What do you think?

[Merlin13 0]

Hey there!

My name is Merlin, inGame and outGame ;)

I bought Dayz about 1 month ago and I love it. The game is brilliant. It creates so much tension! Really, one of the few games that actually have that tension and definitely the only game, which makes my hand shake when you're about to loot at Northwest Airfield or at the firestation in "Cherno" how people call it because no one can really pronounce it properly.

I think the intensity is mostly created by the player interaction. For example you're very nervous (at least I am) whilst crossing the whole Northwest Airfield. Nervous, because I know high geared sniper squads like to camp and kill everyone trying to approach the barracks, fire station or the hangars.

Also it is very hard to find good gear. The more excited you are if you discover a helicopter crash site hoping to find good weapons and maybe a gillie suit. And if you do you're even more careful about what you do.

Now I think, you can imagine how proud I was when I eventually scavenged all the good gear, GPS, Rangefinders SVD Camo, M9 etc. Really, the first time in my whole "Dayz Life" I was really happy with my equiptment. Even proud. I couldn't have imagined that a game can take you so much into it (sorry for my bad English, it's not my native language...)

Anyways, now the part which I am NOT proud of...

Yesterday I was travelling on the very west side of the map near "Sosnovka" above "Zelenogorsk" looking for vehicles since I hadn't found one yet. I planned to set up a small camp to store everything I found. Well, as you know there has been a new patch released recently. 1.7.2.6

I was actually looking forward to it since it was supposed to fix those weird graphic glitches. I wasn't able to loot military areas before, I used to go onto empty servers and then run blind through the military areas in order to get some loot.

But besides that it brought another glitch with it: Your interface was not shown. Eventually I found the solution. You had to change some options in the game menu.

What I didn't know was that the interface was still bugged. You weren't able to see if you needed food or water. It always showed "green" symbols. I didn't realize until my screen went black and white as you lose blood. My blood was at about 6000 by that time and still I had my "badass" equiptment. First I thought I was bleeding. So I bandaged myself, but obviously it didn't work.

5500 Blood...And I still didn't know what was going on.

5000 Blood...By then I asked some friends on teamspeak what it meant to lose about 10 Blood every 2-3 Seconds. They said I need food and water. Now I was confused...I mean it was all green!

Well anyway...Luckily I had some Beans with me, but I just had an empty water bottle. My blood was still shrinking...

I looked on the map. Nothing. No lake around me. And the next "residential area was quite a whiel aways as well. ( I was in the "green woods" to that time)

I knew I wasn't going to reach the area or a lake soon enough. I still had all my good gear, I had scavenged over the last few days.

Now my question is: What would you have done?

I certainly did the wrong thing. I did try to cheat (script? I don't know..) I watched a video on youtube on "how to cheat items".

So I tried it..And it didn't work. After that I was globally banned. All I wanted was some water!

I know I did the wrong thing and I'd like to apologize for that.

I cant change what I've done. And I know as well that I did do the wrong thing. And I know that I won't be unbanned.

Ouh, that's longer than I expected :D

Now back to my topic: What would you have done?

I'm really curious to hear your opinions. I'd really like to hear your opinions ;)

Happy hunting!

Merlin

Edited September 8, 2012 by Merlin13

[M4L 42]

OMG, FONT, COLOR, Arghhh o_O ...

(trying to read)

edit:

cant read, hurts too much B)

Edited September 8, 2012 by M4L

[D3nty 114]

Give me a few moments to vomit before i even try reading this. >_<

Edit... dark blue on black does NOT work..

Edited September 8, 2012 by D3nty

[sturmwaffles 38]

I would have asked for some help on the forums and logged out man c:

[Merlin13 0]

I'm sorry. Didn't realize that it was that bad. I changed the colour as well as the font.

Edited September 8, 2012 by Merlin13

[dallas 5195]

Try the default grey font and size 14, you burned off my visual cortex. :)

[M4L 42]

And now.. The Larch !

i mean..

too bright and big lolz

as he said, above :P

Edited September 8, 2012 by M4L

[Merlin13 0]

Again, changed it. I must have a really awkward sense of colours :/

[M4L 42]

reading ... :D

edit:

aight

1st

dont cheat, thats just plain simple

2nd

if u want yur gear back just run to coast and die, pick it up after respawn

3rd

still think font needs work :D

Edited September 8, 2012 by M4L

[Danielowski 0]

Disable debug monitor, so you can see if you need water or food.

Also, don't cheat.

[dallas 5195]

Since you made an effort to fix it, I'm obligated to read it.

What a dissapointing read.

I can't believe you decided to throw away your game for a bottle of water or for your top tier gear. I'm not sure whether you got banned for scripting or if you got scammed and downloaded someone's banned game ID. I've been in similar situations a couple of times, you know what I did? One time a door broke my legs and I started to bleed. I died crawling around Zelenogrosk desperately searching for a bandaid in the supermarket. Another time I was dying of thirst and frantically found something to drink after looking at my declining health for what felt like a looong time.

I'm sorry you was so attached to your gear you decided to cheat.

Because you decided to cheat, you deserve everything you got.

Also scan your pc for trojans/malware/ect. you have to be insane to download anything from hackers!

Edited September 8, 2012 by Dallas

[tet5uo (DayZ) 22]

I would have gotten myself to soemwhere I knew exactly where I was and just let myself die.

Then run back when respawned and pick up all the gear. You'd have to be pretty unlucky for soomeone to come by and loot your corpse before you got back to it.

That's the only nice thing about dying to zombies or the environment, at least your loot will still be sitting there on your body when you get back.

[Merlin13 0]

How can I run somewhere with only that much blood left? The corpse would've disappeared by the time I reach it.

And Yes I do know it was wrong. And I do know I deserve it. I just asked for opinions.