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I mean, if you don't like something about the game you don't have to wait for the devs to fix it, you can jump in and start modding yourself, or just play Rust and leave DayZ behind? As a very wise woman once said "let it go, let it go...."

Did you ever find them? DZ\structures\industrial\Power\ file names are Power_Pole_Wood with various suffixes...

I'm trying to figure out where I can define and call an animation for a crafting recipe. I can see it's not from within the recipe itself, I've been searching through config files, for two days and I think it's time to admit defeat and ask... Thanks ahead of time. D Edit: should this have been posted in misc?

right now just 32, but if we can fill that then we'll go higher of course.

Hi people. If you're looking for a server that is just a little more like things used to be a few years ago, then this might be for you. This IS NOT a 'high loot' server, there is a little more food spawning to get going a little easier. Guns and ammo have been very slightly tweaked, and since no more spray cans, green, black and camo variants also spawn in. No specific play style, no server rules.. Old farts welcomed! Feedback will also be welcome via our own forum if you think sonething could be better.

One last thing, before anyone gets upset about the name, BellendZ, it'd not rude, it's where I'm from, Bell End, Worc's, UK. Out of the village as a kid we just embraced the fun and referred to ourselves as the Bellends. Link to maps... https://osm.org/go/euzAD8Fc

Unfortunately this is the only provider, I guess Sony have a service agreement with them or something, so all community servers are the same.

Nitrado run all the servers for PS4, I have no idea what spec the servers are but basically you don't have a choice so it doesn't really matter. I've been playing about on my server with loot spawns and animal spawns, I think upping Zombies wouldn't be too much of a problem, I'll be trying that next, I also noticed there is a section in one of the XMLs for setting up animal spawns that has been commented out (so its not implemented) that seems to be for randomly spawning in "herds" of zombies the same way wolves, bears and other animals are spawned in, I'm going to try playing with that later and see if I can get anything to work, if it does I'll come back and let you know.

I'm not going to get all fan boy about this and try to defend the indefensible, but we have to be careful not to mix up the management priorities with the actual team of people working on this, I know they are not in there trying to make a broken game, so I want to be clear I'm not having a pop at the guys doing the work on this (Nor am I having a pop at you bohicafool, it's unclear who you mean by "these developers" so I assumed you mean the company not the dev team). Outside of that I have come across from PC to PS4, because that's where all of my friends are playing. I've found it to be nothing short of a shock. I too am having a terrible time with items getting stuck in containers, some items not being accessible at all from the bodies of players. Spending hours searching for and collecting barrels, taking time tom conceal them and then filling them with items only to find I can't access most of them is a total slap in the face, and it's not like some kind of visual bug you can learn to ignore, this is a core mechanic that plum doesn't work. I remember a long time ago you'd have a chorus of "Alpha!!!" thrown at you for complaining about this kind of stuff and rightly so, but this is a full release game now and it's not cheap, so to find that several of the core mechanics are poorly implemented (catching a cold from being cold despite being alone is a total piss take) or have huge flaws in the case of containers and cars crashing the game if you drive too fast. This game has to be one of the most annoying games ever, to have so much untapped potential, its a real shame. I'd like to see a true to concept spiritual successor emerge from a studio that doesn't seem to have contempt for its customers on an engine that can actually handle everything it needs to do to work properly on any given platform, the current Enfusion engine is a joke on PS4.

This is sad, but yesterday after about three hours of playing and finding not a single firing gun on a picked clean server, I was in the town hall in Novodmitrovsk, and as I came around the corner there was a player stood in the corner of the room doing that creepy logout thing where they look around the room with empty eyes. Of course, I punched him out, took his shotgun and killed him, took what stuff he had and then checked the player list, there was no one else on the server, so this poor bastard had literally logged off in the only place on the map there was another player, I bet when he logs back in he wll be convinced his character was lost and not killed by me. I love killing people that have logged out, it feels naughty.

Might also try for this, seems like it could be a hoot, I'll be sitting at the bus stop wearing a pink carnation, if I can't find a pink carnation, I'll wear a lady bug backpack. Just imagine being the only lone wolf on the server and seeing a congregation of 30 odd people somewhere. Also have to do it based on time, Germany are playing Sunday night so... like that will factor in. Sssssscccchhhland!

