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You know them damn bandits be eying up that guitar from a mile away. Lol Great idea though man.

exactly,maybe if you have a guitar but dont have a gun,maybe it will win someone over wether to kill you or not

A feature i would like in dayz is for to just stop and relax and play a guitar or light a cigeratte or drink a can of beer,these could bring new situtations to dayz.

Nope...Thats Jimmi playing air guitar. :D

I would like to see zombies being smashed by a guitar melee weapon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMfgJo1I010 I actually don't mind the idea completely, but I'm 100% sure people would find a way to make it annoying and obnoxious. Maybe put a guitar and record a few basic chord progressions, so we can chose a pre-recorded acoustic song by scrolling the mouse wheel. Like... play blues play country play rnr play pop something like that. And then people could make up their own songs and sing them into the mic, maybe tell their own story in a country style ghost song, like in the video.

A simple acoustic one would be fine in my opinion. But I'm not sure about the system your proposing. There's a lot more to music than the chords you play. What I'm trying to say is that your system is really limiting the possibilities and the songs that can be made with it. What they could do is add a certain amount of songs to the game, and when you activate the guitar it plays a random one, but for it to play, you need to press specific keys when it is said for you to press them, not necessarily like in Guitar Hero, but a similar concept. This would allow to have actual nice songs and involve player interaction.

i myself play electric guitar aswell but since electricity doesnt work anymore a acoustic guitar would be better, i was thinking of just playing the standard chords like c,d,g,f,a,e, maybe am aswell??

love it, i want my guitar tho not a generic acoustic. of course finding the right strings would be an issue.

Here is a suggestion, play on real guitar into your microphone.

Name says it all, a acoustic guitar that when equiping can be used to play, you can play chords with the keyboard for example: chord c is played with the c key EDIT: Camping is boring without ghost stories and playing a guitar at a campfire

There should be royalty free music available all over the internet... even on youtube. That said, I had a musician friend of mine make my intro music and it works out pretty well. I have a few friends who sing and play guitar also, so I am going to hit them up for some cover music. I'm not sure if cover-music is allowed, or how the copy rights work on that. I'll have to look into it. Either way, I watched one of your videos and looks like you're on the right track. I don't really appreciate the bandity behavior, but at least you have some good action.

Probably jamming my W button down, running towards NW airfield, and learning how to play a song on guitar on the journey there and back. I'd recommend it to anyone who plays, even just to practice scales etc!

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"Kiiiilled a man for 'is beans. Burnt his body in thiiis very fire." then i shoot the guitar player, take his guitar, and play some Johny Cash.

only if they add in a functional guitar, hey we're getting camp fires we gotta have some music right? if you ain't living a little what's the point in surviving?! *edit* oh and SMORES, we must have SMORES!!!!

thought this would make for an interesting backpack

You serve us the deer BBQ, I bring the booze. When playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R I totally loved sitting next to the dudes on the campfire with the guitar while having a short break and smoke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=By1b2GLzDUA#t=21

Yes I play the guitar too.... And when I feel blue

See, I'm far from saying that this game should turn into some kind of carebear online, if you ask me, it could become a tad harder even (less ammo, more zombies ...but it's alpha, time will tell how this turns out). My only point is: that running around in endgame gear, being able to provide you with everything on your own and not having to be afraid of any consequences of any kind is nor hard, neither challenging. Also: I'm a social player and I want to be able to interact with people, but despite my actual attitude gamewise I've reached a point that I'm like "fuck it, I shot first just so I don't lose gear to someone else" ...it's not that dramatic atm as you keep losing gear to bugs and glitches all the time, but I'm afraid if there wont be any fix of any kind, DayZ -at least at the beginning- will just turn into another shooter like CoD with people running around trying to act badass. To repeat myself: in a RL situation you wouldn't waste ammo on someone you robbed, you would be forced to interact with people to either trade, get medical help or get some update on what's going on in the area or any other area you might plan heading to and let's be honest, even the most badass human being at some point would want to have any kind of social interaction with other humans, be it, just travelling together for some time or simply joining some group sitting around some fireplace, playing guitar, having some booze and exchange rumors and personal stories (unless you find a volleyball in some abandoned house, give him a name and have nice conversations with him). Speaking of the rumors and people giving updates on area statuses: maybe some areas could get flooded with zombies at some point but not on a regular pattern and not predictable, people would have to work together to clean the area from the zombies aka talk with each other, organize resistance, cooperate and kill them all, rather than shooting anyone you come across (and who might have critical information for you about you running into your certain death if you keep heading in this very direction) I know a lot will change once more content is implemented but still: given the fact server hopping for looting, battle logging and 3rd party voice communication will (most likely) still exist and people always will find ways to get some kind of "unfair" advantage over other players it imho still would be too easy for those who decide to go rampage. You could harass a whole server (either alone or with a small squad) without any consequences as you just would hop to another "world" if the odds will turn against you...and this - imho - is not challenging at all, nor has anything to do with realism. updated suggestion: I now realize that some indicator on the head definitely is the wrong approach, but the idea ´(posted by Alcon) of someone literally having blood on his hands (cloths) after some hostile encounter with another human being (not zombies, given the fact they are dead run around with massive rotten wounds already and most likely wouldn't have any blood left in their body) would be a good start. Make this blood drenched clothing permanent, but add something like soap and washing boards (also could get used for cleaning bandages if you don't have desinfect spray before applying them so you don't get infections) so people can clean up their stuff if they don't have the chance to change their clothing... It would people take X slots in their inventory + would have little (!) impact on the equipments quality status and to clean it up they either would have to go to some pond or use their water for it (concequences). Further, if you find someone who got clothing drenched with blood and/ or is actually carrying around soap and washing board or is cleaning up his clothing in a pond you still can't be sure but odds are high he is a bandit looking for some trouble....or a hero helping someone out or just a "neutral" who had to defend himself. /edit: typos and punctuation

