Charb

Pro Tip. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Clouds always travel from west to east. Spawning on the coast without a map, trying to figure out which town your in when it says 4XYRPHW you can always rely on those 2 factors. so if the ocean is to your back and the clouds are going towards you. This means you are facing west. Pretty cool right?

Honestly... the mass confusion is something i enjoy in the game. The largest group I played with was 8 people including myself. we heard shots from atop a hill and all ran up in a line. It being heavily wooded with spruce we all lost track of who was who... it was pretty insane. I'm all for improvements, but against things that make the game too easy. Laying in a bush watching the car. Let me know when you guys are coming back okay? *pause* "okay" Okay you are coming back or okay you will tell me? I see a guy ! is this you? "what does he look like"? ARE YOU AT THE CAR OR NOT ?! I agree with other posters about being able to wear unique clothing. instead of team braveheart, or team blackface. I know this is why people play on servers with tags, but I dislike that personally.

I've seen way too many bandits hiding behind a hero skin unfortunately. I really dislike the whole skin concept because as a survivor if you have to defend yourself you can easily become a bandit.

all the more reason to shoot a hero on sight !!!

How do you implement it to prevent someone from knocking you unconscious, and even bandaging/bloodbagging you only to tie you up and drag you into a bush and just up and walk away? You are now tied up for how long? an hour? it just doesn't make sense imho

There are some farm buildings, stables for example that are a very long straight building , if you run into door 1 and keep running straight to door 2 the zombies get stuck in the building because zombies slow down inside. Do not pass up smoke grenades, zombies will chase down the smoke allowing you to displace them (obviously players can see the smoke too) Running around buildings.... "works" but is a little trickier. Hatchet / Pistol combo is good if you can get off headshots once safely in a room. Don't run into a supermarket and open up with a M16 or AK, that is going to drain your ammo. Sometimes if you can, snipe a few before you enter the town. best overall gun? 1866 winchester. Hands down. Fairly quiet, accurate, can 1 shot, plentiful ammo

really? When I started back in june with easily 8+ people and we were all learning together in TS as noobs the most annoying point of the game was running around small towns trying to figure out which house you could enter, because as we all know there are so many small towns with 20+ buildings but only 4 of them enterable. I don't see how the external map is game breaking or robs anyone of a game experience. New players are afraid of going to an area only to find there is nothing there and invite the entire town to chase them. it is a great tool to quickly learn which building is which. Once you get used to what a Barn looks like, a deer stand, a 2 story red brick building, or more importantly which of those brown wood cabins are enterable the game is alot easier to manage. Compared to the week of WTF are we doing. I suggest the map.

I know most of us can easily dispatch a horde of zeds with just an axe and good planning. Instead of saying the blood system sucks, I'd suggest the following: 1. Don't get hit by zombies 2. Be more aware of other players 3. Learn to aim better

http://dayzdb.com/map

I think it was pretty obvious it wasn't going to be released this year when it didn't come out on the 21rst. Considering the holidays I hope the devs are taking some much needed vacation. I don't know about you guys but I do my best work on a project after returning to it from some time off. Fresh mind, new perspective on concepts, see things from different and new angles !!! Still driving me crazy waiting for it...

as much as i liked the car chase, do you normally fire a single shot at someone then give up?

I fell in love with dayz as a survival game. sure there ARE zombies, but as well all know they aren't a real threat compared to players. I liked having to decide what to do with X gear and only Y space in my inventory, where every choice I made was crucial on food/weapons/ammo. I also enjoyed setting up a camp and carving out a piece of the world as our own, something to call home and defend, even a false sense of security at times !!! The problem with private servers having 100+ vehicles, dozens of choppers and even tanks is because no one enjoyed walking/running for 3 hours. Dying meant so much more when you were in a base 3+ hours from the coast. Adding too many vehicles on private servers has created this PVP deathmatch which hopefully SA can learn from. In general I view each item as a point system and having multiple tents with gear and various cars adds to my standpoint of "winning" compared to people using the debug menu and their player kill count.

actual works better for rifles than pistols was unable to find the movie clip with steven segal but this is a .45 with a 2 liter... don't think it works as good as u think... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVwn7hOVnE

if your running around and you are getting shot at by another survivor are you going to freely let him shoot you or kill him? have this happen a few times and then... your a bandit. It is possible for someone not wanting to be a bandit to become a bandit. I think the bounty system is just something we can't really implement for too many reasons at this time.

