dchristy87

Exactly! Like someone mentioned before. Finding a weapon in a deer stand with a mag or something would be way different than finding a weapon or unopened can of 5.56 rounds in a military building/home or something.

Lol, Well a lot of people just seem to be putting out facts about the likely hood of a weapon jamming/misfiring. All I'm saying is I've had misfires my share of times (yes, I kept my rifle immaculate). The Marine Corps likes to use shitty ammo that God only knows is how old for field ops/ firing ranges. So yes, the ammo is usually the culprit in those situations. This is why I said "special magazines" I imagine with the post apocalyptic world, all the ammunition the survivors are finding aren't exactly in it's tip top shape. Either way, I wasn't suggesting for a misfire to occur every other round. A 0.1% chance is fine with me. I've read somewhere that a goal was to have the player basically feel frustrated at times. I don't imagine any player who managed to find themselves in a downtown firefight or picking off zombies in a struggle for survival and had to take a few seconds to fix a jam/misfire for their first time would really complain about it. It makes for good stories and experiences. lol, thats the exact type of experience I'm looking for. I know that would be a story I'd share with my friends when trying to recruit them to pick up the game and play with me...

Awesome, thanks for the reply and heads up!

I think if, very rare and random, weapon misfires or jams could be implemented it would make DayZ better. I've searched through the forums and I've seen it touched on as a subcategory to, typically, weapons maintenance or something. (But I don't really see that as necessary). Maybe special magazines with a very very low spawn rate could be designed that look and are titled exactly the same as normal magazines but have a special property that when you hit the 12th round or something, it causes your weapon to misfire. In return, you will be forced to do immediate action (tap, rack, bang, which is a really quick action to perform). Or even more rare ones that cause it to double feed, causing you to have to unload and unjam it and reload again. Just thought this specifically would add even more dynamics to an already dynamic game.

They said they're going to use a branch off of Take on Helicopters which was a branch from Operation Arrowhead. They using this for the stability and also the fact that the programmers making DayZ are the very same programmers who made that engine so they're quite familiar with it and will probably be able to get things done quick. :)

I love the thought of underground system and the opportunity to build it out and implement electricity through a generator of some sort. I know a lot of people like to build up a tent city and such. It's too easy for someone to just happen across your hard work and take whatever they want. At least with a key (not necessarily a key card) then a bandit would have to work for the loot. Say the bandit would have to stalk the person, find out where his underground ditch is and when the time is right, kill him and take his key to get inside. Then when the player has to create a new character, they can chance trying to go back to their bunker to gather any belongings that haven't been looted before venturing off to another remote area to build a new bunker. Either way the player should spawn with a key that is specific to his character and any bunker he chooses to create. Or maybe every bunker to start off with doesn't have a key. Maybe you can have to find a lock system to apply to your bunker before its able to be locked. Just as along as in the standalone, all this glitch garbage is finished and you don't spawn back into the world missing your key because it's so glitchy...that would be annoying...

I tried the remote with IP but all I get is the Host new server option :-\