SquirrelGott

The minute(1-3 minutes) long wait is rediculous... Waiting for loading, waiting for recieving, waiting for character to create, waiting for hour glass... if there were any other feature of REALLY BAD game design--I don't know what it would be. If this is what I can expct the stand alone to be like, you've lost a customer.

We should be able to right click on an ammunition clip and select to combine with another clip of the same when there is little ammunition left, this way you can reload to a full clip and then later take the bullets out of the other clips and put them into another clip when it has enough room in it.

Agreed, this is a great idea.

I like the diary idea, I was also thinking of this when I first started playing. The death-match aspect of Dayz makes this pointless however, most seem to play just to kill others.

[FIX] When you die you have to purchase a new CD key. Done, no more pointless killing, I fixed your problem. You can have a menu come up to meet with others and become friends with them by selecting “Add Friend” (to a list of friends, their HUD NamePlate will be green, unknown people will be orange, zombies red, and bandits yellow), if you have friendly fire then you have 24hours to get them to the hospital or medical supplies back to them for help. That way you don’t lose your CD key from friendly fire. If someone adds you as a friend and then they kill you, you take them off your friends list and the next time they join a server their CD is void/banned… however that works with servers. Or instead they simply get banned from the server. I thought Dayz was about Zombies? It has quickly turned into another pvp fps game. [Key Idea] only applies to those have murdered say more than 10 times or so. Mass murderers. [Or] If you keep killing people your screen turns grey to the point of black and white high contrast, your character starts going crazy and becomes delusional and starts seeing things which aren't actually there, like random zombies running at them (other players don't see this) which is just a skin model animated running towards them but disappears... imitate paranoia. The wavy heat waves from the field of vision is amplified 100-500%. Or like in Dear Esther with how they made the faded ghosts, so that on the sides of the screen black figures appear but when you look at them directly they fade to transparent. Player starts at 100% color First kill goes to 90% color Then second kill 50% color Third 10% color 4th Black and white only high contrast. 5 kills shaky black and white with audio chills from the player avatar. The humanity scale could be used to redeem color (only means) on the screen from murders, giving people steak, driving them places etc.

I have played for over a month now and have killed no one, I am the altruist type.

Like with many zombie movies, why not spawn at the nearest hospital than always at the beach. That way it isn't as much of a loss because at least you are nearer to your stuff. This will even out gameplay a bit so that not everyone is always at cherno or elektro.

I like the camping idea, wake up in a random tent in the forest. with a camp fire out.

A back story can be made up from anything, it doesn't matter where you are in the game because no matter what you magically pop into the server...

Exactly! I'm not saying make it $24 for every CD key, just a dollar or a quarter like they used to do it with arcade machines. But actually money really gets to the minds of people. The loss is REAL. Murderers have to always be on the run, and everyone is on the lookout for them. (server start screen(tag name)?) Of course there will be people who snipe for the fun of it, but then make sniper ammo hard to come by. The whole point of "humanity" is to discourage random killing but it doesn't work.

Some great ideas here. For a mockup these are great.

Please allow Alt+F4, Task Manager END TASK does the same thing. So getting rid of Alt+F4 was a wasted effort. This helps against hackers, which has happened 6 times to me so far in the last 2 weeks.

Which is why the issue of random killing needs to be addressed, and for all of you arguing that this game is about total freedom, that the zombies are only in the back-drop. You couldn't be more incorrect. The fact that "Bandit," "Murders," "Humanity" are labeled in the HUD debugger menu (that there was a tried sort of penalty) is proof of intent that this game is NOT about random killing it has been hijacked by players just senselessly killing each other, and Rocket hasn't yet figured out a reasonable way to address this issue.

Thank you :)

Why don't you ask the producers of so many zombie movies how the player wakes up in a hospital. How do you explain someone magically appearing on the coast?

So this doesn't already happen at beaches... it does.

And zombies that don't pass through doors, wirefences, tank crosses... etc. ability to zoom out on GPS, and we should be able to combine multiple clips which have little ammunition in them. The SD M4 and M9 SD should be able to shoot normal ammunition, it is easy to fix, just allow only zombies to be not able to hear it like the SD Stanag in m4 guns. Players can hear it but it is silent to zombies.

If you want to leave a server and not die... just End Task in task manager.

Interesting, what if they were raptors that meowed and would run to you to rub up against your leg? And then you could ride it and fight other players while riding raptors...

True but coop with friends in a survival game is the fun aspect, playing alone is boring.

Agreed.

I second this, if there were Velociraptors instead of zombies I wouldn't mind the random killing. My point is to not pretend to be a zombie game if the game is truly about randomly killing people... because currently that is what this game is about. When players are more of a threat than zombies, the game ceases to be about zombies.

This happened Wednesday August 22, 2012 at 3ish pm DST (UTC/GMT +2hours). DE 849 (85.114.153.241:10400) YouTube FRAPS evidence Audio Enhanced ;) I always play with task manager open to I can easily End Task. Everyone teleported to the same location, I closed arma before I could die.