ptk (DayZ)

Sounds like someones aim is a bit "jingley" Haw Haw... Get it?

To all you people that say, "oh, don't get attached to yer gear bro" it's pretty obvious that he isn't "attached" to it at all, otherwise his char would still have his gear muahahahaha... Get it? GET IT? P.s. There are plenty of other things to do, other than spawn, airfield run, and die...

Well irish, you are one persistent jackass... Get it??? Persistent (storage)... Jackass-Donkey...? Haha?

It's quite obvious that you care, because you posted here. What are you, a pacific coast wannabe or something?

Perhaps we need Mcgruff the Crime Dog in on this one...

I think the "got killed by a hacker," Dayz support group meets every other thursday at the church. Free coffee and donuts!

I was thinking they could make a mechanic where you and another player could hold hands. If you held hands long enough you would get a message saying "it feels so right" and butterflies and little hearts would float around on your screen...

You mean "read-headed" right?

I think the mod did alright with helicopter crasb sites in that regard, at the minimum set up the possibility for random events/loot locations, except adding in like camp sites or abandon convoys etc... I guess what I'm thinking is risk vs reward. Having a few more places where you have a chance to get something good, other than airfields, should be just as punishing as the reward you could possibly reap... ie- fucktons of zombies and bandits, gangs etc... I want to be like, "damn, do i risk it and try to hit the gunshop up or say fuck it and play safe. Oh wait there is a group down there clearing the town, so should i go for it? Ah fuck! They have overwatch! What should i do?" Options lol... I like options!

I like the idea of more open world spawing very much. If I can elaborate on the centeralized thing though. I'm not assuming that the gun shop automatically spawns a guaranteed weapon and ammo, but more of an opportunity to have couple spawn there. The same with the airfields. I don't want any guarantees that you can gewr up there, just more opportunites for us survivors. Sometimes we get lucky and sometimes we don't. But i think the key here is having multiple spots of contention rather than hoarding the airfields. Also, this implies that loot respawns are more random than procedural and that these big ticket places require teamwork to try to loot them. So you effectively create more chances for positive interaction, while keeping banditry present and also maintaining different playstyles as to how you acquire loot and even further than that, giving players something to do besides pvp deathmatch as long as the zombies create a significant challenge... Perhaps i was stating it wrong from the jump. I didn't mean centralized loot, but like centralized opportunity, if that makes sense... I dunno, work sucks atm hehe...

I'm impressed, we debated and look no flame. That shit is rare here... :)

You forgot animal sodomy well, because a man needs options!

I'm sorry my friend, i just cannot agree with this based an assuming when the shit hit the fan. I mean, we just don't know what happened to any degree of certainty. We don't know how the infection spreads or how much time has passed. Hell, we're still finding fresh bananas and oranges. While i agree that these big places would ideal to loot first, but ideals would come second to practicality or sensibility. Perhaps it just wasn't possible to get to these locations due to the rapid way the infection hit? Cities could be proverbial gold mines untouched due to thousands and thousands of infected roaming the outskirts like moths to a flame. Perhaps, on the grand scheme of things, people avoided chernarus because the infection hit so hard there or it isn't along the path to optimal evacuation routes etc... I do agree that survival is key, and i don't think that having some centralized loot locations would deter from the house to house we all hqve grown accustom to. But hitting up these areas, while profitable, should be damn near impossible to do. That way you could balance both options and make each viable.

I can see what you mean, but you also suggest that our characters can't think rationally. If you were in a zombie apocalypse would you A, try to make your way to the gunshop where you will most likely find something to protect yourself, or B, sequentially loot house after house hoping you find something. Neither choice is incorrect as it may be safer and less rewarding to go through houses, yet riskier and more rewarding if you went to a shop, airfield, police station, hospital etc because of where it's located and potential contact with other people. I don't have a problem with loot being centralized in these instances, market, gun shop, hospital, because in real life these goods are centralized to some degree. But there should be a challange to getting to these spots, something that just isn't there yet in dayz alpha...

Fuck!

Of course that's if the people could make it there at the get go. As of now, there is no indication of how the infection spread, how fast, and how informed and prepared the people were. It could be that everything happened so fast that to try to move through a larger city, much less loot it would have been suicide (something i hope that happens by release). For example going in atlanta in TWD or even like in red dawn, though slightly stretched point of view. It could be also assumed that some fortunate people were able to loot the store but they're only able to take what they could carry, or take what they needed. Not everyone has the fortitude to sling a dozen weapons on their shoulders and dip, dodge, and duck through a zombie infested city. I think a gunshop makes sense, though i don't even think that it should deter from the chance of finding a weapon in a home. Things that would help to maintain balance could be random spawn locations, refined loot tables (frequencies) and number of zombies to help deter a one stop shop mentality...

I would add that while you are "healed" when applying a bandage, that you aren't fully healed until the wound is. For example, you were shot in the arm, bandaged, blood replenished, but you can only hold up your iron sights for a limited amount of time until your character groans. Or if you were shot in the leg you would be able to sprint for a limited amount of time before breaking into a limp until you caught your breath. Over time these issues would be come less frequent and less apparent. I'm sure this has been suggested before, but small hinderences and tradeoffs like these would help add value to your character in a way, by giving slight penalties for survivng longer and acquiring more and better gear in a reverse psychological sense. Does that even make sense? I think i lost myself... Those fucking turtles though...

This phone is full of shit, just like this thread!

Does dropping deuces need to be in the game? No, there are other ways to spread disease and contamination in the game, ie- dragging dead animals, corpses or decapitated zombies into water sources with an optional method to contaminate wells by selection. Will popping a butt nugget lead to some sort of humiliation/exploit in the game? Most likely, but some assholes are going to exploit any mechanic they can to troll or to give them an advantage. This is true for every game. Can the art of the dump add a layer of difficulty to the core "survival" aspect of the game? Sure, if it is done properly, as it is something to always consider when you are in a survivial situation. In the end, i think that i would be fine either way, because i trust dean and the devs. If they can make it useful and add a degree of difficulty to the game then so be it. If the mechanic itself becomes a highly exploitable, degrading/humiliating troll tool, i have no doubt that they would remove it altogether.

17 pages full of shit and nobody has said it? Don't worry fellas, i got this... FeceZ Regardless, if they add in crap times, i bet they sell more copies... Bring on the dumps!

It would be cool if they added vampires cus then if we got bit we could see in the night n fly n stuff...

I just got off the phone with jesus christ and he approved this thread...

I don't think zombies will be polished until they're finished with adding buildings tweaking the lanscape. I thought i read that this was because it will be easier to mesh map (?) Everything at once. Once that is complete and the engine is optimized for a far larger number of zombies, we will get that side of the coin, the pve you speak of. I imagine that going into a city will become a suicide mission, unless you have a team. Until then though, patience, patience, patience...

Should have just shot him in the legs and kept moving, while he lay there thinking about it for awhile. The guy was an obviois troll...

Wow, what a ride this thread has been, going from comparing crossbows and m4's to navy seals, knife wounds and the geneva fucking convention! Only in the Dayz forums lol, and gentlemen i applaud each and every one of you... I only hope they add an enchanting table because i like my arrows frosted!