The Aquatic Land Walrus

i don't get it

as the preying mantis stalks its prey, it prepares to strike, adopting its infamous posture..

People KOS because they are too cowardly to risk their precious gear making friends. They're paranoid that everyone will kill them, and become absorbed into a vicious cycle of selfishness, greed and resentment. Fearing for their gear, they will kill others on sight. Those victims to the coward that KOS will eventually adopt a similar state of mind due to repeated deaths upon communication attempts. Then, they will likely put two and two together, and realize "Every time I try to communicate, I am shot. Every time I shoot on sight, I get loot. I should shoot on sight" And then, the cycle rolls on. It takes a dedicated hero to break the cycle via interfering in the 1st or 2nd step. By killing bandits that KOS, the Hero can actually save victims later down the line. By showing care and caution to victims proceeding through the cycle at the point of becoming a KOSer, they can break the victim free of the KOS paranoia spell. But, once the person is a full fledged bandit at the 3rd stage, there is little to no hope of redemption. It's a lot like an outbreak, or an infestation of termites in your home. You can stop the termites from ever getting in your house, which is the easiest. You can kill eliminate every termite with a bit more trouble if a small-medium amount of them successfully invade your house. But, once it's a full invasion, your house is screwed. I personally shoot all known bandits on sight, and spare victims in the 2nd stage as often as possible while keeping myself safe. I don't mind dying and losing gear. I don't measure a life by zombie or player kills, or amounts of can openers looted. I measure a life by how many bandits I have eliminated in direct defense of myself or others, how many victims in the 2nd stage I have saved, and how many victims in the 1st stage I've saved. A key of the stages if you dislike text walls: 1st stage: Has been killed on sight by bandits multiple times. Frustration is likely, and this very often spirals into 2nd or 3rd stage without the intervention and care of a dedicated hero. 2nd stage: Begins to KOS more, which increases the pool of 1st stage victims. Takes a dedicated and skilled hero to help, and a singular encounter may not eliminate the "bandit disease" in their playstyle. 3rd stage: A dedicated or full fledged bandit. They very likely will show no mercy, and should be eliminated on sight. While this only increases their rage towards KOS, thus increasing the KOS they will deliver on others, attempting to clean them of the "bandit disease" will be EXTREMELY hard. This is essentially a codex I've made after teaming up with bandits (But not adopting their playstyle. I never killed on sight, or caused anyone to be killed by a bandit. I merely provided a companion for looting.),spying on bandits, meeting bandits or ex-bandits, and helping victims of banditry restore their faith in the DayZ community, and doing what I could to help them recover from the "bandit disease" as I've come to call it.

"There's a leek in the boat!"

Except that's full auto. G3 could be semi-auto. Christ, read pls. And, why was the AS50 removed from DayZ mod again? What's that word that describes it? Balance? Yeah. It was removed because it was unbalanced.

Full-auto mosin. There's a point where immersion crosses into balance's breeding grounds, and that'll happen if the G3 can 1 hit kill on full-auto. Besides, the G3 could be used as an upgrade to the SKS. Rarer ammo and weapon, but mostly direct stat upgrades.

Limit it to semi-auto, lower the damage, and give it a fairly low RPM. It'll be the first scout-battle rifle in DayZ.

Why do I even bother? It's obvious you won't accept any opinion besides your own, so, please. Keep arguing. You'll eventually receive a warning. I have nothing more to say on my end. If you want to be stubborn and defend your argument, which is based on MY OPINION, go ahead. Keep trying to prove my opinion wrong. I'll get a few laughs out of it, Mr. Keyboard Cleric. Funny thing is that you never say it is supposed to be excruciating to watch. You just make some excuse along the lines of "it is supposed to be bad don't judge me", not "This is supposed to be a pain to watch". And, you'd still have a right to judge the musician based on his music. Experience shouldn't change an opinion. I'm not going to up and say "Okay, the musician is new, so I have to like him now." The fact you think I need to prove I can make a funny video to judge an unfunny video is actually quite hilarious, ironically. I'll go tell Metacritic they need to make a game for every rating on any game.

He's trying too hard to be funny. A good comedian lets jokes and sarcasm flows naturally. Any humor in that video just seemed forced.

