chokko

I love night. certainly in the mod it was way more scarey, especially in the early days before people (ok me) knew about the gamma cheat. running like a headless chicken off the beach into forest, the ground is totally black. hearing other people run past you in the dark (are they other new spawns or people killing newspawns? what are the odds they have NVGs ?)... heading for stary sobor to lootup thinking it should be quieter...running with W held down by 9v battery across fields wondering why clouds aren't moving. oh must be a fence there...jump over, ah i'm moving again. my favourite dayz experience was being on server with just 5 ppl on...me+friend and 3 others. it had been quiet for an hour, we were about to log off on hill above starey when I *thought* I saw a blink about 1km south. keep looking that way for another 5 mins...another blink. get out binos...I can see 3 flashlights running around. they are extinguished as they get close to the tents...even though we had the advantage, was heart pounding stuff crawling up close to try and establish if they were heavily armed, what action we would take etc i personally would like to see the in-game gamma/brightness removed fullstop. If people want to use those controls on their monitor...well there's nothing that can stop that from happening. Make night much darker and viewable distance reduced somewhat. Be great if night vision was established slowly over 1/2hr or so, then ruined if someone uses lamp/fire/shines headlights/flashlight in your eyes.

I did read it. it wasn't clear what you were on about, but is now that you've spammed the forum umpteen times about this "solution". You keep harping on that the weaknesses YOU identified in your own solution won't be a problem, because the people coming to your hardcore/ultrarealism/elite/ishouldbe inSAS (snigger) servers, wouldn't attempt to exploit the weakness. Which means there is no need for any change/solution - because nobody coming to your hardcore/ultrarealism/elite/ishouldbeinSAS servers would ever think about using teamspeak (disclaimer: other 3rd party chat programs are available) Is it realistic and immersive for me, to hear your mum calling you for your potty time in the background? Being forced to listen to you vacuuming the floor ? No thanks, I want to listen to the in-game sounds. As mentioned earlier in the thread, the ingame comms (voice and chat) have a delay and sometimes the chat messages do not even go through. Even if there were a reliable and realtime communications mechanism implemented, I would be expecting concepts such as shouting and whispering to be available. i.e. a way to control how far your voice travels. People who train for real combat, learn to communicate silently - and I would much rather the devs implement those measures, than demanding all players have a microphone and it is on all the time. What happens if someone doesn't have a microphone btw ? No (hardcore/ultrarealism/elite/ishouldbeinSAS) dayz for you! ANother for the 'ways to get around this even if it were implemented' list...Plenty of people have real soundcards with a mike port, whilst the mobo does too. So whichever one the game is 'listening on'..i simply don't have anything plugged into it. Would be interesting to see how much bandwidth it used, and impact on game..the Zs are sluggish enough as it is being server side. If you want realism, I would have thought something slightly more important would be demanding servers run 24/7 (without restart), loot never respawning, and if you ever logout/disconnect..your character is dead.

how's that going to work ? make battleye ban anyone with teamspeak etc installed on their pc ? teamspeak etc servers usually aren't on same server as the dayz server

exactly. as a server admin, I am very surprised just how many people are playing from the same household (same IP). hardly expect them to be silent. we advertise teamspeak to help ppl meet up. The game lacks so many other RL ways to communicate, such as noticeboards etc..and the in game comms are poor at the moment. There's a significant delay between person transmitting and receiver getting it (even with the text messages) and voice is rather quiet even when next to one another. Not at all conducive for quick decision making when stumbling across an unknown player.

4) no comment 3) rent your own server if you are that insecure 2) I think you are speaking for yourself there. I, and those on my server, all want persistence on - once issues with choppers etc are resolved. 1) i5/i7 have been pretty standard (intel wise) for gaming for past what, 5 years? most are cheap, perform well. no need to buy the $1000 editions unless you are indeed after top of the line performance. if you want to buy cheap, then expect cheap performance, especially in a CPU intensive game. next you'll be demanding dayz works on a raspberry pi...

