torytrae

After respawn with no weapon I was sneaking towards the supermarket in elektro. When I got there I immediatly get fired at by some dude hiding in the building across street with a full auto weapon - he managed to miss me with every bullet on like 10 meter range (lol), in reflex I hit the sprint key and just jump into the same building by coincidence seeing this guy alt-f4 and vanisthing in thin ear in the next room. Remember, I have no weapon on me whatsoever. What a triple fail ... camping unarmed newbs, missing full auto on 10 meter on a crawling target and disconnecting when said unnarmed newb is entering your building. way to go ...

Yesterday, while sneaking through Cherno (after beeing popped there 3 times in a row before) I suddenly faced this guy with a silenced gun and thought "oh shit, getting popped one more time" ... when he actually asked me if I needed something, then he dropped a can + some soda and went along. I was like "wtf" ... Not everyone is a badass. Do not fall for the dark side!

I just imagine this guy RL the other day when talking to his friends about DayZ. Friend A: "Wow, I just had this awesome battle in cherno with 2 snipers, I killed one but then got hit and was bleeding to death in the supermarket." Friend B: "Ah, I aggroed the whole town when firing my enfield, was running for minutes when I finally went into a building without a backdoor, then popped all the Zeds until my ammo went out. Died horribly afterwards" Bus-Dude: "Well ... I was standing on a road when ..."

Well, it is a complex topic and I do not have a solution for it. I just understand both groups - the pvper and the survivors - with their arguments on how to approach the game. Both claim to have found the "only" way in how to play this game and both groups say "play your own way, and let me play my way". Thing is, this approach does not work. As the active way of playing "shooting on sight" will always dominate the passive way "shoot zombies not players" as the active group is forcing their gameplay onto the passive group (shoot back or shoot first or get popped on every pvp encounter). This is the big imbalance - the passive guys simply cannot play "their way" easily (except for staying completely out of contested zones like cherno, elektro, star or nwa). I do like the pvp aspect, but I do not like the exploit alt-f4-server-hopping-kill-frenzy-duping-FPS dudes that are infesting this game more and more. I really hope that rocket finds a solution vs logoffski and server hopping and making high quality sniper gear more rare and fix the duping exploits. This alone might change the way how players approach the game - I hope.

That is hilarious :D

This is not a competitive game in the sense of 1 vs 1, team vs team, skill vs skill. The only competition in this game is staying alive. Guess who wins this one?