I'm impressed that so far this seems like a pretty friendly thread, everyone seems to be chipping in. I think there is a hatred of snipers because of the nature of the kill, you never get to really see where it comes from, or at least if you get killed by an effective sniper, and I have a real respect for people that are sniping from distances of 7 or 8 hundred metres, I've found a few really great spots for sniping balota and that new town west of Svetlo, and a shit ton of positions around the very new large town, the beauty of that place is that most people would be expecting a sniper from those rock ridges, so they look there first, but there are a lot of places you can hide and get a shot off before changin position instantly and picking up your target from a new angle. I'd really love to get a small team of people who are serious about sniping, some backups for watch their backs and then a few runners who can sit down in the town to loot and hide the bodies, thus resetting the trap for new punters. I've done this with four people, but really you need at least six to be effective and constantly have two angles plus a backup on each with two people to run. Counter to what most peole might think though, I hope they don't introduce dedicated sniper rifles, the Moose Nugget has a certain "gully-ass" feel to it and makes me feel super immersed, and it's effective range is not crazy either, though the network bubble makes anything over 1km useless anyway I guess. I do hope they introduce jury rigged ghillie suits and the like, I imagine a few burlap sacks and green and black t shirts and tactical shirts would suffice for something like that (with a pair of scissors and a sowing kit) Plus, and hear me out on this, I'd love to be able to duct tape a long range scope to the side of assault rifles, not for shooting, obviously, but as a sort of ad-hoc telescope that isn't taking up inventory slots, I think taping all manner of shit to your rifle would be pretty great. and the burlap sack wrapping for a mosin with a long range...

For sniping you might need to do a bit of homework, much like a real sniper would have to, I have a few spots from which I snipe and I range certain land marks so I know how far things are at a glance, try and find buildings or trees that are at exactly 100, 200, 300 and so on metres away and make notes or drawings, you'll only need them for a short time before you learn what your ranges are and after a while longer you'll get pretty good at judging distance with no aid at all. here is a little image i printed off that I used to use for Svetlo' it's a spot i don't ever use any more so there is no harm in letting people see it now My advice for the practical side of it (making the shot) would be the same as H0nkX said, unbind your "hold breath" from zoom so you can zoom in and hold breath seperatly. Also try finding a spot with a few Zombies at distance and practice popping them, it's never the same as shooting a player as they are often running around erratically, but knowing where they are likely to stop for a second or two is also worth learning, the back of cars like police cars, in front of doors that may be closed on buildings or garages. Also, if you are using an area more than once, try looking around for a few spots that cover your area from different angles, then you can move from spot to spot once you have someone pinned down and they think they are safe from you, and you can often bring people out of cover by putting a few shots into whatever they are hiding behind, panic will usually take over and make people do stupid things. Watch out for clever players who will try to bait you into making shots and reveal your position so their mates can pin point you and always keep checking your surroundings for players trying to flank you, it's best to snipe in teams, someone with an assault rifle watching your back helps, or keeping entrances to a building covered if you are indoors. EDIT Another cool thing to note is if you take someone down, their body will usually start to sttract other players who will want to loot it, don't start shooting at people as soon as they appear, let them hang around the body for a while, maybe even let the first few go, they might have friends and thae them back for more, when they are looting, you have a very easy shot, but still best to lull them into a false sense of security.

That was me! only kidding, I would have made friends with you and played along side you through various escapades before taking you to a "cool place I know of" and then asking you to open a can of beans for me, before popping one in your head and taking all of your undamaged gear. God dammit, why KoS when screwing with people is way more interesting? People have no imagination any more. Great job of writing, I really enjoyed reading that, I'd give you my beans twice if I could.

