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I agree. As internert viral meme bandwagony things go it is really crap. And to the OP, it's actually been done properly with the dance animations and such and even at that it's still crap. For example this zombie one is quite well done. http://youtu.be/338WKi6zbmM

"There's always one bastard that follows you" :D

Great wee vid :)

Please please let them sort some of the physics in game. Would love to see zeds and players actually bounce about when taking damage.

They are surprisingly sturdy. I've landed them in trees many times and survived. Cool vid, have my beanz.

God I hate that song and I've only heard it like 3 times.

I think this was suggested to Rocket in an interview/QA session and he said it would be extremely difficult to implement though was an excellent idea. I also agree with your point about infection. See my thread on the subject ;)

Yep I do agree though you would think you would have to worry more about zombie infection a little more than crabs or whatever Rocket has up his sleeve/pants :D I never mentioned NPC's ;)

I do but the way it looks to me is that he means infections and diseases (which is great) but not actual zombie infection.

Survival from the infected though for some reason you can't become infected yourself? (the current coughing and losing some blood really doesn't look authentic tbh). I don't think you should be able to play as a zombie but when you become infected you will have to deal with it (both good and bad points) as it slowly takes over. If you can cure the infection then great and if not you die. It would be even better if your zombie corpse started wandering around still carrying whatever you had on you and would need to be killed before being looted. That would mean you would at least need to grab a hatchet while high tailing it back to where you died and even then you will need to search about for your zombie :D (Rocket has said that player specific zombies is not really possible unfortunately).

True but that could be quite interesting in itself and the risk of infecting your team mates would cause problems playing like this.

I use a wired xbox controller/mouse combo and it works great.

Exactly. I don't think you should ever become a full controllable zombie but getting infected and dealing with it would surely add to the realism of a zombie apocalypse. After all surviving should also be about trying to avoid becoming infected as well.

I kinda like this idea. You could infect other players somehow too (sharing food/ammo/clothing etc) so people would avoid you like the plague (making team play strained to say the least). If you found the right medication you could be cured (at least in the early stages). I think you should die though and not turn into a controllable full zed. I also think you should have a slight benefit/benefits when infected. Maybe zeds would be less attracted to you or you could detect other players better somehow.

Yeh the fence noise bugs the piss out of me. The running through snow sound on Thirsk really irritates me. I like the map but don't play it solely because of this.

I'm guessing that's what the "you're not alone" is building to for the next vid. Not bad vid.

I actually really like the idea of one key one name.

Playing DayZ 2017 last night and had geared up pretty decent. I was hiding in the rocks at the side or the road near Otmel looking for delicious survivors to kill and cook (I was sick from eating too many Zeds). Anyhoo one particular rock decided I looked pretty tasty too and before I knew it my guy was spinning rapidly in circles being devoured by it. With a snapping of bones and cry of pain I was no more. Luckily I spawned just down the coast a bit so I high tailed it back to my body, gutted myself and was soon on my merry way.

Yes this for sure. I hope they can be camouflaged but not impossible to find.

Gremlins.

AussieStig spends most of his time driving up and down long roads running over anything that moves. He loves nothing more than toying with crippled players much like a cat would do to a mouse. His pet hates are tyre poppers and rubble. EDIT:Doh not quick enough. Rhygar666 is the most horrible bandit you'll ever meet. He is like Lucifer, Elmo and Hitler all rolled into one. He also teabags his victims. His pet hate is everyone.

I really like DayZ 2017. The Kamenka suicide bridge has become an all you can eat buffet for me :)

That might have to make it to my sig dude. You hit the nail right on the head.

I find that I can't change the default configuration in game for the xbox pad either (not really helping I know but just to confirm I have the same issues).

I actually play with both the Xbox pad and mouse at the same time (pad with the left hand mouse with the right). I use the pad for pretty much everything except aiming, shooting and scroll wheel functions and when I'm in a vehicle I just pretty much just the pad. This works great for me as I can sit back so it's far more comfortable than being hunched over the keyboard. As for people raging about the use of pads in PC games..well I think they just secretly know that at some point they have been owned by someone using a pad :D Thanks for the guid btw I think I'll give it a go. I like the current standard config though for some reason the banking left and right in a flying vehicle is much slower than with the keyboard.