KField86 237 Posted July 23, 2012 (edited) Been alive on my previous character for 17 days. Here's a list of some of the things I had...AS-50 (My beloved)M4A1 CCO SD (My second beloved)GPSRangefinderNVGCoyote BackpackMapCompassPlenty of ammunition for bothSVD Camo with 6 mags in my tent.M24 with 3 DMR MagsM14 with more DMR mags.I let my guard down, and lost it all. I've been waiting to die for the past couple days now, and finally...we make the fatal mistake of going to a high population(I mean about 65 players) and sniping at NWAF. Well, about 5 minutes after I get there I hear an M107 going off. Ok, not a problem. I'm completely concealed, but I go prone inside a building anyway just to make sure. After the shooting stopped, I lifted my head for one moment and caught the muzzle flash and boom, KO. I knew it came from the west, so I sent 2 guys with ARs to flank around. They found the sniper and killed him. His loot? M107 TWS. Congratulations Hacker, you got the best of me. Anyway, after they loot the legitimate items from his corpse, my buddies go back and cover my body as I'm running back up full speed from Kamenka(Fastest route usually). JUST as I get there, my body within sight, my body disappears with everything on it. Couldn't tell you how frustrated I was but I shrugged it off because this game is Alpha and I will not lower myself to the people who constantly bitch about not having things there way. To be honest, the hacker did me a favor. The game had gotten dull. I had acquired 16 kills with the AS50 and M107 combined. So I respawn and start heading for camp, which we had saved and loaded up about 4 hours prior. Empty. Along wiith two atvs and our blue pimp van. This game is a cruel bitch, but I'm in Elektro now gearing back up and as soon as I find an Enfield, I'm going to Cherno and I'm going to shoot every spawn camping retard with a .50 cal as if my life depended on it. I've had better luck getting loot just watching for the CoD kiddies to show up on that northern kill, so I can flank them and put an enfield into the back of their neck.I'm not bitching, I'm actually happy. For the first time in 17 days I am playing stress free and doesn't give a fuck. (Grammar nazi it, I dare you.). I know within 24 hours I'll be kitted back up with help from my squad, but one thing I thought of in this whole process is that..and keep in mind it's just an idea... would there be a way for keep dead bodies in the game, ie: without disappearing unless most of the loot has been taken off that player? I know it would be really hard to do it any other way. Example being: A body won't disappear unless the user of that avatar logged off the story, but then you'd have fails who get owned just disconnect so you couldn't take any of their gear? It's a truly tricky slope. Dare I say the despawn timer needs to be a bit longer. I'm one of the few who don't demand for immediate fixes knowing this is an alpha and different theories have to be tested first, but to be able to loot back my supplies just to watch my gear randomly melt into the ground is just upsetting considering I made it back in time. Also, before anyone makes the remark that maybe someone hid the body, no one touched it except for me. The 3 guys with me stood guard of it. I was the only one who approached it, and as soon as I interacted with the gear menu, the body vanished. Which I'm guessing is related to time. So why not extend it?You may say "Riveting tale chap" or "Splendid fantasy indeed" and things like that. I'm just trying to pitch ideas as to how to keep bodies respawning with high valuable loot still on them, arguably the "best loot" since I had everything minus the one inventory slot(Which I think is saved for radios) accounted for.Really guys, I'm not bitching, nor am I really mad. I'm refreshed that I get to start over and in no time, I will find a cherno sniper with a .50 cal and flank him and reacquire my precious rifle. :)Before you say Alpha Alpha Alpha (Since all of your parrots resort to that one line, please make sure you refer to the statement I made about knowing this is alpha and these kinds of things happen. I am merely offering suggestions to the development teams. If you disagree, I'm sorry I hurt your feelings enough to post. If you agree and stand by my statements, I applaud you. Good luck on your adventures in DayZ and never let the hunt die.EDIT: Oh I should happen to explain what happened to the SVD/M24 in our tents. They were found within a matter of 3 hours, and while this is kind of the norm, I really tend to think this was the work of a hacker with the ability to see everything on the map. We were so close to being out of bands. In fact, another 100 meters and we would of been.I was there before this incident went down, and shortly afterwards I had a buddy near by check the tents to see what I could outfit myself with. Nothing except a can of sardines there. 7 high end weapons gone, massive amounts of medical supplies and ammo for weeks. All gone. Again, I can't complain about this. People get lucky all the time. I just found it funny since the one of the members of the clan the server belongs to had the M107 TWS, which leads me to believe this was their server, and also our tents disappearing shortly after after they hadn't been found in over a week, is kind of coincidental. Regardless, you won't see me quitting this game over shit like this. You live and you learn. Oh and if you're out there, guy with the thermal M107, come on bro... play the game it was meant to be played with the weapons available in it. I'm not going to name and shame anyone before anyone askes. Sorry for the long post people. Just an experience I thought I'd share. If it needs to be moved, feel free to do so. Edited July 23, 2012 by KField86 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spartan114 21 Posted July 23, 2012 That's why sometimes I put all my stuff in my tent and kill myself. The start is the funnest for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Altze 13 Posted July 23, 2012 No.Think of despawning bodies and equipment as an economic guardrail.If anything it should despawn before you even have a chance to get halfway back to it.Having gear stick around longer means more chance of people looting it. More gear around just means the value of everything dropped substantially as theres more of it in circulation.Gear is DayZ's economy and needs to be protected from the already stupid inflation point its at. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KField86 237 Posted July 23, 2012 No.Think of despawning bodies and equipment as an economic guardrail.If anything it should despawn before you even have a chance to get halfway back to it.Having gear stick around longer means more chance of people looting it. More gear around just means the value of everything dropped substantially as theres more of it in circulation.Gear is DayZ's economy and needs to be protected from the already stupid inflation point its at.Instead of flaming you like half of the community would, I listened to your feedback and took it in for all it's worth. I can understand where you're coming from. Still, it's just frustrating to have 3 guys overwatching your body since you died from a hacker, only to have it disappear while in the loot menu reacquiring it. Such is life though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
irGoodman 22 Posted July 23, 2012 Instead of flaming you like half of the community would, I listened to your feedback and took it in for all it's worth. I can understand where you're coming from. Still, it's just frustrating to have 3 guys overwatching your body since you died from a hacker, only to have it disappear while in the loot menu reacquiring it. Such is life though.Even though it doesn't matter? (Like you said a few times)I think that since you lost your good shit your having a whinge, man up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
