20 words or less: Spawning without a weapon

[stryker211 10]

Limit starting gear altogether or start with crossbow, final answer. Btw is Rocket ever going to reveal who did the mocap for the new zombie animations!

[portal.thomas@gmail.com 4]

YES

Give us hell.

[gray1107 (DayZ) 0]

YES

Remove all starting items, game is too easy. But, we need basic melee such as fists or fence planks. Also, not all Zed hits should result in bleeding out (they don't have swords for arms).

[ihax 16]

NO

The reason why is I would hate to die over and over from people that actually have guns camping the coast.

[Drazla 0]

Yes, I dont want 20 guys firefighting in Cherno & Electro - let us work for it!

[samatra 41]

There is one thing that bugs me: clunkiness of unarmed movement and stance changing, its ANNOYING at hell. Just thinking about it makes me say NO.

[thygrrr 1]

YES

but:

• try removing most starting ammo, the backpack, water, food, morphine first.
  
• consider wiping ALL characters for equality
  

[dan_ep82 4]

Two sided.

YES

If you replaced the gun with a compass it would benefit beginners more.

More immersion.

NO

Bandit heaven.

Very hard to loot without a weapon.

[Strategos (DayZ) 190]

YES

Maybe also reduce the spawn rates of high end weaponry and ammo in general.

[Ookisaru 0]

YES.

Would work well if combined with slower, tougher (precise head shots required to one hit kill), harder hitting zombies and an overall reduction in the amount of ammo available.

[Austex (DayZ) 5]

YES

I'll just do the zombie sprint to the nearest city, ditching the zeds on the first player I come across.

[Dick Johnson 0]

NO

But reduce starting mags to 2 and every medical supply to 1.

[Swi1ch 39]

NO.

I love difficulty. Repeatedly respawning to find a weapon is an RNG grind. Grind and RNG /= difficulty.

[dillsmckay 0]

YES

Make it fucking harder Rocket! I don't want a game, I want a nightmare.

[emilgebl 5]

No, I think that it would make the game less balanced for new people. think of spawnkillers.

[Cyberman128 0]

YES

I'd love to see this get tested. Also can't hurt to try. Making guns rarer would be interesting too.

[DrRageQuit 17]

YES

Not hard to find weapons if you have any patience. I Expect the people objecting to the change are ones who run about like morons.

[SlickShoes 21]

YES

But only if zombies cannot see me and attack me through walls, if you can't lose Z's by LOS then starting with a gun is a necessity.

[Soldier of Failure 14]

YES if the weapon spawning isnt reduced.

NO if weapon spawn rate is highly decreased. I want SOME way to defend myself if weapons are made rarer.

[Jimmy James 18]

YES

Make pistol spawns much more common but not at the expense of other loot. Great idea.

[Phenotype (DayZ) 1]

YES

But in a future release make it possible to sneak up behind zombies and wack them with a melee weapon.

[badclown 6]

YES but:

-make spawnpoints all around the map, completely random to prevent bandit farming on beach

-let us spawn with NOTHING on us

-give us the chance to get rid of zombies without killing them

this is an alpha, we could test it right ?

BUT.. be prepared that newbies will cry a river in the forums.

[codyrherring@gmail.com 1]

YES

It would make the game very interesting and intense once you first spawn in, and as you pointed out, it will be much much harder to just run to your body if you were killed.

[redundant 1]

YES

We're here to test this mod. Lets test it.

It will make stealth so much more important at the start. And with the fix that you can actually lose zeds its an interesting thought.

Downside is your every single new person is easy pickings for a bandit with a gun. And you can't do jack about it.

[qweets 31]

YES

but I would want melee combat introduced first. It would be too damn annoying otherwise.