How would you know who has a bounty? playing on a server with tags to see their name? I don't play on servers with tags enabled because hovering over the bushes to find people is practically cheating. Bounties have been brought up before and there just isn't a practical way to implement them. Not to mention... if you are playing on a tagless server. (edit) your font is super small... did you paste from notepad?

This is the most important thing I can tell you. ensure the motherboard you are buying is a 3.0 PCI-E 16x slot. so if you are unable to spend top dollar for a high end video card, down the road in a year or two your PC will be capable of upgrading by replacing just the video card. You can get some fairly good pricing on 2.0 video cards that still have some oomph. http://www.newegg.com/ is a great place for parts http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115090 $129 for a 3.1 GHZ dualcore, and last I checked not many games really take advantage of having multiple cores. ALSO its the same socket LGA 1155 as the new IVY core processors from intel so again, down the road you could upgrade it.

your version of battle eye probably needs an update, you can download the client version or... when you are in the lobby of a game you should notice the bottom left with all the normal jibber jabber you don't read. it should say something like battle eye updating, just wait and be patient.

dude... why are you magenta ?

So... what is this post about? Seems a little cluttered in here... Player housing. Server Hopping as an exploit. Underground Bunkers as alternate player housing. - Fortifying a house with wood, how is this any different than barbed wire or tank traps? - If there was a way to code it, prevent a player from spawning into a home which is "boarded up" preventing server hopping, also preventing anyone from "living" in a house. making it more a tactical position. - What tools used to remove wooden boards? Hatchet of course !!! - Why do we need ownership of a house? People unable to hide tents properly? - What about the instanced player bunkers? Sadly we need more info. do you create a "portal" anywhere you choose? That would be the proper way to do it imho.

cookie cutter complaint deserves cookie cutter response oh gee... another 1rst poster complaining about dying in a alpha mod of a game where your gear doesn't have any value considering SA is around the corner ------------------------- personally I focus on one thing and one thing only. gaining as much experience I can with various weapons.

I've been playing on this server for a few days and I would like to mention if your a pack rat don't bother. placing barbed wire and tank traps will disappear after a day or so from server resets. I have also lost 4 tents from trying to place them. I'm not trying to "Grief" anyone with the wires or traps, I just like having an area I can call "home" with my cars/tents and this server prevents me from doing that. on the plus side, really seems like a mature group of people that generally play there, side chat is enabled and they frown/ban people speaking over sidechat via mic (which I support they are quite fair about warnings)

http://dayzdb.com/map or go home...

Seriously guys... WTF ?! Why does everyone try to bring up the fact that infected/zombies would die in winter? besides the ludicrous point of arguing medical science and physics on a subject like zombies? better yet... think of this... Now if there was an infection, not everyone would be infected on day 1. additionally survivor groups are going to be compromised and they themselves "turn". How about we agree... Snow would be cool for the simple fact it would be a useful tracking tool. the game actually already has many of these features, I'm certain many don't notice tire treads on road, footprints across pavement and various other features. if i was running thru the woods and I came across a fresh track I would be presented with a choice. one of the many reasons I like this game. how impacting all our choices can be. do i take more food or more ammo? do i carry a spare gun in my pack? Finally... Snow doesn't have to cover the ENTIRE map. just the hills and higher mountain regions. This would force people in ghillies to say "OH CRAP" I can't camp this hill !!!

you shot at someone as a "friendly hello" and don't understand why they fired back? Not a fan of your wierd so-called poetic style either sir, but to each their own I suppose.

Think it has alot to do with people playing on private hives, I don't think that gets measured, even then, 50k-70k people playing is still an impressive feat