20 words or less: Spawning without a weapon

[Nedak 10]

Yes!!!

[psycho84 0]

IMO this HAS to coincide with a chance of gear destruction (victims gear) when you shoot people.

[officervyktar@gmail.com 0]

YES, Less hostile players is a GREAT THING. Please implement this in the next patch.

TL;DR version

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Half of the reason people are Bandits is because there afraid of new and inexperienced players making bad decisions and killing them right off the bat; just under the assumption they think that's all a bandit wants to do, steal there gear and run off.

I'm a bandit, mostly because i wanted the camo before they added the Ghillie was added, but I don't senselessly kill every player I see. When I see a player, I'll talk to them and if they don't respond, I'll shoot them. If they do, I'll even try and work something out so that neither of us can end up unscathed.

I've never been to the coast just to kill noobs, If fact I've never been to Cherno. I honestly wish i could be rid of my bandit skin.

If you make newly spawned players spawn without a weapon, they have no way to fight back, but that also means that bandits have no reason to shoot them since there no threat. That the only reason I kill players at the coast, because they will always try to shoot me first.

[shouting 0]

Yes, because honestly only clueless mongoloids hang around the coast anyway, who are going to die weapon or no. Encourages people to move inland.

[THUNDERMINE 2]

NO

Starting with a gun, but with only three bullets is far better.

[Malleovic 3]

YES,

IF AND ONLY IF we can somehow punch or melee infected/other players. It is glaringly unrealistic that we cannot.

[MoonSpank 0]

YES.

More teamwork. More real survival. Higher intensity. Forced stealth tutorial. Add lower weapon spawn on the coast.

[samladouceur@hotmail.com 0]

NO but with fewer mags. YES with a significantly higher spawn of sidearms on the coast !

[spartan1608 0]

YES

Simply, Realism. The Makarov wasn't such a popular handgun that everyone happened to have one during the Zombie Apocalypse.

[ludriramit 1]

People with weapons get free spawn gear (food' date=' bandages, morphine) without threat. Weapons already scarce.

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This is a very good point.

It's not, the point is just let people spawn without loot... Lets see what happens then ^^

And my answer to no gun at spawn is plain YES !

[unangbangkay 0]

NO

DayZ is like "zombie safari", not "The Walking Dead". Do this and you may as well spawn everyone naked.

[phisher34 12]

No.

If the goal is to make early game harder - then give them half the supplies.

[Lapis 4]

YES

EVERYTHING IS WORTH A TRY. IF IT SUCKS THEN REMOVE IT

IF IT WORKS THEN KEEP IT. IF ITS NOT BROKEN DONT FIX IT.

[moleculor 0]

No.

Defenseless prey for bandits, how did I survive *this* long into the apocalypse without one?

[istari766 0]

YES

I don't shoot unarmed survivors. Less shooting means more creative thinking in survival situations.

[Tempered Saint 1]

no

Seriously, the only thing stopping wholesale slaughter of new players is the chance of being shot. Groups of bandits with stashes of gear will make it impossible for anyone to get established.

[Duckman404 37]

No.

"Maybe adds some authenticity: who has a handgun at home?"

Who has a Lee Enfield and two M1911s lying around in a supermarket? Or a Winchester in a church?

[Moe King 13]

YES

What about starting with the mak but w/ no ammo. And making ammo for it more rare than it already is.(since it's already more common than beans & soda)

[Fallout10mm 4]

YES.

But only if you spawn w/next to nothing (bandage, water, thats it). Will stop any benifets for killing respawns

[TheLibrarian 71]

NO.

Right now there is a ruger 10/22 in my house. And a break loading shotgun 10ga (single shot, it's old). A handgun is kind of the wrong starting weapon. I'm for a more realistic starting weapon, but starting with nothing is frustrating. RUN, WALK or CRAWL. Unless that has been fixed.

[Pushbutton 0]

Without a melee option, you need something. If melee was added than yes.

[pmjkerr 76]

YES

If melee is (or can) be incorporated. Spawning only with a plank of wood for example.

[rips (DayZ) 5]

Yes.

Replace all current spawning equip/food with;

map/Compass

reason;

1. Maps are available anyway on internet by alt-tabbing

2. map/compass as spawning loot do not make newly spawned bandit targets for loot.

[Gibbonici 9]

No.

"Maybe adds some authenticity: who has a handgun at home?"

Who has a Lee Enfield and two M1911s lying around in a supermarket? Or a Winchester in a church?

People who died trying to survive in the first few chaotic, mad weeks of the zombie apocalypse?

[S1ippery Jim 139]

Yes' date=' because honestly only clueless mongoloids hang around the coast anyway, who are going to die weapon or no. Encourages people to move inland.

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I have seen this comment a few times. Assume I'm dense:

How exactly does not having a gun encourage you to move inland, rather than head to Balota/Cherno/Electro where you are more likely to find guns quicker?