Bukethead

It's an internal magazine. A magazine being detachable is not the qualifiying feature for a magazine to be a magazine.

The solution to KoS mentality is not to punish killers. It's giving them something else to do, and this is it. The problem with this is there are tons of people who have decided all the other complications of DayZ aren't worth their time, and instead being an asshole and killing people for no good reason is more fun than tracking down a spare engine for your vehicle. I would liken this to thinking that a kid refusing to do his homework and instead play video games, can be remedied by giving the kid more homework. The realistic aspect of killing someone is a conscience, a feeling of remorse, etc. I honestly don't think there's a way to program that into a game and invoke even similar feelings in someone who takes pleasure in KoSing, or even someone who does it out of fear of being KoS'd themselves. As you stated, bringing back the old humanity system and etc isn't the way to fix the problem, I'm merely suggesting that the problem can't be fixed no matter what you do. The things you have suggested are great and would probably make the game more interesting and entertaining for those who play the game that way, but as a solution to KoSing? Probably not.

I don't really understand why people are still buying AMD/ATi cards. I don't mean to start a graphics card war here, I've owned systems with both in the past, and at current Nvidia is giving the consumer more bang for their buck, at a lower cost than AMD is.

The ending is a senario I have yet to run into, but have thought about while in those buildings. I usually have a buddy close the double doors and keep watch downstairs while I loot, or vice versa.

A backstory isn't going to do us diddily-squat if the animations and etc were as clunky and unelegant as they were in the E3 demo.

I personally would like to see the spawning of AKM/AK74's reduced a bit and have the SKS introduced. Too often I see people around Elektro and Cherno with AKs who just mow down other players. I think this could largely be reduced if a semi-auto only short range weapon was included, that way only those who aim have a chance at scoring someone's loot. A brief summary on the SKS: "The SKS is a Soviet semi-automatic rifle chambered for the 7.62x39mm round, designed in 1943 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. Its complete designation, SKS-45, is an acronym for Samozaryadnyj Karabin sistemy Simonova, 1945 (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова, 1945; Self-loading Carbine of (the) Simonov system, 1945), or SKS 45. In the early 1950's, the Soviets took the SKS carbine out of front-line service and replaced it with the AK-47; however, the SKS remained in second-line service for decades." I personally think this would fit in with DayZ perfectly considering these firearms would be in great numbers in any former Soviet nation. Since it uses the same ammo as the AKM, you could use the same ammo coversion system that the revolver and 1911 use. Any thoughts?

Yes, also why isn't this a poll?

It's an unofficial mod, and there's still plenty of hacking, etc. It's a flaw within Arma 2, not DayZ that allows for so much tom-foolery. It's really just a different map with slightly more bugs. I like it better since Chernarus has gotten a bit old and predictable, playing on Lingor has sort of refreshed that unknowing suspenseful feeling you first get when playing DayZ on Chernarus.

To everyone who wants a free key:

I agree that the compound bow should be more accurate. IRL they are accurate enough to have a sight and can be zeroed, so the predictability of where your shot hits is pretty consistent.

There's a difference between killing and murdering, one is an act, the other is the act with intent. I honestly don't think the problem is with a choice of whether or not a kill in self defense is, I think it's a matter of not being able to differ one from the other in terms of the game engine. How exactly would rocket set up a system that could detect whether or not you are defending yourself? Assume someone is running at you with an axe and is screaming "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU" just exactly how is the engine going to know that you opening fire on this person before they even do any damage to you, was in self defense? A more simplistic concept such as detecting a hit and registering a kill you get as self defense represents problems. However as it stands now, everyone who kills is considered a murderer, regardless of intent. Same goes for the hero skin, if you're saving bandits or your buddies with blood bags, I'm not sure how this makes you trustworthy to a casual observer.

It's not going to happen shut up and wait until WarZ comes out. /thread.

$300.00 for a dev kit? For that much I could just play DayZ cross eyed. I mean seriously, if people on here are bitching about the $30 or so they spent on Arma II/OA and want compensation in the form of a free standalone version, something tells me they wouldn't be at all willing to drop $300 on a pair of VR glasses. Just a hunch though.

I'd like to see the western rifles, such as any of the M4/M16, M14, M1911, M1014, M24, etc and their variants only spawn at certain Humvee wrecks, and military camps such as in Berezino, Chernogorsk, Stary Sobor, etc and keep the barracks, airfield spawning the eastern weaponry exclusively.

Would definitely add an interesting aspect to using it.

So you've seen Bohemia's books, and know exactly how much of the money they made back was profit? And you know what they're using that profit for? Take a step back and realize just how ignorant you are about business, then tell me you should get to trade in your copies of Arma for DayZ standalone.

So your reason therefore is, and these are your words not mine but paraphrased: I'm going to boycott the sale of one mediocre game because I'm not going to be compensated for buying a game to play a mod, by buying another mediocre game. The logic is infallible.

I was speculating, you are assuming. If you think I'm going to play a so called "He-Is-A-Noob-And-Got-PWND-Card" then why even reply, and frankly why should I even reply when you think you know what I'm going to say before I say it? Now if you'd like to actually tell me what other reason you have, then I can continue.

So wait, if they're both mediocre then why play either, at all? There seems to be another motive behind your protest than just the fact that you aren't going to be compensated for what you feel is this huge monetary burden that is having to buy Arma II/OA. Have you ever played War Inc? I don't think their engine will ever be even a quarter as good as the Arma II engine is, and much less of what the Arma III engine will be.

This isn't Greenman gaming or any other online game trade in service. Buy your WarZ and enjoy it's mediocrity. I intend to buy the stand alone and continue to play the mod, especially after it's opened up to the modding community.

This would be like someone who bought Unreal Tournament to play Killing Floor, and then demanding that they get a free copy of the retail, stand alone Killing Floor. You bought a GAME to play a MOD. If you had no intentions of playing the game, then why do you think Bohemia should compensate you for that?

I wasn't aware it was against the rules to do something you don't approve of, OH WAIT, it's not. The crossbow, the hatchet, the crowbar, the Winchester 1866, and the double barreled shotgun are all weapons that are not in arma2/OA and are in DayZ. Your logic fails.

Moar SKS porn for great justice:

Maybe you haven't realized not being shot on sight in DayZ IS special treatment?

Oh no, you're not terrible at the game. You provide a very amusing service to the rest of the DayZ community. I'd like to know which server you guys play on/what your in game names are so I can "partake" in this spectacle.