Maxgor

Strange, I found two today myself during one playthrough. I doubt it's a server side option, but maybe it's possibly the server was just having a problem with them.

You can't make a point, when your making up stuff about a fictional event. If I had to use fictional stuff to back myself up, I'd look at post apocalyptic movies, where people kill to kill, just because they can. Doesn't make me anymore right. Also this game is built around complete freedom. You can be a dick and kill just because you want to. It is a dick move, but the scripter douche isn't making things better. He basically said he killed someone cause they tried to kill him with a pistol, when he had a sniper rifle. Maybe he wanted that sniper rifle. That's a reason to kill. If this wasn't supposed to happen, Rocket would make a Survivor team and a Bandit team, so you could only kill someone if you were one or the other, but that still wouldn't fix anything as you could still die for no real reason other than the other guy is meant to kill you.

In the end, it might still just be too black and white, no grey area. If they can't work out every situation, it would be best to just take it out entirely, since it just isn't right in a game that tries to give the player all the options he wants, something that Rocket himself has said. Making rules would defeat that purpose of the game.

I also want to add to the "leveling of the playing field", as I've said that too, but if you try to level the playing field by cheating, your only adding to that one side that is said to be thrown off, which in turn creates a bigger imbalance, of which it could go to far and throw the balance completely out of whack, till it's just a mod with nothing but scripters, who have all the best guns, no one to fight, which makes the game null and void. This isn't Battlefield 3 (A game I love to play), where everyone will have similar gear and can combat each person they come up against on even ground. There will always be someone that might be better than you, cause maybe they have extra gear or they have friends to play with. The whole point of the game is to try and survive, to build yourself up to the point that your on the same level as others, to learn from your mistakes, and do better with the next try. Even if this is all trolling, of which it might be half and half, at least maybe we can try and pull some legitimate discussion out of an idiotic thread, since this is a legitimate problem with the game.

It's both good and bad, like it was said, I don't think they'll ever be able to adjust for specific situations. Sure, if you get hit, maybe they could then count the other guy as bad, but what if your pinned down and you pretty much have to kill him to survive? That shouldn't count as losing humanity, only because you didn't actually get hit. It also creates this idea that you have to either be REALLY good or REALLY bad, which isn't realistic. There's no middle ground for the survivor. He'll help people, but if his life is on the line, he'll take a kill. Hopefully they can figure out something better, but I can't say I like it's particular implementation right now...Plus it's buggy as hell lol

You really can't change them much, without just making them unrealistic. Their use comes down to situations. If your at 600 meters and more away, of course the sniper rifle has the advantage. If your at 300 and less, a regular rifle like the FAL, which has the same damage as regular sniper rifles, will have the advantage. They certainly couldn't be buffed anymore as they pretty much one hit kill most everyone, which doesn't account for the BIG sniper rifles like AS50 and M107, which are many times stronger than regular rifles. Those could probably have the nerf to put them in line with the other rifles, but then that wouldn't be as realistic then.

Yet another person that didn't understand what they were doing when they got DayZ. People really need to learn what the point of Alphas are. Also in response to OP posting in another spot, no, Rocket has no responsibility to finish this mod. He could abandon it and never touch it ever again. He could've done it at any point over the past months if he really wanted to. It's a mod. It's free, it wasn't meant to bring in new people to ARMA2, it was meant as something for people that already owned the game, to play. It just happened to be a very interesting idea, that the media and youtube hyped it like crazy, which made the whole thing take off. The purpose of the standalone is to fix things you just can't do with the mod. You can only hack into a game so far, before you hit a wall, due to how the original game was designed. The hatchet is an example of that. The only way he could get it in, was to basically make it a nearly infinite round gun with really low range and accuracy.

Adding myself to this problem. Just started and now it seems to happen with every log in. The first time was in a city, in a fire station, but I got lucky I was on a quiet server and didn't die. My second was now out in the woods, logged in after some time off, back to the long load. Pretty lame, but I just need to remember to log out in really safe places lol

It's fun making up nonsense percentages for fictional ideas, isn't it? The atmosphere of DayZ isn't meant to be a care bear "Lets survive together!" type of atmosphere, it's playing a game with the idea, that at any time, you could die. You can play the good guy and try to be friendly, or take the chance of being shot. If everyone had to have a reason to kill someone, people would probably never kill each other.

