Personal thoughts on patch 1.7.1+

[general_elmo@yahoo.com 1]

This is just a topic about my own opinions on the latest hotfix's. What i feel is wrong, what i feel is right and id like to hear everyone elses opinions too. I would like to see people respecting my opinion as much as i respect theres.

Hokey so when i read the 1.7.1 and its hotfix patch notes i got super excited about all of them.

Buffed zombies - I was on a character that was 17 days alive and i was well kitted out, so zombies wernt a problem at all. More if an inconvenience. Playing with the patch for a while i was even more excited. Finally zombies posed a real threat, i nearly died a few times just scavenging for food. Medical supplies started to dwindle and so did my health so i realised i had to change up my tactics and only play with my friends because solo was a real struggle. Even with an m16 acog or M4SD.

No weapon on Spawn - This one made me laugh alot.. in some ways i really wanted to die to test it out and have some fun. Hell i LOVE the pvp in this game, i kill everyone on sight who isnt from my clan but lets face it no one wants to get spawn killed, especially by someone else whos just spawned aswell. My cockiness grew and death came swiftly, finally i get a chance to test it. Since then ive died about 10 times and cant find a single weapon :( I zombie trained my way into elektro and just when i thought i managed to loose the zombie train id get spotted by another zed. However after running through 3 buildings, the train station, the pud, the office block, the super market and a fire station, i didnt spot a single weapon.. just a whole lotta tin cans.. was very tempted to start picking them up and throwing them at the zeds.

Conclusion - Altho i realy love both of these features, im not sure its possible to have both at once without making the game so very very hard. For anyone who thinks im wrong i challenge you to try it, and then put yourself back to when you first started playing the game and u didnt know anything about the zombie AI works, where to find weapons, what weapons are good or bad etc.. Its very hard even for someone who knows how to play the game.

My own Ideas - Something i would like to see would be to keep the zombies as they are for the northern half of the map.. but for the southern half.. have many many many MANY more zombies.. but only alow them to walk, Resident Evil style. So you end up with huge zombie hordes which no one person could possibly carry the ammo to slay leaving the only option being to evade them. Keep the no weapon at spawn and all the other zombie AI like being able to loose them and have them search for you.

Another thing i would love to see is a custom map just for DayZ. I know this would be far too much work for rocket alone but possibly a fan community project? A mostly urban map with city streets, shopping malls, suburban areas, sewers, multi story car parks etc.. all the lovely's a concrete jungle provides. No 'safe' forests to hide from zombies :D

So what does everyone else think about they newest update and if you agree it has a few problems, what is your solotion? Lets assume a rollback / revert is out of the question and we can only move forwards :)

[Wüstenfuchs (DayZ) 105]

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