Element47

what makes you think that? i am a smartass at times, but this time i returned to the topic because i felt bad for my snappy answer, so i wanted to give an honest answer to OPs question. I actually dont think anyone is "better" per se. If you enjoy the game and find things to do - great. If you dont enjoy it and find it boring - thats cool too. Its a matter of taste. I am not better than vegetarians because i enjoy meat.

ok, i catch myself recently becoming the condescending grumpy old man my kids never wanted me to be, so a serious answer: currently. i explore most of the time. look for new items, look what can be combined, for example i found a gas stove, a gas container and a cooking pot. can i combine them to cook food? do i need matches to ignite it? are the matches in the game yet? ( i havent found any). i explore the new buildings, (also glitch through them, screenshot the erronous geometry for bug reports, because ya know, alpha). as a medic, i also explore the new, extensive medical options - medicine, blood types, iv, whats already implemented, what is there that bears promise for future features, things like that. oh and sometimes, i even get to shoot a fully kitted guy who plays this game as a shooter, and loot him for shits n giggles... edit: as a word of advice - if you want a fully-featured game, come back in 2015

inb4 alpha lecture.

i disagree. there is a tremendous amount of individuality. it is just not obvious to the casual beholder. It is there, because DayZ involves the player behind the digital avatar in a completely different way. WoW is gear-based. the endgame is fighting epic battles to get epic gear. your individual story in WoW involves killing a heroic boss one week earlier than that other group, which you totally despise because they kicked you out last patch - and getting that heroic version of your main hand weapon. In DayZ, as much as the loot hunt is fun and being "fully geared" is an important goal for many, the real endgame is the encounter with other players that you will talk about for months. the very limited diversity of character and player model is irrelevant, if you read (and watch on youtube or twitch) the epic, funny, disgusting, terrifying, mindboggling stories of people who play DayZ. The avatar, bleeding or not, hungry or not, shaking or not - is just a tool, a medium. the real thing happens between players. it probably could be an 8 bit sprite, and it still would work. Do you remember the green mountain stories? the mountain dew curse? the radio messages? the survivor stories thread? doc wasteland turning the metagame upside down by going out and suddenly healing people? those are individual stories. DayZ is nothing like your average RPG. its not about character progression - its about the gamer at the controls. full disclaimer: author is a carebear and medic in the murderous, pvp oriented open world sandbox game DayZ and protection paladin tanking current content raids in the MMORPG World of Warcraft

it boggles my mind how this discussion can still go one with possible solutions like the "fog of war" in 3rd. it keeps 3rd person while removing the exploitability, i'd assume everybody would be hugging&kissing and petitioning to implement it.

Soda cans (and the soda vending machine in cherno) for example have czech textures (although it got me confused, as a supposedly strawberry-flavoured soda hat "malinove" - "raspberry" textures) also to clarify, as my ego is hurt now :P - i have not confused the czech republic (which i visited on different occasions) with chechnya (or with the chech region in macedonia) - as a non-native speaker i misspelled it, as "chech" and "czech" bot use the "tʃ" pronouncation.

edited OP to correct spelling. my apologies :)

so.. beards and stat tracking. i am all for stat tracking. i am a stat tracking whore. i would love a journal section with entries like: Successful Hits with <Fire Axe> against <Fluffy Bunny, Grey> : 3402 Failed Attacks with <Fire Axe> against <Fluffy Bunny, Grey> : 15752 Killed <Fluffy Bunny, Grey> with <Fire Axe> : 54 times tracked stats for bragging rights: absolutely d'accord. but skills? leveling up? please leave peacefully. feel free to join me in one of the many, many well-executed character-focused RPGs out there, which i also enjoy. But this has no place in DayZ.

now please explain why most writing is in cyrillic. edit: meh, ninja'd by hogs. :/

you made a thread stating the very thing that you were warned about when purchasing. GG, Captain Obvious. there will be much more severe issues along the way than those we had last night, there will be patches that break the game completely and make it really unplayable until the next build, there will be loss of items/progress, there will be frustrating bugs and stupid problems. if you cant deal with it, wait for a more stable release. that said, i went into the game just after reports of character wipe surfaced on the forums, about the time OP posted. servers were deserted but performance was peak, item transfer was instant, looted a tac vest, a magnum and a fnx (among other things) from elektro power plant , and went for a hike into the hills. seems issues are/were not consistent all over the place..

gave beans because OP got one thing right. private servers = cheating

fire axe/can opener/kitchen knife

yes.