Wait..."nice" hacker? He admits to killing people using god mode and cheats to kill people or get revenge on people, just because they shot at him for no reason (With a pistol, no less), while also giving his friends the best gear in the game, which in turn, they'll most likely kill people who are aren't on the "level playing field" as them, further adding to the scripting menace in the game. He's not out there just handing out AS50's to people just getting in the game, which would be a terrible thing, but to his close friends.

Must have been some good eats. Mythbusters proved you can make a mean, tenderized, steak with explosives :D

Ah yes, such intellect you've shown by correcting my grammar. How about you come back when you're not a cheating, hypocritical, dick. You claim the other person is an asshole for trying to kill you, even though you had gear you cheated to get and also admit to using godmode to kill people who you think are just being plain mean to you. Level playing field, my ass.

Your not smarter, your cheating, making yourself out to be worse than the douchebag that killed you. This game isn't about having a level playing field withe everyone. Some people are gonna have double barreled shotguns, some are gonna have M107 sniper rifles. Learning how to deal with this, is the GAME. If you don't want to get sniped, stay out of Cherno, Elektro, and the NW airfield or if you do plan to go there, be wary of the obvious sniper locations. It's called learning and getting better at a game, not taking the easy way out.

I'm not unsatisfied with the game, but I only play it once in awhile anymore. Mostly just waiting for either an update or the standalone alpha to come out, but the past day or so I've popped back on to fool around with surviving more.

All I see from the OP is "I'm not very good at this game, people kill me too much, so I negate the whole point of playing the game, which is to survive and get gear, but give me and my friends good gear, and then cheat when I feel like I don't want to die...even though I'm a hacker and can just get more gear anyways." Your just making excuses for a game that is too challenging for you, to try and validate your reason for hacking, which is completely crap. Yes, there are douchebags that shoot on sight (Though that is part of this game, that is why bandits exist). Yes, there are hackers that will kill you. Yes, there are bugs that will make you lose your gear. The biggest draw of the game is how intense it is when your life is on the line, struggling to survive, trying not to die. Taking that away from yourself, is really like taking away one of the biggest aspects of the game.

That interview was worth it for just some of the funny moments lol Would've been nice had they brought up new stuff, but I'm not really too bummed about it.

Yeah, there are tons of gun locations in Cherno. You can find the majority of lower loot guns there. G17, 1911, Revolver, M14, MP5, AK's, Shotguns, etc...yes there are times when Cherno is dead empty, I've seen it before, but that's due to it being picked clean, usually from high pop servers.

I always head to cities now. I did the run north thing and it gets abit old after awhile lol Your death is more guaranteed in Cherno/Elektro, but I'm finding some fun experiences by being there. I'll probably get bored of that and head north again eventually.

No, he's specifically said he's continuing work on the mod. There's an update on the horizon. Just because he's not updating every week, doesn't mean he's dropping the mod. And of course the standalone won't be free, that's an actual separate game. DayZ is a mod. It's an optional mod to a videogame. Just because people bought ARMA2 for DayZ, doesn't mean they bought DayZ.

There was talk about going completely HUD-less, using sound and visual queues for everything. Dogs will growl if zombies are nearby, will attack zombies, can become friendly with people if they stick near you, but also become more aggressive against new players. There was talk about weapon degradation, not with weapons breaking, but maybe you find a poor quality Lee Enfield, which works, but it's not as accurate, or you find a perfect quality version. There might be some weapon customizing. They said that the new version of Chernaurus with more open buildings is pretty much already done. Hackers will be handled better when they go standalone and that's all I remember.

It's fantastic for scavenging, it just depends on how long ago the server restarted and how many people are playing on it.

That's not how things work. Even if you bought ARMA2 for DayZ, you still bought just ARMA2 to play a free mod. Rocket could've just stopped making this mod months ago, because there's nothing holding himself to the mod. Luckily for us, he wants to push forward past the mod into the standalone. Hell, he actually has no reason to continue work on the mod right now, but he plans to anyways for testing and such till the release the standalone alpha.

He said he can't really do anything about hackers in the mod, which is why the standalone is gonna be better, for that fact alone. *EDIT* A form of weapon of degradation and weapon customization would be pretty cool.

He breaks another guys leg and then gets rammed by a hackers chopper. That was amazing lol The moments when hackers can be hilariously awesome XD

LOL He broke the guys leg to leave him behind XD I do love the talk about going HUD-less. Everything is a visual or sound queue.