Fenix

There are other mods on DayZ that will probably get ported over... I just saw a trailer for a game on sale on Steam called 7 days to die....it's like a hybrid of Minecraft and DayZ. Looks pretty interesting as you can build your own buildings and set traps for people and Zombies alike. Crafting is a huge part of the game.

DayZ...no rust.

Amen brother, you can say that again and I think I will I don't play the hunter specifically for points, and if you notice, I chose some of the hardest pounces to pull off. Joker said one time in game: "clony gets the best pounces" "but not always the most efficient ones" or something along that line. I enjoy playing as the hunter because of the level of difficulty it is to play him, especially the way I play with him. It is so satisfying when I land a pounce from a distance so high, that I can't even see the ground. I love trying to hit survivors. I love trying to calculate where they are going and slam on them while they are in motion, to me it is the most satisfying experience in this game. I am not out to just get straight up pounces and anyone who is on my team will notice that I go to excess sometimes to get my pounces when I could have easily stopped climbing 10 seconds ago. Edit: Lets face it. I am from L4D1 where there was only the boomer smoker and hunter, and the occasional tank. Out of the four, the hunter was the most fun to play as, and also the most fun to kill. And so I chose him, and in L4D2, I still choose him, because I am from L4D1 and that will never change which class I like the most. This still doesn't change the fact that hunters still get the most points than any other class, no matter what map (minus swamp fever). That's the whole point of this topic. Hunters are used too much to get tank points. It's been repetitive lately according to Turbo.

Not saying this is a bad idea, but this would have to apply to all classes not just one. If someone only plays charger and gets 5 "charged another survivor" he would get 1 for each, but if you use him again would it be .8 for "charged another survivor" next time? Then .6? Same with the boomer? Instead of 2 for each survivor, you get 1.5 for the second time you use? Then 1? It just seems a little too harsh. Some situations call for certain specials and if players are maxed on that certain special for that situation, you are possibly forced to play the class you just died as and earn less points. Edit: If the counter resets on Tank buy, then think about this. Sometimes, you can play a lot of infected more than once yet still not have a tank. Another point, would this be applied even if the infected didn't get any points in his life? I disagree. Spitters barely get any points (maybe 3-5) if you spit on 1 downed survivor. That multiplies when multiple guys are down in the same area, but almost impossible to get as many points as a huntard can (sorry my WoW days bring me back to that nick-name). The only positive use for chargers is during times when they are used in conjunction with spitters or during a kharma charge, but they also get an extremely low amount of points. The most points a boomer can get from bile is 20 pts if they bile the ENTIRE team which is extremely rare except for the beginning of certain maps. The point is that hunters can easily rack up points more than any other class out there, and it doesn't even take much to do it. Your skills as a Hunter Murderin aren't what we are talking about. But the problem is more evident when you're playing too...or when you have a small group of players who only use hunters. So I would say reduce the points a hunter can get from pounces. This might cause a slight imbalace between infected and survivors though. I know Jackie has been working on making it harder for survivors to win, but with a lower point income for infected due to a decrease in hunter points, that could make things worse for infected. So I also agree that points for other classes should be slightly increased. The classes that may need an increase (by precedence) are: Smokers Chargers Spitters Jockey (maybe) Boomers I think are just right, but sometimes just getting 2 points or nothing (from being instakilled) can be a bit aggrivating. Is there a way boomers could get like .1 points for every infected that damages a survivor due to your bile? I know the game keeps track of damage a boomer causes due to bile, so I was wondering if that could be considered when using bile on less than 4 people. If you boom 4 or more, then all you get are the points you earned from biling them (8 pts). This is just a suggestion, I'm sure others may agree or disagree, but I definitely think no matter what, hunters need to be "nerfed".

This was the way it was before it was removed. votekick was always a member-only tool. Then why isn't it like that anymore :C I mean, did you even read Peanut's post? LMAO!

This was the way it was before it was removed. votekick was always a member-only tool.

I haven't really left, but I stopped playing because certain things were allowed even when some board members disagreed, and then certain things were frowned upon, like using votekick. I'll say this, and I've said it in the past. When I first started playing on this server, it was only after I played the campaign mode for a while. But when I joined, there were certain unwritten and written rules about this server and other servers that made it so that you could get kicked if you were breaking those rules. I always learned the hard way. I was kicked for holding a spitter, I was kicked for rushing, I was even banned a couple times over the course of about 2 years. The first time I was kicked I thought I was banned. This lead me to the website and this Forum to try and get unbanned because I enjoyed playing on this server and I felt what I did was a simple mistake. But without being kicked, I would have not learned as quickly...thus making the game more difficult for other players on my team. I want to know the real reason why votekick was created in the first place...and then why it was removed. I thought it was supposed to be a tool for members only to kick the ones not playing with the team or breaking rules when an admin wasn't around. But having to find an admin on steam just to get someone removed because we weren't allowed to votekick made it that much more difficult on the rest of the team as one or two of us would have to temporarily leave the game/go afk to contact an admin, and 10 minutes later the person finally gets banned, or leaves before it happens. I agree with Vlad that times have changed and this server is always full of players who don't listen, or don't even speak our language and refuse to help or play with the team. Lately, when I log on, this is what I see happening: I see the server is nearly full with members. I join and play a game. After a bit a couple members leave and new players join that are unfamiliar with the server. Those new players make it difficult for the entire team and other members begin to leave that team because we cant vote-kick. Soon you have a team that has mostly members, and another team with only a couple members. A scramble is requested, and it either gets denied or after the scramble, the members who get put on the losing team leave the game. Sometimes those members will rejoin and get back on their old team. Because of this, more members leave and chaos ensues when more non-members and new players join the server.

