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arma 2 guns and more loot would be 2 things I would like to see not to much more but when searching a town for over an hour without finding much more than a wrench the loot is broken and makes me not want to play anymore and my friends have all stopped playing as well. the weapons in the game are horrible, the accuracy is crap on all of them. the new reticle makes me angry because it makes no sense. I loved playing the Arma 2 mod but what this has turned into doesn't resemble what it was or what it should have been. So my suggestion is as simple as this. Get back to the root of the game (the Mod) and stop listening to the try hards. The game was Great and has turned into something I regret buying. I know you are trying hard to make it better and it is appreciated But you can only try to shine up a turd for so long before it becomes a disaster.

Nice band wagon jumping there but yes I have played it. It is better than .57 but still makes me balk at starting the game. I Understand now that you explained it, But it is still such a crappy idea since I mentioned a lot of the main hot spots in OP with the system they are talking about implementing and all of their talk about wanting people to use more of the map it makes no sense to have the tier system unless it is broken down per town/building.

I am a fan of BI, they have the type of games I like to play. I started playing DayZ as a mod of Arma 2 and loved it. I have read where they want to take this game and it has disappointed me. The stand alone had some Huge shoes to fill and thus far I don't see those shoes being filled. Dayz mod was gritty, there were a lot of powerful weapons with different rarities there were different uniforms but more for utility than for style (now it seems like a fashion contest). There were vehicles you could find repair and use. we just received vehicles a few months ago and still no aircraft. (what has it been a year and a half since release?). The loot system seems messed up all the time every new versions screws it up more. I see a bunch or New players defending it because its the best game of the Genre (which I still believe, for now.). On the other hand. there are some Heavy hitters coming for the title that aren't as stingy with their loot system, and they have Highly contested areas that have High value loot. something they took away Back in 0.57 by making the military bases a place you no longer needed to go to get Higher end guns. why even travel the map anymore when you can stick to the water front towns and battle it out like in CoD? I see a lot of people defending the direction the game has taken but they have taken a map with hot spots with the potential of high end loot spawns. and turned it into a map with out any flavor. I do not understand why people battle it out in Berezino other than the trolls that just like to kill new spawns, there is nothing there worth fighting for. This game has taken alot of the tactics out of the game the whole reason behind having the hot spots was to find a way to get a group together to take over and control the areas to control the loot that spawned in them. For example: Chernogorsk has 2 hospitals a fire house and lots of elevated positions, to control the hospitals you control the medications (they have added more hospitals since the mod so adding hot spots/options) Electro has 2 firehouses, a hospital, and a few elevated positions including a hill (sniper hill) to control electro you control a small medication area some starter weapons/armor and Fire axes. Balota Before they changed everything used to have a chance to spawn a helicopter, a few high end weapons and some starter gear. to control that area you controled who got the high end weapons on the south coast. Berezino had a small military outpost 2 stores and a hospital, this was the chernogorsk of the east coast but didnt have the elevated positions. If you controled this you could survive and control some of the traffic to Krasnostav. Krasnostav Airbase (NE Airfield) had a chance to spawn a helicopter and some High end weapons. to control this you controled who got the high end weapons on the east coast. Stary sobor had a store and a military camp that spawned High end military gear, cars, and was basicly the last stop shop before you get to NW Airbase. If you controled this you saw at least 60% of the people going to NW Airbase and could slow the flow somewhat. NW Airbase had the most High end military gear spawning areas, Helo spawns, Vehicle spawns, If you could hold this for an hour you were doing good and there were no shortage of groups sneaking into this place to take control of it. See they changed the Loot lay out before they have enough guns or vehicles to support such a move and keep people interested. that is why the servers are at all time low populations. But this is just my opinion and I am sure someone will come along with a different viewpoint but then again maybe they have never played the mod or seen the promised land of squad tactics in this game.

I would say their thought process is flawed why screw up the game that blew Arma 2 off the shelves to appease a few elitist 15 year old turds? Persistance is one of the biggest problems Unless they make it so the Helo crashes get wiped off the map for server resets and the tents and vehicles can stay persistant there is no reason to play the game longer than a few hours. I have been playing Breaking Point on Arma 3 and their Helo crashes are awesome the helo actually flies over and crashes somewhere for you to track down not just random piles of wreckage somewhere on the map. If you want Realism Arma 3 Breaking point is already on its way to being better.

