Niblik

Depends if we are talking about voice chat or purely globat text chat. I miss global text chat a lot. It allowed me to be helpful to others and also to feel that I was actually playing with other folks besides gankers and snipers. Voice chat was impossible to ignore, but its easy to ignore text messages. I don't see why folks are so bothered by it. As for immersion, I feel that that is kinda a weak arguement. It's a game and there are already a ton of things that "break" immersion if one starts counting them. Vote yes for global side chat.

I, for one, am glad to hear about bandit skins being brought back into the game. Hopefully this will bring about the more social atmosphere that I used to experience when I first started playing. I'm tired of everyone shooting everyone else just for the hell of it.

This ^ I'm all for player freedom but with zero consequences to killing, and no global chat, this is what my gameplay has become: 1. Gather supplies. 2. Shoot everyone because its too risky NOT to. 3. Run north to get away from coast. 4. Kill boar. Eat boar. 5. Gather better equipment. 6. Kill zeds and have a measure of fun with their challenge. 6. Spend all my time avoiding other players as I don't enjoy dying just to give them my loot. 7. Get sniped from 800 yards away without ever seeing my foe or having a chance to fight back. 8. Spawn on coast. 9. Get sniped/assault rifled while weaponless. 10. Gather supplies... 11. Rinse and repeat. I'll note that I only really have fun with step 4 and 6. The rest is generally frustration with peaks during steps 6-9. This mod shouldn't be fun for ONLY bandits.

Between 1 and 2.

Yeah in YOUR opinion thats the most fun. I choose to play this game as RPG like as possible. I would not go on a killing spree in real life. I've had alot of fun just not pulling the trigger. Let me tell you something. It takes a great amount of SKILL and patience to not pull the trigger and come out alive with out murdering someone. Its alot harder than your bandit playstyle. Apparently letting people live is BS to you' date=' but thats you. It seems I struck a cord with you as you don't seem to believe there is a such thing as "morality" in a videogame. I can tell you that for me, there is and will always be. maybe you should try it instead of spitting out "griefing propaganda" about video game morality [/quote'] Well said, I agree.

My last Heli wreck gave me a rock.

Let me know what servers you guys are playing on to find so many Helis! :) I haven't seen one in ages and I have spent plenty of time up north...

I agree. There's a little too much anonymity in this mod right now. There should be some kind of consequence for killing another human.

Any play SWG when it first came out? It originally had a system where you needed other classes in order to heal certain wounds and mental fatigue. I thought it was bullshit at first but grew to love it as it created more interaction between players. The "lol kiddies" found that they couldn't just shoot everyone/be obnoxious because they eventually needed the help of other players. If you were a doctor you could become pretty popular/rich while also being social and meeting lots of other players. I really grew to love the system and then Sony killed it. Personally, I think something like that could really help Dayz become more of an interesting survival mod rather than the "deathmatch only" flavor it has right now.

Haha, I used to play a little Darktide... but mostly did vanilla AC on Harvestgain. Good times. MMORPGs these days are a cakewalk to old Asheron's Call. :)

Um. Okay? Not sure what you are trying to accomplish with that friendly attitude.

On my third day of playing I went hunting for supplies in a small village. This was just after the patch that caused a lot more zeds to spawn than previously. As I got ready to head in I broke out my binoculars and took a peek. The town was crawling with the infected. There were crawlers on the roads and almost invisible in the fields. Hoppers were lurching around and walkers were everywhere I looked. "Fuck me." I said outloud to my monitor. My gut got cold and I felt lost and alone. Rocket made this moment possible. I have NEVER experienced a game that gave me that kind of authentic despair. Well played Rocket, well played.

Respectfully, no. Unless there is going to be beginner safe zones, spawning without a weapon will cause new players to be abused even more by "lol!" gankers. Thats your opinion...

You must have been extremely lucky then, because everyone I've talked to have experienced the same effect as I personally have. My experience is the same. In the span of around 3-5 days my play experience went from "Friendly?" and teaming up to getting shot without any effort being made to find out if I was aggressive or not. Hell, I've been shot while asking if the player needed help or if they were low on food. Now I'm forced to avoid everyone just to keep some kid from popping a round in my forehead for lols. Certainly reduced the fun of the mod for me.

This. If players can shoot zeds with their fast running speeds, jerky movements, and ability to see and hit us through walls... I think we can survive the new female models. Personally, I think its a great addition and I am glad that Rocket added them.

My thoughts exactly.

I Niblik, vow this day to never again pay attention to any thread that has "carebear" in its title. Come up with something less insulting.

No wonder the poor servers are so overloaded. ;) http://kotaku.com/5912878/the-secret-behind-dayzs-success-the-most-interesting-pc-game-of-2012