WalkerDown (DayZ)

What you mean with "level1" ...? Oh my....

It's fun how the first thing (certain) ppl thinks of, during a fucking zombie apocalypse is: "let's go in that much populated city" .. pretending to be invisible, just because they crawl, and then blaming because you have been noticide by an horded of zeds (that you know they were there, since you decided intentionally to go into a city).

I think you can run the entiere map (point to point) for less than 1 hour. The max time i've "invest" to meet my friends has been 20 minutes .. so i'm not sure how you managed to spend 1.5hr to meet em... however that's not the point: this is not a FPS with a single spawnpoint, this is a "simulator" with a huge map, if you're friends are in different cities and you don't own a vehicle, it can keep very long to meet em.. like in real life. If your mind is tuned for a traditional shooter, you'll be bored by all this. This is nowhere near to a traditional game, this is about simulating a certain happening (a zombie apocalypse), so it tries to replicate what would happens in real life, and it's supposed you to do what you would do in real life... you would hide? Good.. then hide in the game too. That's it: surviving. If you find it boring, it's not for you.. there's tons of other "fun" game out there, you're not forced to feel the frustration of playing this.

You don't "need" a gear, you need to survive. This is the ONLY objective of this game. A gear (food, a weapon, other...) are only tools used EVENTUALLY to help you surving, so thinking logical: it doesn't make sense to suicide to collect it, you're working against your objective. So no, you don't need a gear, you'll eventually find a gear when it's convenient to do so, or when you ABSOLUTELY need it (when otherwise you're going to die imminently.. like starving etc.).

Even if they weren't legit, they cannot ban you (you may have picked em up from a dead body). Also, using "fuck off" in a ban is childish. I guess the admin (if the whole story is how it has been exposed.. since we didn't listen to the other bell yet) is probably 12yo.

When the moon is NOT visible, there's only the stars... and you can't see almost anything (assuming you're at least 150km from a big city). The moon makes a big difference, so those ppl claiming they can "perfectly" see at the night: 1) Have experienced it with the moon but never without; 2) They tried it near to a big city; 3) They are cats; I dunno why ppl are claiming something differently.. with the gamma/hdr cheat it was like playing in daylight but b/w. PS: you can use the NVG with certain sniper rifles (like the DMR...). But i'm not sure why ppl insist to camp at the night to shoot at other survivors.. we're again at the same argument: this is not CoD.

It's not.. me and some other ppl are experiencing the same with previous builds. It's mainly caused by the HDR setting, reducing it, it seems reduces the problem.. but sometime it still happens; i have also the "white flashes" problems sometime. Didn't found a definitive solution.. yet.

I've used to think about that when i was young and the emotions rather than my brain were driving my decision. I then learned what's that you should put your emotivity aside and take the most convenient decision. This is the only way to handle the situation in a professional manner. But again, that's not my projects, nor my business, so if they want to handle it like this.. we can only hope for the better. In the meantime i wait.

There's no more lights.. they ALL turned off because there's no more electricity. We only have vehicles and mobile lights. In this situation, during the night, you wouldn't see anything except when there's the moon. Sometime i do the mountain camping during the summer, so i am km's away from the city, and there's no light pollution to light the sky, and when there's no moon, even if your eyes get used of the darkness, you can't see anything! Except maybe the line of the surrounding mountains around you. I'm not sure why ppl are saying: you can see at night.. maybe they mean in a city, or near a city, or when there the full moon... but normally it's exactly like that: it's BLACK and you can't do a couple of steps without a flashlight. Did you ever tried to RUN in this situation? It's incredibly scary and dangerous: you end with a broken bone in a couple of minutes if you try to...

This situation is handled so unprofessionally. People continues to repeat that if you keep a "not in game" weapon you wouldn't be banned, eventually your weapon will be removed from the your inventory, but you wouldn't be punished, even rocket confirmed this, and it's obvious: you're not supposed to know which weapon is in the game. Burt the reality says something different, and ppl are being banned for USING a "hacked" weapon. It's scary how everything is confused.. i know it's an alpha, but ppl are paying for the retail CD-KEY of Arma...

The question is: why the hell you put yourself at risk, confronting the zeds, FOUR times in 30 minutes? Imagine yourself in real life, you see a bunch of zombies there, and you go there? Without thinking for more than (30/4 = 7.5) ... seven minutes and half? This game is about surviving, without a weapon you may pass HOURS finding the right spot and the right moment to go in a building avoiding the zeds.. you did it four times in 30 minutes.. lol. This is not splinter cell my friend. ;)

Until they have an audience they won't stop.. that's why i suggested to not feed em, to stay quiet, to not go on their forum to bitch. This only makes the problem bigger. You can't "beat" em, you can only fight them ignoring what they are doing until they get bored and will move to something differently/new. I don't care if 100 "cheaters" has been banned.. this is not making my game better because there's other 1000 cheaters doing the same, beliving that you can ban em all is just utopic. They'll go (eventually) away when there's no more ppl talking about em, or when the game is not popular anymore. This is the sad reality.

