RadienFire

So me and a few of my buddies just played the DayZ standalone for the first time. Problems that we found are: Your player gets critically hungry/thristy far too quick, after meeting up we tried heading north to find loot (all the cost had been ravaged by others) we couldn't even make it to the next town up from balota before we had people passing out due to hunger and thirst. Too many items need other harder to find items to use them. by this I mean simple things such as can openers. we found loads of food, but we couldn't eat any of it. due to the fact that can openers seemed to be the rarest type of loot on earth. I like the idea of having to use things to get into cans but give me a can and a knife and i can get into that bad boy... hell even the pen i found could of granted me access to my can of sardines. hammers/screw drivers/spanners a number of items which could be used to batter open a can of spaghetti. but to my knowledge only can openers do the job. even after eating and drinking all the available food to us, within second the dialog was coming up "i'm hungry" "i'm thirsty" "my head hurts" "my stomachs growling" "my feet hurt" I feel like the game is nagging me to death. Basically I think you need to increase the timers on the hunger and thirst... to a few hours or something, not a few seconds. please sort this out as currently it kinda makes it unplayable Thanks

I did try a knife but i couldn't get it to work, maybe it was just glitching out at the time.

I am aware that it is in Alpha. I'm pointing out a thing they need to improve on. thus the whole point of games going through Alpha and Beta testing. Also playing as a group it is unplayable, because by the time you meet up you've already used up most of your short time before passing out due to nagging.

a lot of these suggestions to remove things are silly "take this out of the game, i got killed by it so it isn't fair" also there are some good ideas here too. can't wait for standalone :D

anyone else spot that? claims it isn't a game... says its a game.

it is bias, your options are 1. delete everything 2. delete everything that can not be carried on your person where is the don't delete anything option? you're stopping my voice from being heard by not including an option for those that are happy with the way the game currently is... because you want something to change. bias

this poll is bias... where's the "don't wipe anything" option? cry about it all you want but i bet you've found duped tents that you've visited more than once. i know/knew of a server that had a broken tent filled with full heli repair parts right next to a spawned heli in the .5 patch. it was like christmas, unlimited heli fun. but all my gear was legitimately found in other peoples tents. so i think i've earned the right to keep it until it's legitimately taken away by other players. not because a bunch of 12 year olds cried to the devs because "everyone else has better stuff than me"

so recently while talking to friends about DayZ i keep getting asked the same question: "how many people have you killed?" now i've been play this game for 6 months now. and i can honestly say, I have never killed another living soul (except for zombies). now don't get me wrong. i don't just bow down and let other survivors walk all over me. if you fire at me i will shoot back. in fact the most fair fire fight i ever had in this game was about 3 days after i got this game and i was still a crap shot (so i died) but mostly when i bump into people i tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. move away slowly, and try to show them that i am not after their beans. and we'd all go off on our merry ways, with beans in our pockets still (it used to be 9/10 times this would work, now it's more like 1/10) I am proud to say after 6 months of this zombie apocalypse, i have not sunk down to the barbaric level that most of these other survivors have. ahhhh if only the rest of this community was like me, it would be the most friendliest zombie apocalypse there ever was. how many of you can also hold you head up high with the pride of not killing your fellow survivors?

one day this game will be filled with peace and love

that you are sir.

the whomping willows uncle

places such as the NWAF are silly places to be on high population servers. here is a break down of my playing styles compared to server population 20+ server population: loot spots visited, mostly low trafficked towns/supermarkets/barns/deer stands play style, super secret ninja sneaky sneaky, never stand and run unless in a dense forest, constantly looking around for movement, diving on the ground for every god damn rabbit that hops out a tree 10+ server population: loot spots visited, towns, larger cities, NEAF, millitary bases excluding NWAF, castles play style, sneaky but only when around traffic hot spots, will run through open field to get to cover. scan tree lines before entering loot spot zones -10 server population: loot spots visited, everywhere and anywhere play style, run everywhere, constantly being chased by zombie hordes, keeping an eye out for none zombie movement, in and out quick as a flash. generally on -10 population servers people aren't out to KoS. so if you do accidentally run into someone and make it clear you're not there to kill them, they won't try to kill you. just don't hang around. also your logic is still flawed. if more people took the friendly root of not shooting first in time it will spread and people will realise "hey that guy isn't actually here to kill me, but just here to find some beans" and everybody would be able to skip down the road hand in hand into the sunset.

