A simple answer to the bandit issue once and for all.

[jonahcutter 51]

Good to know some people know that this game is harsh and it's going to STAY harsh. If you die, it's your fault for not scoping out that town or being a little too eager to loot a corpse in the street. Your death is always your fault, except in the case of bugs but everyone gets eaten by a tree now and then.

Rocket isn't going to make things easier, in fact you can expect him to make things harder for us in the near future. So the only person who can make the game less harsh is YOU. Stick to the tree line, scope out towns for a few minutes before you go looting, avoid other players, and join a team or clan if necessary.

Despite your best efforts, you WILL die at the hands of a player at some point. The lifespan of the average survivor is about 30 minutes, so you're beating the odds for every day you stay alive.

TL;DR

Stop crying on the forums and look at what you're doing wrong.

If the mod is so hardcore, what the hell are tents doing in it?

"Rocket isn't going to make things easier"? Rocket made tents, and tents made things incredibly easier.

Tents are a highly carebear mechanic, drastically mitigating the pain of death. People don't fear death now, because their teams/clans have stockpiles of high-end gear waiting to resupply them.

And the very idea of "high end gear"itself is pure main-stream, WoW-style, MMO. Gear up to get more powerful so you enjoy gross advantages over your opponent.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, this mod is no where near as daring as it wants to be. It has promise, yes, but not from people engaging in long-range pvp with scopes and high-rof weapons. Quality as that pvp is, that is just the basic ArmA engine at work. It has nothing to do with the mod.

Edited July 24, 2012 by jonahcutter

[darknight558 41]

There already are many Anti-Bandit Groups. Except we don't like to get ourselves known. And the people who do complain about the deathmatch style dayz are the unlucky ones who were spawnsniped by bandits, And they are the loudest people on these damn forums... We are 211 and growing strong and yet you never hear from us. And i hope i can keep it that way so we dont start the deathmatch over with an organized bandit group.

The Anti-Bandits Steam Group:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TAB-DayZ

[zyfer.nyholm@gmail.com 131]

Get out of electro and off the coast, you wont have issues. Peple need to play smarter

yeah, give us up north some food to hunt!

[DarkRaven123 602]

There is no "Bandit issue."

All you whiners think there is, because you suck.

You got killed a few times because you ran at someone who had an Enfield.

Stop filling the forum with you "Bandit Answers," you're all just QQ'ers in disguise.

It's getting boring now.