent is filled with rare guns, but it will be a small prize when I get shot by some dude with NVG's on a night server.

Take away rule number 3 and you have a great veteran player with no other issues, but everyone rages once in awhile. After saying this I honestly can not think of the last rage quit I had on this game, but I am sure it has happened. You should add a rule on combat logging, no clan should tolerate that nonsense.

That ruins the point of the game, the game is not about the developers trying to protect your gear it is about survival. You also fail to realize people would still grief and kill people in the open servers, they would just have a nice private loot server to store all of their stuff. This would be beyond boring (for most of us maybe not you and I am not criticizing your PVE play style either) because it would result in loot bases right on the coast so griefers could just hop in grab gear and then go beach hunting with sniper rifles. The point of this game is your character can die at any time from someone else. I have been up North in the forest on a server with 5 people and ran into someone in the middle of nowhere. Without that risk this game becomes lame. Really my second point about the game being about survival with the risk of dying at every turn is less important than the exploits this would lead to. The second point is just my take on this game, the first point is about keeping the game fair.

Not going to happen, it is a MOD that everyone can play, not just your friends. If you do not want to run a server you are free to stop running a server.

Maybe he should not call for a server ban outright, but someone should remind server owners that they are not allowed to lock servers to look for loot. Maybe they have a reasonable explanation (hackers are not a reasonable explanation, there are rules against hacking and rules against Admin abuse, get proof of the hacking and hope for a global ban). Beyond that warnings should be issued, not bans considering the time, effort, and cash that goes into hosting a server. After several warnings they should be banned.

Yes, but I only know that smoke grenades and flares work better than empty cans and bottles (never used a chemlight). I am completely unsure if the smoke grenade is more effective than the flare, although the smoke grenade is better because it works during the day and at night.

Disable zombies on a zombie game? How you fail to see how dumb that sounds is beyond my comprehension.

It is an Alpha, not a finished product. If you like the game but are annoyed with some bugs then come back once the turd is polished. Report bugs to the development team and always remember the first rule of Chernarus, do not get attached to your gear it will be lost to bandits, falls, bugs, glitches. ghosters, LGBT insensitivity, aliens . . . well you get the point. If you want to wait two years for a big developer to develop a poor copycat game be my guest, I will put my hope in a more polished DayZ being released in the immediate future.

And then a sniper gets the headshot on the guy who is laying prone. Hell even if the Sniper misses he will probably get another shot off before you are able to stand and start running. Then again I hate crawling with a passion and have never had the patience to crawl for long distances. I would rather agro a bunch and run into a building and escape through another door, or add to my zombie kill count.

We should all hate people who DC in firefights. I was getting sniped at in Electro a week ago with some random survivor (in my defense I probably would have killed this guy anyways once finding loot). The sniper shoots and he instantly DC and I run into a building. I hear shots and I wait for a little, the sniper might be dead and I have nothing to lose so I leave the building and the guy ends up respawning around the same time. He runs up and says that was crazy on global and my response was to tell him DC is for assholes and shot him on the spot.

I keep seeing this idea that there is a magic bullet to the problem and just to let you know I am not a kill on sight player but I will murder a player who deserves to be murdered. Like most of those who complain about the player kills you do not offer a single specific solution to the problem yet seem to think it will magically appear. I would be very against punishment for player kills and I am very against any sort of safe area on the map. If you have a gun that shoots then you should be able to shoot anything that pops into sight including other players. Should you? Who knows I am not into insulting other playing styles except dirty dirty snipers at the airfield (kind of joking). I could see more incentives to grouping up, but that will never remove the threat of some jerk who just wants to shoot someone else for the lulz. Hopefully I was not too big of jerk in that response because I do agree that more people should look for cooperation and not let the few bad apples ruin the game for you. Most players are unaware of how many people have truly seen them and done nothing, I see people in fields and towns all the time that I could probably take out but make the choice to leave them be on their individual adventure. If I am in a group and we stumble across another well armed group that is a different story. I will murder that group every chance I get because they are the competition for vehicles and high level gear. Same with established camp grounds, that shit is gone if you do not have a couple sentries. Might sound messed up but I feel that is realism in this game, as a sole survivor you will seek out a group, but once part of the group you will be deeply distrustful of other armed groups and get into conflicts with these groups.

Quick question, are ammo boxes in this game or not. I walked up on a heli crash site yesterday and saw an ammo box with 10 DMR mags, 10 Dragunov mags, and 10 m4 mags. I was bummed that the heli crash did not have a decent weapon since it is only the third one with loot I have actually found but I grabbed 10 DMR mags for a buddy and put them in a tent. Seeing this makes me worried that I might have picked up scripted loot. I would hate to be in trouble over some mags I can't even use.

