Why Even Have Bandit Skins?

[Xxav 10]

Instead of bandit skins, why can't they use a flagging system that pretty much ever FFA PvP MMO has? When you put your cross-hair over the survivor different colors represent different states. Red= Murderer Blue= neutral Purple = hostile so you don't lose humanity for defending yourself.

Allow for players to select another player while in their cross-hair and ask if they're friendly, if they don't answer within 15 seconds, it's a free kill.

I just think the whole bandit or survivor is too cut and dry.

[chris p. bacon 182]

Red= Murderer Blue= neutral Purple = hostile so you don't lose humanity for defending yourself.

Wouldn't a murderer be hostile? And no, because some servers don't have tags, and tags can be very very annoying. I think that there needs to be an visual.

Edited August 16, 2012 by tocsik

[xscottyt 4]

i like this idea expect i think it should be green=neutral, orange=hostile, red=murder, and then possibly blue for friendly (friendly meaning they've bandaged up,giving blood, or morphine to other players.)

now i know a whole lot of people wouldn't agree with the friendly one because it's too easy to think well he could just be getting a blue cross-hair from helping his friends. but isn't that the point you shouldn't trust anyone even if they are blue?

[Xxav 10]

Wouldn't a murderer be hostile? And no, because some servers don't have tags, and tags can be very very annoying.

No. Hostile meaning that they are the aggressor. They shot at you without asking if you were a friendly or not. You shouldn't be penalized for shooting someone who shot at you but missed.

[red_orchestra@msn.com 112]

Tags are a noob feature that dumbs down spotting

[BlazeN'Chronic 51]

i think a better question is WHY wouldn't there be bandit skins..

[Lonrem 62]

No colored tags because I don't want someone just swinging his cursor around and "oh look, there's a guy over there, NOW let me see if I can actually find him."

[Dazed 80]

i think a better question is WHY wouldn't there be bandit skins..

Why would their be bandit skins or anything that's in this stupid thread? In RL you wouldn't have anything to indicate that someone is hostile except for body language and that wouldn't guarantee that the person is a murderer/bandit(just a person wary of a very f'ed up world and not wanting strangers tagging along.) You guys seem to forget this is a survival game, horrible thread, and bandit skins are stupid, their should be no mandatory skins.

Edited August 17, 2012 by Dazed

[dsi24 227]

Why have bandit or hero skins is a damn good question. Why dumb down the game?

[kyriel 45]

why can't they use a flagging system that pretty much ever FFA PvP MMO has?

because DayZ

[redfield-77 315]

Instead of bandit skins, why can't they use a flagging system that pretty much ever FFA PvP MMO has?

I think it's mainly because dayz is not an MMO.

[Jackftw 310]

No. The current system works just fine. You don't lose humanity for killing a bandit, so if they have the bandit skin kill them. Simple as that.

Putting in this ''friendly'' 15 second system is stupid, and ruins the whole purpose of this being a hardcore, and ruthless game. If you want to find out if someones friendly, go ask them through direct. If you are too hesitant to do that, avoid him entirely.

[jukaga 271]

No no and no. Tags shouldn't even be an option to have on. I hope that it is completely removed from the standalone.

[JustThatEpic 72]

With a little more thought, this could work.

I just wish we could go back to the old full on bandit skin. So much better than civilian clothes.

[xscottyt 4]

No. The current system works just fine. You don't lose humanity for killing a bandit, so if they have the bandit skin kill them. Simple as that.

Putting in this ''friendly'' 15 second system is stupid, and ruins the whole purpose of this being a hardcore, and ruthless game. If you want to find out if someones friendly, go ask them through direct. If you are too hesitant to do that, avoid him entirely.

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This is the whole problem with the bandit skin to everyone saying there aint no problem with it? i have the bandit skin because i killed someone who shot at me first both of us survivors, and because i had to protect myself i don't want to know while i'm wondering around i'll get shot my anyone just because i have a god damned bandit skin.

there needs to be some sort of way to fix it, and yeah ok i understand the tags as well but what else can we do to solve this issue?

[dsi24 227]

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This is the whole problem with the bandit skin to everyone saying there aint no problem with it? i have the bandit skin because i killed someone who shot at me first both of us survivors, and because i had to protect myself i don't want to know while i'm wondering around i'll get shot my anyone just because i have a god damned bandit skin.

there needs to be some sort of way to fix it, and yeah ok i understand the tags as well but what else can we do to solve this issue?

Whine until it gets removed just like last time Rocket tried this shit.

[bazbake 456]

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This is the whole problem with the bandit skin to everyone saying there aint no problem with it? i have the bandit skin because i killed someone who shot at me first both of us survivors, and because i had to protect myself i don't want to know while i'm wondering around i'll get shot my anyone just because i have a god damned bandit skin.

there needs to be some sort of way to fix it, and yeah ok i understand the tags as well but what else can we do to solve this issue?

...Stop shooting people. Your bandit skin will disappear in about 2 hours.

Oh, wait...you keep shooting people.

Because you're a bandit.

[sonicrainbrony 136]

After the removal of bandit skin, people whined about the removal.

After readding the bandit skin, people want it gone.

Dear community, make up your mind.

[ajbader@umich.edu 7]

I think it was good to re-add it back into the game. Without them, there were no friendlies. DayZ was a PvP deathmatch where no one could meet with anyone because no one could determine who is a friendly character or not. It was all shoot on sight.

It doesn't dumb down the game it all. It makes it more complex. Now people aren't always killing eachother, which was a problem when they took the bandit skins out. Didn't matter if you yelled friendly, because there was no reason to be friendly. You'd just get shot. Now, being friendly has a benefit: you can keep your humanity score high and let other players know you are friendly. And you will really be friendly if you expect to keep that skin.