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Bazbake, amazing post. Have all of my beans. All of them. Besides the meme spewing kneejerkers about, i think op raises a very valid point, which, in part, not only relates to dayz, but lets leave it there. I believe this game likes to be treated as the mystery you mention. Thats why its map is huge, thats why its so eerily silent, thats why at night the map feels even larger, and more dangerous. I remember so very vividly my first incursions into cherno, asking for help when shoot on sight twats were not as ubiquitous as now. Then i showed it to some friends, and we sinned. We got into the wiki, we raided the nwa several times, used mumble, shot on sight. Now i have a brand new l85a2 on my hand, rangefinder, m24 on my backpack, and i feel invincible. And you know what? I'm also bored. Theres no mystery anymore to any of chernarus, and i miss newbs running around with lee enfields, learning the tough lessons it taught in the distance. And i know its my fault. Im not saying there wont be a wiki, but its most obvious exploits can probably be circumvented with a bit of randomization. I know i loved binding of isaac because of how vague the descriptions were, of how you had to choose whether to eat the telepill or not. Its what's drawn me into dark souls. I LOVE not knowing, being thrown into a world, and told me to survive, using only my skill. Ring any bells?

this is a great post and you should feel good. Here are my beans. Variability of playstyle would be amazing, i think most people here would see it as a "class", and gamifying dayz more, but i believe it can be done as a simple set of abilities, or ways of interfacing with the gameworld. The example you mentioned of the 10 year old is excellent for that. None is better, each is playing is own game, and how would a bandit react to a non-threat? Would he do things differently in cherno or in the wilderness? It brings up cool questions.

theres a few posts about this, electrical plants could be sabotaged as well. THeres a pretty good, alive post somewhere around the forums. Add you ideas to it!

it may be all about soundsystem, but the truth is, the visual and sound imput from the game will never be enough as to emulate our real ears and eyes. You can know pretty well the general direction from where a sound came from, even the most hardcore stalker mods have some sort of indicator of attack direction. It does not dumb it down, it compensates for something that a 2d representation of reality can never do. +1.

excellent post. Some difficulty curves need to be watered down, like the UI ones, but these kind of stuff i approve. It makes the game have a lot more weight, body. Pointing and clicking does not a sniper make.

excellent post. Rocket! Shut up, sit down, read this!

this is a great idea, different map dynamics, other than just getting the best loot sounds amazing. So far, as soon as you get endgame loot, survival becomes quite easy, the environment is not as dangerous as it should be. Hostile fauna, hostile climate, few survival-apt spots, the works.

hackers, and shoot on sight idiots when on early game.

hackers are out of control. Has there been any official word at all on this issues? Its really beggining to break the game for everyone. On one of my last plays, i spent 3 hours with firneds after work getting to the nwa, just to get our inventories suddenly wiped, and teleported to the roof of Stary's big red building, to 3 hackers with as50s, unarmed, and unable to escape if we Dc'ed. Itsjust stupid. What can be done? Battleye is becoming some sort of satire of himself

Damn, hackers are really becoming the bane of this game, is there any official info if anything is being done about it?

It happenned on LA14, today at 12.21 am, in buenos aires timezone, i think its -3, but im not sure. All the items were wiped, and every player in the server teleported to a roof, where some dick with an as50 proceeded to kill everyone. Fun times.

i dont want side for everyone, i agree, it sucked enormously. Please relax. Go watch some porn or something.

YES please. would greatly help with the current shoot on sight retardness. +1.

What the title says! There could be a rare item, the radio, that would enable a channel to speak with whoever has a radio as well. It could lead to some interesting "anybody out there?" moments, good ambushes, or just wider team work.

its working beautifully, love the no weapon spawn, but fpss are gradually dropping to nothingness when entering towns. Keep up the good work, this is shaping up to be way, way more than amod, or even a "game". Thank you for it!