WelshWizard

Wouldn't count on it mate, tomorrow is a public holiday in the Czech Republic.

Hi all, I have now found 6 heli crashes since the 1.7.7 update only one of which had a weapon (an FN-FAL). Does anyone know if they've tweaked the item spawns for heli crashes? It's possible that some of the crashes that I found had aleady been looted, but a couple had 6 loot spawns with just empty tin cans (why would empty tin cans be thrown from a helicopter crash?) and painkillers. There was no mention of them decreasing the weapon spawn rate at heli crashes in the patch notes. It would be a shame if this were the case, as I used to really enjoy searching for heli crashes; there seemed to always be the possibility of a better weapon than the one I was packing if I could just find a heli crash. Now searching for them seems pointless as the loot they spawn is no more valuable than that spawned by 3 or 4 military tents. And before anyone asks, yes I have been scoping them out first from a distance as the loot now spawns anywhere within a 100m radius of the chopper itself which of course makes it next to impossible to find amoungst the grass once you're up close. Cheers, WelshWizard

Further off topic, and I'm sure the admins won't put up with this for much longer but: From http://grammarist.com/spelling/caliber-calibre/ Caliber and calibre are different spellings of the same word, referring to (1) the internal diameter of a gun, or (2), figuratively, the quality or capacity of a person or thing. Caliber is the preferred spelling in the U.S., and calibre is standard in all other main varieties of English. (That would be India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and all the other countries where English is the official language and which don't simply change the spelling of words 'because that's how they sound' and which follow a standard date format) It is only the Americans that spell it incorrectly. Shock horror. I have never heard of the 'American' dialect being preferred over correct English spoken with an English accent. The whole 'Trade dialect' stuff you're spouting is complete and utter bullshit. Do you imagine the Chinese, Japanese and even Europeans teaching how to speak like an American? I have lived in Germany for long enough to see how English is taught here, and students are taught to spell in correct English.

Looks really polished. But calibre is spelt incorrectly.

Dude sush. Don't let the secret out!

This has not changed with the hotfix. I've now found multiple unlooted chopper crashes with the only loot being empty tin cans and painkillers. The only way to get a decent weapon (with ammo) these days is to either loot the NWAF or kill other players. The days of spending hours searching for heli crashes and that rush of excitement and anticipation when you finally found one are truly gone. Thanks community team. Thanks for making the game a blander experience.

Can you please elaborate on this when you find the time? Is the quality of loot spawned by chopper crashes now better? Cheers.

It really just isn't worth the risk anymore. When I see the telltale smoke plume of a downed heli these days, I don't get that feeling of excitement at the prospects anymore. More a dread of the monotony of playing musical chairs with the surrounding zombies for 30mins while I try to examine the loot that's actually spawned. It's ridiculous. They make the zombies more persistent, more powerful, increase the chance of a terminal infection 100 fold, spread the loot so far from the crash sites that it takes 3 or 4 times as long to find AND THEN decrease the quality of the loot to be no better than a low risk area like the Berezino military tents. Poorly thought out and poorly implemented.

What will happen to the M107 in my inventory, that I spent hours and hours of in game time searching for, when the patch is released? Will it follow the same immersion breaking route as the L85A2 AWS and just disappear when I login? Also, how will we now be able to take down the choppers that all server admins seem to have? The only way to realistically take down a huey now is with a 7.62 machine gun, exatly 0 of which I have seen since the release of the last patch. Finally, should we now expect this to become a running theme in the mod's "development"? I.e. that military weapons are taken out when people complain about being killed by them until only the makarov remains? Cheers.

I've been playing dayz for 10 months and have never had the bandit skin. I just think it's bullshit that server admins, who control restarts, will have now very to little to fear as they fly through the server with impunity. Especially now with the 2 chopper crashes spawning on restart. You can expect these sites to be farmed dry by the server admins within minutes. As was the case before they introduced staggered spawn times.

What kind of answer is that? If you have the time to beat around the bush, you surely have the time to tell us why you've decided, for the community, to remove these weapons.

A higher zoom level and a vertical line down the centre, rather than the intermittent chevrons.

Someone has to keep the community team's pandering to the vocal minority, at the cost of content, in check.

Rolling back the OA beta patch using Dayzcommander and then restarting worked for me.

You missed the point. It's not necessarily about the guns themselves, but about having something to aim for once I'm geared up. The mod is lacking in content atm. And don't presume to tell me what games I should and shouldn't play, or how I should play them.

You got a source for that? I haven't read that anywhere. All I've read is that they are re-modelling all the weapons so there will only be a limited number of them on initial release.

I really think you're pleasing a vocal minority and hope that Rocket gets back, he puts a stop to this like he did the street lights. You're detracting from the experience of those players that value the pay off of spending a multitude of in-game hours looting to find something really rare. End-game loot like these .50 cals is what keeps this game interesting once your character has managed to find some mid-end loot like an assault rifle and everything he needs to survive in the wilderness. You're also detracting from the unforgiving nature of DayZ, where death can come from anywhere at any time, with no warning. And to those saying that the AS50 is not rare. Since the newest patch (1.7.6.1), I've spent about 90 hours playing vanilla, public server DayZ and in that time have found about 50 helicopter crashes. In all of that time and all of those heli crashes, I have found exactly 0 AS50s. They are extremely rare. I appreciate that the community mod team has made some excellent changes since it took over, but reducing content from a mod that was not exactly rich in it to begin with is a poor decision.

I had a similar problem. Try using dayzcommander to downgrade your version of the beta patch. Then restart your pc. *edit* http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/130213-battleye-causes-ping-to-skyrocket/

Is your ping much higher when you join a battleye enabled servers? Also did you recently update to a newer Arms OA beta patch?

Seems legit...

Sounds awful, and not 'simply dayz' at all. Hope you can admin better than you spell.

Bad luck, sir, bad luck. I found 5 SVD camos and camo clothing at a single crash site last week... As I had a ghillie and a DMR already, I left it all. On the other hand I once found a crash site with only medical loot. 6 spawns of medical loot... Luck of the draw I guess.

Hi all, I downloaded the latest beta patch (103419) today (through DayZ Commander), and since then I have been having problems joining any servers with battleye enabled. I have been playing dayz since last August with no issues whatsoever. I have also tried a couple of other games to see if my network could be the issue, but I get consistently good pings with every other game I've tried. The problem is that once I join a server and battleye initialises itself, my ping quickly increases from normal (~30) to well above 1000. From then on it's just a waiting game before I'm kicked for high ping. The ping is so high that it is even difficult to click the ok button in the lobby because of the lag. I know that battleye is the culprit here as I've tried joining servers with battleye disabled and they all work fine. Things I've tried: - Reinstall Dayz - Manually update battleye by downloading the DLLs and overwriting the old ones in the 'Expansion' directory. - Manually downgrading back to the beta patch I was on before I updated (102678) I've searched the forums and found some threads from people with similar problems, but haven't seen any solutions as yet. For example: http://dayzmod.com/f...+battleye +ping Does anyone have any experience with this issue and could possibly help me out? Cheers, WelshWizard *Edit* Ok I feel a little stupid now, but just for anyone else encountering this issue, restarting my pc fixed it. I presume one of the steps I tried (above) worked and either battleye or something related to the newer beta was cached somewhere and simply needed to be flushed.

Why were you logging out in the middle of Electro?

I shall qoute you as you are correct sir. I think the only gun that the hunter loot table spawns is the cz 550. Saying that, I haven't found one at a deerstand yet...