Talon2000uk

You could say wibble! :D

Now that is owned. Beans for you for being a cheeky bugger. :D

Ok you seem like a nice guy, but your google foo is weak young man. Day guides Also Three posts below this one And Day Z Guides

I've always though that the level of zombie threat should increase the further North you go. That way as you go up there the challenge would increase along with your gear. You could have it so that there are more zombies. they are harder to kill and they start spawning in the woods not just in the towns. This would mean that down south the noobs would be safer but up north thing would be more challenging and fun for those end game players like me.

If like me you have been playing this game a while you may have noticed the steady increase in high end gear. I can remember when finding a 5.50 cal or NVGs was a huge deal for our team. In those days PVP meant something, there was a real edge to it because if you died you lost everything. All that changed with the introduction of tents and the duping bug. Now every team has a camp full of duped tents with high level items. I've come across 5 just last night. All stuffed to the gills with high end military loot. Now if you die you just run up north go to a camp and your fully equipped with high end gear inside of 30 mins. The problem with tents is ruining the scavenging side of the game for me and I suspect for a lot of people. There is no risk reward balance any more. The item duping is so out of control now and it not even intentional a lot of times. We did a raid on a camp the other night and netted 10 NVGs and 5 .50 cals. Next day I was passing the same location and on the off chance I went and checked the tents and everything was back. This is happening on every server. What I'm proposing is a purge of the hive. Kill us all remove all tents and then either fix the duping bug or get rid of tents. It would make the game fun again. For bandits and Survivors alike. What does everyone think?

You Sir, are a fucking dick!

That is what we in the trade refer to as fucked. :D

When your driving to work and you check the tree line for snipers. True story /sigh. :D

Glad to know its not only me who thinks this way. Hopefully the more we bring this up the more likely it is the Day Z team will consider this. We can but try. :D

Well disabling tents and resetting everyone would get rid of the duping problem. Actually you would need to reset the vehicles as well. But if you did those 3 things Day Z would go back to how it was. I for one would love that. As for people being upset, this is a alpha, I've played loads of beta where your characters get wiped all the time, its part of Beta testing. One thing I don't understand is why this isn't being done on a regular basis. I doubt that the stats Rocket is getting from this alpha are of any use atm because of the rampant duping. It seems pointless to keep running "The Experiment" when the data is tainted. Lets wipe it all and get back to basics. :D

I love people who believe they have the right to tell others how to play a game. Well done Sir. OP. At the moment there is no way to progress in this game, you can and will loose everything to bugs, hacks, server restarts and PVP. While the last one is fine and part of the game the other three means that as a game Day Z is broken. But you see its not a game. Its an Alpha test bed that Rocket is using to develop features for the stand alone game. Yep it sucks, not a lot we can do about it atm I'm afraid. If you find its getting too frustrating, loosing your stuff every five minutes I would suggest you do what I'm doing which is wait for the Stand Alone or at least a stable alpha before going back in. Other than that, it's a case of gritting your teeth and bearing it I'm afraid. My advice is to do what everyone else is doing. Get a tent and dupe all your shit. It's ruining the game of cause but people feel its justified when 99% of the time they don't loose their gear to a player kill but to bugs hacking and server restarts.

Do you live in a basement perhaps? I'm detecting some hostility here. :D Sarcasm, look it up its a useful word. Also Trolling. Lol more beans for you Sir. :D

Its not the new update. I've not updated yet and it happened to me twice yesterday. I think it happens when the hive is under heavy load, if you are taking ages to load into a server and you kill the game your location data gets corrupted and the next time you log in you get assigned a new spawn location on the coast with all your stuff. However it might not be the hive at all but an issue with a particular server. For me it seems to happen a lot on DE 276. Had it happen twice yesterday on that server and not on any others.

You sir are my fucking hero! Beans for you. :D

No they don't. That was a hoax. OP at the moment they don't do anything.

Loosing them is pretty simple once you know how they work. In this game the Z's do a check roughly every 10 to 15 seconds to see if they can see or hear you, if they can't they go from agro mode back into patrol mode. The trick to loosing them is to make sure they can't see of hear you when they make the check. To do this you need to break line of site and stop running so they can neither see or hear you. As others have said above, running through trees or into a building works. So does running behind a wall or even over the brow of a hill and dropping to the floor. As long they can't see or hear you your golden. :D

Yep I have to agree with womb, There are tons of games out there that are easy and have spawn mechanics like you suggest. I'm hoping rocket doesn't bow to pressure to make the game more like them I'm sick of easy mode in my games. In fact I don't think he will, thats DayZ's thing if you like, its hard, its supposed to be hard and that's why it has so many players. You can't get this kind of thrill from battlefield or COG or any other online game where dying doesn't hurt. Here, your life is precious to you, hell I've been frustrated by this game, being snipped out fo the blue, getting ganked on the beach, running half way across the map to meet up with friends and then dying within half a mile of them. But you know what, thats what keeps me plying knowing that at any moment a bullet could come out of nowhere with my name on it and I have to start again. No other game has that feeling of paranoia and down right tension that Day Z has. No Squad spawns please Rocket, leave them to Battle Field 3 where they belong. However I'm not against being able to choose your spawn point. There are what maybe 6 to 10 points in the game where you can spawn at the moment. I'd like to be able to choose which I spawn at or even just west east or north. Then you still have to meet up with your friends but you can't just spawn on them or at your camp with all your nice gear.

Take a look at the guide here.

You can get it to work with the ARMA demo. Take a look here to see how. :D

Ahh cool, just wanted to be sure. :D Glad it was an official camp. Makes what happened a lot worse though. :(

One thing that no one seems to mention in this highly entertaining thread is that the camp was at 002.094. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that outside the map? Hasn't Rocket said that hoarding outside the map is forbidden and anyone who does it is a scum sucking anal wart. Or words to that effect. :D Or am I missing something?

What server do you play on Bubba, I want to make sure I stay away from it you hording git. :D

We don't go to Green Mountain any more. :D

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The problem with this solution is it doesn't work. All it does is make people go find some zombies and get killed that way. Its not doing a thing to stop people re-spawning where they actually want to. If I want to spawn at Kamenka instead of Otmel I just find 3 zombies and get myself killed. The strain on the server wont be solved until Rocket put in the group mechanics, which he is doing contrary to what the people bitching at the OP think. The "Fix" at the moment is just anoying