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What part of this: Would lead me to believe you don't mind KoS?

I think that base building may help. But even then you're going to have groups of people and as soon as someone stumbles across their base or starts sniffing around they will kill them. As a friendly lone wolf, I fully expect to be KoS now, and I don't see that changing much in the SA. Unless I can wire up a heart rate monitor that explodes my corpse after I die... they will be able to get everything they need from me if they just shoot me. Unless there are classes or leveling (and NO, I don't want these things), there's no reason to "see what a guy can offer". Unless you think you can talk him into giving up his camp/stash. I personally think that looting your own body should not be possible after death, however. I don't know how that could happen, but that may make people think twice about engaging, especially engaging relatively geared up guys who have a chance at killing you.

Not nearly as big of a waste as your trolling thread. Or really most of the posts you author on here, it seems.

You, my friend, are a hypocrite. Coming from a zero combat logged, two total kills (I only shoot after fired upon), over one year veteran of DayZ... what are you even saying? "I hate KoS." "Well, I mostly KoS." "I shot at the guy and he ran away, so I followed him shooting periodically." Are you freaking serious? You. I especially like the "I recently rented a server but I won't plug it." Says US333Nate. Laughable. Go crawl back into your hole. -------------------------------------- All that said, here's my sage advice: Just because I like the spawn, loot-up, get "bored", and repeat (and lone wolf) type of play doesn't mean that's the ONLY way to play. You have to accept that or you'll post long non-sensical threads on an internet forum contradicting yourself.

Three PKs?

Your inability to reason and understand is not "mind-fucking the community".

My parents used to complain when my brother and I were your age and playing computer games. We hunted and fished a whole bunch, but that's mainly spring/fall/winter activity. So during the summers we would play a ton of computer games. Reflecting on it years later (and still gaming, but not nearly as much as we were at 15-17 years old) my parents said they secretly didn't mind much. It kept us out of trouble, they knew where we were, and we actually made great friends both in-game and in real life because of it. Don't become a complete hermit, but if you are doing well in school and otherwise just kind of bored in the summer... DayZ sounds like a fine way to spend your time @ 14 years old compared to smoking, drinking, and killing cats. Keep your nose clean!

What good does it do to see a fresh spawn loot now? The game is no where near "finalized", doesn't seem to do much good. I mean, if you just want to see authentic gameplay, I get that... but they are revamping everything so most of it probably isn't even functional the way they want. And...? Says some guy on a forum. Playable and able-to-be-launched-and-limped-through-on-Godmode-at-gaming-conference are very different. Oh no, a game took over a year to develop after it was announced?!? - Diablo II fan 2008 I am not a computer programmer or software engineer, but I am an electrical engineer. I have a rough idea of how things work and the nonsensical "grandstanding" by so many people cracks me up. Thank God there are adults in charge of real-life things that don't think like you guys.

Its shoes.

Thank God, I don't know if I could survive a zombie apocalypse with a cluttered entertainment center.

FIFY

Love the fact that you guys think you're "turning the tables" or "egging them on". They don't care how stupid they look. Look how stupid the OP looks for posting this... and it isn't even a particularly horrible example. That sidechat snippet is more well written than papers I read in senior writting classes at a university. For all you know (and I'd honestly bet a large sum of money) that guy is completely putting it on as far as teh stoopid ackt. And you posting this... and experiencing greater trolling symptoms when you join the server is proof. He's probably well adjusted when you aren't there. But since you "find it enjoyable" even though you obviously don't... he wins. People who are really trolling the trolls and enjoying it don't make posts on forums talking about how stupid a troll is then claiming to enjoy it. Rookies.

I don't know what you're talking about running within meters of them and not getting aggro. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I have them aggro on me from crazy distances still. And it seems like they communicate telepathically because once one aggros I have five or six aggro'd almost instantly. It is very very very very hard to see what the mod zombies would be like because of the glitchy movement. Looking through the mod prism makes it hard to grasp what well fleshed out zeds would be like should they behave "naturally". How frustrating is it trying to shoot at a zed that is running at an angle right now? Then what's the point? They already catch up to you when you're sprinting, but they have to stop to attack so that makes them appear "slow". See above, if they get the zeds behaving correctly I am all for very difficult zombies. Yes. The most frustrating part of the aggro on gun shot sound right now is that the zombies don't actually aggro to the "sound" they aggro to the player. So if I were in Cherno fired in the grocery store with no zeds in eye sight they should run TO THE STORE... so theoretically you could slip out the back and only have to deal with zeds coming from that direction. But now, if you fire they know where you are at and come around houses looking for you even if you're moving. That's not the way it should be. All that said, if you make zombies faster than me, much more numerous than they are now, similarly glitchy as in the mod, and more able to track me down I think I would give up. Here's the truth no one really wants to hear... if I wanted to be continuely frustrated I could just stay at work. And yes, I want a hard game. I love the infection as it is now, I love the scarcity of ABs... but in the precious few hours I get to do things other than work/family time, I still want to be able to survive. I really think we need to see what good, naturally moving zombies look like before we start talking about how difficult to make them. Maybe they should aggro on each other to some extent? That would help make loads of them all wadded up, but would help clear out some areas for fresh spawns to loot a bit. It's frustrating as it stands with the seemingly mind reader zeds either in buildings or entering buildings right when you do. :)

