Gekkonidae

"So our millionth player got axed to death seven minutes after first spawning. By someone called CaptainSkippy" hahahaha!! Proper introduction to the game.

More on this: Chris Torchia ‏@ctorchia sawed off has about 4x the spread of the full length. Fan Question: Awesome, look forward to seeing it in game! Worth keeping all that shotgun ammo I keep seeing or will new ammo be introduced? Chris Torchia ‏@ctorchia keep the 00 buck. Toss the slugs for now. Chris Torchia ‏@ctorchia I take it back - keep those slugs! And don't drop the shotty when you fire both barrels at the same time..

When these come out, I will try to craft a few of them and record video of great instances of when to use them. I will hotkey a mario ba-bomb toss sound to play over direct for an added hilarious, last second warning.

I've just been screwing around mainly. Starting fist fights with fresh spawns and bandits that try to camp them. The other day I was fully geared and was tired of killing. Was sniping on top of a tower at NW airfield and a sniper nailed me. Another guy was below me. The sniper almost had me. I didn't want to give him the satisfaction of the kill nor the chance to loot, so I jumped off of the building behind it, away from his line of fire so that the guy below could make off with the goods :) Honestly, i've just been kind of bored until they come out with new stuff. I was thinking about getting some mates together to set up ambushes in various places just for the hell of it.

fresh spawn, freshies, fresh meat, newbloods I like all these terms better.

xD

They are adding improvised grenades. I think it will change the way the game is played to a degree. would make bandit stick-ups much more interesting if you were the victim and had one for sure haha! I would toss one and start running. might have a better chance to get away or kill them in the process. Or if you were a witness to the stick-up (i witness TONS of them) you could toss one on in from behind a tree or bushes. :)

True. I guess I should have elaborated more on what I was trying to say. I was thinkign for 30-45 seconds after logging maybe the player goes into an animation like they would be laying down to go to sleep or something. I know that Origins (i think has 45 second timer) has some stupid dance the player does. It just works for Origins from my experiences. You never see anyone trying to log out unless they far enough away not to get owned. Even then, I've caught people logging off. It didn't end well for them :)

I say just have maybe a sleeping animation or in the act of laying down for like 30-45 seconds after logging to stop combat loggers and call it a day for now. I mean, I understand what you're saying about persistence in the game, but i agree with one of the above posters. Until housing is implemented I don't think they should do anything there, and even then, i'm unsure if that would be in the best interest of the game when it comes down to it.

Good form, bad end answer. 30 second logout (think of going to sleep) penalty and another couple of minutes for server logon and you're fixed, i say. Sweeps both loggers and hoppers in the most logical fashion.

^You ever need a pick-me-up, i'll run it with you. Possible Everlastingbromance <3

Gained survival traits that are ultimately unknown by numbers or progressive announcements, that are only more clearly indicated by their practice. want realism? Go that route.

I was in the mod during it's 'heartwrenchingly' shithole stage, and I call 'em 'freshies' or 'freshspawns'. Don't let the tagging detour you. Also, not all freshpawns should be trusted by any merit, believe me, i ransack fully-geared would-be 'badasses' all the time. It's pretty laughable on any surface. It matters what you call them if it implies they are no threat, so you could come up with a less imposing term on the mind when broadcast to a larger mindset, or play it your way :) Watch those words, gentlemen. How you communicate in this game has a large impact, so think about it before you say it and don't fuck it up.

Good post. Thanks for bringing current sense to my banditry in the standalone. Being an older ARMA nut, i live both for the kill, and the interactions that result in doing well by the men I meet. If I were to meet you on the field, I would proudly be your overwatch. You sound like you know how the 'real' game is played.

log out in the woods/forest you bloody savage!

You have my respect. As someone else said, this is hard mode for sure. Humility, with a chance to let them learn better without a total loss. I'm this way a lot more now than I used to be. It really is a lot more interesting to experience doing this. However, I get a lot of strugglers that I have to put down. Maybe it's my tone or something.

No, do not mess with the punching. At all. Give the little bastards something to be bold with. Any self-respecting survivor in this game with any sense of tactical awareness can easily put them down. If they are coming at you with fists, it's highly likely that you, as a player, are on the coast hunting nubblets, like the nubblet you probably are, or they are just fucking bold. In the latter case, if they tagged you, please see the point I made in the first sentence. All i know is that if I were in an apocalypse and some dude had an m4/mosin that i knew was probably killing people, and I was able to get the jump on them with that one chance, my adrenaline would probably make me feel like my bones were make of fucking adamantium and I would knock that motherfucker out as fast as I could. The little guy should have the meager chance to humiliate the decked out killer every once in a while. Can this thread be over now?