Your concerns... 1) instead of trying to run dayz on a processor designed for lightweight work/nas... run it with an i5 or i7? 2) what's wrong with complex formulas ? that's why they teach maths in computer science courses (so stay at school kiddies !). Time we have, this game isn't going beta/full release anytime soon. 3) server admin ain't going to do that too many times, and still expect people to play on it. at the same time, players can do themselves a favour by keeping up to date by reading the server messages the admin provides and/or read their forum. 4) who says they aren't monitoring loot distribution already ? wipes are fact of life until this game is in full release. maybe a little storm can come through and blow the tents away after 14 days of nobody touching it. I don't have a problem with people dropping more than 2 tents. I never use them myself, but enjoy hunting for peoples camps to loot in the forests. Servers already reboot every 2-4 hours. If there are no warnings, find one with better admin.

will asphyxiation from using a fire in the shed, be implemented too ? :)

found one a few minutes ago. they're out there

Netting certainly aint rare anymore, found 24 in fishing village alone (without restart, non persistant private server)

if you're not prepared to physically hurt the person verbally offending you, just walk away until the offender is out of range... really quite simple.

I can only assume you have never had to console a loved one who has been the victim of theft, bondage, imprisonment, deliberately wounded, murdered, or had nasty things said about their pet cat 'Tiddles'. All this happens in the game now...and by the time they log, the damage is done. Real damage. If you want to punish people in game for nasty words, go for gold. Remember there's no active government in Chernarus to fight your battles for you. Devs did put prisons there. It's now your job to go hunt the 'offenders' down, put them in the prison and keep them there. Have fun OP !

yes - solution right there OP. until then, let us all know what server you play on...i'd like to have a tea party with you, discuss world peace etc

Murder isn't a freAking feature...it isn't "in the game" the game is just lacking preventative measures to stop it. You miss my point, it requires a conscious decision and physical effort for devs to implement rape/bj. Hardly high on the list when 0.01% of players want it and the rest of the game is in a woeful state. of course it will cripple conversations...it blocks how a player wants to interact with others. If someone wants to be rude to me in the game and get me worked up...it's all part of the cruel world that we want to survive in. if that's the biggest exaggeration you've heard, I suggest you get outside a bit more..heck - you might become a little less sensitive to the world ;)

I think most people would prefer the devs actually.....continue development of the game ? not spending all day sitting by the whinge inbox to respond to an ACCUSATION of bad language being used. this is a server admin responsibility. so it comes back to the servers policies, as to whether bad words are allowed. If not, admin checks the chat logs. and if it happened in voice chat...well tough luck OP..there is no evidence.

it's a sandbox game. if it's in the game...it's on. I cannot imagine the devs putting in X hours of effort to implement the other 2 features you mention, that have never been part of the game. Just like they won't spend X hours developing a spanky new system to cripple player conversations.

I just cannot see the logic in.... Commit murder in a bar......thrown out, barred, maybe even police involved if serious Commit murder in a Cinema.....Same Commit murder in a Cafe.....Same Commit murder in a Shop.....Same Commit murder in a video game.......Oh that's fine.... YES THE DEVS SHOULD BAN DAYZ ALTOGETHER !!!!!!!!!!!! Guess what OP, there's no simulated police in dayz...anything goes. If you want to be the nanny-state police, request the devs to make you a special uniform and make sure you are on all the servers all the time to send them naughty kids to sit in the corner. What next...get banned for making religious comments in the game ? Get banned for laughing at another being a cripple ?

'glitching back', is probably what I call 'rubber-banding'... I get this on my own server..everytime about 20seconds after I log in. seems to be ok after that are you getting it to bright green 'energised', or simply getting rid of the brown hungry (if latter, then yes it does get to starving quick if you are sprinting everywhere)

I could see this happening on the mod, with the verbose logs and in-game kill messages. But how can a SA server renter admin, identify you as the killer?

seconded

never had it myself, but from the numerous times it has been posted before the person with bugged compass should log out and log back in

this is navigation 101. 1) find hill/building you can remember 2) find compass bearing of direction you will run (write it down if necessary) 3) count the number of steps your character makes (or time with stop watch) until you stop 4) place the tent come back next day, find your hill/building and repeat the journey...

mine had all it's gear, and yours ! wtf ???

why use powdered milk, when we could be squeezing them nice big warm juicy udders on the cows out there. mmmmmmmmmm

I don't think it needs to be changed at all...it's the only time zombies are scarey and inspires you to gear up as quickly as possible / hope u find what u need etc they really aren't hard to shake...just run through a tree or two. heck - half the time they give up chasing you through an open field...