your problem is/was that you are/were to trusting of other players. i never ever join up with a random player just because he or she has claimed to be friendly. if at the time of interaction they need help, i go about it very cautiously. but i tend to avoid going with strangers anywhere (something i was taught as a kid ;) ) also using KoS just because you got annoyed at people for also using KoS doesn't really solve the problem. i've been shot a few times, it is a bit annoying. but it will never break my spirit and turn me into a monster. this game is more about manners than surviving. if you corner someone they will get jumpy. if you run into an area they are farming, you will get shot at. just be a gentleman and let them go about their business. you'll find you tend to live a lot longer. so far i've had both a 46 day old character and a 38 day old character. both unfortunately extinguished by hackers

it's a noble sacrifice for a better tomorrow :D

well that's just not very nice, there's plenty of nice loot lying around in those coastal towns. i can usually get geared up to the point i was at within a few hours. i know all the best farming spots for what i need, the optimal routes in and out. and where other players usually tend to be when they come to visit. also i tend to find that after each death, i find gear that was better than my previous. but that might just be because my reckless "nothing to loose" attitude upon respawn makes me run into areas i know aren't safe. hell i even found a heli the other day with a tent and all the parts to repair it in. it was fun until my brother broke the heli and my tractor exploded while i was after replacement parts.

apart from being point blank shot executioner style by a 1337 h4x0rz. i don't tend to get killed that often by players. i think my last encounter was with someone in the control tower at NE airfield. we both paused for a second and then went in opposite directions. i got away with my freshly farmed loot, and he did what ever he was doing. it was a happy day for all.

checking out the scenery, going to the popular tourist spots. looking at the history and castle, shopping, the odd picnic here and there. oh, you know. surviving...

realistically you would try and hide a body in what ever mean you can if you think it will alert others to your position. true you can make someone body just sink into the ground in real life. but do you really think game devs are going to go to the trouble of putting in and animating every possible way to hide a body in real life? sink body into ground is as close as you'll get to burying a person or hiding them in a suitcase.

every other server apart from the us servers... seriously most of the hacking complaints come from us servers. i've been playing since march and i've only ever met 2 hackers (the first time they killed my 48 day old char, second time they killed my 36 day old char) but apart from those 2 times i haven't had a single problem.

http://dayzdb.com/map#3.069.106 map of all the loot spawns. not all buildings are enterable. you can find guns in: supermarkets (the risk varies on where the super market is) fire stations (very high risk of death i suggest you avoid these) apartment blocks (once again the risk varies) military camps (high risk) barns (low to medium risk) deer stands (low risk) that map lets you select the type of buildings you are after as for being chased by zombies. sneaky sneaky, they'll see you they'll hear you and they'll sure as hell smell your urine stained pants. go slowly crawl if they get too close, dive behind cover if they look your way. and run like usain bolt if they see you. use trees and sharp corner to loose them. usually if i'm in a hurry to loot a place surrounded by zombies i'd aggro them all lap a few builds to drag them away give them the slip (shaun of the dead style) get what i need and then get out of there before they come knocking on the back door.

i had a 47 day old character that got killed by a hacker, i unfortunately didn't have the warning of a teleport (he snook up behind us invisible and popped me in the back of the head) i didn't get mad. just laugh it off and carry on. the main reason most of these people hack is because they like to get people mad. and everytime it works. i bet a lot of them just browse these forums laughing at all these idiots raging because they died in a game and lost something that they were going to loose eventually anyway.

yeh seriously, you are crying about loosing your stuff.... it happens, that's the whole point of the game. if not by hackers you probably just would of ended up being player killed or eaten by zombies. deal with it and move on. also if you think warz isn't going to have any hackers... well you probably should quit playing pc games right now, because you're going to have a real shock. go back to playing on your consoles. also Alt-F4 if you ever get teleported anywhere. only time it's ok.

i've made it to 47 days. pretty much just running from town to town looting. spent a lot of time in the woods, visited devils castle a few times and found no one there. nw airfield danger zone? pfft. only ever encountered one other person there. get off the coast and you'll have a long and fulfilled life. that is until the hackers tele you. oh also low player count servers help.

seriously guys, we get it. there are hackers/script kiddies w/e we all know about them. they are in every game. they enjoy your rage. just ignore them, that way you won't feel like your game play is being ruined. and please for the love of god actually read this thread before posting if you have come to report hacking THIS LINK WILL TAKE YOU TO THE CHEAT REPORTING BOARD also for bug reporting and glitches go here technical help go here you are all flooding this bored with the same old threads that actually have their own boards that they belong in. open you eyes and actually read things, look around before posting. it's like the majority of you have never used forums before also if you're here to express your hatred dislike for this mod and announce you will no longer be playing... just leave. we don't care that you can't hack the heat. THIS GAME IS IN ALPHA, IT HAS A LOT OF BUGS AND GLITCHES. if you don't understand this you shouldn't be playing in the first place.

you're a hostile lot aren't ya. and i do realise 99.999% of these poster will not read this. but the 0.001% that do will hopefully go to the right place meaning in a tiny way this post helped. after all, you guys read it ^.^