Login protection?`

[Icharus (DayZ) 13]

If there is one thing. Something that really twists my nipples about this game, its when I log out with 12k blood, then login watch my blood drop from 12k to 0 and then die. Why? Because I got shot before I even logged in properly.

Personally I believe there should be 10-20 seconds of login protection, you can't kill or be killed, it gives you enough time to run out of an area that may have hostile players in. especially in a situation where you could have easily killed the offending player. What do you guys think?

[SkoomaKing 28]

logout somewhere safe.

[Wiley 49]

No. If you're logging out in areas where you're likely to be shot within seconds of logging in, you're doing it wrong.

[Tweakie 199]

If there is one thing. Something that really twists my nipples about this game, its when I log out with 12k blood, then login watch my blood drop from 12k to 0 and then die. Why? Because I got shot before I even logged in properly.

Personally I believe there should be 10-20 seconds of login protection, you can't kill or be killed, it gives you enough time to run out of an area that may have hostile players in. especially in a situation where you could have easily killed the offending player. What do you guys think?

A server hoppers wettest dream, so nope.

Learn to log out safely (IE in a bush/pinetree, anything that will hide you abit)

[Icharus (DayZ) 13]

Well its my second most top rule.

Rule 1: Trust no one with a gun.

Rule 2: never log where zombies can spawn.

It has happened in the middle of nowhere before.

[Tsunami (DayZ) 0]

Bumping this because I just got forked hard by this.

 

I can understand some concerns of people using this to check stuff out and server hop. However, there have been several times I really havn't had a say in where I log out at.

 

Unless there can be some kind of gaurentee that i'm not going to be droped from a server randomly in a populated area. This will put your character back anywhere from 5-30 seconds ago from when you get the loosing connection message and has happened several times today alone. Fix that and I would see no need for login protection. Or get a fix for the 20-40 seconds that my character is just standing there uselessly with a black screen, unable to even try to blindly serpentine, get down, or god forbid log as i hear a hail of gunfire coming down on my forced blind/mute/paralized self.

 

Maybe preload everythign then load the character in the exact time I actualy have access to my controlls, I'm fine with login and sprint to the nearest cover, but how it is now that isn't possiable.

[thomas28 31]

Hi, you are new to dayz, get ready to die in many frustrating ways.



example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F4BL7oCiwQ

I shot with the PKM many lol's was had

Edited December 31, 2013 by thomas28

[AP_Norris 1018]

Well its my second most top rule.

Rule 1: Trust no one with a gun.

Rule 2: never log where zombies can spawn.

It has happened in the middle of nowhere before.

That's just bad luck, imagine when your character logs out he takes a nap.

He just managed to wake up just as somebody was walking by.

For combat loggers this would be too good, especially now in the games broken state.

He could jump in and out of a server, being practically invincible as the poor people playing the game legitimately tried to shoot him.

If you're that scared of being shot on login find a server with no one on it.

[Tsunami (DayZ) 0]

Hi, you are new to dayz, get ready to die in many frustrating ways.

example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F4BL7oCiwQ

I shot with the PKM many lol's was had

 

Not exactly new, (just haven't really posted before) I've died in plenty of frustrating ways before, however this one now just irked me enough to look into suggesting a fix.

 

The problem is me being completely vulnerable for 20-40 seconds every time i log in. It's not a nap where I'd wake up prone, at least having lower visibility. it's my character, standing there, unable to react in any way for the better part of a minute. This is epically awful when I'm forced to log out due to server instability. It wouldn't be a complaint if i had complete control over my logs every time.

 

There are several things that could be done to fix this, it doesn't have to be invincibility.

 

1. Fix server stability (i know that this is currently being worked on and the game is in alpha) -  Every time the servers go down I'm in the same position of having no control of where of log in. I can be careful all I want, but getting me killed because of a server drop is just cheap. I would have no complaints on where I log in/out if server drops where a rarity.

 

2. Start me in a prone position - if you want it to be like my char just laid down for a nap then that's fine, but start me down on the ground, not standing up like some target dummy.

 

3. Don't have my character's shoot-able body actually load in until the world and controls are ready for me to use.

 

You don't need to give an advantage to the person logging in, but i think that it should be fair or at least give them some kind of chance. I'm not afraid of being shot on login, I dislike not even having a chance to defend myself.