ptk (DayZ)

But, but, but i gave you beans! I thought we had... a connection... ::sniffle::

There are several good points here. Such a shame that we all get too personal about issues like this. To me, Dayz is a sandbox game that surrounds three core elements: the map, the loot, and the zombies. While Dayz is still in production, if one of these cores changes drastically, it is obvious that someones playstyle will be impacted severely while other playstyles will feel little to no impact. The problem is that no one is really wrong here because it's a sandbox game. To each his own i say! However, i think that we all need to lighten up a bit. Can the zombies be annoying at this point? Sure as shit they can be- at a minimum, imagine what new players are feeling and how this is a valid point. Can we be critical of how the game develops? Sure as shit we can- skepticism breeds understanding and change, the very reason to have a forum. Can we be more constructive on how we convey ideas and sentiments within the forums? Sure as shit we can- keeping in mind that how we are raised, how we are schooled, where we are from and what race and gender we are will always create barriers however slight. And finally, can we be more patient? Yes, i think we should be.... But not too patient! Inactivity can create dissapointment... Confirmed: pancakes ARE delicious!

Sometimes i just imagine I'm using my imagination so i don't have to work as hard as other people...

I killed because President Bush said so! Oh wait, you mean ingame? Well, old habits die hard i suppose. Oh, and i can't plant lovely rows of lilacs, daffodils and roses because rocket hasn't added flowers in yet... Yet!

Fuck this phone!

This ain't shit! Wait until we get sent to debug plains, have a giant ship dropped from the sky on to you, or pick everyone in the server off the ground and then all dropped simultaneously to their (our) deaths... Sigh... The good ole' days...

As you play the game more, you will pick up on other indicators that will help your assessment of things. Not that anyone is trying to be a dick, but usually there isn't much here to conclusively prove what really happened to you, so what people have posted is mostly just speculation at this point. You will find that the more you play the game, the more you will know how you died. Put this one down as being unfortunate and keep on playing! That being said here are a few small things that may help mitigate some of the shenanigans: Always assume that someone is watching you. This will help keep you from being comfortable in Dayz which, to me, is the number one killer of players. This leads to: Use the terrain as cover while you move and keep an eye out on your surroundings, whether to check your six, or to spot out potential line of sights (los) that could be detrimental to you as you navigate through the map. Most times, the longer, safer route is the better choice, using woodlines to skirt around open areas or towns and cities. Never stop in the open, whether to loot a corpse in a city or to eat, bandage or whatever. Always do these actions when you can maximize the saftey of your character (indoors, behind cover etc...). This includes zombies too. Rather than fighting them in the open, get them to follow you to a spot where you can kill them safely. If you end up picking a few more on the way, so be it. It's much easier to kill 4 zombies in front of you than to deal with a sniper in an unkown location. Also, if you have to move through an open area, move in a zig zag pattern to make yourself a harder target. Once you practice these things continually, coupled with any mistakes you make along the way, you will find a methodology behind them that suits you personally, which builds into maintaining a solid awareness of your surroundings that will help make you understand what actions could feasibly occur to your character at any given time. The end result leaves far less room to speculate. Good luck out there...

Lsd is a helluva drug...

I think I'm going to make pancakes today!

fixed!

Hackers are everywhere man, everywhere. Just the other night i was about to go to sleep when i heard a rustling under my bed. So i go take a look and BAM a fucking hacker under my damn bed n i wasn't even mattress hopping! Then the next morning i ran into another one at the bustop! Then even later that same day, i bumped into yet another one at work! Damn hackers are everywhere! And you can always tell who is hacking because they're doing something that you don't like, such as killing you, or touching themselves under YOUR bed! Hackers are such crap, always hackity hack hack hackin away. Get a life you hacker scum! But you know, there is a hacker status thread stickied just above this one...

And heated! How much is your gas bill?

"And me? I always tell the truth, even when i lie. So say goodnight to the bad guy..." sooo appropriate, the irony!

Yea, this is what i was trying to say in a less than practical way lol. I guess i was lost on the sniper teams work in pairs comment, definately not a necessity...

What about historically? It's fairly obvious that sniper teams are the accepted norm nowadays within dominant military forces, but what about vietnamese snipers in vietnam or russian snipers in ww2? I can't drum up anything factual atm because work blows today lol, but I'm sure that even though working in pairs is nice and fair, you need only one to get it done! As a DMR when deployed to iraq, we worked with four in a group to maintain our objective (to deter and eliminate ied threats along main supply routes) over a sustained period of time. We only used m14's though lol, no fun stuff...

You either need morphine to fix that leg, or a bullet to fix your suffering. Let me know if the morphine doesn't pan out for ya...

Not to argue but in recent light, isn't there some speculation that the vikings weren't as savage as they have been portrayed in the past, namely a few bad apples pillaging and then being demonized as a whole? Op, take a look at steven kings "on horror" essay (i believe it's called this). To sum it up, king basically says that reading horror allows us to play out fantasies that we couldn't openly do in society, to satisfy appetites of the human mind without risk of judgement. I think the same thing when it comes to gaming, escape into fantasy and do whatever we please without the constraints our society gives us (and for good reason in most cases). this doesn't necessarily mean that we are all whack jobs with secret fantasies of forcefeeding people with disinfectant and shooting defensless people, that this gets our rocks off, but rather that being able to indulge in this behavior in a fictional medium helps maintain a healthy, mental presence...

The cheesiest moment in daryls walking dead career thus far has to be when he was manfighting a tank and two people fifteen feet away. Apparently amc is super concerned about their redneck demographic...

I agree that in the show, the crossbow wielding daryl is pretty gimmicky, if there were to be a real zombie apocolypse, the crossbow would still be extremely useful, having the ability to quietly hunt animals without wasting precious ammo.But ingame? For people that want to handicap themselves, whether for a challenge, stupidity, lulz etc... But then again, it might depend on how scarce they end up making guns and ammo when the game is released...

Way less more guns? Huh?

But dude, it's fucking daryl! He's like the tv version of chuck norris...

I would love to know how much daryl directly impacted crossbow sales in America lol.

No worries man, we can just group up and take on the lich king together! We just need to find a healer and who knows, if it all pans out there could be strong incentive to form large, helicopter parts raiding guilds! Now where the fuck are my mana pots...

Of course dayz needs dogs. Cod has them, so if dayz wants to be competitive they should have dogs too...

Kind of like how the croatians did it whenever i ran across them while deployed in bosnia! Boop boop!