Element47

epic search fail is epic. i apologize for wasting your time and making a fool of myself :)

the medic thread is pretty much proof that gearing up isnt the only goal, and alot of people enjoy the game by not being a backstabbing bastard.. i, for myself, use low tech gear on purpose, and love it this way. i rather have a hatchet and matches than nvg and a sniper rifle which forces me to hunt military installations for ammo. i dont want to tell you how to play the game - but i beg to differ, as there are more ways to enjoy the game than those you stated.

with DayZ spreading all over the world, im pretty sure localized subforums will come. community staff will need regional mods though. im sure its just a matter of time. EDIT: i dont see a pressing need for it though. about every german player i know knows enough english to get along on the international forums. on a side note, i happen to run a debian server, so if you're willing to share your experience, i would gladly add another linux-based, france-hosted DE server to the cloud ;)

excellent idea, totally in favor and throwing beans at you, sir. i also applaud your signature, will take the freedom to 'borrow' that idea and make a similar for myself =)

imho, there is plenty opportunity already to counterattack. if you can run faster than zed, then just turn, shoot, and run again, then they lose the rest of their edge. its already too easy to just run around the city kiting a whole train of Zed, then run through a building or bushes to loose LoS and thus shaking them. thats also your opportunity to rearm, bandage, start a counterattack, whatever floats your mind. if you could do it in open field, then you can as well just make them stationary, and the player just needs to take care not to walk in range of their arms....

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da schnei ich vielleicht auch mal rein.. falls bei euch das helfer-syndrom ausbricht, unter den medics sind auch paar deutsche und schweizer ;)

Zed are already easy - sometimes too easy. If they would be slower, they would be just decoration and not a gameplay element anymore. And thats from me who is a DayZ noob playing the game for not quite two weeks, and regularly spawning on the beach.

i had heating issues with my graphics card so i had disassembled it and cleaned it and reapplied thermal compound and everything.. build my rig back together, and pondered going to bed but i thought - hey, lets try how it runs under normal load. so i logged into the game, just for a minute, to test it.. log in, walk three steps, sit ander a bush and look around, i hear a vehicle starting somewhere near. look around, cant see anything, get run over, die. Dat tractors in the woods x(

this is my post from a week ago. you can probably substitute "endgame" with "purpose" for the sake of this topic. i have made two successful supply runs since, and made friends in the medic community (best friends you can have in this game, i tell you)

lulz. WarZ is made by developers of War Inc. Battle Zone. DayZ is made by the multiplayer developer of ArmA. 'nuff said. have fun in your dumbed-down-for-the-masses pay2win zombie MMO.

you can disable alt-f4. i havent coded it myself, but i know you can handle both keyboard events (OnKeyDown method) and application events in a way, so that the app wont close open the alt-f4 trigger.

server downtime due to updates? server blacklisted? routing problems to the server location? hard to guess.. to find the servers i was on, i switched to dayzcommander. has both favorites and recent servers. other nice featureas too, and all this packed in a modern user interface. however i noticed that two of my fav servers are offline now. but thats something i come to expect - those are after all community servers run by volunteers, there is no uptime guarantee.

i agree that zombies in their current state are bull. the need a buff. i can run circles around them then jump into a bush and voila, i lost them. i can even instantly go from prone to crouch and bandage myself like a boss without them noticing. doors are more dangerous than zombies. pls buff Zed.

i found my first heli site a few days ago north of stary sabor, close to a vehicle spawn point.. there were only two pilots walking around o i decided to put them down.. somehow this wasnt a ver good idea, as there seemed to instantly spawn like eight of them, and for every one i killed, two more seemed to emerge.. at some point i managed to shake them and crawled to the heli.. only thing i found was a large ammo box full of STANAG ammo and a M19 magazine.. couldnt use anything there, so just left.. on one hand happy to have found one, on the other hand a little disappointed with bad loot luck :)

every object needs to be individually programmed to be 'paintable' - programming paintable cars doesnt automatically make paintable walls or paintable players. but a paint feature for cars is imho about the most useless feature suggestion i heard so far.

the guy is a teen figuring out life and learnign new things everyday.. ya know i still have hope for him, at least he doesnt rage in red font of 48px size :) i got three kids aged 14 - 18, they're idiots on a regular base - at least from my POV :P

a lot of players value the immersion of the game, and your original post kind of implied (even though unintentionally) that "strong immersion == pussy player, needs to grow the fuck up or take a break" i give you much credit - despite overwhelming criticism you have remained calm and stated your opinion and point of view in a civil manner. i respect this. although i do not agree with your point. i hope you gained some understanding tonight, how others see and feel about this game - or gaming in general. beans for you, and good night.

one thing needs to be granted to OP - this is a pretty good thread he started.

you titled the thread "why are there so many..." - this implies you refer to a significant part of the player base, not few isolated cases, and you coupled your bewilderment about those with insult. im not from UK, maybe its chav attitude i fail to understand here, but i think you might need to reconsider your statement.

you do understand though, that people who beg for their lives (and people getting upset about this) do so on another level than in real life? frustration, anger, regret, satisfaction - all those exist in a multitude of contexts - and all are real and healthy. lets be clear - if someone has insomnia or nightmares because he regrets a move he has done in a video game, he might be too sensitive for it. but if someone played for hours till late night and his mind races and recapitulated the most emotional moments when he lays down to sleep, thats nothing unusual. our brain processes all the input it gathered during the day while we sleep. if someone dreams of the game after he played it for hours, thats nothing out of the ordinary.

holy shit i never thought i would give out so many beans in a single thread, ever. gaming is part of reality. for some, its thrilling, emotional, moving. its not different from soccer fans who weep when their team loses, or a theater audience which is moved to tears by a dramatic performance.. after my first few hours playing this game, i put the headset down and went to the kitchen to get some food, i had to make a break because i was shaking due to the adrenaline rush - emotions are always real, no matter if triggered by real or fictional events. And as diverse as people are, as diverse is their experience of such events - from joy and satisfaction to compassion and grief. someone said, people need to grow the fuck up. in my experience, empathy and compassion are subject to development, affected by life experience and personal disposition. If you cant relate that people are emotional about an immersive experience like a game, then maybe its you who needs some time growing up until you gain the understanding. Of course some people lack empathy no matter how old, so maybe you are grown up and yet cant see it. I#d give you more beans but i fear that this metaphor may be lost on you - those aren't real beans after all.

eaten by doors twice, backstabbed by gas station counter once and by ladders and stairs several times. its the apocalypse, man, even the foliage kills on sight. <_<

THIS. except for one point: as someone who enjoyed both WoW and EVE, i disagree with your reference. the unique appeal of DayZ is, that its actually a bit challenging. Games nowaday cater to the spoiled masses, with difficulty settings where "easy" means "tutorial", "normal" means "very easy", "veteran" means "can be played onehanded while senselessly drunk" and "hardcore" means "lets play it for real once". From what i gathered here in the community during the short time since my arrival is, that many find the game actually a bit too easy. I agree in some points. Oh, and btw: I came from Kotaku, too.