B00tsy (DayZ)

I like the part of where you lose your tent etcetera, when you die you start fresh with nothing but beanz. Bodies and tent should be deleted after you die. Edit to add, that my current character with great gear is almost out of blood. Obviously I am going to login to an unpopulated server, jump of a building and then get my gear back with a new character. Would be cool if this were not possible.

I don't see a scope on it so yeah bring it in the game. We need those type of (civilian) weapons instead of military weapons.

Yea, but the thing is you already don't need those weapons to kill players. Only pussies need the scoped weapons because they are to chicken to get up close to kill someone with an AK or a shotgun. And if you think the AK is not killing players fast enough then ask a buddy to help you with ambushing players with an other AK. Thats the gameplay I would like to see instead of kiddo's far away on a hill sniping the shit out of the game. I think If you want to be a bandit or a bandit hunter then there needs to be risk involved and you need to get within a 100 meters to fire accurately or even better do a very close range ambush on a player. Now that is fun, because there is equal risk involved for both sides.

I support this. And imo they don't even have to be that rare. A camo net is not something that would unbalance the game or anything, but it is a nice feature and nice to have as loot. Would like to see not just vehicle cover, but all the camo nets available. The only problem with nets in ArmA is that that it can block doorways and stuff, it is like a big wall. They need to be made phantom then so you can walk through the net. Otherwise you can make fortifications with them.

Everyone should start with in a T-72 and the ability to call in airstrikes whenever we want to, This would improve the game a lot. I also want power-ups like invisibility, teleport to anywhere on the map and other special perks. This will be so cool man.

Just remove them, it's not a simple survivor weapon, but a high class military rifle. Saves the devs a lot of time nerving them and balancing them while they should not be in the game in the first place. Remove scoped weapons Remove helicopters and specially gunships and any vehicle with mounted guns. Remove NVG's Remove grenade launchers and maybe grenades too Introduce the skill factor to surviving. Get up close and personal if you want to kill someone and risk your own life doing it.

Yeah that would be cool if it were a quick deathmatch with no hard work of getting good gear for your character. With a setup where you work for days if not weeks to stay alive and getting better gear then you need at least a chance to survive an attack if you can quickly get away from the firefight. But you should not be so damage resistant as with being shot by a makarov, takes like 3 clips to kill someone with that bee bee gun.

Wait this reminds me of GTA.

It makes it more difficult and unexpected. How cool is it to plan on killing someone that is passing by and then when you jump in front of him ready to fire your bad ass rifle it jams! Or the other way around of course, you are walking around and a bandit jumps in front of you, you think that you are about to die and then notice his rifle is jamming, just enough time to kill the attacker! I get a smile on my face just thinking about it.

I really like the idea of weapon degradation. I also really like how they have implemented it in the Stalker game serie, If you find a new shiny weapons then after a couple of clips fired the chance of jamming increases and if you are running around with it for several days it will be in bad condition with a lot of jamming and misfires (because of the bad weather among other things) and it's basically time to find a new gun.

If you actually want to hit something over 100 meters away IRL then you need intensive training to do it not even mentioning being able to maintain the rifle in a working condition with all the heavy dayz weather and mud and stuff.

If lameness is your game style then I understand that they should stay, otherwise get all the the sniper uber guns (also the DRM thus and scoped rifles in general) out of the game. And your referral to the other games is exactly not the point to make, CoD and Battlefield is where those uber rifles belong (or ArmA the military sim), not in baddass hardcore Dayz.. Sniper rifles is for pussies (don't take it personal pls). I understand your fun in having one as it is super easy to pawn players, but it also tells something about your lack of skills if you need to have one. The storyline is not really relevant, it's about having a bad ass game with skilled players on top of the food chain and not players who happen to have overpowered long range rifles.

I logged in to some servers today that seem to be setup just to grief players that join the server. I had one server where the lobby background screen was being spammed with large ships on the map as soon as I logged in (i was the only player there), in a matter of seconds there were thousands of ships and my fps dropped to 1 and then ArmAOA.exe crashed to desktop. And on an other server I logged in and constantly got the message that I was killed and got the 'you are dead' screen and the statistics display pop-up. That was while logging into the game and before I got the normal black screen with white text that my character is being setup (or whatever that login loading message is). So the being killed is a hoax and everyone that joins the server gets the same message. I don't have the name of the first server, but the last one you can see in the pic, both were the vanilla version and not private hive.

Explain..

okay, because I was the only player logged in I thought it was serverside.

This has my vote. Unscoped semi-auto rifles is the way to go.