Maybe I am being to expectant that it should be more like the mod. I know in the mod 100 meters would trigger loot and Zombie spawn the current system is clunky and should be triggered instead of always existing and so should the zombies. make room for the dynamic events such as zombie Hordes, Vehicles, and helo crashes with zombie guards. the system was there in Arma 2 and should be there for DayZ as well but it seems they left out the triggers from this game. If they utilized triggers for loot and zombies you would see a huge Performance gain and not as much need for optimization. The triggers would handle the loot spawn as well as loot wipe once the Player(s) leaves the area. Maybe a 10-30 minute timer for loot and zombie wipe. It would be great to have a world with static loot but when the server has to handle all the players, the loot, the zombies, loot and zombie spawn Maybe the headless client that is available for Arma 3 could be a welcome addition as well.

I for one am not liking the dispersal of loot if someone cannot make it far enough in land to get a good rifle to bad for them the removal of ALL loot from northwest airfield is asinine if someone can make it that far in land why shouldn't they get something to reward them for their efforts. now just find your nearest roadblock and then head to berezino seems like you guys didn't think this one through again. It isn't that It is unplayable or that I will have no success Its that you dont even need to learn the map anymore just stay on the coast and head to berezino just stop by the roadblocks on the way why would you want to leave the coast now? In other words your so called fix had a backwards effect. instead of people learning the map no one ventures off the main road on the east or in the south and can have the same weapons as those who run all over the map trying to get gear.

I am happy to report, that it is working now. But I am running adaware Anti virus, so no adware and i am running Malwarebytes so I ran a bunch of un-needed scans just in case and it all could have been fixed with the winsock reset.....But why make us do it? Love the game, love Bohemia But Hate Battleye.

yeah mine was too, I looked at another post further up the page and they sent them to the Battleye site which lacks in Info and Battleye has been super relentless if you have a software problem. I got a battleye ban while playing Arma2 for some reason ( i wasnt scripting, I didnt have any cheats downloaded, the only thing i can figure is someone got a hold of my CD key OR I got disconnected and reconnected to fast making it look like i had 2 characters active. they told me to go buy another copy of A2. that company is shitty IMHO

Has anyone figured out if there is a bug with seeing available servers? I cannot see the server list on the change server list.

thank you

is there a list of what they have added/ tweaked for .51?

Agreed epoch was a horrible way to go for a lot of reasons but origins had some decent ideas. I am just hoping this game turns out a lot more like the early mod and leave out the crap that killed alot of the later mods. I used to love to gather parts to rebuild vehicles and travel around in helicoptors with a bunch of buddies hunting people so far the standalone is showing alot of promise but i think they are spending to much time on aesthetics IE buildings and food items and haven't implemented things like random military aircraft crashes, more variety on weapons, and more powerful weapons. so far we have gotten more buildings a larger variety of food, and weaker weapons, when does the M107 come out, or Night vision goggles

LOL, I appreciate all of the negative criticism. However, I am able to connect, but for some reason I am stuck on the wait for host screen until my eyes bleed. So, it isn't that they are unavailable or that I am just being lazy it just seems to be an issue with getting out of the wait for host screen. Maybe the experimental servers are just crap, Or DayZ is acting in such a way to screw with my computer, come to think of it when I download patches and such Steam is trying to access my disk, an issue unique to dayz. and i have been getting errors from windows stating that Dayz is trying to change configurations to windows. also i must add that i am on a 30meg service and i have no issues running other games just in case someone wants to chime in with the old "DOH HUH" "Ih musht be yer intanet cunectshun"

you my friend are an Idiot and everything you just said is the problem with so many other gaming companies. I appreciate the openness of this team and you wont see everyone complaining and for the most part if they were to say that they are having issues I am sure most complaints would be squashed However some people don't know where to find the answers they are looking for. As for your "projects" Who gives a Rip? People want to be informed when you keep them in the dark they get Angry Like much of the Defiance community is with Trion worlds, a classic example of a horrible gaming studio screwing their fan base over and keeping them in the dark about new content and never delivering on what they really need to deliver on I.E. New map areas.

they aren't going to nerf spawns on weapons the spawns will seem to have been nerfed with the addition of new items being added to the Random number generator that determines what spawns.