Why are people so hostile

[Ambiguous winkyface]

I don't play Day Z frequently so don't mind if I sound ignorant. I got spawned in some industrial area, found nice loot. A ♥♥♥♥ ton of bullets(no gun however). A backpack, a berett, some fancy ♥♥♥ clothes and alot of tools and food.

I heard someone shooting at zombies. I walked towards him, waved with friendly intentions and he IMMEDIATELY shot me.

Respawn, find some food and a sledgehammer in a town I walked to. Saw one player running, considering my previous experience I tried to hide(he was wielding a gun). Walked into a house and apparently there was another guy with a gun(assumably his friend), tried waving. He waited 10 seconds then shot me as well.

Are there ANY friendly people in this game? Or is everyone hostile as ♥♥♥♥?

[Insomniac Jack]

You have over 2k hours in dota 2, one would assume you'd be used to such hostility by now. And the answer's yes -mostly.

[Drifta]

nah i have lots of friendly encounters in the far majority and non friendly very small percentage however i do play exp..

[Vash]

Usually the people who are still friendly after getting killed several times, avoid other players altogether, and only interact in a friendly way on their own terms (like stalking a fresh-spawn and then approaching him and talking).

Expecting that random encounters end up in friendly conversation and tag-along is suicide at the moment. lol

[Ambiguous winkyface]

Originally posted by Insomniac Jack:

You have over 2k hours in dota 2, one would assume you'd be used to such hostility by now. And the answer's yes -mostly.

lol yea. Dota 2 users can be quite... easy to upset.

But you never know. I'd say you would assume playing with game with a small squad would be much more fun. But evidentaly people find shooting others more fun

[Vash]

Originally posted by CEO Skelington:

Originally posted by Insomniac Jack:

You have over 2k hours in dota 2, one would assume you'd be used to such hostility by now. And the answer's yes -mostly.

lol yea. Dota 2 users can be quite... easy to upset.

But you never know. I'd say you would assume playing with game with a small squad would be much more fun. But evidentaly people find shooting others more fun

It is much more fun to play with a group, at least with another teammate.

However, due to a lot of backstabbing, people also avoid that. So that experience usually only happens with people who are already friends outside DayZ, and team up when playing.

You can also find some friendly players around these forums who team up now and then.

[Ambiguous winkyface]

Originally posted by Vash Konnor:

Originally posted by CEO Skelington:

lol yea. Dota 2 users can be quite... easy to upset.

But you never know. I'd say you would assume playing with game with a small squad would be much more fun. But evidentaly people find shooting others more fun

It is much more fun to play with a group, at least with another teammate.

However, due to a lot of backstabbing, people also avoid that. So that experience usually only happens with people who are already friends outside DayZ, and team up when playing.

You can also find some friendly players around these forums who team up now and then.

Kinda ruines the purpose of the game that way. It suprises me though, I wouldn't say shooting at people who stand 4 pixels next to you waving kindly is fun. Ofc I realize it's a game and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over people is hilarious from time to time. But for me I'd be flat out boring playing like that.

[Tommy The Tank]

come to darkly.ca , you can get some feelZ. our mmble info is on site. peace

[Vash]

Originally posted by CEO Skelington:

Kinda ruines the purpose of the game that way. It suprises me though, I wouldn't say shooting at people who stand 4 pixels next to you waving kindly is fun. Ofc I realize it's a game and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over people is hilarious from time to time. But for me I'd be flat out boring playing like that.

I have to be honest about that, although I also think and thinked like that for a long time, I came to realize that even the bad parts of DayZ helped me enjoy the game.

If I hadn't been killed several times just for appearing in the monitor of another player, I wouldn't have started to put some effort into being invisible while moving accross the map. I wouldn't feel the need to find my Mosin (favourite weapon, ATM) and play the way I do.

If it was perfect, I would provably find DayZ boring because it wasn't a challenge. You go somewhere, meet someone, have that awkward ingame first conversation, and then what? You can do a lot of stuff, but the risk of hostility also gives it an edge and taste that other games simply don't have.

I'm not supporting KOS or anything like that, I am really friendly ingame. But I would be lying if I said that it doesn't add up to the whole experience.

Also, I wish it doesn't go away - and I can already hear the crowds crying out loud for saying this - because it makes DayZ authentic. To me, a world like the one in DayZ isn't friendly. It's the opposite of that. People have reasonable conditions to live around the World, and we still choose to go at each-others jaws, so in an apocalypse I just assume everyone would go "glove off" for their survival.

I can't wait to team up with several friends, make a plan on how to make a base and get supplies, and then going through all the adventures of making those plans happen. There's only a point of defending a base if there's someone willing to attack it. That's why I don't support people who beg for PVE official servers.

