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The skill disparity in this game means that it would be very hard to find a level of "ridiculously impossible" that would be manageable for a group of average guys while being impossible for one skilled guy. Great idea though.

Speak for yourself, I have a great time playing it.

Just a BTW, one zombie strike always does within the realm of 300 blood, I'm guessing what happened here was that you started bleeding from it and didnt notice. Also, be aware of the blood thresholds: Below 9000 blood, zombie hits have a chance to knock you out, below 6000, you have a chance of randomly passing out at any time. Anyway, a few zombie-losing tips. 1) crouch running is fast enough to avoid zombie hits unless you try to run straight past one. Zombies need to stop running and pause for a short moment before doing their attack animation, so crouch running is useful to avoid the zombies that are chasing you without aggroing ones that havent seen you yet. If you are surrounded or zombies have you cornered, however, double tap "W" for a full sprint, and you can run right through a horde of them. 2) The zombie AI in this game is actually pretty realistic, so zombies cannot follow you as soon as they cant see you. When a zombie chasing you loses sight of you, it will run at the last place it saw you and a little more in the direction you were going before slowing down and looking around. Because of this, 2 corners or bushes are all you need to permanently lose a zombie, since you can run around one, making the zombie lose sight, then around the other, so the zombie will not be able to see you after it reaches the point it last saw you at. This means that you can run circles around a bush, large tree or a building to lose zombies in hilarious fashion, as long as you keep the zombie out of LoS. This is less useful with hordes, as they spread out while running and so chances are you will round the second cover and bump into a zombie, but it will still lose about 70-80% of the horde chasing you. 3) no matter how many are chasing you, running through a building will lose every single one of them. *Make sure the building you are running into has another way out* There arent many different buildings in the game so you will soon learn which ones have 2 entrances and which ones are death traps. 4) if a zombie follows you into a building you want to loot, you need to loot fast. Zombies act strangely in buildings, glitching through the walls and the floor, and its very easy to get hit by a zombie you cant see because its inside the walls. They still move slowly though, so keep moving, loot fast, and get out.

Jesus?

Are you kidding? I'm buying just FOR the dancing zombies!

Youre doing the same thing. Because you personally have been affected by hacking, you are assuming its a very big problem. Unless someone does a large study on it polling a wide range of Dayz players (not dayz forum users) no one can say if hacking is a bigger problem than anything else, because all we have are anecdotes. You can say it MIGHT be, but claiming you KNOW anything is arrogant and stupid.

By this logic, every single person who plays Halo, Counterstrike, Battlefield, Team Fortress 2 and any other TDM based FPS is hiding a murderous, psychopathic streak. If you played these games, would you play it like a "respectful, honest person" and try to talk it out with the enemy?

Dan, please release all the screenshots at least, I'm hungry for info on this.

Yeah this is pretty unavoidable. Personally I would screw over the hacking victims in favour of the people who want their headshots to die. Its hard to tell which group is larger. Judging from streams and personal experience, its the latter. Hopefully hacking will be solved at some point and then this choice will be easy.

Its not useless, if it was gone you would definitely notice. Its not perfect however, and you were unlucky. Make sure your firewall has battleye listed as safe. Anger is the natural reaction to what happened but you need to learn how to take these things in your stride. There is no one to blame so move on. omgwtfbbq, you werent kicked by battleye.

Thank you OP for not ignoring the good times of dayz like everyone else on these forums!

Garret, try sharing moments that you found pleasing and exciting, theyre more pleasing to read. Septus, if all he wanted to do was draw attention to a bad UI, he would have gone to the suggestions forum.

Yup, if they use any exit method other than escape -> abort they will persist in the world after theyve quit and be unable to come back in.

A pretty simple idea stolen from WoW. When you log out, a 20 second timer starts. While its counting down you are frozen in place. When it ends your character disappears. Any other method of logging out leaves your character in place for those 20 seconds before disappearing, and logging in again is disabled while that countdown is in place. This wouldnt solve all combat logging, since if you find a place thats safe for 20 seconds you can still get out, but it would prevent the most fustrating instances of people disappearing mid-death animation.

I'm sure rocket will get around to it, but hes got alot of more important stuff to fix :P