jukaga

I was walking ungeared around Berezino one time and two guys with melee weapons were coming up the street towards me. They were friendly and tried chatting but I was just in an odd mood so I stayed silent and flipped them the bird. One dude says 'is that guy fingering us?', runs up to me and clouts me in the head with his pipe wrench. I was laughing so hard it took me 3 minutes to hit the respawn after I died. I had tears rolling down my face I had the giggles so badly. You might be saying 'what the hell is so funny about that?', it was his tone of voice, he simply couldn't believe what was happening and he delivered a perfect knockout blow in one hit. The timing was spot on for slapstick. Still brings a smile to my face.

I automatically distrust anyone who can't talk back, but it is nice if they type. A mute gets one warning from me to get away then they get their legs broken. A typer gets a friendly nod but I have no interest in running with someone who can only use the type chat. If I'm going to pair with you, we're friending on steam to use private voice chat or skyping. In game vc is just for encounters with strangers and trolling during Mexican standoffs. I can understand circumstances where someone can't use a mic, but I hope you understand why I (and many others) don't want to interact with a mute.

I've noticed those 10/40 servers jump to 20 pretty quick when I join. Then it fills up more, hovering at around 30+ when it gets rolling. I suspect there are quite a few hardcore players who are looking for a fuller server who start joining as it fills up. Take the jump and help fill it up instead of trying to get in the 39/40 server.

No shame in plugging an afk'er, but no glory either. Welcome to the shark tank buddy!

I haven't noticed, been playing 1pp only lately, will have to play 3pp tonight and see.

What's the point then, can't you just cook it on a fire without a pot? Well hunting/cooking serves 0 purpose right now anyways.

Knuckle dusters stabbing swords slashing swords polearms blowdarts caltrops (yes!!!!!) acid in spraybottles improvised shanks broken glass bottles chemical grenades improvised catapults improvised ballistae improvised trebuchets repeating crossbows wrist crossbows icepicks improvised clubs improvised maces morning stars flails wire garrote chloroform on rags lances (for horseback) twin edged battle axes two-handed swords pneumatic guns (lewis & clark had one, 8000 psi, would kill a buffalo) spike traps plastic bags (for asphyxiation)

Please give my pinky finger a break and allow a run/walk toggle. I want to be fighting other players, not the interface and an aching finger. Why did this change anyways, double tap 'W' for run worked great.

Thanks, I'll have to change that.

I loved my submerged tent city. :D

I eagerly await the re-introduction of satchel charges. :)

Epoch already has this and it's a DayZ themed amusement park, not DayZ.

Bahktosh is the winner! Felt the most appropriate as he was a preening noble like the Baron.

You are literally the second person in 14 years of using this handle to get the reference, well done! Bonus points if you can ID the Kilrathi of my avatar. Unfortunately there are no images of Baron Jukaga.

The only good thing about base building as far as I am concerned is harvesting the tears from demolishing someone's weekend worth of hard work and tedium.

They're just testing the values for now I bet, the absurd rate of cold/wet/hunger states setting in is not going to be in the final product any more than our ability to sprint across the entire map with no problems. No one dies from 20 minutes in the rain. We're alpha testing so they want to see the effects pop up quicker.

Does anyone actually play this way? I can't imagine a more dull experience. Hunt-eat-wait to get hungry-hunt-eat-wait to get hungry and so on and so forth. If you don't interact with other players in any fashion DayZ would be the most dull running sim ever made.

I go by jukaga in game usually. I'm generally neutral/friendly. I don't kill new spawns outright but will if you persist in following me. At airfields I observe before taking action, or slip away if the odds don't look good. Talk to me, and I'll always respond. I don't like pairing up with randoms using in game chat, it's waaaay to sketchy but if there is some trust I'll make you a steam friend for VC and/or skype. I don't think I've ever run into a fellow forumite that I've recognized.

Mountain bikes, plox.

So it's more 'realistic' to have Rip van Winkles everywhere? Sometimes I don't play for a couple of weeks, I'm sure many are the same. After a certain point, 'realism' needs to be cast aside for gameplay despite all the ludicrous talk of an 'anti-game' whatever the heck that means.

If they implement persistent sleeping characters (they won't) every time you log in you will be greeted by YOU ARE DEAD, guaranteed. I'm speaking for myself here, but I don't ever want to see Epoch style shelter building in DayZ.

Off topic, but your Ramsay avatar is giving me nightmares. ;)

This here. I was geared up with a Mosin, backpack, food, axe and cold weather gear in 15 minutes without military camps. I think that's a pretty decent bambi setup. No need to be picking up assault rifles and camo clothing along the coast.

I'm willing to make big allowances for the broken climate and character temperature issues as it's brand new and obviously just being tested. They want to see some min/max values and I'm sure will come to a more reasonable model closer to release.