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[gordy]

I love that you have to reload your hatchet first and then it's good for 10,000 swings. I wouldn't have the first clue where to go to find morphine, and havent laid my hands on a single firearm since I got into the game. Plenty of Ammo though, no weapons. No idea how to find the fabled deer shacks either.

[fenrif]

Here are some maps. If you're looking for deerstands you want to head away from the big cities.

Also I'm pretty sure the loot tables are buggared at the moment. I had three lives last night where I found noting but tin cans and fire axes. Like Barns with 6 fireaxes in. Must've searched 10 buildings in a row and all I found was fire axes.

And I'd agree that it seems way to easy to break your bones, I'm pretty sure Rocket increased the chances of it happening in one of the 1.7.1 patches. If you're looking for morphine your best bet is probobly finding one of the hospitals... but generally speaking if you have a broken leg and don't have any on you you're probobly best just suiciding.

And the hatchet works like that because as far as the games concerned it's basically a really short range gun. It's also why it makes bullet noises and you see gunsmoke when you swing it.

[Jackrabbit]

This mod, and the emergent gameplay it involves, is incredible. I just spent the better part of 20 minutes trapsing up and down a secluded wood path in dayz trying to find the gun I dropped accidentally. It's 2 in the morning, pitch black, I can hear zombies in the distance and I need to use a flashlight to find it, broadcasting my position to anyone in the area. I have literally no other weapon and I'm far too close to Novy Sobor for comfort. I eventually found it by the roadside, picked it up, ran my ass out of there because I was starting to hear funny noises and quit from sheer exhaustion.
It was the most terrifying, intense and gratifying thing I think I've ever done in a game.

e: just figured out where I was on the map: Pop Ivan. The noises must've been coming from Vyshnoye, I guess I was straying too close. Jesus, it's freaky to know that they were that close. Couldn't see a thing in the dark.

[Spaghetti7]

God, this mod should really be listed as more of a horror game than zombie simulation.
On my most recent character I had just found a Winchester and a ton of ammo, but was thoroughly lost. Having got more confident through playing it I was looting a village, carefully creeping through, getting more and more nervous. Then I got careless. I ran inside a barn and a zombie heard me, forcing me to shoot in the crowded village. Luckily the zombies slowed as they came in, making them easy to pick off without getting injured. However, shortly after this incident, as I was sneaking towards the church in the centre of the town I heard a gunshot.
My first thought was: "Idiot." By shooting from what sounded like the middle of the town they were endangering both of our lives. But as more zombies sprinted past and the firing of quite a high calibre weapon got more frantic, I began to feel scared for the survivor. Sneaking towards the edge of the wall I was cowering against I could clearly hear the gunfire was coming from the very church I had been heading for. Then, just as yet another zombie ran past, the shots stopped. I froze. Waiting for the fire to resume when the survivor had reloaded. And I waited. And waited.
Deciding that maybe he had killed all of the things, I edged around the wall and peeked in to the church, only to see about five zombies crouched over a body.
Now, while in any other game I'd be happy and go to loot his corpse, this merely shook me and made me leave instantly, but I don't know whether it was in respect for the fighter or because it made me realise how easily death could come in that game.

[fenrif]

Luckily the zombies slowed as they came in, making them easy to pick off without getting injured.

Zombies have to walk indoors. Basically if you get too many of them on you, run inside a building. If it has two entrances you can easily lose the zombies as they'll be slowly walking through while you sneak out the back.

I was playing the other night and found my first vehicle, a tractor. Got it all repaired up except for the engine, so I drove to a petty station and filled it up with a single jerry can. Then I drove off towards a nearby factory complex. Going was slow, since I was going through the woods for safety and if your engine is red any slight bump will probobly explode the vehicle.

When I finally made it to the factory complex I parket my tractor in a forest on a nearby hill, so it was hidden from the road and factory, snuck inside and searched around for a bit. Eventually I had to go upstairs, but the inside stairwell was fenced off with barbed wire. Sneaking out the back I caught some aggro and had to shoot a couple of zombies. After a few minutes I hear two really loud explosions come from the direction my tractor was parked in.

