Alternate Character?!?

[Vertoxis 15]

I saw someone in another thread mention something about keeping an Alt.. so he didnt always risk his perfectly geared character on silly (but risky) stuff..... (Like check pointing right outside of cherno.... and taking peoples shoes) ... eventually one of your group is gonna get sniped.. .and if thats you and you have a fully geared out guy.. it can suck ( i dont mind it.... but i do understand his point.... id rather my geared guy go down in a shootout of awesomeness then some lone sniper shooting and combat logging.. logging into an empty server... moving to a different vantage point... loggin back in to our server.. and doing it again (i dont mind dying.... but dying to an exploiter/cheater/hacker... bogus)



OK ANYWAY.... is there any possible way of having an alt... or rather 2 characters on one account  (aside from having two steam accounts?) because someone was talking about how he did it (which i assumed was .... 2 copies of the game.... 2 steam accounts)

Again this is just owning 2 characters on one account... not trying to actually PLAY 2 characters at the same time

[floj 393]

Eventually yes, wait for separate hives. For now, you need multiple steam accounts if you want to do it.

[Dchil 829]

No. 

[wild_man 4442]

I know if you change steam user name and start dayz you have new character ;)

 

when you put steam user name back to original name old character is still there wait for you :)

 

I don't know if you repeat this 2nd character stay or not I didn't try again

 

also for sure BIS or steam doing something for fix this one day

 

try this next time you die so you don't lose nothing and after explain what happen :thumbsup:  ;)

 

or buy 2nd dayz with 2nd steam account

Edited January 14, 2014 by KoS

[Beck (DayZ) 1768]

Basically, if we had alts then you would have people with 2 characters at NWA, when got shot out they would log onto the other. Just as bad as server hopping snipers, if not worse.

Edited January 14, 2014 by Beck

[matiman 166]

Just my opinion, but... if you loose this damn adrenaline peak each time when you meeting a  guy, of hear close fireshot, you're missing the whole game.

 

And this reaction is only because of your fear to loose everything you have... Perma-death is just the main stand of DayZ, don't remove you all these feelings with alternate characters ;)

Edited January 14, 2014 by matiman

[Vertoxis 15]

Just my opinion, but... if you loose this damn adrenaline peak each time when you meeting a  guy, of hear close fireshot, you're missing the whole game.

 

And this reaction is only because of your fear to loose everything you have... Perma-death is just the main stand of DayZ, don't remove you all these feelings with alternate characters ;)

Oh i would agree

But i played Hardcore Diablo 2 (only hardcore)

EvE online

and everquest on Ralloz Zek (Free for all pvp, lootable corpse like dayz)

in all of those games i had alts......and on the main OR the alt... i freaked out when i came close to death

BUUUUT all of those games have a MUCH MUCH steeper gearing curve..... so i guess you are correct... 

In those games.. you die.. you could lose anywhere from 1 hour to months of work

Again i wasnt trying to suggest it or ruin it...... i was just wondering what the other person was talking about with alt characters and "Hives"

lol i guess this game is a little "Softer" then a game like EvE ........ 

everytime i die in Day Z i get a really good laugh out of it... be it insta snipe death.. invis zombie (the only thing i will combat log to... i will NOT die to glitched AI... id rather be insta killed by a headshot from a sniper... then die to a zombie i had NO chance of fighting)

or the dreaded ladders lolol

but in Eve... if i got blown up... i was mad... but then again that was 3 months of gearing up (with more months to go.... that is now gone) 

Edited January 14, 2014 by Vertoxis

[Awruk 216]

Basically, if we had alts then you would have people with 2 characters at NWA, when got shot out they would log onto the other. Just as bad as server hopping snipers, if not worse.

Lol that's still possible. You just need 2 separate Steam accounts.

[hookhead 0]

Eventually yes, wait for separate hives. For now, you need multiple steam accounts if you want to do it.

noob question here but I keep hearing people talking about hives can someone explain what a hive is??

[Liege 70]

I wouldn't mind 2 characters, as long as they could never play on the same servers. so I think you'll have to wait for private hives.

 

I'd like one for playing by myself and another for when i play with mates, so that I don't have to spend 30 minutes trying to find them again, EVERYTIME we play.

[Baarn 53]

but in Eve... if i got blown up... i was mad... but then again that was 3 months of gearing up (with more months to go.... that is now gone) 

 

"Never fly what you can't afford to lose." Told that a lot of people who sent me fanmail after I blew up their mission ships in lowsec.

 

I am really happy that I finally discovered DayZ, never thought there were enough people who like the idea of permadeath in shooters.