thelonewarrior

The game annoys the hell out of me sometimes, but I still love it

OP, no do not go kill on sight Doing so will just get you into the mindset that everyone is a threat when most of them are like you.....just scared I sugest playing on Dayz+ instead of Dayz, the zombies hit harder and are more of a threat. You will find some people on there looking for help or to team up but follow these rules: 1. NEVER take requests, if someone calls for help on side channel its always a trap and if not, bandits will be heading to their location 2. NEVER call friendly, tell them to drop their weapons if you sneak up on someone, if they argue or turn around then shoot them, if they comply, the chances of being friendly go up a lot This video is my new series in Dayz+ but the rules I use can still be apllied to any version of DAYZ, have a look and get some tips for being friendly from it

Its usually to do with them feeling powerful, I saw in another thread that most games carebear you into giving you cool stuff so you feel like a god. This game makes you feel weak until you get your hands on something worth defending, all those times you get sniped as a new player and this pent up rage causes people to hack to give themselves the power to destroy at a mouse click. But put one of these guys in a real life situation and they will be crying and begging for their life

I was doing alright on a private hive the other day, my little camp had a black SUV and a bicycle so I took my SUV down the coast loaded with meds and guns for people. Parked it by a hanger as I saw a bambi run inside, he logged when he saw me and I went back to my car only to discover server lag had stopped the ruined terrain such as static cars from spawning. Next thing I see my car shaking violently as its stuck between the car wrecks, boom it blows up throwing me into the wall. So I wake up a few minutes later, find a nice guy at balota who blood bags me and I give him some ammo for his gun and then he runs away..... I think, hey ill just go and get my bicycle......nope I crash that into a wall in cherno due to more lag and limp to the firestation, i find the two wheels I need to fix it up and just as I return a hacker sends us all to the ocean. Fun times.....

Sounds good to me, could be cool if you can lay rabbit traps as well and catch those annoying little blighters without using a whole load of rounds

Yeah the visual clues were fine until I discovered a little neat trick on private hives when I accidently got a bandit skin once for killing two guys that came at me with axes You see ive met a few bandits calling friendly and not shooting at me, but survivor skins almost always open fire. Im not revealing it on here, but there is a way to glitch the bandit skin back to survivor skin without the bloodbag glitch, but i suspect many bandits use it to get back to survivor skin (it doesnt go as far as hero skin) to fool people as I see all the time on private hives one guy killing 6-7 people and still no bandit skin, so i know he knows the trick I know. But not being a bandit, it has no use to me

Never pay for playing on a server with dayz, its a free mod, you can donate freely to some servers but anyone asking you to pay is up to something dodgy. Ive met a lot of admins like this, you just need to keep changing servers until you find one that well looked after

Those are fair points, I was stupid in the beginning when I first started DayZ, now they eiether drop their weapon or die, although these encounters are usually because someone has logged in while in the same city as me as I dont really go into them unless I see no one is around Or unless im on a very specific mission to help people

Ive read all your posts, and you will never be convinced to be friendly But you never were friendly, Being friendly doesnt mean screaming friendly everytime you see someone, its creep up behind them, tell them to drop their gun or they die. If they turn or argue then kill them, they are just taking a chance to kill you If they need help, give them a transfusion or food and be on your way. The plan cant fail unless there is a group of them, no one can turn around before you can shoot them. Calling friendly isnt being friendly, its being stupid You will be surprised at how many people react more friendly to "Drop your gun or im going to light you up"

Really, its been said many times the zombies in the standalone are going to be a real threat. I have no idea who this is aimed at as it was after my post but wasnt quoted, but as I said: "In my experience" I never said I dont like high grade military weapons and your wrong anyway, it would be complelety pointless making a standalone that mirrors the mod by not adding more player interaction when rocket has already said hes adding more things to try and get players to work together such as base building and zombies that will be a problem. Even though the players will still obviously be the main threat the zombies will actually do something in the stand alone other than stand there moaning

From my experience the problem is as follows: Normal dayz: Zeds are piss easy Easy to obtain gear Nothing to do but kill other players Outcome: 90% kill on sight Dayz 2017 Has only enfield as best weapon So little food Zeds still not a threat Outcome: 99% kill on sight as every drop of water is needed for your own survival, theres no enough to go around DAYZ + Zombies are a real threat No player killer AS50s No high end gear Outcome: well for me its been a 50% chance of encountering someone who wants help and wont shoot you for it. The problem is the zombie threat, nothing else. When the zombies are a threat, some people band together to fight a common enemy, they still might shoot you later, but when you actually need another person your less likely to kill them

Some of you guys should come to Dayz+ Zombies hit much harder and kill you in about 7-8 hits, you need other people to survive unless you are extremely good at playing

