The engine could use a bunch of extra work. Polish off the inventory system and other menu’s too. I’ve went to click options twice and accidentally hit re-spawn. Zombies need animations and refining like a plate of hot of brains. I heard Rocket talk about cb’s and cellphones, those would be a great addition to unlock global or personal chat. I almost wish they could find a way to prevent people from using teamspeak or vent until they find a walkie.

The killing of other players is a slippery slope. In a realism survival game it’s a hard problem to solve. You could institute a penalty for killing other players, which is basically what the bandit skins were. It’s obvious why they threw that idea out. If you had killed enough people even in self defense you would still become a bandit, and that always meant shoot on sight. Even so, you wouldn’t be able to tell someone who has killed a bunch of people apart from anyone else simply from their clothes. They have to find a realistic way to punish people for killing other players or incentives to not kill them. I’m sure there is someone out there who has a good idea for this but it’s not me.

Once you get some nice gear, there isn’t much else to do but kill other players. Gary did a great interview with Rocket where they talked about building underground structures, and that would certainly give players more to do. I would hope they have another trick or two up their sleeve to keep people occupied even beyond that.

They need another reason beside a blood transfusion for players to work together. For the most part i hide or shoot at first contact because I’ve been killed quite a few times from not reacting. Would be great if they can find mechanics where you would benefit from contacting other people, or “group” together. How they can do that and still keep their genre intact is beyond me.

I enjoy the game as it though. Especially the idea of it, and the apparent dedication the dev team has to keep it on track with what they had originally planned. I’ll gladly shell out 15 smackers to support some new faces with new ideas.