DemonGroover

You had me at Beards

Because it isn't dayz. Magic houses that can't be looted, zombies that need 50 shots to the head. Crappy npcs. And that is even before we get into the issue of them modifying dayz and packaging it up as their own game and making money out of it. Apart from that, yeah it is brilliant.

Girlfriends can be a great help

As far as i know 28 Days Later was one of the first "zombie" films to have fast running infected. I loved WWZ the book - not convinced at all about the movie

Canned Muffins

When a Holy Book is found in an Orthodox Christian Church one would expect a Bible not a qur'an. I dont really care tbh but i really see no reason NOT to call it a Bible. Who are we trying not to offend here? Surely the type of Christian who would find an in game Bible offensive isn't playing DayZ?

Chicken soup = cures all known diseases

Sounds like a fun night

Is your ping high - this has happened to me a few times where my ping got really high.

"The infection rate is too fucking high - you expect me to eat Infected meat??" "And why the fuck cant i run indoors!!"

I like this idea, especially from a distance. If you are walking in a field for instance how would a zed know you aren't another zed? Always been a bit odd that they can tell from 200m away. Nice ideas

Multiple usernames are fun. I play as DemonGroover normally, sometimes as mad, nazi pig dog hunter Sergei Fukemov and occasionally i will wander Chernarus as a movie star annoying people with movie quotes (usually gets me shot)

Agree, the zombies were fine, just their chance of giving an infection and knocking players over needed tweaking.

FPS problems are one thing but i for one will never play on a server that spawns 1000's of antibiotics just because the mod got harder. Chuck Morris would not be proud.

With all the traffic through the cities antibiotics especially are gonna be long gone i reckon. Probably need to check places a little more isolated.

Pretty sure the SA is going to have some sort of system where items can be damaged and possibly repaired. Though how you would repair NVG's is beyond me.

Nice suggestion. Need something similar in vehicles as well as someone you pick up can rifle through your gear. An ejector seat button perhaps?

My old Grandad did used to say drinking Scotch cures all illnesses. He drank like a fish, smoked like a chimney and still lived to 81.

This sounds very interesting

One of the best things done was removing the starting gun

Every major patch has divided the community. Remember when the starting gun was removed? Oh God the outrage was unbelievable. As to the OP - totally agree. I love the fact survival is back on the cards, not just avoiding death via PvP. Sure there are a few things that need ironing out, but all in all i think this latest patch is a step in the right direction.

As i have said many times constructive feedback is OK. I don't particularly care for the kiss ass praise either. "Patch is shit", "Not fun" - how does that feedback help?

A few players here must remember the early days of DayZ when zombies were much more of a threat and you basically had to be very stealthy (sometimes crawling for ages) to get in and out of towns. It may not have been "fun" in the true sense of the word but it was different from any game out there. And this was why many of us were attracted to the mod in the first place - we wouldn't have put up with the numerous bugs otherwise. The difficulty of this mod needs to be ramped up otherwise it turns into a PvP fightfest because apart from other players there was no threat at all. So now with harder zombies, knockdowns and infection people are crying that the apocalypse isn't fun or easy anymore. Like i have said before a whole lot of players are going to be very upset when Standalone drops and they get ripped a new one every few minutes because their "mod tactics" no longer work. I am sure R4zor and the devs will look at fixing some of the issues mentioned here, but quit the frigging sob stories.

Issues are one thing but complaining that it is a shitty patch because of the things you state (all of which can be avoided btw) isn't the best way to get your point across. We don't mind constructive criticism here.

By no means are the zombies perfect but i just think that players have to adapt. Every patch for a whole year has been the same - it is released and mobs of players complain it is too hard. Shit, i remember when Rocket took away the Makarov at Respawn - you'd think it was a death sentence for everyone 2 minutes into spawning on the beach. But players adapted and it was one of the best edits to the game Rocket made. I agree that the infection probably needs to be tweaked (as i don't think an infection should kill you in an hour) but getting knocked down is realistic (again maybe it needs tweaking). We are supposed to be talking about psychopathic cannibals trying to tear you a new one. I imagine you would get knocked down quite a bit. I havent noticed any FPS issues but i am sure it is being looked at.