Concerned about the state of the game

[Magisk 2]

First of all, I love this game. Played it for a while and I will continue to do so. However I do have a couple concerns on how the game has been developing the last few weeks.

At first when a large percentage of the playerbase didnt know where to obtain weapons easily, the game felt more balanced. However now it has sortof taken a turn for the worse unfortuantly.

I mean this in the most respectfull way possible, but the game has become a "shooter game with the occasional picnic"

This is very sad and I hope something is done ASAP, if not it might be to late.. As I understand longterm DayZ will be a comercial product and having the "exitment" toned down in the game closer to that point will be a lot harder to justify business wise. So for the love of imaginary being, please balance the game properbly..

----- Make guns and ammo waaayyyyy harder to find! ----

----- Make food and water also harder to find ----

I cant stress how important this is, it really has to be done asap! The only downside would be for those who want to play for 10-15min stock up on weapons and items and bandit. This has kinda become the main way to play with the current balance. With these changes people will instead be less inlcined to shoot another player, players will be more willing to pair up with others who have guns. in short, guns become more a deffensive thing than a license to kill everyone.

Another additional suggestion:

----- Do not have certain few locations were the most rare guns/items only spawn, instead have a wider range of spawn location with certain requirements, such as a key you can only use once to open a ammobox, there might be or not be something there----

Keys, or "notes" that descripe the location of a possible loot location could be found hanging on walls and would be an additional thing a player could look for, which could compansate a little for the gund/item decreased droprate, and it would also give the player a reason to move to a new locaton instead of running around Electro/Cherno.

This might not be the best way to go about it, but I really hope whatever happens that guns and ammo are made very rare. As in, a days play would maybe give you a handgun if lucky. People would play differently, it would be realistic and finding something good would be exiting.

Thanks for reading

[bond1971@tpg.com.au 92]

Yep agree, the game has turned into a pvp deathmatch game, I do not think you can fix this by reducing the weaps or ammo, this will only make the geared bandits more dangerous. Remember - 'the one eyed man in the land of the blind is god'. If the intent of the game is to be a pvp arena then they are achieving what they set out to do, if its to be a simulation or survival game against zombies then they need to change how banditry/murdering works.

I suggest laying low and avoiding populated areas for now until -

a) They fix this and balance gameplay.

B) Fortnite or WarZ is released.

[Charb 298]

----- Make guns and ammo waaayyyyy harder to find! ----

----- Make food and water also harder to find ----

Guns don't need to be harder to find, nor the ammo. The problem is, the fact once you have 1 gun and 1 round you have infinite ammo by simply logging in and out. We need a counter system for ammunition to prevent these magic refills from happening. once that does happen, if anything, players are going to complain they don't have enough ammo, and have to swap back and forth between 2 guns in their pack/pistol. This will create more of a choice between what weapon you need to use for each situation. and finding another AK clip or Stanag round will be that much more of an event instead of, meh, why do I need 4 or these?

food and water harder to find? no way. Its about where it needs to be at the moment. you might find a can of beans and get 200 health from a house, or you can make a run to the market and risk bumping into someone else.

[DryGulch 32]

You could have just bumped one of the many other threads asking for more rare weapons spawns instead of puking up 200 or so words of reactionary , hyperbolic nonsense.

[Magisk 2]

Thanks for reply guys, you as well DryGulch.

I see what you mean that rarer weapons will make those with guns more powerfull, however what I think you fail to consider is that shooting a defensless surviver will be "more costly" for the bandit, as he has to preserve ammo to protect himself. Sure there will be some who will waste precius ammo, but the "weaponless player pvp deat" ratio and deatmatch gameplay feeling will not overpower to survival aspect as hard.

In regards to the server issue you bring up Charb I think that this is something that will be solved in future versions of the game, if im not mistaken Rocket himself has made some comments on servers and their porpuse. I would agree however that when server hopping is not possible weapons will become harder to find, but not even close to how rare they need to be. Personally I never do this, and I cant remember running for more than 10-15min before having a gun with enough ammo to kill several innocent survivers :)

DrGulch, I take it you do not agree or feel this issue is not "game breaking", I however do and the more threads the better, also I thought I had a suggestion to the problem that deserved its own thread, but i could be wrong ofcourse. Hope I didnt ruin your day

Edited July 23, 2012 by Magisk

[Tezcatli 0]

They need to implement more to do outside of hunting other players.

[DryGulch 32]

I however do and the more threads the better,

Spamming repeat topics ruins the forum. You could quite easily have just added your 2 cents to an existing thread about weapon scarcity, of which there are many.

[Magisk 2]

Spamming repeat topics ruins the forum. You could quite easily have just added your 2 cents to an existing thread about weapon scarcity, of which there are many.

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Well all I wanted to suggest was that weapons, ammo and food would be made way more rare and that something should be done asap because it will be more difficult to make such a change the more time that goes and I felt like I had a great suggestion that would create a new type of loot to replace some of the void from the item decrease..

I felt both my concern, argrument and suggestion was threadworth.

Anyways If the forum is flooded with posts concerning this thats not so bad, since its such an important issue ;)