Booya

Feel free to suggest an alternate thing, I can guarantee you that anything we can come up with in this thread is going to be either equally arbitrary punishment or totally inconsequential and cosmetic.

Nametags do actually show up on most servers btw, and as much as I dislike them they're kind of a necessary evil, since they represent the only realistic way to identify individual players making killers uncontrollably scream and vomit is explicitly not "putting people on the same level," and doing so probably will solve your issue by making most playerkillers outright quit the game. edit: how is artificially removing control from the player to simulate "psyche" that has little to no basis in the real complexity of the human psyche immersive

At most we need more tools to identify players without outright revealing them as bandit or survivor at first glance, not an overly ambitious attempt to simulate the human psyche in a videogame.

You can tell bandits from survivors though. It's actually pretty easy to tell once they start shooting other players for their gear. You can then tell people the name of the bandit that's doing this thing, or describe the equipment he's using and his location, and then the survivors can be on the look out for that guy.

ahhh, the *vomiting* thrill of the hUUUUUUUNNTTT AAAAAAH AHHHHH AAAHHH AUUUUUUUGH. Nothing more satisfying than a job well done *passes out* hey, the point is you're not going to implement a deep simulation of the human psyche into a mod for a military sim, maybe not into any game at all, and especially not without access to an expert who actually knows shit about the human psyche. your suggestion for consequences is inherently arbitrary, superficial, and artificial punishment of bandits when the tools to fight bandits are already ingame in the form of social interaction and cooperation. why ask for artificial and clunky intervention by the game when you already have the tools for much deeper player controlled consequence from the get-go

I think most people would argue that the fun part is the killing and looting part, putting yourself against another player and outplaying them, not the artificially imposed vomiting and screaming uncontrollably part, although I would be interested in hearing how exactly screaming and vomiting are "thrilling" to you. Trying to simulate the human psyche in a videogame IS going to be artificial, clunky, and ridiculous, even if we had access to an actual psychiatrist who actually knows the effects of murder on the psyche of the murderer. It's overambitious. If survivors want consequences for bandits, form a bandit hunting group. Use the advantages of your playstyle, which, by reading the forums, most of you seem to have totally overlooked, to combat the bandit playstyle. CREATE organic social consequences, don't bitch and ask for artificial and gamey consequences.

you say this isn't about punishing playerkillers, then go on to list a series of negative consequences imposed by the game on you, or "punishments" if you will, that literally include screaming and vomiting uncontrollably. this is absolutely about punishing playerkillers, and it's ridiculous to say otherwise.

most people on nighttime servers have probably jacked up their gamma, like you. The game looks ugly as shit when you jack up the gamma, and if it's going to stay as an option they might as well just make it so you can actually see worth a damn in the night rather than abusing graphics options. Edit: explain logically why jacking up your gamma is "better" than just being able to see at night in the first place.

Using flares and chemlights on the coast, which is where the people who most need them are gonna be, is a death sentence on any populated server, and sticking with a group does little to make you safe. Yall talk about just throwing flares all over like bandits aren't a thing

The first place he looked is the hospital, though. How was he to know that the only reason they weren't there is because of the absurdly low spawn rate? If we're talking common sense, you'd actually be way more likely to find cold medicine at a supermarket than at a hospital

I'm sure most of us would rather have alternatives to stopping and warming our ass over a camp fire every few minutes when moving inland, especially now that said fire requires more resources to make. I had a couple ideas for things to help us keep warm 1. Clothes! Coats, rain ponchos, umbrellas, winter gloves, whatever. 2. Warm foods. Say we can find a thermos or two in the cities, let us heat up some soup or even just water for later. That's all I've got for now, anyone else got suggestions?

High rates of life halving infection that pass from player to player means more incentive to shoot on sight, and bandits camping the 3 hospitals on the map for easy kills. hope yall are ready for the new de facto 6000 blood maximum

Can you use bandages from the backpack now?