This point imbalance has been made obvious since a few players on this server made invisible wall pouncing popular. I don't even use that technique and I can still rack up a good 12 points per pounce if they are outside. Maybe this will sway those hunters that only choose that class to maybe pitch in and choose other classes where certain situations call for it.

To be honest I probably would have killed you too if you were holding spitters, but then again while I'm doing that, I'm holding chargers up as well... So in all reality...don't hold spitters and you wont cause others to rage at you. I have even been yelled at for holding a spitter after I spit (for like 5 seconds) because I was waiting for the incap to occur to drop down on my target and die on him....that's how crazy people are when it comes to spitters.

Ya it's as if the game is closed out completely mid-game. It's really odd. I can pinpoint when this started happening to me. It was around the time L4D2 had a major patch that came out (maybe a year ago?) and I think it's when they opened the mod store. The patch was when all the L4D2 files were reorganized or something, and a lot of people were having issues just starting the game after it was released and crasx spent a lot of time having to recode the server to get it up and running again. Ever since then, after utilizing a fix from steam, when I start the game, I get an error that happens during the load screen of the game (I have to hit escape to close the load screen since it happens within a steam window). But randomly (sometimes never), I will be playing the game and all of a sudden I'm looking at my desktop (game is completely closed and not running, but Steam is still up). I hope that gives some clues as to what is going on.

Same thing happens to me almost every time I play...but it only happens once, then it doesn't happen again the rest of the night. And now that you mention it, I do only remember the game crashing while as a ghosted infected.

This is why I love this game so much. You can do so many things with it.

Plz don't turn this into a Rust thread, as you've already created one Turnbull. This is strictly about DayZ.

Not sure if this should be in MMO section, or FPS section as it's a combo of both. Anyways, now that the standalone is available, how many people from GC are interested in playing? I used to play with a group of friends until the game was massively infected with hackers. Most servers are private ones, and usually there's only 1 admin on at a time...or 0 for the most part. So you know where I'm going with this.... Based on the amount of people on GC that play the game, would it be feasible to start a DayZ server? Since we have so many admins, including 1 that plays (Dragonfire.gc), I think we could get a successful server going. I know it costs a pretty penny, so I wanted to just get some thoughts on if it's possible or not. And if not, then I'd still like to see how many of you would play the game, or have played the Mod in the past. It's incredibly addicting, and makes for some fun times if you get a small group of people going. Right now the game is in Alpha, and the devs don't expect a Beta until a year from now. Not sure if the game will ever reach a full release mode, but so far the game has drawn in quite a few players!

Yes Please

Except a screenshot is a picture of what's on your screen....I guess we all use that word by habit a bit too much now.

MY app is still in there right?

I won a Madden 25 tournament in September and won a free copy of the new game for my Xbox. Needless to say I was happy, I've never really won any sort of gaming tournament before.

I played the Warcraft RTS games for a while and was totally enveloped in the storyline. My most favorite character was Illidan Stormrage. I also used to make custom maps my friends and I would LAN on, and I used to use Phoenix's as "gate keepers" so that no one could rush you until you were built up a lot. Made for a fun and lasting game. Plus it's my favorite mythological beast....and I was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ. When WoW was released, I made a Night Elf shadow priest named Phoenixstorm on an RPG server because I wanted to be "related" to Illidan, plus I thought a "Storm of Phoenix birds covering the sky" was a good premise for the name (although I never RPd and I just raided). When I created an Xbox Live account that name was taken, so I chose Fenixstorm. During raids, everyone just called each other by a shortened version of their name, so I was just called Phoenix for a while. When I created my steam account, I just shortened it to Fenix because I'm used to hearing that on team chat.

I swear Jamaal Charles had some sort of NFL record Sunday didn't he?

I thought just playing on those rails was considered bannable as even if you don't die by falling off, when someone picks you up they get free points...

Other issues I've personally seen are that people don't want to swap because they don't want to be separated from other players they are friends with. There are a lot of Cliques within the L4D2 GC community, so you tend to see some of the same players play together a lot.

I can't believe A. Jeffery caught that pass....now I'm projected to lose. I need Dez Bryant to start catching more and getting some more TDs to stay in the playoffs.