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  2. Posted · Edited by Zithon

    I'm guessing that last part is to prevent server hopping, right?

    Well, after that I started to wait about 3-5 min after picking something up to log out, but after a while I got back to logging out whenever I felt like it and since then it has never happened, never lost an item to logging off since.

    For example earlier today I was crawling around the NW airfield with a broken leg and no morphine (had lost both my doses to a glitchy ladder and a bugged door) for two hours, I crawled into a building and found three doses, healed leg and logged off. When I got back in after breakfast and some other stuff I had both doses and a healthy leg.

  4. Posted · Edited by Zithon

    Told these stories on other posts but think they got overlooked since they were on unpopular topics.

    NOTE: These are not complaining stories but stories of fun.

    My first life. Sneaking around, paranoid to hell and travelling at snail speed. I find a weapon, a AK74u, YES! Then I search around a bit more and find a Crossbow in a privy, I pick it up and realize that that caused me to drop my AK74u. So I start looking for it to switch back, but it is glitched and I cant see it. I close the privy door to see if it was blocking then suddenly; my bones break and I fall unconcious, bleeding to death. Yes, my first death wasnt to a zombie, a player or even a fall. It was to a privy door. I laughed till I wheezed. =D

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    On my second life I had found a Lee-Enfield and saw someone running like a madman at night (with a flashlight in hand). I approached to see if he was friendly (it was my second life), the reason he was running was simple, zeds. So I decide to do him a favour and I open up killing all the zeds eventually. Then I get a message that he has died. And my murder count was up from 0 to 1. So... I had accidentally hit him.

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    My third life. Im sneaking around Cherno at dawn, I encounter two players who are friendly and they show me where to get medical supplies. We hear some gunfire in the distance. After a short while we separate, they being two buddies on Skype and I not wanting to be a thrid wheel. So I go about my business and then I hear more gunfire. And messages saying players are dying. Then the two guys I talked too earlier dies. I decide to find the source of the gunfire and sneak towards it. I cant find where they are until I spot a horde of zombies standing clustered around a tall industrial building.

    I realize this is where they are so I scout around and find a ladder that goes all the way to the top. Struggling to figure out how to use ladders properly I climb with my trusty Winchester 1866 in hand. As I reach the top I spot the two snipers. One hears me and spins around and fires in panic. The shot misses. My 12 gauge slug doesn't. His friend spins around and starts shooting and I unload two slugs into him. I stood victorious!

    Then I check their gear. A .50 cal rifle, a M14, a M16A2 with M203, a scoped M4, a M1911 and a PDW. This in addition to tons of misc gear. I can hardly decide what to take but I get the .50 cal, the M16A2 and the PDW. Then, job done, I log off to go get something to eat.

    I log back in about 45 min later only to find out that apparently my inventory wasnt saved as I logged off and I am back to my Winchester. The bodies are still there but the M14 and the M4 are gone so I settle for the M1911. I climb down and somehow glitch on the ladder and die.

  6. Posted · Edited by Zithon

    Well, the reason people operate under Shoot on Sight is simple: They are scared.

    On my second life I had found a Lee-Enfield and saw someone running like a madman at night (with a flashlight in hand). I approached to see if he was friendly (it was my second life), the reason he was running was simple, zeds. So I decide to do him a favor and I open up killing all the zeds eventually. Then I get a message that he has died. And my murder count was up from 0 to 1. So... I had accidentally hit him, and I do not doubt he was more paranoid later.

    Another time I was in Cherno on a low pop server and see a guy running from zeds, so I kill them and say "friendly =D". He turns around and shoots me in the face.

    Another time in Elektro I was looting some stuff from the supermarket (my only gun was a markarov) and someone sneaks up and headshots me.

    Now after these experiences I am now a fully fledged Shoot on Sight player.

    Just an hour ago I was planing to look for some STANAG mags at the airfield barracks. But, paranoid, I lay prone with my L85 on IR to scout for hostiles. And one guy appears. Sneaking slowly with a scoped M4 or M16 in hand. I think "should I really shoot him?" but he is heading towards me and aiming down sights while sweeping his view over me. So I panic and open up, killing him (and the server crashed or something so I couldnt even loot his corpse).

