Ken Bean

Yes, think you are right, think it shouldn't be rewarded to kill other player. So best would probably be to exclude player kills from leveling. Instead getting worse and worse humanity values, which should have drawbacks, e.g. not being liked in public places (maybe trading centers. Think I've heard sth like this.) Like the idea of overpowered weapons should have a drawback, since it's really not that realistic carrying heavy equipment like the AS50 over huge distances with ease. Yep, I certainly do as well. However I think an extented health system could be interesting. Maybe we even could have a additional bag for medical supplies only, with different meds, bandages, patches, eyepatches, balms or sth like that to tread various problems, like small injuries, blister, infections, swellings, broken bones, pulled muscles, bruises, having a could, fever ... I think it should have an effect on your conditions. Maybe if you run too much, you may suffer blister and muscle problems so you have a small handycap. Many small problems could summarize to a bigger one. The problem in having things too realistic is that one probably very soon may get the feeling, the the game handicaps you everywhere, which probably is not fun if it gets out of hand like running from one problem right into another in the very first 5 minutes. But at least a huge variety of various problems could increase the immersion after all. The player should be able to deal with almost all of them alone. Maybe most injuries could heal automatically by time. Lets say that blister or pulled muscles heal 1% per hour. Or maybe 1 % the first hours and increasingly rising like an exponential function, greately boosted by medical supplies.

Lets imagine you found this new shoes. As longs as their condition is flagged “new” and if you run 5 km in that shoes, you have a chance to get blister on your feet, which slows you down maybe 15% for a whole week. If you can treat it with blistering plaster, you only suffer 5% for 2 days. Edit Lets say the Zombi sprint speed is 90%, due to their generally illness. Your general healthiness might be 102%. ---> 102% - 15% equals 86.7%. ---> They might get ya if your speed drops below 90% and if you don’t get away by tricking them around corners and bushes successfully breaking the line of sight. So if you have injuries, you not always just can run away. If in bad condition, you might be very careful or you must face the horde.

I see that only increasing your stats will make things easier only. What about counter effects, to hold a balance? Folks that tried knows that no one can run 40 km each day without serious side effects. So if you did, you'll face some serious handycaps, like getting slower and shaking more, being louder (besides of the pain). Lets say you have some modifiers, lets take running speed for example. Normal speed is 1.0. You can adjust the speed (like it is used with different weapons currently) by other conditions, like health, illness as well. Maybe there could be a maximum and a minimum of lets say 1.15 and 0.5. In this limits the speed can be modified by certain stats. If you run a lot, you need a recover phase to not overdo things. If you overdid, your speed might get slightly decreased. So you'd need to care about recover phases to find a healthy balance. -> You could push your values between 0.5 and 1.15 speed. How about that? Similar could be used for aiming, health, sneaking and stuff. The point is, you are already influencing your stats by using different equipment. It could be extended by a deeper body health system.

Yep, maybe fresh food like stakes will get out of date, but canned food will be usable way longer. Drawback, canned is not that heathy and doesn't add to your body overall conditions. I don't mean from start. I thought more into the direction of surviving long-term, maybe a month or so. You will have a progress in certain stats. At first your aming is not that good, but after you killed maybe 300 Zeds, you'll see an improvement and you will rise your skills a bit. Nor being a super assasin, but e.g. the time you are out of breath might get a little shorter or longer and so on. Depending on how your overall conditions are and what you have done. Run thousands of miles? Every day a marathon? --> More stmina. Getting used to Zomby bites? --> Thicker skin. ;D Things like that. Such small things might be a good motivation to life longer and to not to take death too easy. I'm glad to hear that many suggestions are already confirmed. :) Edit Typos, typos, typos Edit Maybe we need a condition table of each character, lets say Stamina - inluences time out of breath, how many mele attacks can be done with what strength. How many bullets you can bring into the target without too much recoil, before things really get out of hand. The player may improve the values if he tends to move and run a lot, carrying heavy things. It may also influence how loud he is, how silent he can move. Health - might be no absolute value. The player might be able to increase decrease it slightly by time, depending on what he eats. Driving - improves if he drives a lot. Doesnt add to the stamina but driving skills. He needs less fuell, maybe is able to hold the car in better condition. Aiming - infuences the ability to hit a target, the player is able to hold the weapon more calm - improved by many critical hits on zeds and player Senses - how good/bad/far you see or hear things like shots or moving sounds from Zeds or other player. - This might be increase by time if you are very active at night. Influenced by overall body condition, eating healthy food in the lonh run. Sneaking - how god/bad Zeds can hear you. This increases by time if you sneak a lot through public areas. Maybe some stats influence each other. Lets say if you have ijuries, you get a malus on certain skills, but you can counter it if they are well trained. ... lots more?

