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Hope some stability is brought to persistence, be happier when I can turn it on on the servers. What's it like on experimental these days?

It might just be the camera angle but I was thinking that it looked like he could tie his shoelaces while standing up straight

I'm a total loot whore, if they made a mountain backpack with one extra slot but that had lights and a siren on it that when off constantly I'd probably still pick it.

I've got one that looks like my granny knitted it for me, need to find somethnig a bit cooler

I know the idea is to keep the screen as clear of UI elements as possible but would a couple of tiny icons in the corner of the screen be that bad. Could have 3 tiny circles to indicated food, water and health and a tiny red or blue, up or down triangle for temp. It'd be better than the message spam we get currently.

This, I'm all about options. Even if they added icons round the hotbar so you could check it yourself.

I could go with that but they can be a little vague, plus for something as important and as changeable as temperature then audio spam isn't a great improvement

Really, looking forward to this but will server ops be able share shards between multiple servers?

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Multiplay have it enabled by default, you can see the setting in the Server -> Configs -> ServerDZ.cfg file.

I'd have thought so but I can't find anything that says it in black and white. Can anyone point me to any definitive statement on it if there is one. Cheers

I thought it was people just being clever and putting [Persistence Enabled] into their server name to attract gullible players :)

Cheers fella, must have missed that.

What is going to happen when an unlisted player tries to join a whitelisted server? Is there going to be a way add some sort of message to tell them where and how to get added? How did it work in the mod, I honestly can't remember?

Hockey mask & a far bigger machete so we can Jason Voorhes it up a bit.

I've heard people talking about melee being broken but I've never found an issue with it over any of the updates. I'm running about one-shot'ing zombies out the air mid-jump, I'm just not seeing the difficulty in it, run at them, jink at the last minute and whack em when they stop to turn.

I'm prompted to ask because of eugenharton's post about item persistence: "Official servers from Bohemia, that are under naming convention get persistence." I'm not sure why official Bohemia servers wouldn't be under naming convention but it made me think that at some point Bohemia intend to punish anyone whose server isn't under naming convention, either by denying them persistence or making sure they are the last to receive it or in some other manner. Now I may have the wrong end of the stick but I have to ask what is the deal with the official rules for naming servers, why is it even a thing? According to the rules this is the format all servers should be displayed in. "DayZ - Location ID (version/beta buildnr) [difficulty][timezone] dayzmod.com - hosted by Customtext." 1) DayZ - why is this needed, is anyone expecting to find anything other that DayZ servers in the DayZ server browser? 2) Location ID - Who decides what this is, how do you find out what yours is meant to be? 3) (version/beta buildnr) - Even the official servers don't bother with this 4) [difficulty] - It's already listed in another column, why clog up the server name with it 5) [timezone] - Again time is show in another column, official servers seem to ignore this as well. 6) Hosted by Customtext - finally we get to the one section where we can advertise, although chances are this won't fit in the name column so good luck with that. They even enforce adding a superfluous 'Hosted by ' to make quite sure that no-one ever sees it. Is there a reason why BI are so rigid with server naming conventions or even a reason why they should care (obvious racism/swearing issues aside)?

+1 for these new regular status updates, liking them a lot.

As much as I'm looking forward to the new tents I can't help but feel they'll be incredibly easy to find, they were incredibly easy to find in the mod and those tents were smaller, green and able to hide partially under trees/in objects. There were only a handful of places were the trees grew thick enough to properly hide a tent and everyone knew where those places were. I really hope they have plans for adding more storage options in the future, cos after the novelty of having tents wears off the fact that you can't hide them is really going to start to grate.

Is it possible to set up both, shift+w is inconvenient for long distances and doubletap w is murder when you're in combat, be nice to have both options available.

yeah, I was wondering this also, heard people mentioning about resetting control to default but I've not done it yet.

See in the changelog that they've fixed, my rig has been gubbed for a while so I've not had chance to check it out. I dearly hope that they are as awesome as they should be, anyone care to expound on what they are like now?

A proper dinner suit, just because there's a zombie apocalypse doesn't mean we can't do it in style like James Bond.

Can seem to find any definitive answer one way or the other but I'm guessing not. Anyone got an answer from an authoritative source?

Aye, that was my reading of it too but still no clearer as to if/when we can expect the persistence hotfix on stable.