    The best way to survive is to repay kindness with kindness and evil with evil and since most people in this game chose evil (for a short term benefit) and the few who start off trying kindness soon stop as they realize they are just being screwed over by those choosing evil.

    Just look up Prisoner's Dilemma if you want to understand the situation more.

  7. Posted

    The survivor section of this forum is full of people looking to team up. Saying 'I don't have any friends who play DayZ' is a poor excuse for complaining about blood in the game. So, say for example, you do find someone on the forums to play with and he turns out to be a bad apple, so what? You're at no loss to what situation you'd be in without him, you said yourself you've been dying from zombies or players, this isn't anything out of the usual. You'll find a good player or group of players eventually.

    You have missed my point... I am not saying "ooh, its too hard", Im saying "I think that making blood transfusions be a co-op only is a bad and artificial way of forcing people to play co-op". Saying I dont have any friends who play DayZ is just to explain why I havnt played co-op since the start.

  8. Posted

    In raiding the military tents last night at the airstrip above Krasnostav, i counted 3 cows and 1 goat. Unusual yes but w/e, we took it and shot a cow and goat. I don't reccomend going if you're alone though, sniper heaven. Or if you do go, go on a very not populated server

    I go on low pop servers most of the time. Currently my meat supply is ok but I nearly went insane getting it.

    First I find a chicken and kill it for one meat (yay!), then a goat and kill it, but something glitches and I only get one piece off it. Then I find a cow and because I only have two rounds left in my AKM I stop and crouch to wait for my hands to stop shaking from running. Then just as I am about to shoot... The cow despawns. Yeah, FML.

    Now, just after finding a nice helo wreck (which contained 2x FN FAL and a L85A2 AWS, hell yes!) I finally found a cow and dropped it with one FAL shot. And it didnt glitch. So... Yay... Guess Iv just been horribly unlucky.

  9. Posted

    Zithon it's just harder solo, and not being able to give a transfusion solo whilst maybe not accurate presents an interesting dynamic to the game, I,e the need to seek out assistance in your fellow man.

    I think it's a genius move, being a soloist just means you got to adapt, I find it so intense I,m literally nervous the whole time, when I find a heli wreck the urge to check it out is so great but with no cover I just do not know what is lurking in the tree lines, maybe a ghillie suited player with 50.cal

    I,m happiest and more relaxed once I have some of my group online and we can move in a group, yet I,m also cool to play for days on end solo.

    You have realised that being in a co-operative of players will help a great deal so go out there and find a group, or stick to the forest hunting animals and drinking from puddles for weeks on end.

    Ok, so what you are saying is "Yes, it is an artificial way of forcing players together." Which you may like or dislike. That is all I wanted to know, thanks =D

  10. Posted

    I have two very memorable events.

    1. My first life. Sneaking around, paranoid to hell and travelling at snail speed. I find a weapon, a AK74u, YES! Then I search around a bit more and find a Crossbow in an outhouse, I pick it up and realize that that caused me to drop my AK74u. So I start looking for it to switch back, but it is glitched and I cant see it. I close the outhouse door to see if it was blocking then suddenly; my bones break and I fall unconcious, bleeding to death. Yes, my first death wasnt to a zombie, a player or even a fall. It was to an outhouse door.

    2. My third life. Im sneaking around Cherno at dawn, I encounter two players who are friendly and they show me where to get medical supplies. We hear some gunfire in the distance. After a short while we separate, they being two buddies on Skype and I not wanting to be a thrid wheel. So I go about my business and then I hear more gunfire. And messages saying players are dying. Then the two guys I talked too earlier dies. I decide to find the source of the gunfire and sneak towards it. I cant find where they are until I spot a horde of zombies standing clustered around a tall industrial building.

