Aceswingz

I played a ton of the mod back before DayZ got really popular and then ruined by hackers. So long I awaited for the SA and two and half years later here we are.There are alot of things the SA does very well, but I feel as though the SA really doesnt capture what made the original mod so much fun. Here I'm going to outline a few suggestions that I think should be implemented to the SA. Zombies: - The dev team should consider spawning zombies by proximity instead of trying to populate the entire map like the mod did. It least for the short run while they figure out whatever they are doing now. As it stands there are very few zombies in this game which is silly considering this is DayZ. Mowing down hordes of the undead was great in the mod. You would fire an AS50 and basically have to execute an entire village because the sound would attract so many. I understand the downside of this method was that people could determine if someone was in a city at a distance but I don't believe this was ever really that big of a problem. Finding someone in a city is a task within itself even knowing if they are there plus you had to deal with the zombies too. Map: - Players should start with a map. It takes forever to find all the pieces to one and everyone uses dayzdb.com anyway so whats the point? I'd rather not spend my time alt-tabbed away from the game. I could only imagine how newer players are dealing with this. Having waypoints was a nice quality of life feature, I would take it over the "realism" of not having one. - Additions to the map are nice but I feel as though the map is too big now. On a 50 man server I never seem to find anybody. It makes the game feel very empty. In the mod there were pretty much 5 places where players congregated (NW AF, Electro, Cherno, Stary, Balota) but now there simply too many places to go. I don't think you should downsize the map but I think there should be a consideration of adding events in the game that bring in player congregation (I have an example in my post history). Ultimately I want DayZ to be the best game it can be but theres alot missing that made the mod so popular.

So I thought this idea would be interesting to give players something to do without running through fields hoping to find a downed chopper or server hope NE airfield to get loot. First off a player must loot a radio from whatevers means you can loot one from. (dead military zombies used to drop these I heard) Every once in a great while you get a may day message from a pilot or a black box disclosing the location of a plane that is crashing. This event should be rarer than a chopper crash site but have better / more loot spawns. The reason you would get more from this is not only because the event itself would be rarer but everyone on the server who has a radio will receive the same message at the same time. Making it much more dangerous due to campers/bandits and the fact that others will be looking to get ahold of the loot. I feel like this will take people away from the bloodbath which is elektro as well as give players something else to do. Also I think it would be a good idea to only have this event happen if there are 20+ people on the server.