[Chromosome Collector]

I tend to travel with my clanmates, and we'll number anywhere between 5 to even 12 (only once we hit 12 though) at one time. Sometimes we'll stalk freshspawns and often, we'll become friends with them. Except for the ones that charge you with a fire extinguisher or other melee weapon and call you a variation of the word 'homosexual'. I've noticed people will give you a chance if they're, well, severely outnumbered and outgunned. Then in those few minutes, most of them will have a change-of-heart and decide to be friendly. A couple friends and I literally had a group of about 6 or 7 freshspawns with us and we were just hanging out.

[Flyan!]

Originally posted by Vash Konnor:

Originally posted by CEO Skelington:

Kinda ruines the purpose of the game that way. It suprises me though, I wouldn't say shooting at people who stand 4 pixels next to you waving kindly is fun. Ofc I realize it's a game and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over people is hilarious from time to time. But for me I'd be flat out boring playing like that.

I have to be honest about that, although I also think and thinked like that for a long time, I came to realize that even the bad parts of DayZ helped me enjoy the game.

If I hadn't been killed several times just for appearing in the monitor of another player, I wouldn't have started to put some effort into being invisible while moving accross the map. I wouldn't feel the need to find my Mosin (favourite weapon, ATM) and play the way I do.

If it was perfect, I would provably find DayZ boring because it wasn't a challenge. You go somewhere, meet someone, have that awkward ingame first conversation, and then what? You can do a lot of stuff, but the risk of hostility also gives it an edge and taste that other games simply don't have.

I'm not supporting KOS or anything like that, I am really friendly ingame. But I would be lying if I said that it doesn't add up to the whole experience.

Also, I wish it doesn't go away - and I can already hear the crowds crying out loud for saying this - because it makes DayZ authentic. To me, a world like the one in DayZ isn't friendly. It's the opposite of that. People have reasonable conditions to live around the World, and we still choose to go at each-others jaws, so in an apocalypse I just assume everyone would go "glove off" for their survival.

I can't wait to team up with several friends, make a plan on how to make a base and get supplies, and then going through all the adventures of making those plans happen. There's only a point of defending a base if there's someone willing to attack it. That's why I don't support people who beg for PVE official servers.

I don't get how PVE would be fun. People just want it because they're mad at the game because they keep getting killed. These are the people that are expecting waves and waves of zombies to keep the game interesting. They are going to increase zombie spawns, but it won't be enough to have servers based off of PVE alone.

[TemplarGFX]

What DayZ is missing at the moment is the means to do things other than fighting. Fishing and cooking items as well as tents are the first steps to giving players the ability to simulate more of a life in the game, but its still a long way off. As a result after a while, especially if you are cautious, you run out of things to do and loot to find. With zombie's being too few and too buggy what is left is other players. If you are tired of walking around looting, your probably looking for combat. We will just have to wait for more to be added I think.

Embrace it, accept it, or come back later

Originally posted by KNAKLES THE EKIDNUH:

I don't get how PVE would be fun. People just want it because they're mad at the game because they keep getting killed. These are the people that are expecting waves and waves of zombies to keep the game interesting. They are going to increase zombie spawns, but it won't be enough to have servers based off of PVE alone.

So just because you cannot see the enjoyment that others get from this game's PvE it should be excluded? You can dress up your toon in useless clothes, paint your weapons and stuff in fashionable colours and you can write notes on paper. You get hungry and thirsty, sick or hurt, have to manage heat and can craft items and weapons. You can make fires, cook food, go fishing and make camps. These are all PvE aspects of the game.

[Deaths]

I won't do it.

[QLS Desert Rat]

Originally posted by CEO Skelington:

I don't play Day Z frequently so don't mind if I sound ignorant. I got spawned in some industrial area, found nice loot. A ♥♥♥♥ ton of bullets(no gun however). A backpack, a berett, some fancy ♥♥♥ clothes and alot of tools and food.

I heard someone shooting at zombies. I walked towards him, waved with friendly intentions and he IMMEDIATELY shot me.

Respawn, find some food and a sledgehammer in a town I walked to. Saw one player running, considering my previous experience I tried to hide(he was wielding a gun). Walked into a house and apparently there was another guy with a gun(assumably his friend), tried waving. He waited 10 seconds then shot me as well.

Are there ANY friendly people in this game? Or is everyone hostile as ♥♥♥♥?

One of the best things that happened to me early on in multiplayer games is that I found a clan I was happy with. If you are young, that might be hard. Sometimes us old guys are not very patient. Someone here can put a link to where you would go to find people to play with.. Most of the guys I am playing with, I have known online for 12+ years.. Most of the clan plays Dayz occasionly, some of us play it every night.

So, look around, find some group that is friendly.