I do this for fear of not knowing what they'll do. If they were friendly, that really sucks, but if you don't talk then expect to respawn. Communication is a tool that can save your life. Use it or have no option.

I personally like the punching. I commend anyone for marching up to a guy with a gun attempting to punch him out. Mainly, because nearly every time someone has attempted to do that to me i've shot them in the face. I've noticed that it's better/easier to pull out an axe and take care of punchers though, because it's hard to aim when they are circling you, right up on you. I say it's fine. If anything it gives unarmed scrubs a way to even the playing field. Mike Tyson on, my little freshies.

I'll admit it. I have on 2 occasions. I know I know. Shame on me. the first time I honestly had to piss so bad. I was hiding behind a tree and the guy kept trying to shoot me. I seriously thought I was going to unleash in my pants. Looking back, I probably just should have told him I had to pee really bad and maybe he would have taken it easy on me. Probably not, but I should have taken it like a man. It should have been an honorable Death by AFK pissing. The second time was when I was running food and drink out to a work buddy who was starving out in the middle of nowhere. Saw a few guys moving across a field to come and kill me. They were closing in and I started hearing shots. Didn't want to let the starving guy down so I logged, went to another server and ran the rest of the way, then logged back in to get the goods to him. Again, I should have taken it like a man in stead of being a huge bitch about it. And with that, I hereby solemnly swear by the blood and might of Hoxton's magic to never do that sort of pu**y ass s#it again. At least i'm willing to admit I've done it instead lying about it. Admitting it is the first step on the road to recovery, right after solemnly swearing to Hoxton, of course.

The last life I died to a sniper while looting in elecktro near the school/office building. No surprise there.. The 2 times before that were thanks to falling off of the steps in a barn... annoying. However, the 2 lives before that, I decided to go on a crazy axe murdering rampage through starter towns just to have a few laughs. the first life I bagged 9 kills. Then, I took it to elecktro. Killed 5 armed (guns) and 8 mostly armed with melee. so 13 the second life. The elecktro fiasco all started when I saw 3 players with melee weapons talking. I walked up and asked if anyone wanted to fist fight. One challenger accepted. I started playing eye of the tiger' over direct to set the mood. One guy then said 'fight', so I quickly pulled out my .357 and shot the guy in the face Dirty Harry style. then I pulled out my axe and ended up killing the other 2. One of them tagged me with a wrench, but it was a minor flesh wound. From there it was just chasing people down and sneaking up on wanna-be snipers. I was definitely seeing red that life.

Allow me to blow your mind by saying that there are no rude behaviors in dayz. There are reactions to survive. ...so get better at it.

I think Origins did it right. After you disconnect, for 30 seconds your character does some dumb little dance. I've only been killed once or twice while disconnecting in the 8 months I played. Those couple of times I died were the result of my own stupidity. Don't log out in populated areas. Go hide in a tree or behind a rock or in a building before you do it. This would add a timer and also take care of the alt+f4 crap people pull. The answer is pretty simple imo. Now, i've caught people alt+f4ing or trying to disconnect and have bagged myself around half a dozen. just popped them in the head while they were doing the little dance trying to hide out somewhere thinking they were slick trying to get away. Implementing it this way just works.

But it is part of the game. There is judgement made even right now. The choice is yours to shoot or beat to death whomever you like. That isn't the development team's job to decide, as this is the initial option they've left up to us. This is what makes the game good. Even if they decide to implement measures to counteract those decisions, I think that the choice should still be glaringly obvious to do what it is you want to do. If this game were to sacrifice any of its base hardcore nature for anything else, it would fall into obscurity among most other online games that exist, in no time. It's a fragile beast, so lets hope the right decisions are made.

I personally prefer private hives. I've dealt with a lot less bullshit and had way more fun than dealing with pubs on the mod. There are benefits to both, but I say keep the options there. Maybe introducing some mechanics of the private servers to public admins might bolster some reassurance to those that run a pub serv? But then my question is how to fairly and effectively administrate those admins with what they have available to them with this engine? It's not an easy decision.