My character was just on holiday with his family, he was a massive nerd and had talked them into going there because his favourite video game was based on the local landscape, when the infection broke out. Being the not so prepared type, they fell into the hands of a small group of people who enslaved them and questioned them about what they had. Upon realising they had nothing, they proceeded to murder his wife before his eyes, slowly slicing off swathes of her skin like thinly cut bacon, and frying them, feeding themselves and, once the starvation set in, him too. His son was kept in another room, where my character would hear the nightly screams, until one night they came no longer. He was comforted that in death his son was spared the terror he was exposed to in life, but swore to get revenge. After a few more days he managed break free from his prison while most of the group were out hunting and killed the remaining two, laying in wait he killed the others upon their return, he burned the bodies and buried his family. Now he roams the hills of Chernarus, a hunter amongst the hunted, a bounty hunter, a renogade.... Syke! he's just a local who happened to be on the beach with a flashlight and a battery.

I think they'll balance this all out later on, it's not really important right now, balance comes later in the process. Now we know using weapons is less effective than a swift "tok" to the noggin with fists we can not worry about filling our inventories with weapons, I guess.

I'm actually kinda happy with where it is now too, sure I get pissed off with certain things like the weird glitches, the odd bit of rubber banding and all that usual stuff, but I think the same as most other people, features, features, features, then go beta and start cutting away that fat. oooh that fat.

I had it happen once actually, i was in one of those cranes on the docks and crouched down to keep myself in cover, when I heard the bone breaking noise and the moody "you are dead", I was pissed off for about 10 seconds, then I just went back at it, decided it was a one off and tried again, and couldn't replicate it, so I guess it was just super bad luck. Shit happens I guess. I'm sure eventually they will snipe all of these problems though.

WTF?! What are you basing this on? I assume you have the results of the study you did across a representative portion of every kind of European server? Oh wait, this is just your experience? And regardless of your own background (German or otherwise) to judge a section of the population because of their nationality is exactly the same as judging someone because of colour, sexual preference or sex. Let's try not to be such a bunch of casually prejudice/racist dick-heads and think about what we are saying before we say it. Recently in another post I noticed and commented that a lot of people use, as standard, very sexist rhetoric.. there is a constant stream of "man up", "grow a pair", "nut up", etc etc etc, that somehow implies that to be strong in this world you have to be a man. I think the Mod's should start clamping down on this kind of stuff, it's not acceptable.

This made me chuckle after a god awful night at work, you have my beans, It's really the perfect statement.

who is that to? Also, I'm going to just go ahead and say, I think all this masculine rhetoric is a bit boring and narrow minded now too, lots of references to balls... as though somehow being good at something or being bad-ass requires you to be male...

Sod going to heli crashes...I think the easiest way to get an M4 now is to wait for other players that have them and... you know... ask if you can have it.

I agree, I spent the evening camping it myself, not to kill people, but I was just watching the movement of players, where is hot and where is not, easy tells that it has been searched properly and the like. There are a LOT of great sniper positions around that town, but by the same token, there are a shit load of great ways to move through the town in cover too, remember snipers, unless they are completely amazing, are going to be waiting for you to stop in a spot exposed to them to avoid making useless shots at moving targets and giving their position away, so you can still move quickly through certain open areas, Also watched a lot of would be snipers choosing some god awful places to shoot from, like the top of the town hall and the roofs of the tower blocks. Anyone fancy starting a sniper removal team? (that will ironically be a team of anti-sniper snipers...)

For me the cool thing about 1pp is that it makes you re think your play style in terms of what clothing you go for, since the mountain backpacks and certain jackets block your rear view, so you have to find new balance and make tougher decisions, like do I take the large backpack and lose out on being able to see my surroundings effectively, or do i go with a hunter backpack or a wee taloon pack? Do I take this down jacket or do I wait for something that doesn't block my rear view? Playing 1pp has made me really re think what is essential in the game, it's made me travel lighter due to these choices, so most of the time now I can get away with just wearing an assault vest or a small backpack, and making the spaces work for me, collect more yellow boxes, it's changed almost every aspect of how I play, plus being super aware of silhouetting, so I find myself finding better cover, picking better bushes and so on. I'm not saying 1pp is better or worse, but it changed my play style a lot for the better, and it's the video game equivalent of learning to ride a motorbike fast in the wet, I've learned to be just as effective while always being that mush more cautious and fluid, taken off the rough edges, which is now a natural part of my play-style,

This is the 'word' version of that little spark noise you hear in a film just before an explosion.