To the OP, I have just started this series on youtube, as well as being a lets play kind of thing on Dayz+ I am also explaining all my player encounters during the game and trying to give tips and advice to those looking to be friendly: So take a look and see if you can get any tips from it: http://youtu.be/7kcXvyxPXa4

So myself and a friend are leaving elektro supermarket, we already know theres a bambi around and as we are leaving I look over my shoulder and see this guy stop and aim at me, I run to a fence and hear: Pop Pop Pop Pop from a silenced MP5 and at the same time "IM FRIENDLY! FRIENDLY!" I dive behind the fence, lean out and shoot the guy in the chest with my winchester and listen to the screams as he is torn apart while he is still yelling FRIENDLY FRIENDLY WHY DID YOU SHOOT ME? This all took about 5 seconds to pass: So he sees two people less than a second from moving behind a fence, opens fire (hitting me once) while all the time telling us he was friendly. Funny thing is, he actually sounded like he meant it

This is the first of a number of videos featuring myself as I set out on Dayz+ ( a modified version of dayz) to help and protect the people of the wasteland. I hope to teach some people out there how to be more friendly and how to survive as a friendly player as way too many people are complaining that when they call 'FRIENDLY' they get shot This video can apply to any version of Dayz, i just prefer this version NEVER CALL FRIENDLY UNLESS ASKED, JUST TRY AND HELP PEOPLE IN OTHER WAYS Dayz+ has some of the following features: Harder hitting zeds, can kill you in 7-8 hits so helping each other is vital for survival No AS50s or other high tier weapons, and no thermal or night vision Also the ability to build some objects like deer stands This is here because its more about teaching people about survival as a friendly player, so use this topic to ask questions and about scenarios you have been in and what you should do

'Killing on sight because everyone else does it' Learn to think for yourselves, dont be seen, and if you are then shoot them in the leg if you have to shoot back. Maybe they will learn not to shoot everything that moves when they have to crawl for 10mins to find morphine. And some people say you cant tell who is friendly, do what I do, sneak up behind them, press your gun to the back of their head and tell them "Drop the gun or your dead, Im friendly but I wont hesitate to kill you" If they turn around or try to argue, then shoot them as they are obviously trying to work out a plan to kill or or if they turn they are definantly going to kill you. If they comply, chances are they are more friendly than you first thought and you might at least be able to get a transfusion or something, and this works wonders on private hives as they might well remember you and return the favour. Its simple, but people are just too scared to do anything other than get a quick thrill Killing on sight will give you a thrill for minutes, maybe hours..... Finding someone to go on an advanture with will keep you coming back for a lifetime

Ive seen this before, it isnt new, just something that hackers dont use often. I met a so called friendly hacker once, he gave us the ability on the scroll menu to turn on and off invincibility at a mouse click as well as other nasties So yeah it is possible

Well I dont kill on sight, except for bandit skins. Unless they shoot at me or another player for no good reason (like killing new spawns) So pretty much only take out bandits, everyone else gets the benefit of the doubt But you ill let my video do all the talking, its from a while back when I spent a few days keeping some of the main cities safe from bandits and helping people out who needed it:

I see you conviniantly left out the part about how I put that it should be challenging, normal dayz is not a challenge, zombie or bandit Anyway everyone gets 'owned' at some point, if there were some kind of overall score system in dayz im pretty sure I would have a more or less equal death to kill score on players, nothing special

I dunno where you guys have been playing, but i have a pretty shitty computer and i get a good enough frame rate to play. Also.....zombies hitting you through walls? I know it happens but i can only think of 1 or 2 instances where this ever happend since ive started playing Well at least its a step in the right direction

Corrected ;)

I second that, dayz+ is a very good experience and I actually find myself avoiding buildings with 1 exit in dayz+, if there was zombie damage increase in the main dayz update it would eventually spread to every map. This would make me very happy :)

Playing on dayz plus, where zombies can kill you in 7-8 hits, we meet hostiles, lag, fun and friendlies leading to a final confrontation with the zeds which means the end for some of us....... But it was nice to see some friendlies again, ive gotten too used to having to defend myself against other players i had forgotten what its like to have people to look out for. And for those who havent played it, it will give you some examples of how quickly the zeds can kill on Dayz PLUS version of the dayz mod

Much of what you say is true, i guess it depends on your group and some luck. There have been times where we found a lot of things in one place, and others where an entire city yielded nothing but hachet and tin cans. I guess you guys have a good team, but not everyone plays in teams of 4 or more, I think those who play alone will be the ones in trouble once they get hurt, but making the zombies any more difficult would probably be too hard meaning those playing alone would have zero chance at living

Its harder because there is less food, less ammo(which doesnt replenish on logging out), less weapons and zombies kill you quickly. Food doesnt restore so much blood, matches are rare, so basically unless you have a group or you are willing to co-operate you will have many problems restoring your health. Its difficult, but its very fun :)