PoisonedAl

Now that IS interesting. It would be really cool if there was a reason to restart the power grid. If you could power up the station in Elektro and re-program the tower at Green Mountain, maybe you could get an air drop with super cool goodies or an airlift to another island. That would make for some interesting player interaction. Other then that, a battery mechanic so NV goggles and thermal (radios?) have to be recharged now and then would be cool too.

There should only be more zombies if they didn't constantly re-spawn. I only kill zombies if I have to because there is no bloody point otherwise. You kill one and the game farts out another one behind you. Adding more with the way the spawn at the moment would make them more annoying then challenging. Also to the "should only walk" guys. Rocket has always said that the zombies are infected, not dead. They are still alive and they can run, see you from a distance, open doors and climb etc. The DayZ world uses 28 Days Later rules so live with it.

Good advice... if you're playing CoD! DayZ (and ARMA of course) does not use hit scan and tracks the projectile's trajectory and velocity. If you do not know the exact range, aiming for the head is stupid. Always better to go centre mass and then plug another hole in him then aim for the head and miss. Even if he Alt-F4s the coward is most likely dead before he wakes up again. You miss and he'll ether fight back or quit out scott free!

There's scripting and duping but as mentioned before, players keep hold of super rare drops. Junk or middling weapons get discarded all the time, but the rare stuff never dies. Unless the server shits the bed and wipes your stuff, the epic loots are going to keep doing the rounds and added to.

That will just get you shot anyway. Same here. I like it when the moon is up. You can skip around zeds no problem at night. If you keep still they won't notice you're there until they bump into you. Players have a harder time spotting you too so it's a good time to go looting!

Oh really? We hadn't noticed until you pointed it out! Thank you for making ANOTHER topic about it you stupid, whiny POS!

You get repeatedly shot. Do you: a ) Play more stealthily, keeping to cover and visiting high traffic areas when strictly necessary? b ) Play more aggressively, taking out targets before they have a chance to react? Or c ) Cry like a little bitch in the forum?

So after a server shat the bed, I got dumped back on the beach hungry and with nothing. And I do mean nothing. All my cool guns, toolbelt, food and backpack, GONE! Was a little bit pissed off for a few seconds, but then I thought: HARD MODE UNLOCKED :D I had a tonne of end game stuff before and life was getting boring, so I thought; "Fuck it! Let's do this!" I then proceeded to claw myself back. Within an hour I had a knife, hatchet, double barrelled shotgun, a crossbow and an Alice pack to put them in... but no food. I swear to God this game knows when you're desperate for something and then will be a trolling dick about it. I found loads of coke and pepsi, but not one single tin of :beans: and my food indicator was flashing like crazy... And it kept doing that for at least half an hour. Nothing happened. No blood loss or anything. In the end I got forced into Cherno. I don't like to go there at the best of times, but someone was throwing flares and chemlights everywhere and someone was popping off a CZ. No idea what they were doing. Having a disco? Anyway, totally at random I find a chicken crossing the road (yeah I know) in the industrial park, which suddenly caught a bad case of "crossbow bolt in the face". I them cooked him up on the burning barrel in the construction site, then fled like a scared bunny. However the food indicator was flashing for ages and I was wondering how long it took for you to actually starve. My time could had been extended due to one of the servers I was on rebooted without telling me (admins, I fucking LOVE IT when you do that btw >:() so I checked the wiki but I couldn't find a straight answer. tl;dr: How long does it take before something bad happens when the food and drink icons start flashing?

If it is ten minutes I was saved by the server disconnecting. It was a lot longer then that it was flashing.

It was mine too. However it pissed me off that in the future they make all their weapons out of balsa wood and pritt stick.

In DayZ, you are all on the "same team." ARMA 2 will fart out the "OW! NOT ME YOU IDIOT!" message.

Believe it or not, 3rd person give you more of a realistic FOV then the blinkered 1st person... Being able to look over and behind walls not so much.

You can really tell who plays what in these threads. Carebares want another Left 4 Dead were we all work together, CoD Kiddies want to run around like an immortal, bullet soaking spastic and those that like stealth games and mil sims are happy as it is.

Cool story bro.

oh ffs

Oh I won't argue that there isn't balance issues, just that degradation is as much fun as dental surgery. Hunting rare ammo for an exotic gun is one thing, having it turn to dust is another. With the first you have the option to cart around a huge lump of metal in the hope of finding ammo for it or abandoning it. Degradation mean you're just scared to use the weapon because it has a limited life. It's unfair and unfun. All I can say is, go play System Shock 2. Well soon see if anyone still think degradation is a good idea.

Use DayZ Commander.Use the handy feature to make sure you have the right version of ARMA. The RIGHT version not LATEST. There is a graph on the side showing what patch is being used by most servers. Use the "correct ARMA version" filter. Then sort servers by ping and look for one that isn't close to full (the more people playing, the longer the load times). Although don't be a pussy and choose an empty one. Also make sure you load without Steam. It's more trouble then it's worth. Should load reasonably quickly then.

Actually, yes. You are just being forced to into an arbitrary RPG mechanic you HAVE to use because.... fuck you that's why! it's so they can have a million working guns left laying around centuries after a nuclear apocalypse that fall apart as soon as you touch them like you have acidic hands or something. Because most gamers these days have ADD, they couldn't make it HARD to find guns, so you get force fed the degradation shit pie as a lazy way to force you to upgrade RPG points and to constantly find tonnes and tonnes of crap.

I like the AKS Kobra. It's quiet, reasonably powerful and there's tonnes of ammo for it and the sight on it isn't bad ether. Sure the M4s are more powerful, but ammo is harder to find and they are usually a lot louder. For sniper; the DMR. Again, not the best gun, but the most practical. It has zoom, it's semi-automatic and DRM mags can be found all over the place. Once you learn how to use mil dots this thing is lethal. (Play ARMA 2 and practice with it people) Pistol wise the M9 SD is a no brainer, but other then that the PDW is a nice thing to have. Not that powerful, but it's nice to have a spray and pray side-arm.

Double post. ಠ_ಠ

Not a bad idea. On second thought, go die in a fire! Weapon degradation has long been documented as a lazy and VERY annoying balance mechanic. NOBODY likes it and it only gets used when game designers are lazy idiots (eg: Dead Island).

Carebares bitch enough about the vanilla AS50 so I'm not surprised the TWS was removed. That thing was just silly. A 50 cal sniper rifle with a thermal scope was just batty nuggets! However an "okay" assault rifle with thermal? Not so much. The game needs some rare end game loot to find, otherwise there is little point risking your neck around zombies and other dip-shit players after you find basic gear. Not that it matters. Carebares won't be happy until we're forced into throwing pillows at each other!... Oh who am I kidding? They would still fucking whine!

If you're having problems getting though doors, wiggle the mouse back and forth. You should pop though a doorway no problem.

EDIT: fixed some typos EDITx2:Annnnd again EDIT3: Being dyslexic sucks balls.

Nope, np. Thanks to my useless brain I can't spot things like that no matter how many times I proof read.