Yeah I was a bit lucky I guess because the dude was not paying attention, I think he had his gear menu open when I approached him. I am only low on blood now and playing lonewolf, matter of time till I am dead. Hope I will find my old gear back when it happens :)

Well I have pretty nice gear with NVG, grenades, a AKM with plenty of ammo, soldier outfit and a tent filled with supplies. It was easy to get. Just let others get the good loot and then kill the dude and take his stuff. I was in a house watching through the window looking for players with nice gear passing by, when I saw one I sneaked up on him and killed him with a pistol (and not an uber weapon). And because I have NVG now I only play at night time cos the advantage I have is huge, un less I run into an other player that also has NVG. I didn't use much skills to get the gear, was a matter of patience and a few headshots from close range. For the vehicles, I should have used more nuance with my comments cos it indeed takes some effort to get it in working condition.

Finding a sniper rifle or throwing gas in a helicopter gunship has nothing to do with skills. almost nothing anyway. You are not a better player when you have an uber weapon, you are just a player with uber weapon. The best players according to you would then be hackers using artillery and flatten a whole town. If we both have an unscoped weapon crawling around Cherno and you sneak up to me to put a bullet in my head then you were better.

You can just as well add pink elephants with MG nests on their backs then. In the logic that everything possible should be added. Storyline and stuff is all fine, but in the end it's about playability and balancing and you build the story around that and not the other way around. And the storyline is not important at all if in practice the game is nothing more then a deathmatch on a large map with loot spawns. It's like saying that the storyine in Left4Death is crucial and important too while it's not, its a shooter with zombies and a plain deathmatch in MP mode.

Thats all I am saying too. With the addition that it can even be more hardcore for my taste and remove the uber weapons all together. But if the skill factor applies to using those weapons then that would already be a big improvement.

Thats exactly the opposite of the point of what I am trying to make, you pussy. And p.s. If it were to suppose to be realistic then you would not be able to fly a bad ass gunship or kill someone with a high class military rifle at long range with top accuracy.

The most funny thing about what you wrote is that you actually mean it too. What Rocket did was adding some zombies and basically every bad ass military weapon ArmA contains on an ArmA map, I don't see much thought behind that, the fact that it is so unbalanced is because Rocket did not think it through (or has a weird way of thinking lol). Despite that, everyone is still raving about it so kudo's for him. In this state I will not buy it when it gets released as a stand alone, no way. Do you seriously think that I will spend hours if not days looting just to have my head blown off by a random dude half click away on a hill with an uber rifle or a guy behind a bush with a grenade launcher? I like kinky SM, but not in a game with looting and zombies and where you build up a persistent character. Ohh and don get me wrong, I like the DayZ idea and the mod in general. I am a sucker for post apocalyptic settings, so yeah. But, there is also something like balancing. And with balancing I mean the skill factor. And thus not the loot factor that you find or hack an uber rifle and go camp on a hill to pawn players that can basically do nothing against it. If the scoped weapons would have some camshake going on or a wind factor then it would be an other thing, but now it is just lame as there is almost no skills involved, just the fact that you have an uber weapon is enough, and you gotta have beans of course. I love to see only un-scoped weapons in dayZ and sure it may even be auto-rifles. People like you are behaving that you are some hardcore badasses and people that have other ideas about that are pussies, but in fact the pussies are you, cos you need uber weapons. Hell, I would go for a Dayz with only pistols and basic rifles/shotguns, thats more hardcore then lame ass uber rifles and helicopter gunships. So who is the real pussy, thats the question.

Right, but a normal civilian (if you want to relate it to RL) wont be able to hit anything more then 100 meters away, To fire a sniper rifle from long distance (especially 50 cal) you heed to have had military sniper training for it or a ton of practice on the range. We are discussing in this topic sniper rifle's alone, but for me it goes for any scoped weapon. Enforcer mentioned the wind factor, that would definitely improve things and level the odds a bit. If that would be a fact for every gun and rifle then it would make things more interesting as you need to have skills then to fire accurately. As long as you don't have any helpers like a wind direction and wind speed pop-up on your screen. If a bullet would have a falloff to the left or right depending on the wind then I am for that.

Ohh you are like a dude that only agrees on his own opinions, other people just need to fuck off. Well I wont, so bite me. If you don't agree thats fine, but try to act like you have some working brain cells and respond constructively otherwise you gtfo, kay. The game EVE is unfair too, but it contains restrictions and IS balanced so it can be both. Some dude behind a bush with a M107 snipping everyone of from 500 meters away has nothing to do about skills and basically kills the immersion of being a simple survivor/bandit, same for uber machineguns and grenade launchers and the likes. Thats my opinion, deal with it.