Yep, cleared a group of six or seven military zombies from a heli crash site, picking up loot, and all of a sudden there are another seven military zombies just walking around the crash site. I was laying down so no agro and was able to leave, but still it was somewhat surprising especially when you think it is safe enough to mark a spot on your map just to come back to seven zombies walking around your spot.

It is an Alpha for fucks sake, you did not even pay for it. The game is still being tweaked with the intent of trying to encourage multiple play styles. Internet whiners not even understanding what they are bitching at. How do fix these "problems" professor? I almost hope they allow a couple of servers to dedicate to the stupid task of just gearing up and fighting zombies and disable players killing players. That way you little girls can stay in your servers holding hands and talking about how much better it has been since everyone can just sneak into towns and only worry about stupid zombies that are insanely easy to kill. The difference between you and bandits is bandits have fun while you guys whine like little girls every time something does not go your way. If the game is not fun, do not play. Also for all the people saying they should go play COD, maybe you idiots should go play farmville where you will have zero chance of getting pked. BTW, I am not a bandit. I have been alive for six days now and have almost 300 zombie kills and a total of 4 player kills. Three of those deserved it and attacked first, the fourth scared the shit out of me and was most likely just trying not to die after I finally spotted him running up on me because he did not yell friendly until I glanced at him running toward me through a field. Saw his friends and said if the guy was truly not trying to kill me I apologize and left all of his loot so they could rearm him once meeting up.

Exactly could not have said it any better. I might get frustrated when I get shot for no reason, but it is that interaction that keeps me on my toes. The zombies are not the hard part in this game, it is the other survivors that you have to worry about. Otherwise you would have a bunch of terrible players living for weeks on end, where is the fun there?

One, welcome to the interweb buddy and if you thought that response was rude then you are being a sissy. Two, you are definitely whining about peoples playing styles and for you to take offense after trying to insult half the player base with some stupid COD comparison (the equivalent of calling someone a NAZI on gamer forums apparently) is absurd. It is still in Alpha and they will most likely continue to encourage cooperation. Quick question, why do you think they allow players to kill other players? Was it a mistake, or was it so this game was not just another left for dead or black ops zombies. I am not even an aggressive player but I will murder people once in awhile if the situation dictates that action. But who are you to question how others enjoy the game? Find depopulated servers if you are afraid to lose your gear, otherwise I think it is you who might be playing the wrong game.

Yea because everyone who shoots you in the game is just dying to play the newest COD. Here is a plan, be careful or quit whining about the occasional death. If you suck so much that you are unable to stay alive for prolonged periods that sounds like your fault.

Point? I never "paid" for it in the first place. I bought ARMA 2 for dayz but when I downloaded Dayz I did not pay a single dime.

I will somewhat agree with your ARMA II assessment (I am new to that as well and while it is fun and different from other games, it is way too old for all of the bugs in the game), you should understand that Dayz is still in Alpha testing. People always whine that we are just making excuses for the developers and I say of course we are because we understand what Alpha means. It means it is not even close to the finished product and you should expect bugs that drive you crazy. I laid down the other day and broke my leg, it sucked and without morphine it was a death sentence but I got over it fairly quickly. The game is addictive and fun despite the problems, so I can live with the drawbacks while they put together the finished product (in 2014).

Better advice, stop running up on people in general. I am pretty sure a guy was hoping to blast me with a shotgun and when I turned and saw him he instantly yelled friendly at the same time I shot. If he would have been behind cover and yelled friendly from a decent distance he would have walked away with no harm, instead he was running up like an idiot thinking that would not scare the shit out of me.

Grouping up already has huge advantages. If I want to lone wolf into stary I have a high probability of being murdered. But if I am in a group of three or more (even two in a pinch) I can have someone on overwatch on the hills above the military tents calling out zombie positions and giving warnings of survivor sightings. Plus to give a blood transfusion requires another player, and someone always breaks their leg without having morphine (I am the medic so I never have this problem constantly running around with at least four blood bags and four morphine shots if not more). You can tailor skill sets too, I am a brawler who does not mind having to respawn and loot the coast, while other players are cautious types who will set up bases and find vehicles but dislike going into the places frequented by survivors. If some players can not see the benefits to going in a group then they have not experienced this game in the way intended and are probably server hoping for loot or disconnecting to avoid danger. I am not complaining too much about those tactics (I will say it really bugs me when some little sissy logs off during a firefight but not the point), it just tends to dilute the need for cooperation.

Like I said, I really do not see you regretting this purchase even if a stand alone version comes out in a couple of months and you have to pay for it. It is different than most games I have played and I do not think I have liked a game this much in at least five years. I was like you reading the constant stream of articles about this mod and sat on the fence for almost two months. Finally I convinced some buddies to buy it and try it out and none of us has logged onto Battlefield or Diablo III since (yes I do like Battlefield deal with it ARMA fans). Just do not listen to all the negativity on forums, there are bugs but it is an Alpha and anyone expecting a finished product should be slapped.