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Good job, but for God's sake don't loot stuff while standing in the doorway (like you did in the store)! You're 100% exposed to potential gunfire! Get in that corner instead and loot from there.

Following your logic, it's an alpha for a project, that is not going to be released. What's the point of it then?

you can keep that loot.

I see your point. What I understood quite clearly with this thread (especially thx to last couple posts/pages) is that I want a little bit different game than most ppl here. That's fine per se. What makes me lose shit every time is the fact that I was looking for challenging zombie mmo surviving game for like decade, and now that I found something like that only to see how it turns into PvP 24/7 mess with no alternative at the horison makes my butt burn. What pisses me off even more is how ppl are protecting current game's state with all means possible, and even going further towards it (finding, installing and using hacks). While I understand that this is an alpha, it's interesting how most ppl overuse this fact to make their points. "THIS IS ALPHA, EAT SHIT" - an average answer from average Rocket Defense Force (or whatever) community member. Now with standalone announced, they have another answer at their disposal : "ROCKET IS WORKING ON STANDALONE NOW, EAT SHIT". It kinda reminds me the way over-religious people and president election candidate fans act. All in all, it's fine if some people find current mod's state fine, enjoyable, challenging and so on. I just wrote this thread to protect my point of view of how this game SHOULD be, trying to be as nice to everyone as possible. I have right to do so, just like other ppl do. First few obviously trolling posts and other inadequate/immature members are not what dayz deserves. Man, when will I get a game that I want? WarZ started smelling funny last couple of days. That question is all I do care about, honestly. And, how other responds showed, I'm not alone. I'll let myself disagree here slightly. Those things are not designed to PREVENT PvP, those are designed to make players think twice before starting a fight and keep in mind retreating option and make it more attractive. What we see now are players, spraying and praying their guns, coz they have 2 more full magz in their inventories after 20 min of looting. And they will probably have another 2 magz in next 20 minutes of looting. Even if you are not hardcore PvP players, spending extra ammo is almost always the smartest thing to do, coz whatever is left on the loot spawn point can potentially be used against you. Quite obviously it's more fun to spend it on other players rather than shooting all rounds in the air on full auto.

No, as far as I know. You can extract tons of lulz with those "knock out - bandage up" tactics. We kidnapped a guy once by using that. You can put knocked out players in vehicles. So we took one axe maniac, which we found with 2 newbie corpses in some garage, drove him to the woods, read him his rights and executed him for class 1 murder. We had to break car's window, coz he refused to exit the car. At least he didn't alt+f4 like most ppl we tried to kidnap do.

well, if you REALLY want that hero skin, only thing you can do is wound them (peferably break legs) and run away, hoping they won't bleed out. Half of them will alt+f4 brainlessly, only to find themselves passed out when they re-connect, what raises their chances of bleeding out. But in that case (re-logging and dieing) you won't get the murder. Ultimate trolling would be making them pass out, bandage them, drag to an open space and attract zombie attention, swearing and scaring them via voice chat.

Humanity system sucks, skin changing system sucks, DayPvP sucks, it's an ALPHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111111111111111, Rocket has focused on standalone now. Pick one of these average answers that suit you best. Welcome to the forums.

Good and reasoned answer, TheCoconutChef, we need more of these. But I'm afraid you missed some points of my thread: 1) Player categories. Those categories you mentioned are perfectly fine, but PLAYER himself finds out about those only AFTER getting into dayz. I was categorizing players by what they expect BEFORE getting into dayz, just by watching trailer/reading descripton. 2) I don't want to punish PvP players. They still can PvP just fine, coz mechanics aren't changed at all. It's just circumstances of PvP I believe must be changed, like less ammo/firearms + implementing skills system to BALANCE system, not destroy it. Coz right now what average Johnny finds is AK + 90 rounds within 20 minutes of gameplay, and can operate his gun perfectly. Of course he will PvP. Saying he won't Is like lighting up gunpowder and saying it wont blow up

Yeah I have tweaked cnfg files like tutorials that I googled sayed and got rid from pretty much all of them, apart from eastern Chernogorsk block. but not every1 did the tweaking. Yeah, I killed the douche. I don't take shit from some COD kiddies and run away and I'm not uncomfortable with that. Coz that cunt could kill smb else and ruin another players (unexperienced, fresh, what could be worse) fun. On humanity counter - mine pretty much always shows 0, and only shows any alterations for a moment (like -1000smth when I killed that guy). And it always makes all counters (including humanity) 0 when changing skin, as well as swallowing my backpack.

