Who Wants to Hear a Lovely Combat Logging Story... This is a problem, hopefully it will be addressed.

[PabloFajita 11]

To start off, I know this is Alpha and all the lovely things that come with it. But I really do enjoy this game, aside from the horrid optimization at the moment. I had never played the Mod, was tempted a few times but the base game wasn't really my type of game.

 

Anyhoo...

 

So I'm outside Elektro(sp?), I got an M4 and a few mags(which took me forever to find since I avoided military camps since I play solo). I start running East since I'd never gone up that coast yet.

 

Just jogging along the road figuring if I ran into anyone they'd be fresh spawns, which I usually ignore unless they start trying to Holyfield me...

 

Next thing I know gunshots go crazy, I go prone off the side of the road in some brush, and I see a guy in a bright yellow raincoat firing at me, he's just standing up in the middle of the road.

 

I light him up and he goes down...

 

Then more shots, I see what I assume are his two buddies running up from the side, they're fully decked out in Military gear M4's, assault vests, yadda yadda yadda.

 

One stands in the middle of the road next to his buddy's corpse and I take him down with a few shots...

 

The last guy runs off to the side behind a rock...

 

I start crawling in the brush to flank him, I see him start crouching towards the opposite way...

 

He hits me a few times, I start bleeding, I crawl behind a tree and bandage...

 

He then stands up thinking I'm dead...

 

I fire a few shots and hit him... I see blood.

 

THEN BOOM...

 

Dissappears...

 

Combat logged like a champ...

 

The screen is pretty white for me... So I crawl into a brush and start wolfing down food to get the healing going.

 

The whole time I'm positioned to where I he logged off waiting for him to pop back in, thinking I'm not ready for those shenanagins...

Anyhoo...

 

5minutes later I figure... Meh they prolly moved to another server.

 

So I move up to his buddies corpses to loot... Ones bleeding, not sure if he was dead or unconcious or w/e.

 

Literally the moment I start looking through his corpse...

 

The one guy insta pops in the general vicinity of where he logged and I hear the reload sound you get when you log in...

 

Before I can close the loot screen and get my weapon up... I'm dead, I was so low to begin with.

 

So ya... That combat logging crap, coupled with his buddies being able to hear me and let him know when I'm on top of them.

 

Kinda frustrating.. I had gone 3 days with that guy I was playing without dying, never server hopped or combat logged myself, playing completely solo and 100% straight.

 

Sorry... Had to vent. Really pissed at the moment.

 

And again, yes I know it's Alpha :)

Edited January 2, 2014 by PabloFajita

[PabloFajita 11]

WOW... Quick addition to my thread.

 

Spawned a new character...

 

Within 30 seconds I ran into another fresh spawn who decided to start attempting to knock me out for my amazing black T-Shirt...

 

I crack him in the butt I think... Which apparently popped a blood vessel in his ass I guess. Cause he's pouring blood...

 

I'm moments away from celebrating my much deserved Heavyweight Title Belt...

 

BOOM...

 

Dude Vanishes...

 

He freaking logs...

 

SERIOUSLY???

 

People are combat logging as a fresh spawn now?

Edited January 2, 2014 by PabloFajita

[Creeder (DayZ) 0]

Yeah, I've had similar stuff happen. I was with my buddy in the ATC tower at Balota airfield, we had some nice gear. I was the sniper (mosin with PU scope) and saw a group of 3 players down by the barracks. They were being very careless, in my opinion, scuttling around with their high-vis backpacks. I started firing and took one of them out, the other two took cover. They tried to locate me, but every time they popped their heads out, I fired at them. Eventually, they combat logged (grumble grumble) I was not too upset though, since I had shot one of them. After a while, my buddy went down to the end of the hangars to check for gear...

 

...I heard someone coming up the ladder. A newspawn, the guy I had killed form the group of 3, had server hopped to safely get to the ATC building to come and find me. He punched me to death (I know, that's pretty terrible on my part, but I had a mosin at close range and I was panicking).

 

I was so angry that people had abused the system out of spite. Yes, something must be done, but I have no idea what (apart from playing on a private hive and getting people banned for that sort of behaviour).

 

Ugh.

[liquidcactus 719]

haha funny kids they are.. I havent had anything this bad happen yet.. but then again I pretty much avoid everyone as much as possible