Element47

seriously, people need to cut that "you're playing it wrong" attitude. DayZ has always been about freedom of choice and lack of rulesets. Playing as a ruthless sociopath killing children is equally viable as playing a survivalist hermit in the woods, playing a carebear medic with compulsive hoarding disorder like me, or even playing as Morgan Freeman. Yes, we all affect each other through the ways we play. The sociopaths create a layer of difficulty for the daily survival no NPC AI could do. The Morgan Freemans create comedic relief for everyone. The medics allow you a second chance in a game which boasts permadeath, so you dont have to gear up all over again. I dont want to miss a single one of those components, especially not the killers who make this game so much more thrilling. Also: the majority of my encounters in DayZ has been friendly. In the last patches, both on stable and on exp, i met random people, talked about new additions to the game, waved goodbye and everyone went their way. maybe one out of ten shot at me. So please, dont try to paint the game as pvp only - there are more than enough friendlies in the game, actually much more than in the early times of the mod.

You. I like you. I like the way you think. Have some beans.

oh its that topic again. it has been discussed at lenght, and pretty much every possible argument pro and contra has been posted. the result? oh, i dont want to spoil it for you...

i was like, nice case, BUT: O Immortal Emperor: Have mercy upon us, miserable unworthies that we are. O Master of the Galaxy: Protect Your flock from the alien. O Keeper of the Light: Guide our darkened path with Your radiance. We are Your warriors and we are servants to Thee, We stand free from blindness of heart, Free from hypocrisy, vainglory and deceits, But captive to hatred, malice, and anger, To the filth, the alien, the heretic. By Thy agony and bloody sweat; by Thy Golden Throne and Thy Death, By Thy Destruction and re-emergence as the God of Men, Keep and strengthen us, we who fight for Thee.

not sure if genuinely stupid of just suffering from being raised as an illiterate child-labourer in a third world country.

did you create a bug report with screenshots of the buggy geometry and description of the issue at the feedback tracker?

your suggestion would probably be as annoying to the gameplay as the issue it attempts to solve.

stop searching for that one special item. enjoy the surprise, make the best out of it. if you dont know what was removed, you also dont know about the many things that were added, dont ruin yourself that experience!

ah here we go. i knew all of it got merged somewhere when the threads i was posting in vanished under my fingers :D my take after watching the presentation : there was a post earlier suggesting such, and i was quite sceptical of such endeauvor, without knowing about the presentation. i am surprised now, but if the dev team sees it as a good course of action, im trusting their judgement. none of us can understand the exact implications for the project, the challenges and the possible synergies. I wonder how community-hosted servers will be realized int he PS4 ecosystem, recently even EA had to admit defeat when trying to implement rented servers for console versions of BF4. i am quite curious how it will work out, positively excited whether this will succeed. thumbs up, Dean & team, i didnt see it coming.

If DayZ expands to other platforms, it wont be prior to release on PC. If it will be released, it will be a different game. There is also the issue of servers. DayZ is one of the games based on community-hosted servers - something absent from the console ecosystem for various reasons.

its a game in development, you will encounter bad performance and even gamebreaking issues. From my experience it has been a pretty smooth ride so far, i know of alpha stages where game code was really unplayable for weeks - unplayable means the game did not launch at all. 25FPS is pretty good. so yeah, tl,dr: your post is one of the 86,3% where "alpha" is the appropriate response to give.

i have thrown myself off ladders on purpose because i was geared up and scavenging lost its appeal. once you're back to bobble hat and shovel again, you're back enjoying the game for every can of tuna and every axe you find.

town hall of that new town west of svetloyarsk. name eludes me constantly.

leading zombie trains through a village is nothing new, ladders breaking your legs are nothing new, vehicles exploding because you hit sth arent new.. video disappointed. only good thing was the green potion logo.

this is one of the 86,3% of cases where "alpha" is the appropriate answer.

password-protected servers are violating terms of agreement and should be reported to the GSP.

good to see im not the only drunk here. see you in the massage parlor, Rick.

Chernarus+++ at release date:

Welcome! i would like to present another approach and disagree with much that was said above, especially the navigation part. DON'T go to dayzdb or a similar map website. DON'T use iZurvive on a mobile device (iOS or Android). Go out and get lost in the woods. Embrace this thrill, experience the joyous surprise of stumbling upon a settlement, the excitement of opening doors not knowing what to find, the distress of deciding whether stick to the road and risk an encounter or wander through the woods without sure knowledge when you will find another source of water and food. Enjoy it as long as you can, because once you familiarize yourself with the map, once you get used to the crutches of maps and loot databases, there is no turning back, and you will find that you have left behind a certain part of the game forever. As for the encounter with other players: most of my encounters were friendly. Most people want to get along, but trust is rare. If there is only the slightest suspicion, many will shoot just to be sure. Ingame VOIP is key here. If you sound shady, insecure, nervous, then people will suspect you want to cross them. If you talk over the ingame VOIP, and sound friendly, polite but self-confident, you will have a much better response from others. Try approaching everyone like you would approach a feral dog. of course you will meet people who kill you no matter what, and you will meet people like me, who are friendly no matter what - sometimes even when shot at. but hardcore killers and hardcore carebears are on the outer limits of the spectrum. most people just want to survive another play session. Oh - try not to watch too much youtube videos. most are staged or heavily edited to present a much more entertaining, funny or crazy version of the real gameplay. People who want to show off their mlg combat skills wont post the two hours they ran together with a boring friendly scrub looting basic stuff.

i apologize. i sincerely did not mean to sound patronizing. i honestly enjoy reading your posts in the way you phrase them, and attempted to recreate the style in my answer - imitation is the highest form of appreciation after all.

google translate english-shrub: "is great idea friends can play server no other guys and will not able to join normal server like difference is hardcore and regular now too is difference private shard and public shard each has own loot own character own rules"

sounds awesome.. also inb4 salty primadonna admins rage

Although the description cites usage of music released under CC, the video is blocked here in Germany because it 'could' contain music owned by UMG. Sad.

and in 86,3% of the cases it is used, its the right answer to give.

imho, none of all the items in the game is really rare. percieved rarity atm is mostly just bad luck finding what you are looking for at that very moment. thats the RNG goddess at work.