zealstarwind

K, I've got a bit, I'm new to the forums but hope you can bare with me here. Zombies can 1-2shot a choppers glass, very frustrating when a zombie does and it causes it to leak from one punch. Yes zombies are strong but the heli's should have thick glass almost small arms fire proof. Zombies can 1shot players, happened to 2 of my friends the other day, Oneshot to knockout with no recovery. While this is a smidge more realistic it's stopped many of my friends from playing due to how often it happens. Loot - NWAF/NEAF loot tables are on par with cherno/elektro.. AK's, Shotguns, smoke grenades/flares, tincans/sodacans, shotgun ammo, food/drink, heatpacks/painkillers/morphine. After spending 10 hours looting both airfields numerous amounts of time I've only found one m16a2 m203, and one m14aim. Pre-patch It would have been 1 incredibly rare gun (m4a1SD, M4a1 holo, DMR) 4-5 regular guns with 1 coyote pack. Crashes - burning heli wrecks would have been 2-4 a night yet now it's 0 a night. I read it said that's server side but when my private server changed it, it became unstable to play on and constant yellow and red chaining. My only theory is either too strict of coding or memory leaks somewhere. My server had to revert back to the patch without any changes yet still yellow and red chains, just not as bad as when the changes were made they were eventually fixed when some of the private hive admins got together and fixed the issue. (It was something changed with the patch that caused the issues, not private hive side.) I receive such yellow/red chains on public servers as well (never had them before) yet only tested to see, any time I stayed on longer then 10 mins I was hit by a script kiddie and instantly lost interest in being there, much like my first time playing, 2 mins in, hit by script kiddie, changed server 10 mins in, hit again. next one still script kiddies. Cant play public hives any more since there's no active moderators who are willing to get back your gear if a hacker messes it up. Pretty much all the things I've observed on my private hive is in the public side as well and I'm sorry, not trying to sound like an ass but I didn't even want to continue playing dayZ after day1 being hacked on every server I joined.public side but private side it's so much nicer. Please, PLEASE! work with private hives a bit more closely to take their input and allow them to flourish just as greatly as the public hives. Since this recent patch my private server has been dead when before we were enjoying a full server count before. There's no loot to make wasting 5 clips of SD mags worth playing. I find it so difficult to want to continue playing myself and even what was once a must buy, I'm starting to question why I should pick up the stand alone if it's going to be just as mind numbingly difficult and feel more like a chore then an actual game. Games are meant to be fun but as of right now this is just more akin to how I felt about World of Warcraft. It's just grinding now, hoping it will get better and I hope my cries aren't ignored. Private servers keep players playing. Also something positive, I do like the zombies being more deadly now, I just wish they didn't 1shot chopper glass or 1shot players. Other then that I think it's exciting to see them play more of a role and it brought me back to my first time hitting NWAF with an m1014 shotgun, no nightvision, and every little sound made me jump.. I really wish to continue supporting DayZ mod and standalone when it comes out but please dont alienate the fanbase any.