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Because there is no freaking new night system, what part don't you understand, its broken, its weak its wrong, why force it on the player base

Like many people who want to end KOS, the OP describes a non multi player game...cause that's what they want, they do not want the unpredictability of what mean other players will do. how about we give non player killers better night vision...that would be a powerful encouragement....

no bandits, no game I am not a bandit, I actually never KOS, but thank you guys who do. They enjoy that, I enjoy the danger that it brings to the game. They should make a non multi player version of the game for those who do not enjoy the tension of the game at its best.

well, I am seeing a totally different thing on every server and every setting. In the middle of a wide open field, with no clouds and all the stars visible, I can not see anything around me, just the horizon of the forest. in 1st person, I cannot see a single thing around me, in 3rd person, I can swing around enough that I can see my body in profile if the camera is on the ground. It is a kind of dark you have to go in a dark closet to reproduce, with no light coming under the door.. but your in the middle of an open field on a star lite night. This is absolutely, undeniably wrong.

I love the "realistic" night time world this game is proposing. You cannot see your own hands, you cannot see your own feet, you cannot see anything around you but the horizon faintly. (if night was like this, man kind would never have made it as a species we know that many predators can see very well at night.) Instead of hunkering down for the night in a secure place to SLEEP, our realistic hero is walking around waving his flash light that can only see a 2 degree arc for 10 feet. (you would never do this, it wrecks your night vision, makes the world seem way darker then it is...oh ya. see above, and who uses a 9 volt battery in a flashlight? Why do we do this, because we must eat every 10 minutes and drink every 2 minutes. And tie the whole unrealistic, irrational mess to the actual world clock so that your customers can only play the game in the broken dark. But then call it DAYZ instead of NIGHTZ There is no component of this that is remotely realistic, it is not even rational. First the designer must abandon his infatuation with a 24 hour world, it is out of sync with everything else he is trying to do. hour day hour night cycles are silly too. All day is silly too, night is too cool if it was realistically dark. Put the clock on 4 hour days. like the navy watch system. sunset at begining of the 4th watch, sun rise at the end fo the 1st watch, Full dark would be one hour from the middle of the 4th to the middle of the first. If you cant fix the way that dark is presented in the game to make it at all realistic. Then quit screwing with the gama access, the night actually is far more realistic with the gama adjusted then the way the game presents it now.

That is just nonsense. I have spent many more nights in the forest away from all lights than most anyone you will ever meet. What your saying is just not true. The only place I have ever seen that kind of dark was in triple canopy in Panama. In every other situation you can see your self easily, you can see the others in your det easily, you can keep your orientation with your surroundings reasonably well. If there is open sky and star light, you can nearly read. What this game is doing is nothing to do with typical darkness at night. And if you want "realism" people sleep at night, you dont have to eat and drink all night. there is nothing about realism in this concept, and its a piss poor design anyway, if you want a night element why tie it to the actual time of day. So working guys can only ever play at night? What an assinine prospect really lol. Is this the revenge of the grave yard shift or something?

lol no its not. I spent 7 years in the infantry, when you get your eyes adjusted almost no night looks like that. Not even close.

you mean the real nightz where no working person ever sees the game in day light, gotcha

How dense are you. Ok we tested, we cannot play the game cause its broken rendition of night has been forced on us in the first patch. No mention in the release notes no mention of this skitzo design decision anywhere I have seen. So take our 30 bucks, render the game useless the next day. Do you really think people will pay for a game they can only play on weekends? Do you really think a survival game where people do anything else other then sleep at night is realistic? People are just so brain washed on this forum it is stunning. Your not testing anything, your just a stoog that thinks he is "on the team" cause he paid his 30 bucks and toes the silly fan boi line.

lol not its not, that's the problem, what they are doing is not realistic. dont judge what a night is like based on how dark it seems when you come out of your house. when you are in the dark for a bit you can see far far far better then this game allows you to see.

Wow fan bois take strong drugs on this forum. I dont understand why people think it makes then tough or smart to kiss the devs ass? It makes you ridiculous.

it was the patch that wiped your character

ya you love dean, we know, you really really love him. But the game engine cannot model anything like what night dark is like. So they should not even try, next time you and dean are talking about it pass that on to him. And tell him that when he does release notes, why not say what he changed?

Ya, and they turned out the lights all over the world Earth to rocket, your game engine cannot represent night time, Turn gamma back on and quit wasting our time. Its not like you have to inflict this crap on us just because we clicked on a disclaimer. You have some responsibility to people who gave you 30 dollars, its self evident this doesn't work, why did you have to even test it.

Ya they listened to the whiners on here who have no idea what dark really is, now standing in the middle of an open field on a clear night with no moon you cannot even see a single portion of your self. Well done dummies. lol Its Rockets vision for the game lol

Rocket is growing on me, lol

You most certainly can, I opened several cans with a knife last night. If they patched again this am and broke it..... I like how the OP makes a perfectly reasonable post, gets flamed by all the tough fan boys, and the "moderators" think that is just fine lol

Sure, do that, make it so that night is truly unrealistically unplayable. See what happens. for those of you who have never spent time in the woods at night, it has no relation to this game. Really. your eyes adjust, you can move thought woods with ease, you can see 100s or meters across fields, you can shoot your weapon over open sites. The only place where I have seen dark like in this game in real life is under triple canopy in Panama. Cant see your hand dark. This games representation of dark is just ass, without that being fixed, do not dare touch the gama fix.

First spawn, in my first game of SA, Near that cliff north of electro, Was through the first few buildings, and I saw a light shining arround in the buildings beside the tracks, guy was running from building to bulding with the light waving in the air hitting the tops of trees and shining out of windows, I found a non related dead body on the hill and looted that while I was watching the light show, then stumbled off to collapse shortly there after. But my tally is so far is seen about 8 people in 4 starts, 4 or so never saw me, 2 I talked to, 1 we saw each other but no ack, One killed me.

all great discussion, but I tapped out at a fountain, till I was you are full or what ever, and walked 30 feet and got the first thirst message. for those who have never been clinically dehydrated, Not thirsty, collapsed from dehydration, the amount of water you can driink in that state to recover is truly amazing. your body can take all that fluid back with amazing rapidity. I think I drank three pitchers of water.

I played on a mod server at one time that had it on hour cycles and it was nonsense. The transitions are just silly. But a 4 hour one might be fine. MDDENMDDENMDDEN where only 1 in 4 hours is total dark, then you can plan around those hours for high risk moves. Would likely improve the game I think, I like night, just not playing in it for 4 hours. I just do what everyone does, up you gama and brightness. What does that gain anyone.

The product itself compared even to the most evolved mod version is far far superior. smoother, more predictable, the environment not only far more detailed with all the open buildings but far better finished to seem like a real place. I am not a helicopter builder, base builder, I do not even use tents. I just like surviving till the bandits or the zombies get me. I really like this version of the game. It was interesting having to figured out via a few deaths how to make and apply a bandage, how to open a can of food with a knife, how to pace my self while I travel and rest. But very enjoyable. A few buildings with door sill issues, a real dearth of supplies on the coast, but fun challenges. it is a bit silly that I drink 10 times at a well until I slosh, and be a bit thirsty 30 meters of walking later.

finally worked it out, wave the knife over the can, then you can click on the can and get an open dialog then you an eat it in 25% increments sigh

but how to use it, I drag them to my bottom tool bar, they sit there, I hit the number for them, they are in my hand, I am bleeding but nothing I can do will trigger using the thing. I have died twice with rags in my bag from bleeding.

bleeding out with rags in my hands sigh how do you use the thing?