One thing that is ruining this mod

[One thing that is ruining this mod]

Alt F4, yes it has been talked over plenty of times but I don't see much happening with it..

I saw two guys looting military tents, I took a shot at one, bleeding they both ran into a tent, and logged....

My mate that I was with was having the Artifacing problem looking at the tents so could not cover/do anything, was waiting for him to fix that, moved position and 5mins later they had obviously changed server, healed up ran to a new position and come back behind me and killed me, my friend could see from another angle and took them out ( I know it was them because one had a Guille suit and the other was black).

Surely something simple could be added to stop people insta logging, why can't your body stay on the server for 10/20secs after you log / If you are bleeding out, you stay bleeding out? This would also work against Zeds. Or if you disconnect in combat, you cannot rejoin that server for an hour or something.

Yeah I died this isn't a rant because of that, I'm just getting tired of exploiting (Yes this is Alpha but isn't this a perfect time to test a method to stop it?)

[Worst Game Experience ever]

Only thing I wish was changed was the insanity of dying from hunger/thirst when I have uncooked meat and standing next to a pond/in the rain. I was thinking since there are diseases, maybe allow Survivors to eat uncooked meat/drink water without a bottle and have a chance of getting sick. Pretty ludicrous that my guy will let himself die of thirst next to a million gallons of water, presumably because it's unclean or die of hunger because he likes his steaks Well Done, not Rare.lol Maybe replace water bottles/add with Water Cleansing Tabs or emergency fire kits.

Still don't know how to harvest wood, keeps telling me I need to be in a forest next to a tree (even though I'm chopping this tree with my reloaded Man Axe.)

Yeah thats a good idea, like you said, its an Alpha, I'm sure something like this could/will come into play, I feel your pain on that one! Can't even drink out of a water pump without a bottle -,-

Regarding the wood issue, I had that also, only works in thick forests with lots of trees in close proximity and 10metres+ plus from the verge.

[Some people are real dicks]

Yeah you get that, but I also had a rewarding exp killing bandits, there was 4 of us in Chern, me and my mate were eating in RL so we hid under a tree in a courtyard, the other 2 were looting a shop just over the road, as they came back to our location they got insta killed by 2 approaching bandits. I could hear one coughing/eating over the wall where my friends bodies lay, so I popped my head round the corner and filled them both with lead with a Winchester, the 2nd one got a shot off at me just before he died and took me down, I was bleeding heavily and my friend managed to bandage me up (had 2-3k left) and gave me a blood transfusion, (got 2 bandit kills) we left it 5 minutes then looted them, they had everything, Rangefinders/NVG/Silenced Weapons/Biggest Packs etc, looted up, and hid in sight of the bodies waiting for my 2 dead friends to rejoin us, also knowing that it was likely the bandits would come back for their gear (as they prolly assumed he killed me also).

Waited for 10 minutes and one by one they both came back, waited for them to loot their body then happily killed them both with their own weapons, waited for my friends to get their gear back/and some of the stuff we couldn't carry, then disposed of the rest. Just as we were leaving one came back saying 'I'm friendly don't shoot' ... Yeah right you are pal... now its the other way round, killed him again and they both logged... boom.

Moral of the story, eating saves lifes.

[New players don't want a negative experience of Dayz!]

If new players are not willing to learn this steep learning curve then let them go back to the other 99% of games that holds your hand, end of.

[Worst Game Experience ever]

Heres the extent of my wonderfully entertaining times with this awesome mod:

After of course waiting the excrutiatingly long loading times.....

Game 1: wandered around for awhile, found some sort of fort, hit once by a zombie, broken bone, spent 2 hours crawling around searching for anything to heal it. Broken bone never wore off.

gave up playing after wasting all that time.

Game 2: figuring I'd give the game another chance, tried to play with a friend. As there was no buddy system, it made finding the same game very hard, and as there's no map or anything, we could never locate each other while trying. After looking up a map online I tried to get to said friend, when a zombie spawned right behind me. Said zombie chased me two towns, and across the river to an island. After he hit me once my character began to bleed, till I eventually died.

After waiting the 20 minutes or so it takes to respawn....

Game 3: we found another server, spawned a town away, I tried to run to said friend, zombie literally spawned right in front of my face, proceeded to chase me forever. Again, with no weapon, I began to bleed out after taking one hit. Since I couldn't stop to bandage myself I died slowly.

Long story short, this game is shit, and is definately the worst gameplay experience I have ever had.

Suggestions for improvement? perhaps not have olympic swimming dead bodies, or maybe have them stop chasing you after running for 20 minutes, perhaps have them get distracted by the cows or goats you uselessly ran to. Maybe at the very least give your character a basic punch attack to fend off that first zombie. Make it so the broken bone status wears off instead of wasting 2 hours of your life.

I bought Arma2 specifically for this mod, and I am so bloody disappointed, I was mislead into thinking this game was refined enough to be worth spending money on.

Sorry but people like you are everything I hate about gaming nowadays. You played the game for what, an hour? And you didn't have much success? Boo fucking hoo, the reason this game is so interesting is because it is a breath of fresh air, it is hard, it is challanging, you will die, and loose everything, in any second its over. You are not spoon fed, you start with nothing and normally end with nothing, no one holds your hand and people can stab you in the back at any moment. I've been playing a few weeks and I'm still learning...

Your reasons for not liking this free MOD is YOU being a retard, not the game itself. I could understand if you said you were being killed by Bandits etc etc, deal with it, you can just run and NEVER be hit by a Zed... and it is more than easy to loose them. Yes they aggro at an annoying range atm, (unless you're in worm mode) but they can be lost with ease. Yes they are buggy, its Alpha, get over it. This game requires patience, something I have lost with playing games as of late, but after a while you sit back, and THINK...learn. I've had a weird but great experience with this game and I don't really understand why as 95% of the time its like playing Running Simulator, but that 5% when you and you're buddies have a pvp interaction good/bad / or any crazy situation that creates anger/humor/anxiety/andrenaline is awesome.