First thing that happens is my heart skips one beat, coz screen flash makes me think I got teleported and will die in mere seconds, lol Forgot to mention - lost 2 ALICE packs and one Coyote backpack due to this. Annoying as hell, thx for reminding this. That's right. We are testing new patch for new bugs. What I was talking about is claiming that graphic artifacts are fixed, while in fact they are not. Everyone who plays for 20 min can find this out, and before releasing new patch, I believe they play it at least once. At least I hope so.

The only way to adapt to this skin changing thingy is isolating yourself on some island and hunt boars all day. And that is only until hacker tp to you and kills you until you have -3600000 blood. This is not interesting at all. I like how ppl blindly support Rocket. Ofc, he did hell of a job on this mod and still does (I hope). But Rocket Defense Force is just laughable. 1 month ago they said "GTFO THIS IS ALPHA KISS ROCKETS FEET FOR PLAYING IT" Now with standalone announced (which I'm 100% sure happened only because WarZ was announced) they say "GTFO HE'S WORKING ON STANDALONE BIATCH". It reminds me of president election fanatics. Whatever candidate does, they interpret it to suit themselves and throw shit at everyone with another opinion.

... in last update. While I don't like excessive PvP (the only bright feature game has to offer) we see now, dev team somehow managed to screw it up for ppl, who try to avoid it. Let me explain. I'm talking about bringing bandit/hero morphing back into a game. While thing itself is somehow unrealistic and only is getting implemented because of all those whine threads we have here, the way it works screws rather peaceful players like me. Let me tell you situation I had yesterday. Fresh spawn after 2 weeks of dayz break. 0 humanity, normal face. I spawn near Komarovo and go for industrial facility on the coast in order to find an hatchet. What I did find was another survivor with hatchet in his hands. He had normal head too. The moment he sees me (unarmed) he rushes towards me and tries to cut my head off. So I aggroed a whole swarm of zed and made them re-aggro on that survivor, winning myself enough time to pick up another hatchet and finish him off. I had around "-" humanity (he wasnt bandit), "bandit" head and 6 k blood left. After that I loot balota, get myself a gun and go for cherno to get better backpack, basic tools and supplies. Somewhere near supermarket got under fire and had to defend myself. Again. What I didn't notice is that my humanity level raised to about zero level. So what happened next - when it actually reached "0" I was in the middle in the firefight, defending my life only to have skins switched again, what was followed by screen flash and "getting my weapon ready" animation, which, ofc, put me into disadvantage and I got killed. I know that this is alpha and I must eat all this shit, but geezuz, don't fix what isn't broken (karma/humanity system. Heartbeat was more than enough, IMO) and don't claim other bugs fixed, when they aren't (texture artifacts. did you even playtest your last patch, lol?). In current situation with skin switching there are only 2 ways out : killing ppl 24/7 to get super low humanity and don't worry about sudden skin switch OR for those who want play peacefully - just let kill yourself like freaking sheep and don't defend yourself. Coz you never know if skin switch will catch you in the middle of firefight/zombie attack.

You still can refill ammo by changing skins. Have fun.

You're screwed. Most likely.

I like how ppl say "HURR DURR THIS IS A SIMULATOR NOT A FUN GAME", then go back to their DayZ session, get main rotor assembly from their backpack, install it and fly chopper (while I can bet my money nobody on the forum can do both at the same time, at least with no help) only to get shot down by 45kg female, shooting .50 cal rifle on the move. Realism all the way. No suggestions, destroying realism please. This is a simulator, after all.