sostronk

Try eating a whole cow. I honestly wouldn't recommend asking for a medic. Even though there are alot of good medics who will help you out, there are even more players who grief in this game and would love to come along and meet you under the pretense that they are going to help you, only to break your legs or kill you.

The game is played by a large majority of players like it is a COD game. This has decreased a bit since the hackers started getting banned though.

From what I heard he is intending on adding a "party" component to the game where players can join as a party...

Ive always thought anti cheat programs are integrated into games to increase revenue, not stop cheaters.

It doesn't appear to be as big a problem as it is right now. Most people do kill on sight. Ive only run into two people my entire time playing that haven't. But it doesn't matter atm because I can just join low/medium pop servers. But if Rocket does what I think hes considering, I think hes gonna make it so you can't join low pop server but be auto joined to a server than you can't avoid people and forced to play the PvP game so many people want.

Strange as Ive noticed a reduction in loading times.

I role play by running in the opposite direction whenever I see someone with a gun, just like I would IRL.

Yeah, also I find some server seem to have a tendency to do it more, so dont return to that server if your having problems with it.

If my understanding of New York cities geography is right (from watching movies lol) than I think it would be a great map. Large city area with a sea and river with bridges along with large forests on the outskirts.

Just go play on servers without 3rd person. Problem solved. No need to thank me.

Dont be certain on that. Ive heard Steam doesn't always issue the same CD Key back to you after a fresh install. Thats only a rumor Ive heard though. Youll probably be alright.

Nice, didn't know they could do this.

If your a bandit sniper its pretty good for sniping players trying to get over it. Ive yet to have a problem with it though. I regularly find it at NEAF in the doorway to the control tower. I just jump over it and remove it before I leave.

I just lold and cried at the same time.

There isn't going to be "tons of new features" in this mod or when it becomes a game. Rocket is clearly relying on most of the content to be driven by PvP. If you take a look at it, Rocket hasn't really added much content at all to the mod. He's struggling with the few "features" he has added to the game, most of which are bugged. The games concept has huge potential, but there just aren't enough skilled people behind its development.

Just died on my longest life thus far. 22days. Was teleported and had my pack and gear removed and broke my legs. Did a quick clear of some buildings by crawling to see if I could find some morphine, gave up and suicided to zombies.

Your right. But Rocket has this delusional idea in his head that the game should be completely run by PvP so that he doesn't have to do much work on additions to it. The standalone will fail if he doesn't get a grip with reality.

Been away for a few days. Looks like DayZ is playing limbo stick with "active players in the last 24 hours". How low can it go?

Im playing on a server that has between 1 and 4 people on during my peak hours. I worked out 2 of them are hackers (found there base and about their dead bodies duped like 200 times plus multiple helis/vehicles and a tent city with enough gear to keep me going for years). But those 2 stop playing an hour after Im ready to play so I just watch the server and wait for them to leave. Low pop is not a sure way to avoid.

Not to mention playing 24 hours straight = 1 day and playing 1 second = 1day.

I agree with you to an extent. Although Im unfortunate with players, because of the way I play I think, that most of my encounters with players are with hackers. Thats a major reason I have no interest in PvP, although not the only reason. Right now, I just want to play PvE, theres no point to being involved in any PvP whatsoever when players have limitless advantages over to me where its at a point where I am guaranteed to die and its impossible for them to die. I got to a point where it was either quit the game or find a way to play the game the way I wanted. I found no pvp servers (which arent completely no pvp just alot less of it), single player hack and a way to setup a private server for free that you can password. Its unfortunate, but I get more enjoyment out of the game doing these things right now than I do playing in a legit hive server. But thats the way it is for me. Working hard to achieve goals for hours only to have it all ended by some kid just doesn't cut it for me. I want to achieve things and feel like I have at the end of a gaming session.

Drop rates on 50 cals are too high without the duping and hacking.

Ive literally killed 3 people the entire time I played the game. First one was just to prove I could do it. Two were when playing with a clan. As a lone wolf I don't want to kill anyone. Ive experienced more players desperately try to kill me only to get killed by zombies right in front of me than I have actually killed. I think making the game more difficult to play would fix the KOS issue quite a bit. If there is more benefit in working together to get what you need than people will more than likely start to work together, at least at a respectable level. As it stands, there is so much gear and its so easy to access that there is no point to this game beyond PvP. IE if major loot spawns like NWAF was pretty much engolfed in Zeds and the only way to get in there was by firepower and teamwork. Same with pretty much any high priority loot/resources like supermarkets and fuel tanks.

The only things Ive had are the MK40mod0 and Rocket launcher. If you only consider "finding them in loots spawns yourself" add Range finders to that.

Tell me about why its "cheap" and "pathetic". Im actually interested in knowing why your thinking this. If somebody wants to play a mod a certain way and they invest their money to provide a place to play it that way, I don't see why thats "cheap", "pathetic" or "lame". The way I see it, we are playing a video game. Its something to be done casually to waste time in between parts of your real life. As long as its not a Public Hive I have no issue with it. If it is a public hive than its exploiting the system, although considering you can get the same result from joining an empty server (which there are alot of now) I dont have a major issue with it. But why do you think differently about private hives? I really don't understand. Why do you think a mod has and can only be played a certain way? Why is it important to you that everyone who plays any version of this Zombie survival mod plays it the way you are playing it?