The current spawn is perfectly fine. The "spawn with a weapon" thing were only promoting the deatmach. PPl that are complaining are those ones that were used to die every 20 minutes, so they are now afraid that "i don't care, since i can respawn with a weapon" isn't working anymore. What these ppl doesn't understand is that the respawn must NOT be considered to belong to the game mechanic. We have the respawn only becausa it is a videogame and having only one life would have be a way too extreme of course; but the respawn should be a VERY RARE event: you are not supposed to die! You are not supposed to rush to the first city to start "the real game", eventually collecting a weapon. None said you need one, in this "game" there's only one objective: SURVIVE ... suicide actions are dumb and they are punished (in real life they would be punished with you diyng permantently; in a videogame they are punished with the pain of doing everything from scratch). Do you understand all the above? If you don't.. this is NOT the game for you. PS: i would also suggest anyone to wait for the "zombie spawn hotfix" .. and eventually other adjustment prior than judge that this is "impossible to play".

I could argue on "there's no consequence thing... reading the forum. The purpose of my message was: if with your action you're going to make the things better.. go on; if it will makes things worse: it's not smart. What i know is that (besides many other reasons i had by a couple of weeks), one of the reason of why i'm not playing these days is because of em (i'm waiting that everything is finished for sure...) .. and this is already a "victory" for em. I may be alone.. i dunno, i don't know how many other "serious" players left the game (temporary) because of this.

I can tell you that the SD ammo are rare.. in fact you need to think 10 times before deciding to use them. I had to abandon silenced weapons (M4) few times because of this.. and i'm one that doesn't waste ammo at all. Plus i'm not sure why you should penalize those guys only because you didn't invested your time to find a good loot, or to survive with it.

This resumes it all: The fact that a "bandit" (and possibly a CoDbrainless style player) is criticizing the new patch, means that we're going in the right direction. :)

Ppl didn't just complained on how easy it was to avoid zombies, it complained on how unrealisticly easy it was! That's only apparently the same thing. Before you were passing just near to zeds without them noticing you, it was like you were invisible just becase you were walking 7 meters away. Now is the opposite, they can see you when they shouldn't see you at all (plus many other broken things that should be fixed with an upcoming hotfix). It's not that you going to fix something "too easy" making it just "too hard". We wanted something more REAL not just much more hard. You going to increase the zed awareness (good, in a supposed real life, they can see you crawling!), but you can't leave them running at unrealistic speeds, plus you can't have them respawning (but it seems it's a bug). Much more aware zombie, increased number are both nice and very welcome, but they should be accompanied with: slower zeds (because it's supposed that i can just run in the middle of a hord and OUTRUN them.. having a plan..). If we have a cetain number of zeds covering all the loots, and no way to go there sneaking, there's only one solution left: kill em all; but with an infinite spawn rate it just doesn't work, also it promotes the clan members gameplay (large groups in teamspeak).

Me... im waiting to see the new patch outcome (especially for the makarov removal on spawn, if it will fix the deat-match problem).. but mainly im waiting how those script-kiddies will be handled.

It's a combination of convenience and professionality. Being "i don't give a fuck" .. or even worse: "FU .. i'm better", isn't really smart. First because of personal reason: if you're supposed to work in the videogame industry, splatting your face like this wouldn't sure help to build your image (if i ever to something like this, i would be fired the next day); second because you're not helping your project (and so the community linked to it). You're "fighting" against: cheaters, hackers (minority), trolls.. what would be the consequence of keeping a fight (or just being childish) with them? You know the reply: they have nothing to loose, or even "better" it's what they wants (a challenge), so we'll end with server "nuked" and ppl abandonding the game because they won't die suddendly by an hacker/cheater hand. I won't teach rocket how to do his work, it's his business, but MY OPINION (we're on a forum, so i can post it) is that this shouldn't be handled like this. Maybe he's really frustrated.. he's in mad.. he's feeling the "pressure".. if so, the best thing to do is to lock this type of threads and handle everything internally. The last thing you have to do is to start fight with ppl, posting ironic memes to makes fun of em, and especially not going on their forum(s). You're feeding and provoking otherwise.

Calm down dudes.. this is a fucking VIDEOGAME. They may be idiot, but they are not commiting a damn crime! Are you all having an excess of testosterone? Don't waste your time, they are trolls, they are griefers, they existed and they will exists forever. You cannot fight them, neither you can stop them, whatever you do you only FEED em. The only weapon you have against a troll is to IGNORE him.. but unfortunately this isn't going to happens, since there's always someone to open a thread like this, and they will continue until there's someone to give em attention. This is the sad reality.. you can't do anything. Just calm down, sit and wait for better days... if you son't have the patience to do so, i suggest you to go out and ejoy the real world, there's so much fun out there.

Why do you believe he's doing so...? :) A game never lives of itself, a game exists when there's someone playing it.

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