Should we all start off with a pistol in Dayz Standalone?

[Weedz 1105]

Anyone who actually played in the old Mod days, not the people who lie and say there was way less KoS because they clearly weren't actually playing then, will tell you exactly why starting with a gun is TURRUBLE.

 

 

 

Fists are weapons, I'm content

 

And this. You already start with 2 weapons. I call mine Jack and Hammer.

Edited April 3, 2014 by Weedz

[TheWizard14 372]

Anyone who actually played in the old Mod days, not the people who lie and say there was way less KoS because they clearly weren't actually playing then, will tell you exactly why starting with a gun is TURRUBLE.

 

 

 

 

And this. You already start with 2 weapons. I call mine Jack and Hammer.

 

I always wondered what happened to the people who actually played the mod. Now it just seems flooded with people from the Standalone who pretend as you said.

[Weyland Yutani (DayZ) 1159]

Played the Arma 2 dayz mod recently and found a server where you start with a gun. Should the SA do the same?

 

That was a private server. To answer your question...no. Start with nothing, zero, zilch.

Edited April 3, 2014 by Weyland Yutani

[Katana67 2907]

Nah, starting out unarmed makes getting a weapon all the sweeter.

 

I never really had an issue with spawning with a Makarov in the vanilla mod, but it wasn't really that essential. I did have a HUGE issue with paying/"donating" for kits or starting with a full loadout. I hope that never touches DayZ ever again.

 

But things have changed, and will continue to change when they actually can get around to balancing the game later on. So that one won't be wholly defenseless when one spawns unarmed with zombies about (meaning one can actually be stealth to avoid them, not a zombie-basher with fists of steel).

Edited April 3, 2014 by Katana67

[Hetstaine 10852]

I always wondered what happened to the people who actually played the mod. Now it just seems flooded with people from the Standalone who pretend as you said.

 Plenty of us are still here..all of the mods for starters go back to the beginning times when the starter Mak created beach wars. Getting off the beach was harder sometimes than surviving in Elektro.

[dvsilverwing 241]

No. Rather, they should reduce the spawn rate of firearms on coastal cities and replace them with melee spawns, then improve upon the melee system.

Edited April 3, 2014 by dvsilverwing

[Katana67 2907]

No. Rather, they should reduce the spawn rate of firearms on coastal cities and replace them with melee spawns, then improve upon the melee system.

 

Agreed. I also suspect that they'll drastically increase zombie counts along the coast so that scampering around the cities unarmed would be near suicide.

 

Still not sure what possessed them to beef up Balota so much. Sort of silly having military spawns so close to the coast.

[P0rkchop 31]

Now that I know where to look, it really doesn't take "long" to loot up. If I'm really having a hard time I'll just join a less pop world and go from town to town there.

 

You can be decently equipped in 1-2 hours.

 

Finding some high lvl stuff can be rare however such as LRS, or ACOG for M4

Edited April 3, 2014 by P0rkchop

[RedDogMT 41]

No pistol. No backpack. No flashlight. Maybe a random small item.

[TheHuntsMan87 194]

I personally think you should start of with a SKS, PU scope and 60 rounds, full med kit, assault vest and a can of beans

 

 

this is a joke by the way

[z0mbi3jesus 4]

Played the Arma 2 dayz mod recently and found a server where you start with a gun. Should the SA do the same?

No. -_-

[Siberian (DayZ) 527]

theres already WAYYYYY to much KoS already..

 

add in guns at spawn and that number will sky rocket to make this nothing more the Quake or any other dam FPs game.

 

if anything guns need to be reeled way back...

[HIHBGaming 14]

Nothing more than a few basic items much like we do now. Absolutely no guns at spawn! 

[pacific_coast 632]

Played the Arma 2 dayz mod recently and found a server where you start with a gun. Should the SA do the same?

 

vanilla removed pistol spawning for a reason.

a very good reason.

 

think normandy levels of beach combat.

[The_Monk 320]

And this. You already start with 2 weapons. I call mine Jack and Hammer.

 

[Weedz 1105]

Well yeah. What the hell you think I was talking about? I'm not gonna punch people with my non-dominant hand when I can give them a right hook and then cock-slap them.

 

 

 

I never really had an issue with spawning with a Makarov in the vanilla mod, but it wasn't really that essential.

If you played in the spawn with revolver days you would have a HUGE problem with spawning with guns. PM takes like 15 body shots to kill someone. The revolver used to take like 3. You never made it 20M past where you spawned before being in a firefight with at least 4 people. 4 of those 4 people usually didn't survive the fight.

Edited April 3, 2014 by Weedz

[pilgrim* 3514]

How about a landing craft with one of those military Humvees in it with a couple of Mod 0's on the roof - plenty of food, drink, ammo,

 

and a CAN OPENER

 

And can I look like John Wayne out of The Longest Day too please, and say stupid things ?

 

.. like I'm doing now

 

thanx

[scriptfactory 620]

For me it really takes out the survival aspect and basically says "This game is more focused on pvp than survival". 

 

What leads you to believe this isn't already the case?

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

What leads you to believe this isn't already the case?

Because it's an incomplete game  <_<

[pacific_coast 632]

considering we "washed ashore" dehydrated hungry wet and cold...

 

we should spawn in soaking clothes holding nothing.

[The_Monk 320]

considering we "washed ashore" dehydrated hungry wet and cold...

 

we should spawn in soaking clothes holding nothing.

 

The clothes should also be damaged. Nothing says "just washed up with no memory" like pristine clothes.

[pacific_coast 632]

The clothes should also be damaged. Nothing says "just washed up with no memory" like pristine clothes.

too true.

 

the old shakiness and screen blur and the character coughing up seawater, fading in and out, spawning in the water or flat washed up on the beach...

 

i never got why we keep standing there pristine spawned

like we were beamed down to the beach from the enterprise

[The_Monk 320]

too true.

 

the old shakiness and screen blur and the character coughing up seawater, fading in and out, spawning in the water or flat washed up on the beach...

 

i never got why we keep standing there pristine spawned

like we were beamed down to the beach from the enterprise

 

I do see an awful lot of fresh spawns with red shirts...

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

i never got why we keep standing there pristine spawned

Are you seriously asking this?  There is enough rage on the forums about having to find food right away, zombies and kos.  Last thing we need is people bitching about having to find pristine clothing.

[pacific_coast 632]

I do see an awful lot of fresh spawns with red shirts...

lol

i switched my default shirt to red for this reason

red shirt black jeans

no first name