[Standalone] Even the map

[IcyZ 295]

This has been said before, yes. But please read through.

 

First of all, I know the game is still Alpha, just released etc. I know stuff will change in the future. My suggestion is about these changes.

 

 

The problem with the first days of the mod was the camping and the firefights up north. Constantly groups and snipers keeping NWAF a graveyard, multiple firefights going on in Stary etc. Then, a small part of the community, the one that was the victim of the people up north, camped the south, bringing the fight to the only people they could kill, fresh spawns. And it stayed like that. The north became an empty place since people were coming south to kill the campers, and the loot was staying south.

 

Still reading? Wow!

 

In standalone, as you're probably aware, the loot is south, and west.

 

2x Camps in Balota, 1 north of kamenka, 1 in zelenogorsk, 1 close kabanino, 1 nwaf.

 

People loot balota and or pavlovo and server hop until they get full gear, and then stay south.

 

2 days ago, I was in NWAF for 1-2 hours in 2-3 40/40 servers. NOONE came.

Then yesterday, I did my usuall north trip, NWAF-Stary-NEAF and back. I did it for about 4 hours in a 40/40 server. I found NOONE and nobody touched any of the loot.

Today, I spent 3 hours in Berezino and NEAF, found only 1 guy with a hatchet, that even after me and my friend (both carrying customized M4 pointing at him) asked him to drop it and raise his arms, tried to swing at us. He had prety basic gear, it seemed like he just spawned there and didnt mind dying to respawn.

 

Now, when I glitched off the NWAF firestation and lost my stuff, I spawned in Balota. There were 3 guys killing fresh spawns with guns, fully geared. Killed one of them with an axe and used his Mosin to kill the other 2. A fresh spawn reached a body and got an M4, and tried to kill me, seconds after I saved him. I just ran North

 

Now, after this rant, the suggestion comes.

 

Remove the tents of Balota. Either swap it with medical loot, make it spawn only pistols/shotguns (in future patches, when these weapons are available) or remove them completely. Keep the Balota barrackses, future server hopping/combat logging measures should make it fine.

 

Remove the camp from north of kamenka/pavlovo and put it in Berezino. The city (Berezino) is great, but has no military value to attract people. I personaly don;t mind, but apparently a big part of the community minds and doesn't even go to the city.

 

The camp around Kabanino should be moved in NEAF considering that there is one right next to in, in NWAF. OR move the NWAF camp around, since there are the barrackses there.

 

Don't get me wrong, I love shooting people. But DayZ SA IMO is one of the best horror survival games(I fucked up the genre,didn't I?), it's going full PvP/KoS again, making it a bit harder will at least spread the fights across Chernarus.

Force people to leave the coast, or make them spawn around the map. Being fully geared without leaving the coast just makes everyone stay south and the rest of the map is empty.

Especialy for veterans of the mod, it's too easy to stay south and destroy everything, people that know all the nice spots on the coast can kill everything

 

 

 

Last but not least, a camp  in Vyshnoye should help as well. With Stary being a non-military camp anymore, the center of the map is empty.

 

 

 

 

Note: this comes from a bandit, and a guy that killed 30+ people in standalone so far, all geared up, and died 5 times, 3 glitched, 2 player kills while unarmed. I'm not whining or complaining, I just think that the game should not follow the mod's direction: Server hoppers-hackers-campers-PvP only south

 

 

/rant

 

 

Any kind of feedback is appreciated!

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

With the road and rail systems in the north, I am crossing my fingers in future builds they are set up to place new towns for this very reason.

[xenomta 128]

Thank you for suggesting something people have already suggested, even after you said you knew this had already been suggested.

 

I do agree with you though, but im sure Dean and the other devs have realised this and are working some way around all these problems ( combat loggers, hoppers, people staying south etc )

 

I actually think as the game releases more features people will be encouraged to go north ( get a certain type of gun for example.. ), that's what happened in the mod, once guns like the AS50 etc started spawning north on heli crashes and NWAF barracks, people started hanging out up there.

 

edit: just realized how much of a dick i sounded at the start, i apologize!

Edited December 23, 2013 by Tomdrum

[IcyZ 295]

Thank you for suggesting something people have already suggested, even after you said you knew this had already been suggested.

 

I do agree with you though, but im sure Dean and the other devs have realised this and are working some way around all these problems ( combat loggers, hoppers, people staying south etc )

 

I actually think as the game releases more features people will be encouraged to go north ( get a certain type of gun for example.. ), that's what happened in the mod, once guns like the AS50 etc started spawning north on heli crashes and NWAF barracks, people started hanging out up there.

I suggested it on this thread just to point my PoV, and also cause most of the other threads are " Game2hard, plz fix, much guns south, remove cuz i die everytiem" and similar stuff

 

IMO, I think that they have the loot so common south so people CAN find it and use it and find as many bugs as possible that involve guns etc, so it's probably a temporary solution. But as I said, my suggestion is more about the future patches, when these camps get removed (if they get removed) and where new camps should appear.

[Zarniwoop 1193]

Very nice poast. Completely agree! IMO the first step to iron out PvP so to speak, is to balance the "hotspots" on the map. As Steaky said, with all the goodies planned for the north of the map, I am optimistic.