Silent331

The stand alone game is going to feature many "homestyle" weapons, like a baseball bat, kitchen knife, ect.

@alpha331 I would first like to note we have the same number :P But in all seriousness, you say it wouldn't legitimize banditry while I say it would. If food and water were so rare that you need to get it any way possible, Food and water are in 2 locations, in items spawns, and in players inventories, and when you are dieing of hunger and you cant find food at loot spawns, well you dont have much of a choice now do you. @paraplegic Brilliant. @ipurgepeople I play by myself most of the time and I never run into any storage issues, I dont even use tents. I usually have an M4 of some kind, a makarov, alice pack. I carry 2 bandages on my person and 6 makarov mags, filling my secondary ammo area. Then I carry at most 5 clips of main weapon ammunition (the main weapon is only used in PVP, you dont need 10 clips to stay protected,). That leaves me with 7 slots on my person for whatever, usually this contains 2 food, 2 water bottles 2 morphine and a grenade if i can find one. Thats all my essencialls and that doesent use my pack at all. Most people use a sniper rifle of some kind for long range engagements, I replace this with binos and patience. So now I have an alice pack, 20 slots of nothing I really need to use it for. In my pack I either carry 5 blood bags, 2 epi pens, 3 morphine, 5 bandages, any antibiotocs, not for survival because i will never need that for myself, just to have because i have slots to fill. in the last 5 slots i carry extra food and water, again because i have space to fill. If I have a second main weapon I will carry that and 5 mags, giving me 5 spaces of agian, nothing i really need. Usually I will fill this with a blood bag, morphine, a bandage, an epipen, and one food, because i can. I have done the 2 weapon sniper+rifle life style, and as much as its not how I like to play the game, I could heal up just fine from sub 5000 HP simply by killing a herd of cows that i find on a regular basis, water is abundant when you have a map. Its never a fight for survival.

Day Z is a zombie survival game, so why doesn't it feel like one? I am not going to get in to the duping of ammunition or anything like that that can give an unfair advantage. I am going to ignore all hacks and exploits and assume people play fair for the purposes of improving the game. As of right now the games progresses in a manner of find food water supplies and guns, find better guns, find the best guns, go player hunting. The game only has one true objective, survive, but right now it should be more accurately stated as "don't get killed by other players". And why do other players kill you? Because they can, that's all it comes down to. This game only has one true objective, survive, now lets make the game revolve around true survival. I am proposing that the spawn chances of food and water should be significantly reduced. Right now going into a city is like walking into a city that had a major bomb threat and had to be evacuated, and the dinner on the table is still warm. Not once while playing Day Z did I think that it did not have what i needed to survive. This is a zombie survival game, entire cities are turned into zombies, this all dident happen in a flash, it would take at least a week to infect so many people, and have the rest of the inhabitants either evacuated or killed. People would clear out their own homes, looters would have been in every room, the place would be filled with the things people found not worth their weight. Food would be hard to find as next to all of it was loaded up by either the inhabitants or the army and taken elsewhere, much of it consumed as well. Water would be shut off and sodas provide calories, those would all be taken too. Right now I think that it is a bit ridiculous how common food and drink are. Assuming you are the first person to spawn items, walking into a school house you have a 80% chance of finding at least one drink, and a 40% chance of finding at least 1 can of food. These are far too high, if you wish to keep the trend of drink being more common than food than that is fine. The chances for food and drink in the school house should be around 15-25%. Another thing is how common meat is in the game, a cow should not be something that you find on your trip between cities every day, it should be god sent. It provides 8 steaks which makes sense, its supposed to feed alot of people, but a single person will barely go though 1/4th of a cow before it goes bad and you cant eat it. The meat should go bad after around 4 hours in game, too short to eat the entire cow, but give you ample time to find other food sources. This would also make it easier on players who are teaming up as a cow kill can feed a small squad for their days explorations. In addition to the meat rotting, cows should be much more rare than they are now, I go into some farm areas and count as many as 6 of them, I should be lucky to find even one. I think once food and drink become rare enough, it will actually make the game once again about survival and less about how many murders you can get before you get taken out. Players would go into towns looking for food mainly, anything else they find would be a bonus, Bandits would not just be mass murders, but simply players trying to survive that would rather look where food is most common, on players. Routine trips to the NW airfield would be very costly as most players wouldn't have enough food to make it there and back, a trip like that would be a luxury for someone who made a big score. Not to say it wouldn't still be dangerous, players with military grade weapons would be staked out because they know that's where you want to be and they know you have the food they need. Day Z should be a constant battle for the resources you need, not a constant battle for something to do.

In Game Name: Silent331 Location: NJ USA Steam name (If Available): Silent331 Experience: 2 weeks Age: 22 When Available: Most of the time. no current obligations Any additional information: Typically I use an assult rifle, im not much of a sniper but I can clear buildings and city blocks with ease. I currently only play with 1 friend and he is not on much so im looking for more to play with. Looking for safty in a team, looting areas is too slow to make sure its all clear which makes me spend too long in an area, making it unsafe.