My thoughts about DayZ 1.7.1.x (No whining)

[Nils (DayZ) 0]

Hey my name is Nils,

Im not a DayZ Veteran but im playing it intensively since 2Weeks now.

Since most of the threads are "OMG THESE NEW PATCHES BROKE DAYZ ,GIVE US OUR WEAPONS BACK, I ONLY GET SPAWN KILLED etc". I Decided to open my own Thread and tell the dev´s and the community what my current thoughts about Dayz are. Up front i apologies for my moderate englisch skills, im from Germany and it´s my first "feedback" in englisch and propably my first of all time.

So first off all, I love that rocket adds more and more realstic feeling into the game like, starting with painkillers,bandage and a flashlight. These are items EVERY neighborhood have. Also during a apocalypse Weapons are the first things that get taken or hidden, weapon shops ´ll get looted and so on. So its fine for me not starting with a weapon. BUT if your not able to sneak past zombies and get the food you need in markets , appartements and so on, it will get ridiculous and the atmosphere vanishes because you know they´ll see you anyway, so you just run like a coward into the shop and keep running ( In a movie you would be the first one who dies, and not the black one. (no racial))

The melee weapon update brings even more realism to the game and i like it, IF there werent that "ammo for swinging an axe" are u serious ? i mean okay you cant swing an axe 24/7 you go out of breath and you get slower each swing, but why not lose Thirst or Hunger each swing you make ?

A firearm would be the LAST thing i would use if i were in a town full of zombies so why not raise the radius a zombie gets attracted by a gun shot instead of walking like KingKong, so ur footstep attracts more zombies then a gunshot.

At last a few suggestions by my watch.

It would be helpfull and more realistic that, if you sneak near a wall, the zombies will see you harder.

Also why not adding a "Zombie bite infection", like if you get hit by a zombie its a 30% chance that you get infected. But there´s a antidote that you gotta take/find every 3Hours or so, if not you turn undead and a zombie spawns at your location and if you dont tell your group mates they might get surprised and get infected too.

last but not least what you guys think about barricading doors ? And cover up windows so the zeds cant see you through windows.

It gets pretty late i´ll update the thread as soon i get more ideas.

Why dont you tell me ur opinions ?

I hope you can read through my text without getting eye cancer.

best regards Nils :)

[Gman (DayZ) 9]

Some things that irritate me with this patch

Finding zeds inside of buildings. When you have no weapon, and you go into a building with zeds inside, there isn't much you can do... A lot of the times you get trapped and cant move...which means you die. Please, if a player avoids zeds inside buildings, make them walk out.

No morphine on start. Zeds have a random chance to break your bone it seems. If you get hit once on spawn and break a bone, your forced to crawl a long way to find morphine...its really not a fun mechanic.

[amov1ngtarget 1]

If that is your first post in English, then I think you did very well. As for your ideas I personally think some of them would be fun and are good suggestions, but I haven't played for that long so it could just be me. So are you trying to suggest that zombies should have a harder time hearing/seeing you but in return guns should be very rare?

[Nils (DayZ) 0]

Jeah i agree with ur statement, but there always could be a zombie inside a room.

1 ! maybe 2 but not 5-9 in a single house :)

I nearly forgot, what about that "Fast zig zag running thing" why dont you do it the "Romero way" More zombies but slower looks for me that the Walking animation is just fine.

@amov1ngtarget

Thank you i appreciate it :)

And yes thats exactly my thought about that sneaking stuff

[DemonGroover 8836]

The "zombies" are infected people, not dead - think 28 days later - and apparently we are supposed to be immune from the virus. As for spawning i buidlings - that should be a random chance.

[Gman (DayZ) 9]

I think the infected in the buildings are from people escaping them, but maybe they do spawn. I have seen a lot of buildings with infected in them. More than there should be