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That's an exploit? I assumed having one gun in your hands and one slung over the shoulder was the reason they gave us two slots now.

Where on earth has this notion of zombies approaching one at a time come from??? Also see disclaimer point 2, you can't make the assumption that they would walk like they have arthritis, they would move at a speed that still maintains a balance in the game, no one would know what they speed is until the idea had been tested and adjusted for balance. As per disclaimer point 1, it isn't an attempt to make the game easier. It's an attempt to make dealing with small numbers of zeds more dangerous and trying to stretch out fights with hordes to try to turn them a bit more into running battles instead of getting instantly swamped.

You might want to take another go at editing that one, it still makes no sense.

What if the speed of zombies was adjusted (slightly) by the density of zombies in game. So if you are facing 2 or 3 zombies in the area they are very quick and still dangerous, but when you have a massive horde near you they slow slightly so you can put up a decent fight. I think this would help level out the difficulty of the game a bit, every situation involving zombies would be dangerous instead of the situation we have now, where some situation are laughable and others are basically suicidal. Would also help level out game difficulty between players since the spawn rates of zeds are now varied depending on the FPS of the players machine. Would make it less of a disadvantage to have good FPS. *Disclaimers 1. This is not an attempt to change the overall difficulty of the game, I do not wish to slow every zed ( I actually want to make some faster), this is just a balance adjustment, the end game would still be just as hard as it is now. 2. Obviously this system would require some testing and fine tuning to get the balance correct, if you are imagining the effect this would have on the game stop it >:( . The end results would depend on how much changing certain variables would effect the game play, which would have to be tested and adjusted.

Seriously? Has no one here seen a dirty harry movie? How could you say no to a .44 magnum?

Can you please fix the mechanic which varies the number of zombies that spawn depending on your machines FPS performance, I have a decent machine and the number of zombies that spawn are absolutely ridiculous. I mean every single building has 4 or 5 zeds spawned inside it, it makes the game almost unplayable. I understand that this is to help not bog down peoples machine and I applauded you for that but can you please put an upper limit on it as it is out of hand.

I may be about to show my ignorance here but, Isn't the revolver and the 1911 basically identical? I have always used the 1911 over the revolver because of the quicker loading time and extra round in the mag, have I been wrong all these years?

Fresh from dictionary.com. Exploit - to use selfishly for one's own ends. Nuff said. It's also very cute that you think anyone still rages over being killed as fresh spawn, it just make people sad for the human race, that's all.

It's sad that he doesn't respect a man with no sense of fair play at all? He is exploiting a massively large advantage to the detriment of other players, the advantage a helicopter has over fresh spawn is so astronomical it may as well be cheating. Just because an action is within the rules doesn't make it right or good by default, there are plenty of things in this world that aren't against the rules (ie. laws) that you still wouldn't want to happen to you.

Update. Still no good, just had 6 zeds spawn inside one of those little log cabins, tried to drive a bus and there was a road block or wrecked car literally every 10 meters (you would of had trouble fitting more on the road there was that many). Turning my settings up helps but only when there is enough going on to slow my FPS rate. This is driving me nuts :facepalm: .

Cheers, turning my setting up helped a bit. How do I turn my view distance up? (sorry i'm a bit of an ARMA tard :blush: )

I've been playing this game for quite some time now and I understand how to sneak, the problem is that there are literally to many zombies spawning to do anything. You can't sneak because even the smallest collection of buildings will have at least 30 Zeds spawned around it (you literally can't even crawl in to town because there are so many zeds they walk over you), it is impossible to move anywhere without being seen, then on top of that every zed spawn point inside a building has at least two zeds spawned at it waiting, it's not possible to sneak into a building when zeds are standing on top of the loot inside. I'm trying to find out if anyone else is having this issue and what they done about it?

That's just it, at 20FPS zombies probably are pretty harmless, at high FPS the bloody things are everywhere. It is absolutely crippling the game for me, every single zombie spawn point has 2 or 3 zombies on it, every building (and I literally mean everyone) has zombies in it, you literally can't get loot without killing at least 2 zeds, which is a bigger problem because firing even the quietest gun bring at least 30 zeds to you. You can't sneak anywhere because there are so many zeds you get spotted, It's driving me nuts. Is there anyone else who is having this problem? and does anyone have a solution to it?

Ok, i'll be a lot less subtle and list the reasons why this idea wouldn't really work very well in game. 1. Due to the low player population densities of Dayz it will a long time for someone to stumble across an ambush tent, you could wait literally months for someone. 2. (carried on from number 1) Unless the tent is in an obvious spot. 3. (carried on from number2) Tents placed in obvious spots are obviously ambush tents and will get filled with bullet holes quickly. 4. If tents can contain players waiting to ambush no one will check tents anymore without first shooting them, the feature will become unused. 5. Many players consider someone sitting in a tent and using third person view to look out of the tent cheating. 6. Laying in wait and ambushing players is already way to easy in Dayz, the last thing the game needs is to make it easier to camp for players. It's not a terrible idea but it just wouldn't really work in game as you have imagined, people would just avoid tents or just shoot them, you would end up waiting inside a tent to get killed. Maybe something like a booby trap on a tent would work but you would also need someway for other players to disarm a trap too.

But you do want one of those ways to kill someone to be by sitting for hours staring at the inside of a tent waiting for someone to open the door right?