Gah! When is ALT+F4ing out of the equation?

[vikabbs@hotmail.com 0]

Is there an ETA? I need to vent.

We had a successful run, being alive for quite a few days now, Ghillie Suit, SVD, GPS.. Spamming N/S barrack runs for NVGoggles. And when we finally get out to go to a city help some starters, one of us gets sniped in the forest. Perfectly natural, death is inevitable, this might have been the start of an awesome PvP experience. But there's no such thing among "experienced players" anymore. It's hard to get a clear shot in the woods so the bandit sniper just runs to the body carelessly receiving heavy gunfire as he goes, picks up the SVD and DCs IMMEDIATELY, disappearing into another server with the rarest weapon in the game and cheering like a schoolgirl... ...Probably.

This DCing thing has bothered me for a while. Turns the PvP in the game to DCWars, the fastest to Alt+F4 lives the longest. A group losing the SVD to an abuser makes this all that more annoying.

Has this been classified as an exploit? Can we kick and ban players over it yet at least?

[Techercizer 82]

You broke the first rule of Day Z; you got attached to your gear.

Rocket has already stated he's well aware of this issue and is working on fixing it. For now, it's an alpha, and that means things get fixed when they get fixed. If you don't want to play a broken, buggy game with incomplete or contradictory mechanics, consider leaving and coming back when the game hits beta or release.

[Jorden 63]

It'll be fixed. It's HIGHLY frowned upon by Rocket. I'm looking forward to it because it means that no one can bitch out, and must suffer the consequences of being careless.

[CrossShade 4]

SVD is not the rarest weapon, one of the rarest.

[ZedsDeadBaby 2287]

Are you serious? Holy motherfuck there is another thread on this EXACT SAME TOPIC that was started 3 minutes ago and it is right next to yours and BOTH of these are re-hashing shit that has been discussed ad nauseum in dozens of other threads.

Believe it or not, your thoughts on the topic are not so special and unique. Go add them to an existing discussion.

[vikabbs@hotmail.com 0]

God I'm totally not stopping playing Alpha. It does feel like Alpha but the concept of the game is so great I just can't stop playing.

I'll definitely need to join the group of players doing this to alleviate frustration though. Rocket did claim this was not intentional, it would be fixed, essentially making this out to be 'cheating'. Which goes back to the point, can we ban players because of it?

Edit: 3 minutes ago obviously means the two threads were being typed at roughly the same time.

[bra1n 2]

I don't know how hard it is to implement but in previous mmo's ive played, you get a 30 second period after you click logout for you to actually leave the game.

You have to remain still during this 30 seconds so you are vunrable, but you can abort the 30 seconds if you think danger is near by simply moving.

If you do abort the 30 seconds timer you obviously have to restart the timer, but you can log off immediately, but if you do then your character stays in server for the 30 seconds helpless.

Works in other games, maybe work here too.

[Herr Robert 28]

Yeah, it's very annoying when that happens. But at the same time I think it's understandable that people are disconnecting to avoid death; since almost every bandit — and many survivors — abuse it, you are going to be put to a disadvantage if you don't do it yourself.

The only way to counter it for now is to finish off anyone you are about to kill as fast as you possibly can. I killed a bandit sniper earlier today, by emptiying 7 shotgun shells into his face in rapid succession just to be on the safe side. His body started sinking through the floor, which leads me to believe he hit ALT-F4, but luckily I managed to loot his gear in time.

I have even seen unarmed spawners disconnect to avoid death — probably out of spite to deprive me of a kill. I started shooting a spawner on the firestation roof and he disconnected almost immediately, and later on I kneecapped another unarmed survivor so he got overrun by zombies. He disconnected aswell although he would have been better off dying so he could have started over.

Are you serious? Holy motherfuck there is another thread on this EXACT SAME TOPIC that was started 3 minutes ago and it is right next to yours and BOTH of these are re-hashing shit that has been discussed ad nauseum in dozens of other threads.

Believe it or not' date=' your thoughts on the topic are not so special and unique. Go add them to an existing discussion.

[/quote']

Obviously he realizes it's an alpha. There's no need to be a bitch about it.

[Techercizer 82]

Obviously he realizes it's an alpha. There's no need to be a bitch about it.

Knowledge alone is meaningless; it is only when you act upon it that it becomes real.

[Herr Robert 28]

Knowledge alone is meaningless; it is only when you act upon it that it becomes real.

So everyone should just stay quiet and keep their complaints to themselves because the "shut up, it's an alpha"-crowd gets butthurt otherwise?

[Techercizer 82]

So everyone should just stay quiet and keep their complaints to themselves because the "shut up' date=' it's an alpha"-crowd gets butthurt otherwise?

[/quote']

Better to stay quiet and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

He who speaks loudest in a crowded room only finds himself drowned out by the echoes.

[Herr Robert 28]

Better to stay quiet and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

He who speaks loudest in a crowded room only finds himself drowned out by the echoes.

I will take that as a "yes".

That comment would have a point if the OP was acting like a jerk about it, but all I see is a frustrated player making a civilized complaint about a major issue without trashtalking the mod and the dev team.

[Techercizer 82]

Notice how the first was a response to the statement you made. The second was a response to the statement you were going make.

Spooky...

[daish 11]

when logging out when in combat is out of the game

the game will die most people will quit

[eero.afheurlin@iki.fi 0]

when logging out when in combat is out of the game

the game will die most people will quit

Can't tell if sarcastic... (feel free to append to fit your favourite meme)

I for one applaud the DC:ers quitting (good riddance' date=' probably less whining too), though I'm fairly sure it will not make a significant negative impact on the viability of the community, quite the opposite I think...

Critisism: make it contructive, take it with composed calm (and think properly it through even if at first it seems not to apply to you [we're all mostly blind to our faults']).

[K69 (DayZ) 2]

I was looking for a thread on this as I've just Dc'd for the first time, but hear me out...

I joined a server and proceeded to make my way to Berezino for supplies and giggles. I spend 20/30 mins in the tree line being stupidly paranoid and checking for any zombies that make it clear that there are other players in the city. After this time, having seen no Z's at all I start to approach the hospital. No messing about, fast in with my trusty axe. I get to the street the hospital is on, and suddenly I'm under fire from the roof, I know for a fact that there was no one up there prior to me entering the city, having checked it a dozen times and the surrounding area a similar amount... Yet here I am dodging and weaving as some sever hopping shit bag, with no ability, blasts away at me. I grab some cover, kill the Z's attracted to their newly found noisy friend, patch up and take painkillers from the one shot that found it's way in to me based on the law of averages!

I'm on a hunter gatherer mission, on a 10/30 server, I'm alone and I'm not equipped for pvp, which is exactly why I spent time checking out my target before I made my way in. If I'd seen a single Z in the town I'd have moved on to somewhere else.

IMO, there is absolutely no way that person had just arrived on that roof having made his way through the city, he's basically server hopped onto the roof with the intention of killing other players. While server hopping to roof tops isn't addressed, I'll not feel too bad about Dc'ing.