    I realize this is where they are so I scout around and find a ladder that goes all the way to the top. Struggling to figure out how to use ladders properly I climb with my trusty Winchester 1866 in hand. As I reach the top I spot the two snipers. One hears me and spins around and fires in panic. The shot misses. My 12 gauge slug dosnt. His friend spins around and starts shooting and I unload two slugs into him. I stood victorious!

    Then I check their gear. A BAF AS50, a M14 EP1, a M16A2 M203, a M4A3 CCO, a M1911 and a PDW. This in addition to tons of misc gear. I can hardly decide what to take but I get the BAF AS50, the M16A2 and the PDW. Then, job done, I log off to go get something to eat.

    I log back in about 45 min later only to find out that apparently my inventory wasnt saved as I logged off and I am back to my Winchester. The bodies are still there but the M14 and the M4 are gone so I settle for the M1911. I climb down and somehow glitch on the ladder and die.

  11. Posted

    Feel your pain, lost a M240 and a M14 (best gear I have ever gotten) to a guy who just emptied a ak at me from close range 10 sec after I logged into a server with only one other person on (and chances of him just happening to be in a forest south of Gorka at the same time as me...)

  12. Posted · Edited by Zithon

    Also my original question hasnt really been answered (beyond "it just is that way"). Why make solo so much harder? Id imagine the problem for co-op players isnt losing blood but finding enough blood packs to sustain the two of you (as with food, water and ammo).

    That the game is meant to be harder solo I understand and think is great. Just wondering what is the reasoning as to why the difficulty has to come from different mechanics. Why not make blood packs restore 3000 or so blood and enable use of them on yourself? As they are only found in helo crash sites and in hospitals they will still be rare and take up enough space that finding enough may be problematic.

    What I am talking about are game mechanics, the source of difficulty are different for the two kinds of players; finding and carrying enough for co-op players and not losing any in the first place for solo players. I am asking if there is any cause of this? An artificial way to force people to play co-op? And if so why not go the full way and make it impossible to bandage or give morphine to yourself?

    As for realism I cant see why giving a blood transfusion to yourself should be impossible. And is going at it alone harder IRL? Yes, of course it is! Two people can do more work, help each other if they get incapacitated and carry more firepower.

    EDIT: To make myself even more clear: Why do co-op players get this artificial advantage over solo players? Shouldnt the natural advantages of playing co-op be enough? Why this powerful extra ability?

  14. Posted

    "Why is playing the game solo so unforgiving as opposed to playing co-op?"

    Uh... You're playing solo. That's why. It's not going to get any better unless you're capable of teaming up with somebody. That's how it would be in real life, that's how it is here.

    So the official position is "If you have no friends who play DayZ: F**k you."?

    Also where are you likely to find animals? I have run from Cherno to the airfield four times and roamed the woods to the east and west for hours and found only one goat.

  15. Posted

    Ok, after playing this game for two and a half days now I have a big question.

    I play solo since none of my friends play DayZ and this causes my games to fall into a pattern:

    1. Spawn and sneak past zombies.

    2. Find weapon.

    3. Find basic gear.

    4. Lose 30% blood.

    5. Get knocked down by zombie and lose 90% of blood.

    6. Have no way to recover on my own.

    7. Die.

    Occasionally change step 4 to "Encounter other survivor, get shot and die."

    Now up until step 6 I am fine with the mechanics of the game. Its a survival game so being in a tight spot is just fine. But having almost no way to recover is just... Annoying.

    I can bandage myself and treat fractures but have almost no way of recovering blood without outside assistance. I have tried to find meat to cook but so far have only found a single goat (during any game where I managed to find matches). And considering Id need to kill 3 goats go gain any real amount of blood...

    So my question is: Why is playing the game solo so unforgiving as opposed to playing co-op? Why add the advantage of being able to restore blood to co-op players in addition to the normal perks of playing co-op (more firepower, ability to resuscitate unconscious players, etc.)?

    Anyway, I just wanted to get this off my chest as I am once again stuck in outside a small town with less than 1000 blood and no way to get more.

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