-Atlas-

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Whenever I join a server which isn't very crowded, I sometimes, instead of sprinting through cities like Cherno or Elektro, just sneak around, trying to avoid zombies and not aggro them. I also like to walk instead of run from time to time. Oh, and often I'll just leave imba guns on the ground for my trusty Winchester. I love that thing.

I don't like snipers at all. I always gravitate towards the assault rifles, but nothing beats a Winchester. I'll drop most guns for the Winchester. It's not amazing, but I like how it looks, sounds, etc. Picking off people with a thermal scope L85 just doesn't feel right.

Greetings DayZ crowd! What I'm about to explain is pretty much summarized by the title. Animals are simply too common and easy to kill right now. This is a big part of what makes survival in DayZ such a breeze. Therefore I think that animals should be made -much- more elusive. 1. Animals should have a decreased spawnrate during daytime and an increased spawnrate during night time. Either way, their spawn should be way lower than it is now. 2. Animals should have very good senses and they should be able to hear you coming from a long distance away, unless you are properly sneaking. Right now, animals don't seem to be spooked by you in any way. You can just walk right up to them and they won't even run away. Animals should run at the slighest hint of trouble. 3. Animals should no longer spawn near towns and cities. They would obviously be scared away by the constant noises zombies create. They should stick to forests and not just be chilling in the middle of an open field. Just some thoughts. Feel free to add. I think we can all agree survival in DayZ needs to become more of a challenge.

People have too much of a stiffy for those damn sniper rifles. I hate snipers. Even when I get my hands on one I drop it for the first assault rifle I find. Romantized one-shot-one-kill bullcrap. I agree, man. Cut back on the sniper rifles. It would make the game a lot more fun.

Hey DayZ crowd, A thing that has been on my mind for a while now is a system that rewards people for staying alive for a certain amount of time. The way I see it, this would not only add a new dimension to the game, in which it will pay off to survive for long periods of time, but it could also give people a reason to shy away from deathmatching and avoid situations in which they have a high risk of getting killed. The rewards could be spread out over the amount of days you survive. You could get a small reward at around 10 days, a slightly bigger one at 30, etc. The bottomline is; People will be more careful and less likely to go to big cities with the goal of deathmatching, because of the risk of dying. The big question ofcourse would be: What are the rewards? In my opinion the rewards can't be too powerful, but they should be worth the effort. Please do not think in terms of guns. The rewards you would gain should be in line with the general idea of DayZ. I've done a bit of thinking, but I found it isn't easy to come up with something that I have just described, apart from something obvious like a new skin. This is where you come in. I would like to hear from you guys what you think the rewards for survival should be. Please post your suggestions below!

Not to mention the fact that heatpacks would become way more useful!

I'm really trying to be a nice guy at the moment. It isn't so easy, because most survivors will just shoot you on sight, friend or foe.

I'm pretty sure more people would be dying of hunger if we didn't have that silly map that shows all the loot places... >.>

Hey guys, I ran across some real funny stuff this morning as I was scouting Elektro on a not-so-crowded server. There were like 7 or 8 guys online when I joined, so I figured it'd be safe to get into Elektro and grab some stuff, since I had just died last night and quit right after, I was pretty much naked. Right when I walked into the building people seem to be calling 'the schoolhouse' (place pretty close to the grocery store, always has tons of stuff in it) I hit the newbie-jackpot. Makarov, Czech backpack, Lee Enfield, tons of ammo. Everything I needed to get started again, basically. So once I get to the roof of the building, I suddenly hear some zombies getting aggroed, accompanied by a couple of shots that bounce off a wall besides me. Obviously I quickly hit the deck, but I wasn't really sure whether those bullets were aimed at me. I figured the best thing to do was to atleast get off the roof where I may attract even more attention, so I went down to the 1st floor of the building, where I see the guy walking up the stairs, right when I come down. Somehow I think he didn't manage to see me until the last second, so he must've figured I had a bead on him and he sprinted into a room, whereas I laid down at the opposite end of a hall, my gun fixed onto the door of the room he went into. He had nowhere to go, basically, and since he had already fired shots at me before, I sure as hell wasn't going in there. I tried talking to the guy, but he didn't respond. A couple of minutes passed. One zombie made it's way up the stairs and I thought it was going to enter the room with the guy in it, but sadly it turned back right when he was about to enter. A couple more minutes pass. I occasionally see him peeking outside (well, his gun was sticking through the door). I'm guessing that he was using the 3rd person camera to see where I was at. I'm not sure if he managed to see me (should be fixed, 1st person only). A couple more minutes pass. I then see him trying to get out of the room in prone, when suddenly another guy ran up the stairs with a double barrel shotgun. I'm guessing it was the friend of the guy in the room, since he first turned towards me and unloaded in my face. Yeah, 2 double barrel shotgun rounds from little over 5 meters away, and somehow, I'm still alive. One shot with my Lee Enfield takes him down, but I'm not sure if the guy that was cowering in the room also put a round into him, since he was standing directly between me and mr. coward. So my screen is blurry and shakey as hell as I try to take down my archnemesis on the other side of the hall. By some stroke of genius (pure luck) my first shot takes him out and I can finally breathe. Well... Kind of. 4k health, losing blood fast. After some bandages and painkillers I heard the zombies starting to stream in. Meanwhile I am checking the hall for guy #2. I see the body of guy #1 on the far end of the hallway, but #2 is nowhere to be seen. After the zombies left I looted guy #1, he had some pretty good stuff. Blood bags (just what I needed... Now I just need someone to give them to me... x.x), ALICE pack, some Enfield ammo. Guy #2 though, I think alt+f4'd, because he was nowhere to be seen and there was no way for him to dodge all those zombies. Atleast one of the guys decided to give me my well-deserved loot. ^^ Funnily enough, my murder count didn't go up, so I'm thinking that zombies ate guy #1, and guy #2 did alt+f4.

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The idea 'sounds' fun, but 'epic lewtz' reminds me too much of MMORPGs like WoW.

I see what you did there.

Yeah, that stuff is bad. Still, it does add to the overall experience imo. I wouldn't like to see it removed.