Wow, that's low poly. Certain that it is not a typo? Can't recall seeing that low poly models lately.

Yep, supermarkets, there you go. You may need to search 3 or 4 but you'll have the best chance to find matches there. This is pretty unusual. They are quite small, so you may have not seen them. Sometimes it's a little strange. To find my first Ghillie Suit, it took 2 months.

There are a few weapons where you can attach a flashlight to, I think the M4A3 is one. But I'd agree with your point, the problem is you can't run and lighten your way the same time using a flashlight. But this is possible with flares, if you carry them. However, since some doesn't seem to know how the flashlight works, they are probably not using the flares as well. Regarding the bright nights, one major drawback is, that the night vision googles get almost useless. Some nights are way too bright for them.

Latest available by DayZ Commander, have a look at the stickies. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/29431-look-at-this-thread-before-posting/

This seems to happen pretty frequent on german server. It's not a bug as far as I can tell. I run several times in such a situation. Last one I recorded: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/132228-de-853-official-hive-server-hosted-by-boesealtemaenner/ Quite odd if you ask me. They seems to be at least a popular target. :-/

Just don't use it, if it sucks. I'll use it a lot. ;)

tried this? http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/29401-guide-steam-to-those-spawning-invisible-no-debug-errors-beta-update/

Yeah, hatchet would be too overpowered. But we don't know how they tweaked the Zeds. Maybe hey got a lot harder, so... Anyway, we'd need a second purpose for the crowbar. Maybe opening stashes or sth. It's a little useless as it is currently.

Thanks for clarifying.

Since I read it a few times, how does it come that CD-Keys get stolen? Can server read them out? If someone can steal your key, why can't you steal it back? Can they use the key or did it just get invalid?

then better take a crowbar

Jo, get that DayZ Commander (post above), install it, start it, update the game, go to settings and tick on both steam options.

Hi folks, is it possible to install Arma X (Steam version) and ARMA 2: Combined Operations - Gold Edition (retail) on one and the same computer without interfering the installments (addons, probably registry keys) and player characters? One might solve it by using separated windows user accounts, but the problem is, the steam version can't be installed “only for me”, while the retail version offers this option. Thanks in advance

Finally solved it this way: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/32775-multiple-dayz-accounts-useful-for-shared-computers/

The rule is to randomize word endings. It's spelled wrong as soon as the same typing repeats.

Looks like you had bad luck. This happened to me once as well. Thankfully it was almost empty. I'd look for another tent to pitch, they should save automatically.

Oh great. Now I feel almost as depressed as your tires.

This was what I thought as well as I heard the term Bambies the 1st time in DayZ. Bambis are living in the woods, I though, eating berries and stuff. But no, the term obviously is misleading, they are kind of fresh spawns or new player, whatever. I'd suggest to call those, who are living in the woods, lone wolfes.

Yep, you need PMC. I thought you have it, misread sth there, my bad. The reason behind was, I had the situation to have PMC, but got the low res textures. This was because running Steam without Admin rights, which didn't activate PMC at all.

Come on guys, it's a shame, he deserves a serious answer. @ChaoticFarva When did you controll the air pressure of the tires last time?

I'm still awaiting the day, DayZ turns me into a bandit, because it betrayed me for my gear once too often. As I see threads, there so many people request to make valuable gear way more rare, this may happen with the Stand Alone. This painful long gearing up and being striped in a few moments, really plays into bandits hands. They are the only once who would gain profit out of this. "I'm looking for that M1A4 for 5 weeks." "Wait, what carries this dude in his hands?" "Hmm, he had all the work finding the stuff for you." <Pew> "He was a nice guy, thanks." But you are right, don't planning for long, don't making a base, just saying goodby to your gear as soon as you found it, is the best way to be prepared for the upcoming loss.