Funkmaster Rick

Not true, sir. The Steam Subscriber Agreement states that: Workshop Contributions are Subscriptions, and therefore you agree that any Subscriber receiving distribution of your Workshop Contribution will have the same rights to use your Workshop Contribution (and will be subject to the same restrictions) as are set out in this Agreement for any other Subscriptions. If they can download it on the workshop, you've given a kind of general permission for people to use it. There are no provisions for cutting that permission into pieces and selectively distributing it. You upload, Steam lets anyone download, and the Agreement facilitates that. Any DMCA request should be easily defeated by a link to Section 6 B. However, if the author adds a EULA that might change. Such a provision is included in the Agreement. I suspect it would have to be somewhat complicated to both allow general use but deny specific servers, and I doubt a modder is going to invest the money into that. They might invest the time, though, but until then you're open for business.

We all know this about official servers. So does Bohemia. Don't expect anything to be done.

lol, "new mechanic." This feature was in .63, I wonder why it took them so long to bring it back.

They won't.

What a weird question. I'm curious now. Are you stalking someone or trying to hide from someone?

They already pumped the game for what it's worth. Nobody who's been around this community for years is going to throw more money in after Bohemia fucked us by removing half the features and never finishing the game. Early Access or no, there were expectations they failed to meet and I certainly don't trust them enough to spend further funds.

Imagine asking for proof of hackers on official servers in 2021. Someone's been asleep for the last seven years.

It was abandoned. It feels abandoned. The forums feel abandoned. The server lists feel abandoned. Half this game was cut and hung out to rot. They used to hand out information to keep the community excited. I find myself doubting the claims that they've still got 10 developers working on this game. If they do, they're certainly not working full-time on just this project.

Never attempt to interact peacefully with more than one person. Why? Because there's approximately a 98% chance they're on a private communications protocol and probably don't want to invite randos into their private community. If they know you're nearby, it's objectively safest of them to kill you and keep looting. There is no downside to them except the lost ammo, which has never really been precious enough in this game to make me weight the pros and cons of taking a shot at any point. The math just falls that way.

Since it's on a Facebook page you may have some few options. I would recommend reporting your experience directly to Facebook, including as much proof as possible. They'll likely take this seriously because it's harassment and almost certainly covered by the various cyberbullying laws on whatever state DayZ's servers run on. Facebook will likely at least cite them and give them a warning.

I don't have Livonia. I can certainly afford it but I never liked Bohemia's decision to split the playerbase with a second map. I suspect that a lot of players just never picked up Livonia or remained in Chernarus because the friends they played with stayed there.

I believe gloves only help if you take them off when eating.

No.

It's something to do when there's nothing else to do.

Hey, good point. I forgot they added that.

They released the game feature-incomplete. I don't think you should expect them to follow any posted release schedule. They were just as committed, if not more so, to implementing the list of features which now languishes in old forum posts. There's a reason the PC forums are mostly dead.

Server hopping? That's just a different problem in its own right.

I feel that when they abandoned more than half the expected content, dropped modding tools, and launched, they took on a certain responsibility to ensure that the modding tools are easy to use and don't cause conflicts that might accidentally trigger fundamentally unrelated systems like someone's ping.

Respectfully, "didn't test or protect against" is a weak argument after they turned around and told us that the mod community would finish the game.

It's not BattlEye, it's Bohemia Interactive. BattlEye is used on a variety of platforms and I neither see nor hear about the high population density of cheaters on those games. There are fundamental flaws in the DayZ architecture that make it significantly easier for hacks to be written for this game than other games.

They used to have bones break from gunshots. It was highly rewarding. They took it out. Unless it's a headshot, your pistol is only useful for audibly discouraging people from approaching. Or, more likely, drawing the wolves with better guns. Inertia has been a problem since launch. The serpentine is incredibly easy and effective in this game. You should pretty much only skulk and go for one-shot kills in this game.

DayZ is not a cross-platform game. Xbox players play with Xbox players, PC players play with PC players. And the PC community, who has been around the longest, has largely moved on due to a mixture of poor handling of cheaters and the game releasing at 1.0 despite never having been completed.

@wanderthelandsThe market for console cheats is much smaller.

There's no real way to know if a server has any cheaters on it until one of them does something extremely suspicious, or runs up to you at 100 kph. You won't know until it's too late.

@tandwanSo there's an acknowledged problem. You've agreed to that much. But then you say 'sitting and complaining about it will solve piss all.' Sorry my dude but we live in societies where we solve our problems by talking. Yes, we can walk away and play on other servers, or play on other games. But just as you learned not to stick your hand in fire, I've been taught that ignoring problems is cowardice. I would prefer if we could move to community servers to avoid the problem but still attempt to solve the problem. Please don't try to shut down the conversation.