Surviving by kill on sight? Don't get it

[Deltaus]

As far as i know DayZ is about surviving, right? So what does it help you when you kill everyone you see? The items you can loot are mainly ruined when you had a battle with someone. It's not an First person shooter where you respawn and get back into action very fast. If you kill someone, the player has to start by 0, has to collect stuff for hours if he is unlucky. Where do you get your excitement from if you just KoS? I mean robbing is fun for sure but you don't have to shoot them do you?
Personally i had the most exciting situations when i ran into someone who was equally armed like i was, and noone died.
So anyone able to explain me why you get killed so many times when you are not even holding your weapon in your hands? Would be interesting

[Westvargr]

You extremly lower your chance of survival by shooting others on sight. If you engage in a fire fight, there is a very high chance you will be the one losing it.

[Mark Skid]

ZeForgotten eredeti hozzászólása:

Well technically that's surviving.
If you have all the stuff on a server with 15 people let's just say, you kill the other 14 people.
Then you survived by the very definition of that word.

Best way to say it. Amen brother!

[Alê Atório]

Westvargr eredeti hozzászólása:

You extremly lower your chance of survival by shooting others on sight. If you engage in a fire fight, there is a very high chance you will be the one losing it.

Couldn't agree more ;)

[Mark Skid]

Cpanther eredeti hozzászólása:

Some people wants to play this game like a Shooter game, determined to do something that the game is not really design for...You just have to look at the "run to Elektro as fast as you can. grab a weapon and kill someone" mentality.. some people only knows where a couple places are that have high grade equipment, and that is it. The East part of the map is almost always nearly empty, even in high population servers.

Dean could delete about 85% of the map right now, and hardly no one will notice.

More opinion being stated as fact.

If 85% of the map was deleted, you would be on here complaining you payed 30 bucks for only 15% of the map. Yet again, CP has yet to bring anything of use to the thread.

[PipBull]

i know what you are saying and agree but we can all agree that is someone see you and they have gun are even just a weapon 9 times out of 10 they will are try to kil you its this that has forced the kill on sight. so its down to you do you want to live are die

[Rexwiz]

The Mixologist eredeti hozzászólása:

Cpanther eredeti hozzászólása:

Some people wants to play this game like a Shooter game, determined to do something that the game is not really design for...You just have to look at the "run to Elektro as fast as you can. grab a weapon and kill someone" mentality.. some people only knows where a couple places are that have high grade equipment, and that is it. The East part of the map is almost always nearly empty, even in high population servers.

Dean could delete about 85% of the map right now, and hardly no one will notice.

More opinion being stated as fact.

If 85% of the map was deleted, you would be on here complaining you payed 30 bucks for only 15% of the map. Yet again, CP has yet to bring anything of use to the thread.

Go to the store page for DayZ..It says ;

Walking Simulator / Survival / Zombies / PvP

In that order, and guess what.. "Shooter" is not in there.

You just getting repetitive with this framing BS.

[Mark Skid]

Survival should have said it all, but since its CP, you fail at the comprehension.

[Mytheos]

@Mix

You should watch Berserk if you havent.

Griffith is your hero.

[Deltaus]

Westvargr eredeti hozzászólása:

You extremly lower your chance of survival by shooting others on sight. If you engage in a fire fight, there is a very high chance you will be the one losing it.

true

Merciless-KSA eredeti hozzászólása:

The KoSing issue will certainly decrease once the game has more content. People will be busy collecting vehicle parts, hunting, cooking, building bases and so on. As for now, you will have to live with it I guess. Its part of the game right now..

i agree, but i'm not so sure about the vehicles decreasing KoS, we'll see about that i guess =P

pipbull eredeti hozzászólása:

i know what you are saying and agree but we can all agree that is someone see you and they have gun are even just a weapon 9 times out of 10 they will are try to kil you its this that has forced the kill on sight. so its down to you do you want to live are die

i also agree. Mainly when you are on the airfields looting you get under fire quite fast. In that case i miss some knock-out weapons like tasers or so a bit, because sometimes i personaly react too panic. That means i fire before i realise the player was greeting me =)

King Jerk eredeti hozzászólása:

It boils down to no tents, without on server storage theres no point to looting pass the point of filling your pockets and pack. Our small group loads up on gear and says " It's time to lose our stuff " with that we run off to electro to look for trouble and die. And start all over again, just like 90% of all the other players. BUT once you add server storage it'll change from looking to kill or die , too more looting and hide (except in weapon looting areas, they will always be kos) and with that most fresh spawns will make it off the coast.

Well in my opinion elektro is the place when you are planing to do some PVP. I'm mainly mean the situations where you are looting buildings and got sniped away, without any reason. I got shot several times now when noone came too even look into my inventory....

[Cpt. STABBIN]

Its the trickle down effect. We all start new to the game and learn just to KOS to be on the safe side since that is what 90% of the rest due. So we learn the same thing and pass down to the newer players. I was in a house in electro, just spawned in. Had my mosin out looking thru a window when some guy out of thin air appears and yells fresh spawn no weapon. Scared the crap out of me. I told him to leave and he did. Comes back asking for food in a payday mask!! I told him to leave and I will drop some food. He listened and came back as told to eat. He asked if I wanted to partner up. Me Being fully geared with mosin,sks,45,mag and ammo I said no thanks and he was like NO? I told him to leave or I will shoot. He thanked me for the food and left. Could of killed but I didn't. Prob should of cause he was shady as ♥♥♥♥, but I let him go..

[StayCranked]

I bet 90% of the people hating on KOS do it themselves, when I have full gear what to do? Run around like an idiot and get shot from behind? No you start killing others

[Deltaus]

stay cranked eredeti hozzászólása:

I bet 90% of the people hating on KOS do it themselves, when I have full gear what to do? Run around like an idiot and get shot from behind? No you start killing others

agree with that but do you also kill them when they are only running around and are no danger for you? when having full gear you can also help fresh respawned players =)

[StayCranked]

fresh spawns dont need help, its easy to get loot. Yea because I collect loot and I really wanna know what he found, the game is about loot.

[Mytheos]

Or start helping people, and by doing so get better at social interactions which is a huge part of what is unique and special about the game...

And its a tool you need if you have any claim at being an expert/master of the game and make it past the intermediate stages.

If you want to stay KOS, by all means thats your choice, but you limit yourself as a player by doing that and your potential enjoyment of the game.

But some people like torturing and humiliating people, some just like to pretend its COD.

We can all play our own way, thats why we play.

Just some playstyles are more difficult than others...and being kind to people or helping them can be the most difficult thing to learn to do and stay alive...at least for now.

Once the the Player/Zombie threat levels balance out I think things will change a bit and the Friendly/Hero/Bandit/KOS percentages will be better than they are now.

[StayCranked]

Yea I like the social part, I like to say friendly and when he lowers his gun I shoot. Never trust someone when you are surviving, they could do the same to you and you lose all your loot and have to start searching again. I know you guys think its disgusting, but this is how I enjoy DayZ the most :)