Does murder face increased negativity recently?

[Element47 2481]

so...

 

i haz returneth from ze holidays. since i finally managed to purchase the SA after the financial clusterfuck called christmas season, i also spend more time here on the forums again. my impression so far: game is great, but did the "Stop KoS" threads just explode?

 

is there a raised awareness regarding murderous playstyles?

do we have more players again who do not follow the path of the sociopath?

 

i mean, im not complaining. higher diversity of the player base is great, and since high-pop vanila mod servers often resulted in spawn-kill-die-respawn loops, having more players who actually care about their character is wonderful. the kill-die-respawn mentality was horrible for the medic business..

 

so, has there really been a shift in the community, maybe through influx of new players? whats your thoughts and experiences so far

 

 

important notice: please discuss percieved change in community and player base towards KoS playstyle, do not discuss pros and cons of the playstyle itself, we have enough threads discussing this already

[wild_man 4442]

more guys playing after SA release ;)
 
balota putting top end gear on coast :o
 
new spawn have fist now for attack and defend 
 
too many guys with gear combat log when they see player so gear squads now staying close to coast for find fresh spawn who don't log have nothing for lose they steal blood/force feed rotten fruits etc
 
is recipe for bloodbath

point is everyone in same area + military loots + fresh spawn attacking armed guys x bigger player base + combat log bitches = more murder also more complain of murder :thumbsup:  ;)

[kichilron 8550]

Welcome back my long lost German companion.

 

 

do we have more players again who do not follow the path of the sociopath?

 

 

There's just more players again, fullstop. A lot of new players have been flooding in, most of which are on their first post and recently been killed by someone in Elektro with a fancy Mosin.

 

I myself visited Elektro to pickup Steak, handcuff him and do naughty things with him. But I really did regret it, as all you hear in and around Elektro is 5-10 Mosin's going off.

 

People are trying to snipe it again and fail even more now, as the Mosin is completely unpredictable.

 

A lot of new players also don't know what the game is all about, maybe just take a break from other shooters and expect to murder people as quickly as they do on Battlefield and play for those reasons. I'm not here to judge, nor am I going to get into this any further, but it will always be like that when more players come in.

 

Maybe they just come to kill, maybe they're afraid to lose their shit - there's many reasons to KoS - and the new players haven't suffered as much as we did to fully understand the system of DayZ. :)

[hogscraper 328]

OP is spot on that these threads have gone nuclear. KOS is also right that the devs basically set up a bloodbath in the making the way they released the SA and how they built the loot centers. I definitely think they have fixed this somewhat by moving all the spawns to the East coast but that might have only put a small dip in it. Right now there's nothing to do in the SA except gear up and kill. There aren't even enough zombies for all the bullets that spawn so players are using those bullets on the only other targets they find.

 

A lot of new players come into the game expecting a zombie survival game and instead find an asshole surviving game. The same guy who server hopped for two minutes now acts like he must murder everyone in sight to protect his 'precious', but actually laying everywhere, gear. The guys who aren't exploiting are finding themselves shot for no reason so many of them take the shoot first play style. The SA has spiraled out of control pretty quickly and I'm not sure there is an immediate fix. Each new player that comes in will likely head to the forums to complain about it. People have the perception that they are coming into a video game version of The Walking Dead and instead find themselves in The Road. The biggest fix right now would be working out the code to get thousands of zombies into Chernarus. Give people reasons to fear firing off their guns in town and turn down the spawn of guns.

[Hetstaine 10852]

Forums sort of exploded with the influx of new blood..it'll settle down again and we can all go back to hassling Inception ;)