I basically dropped everything and made my way there as quickly as I could. Tractor was nowhere to be seen. After a few minutes searching around I found it at the bottom of the hill, wrecked. There was a survivor corpse lying dead next to it. He must've heard me shooting, snuck up and noticed my tractor, got in it and drove about 5 feet before hitting a tree and exploding it. He didn't even have any loot on him, so he must've just spawned and made his way inland.

RIP tractor.

[Vherid]

God, this mod should really be listed as more of a horror game than zombie simulation.

It's not so much a zombie simulation as it is a social experiment.

[fenrif]

God, this mod should really be listed as more of a horror game than zombie simulation.

It's not so much a zombie simulation as it is a social experiment.

How so?

[The Mechanical Man]

There's a really good PCGamer article about an interview they had with Rocket.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/22/day-z-arma-3-interview-on-left-4-dead-skyrim-player-emotion-and-in-game-disease/?ns_campaign=article-feed&ns_mchannel=ref&ns_source=steam&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0

It's pretty lengthy but there are some good details in there about what direction Rocket wants to take the game in.

[Jackrabbit]

God, this mod should really be listed as more of a horror game than zombie simulation.

It's not so much a zombie simulation as it is a social experiment.

I don't think it was intended to be. It's a zombie simulator that became a social experiment and then Rocket was all "let's experiment the shit out of this socialness" and here we are. The infection update's a good example of that. He added it in to see what happened and the Corrupted Blood Incident happened all over again. Except people caught the sniffles instead of dying horribly but you know what I mean.

[PrimusRibbus]

God, this mod should really be listed as more of a horror game than zombie simulation.

It's not so much a zombie simulation as it is a social experiment.

Wouldnt a good zombie sim also be a social experiment? The most interesting part of the zombie apocalypse setting is the mistrust and backstabbing among survivors.

[fenrif]

Wouldnt a good zombie sim also be a social experiment? The most interesting part of the zombie apocalypse setting is the mistrust and backstabbing among survivors.

Just because something is socially dynamic doesn't mean it's a social experiment.

[Jackrabbit]

Socially dynamic, that's a good word for it. On a slightly related note Cherno is just the most nervewracking place. In the two respawns I've had since the 'no-weapon-on-spawn' update I've been lucky enough to spawn outside of it twice, which is great because I have no fear of death and desperately need the weapons Cherno seems to spawn like candy, but also terrifying because fuck, it's Cherno. Today I got an M1911 and 10 clips but holy shit am I lucky to be alive. Met a player who was really kind and gave me spaghetti and pointed me towards the fire station before heading off to Elektro. Ran into two other players, one of whom asked to team up with me and the other I quickly lost sight of. I probably should have tried to keep in mind where he was because we received sporadic automatic weapons fire at one stage and bolted through town with our tails between our legs.
After that we ran around for a bit, I found my M1911 and we headed towards the fire station only to see someone had blocked off the door. Seconds after running up to it and realizing this I hear a silenced MP5 and some grunts of pain. I bolt in the opposite direction to my new friend, who is presumably fighting zombies in heaven right now. I feel bad for him but simultaneously glad they targeted him first.

Socially dynamic, that's what I'm going to call my assholery from now on.

[Whitefoxsniper]

I spawned slightly outside of cherno and started to run torwards anywhere but there when I heard the sound of a engine. I hid myself from the road behind a fence and watched the two people on the bus get out and raid the gas station.

I had no weapons but it was the first time I wanted to kill someone to take their stuff.

They drove away honking and attracted every zombie that I could see. If you ever get a vehicle running, trust no one.

[fenrif]

I spawned slightly outside of cherno and started to run torwards anywhere but there when I heard the sound of a engine. I hid myself from the road behind a fence and watched the two people on the bus get out and raid the gas station.

I had no weapons but it was the first time I wanted to kill someone to take their stuff.

They drove away honking and attracted every zombie that I could see. If you ever get a vehicle running, trust no one.

The correct course of action in this situation is to run or sneak over and try and steal the bus, failing that just casually get on and demand to be taken on a sightseeing tour of Chernarus.

[Rex_Nex]

I spawned slightly outside of cherno and started to run torwards anywhere but there when I heard the sound of a engine. I hid myself from the road behind a fence and watched the two people on the bus get out and raid the gas station.

I had no weapons but it was the first time I wanted to kill someone to take their stuff.

They drove away honking and attracted every zombie that I could see. If you ever get a vehicle running, trust no one.

This makes me want this game so bad.