OMGWTF i was fully geared! i had a gas cooker, a stainless pot, a can opener and the finest selection of canned specialties from all chernarus! chef ramsey would've been green with envy! i even had a signed can opener!

it was on green mountain so it doesnt count

as a "first post", this is as good as they get. lets see, what can i answer off the top of my intoxicated head: - visibility at night: there are only "cheating" solutions. crank up your monitor brightness, crank up gamma in the video options, or change to a daytime server - performance on higher settings seems currently slightly "shady" - means it can vary quite a bit. as the game is in development and many aspects are up for optimization, this may be subject to change from patch to patch - vehicles will come. in the future. - clans recruit here in the forums, and yes, the game is awesomesauce in a group - contact with other people is often deadly. but i would advise you to play as you want to play. i never had any regrets playing as a friendly "carebear". it doesnt mean i cant defend myself. - maps in SA are found in pieces, mostly in cars. found my first part today. - settlements have water wells like this: but ponds and lakes will work too there is a ton of ressources on the net - these forums obviously, dayz subreddit, youtube, twitch, there are wikis, map pages, apps for mobile phones, and signed underwear.. no wait, that was exclusively mine.. anyway.. look around with a keen eye and most of your questions will be answered

i play 1st on 3rd-enabled servers. because i am an old, arrogant, smug, overbearing drunkard smartass. meaning i can. edit: i agree though that the controls are hell on earth and whoever concieved them deserves to be tied up, covered in rotten tuna and thrown into a pit with starving cheetahs

from personal experience i suggest imgur.com forum image attachments are just... awkward.. but maybe thats just me i love imgur because i can send images from desktop to it via right-click (desktop tool), i can send images from the web via right-click (browser plugin), it stores all the images i uploaded in convenient manner, offers basic editing capabilities and makes no fuzz with ads, allowing direct linking - even provides you with bbcode for fast C&P action

oh its this thread again.. ok let me use the forum search... i apologize if this sounded condescending.. well, let me say, that the suggestion of an autorun feature is a recurring topic ( there we go: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/81063-whats-your-autowalk-contraption/ ) i, personally, like individualized solutions:

so this just popped up in my news feed and i wanted to share with you, some of you will be already familiar with it as it surfaced on Kotaku. generally, videos belong into the gallery subforum. but i think this particular example makes a point in the current discussion about the state of the community. enjoy, and think about it. maybe you have surprisingly positive stories or anecdotes to tell that run against the current theme of doom, please share them then. also, can openers. better than AS50. i got one, do you?

anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all, or so i've been told. i could tell you anecdotes of vile asshattery from years ago, so i dont think it was different in the past. every new article on a gaming blog created waves of new players, and among them both great and obnoxious personalities.

we had this discussions before, as many of you probably remember. rewarding survival without throwing out game balance out of the window is of course not easily accomplished. i think the best sugestion ever in this regard was: lets grow beards. (and maybe long hair for the female char models). nothing is as rewarding, majestic and respect-inducing as a beard (or golden braids) to your hips

judging by the mod: the east is not boring, and it is not irrelevant. it offers high value industrial areas, prime go-to places if you're fixing that totally broken chopper. bere is a great place because it offers medical, industrial and military installations while at the same time being less populated, making it quite attractive.. i was actually impressed how good the map flow in the mod was, considering map size and amount of possible ways.. i hope once loot system is sorted (means military gear severely reduced, civilian gear diversified, crafting/engineering introduced) it will be similarly well balanced

everybody is entitled to a rant now and then. i think durability is one of the best things since sliced bread but thats just me.