I suspect you're just trolling, but if not you're a complete dolt. Had BI repackaged the mod and "shipped" it out to folks you'd likely be playing nothing better than what the vanilla mod is today with the possibility of less available content depending on how BI would support other mods. But it would be "DayZ Standalone" so you'd have some big-ole wood for it? What Rocket was originally talking about and what the SA is now evolving into are to entirely different things. This clamoring for a game and a game NOW, is a bit nutso. I play and have only played straight up vanilla DayZ... and 99% on public hives. I haven't cracked the world of DayZ Mod mods... and I don't plan on it either. I have played this game for hours per day for days on end and I've not played the game at all for days on end. It's not the end of the world if you simply walk away from a game. If DayZ and DayZ Standalone are so dead and "no one really cares about it anymore" then why are you on here bemoaning that there's no SA? There's still plenty of fire for this game, plenty of people genuinely interested in how it ends up turning out, and plenty of people that would purchase it later this afternoon, or this Christmas, or next Thanksgiving. Original DotA mod - 2003 DotA 2 (standalone) - 2013 Do I think it will take ten years for BI to release the DayZ standalone? No, but what if it does? Should I take that personally? You guys act like the only way to cope with the fact that the SA isn't able to be played by the public (as is) is to pay for it and THEN not be able to play it as is. Come on.

Then you fired it in the middle of Cherno and had your first "wtf" moment. :)

How can you tell? Is there a way to display it?

I understand that, I guess what I meant was Eastern(ish) European. The SKS was built/sold all over the Czech Republic area, including some direct neighbors. Just saying there should be some laying around. :)

I still probably play like a noob compared to what most guys would consider. I've been at it for a year, but took about five months off gaming when my daughter was born. It's been a fun journey, and after logging back in to 1.7.7.1 a couple weeks ago I felt pretty "new" all over again. And played a ton of Diablo III in there too... what a waste. :)

How the SKS isn't in a gamed "based" in a Russian influenced country already is beyond my ability to reckon. :) There's literally a zillion of those things.

Now that's the kind of robbery I can get behind. :)

That describes me almost exactly as well. But I found a few in the past, but not like it is now. There was someone commenting in the sidechat a couple of nights ago that he found some really close together. I figured he was at the two I found, but he wasn't. There were 3-4 in a similarly close together cluster in a different location.

There seem to be boatloads of heli crashes now. I found two within flare throwing distance of each other a couple days ago.

False. I have been killed/teleported more on private, whitelisted hives than I ever have on public... and I have played probably 90% of my time over the last year+ on public.

At the rate I am going through bandages in this newest version I'd forget to load them back into inventory and die. I usually run with at least two in my usable inventory, any extras are in the pack. I've been playing this most recent spawn for about three days (I don't play much each day). I bet I have used 15 bandages already, and I don't even get into combat much... the bleed rate is crazy right now.

I bought a Logitech G500 about a year ago. I don't go bind crazy on mouse buttons, so I never really did much with the config. I have had two major complaints since I bought it. First, it is constantly scrolling. It doesn't matter much in most circumstances, but in DayZ I am constantly... and I mean CONSTANTLY having to right click or spin the center mouse button to "cancel" a weapon change or action. Second, when I'm in combat I have died multiple times... probably 15-20 times because in the heat of battle with zeds with rapid mouse movement my mouse will scroll and my next "shot" will actually be a weapon change. So I will stand there doing weapon swap animation getting beat on by zeds. I had modified my controls at one point to remove the mousewheel from any use in DayZ so that I could avoid this. While it worked, it was a HUGE pain to select anything from a multioption menu. So I just learned to deal with it. Fast forward to yesterday, I finally did some searching on the net. I saw a blog of a guy having a similar problem and he basically made a fabric friction "wedge" to slow down his mouse wheel. One person on the blog commented that "maybe you have just pressed the "turbo scroll" button and didn't realize it. Guilty as charged. When I first bought the mouse it probably had the button pressed when I was unpacking it or during shipping. I KNOW I had pressed that button in the past, but never thought it did anything. Because I'm a anal bastard, if I press that button once, I ALWAYS press it a second time to "reset" whatever function that button may have. So I got on last night and played for about a half hour with the correct mouse wheel setting and it was dreamy. It only took me a year to figure it out, so not too bad, right?