My Suggestions

[Gadget (DayZ) 25]

Hi,

i've only been playing for a few weeks now and after several deaths where I lasted only a few hours at most i've managed to last on my current character for 4 or 5 days so far.

Firstly, this game although in Alpha is AWESOME!!!! Well done to the developers and Rocket, you've crafted what will be a master piece and potentially earnt your company massive (and I mean massive if you get it just right) income - don't go free to play, release it as a full standalone game. I don't know how your sales of this alpha compare to 'proper sales' of ARMA2 but I suspect they will be a lot more than sales you've had prior to DayZ - I realise its hard to tell, because people having been buying ARMA2 to play just this. ARMA is weak compared with other shooters like GRAW, BF3 etc, but that's just because its such a detailed game and despite me owning it prior to DayZ I just couldt get into it. What fits much better with the engine is DayZ - the engine was made for DayZ!!! Imo your company should postpone ARMA3 and focus purely on this - it will lead to more financial success.

My suggestions so far are:-

1) Broken leg mechanic needs tweaking. New players just havent got a clue how to deal with this and its not very fair getting broken bones every hour or so resulting ultimately in repeated deaths until you find morphine etc. I think splints should be introduced that can be made from wood - perhaps they allow movement stood up at a reduced speed - anything is better than having to crawl for hours to try and find morphine.

2) Please please please allow us to have at LEAST 2 characters - perhaps both a male AND female, and allow selection when you login to a server. Having one character is all fine and well but the 'hardcore' style die and have nothing again really gets to some people - including me, to the point that I almost dont want to login anymore because I am doing so well. If I had another character it would help with the blow when I finally die (probably at the hands of other players and 99% have been hostile to me).

3) Please allow characer visual customizations - eg. face skin, body etc, and possible show player names over heads when you are very close to them. It's hard to know who's who - you just cannot tell and you cannot tell if you've suddenly got a 5th member to your 4 man team whos the intruder...

4) Please make some more of the buildings accessible - there are many many in the smaller towns and villages that you just cannot get into - it destroys the immersion of the game - it starts to feel like a game rather than the 'zombie surival sim' that it is. The very fact you can access buildings adds to the realism, even if all rooms cannot be accessed, but when you come across a building that you just cannot get into, you start thinking - I would just kick the door down or climb through a smashed window and at that point the immersion has gone.

5) Please stop zombies running through fences and walls etc - again it spoils the immersion.

6) Finally I wish there was an 'official' way to play locally or on a LAN or internet - that is isolated from the Hive so I can play solo or with friends without the distractions of player killers that have nothing better to do than go kill people.

I am not going to go into bugs, I know this is still and Alpha so just keep doing your stuff and I am sure things will be fixed by the final release ;)

[Lycake 33]

My suggestions so far are:-

1) Broken leg mechanic needs tweaking. New players just havent got a clue how to deal with this and its not very fair getting broken bones every hour or so resulting ultimately in repeated deaths until you find morphine etc. I think splints should be introduced that can be made from wood - perhaps they allow movement stood up at a reduced speed - anything is better than having to crawl for hours to try and find morphine.

2) Please please please allow us to have at LEAST 2 characters - perhaps both a male AND female, and allow selection when you login to a server. Having one character is all fine and well but the 'hardcore' style die and have nothing again really gets to some people - including me, to the point that I almost dont want to login anymore because I am doing so well. If I had another character it would help with the blow when I finally die (probably at the hands of other players and 99% have been hostile to me).

3) Please allow characer visual customizations - eg. face skin, body etc, and possible show player names over heads when you are very close to them. It's hard to know who's who - you just cannot tell and you cannot tell if you've suddenly got a 5th member to your 4 man team whos the intruder...

4) Please make some more of the buildings accessible - there are many many in the smaller towns and villages that you just cannot get into - it destroys the immersion of the game - it starts to feel like a game rather than the 'zombie surival sim' that it is. The very fact you can access buildings adds to the realism, even if all rooms cannot be accessed, but when you come across a building that you just cannot get into, you start thinking - I would just kick the door down or climb through a smashed window and at that point the immersion has gone.

5) Please stop zombies running through fences and walls etc - again it spoils the immersion.

6) Finally I wish there was an 'official' way to play locally or on a LAN or internet - that is isolated from the Hive so I can play solo or with friends without the distractions of player killers that have nothing better to do than go kill people.

2) Yip. I'd love to have 2 chars (only 2.. not more pls)

3) You can already change your face and player tags will be shown on some servers so no need for an "over head" name tag.

4) It's a "feature" of ArmA II^^

5) Yeah zombie pathing needs tweaking but it's some sort related to the ArmA II enging, too

6) No this is not how this game is intended to be. You always have te live with the fear of other players