sausagekingofchicago

I personally wrote my own anti-hack for all games but rocket doesn't want to use it because he has something against Americans. That's right! ROCKET HATES AMERICANS!@ Why else wouldn't they make a new map based in the US?!@® He loves hackers but hates Americans! Not only that but I heard he isn't even at the office this week. Instead he flew "home" to do who knows what just weeks after the game released. WTCF!? Hello DEAN, remember the hackers?! Kiwi boxing day isn't as important as our entertainment. He took our monies and is going on a kiwi coke and whore binge. someone alert the UN press office.

I've had many encounters so I'll just post the one that stands out the most as the first is lost to memory. I was looting through the Vybor military base when I saw a player run into the military brig building. He was wearing one of those stupid bandit masks but I had a Mosin in hand and an M4 on by back while he was unarmed. Cautiously, I approached and ordered him to drop the mask. I come around the corner and see he had just put on a different mask. I lol'd a bit and backed off and let him go on his way even though I had the upper hand by a kilometer. As he was sprinting away I put a shot over his shoulder to let him know who was king, and to help him with his bowel movement. Finally took my first SA kill this morning but that's a different story.

Let them. Hell, I'm tempted to encourage those type of players to do this. When the the hammer falls their tears will be delicious.

Don't worry too much about combat loggers. You're simply doing it wrong if you're playing to survive and you're running into a lot of combat logging.

I think hearing random gunshots and seeing people that weren't really there would do wonders to the mental state of players. :)

there's always that. I think the ideal system goes something like this. Standing, third person. Crouched, camera is pulled in halfway. Prone, forced first person. Gun in hands, camera pulled in halfway. Aiming down the sight or weapon up, forced first person. I think that's the best compromise I've come across.

You'd need a pretty extreme drought to dry up wells like that.

Fueling one of those things would take ages with a 5L can. :)

They've migrated north. Regards, Ministry of Migration

Private hives create bigger problems for smaller groups of people.

Separate hives. Anyway, I still believe third person makes its far harder for bandits to get the jump on you which makes it easier for you but harder for them. The flipside of the coin, it makes it easier for bandits to get a drop on people who refuse to use third. edit: Lots of ideas and solutions have been proposed for this. I strongly suggest everyone search for the various threads and read them for yourselves. It'll help progress the debate.

I just force feed myself a shirt. That solves most problems. Try other servers. That hallways sounds familiar and two of those doors should open. Also make sure your version of the game matches the server. If they don't you won't be able to open doors. edit: question, can you see through the walls?

Personally I think 24/7 daylight ruins the DayZ experience in the same way spawning with a map, compass, gun, pack, food, drink, shoes, socks, boats, cars, bananas, kiwis, and a locked safe does but what the hell. 24/7 daylight. Oh, it also ruins it in the same way admins insist on resetting their servers every other hour. I'm just strange I guess. /rant

That wasn't working last time I tried. :)

Aye, you cannot currently add ammo to an already loaded Mosin until you fire all the rounds already loaded.

definitely

The game also needs a proximity radar. not really

See, that's what I enjoy. Not knowing if my next character is going to survive. Making that part of the game any easier would be a mistake. I'm glad our first priority isn't to find a gun.

The first few hours are the best but gathering loot up north can be just as difficult as you start looking for specific gear, not just any ratty hoodie with four pockets and the first M4 you see. You can waste your ammo on zeds and potentially alert other survivors or you can take an axe to the zeds and risk infections. Something that might happen often enough to drive real survivors into northern hospitals for the essentials. The diseases can wreck you as well and compared to how they worked before, we're all having an easy time of it. There's also the coming impacts of weather on your gear and risk of illnesses from the cold. There's a lot they can do to make life just as hard for those of us up north as it is on the coast (of a server that isn't reset every hour).

I do. It forces players to survive rather than mindlessly hunt fresh spawns and it also keeps people from sprinting to NW or back to their bodies with nothing more than a flashlgiht. I find the aspect of trying to survive quite enjoyable and needing to find food and drink right away gives us an additional challenge to overcome. If it was up to me we'd all spawn even hungrier, thirstier, and barefoot.

the food and drink work fine. When you spawn on the coast you're already hungry. Think of it as if you had a light supper the night before the zombie outbreak and you somehow skipped breakfast as well.

There is no way you can say all future guns are going to be military grade. The goal is/was to have a central server control the loot globally.

I think a lot of you are getting a little too focused on how the loot is handled right this instant. This can change from update to update. And there's no reason to remove the barracks at all. Reduction in M4 availability will likely take place as other weapons are introduced. Reduction in ammo on the coast would almost certainly solve the pvp so it's silly to demand the barracks removal. Strangely, after a few hours of a servers life, it's really hard to find M4's and ammo. Where are you guys playing? On one of those 24/7 daylight servers or one that gets reset every hour?

Nah, leave them. No one MUST go there and if you don't want to play with the KoS kiddies then leave the coast. Let the deathmatchers have their fun. Moving them north would only spread the KoS plague and ruin everyone else's game.