Daffy Duck

The bandits.

I'm not a bandit, but I can understand their method of thought. It's much more advantageous to be a bandit than to team up with strangers. The only reason one need to team up with another is to perform a blood transfusion. I think there should be more things one can do only if they have a partner, so that it balances out the benefits of banditry and teaming up. What things? I don't know. So far, a blood transfusion needing a partner makes sense, there's obviously the fact that a friend can help in a firefight/zombie situation, maybe sharing food/water (split can in half for friend and yourself). I think cannibalism should be allowed, in a zombie apocalypse meat is meat (but not cannibalism on zombies). What other things could benefit teaming up with strangers?

Thanks, I was thinking the zombie's aggro range was different as of recently. I'm having trouble getting within range of villages now, before I could get in, relatively unseen, creeping in prone. Now, even in prone, zombies still come running. I'll deal with it I guess. Usually I just go prone and sneak by them, but it's not working so well now, if at all come to think of it.

If there is one thing I dislike about this game, it's the ridiculous system of aggroing zombies. I aggroed one while I wasn't moving, albeit he was close, and then another from REALLY far away through crouch walking. I'm still alive, but did a recent update increase aggro range or something? It's insane. Otherwise, the fear factor is great.

Side-chat is definitely a benefit to the community. Once I chose to use it to find out if a person was friendly when they were out of direct comm distance, but I'll never do that again because of the authenticity of meeting strangers face to face without knowing if they're friendly. Besides that, it's useful for gaining DayZ friends.

Honestly, I just got sniped two times in about 5 mins. Perhaps, and this is just perhaps, the sniper spawns need to be reduced, but then again, I'm almost sure this was a fluke. However, it feels oddly disrespectful to die by sniper. I worked quite a bit for the stuff I have, and here's some out of range guy just laying about happily takin' people out without the slightest of dangers (except for angering zombehs, but most of the time the sniper is too far away). Then again, hunters use snipers to take out their prey, so who am I to say I'm worth more than that? In a zombeh apocalypse, all I am is prey. I'm contradicting myself, but it's because I'm not sure about the situation.