On that note (ha! more puns!) there used to be a guy I would play alongside with on the mod that whenever we used a campfire at night he would feed in acoustic guitar folk music "for the mood". God I hated it. I swear I nearly shot him on several occasions.

EVERYTIME? REALLY? And you get to that conclusion by watching ONE video? You're actually right, but just by chance :-) I (personally) don't ever want to loose my loot. Fear? Competitiveness? Plain normal gameplay? Label it however you want, it's still a valid gameplay style in an OPEN ENDED game. So your endgame would be a 40 player server with all players just getting along, building barricades, shooting zombies, accumulating loot and singing kumbaya? What if it showed a credits roll after all that? that would be awesome... That being said, I totally understand you or any other players/groups playing that way and actually appreciate it very much that you are willing to play that role on this FICTIONAL apocalypse. I'll still try to shoot you for your beans though ;-) FACT is there are no fresh spawns on the video. All 3 players were reasonably well geared and armed. Also, the second guy definitely didn't know he was hiding upstairs, that's why he had the upper-hand and used it to his advantage. Still don't see any problems with that. I completely agree. You should't EVER trust him :-) EDIT: We want to hear you playing the guitar!

Just to let you guys know(not that you don't know already ) anyone who has a mentality to shoot on sight EVERYTIME unprovoked like this guy(original poster) , they are usually just afraid of losing their loot. Remember this is an apocalypse but people who use that as an excuse to KOS are missing the point of this game .... It's to survive and rebuild society ( the rebuilding part of course coming when barricades / building comes In). And for those who say you can only survive by KOSing and looking out for yourself I'm going to upload my adventures in a week or so, so I can show you how easy it is if you have the right mind set to stay alive for dayz at a time while respecting Human life haha . I would love to find the op and any other brutal bandits like this so I can do what you do to fresh spawns all day eer day : shoot them when they are least expecting it . I mean cmon the second guy didnt even know you (op) was hiding in the upstairs bedroom . I'm not complaining though I realize there has to be a good bit of bandits like this in the game to balance out all of us neutrals / heroes , I mean other wise the game would be boring for good guys , cuz we don't force feed or make others get naked haha the only thing I do to torture prisoners of war is play guitar to them through the direct chat . Edit : at least original poster is a respectful bandit !

Well, without getting too fancy, a lot of pieces for guitar and harmonica would be public domain at this point, though I'm not sure Western folk music makes much sense in...wherever the hell Chernarus is. That doesn't bug me, but I'm not a roleplayer, at least not in that sense. Simple percussion (drumming the nearest surface with your hands, feet, or a pen) would just be a cool animation to have in general. If instruments ever did make it in (which is a ginormous IF), it would be a simple matter of ensuring that all of the animations and sounds have the same number of beats per minute. Boomboxes and mp3 players (headphones) aren't terrible ideas (aside from the fact that it would usually result in your own death), but I highly doubt they'd really be able to get around all of the copyright issues, even if it's "upload your own." We've all seen how well that does and yet doesn't work for YouTube. They get away with it by making music videos or lyrics videos, and even then all it takes is a request to shut a video down. Companies don't like legal grey areas, and Bohemia's probably no different. Though the song from this video should make it in the game, if possible:

Should they copy LOTRO where you can play using your keyboard... "frets on fire"(guitar hero ripoff with keyboard) anyone?