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Yeah but your listing game components that are rediculously easy once youve played the game for a week or two. All of the survival components in this game are absurdly easy. The loot tables are way to generous right across the board. Theres too much food, water, weapons and ammo. Zeds barely slow you down. This I agree with Rocket (although I think his intent is to make the game easier in the long run than how I want it to be). The problem is the only threat in the game right now is players and more so hackers. And there is so much incentive to PvP and no drawbacks that what you end up with in Dayz is a lame Call of Duty: Cherno Deathmatch with players who have stuff camping the coast killing anyone they can. I believe they actually need to make the "PvE" components significantly hard, making loot drops much more rare and lower rates, Zombies to be much harder to deal with and alot more of them. What your pointing out are PVE componenents, which casual players want. Right now its lacking and absurdly easy.

Creating non hive servers is strictly against Rockets intent for the game, period. What he can do is learn from this though. If he caters for a wider audience in standalone then he will sell more. Having a non-pvp format would allow new players into the game without struggling with that learning curve. They would also allow casual players such as myself to play the game I want to play it without having players (which at the moment is only hackers) impose upon this and force me to play their game. Or he can sell his dumbed down version of Call of Duty to the PvPers whilst failing to bring in new followers and forcing people like myself to play a no pvp dayz mod. I wont mind playing a mod version of the game anyways, tbh, it will probably get more development than Rockets current version.

Nope you have pretty much grinded out days. Last time I seen you you had like 80 zombie kills from 60 days. You take no risks at all and disconnect if you see a teleporter (your lucky none of them have disabled disconnect like they have with me). If you join a high pop public server your going to die within 10 hours straight gameplay in 1 day. Hacking seems to have decreased though.

I play in No PvP servers. PvP still goes on. But just less of it. Mostly people who dont want to pvp go there, but not all of them. I prefer it that way under the current game design and attitude the community has. It doesnt make me lame at all. I play this game for fun, not to prove my epeen is biggest on internets. I dont need to be awesome at this game because Im awesome IRL. I want to play this game casually. If Rocket doesn't allow people to play No PvP in standalone (with seperate chars for pvp and no pvp to prevent farming), then I wont buy or play the standalone, Ill play the mod

My impression was that before I started playing the community was fairly decent. I don't know what happened, I joined the game when it started to get popular and it turned into a horrid community. The games success is very heavily reliant on the community itself, more so than other games. I think its probably better if the numbers keep dropping if the game design stays the way it does.

Install the Single player or COOP version of the game. Both are working up to 1.7.2.5. Its hard to get a hold of them because they aren't supported by Rocket and hes asked people not to provide them anymore, but they are out there. COOP requires you to run a server from your home PC, there are tutorials on how to do that. I call it "COOP" because you can password the game server and just play with friends, but your PC wont be able to support alot of people. TBH Ive been doing this and its not bad. You will notice how little development the game has though and it becomes brutally obvious how much Rocket is relying on PvP to be the major component of the game. Just putting it out there though. I know alot of casual players left because they were sick of hackers, but if you want to enjoy this game without them they are options.

TBH ive been playing it a bit. Its alot more "boring" than multiplayer, I won't dispute that. But at least I don't feel like I can play fun for 3 hours and work towards goals only to have them taken away by a hacker with a simple injection of a script. I actually enjoy it more in the current situation. Come standalone, if they do something about hacking then yeah Ill only play in PvP servers. But at present I have a real life and I feel like any effort I put into playing the game would be a waste of my time in a public server because of the hackers. And my time means alot to me.

Welcome to the DayZ development team.

2000 players banned wouldn't even be scratching the surface. This game is the most hacked game ever.

Its usually teleporters. Dont stay stationary, always check 360degrees. Usually you will see them teleport about 100-200 metres away from you and run at you. Which is exactly when you need to disconnect. Dont try to shoot them, most of them use godmode.

Are we still talking about having non PvP servers? As long as the server is seperate and you can't carry things across from these servers to PvP server (Carry your character across), it won't change the game at all.

As soon as the thread was started I knew there would be hate posts back. Its to be expected when your boasting about stats where all you have done is avoid everyone and alt+f4 to hackers. Its nothing difficult so no need to boast about it. But I dont really care.

Whats with all the hatred? If I have the option to play COOP or Single player games I can avoid angry people like you. Is that why your overly mad and name calling?

Theres going to be dogs. Thats about all im expecting.

Chances are it was a legit player that dropped it for a legit weapon. They most likely picked it up off a hackers body or some other means from a non-legit player. A hacker usually wouldn't just drop it on a loot pile because A). Its been removed from the game because its OP B). He can get all the ammo he wants C). Hackers don't need to loot.

Hacking is never going to stop. Not even in standalone. Most games have a single player/coop portion these days. In most of these games, players still predominantly play Multiplayer PvP. But many start with single player/coop whilst they are getting used to the game. As it stands right now, there is a large learning curve for the game and then there is no learning in the game whatsoever. Allowing players to play Single player/coop would allow players to deal with the learning curve before they go play Call of Duty: Cherno Deathmatch.

Whats it like talking your epeen up on teh internets telling everyone how much better you are at a game than them?

I lold at how you put in a disclaimer to protect yourself from fanboys who would rage at you if you implied the game wasn't perfect. Ill put aside the obvious less hackers and look to the next thing I personally would like to see in the game... 1. Significant increase in Zombie difficulty (and numbers). Right now, once you get used to their mechanics you can pretty much ignore them. They offer no obstacle for me. I want looting and survival to be a challenge, which I don't believe it is. Even without using hacked/duped weapons there is way too much gear and its too easy to get because I can just run into a Major city and pick up everything I want. The only obstacle is hackers and snipers. I think the lack of Survival challenge components in this game and its insane loot chance drops are a major driving force behind the KOS and its restricting the game to death.

Pretty much. Loot inflation will pretty much break this game. They have integrated MMO components into the game and have no experience in doing it.

Explain to me what the whole point of DayZ is, I obviously don't know. I came here under the impression, as described by Rocket, that what you could do in this game was limited only by your creativity. What I found was what you could do in this game was limited by everyone elses creativity, so essentially I found myself playing a version of COD that has alot more hackers in it.

In general no. Although under the circumstances with hackers at present I think it would have been a good time to have it so people could avoid constantly being killed by hackers. There is a way to get single player working by the way. And you can do it COOP with other players if you set up a private server on your PC. There are actually alot of people doing this right now. It isn't supported by Rocket/DayZ, but who really cares when they fail so hard.

Ive been looking to get a days survived record lately too. I just hit day 13 yesterday. Although your alot more careful than me. Ive got over 1300 Zombies killed in 13 days, youve got 92 in 60 days.

Yeah Ive been wondering the same thing myself. There are consistency issues right across the board. Not to mention admin abuse is not outlawed at all right now, the tools they have are too powerful (although somewhat overlooked because of the hackers).

NEAF. Its a high risk area with less reward. Way too much open area for me when Im using a shotgun.

I would have alt + F4 to respawn on the coast the next time I logged in.