That's like saying you can't blame a new fast food restaurant for having bad food. Experience isn't everything when it comes to videos, you know. If it isn't funny, it isn't funny. I can blame you perfectly fine for that. And I will.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHH You blame STEAM for your son's COMPUTER PROBLEMS? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT Buy him a Cybertron or something. That shit won't run The Forest on highest graphic settings, but it can run DayZ. Do your research before you buy one of the most graphically demanding games in history, you silly horse enchilada.

Wait, was this supposed to be funny? Because, I just facepalmed the entire time. Tryhard humor is a no-no.

STEAK, YOU SHIT! POST A SLOW CLAP GIF NOW!

I think this guy did the same thing before.. And it wasn't funny the first or second time it happened, either. Please, just stop. inb4graveyard, scrublordz.

I'll call the suicide hotline live... suicide is never the answer

So, an assload of honeysuckle grows around my house every year. I mean, enough to fit in place of my massive computer box. But, I was thinking to myself; "What if DayZ had honeysuckle"? So, I did my research, and found it prominent in environments rarely touched by humans (or on fences, if you have to be a perfectionist. Honeysuckle loves fences.), and mainly in the northern hemisphere. I'm an idiot when it comes to geography, but I figured that Chernarus could be considered the northern hemisphere. And in a zombie apocalypse, you can't ask the neighbors to go build a nature-proof box, now can you? So, I put two and two together, and I figured plants like Honeysuckle should be implemented. It wouldn't have any nutritional bonuses, but it could be some type of morale boost. If you eat enough, your character will put on a happy face or something because that shit is delicious. Smash a bit of it up, put it on a pine cone, boom. Makeshift attraction bomb. I used to do things like this in 5th grade. After about 20 minutes, a honeybee usually flew over. It was funny. But, this is all beyond the point. DayZ should have a more exotic array of plants. Tall grasses, various flowering plants, more berries (I understand this is soon to come, but there should be species like Blackberries if at all possible. I'd enjoy that.), etc. It should seem like the earth is taking itself back. This is, after all, an apocalypse. So, opinions on this? And, please don't judge me if anything I've said is factually wrong. (Such as blackberries in Chernarus etc.)

This'd be great. I can only hope it's implemented. But, as said, there are more immediate things that need implementing. Like better animations.

I'm no bandit. But, I've done sadistic things to bandits. A bandit had just shot a newspawn. I took the newspawn's clothes, cuffed the bandit, and switched his clothes. He told me in chat his friends were waiting in a building nearby. I had an idea. I gave him different clothes, handcuffed and bagged his head, and forced him to walk into the building. His friends shot him in the leg before realizing he was an ally to them. I cleared the building except the now bleeding bandit, walked him about 500 meters into a city, and sat him down. I injected him with 3 needles of Morphine and 1 adrenaline, and forced him to loot a building. He found rotten fruit, I fed it to him. After about 50 minutes of hilarious torture, he was begging to leave. Did I mention he had high-value military gear? I then turned him into a human piñata. I rounded up all the newspawns in Elektro, and told them they get one punch to the stomach. First to knock him out wins his gear. This went on for a while, until one guy ended up aggroing a zombie. The bandit turned into a happy meal. I wish I'd recorded it, because it was so damn funny. He was so pissed at me. I divided the loot up among the newspawns, and then walked away. I don't call that the dark path. I call that the "batshit bonkers" path.

I am the bringer of the Alpacalypse.

I'm no fan of Epoch myself lel sorry if I was harsh. Today has been rougher than sandpaper being raped by a shark.

This makes a lot of sense. I'll edit my post for factual security. Thanks m18

I don't really pay attention to the lore much. I just focus on shooting zambies.

Quick! We must attempt to communicate! I'll try first. "WarZ is better than DayZ" oh shit. he seems angry. RUN!

Now, how the fuck would a Light Aircraft fit into DayZ? Sure, it'd be cool. But it'd break immersion. Leave these to Far Cry.

Was it necessary to post this? Does this help his cause of recruitment in any way, or at least make him feel that advertising for his server has an effect rather than gathering comments and nothing more? No? Exactly. If you don't like Epoch, don't play it. Stick to your 1337 hardcore 10 blood servers if you think otherwise.