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I agree. So sick of seeing all the noobs cry about how the game is too hard. The vast, silent majority loves the difficulty increase. They are silent because they love it and are too busy playing :)

The new animations are epic. The old ones were fucking terrible :)

That is pretty fucking awesome, really hope Rocket uses them

No If they rolled back the update, me and my clan would probably stop playing. The game went from being pretty fucking boring because it was so easy back to the DayZ I love, more so than ever before. It's great and the difference here is that the shit players will get better where as the good players will just quit if Rocket caves into the noobs.

No OP, you are the wrong sort of person to listen to. The exact reason this game suceeds is because of how different it is to 99.9% of games released in the last 10 years and how difficult it is. I have seen the player count increase considerably again since the release of 1.7.1 and the majority of people I have spoken to (Almost everyone) absolutely loves the difficulty increase. Bad players will get better if Rocket increases the difficulty. Good players will just quit if Rocket decreases the difficulty.

I agree, I absolutely love all the changes 1.7.1 brought with it and love the difficulty. The game was way too easy before and zombies were a joke - Just things I shot at to get my zombie count higher on the leaderboard.. target practise.. I would laugh when I was grouped with people who wanted to sneak into towns and tell them to wait outside it while I run in, fire my DMR in the air then switch to an assault rifle and kill the entire town in the building/running backwards.. it was a joke They still need to be much more difficult imo but it is a good start. Only thing I don't agree with is how finnicky the line of sight on them seems to be - They still seem to be able to see through walls, actually at a much further distance than pre 1.7.1 but I'm sure this will be hotfixed. They also respawn way too fast, I would love having even 3x the amount of zombies that are here now but would also love if they stayed dead for a while after clearing them.

I agree with this. At the moment water is rather trivial because of soda cans

corruptshadow, believe it mate. You don't even need a group of people, I quite often search the entire northern section of the map's forested areas just by myself on a bicycle/atv in a couple of hours and find every single tent around there then spend another hour doing the western side of the map and find basically every half decent camp on the server. It's not hard. Don't accuse the community of hacking just because you can't hide your vehicles well..

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As you have said, zombie detection is pretty retarded at the moment but I think that is unintended and will be tweaked in a hotfix along with how fast they respawn. Everything else is fucking amazing though, especially spawning with shit all on the beach. Makes for a much more tense, exciting experience and really motivates people to team up. 1.7.1 is by far my most favourite iteration of DayZ so far

It's amazing. I do completely agree the zombie detection is a bit broken at the moment (I've crouch run right behind zombies and not pissed them off, but have been prone about 50 meters away from one in the grass and had him get pissed at me just because he was looking my way) but overall the patch is excellent. I love how we spawn with shit all on the beach now, it makes for a much better experience.. I also love the removal of side chat, really ups the immersion. The increased difficulty is really making people team up from what I have seen and it's awesome.. make it harder!

I personally would have liked a character wipe when the patch was first released but not now that it has been out for a while.. that would be kind of irritating as I know a vast majority of people just hit the respawn button to experience the new start without weapons/gear for themselves anyway and are just starting to get kitted back up.

So I'm guessing you had your vehicle stolen. How do you have any proof whatsoever that your vehicle was stolen by a hacker? Why the hell would a hacker want to steal a vehicle anyway when he can just spawn whatever he wants? Just because you hid it well does not mean it will not be found mate, me and my clan have found extremely well hidden vehicles very easily.. the map isn't that big when you have 5+ people grid searching all the forested areas around the map.

Guys really, if you are struggling so much then perhaps this just isn't the game for you. As far as I've read, Rocket is not making this game for the masses or to cater to the carebear casual mainstream gaming crowd, he is making this game like this because this is the way he wants to make it! If he starts making it easy mode like it was getting up until 1.7.1 it just becomes another piece of throw away mainstream trash. The one real glaring quality that shines above all else for DayZ is the fact that it is so unforgiving and difficult - It is completely unlike 99.9% of other games out there and that is why people love it. You want an easy game? Go play an easy game. This is not for you, I mean that truly and with all due respect. At the end of the day you can survive just darn fine if you use your brains a little. I admit that at the moment zombie detection is a little broken but this will be hotfixed soon and it will be just great.. and to the guy who said our characters must be morons for running around defenseless then you would be right except for the fact that the first thing you want to do when you wake up on the beach is go get something to defend yourself.. just because you don't start with a weapon quite easily capable of killing 2 hordes/5 players if you are semi skilled does not make the game hard.

I have tried multiple times to no avail, it simply stays empty =( Is this some sort of avoidable bug that has been around for a while or a new one in 1.7.1?

Get better. Seriously. I just died today after a 7 day character and was fully kitted out in like 2 hours of playing solo even though I started with no weapons/anything else. The game is still far too easy and they really need to up the zombie count and do some other things to increase difficulty.

A lot of the time when people complain of stuff like this it's because a grenade has gone off next to you and you are dead before you can hear the boom or because you have been sniped and die before you hear anything, etc.

Learn to play. ;)

Starting with nothing at all would be so incredibly epic. Please try it at least! It would sure as hell stop people instantly running across the map to their old bodies with no fear of hunger/starvation/bleeding to death from a zombie or two/PvPing other noobs on the beach

I agree, the duping is really terrible in DayZ. With that said, duping is so incredibly prevalent in DayZ that it happens quite often without people even trying to do it on purpose. For example, I've had a clan member who's battle eye stopped responding while he was a passenger in one of our vehicles and his body fell out with all his loot and for all intents and purposes he was dead, completely lootable as a normal dead body. Upon reconnection he was still alive, where he had fallen out, with all of his gear.. so everything on him was completely duped and he didn't even intend for this. Have had similar things happen with us putting equipment in vehicles and then the server crashes/we disconnect to change servers to one that we have a different kind of vehicle on if we are doing a raid with 4+ people and they have loaded into those servers with the gear they had before they put it in the truck sorta thing. That in my opinion sucks even more than the actual dupe glitches people have to go out of their way to do - because most players accept it as the games fault and will keep the items that have been duped on accident to a server reset where as I have only ever met two players in a few hundred hours of DayZ that actually went out of their way to purposefully dupe items, everyone else I have met thinks that completely ruins the fun of the game which it does.