Steve McAwesome

there are no black screens. That's a straight up lie. calling it unplayable is also a gross exaggeration. Again, every night time server i enter is rife with activity. Seriously, people are implying that it's all just admins and their friends spawning night vision goggles? people will say anything at all in the interest of furthering their argument.

Yes. This is the first gaming pc I've owned in 10 years. I was a huge fan of operation flashpoint, and probably would have picked up arma III anyway, but the buzz surrounding this game was just too much to ignore. So far, dayz has exceeded my expectation and has me addicted.

seeing as recent patch notes included the amendum "you're all fucked, hahahahaha" I'd say it's a fairly good assumption that Rocket gets a good laugh here and there when people complain his hardcore mod is too hardcore. Look, I'll concede that the darkness is probably too dark. Maybe even a tad unrealistic. I didn't even bother playing at night when I first started 3 days ago. But that's all it took for me to get used to it. 3 days. I can hop onto a server with my friends and be just fine in total darkness. we head to cherno or elektra and there is a hotbed of activity, gunfire, flashlights, flares. people looting and shooting, making friends and enemies, everybody absolutely TERRIFIED of the dark. It's hardly unplayable. Just not very hostpitable.

you want me to explain how raising gamma settings makes the game brighter? lol. I can do just fine at the default setting, by the way. All these complaints of 'a black screen' are bullocks. There are stars, there are landmarks visible against the night sky, there is visible water reflecting light from said stars. Enough to follow the coast all the way to a city. So what? you want the default setting brighter and then what......people jack up their gamma and hdr enough so that nobody ever needs flashlights or flares at all??? get real people.

yeah, i put up my gamma settings cause the option is there to do so. Are there actually people hadicapping themselves then coming here to complain it's too dark? that's a pretty big lol. I dunno, guys. I've lived in the boonies for most of my childhood and I don't think most of you know what real darkness is. Maybe this mod is too dark, but without cloud and a decent moon you CAN see better, just like real life. Im not sure where these comparisons are coming from. As far as complaints that the game is 'unplayable' at night: why are the nighttime servers thriving with activity if everything is just an 'unplayable black screen'? Clearly this isn't true as thousands of us are doing just fine spawning on the beach and following the coast in total darkness. as far as the flares, i never said you should run along the coast carrying a flare. That doesn't mean you will die as soon as you throw one though. use them sparingly and as a reference, and if you throw one be smart and put some distance between it and you. It's common sense. Besides, if you spawn and get shot on the beach all you lose is starting gear. Big deal. Again, rocket and his team are probably laughing at these complaints. Im sure it's on their to do list right up there with 'get rid of the rain' 'make zombies less agressive' and 'remove pvp'. There's going to be no mass exodous because some poor saps think it's not realistic or playable. It's working as intended.

after looting my way through elektro without encountering zed or people, it started to get pretty dark. exiting the church and making my way to the nearby tower i heard footsteps. what happened next happened very, very quickly. I spun around and was assulted with rifle fire by a bandit 5 feet away. i went prone and rolled behind nearby cover in an alley. as soon as he came into view i unloaded my mak's full clip into his chest. Amazingly he didn't drop and unfortunately wounded me as well. I wasn't surprised to hear the angry howl of nearby zombies and I had to laugh as one sped by my prone position to attack my wounded enemy. my assailant took cover around the corner as I struggled to my feet. after blowing away the attacking zed He popped out again and i fired another 3 rounds, pretty sure i hit him with a couple before he took cover again. i rounded the corner to finish the job.....and there was no trace. really makes me wish for a blood trail mechanic of some sort as he was bleeding profusely but managed to get away. I retreated back inside the church, shut the door, bandaged my wounds and hailed him on global chat. 'to the bandit that tried to kill me, im waiting in the church if you decide to grow a pair. Bring it on' no reply. Usually these kinds of encounters have a pretty definite end, so I thought I'd share this one as to me it was my definitive day z moment.

I have no problem with playing at night. turn up your gamma and brightness, dont log out in the middle of the woods, follow the coast when you spawn, play in groups and make good use of your flares, etc etc. forget about realism, that's a pointless argument. Forget about asking rocket to make the game eaiser, lol. Clearly he has no interest in doing that no matter how much whining goes on here. Those of you who say it's just a pointless black screen at night, you are exaggerating. you can see objects and people against the night sky just fine, just like in real life. those of you saying you live in the country and have never experienced pitch black are either lying or dont live far enough from the city. It's fine, really. adapt or go play another game.