Ken Bean

I'm starting to wonder if I'm "hardcore" enough for the game. I see loads of threads where people request to make certain loot a lot more rare. In my opinion, this is not sth I want, since I once found a Bison-Gun and before I got used to it, I had to throw it away since I didn't found any ammo. So whats the point in making things "really rare"? Do you want to find a lot of throw away stuff? agreed I'd like to vote for more dfferent items. So that you have to use your brain, what you want to take with you and what not. A good mixture of rare and frequent items with a a very broad variety of different usage would be cool. Don't see me to enjoy finding empty tin cans only.

Making those items really rare just increases their value. So finding an AS50 then would be even more a death sentence. Don't you find it on heli crash sites only anyway? They clearly are not that frequent. And then you'll have to consider that even if you found a heli crash site, you only have a low chance to find an AS50. Maybe this varies from server to server though, maybe you just got one which spawns those weapons a lot, but there shouldn't be much weapons like this in the game. If there are that many, then the reason probably is that every cheater wants to spawn with one. They are most likely not all 100% legit founds. ;) I found only one within two months on a heli crash site by the way and I imediately lost it since I thought it would be save in a tent, which was just a plain stupid idea.

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Whats up with that? Have there been manipulated images?

Good point. I don't think they are going to implement it as a radio though. Well, lets see.

The idea is good, but this probably is not going to happen since most music out there is copy righted. You'd need to pay collecting societies like the GEMA (it's a german organization but other countries have similar as well. maybe not as greedy once though) if you power the server and play their music. Yes, that's odd, but unfortunately this is how it works.

Certain? Since mine got destroyed as I tried to place it in a rock. But not immediately though.

In my experience there is no way to really store your gear. I may play for round about two months and already lost at least 5 tents because the respective servers went down. I also lost loads of stuff because of disappearing, like putting a weapon to the ground, which just happen to vanish 2 seconds later. Twice I also lost the entire content of a filled tent because it flattened. One time I accidentally came too close with my bike (it was just a matter of a few cm) and the other time the tent was just a bit misplaced into a rock, which obviously caused the tent to be destroyed a few days later. Not to mention that I had a horrible accident with my tractor and a hay bale. The detonation cost my life and the entire storage. So in order to keep something save, I don't know what to do. ^^ But I would appreciate it if in the stand alone would care more about your gear.

On Saturday 13th April 17:05 MEZ (= UTC+1) On this server hosted by BoeseAlteMaenner, IP 85.114.153.150:10600 I got spawn killed on an empty world space by hacker. They port you to a certain spot, waiting for you. Its a hive server and I lost lots of nice gear. Even a NVG and a GPS. These folks were on the server: http://www.loaditup...._t88bgknhvn.png I joined again and they killed me a second time, but now I have video proof. :-) Edit Just to make perfect assholes out of them selfes, they even hid all bodies, so all the stuff they couln't take with them is lost. Edit2 They probably work in a team of 3. Andy may lurk in the lobby if someone is joining the game and Hunk305 und Eddy305 may take them out. This is just a guess, I don't know who shot me.

The same happened on DE 1008 IP: 85.114.153.27:10600 Looks exactly the same. I don't get it, it's just way too lame. They ruin other peoples game and of cause their own as well. Maybe it would be a good turn, to make bodies unlootable for everyone but his legit spiritual owner. Yep, that's lame but not as half as lame as being killed by cheater/hacker/scriptkiddies.

Here's a snipped of the Video: Sorry for sound and video issues. @e47 Yep, seems to be pretty similar. Currently there are some joining who just get shot. Others seems to survive. So my guess is, they gear up. One is lurking, two are shooting survivor and some, who belong to the gang, successfully spawn there, don't get shot, and equip themselves. They kind of "farm" the player.

Hi folks, several installation gides out there most of the time suggest to install the latest beta patch from here: http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php If I do so, my DayZ install usually is labeled to be "out of date" in DayZ Commander even though my version number is at least 2 versions higher than said to be required there or than the versions which are running on servers. So I'd like to know your opinion. Is it save to update to the latest beta patch (103419) or should I stick with the most common used build, which is 102591 at the moment? Thanks and best regards, sincerely with best wishes, yours truly Ken Bean

Thanks for the quick reply. That's what I wanted to know.

Mine are low as well. Not sure if this is very unusual. Probably not. Your specs look pretty okay to me. Maybe your RAM is a little low clocked and your graphics card is an older one. Your core i5 should be good (4 Cores, 4 Threads, turbo up to 3,2 GHz) but the cpu takes DDR3-1066/1333 RAM. I'd go for 1333 MHz or higher. Even though, higher frequencies are not used by the cpu. With 665MHz you are definitively wasting speed. Someone else may tell you more. You also can have a look here, if you want: http://www.systemrequirementslab.com Edit Their optimum recommendation is CPU: Intel Core i5 or AMD Athlon Phenom X4 or faster RAM: 2 GB OS: Windows 7 Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or ATI Radeon HD 5770 or faster with Shader Model 3 and 896 MB VRAM DirectX version: DirectX 9.0c Free Disk Space: 20 GB So, you are in. But consider to get a faster RAM. Maybe it's just a Bios setting? I didn't find any information regarding the motherboard. So I don't know what RAM frequencies it supports...

I like the idea. So if you die in or near a town your body attracts some Zeds. What I don't like is the part with making the body unlootable. If there are Zeds around your body, you need to free in the very first place anyway. So you need at least a basic equipment, like a hatchet.

How about writing a diary with screenshots for the char? And if he/she dies, it can be used for a slide show with some sad music. Nah, just kidding. :D But how do you want to make death actually matter more? I mean, more the emotional way or do you want to punish the player a bit? Just imagine, you spawn somewhere and get shot a few minutes later by a sniper with his AS50 lurking all day long near spawn points. Then you have to wait 30 minutes until this repeats. I think the sniper may have some fun, you probably not.

I really do play video games for a long time now and this time out is sth I do not understand. I don't see how you get better immersed into the game by not being in it.

Frankly, I'm not very up-to-date in regards of AMD-Chips. The Athlon series is quite old, but still is/was pretty good, I believe. If I were you, I would buy better RAM - as if I would update my processor - in the very first place. Then try it out, look what happens. If that's not enough gain, consider to upgrade to a newer processor as well. Then you'd need to decide if you want to take a cpu which fits your sockel or if you want to upgrate the board as well. There still are loads of backround programs and the OS itself taking away RAM.

I see. I thought he may want to achieve sth reasonable with this. ^^ Anyway, it doesn't add much to the realism level if you just make your cadaver unlootable for you. Maybe a perma death would come closer then. But you can make finding stuff way harder, removing tents and automatically losing items, survival skills you need to learn again and such things.

Worst thing that handicaps team play are the communication system and that you cant make up teams. I know, most of the pros here are already using team speak channels, but you play in teams anyway. Others don't. One thing that really really kills most team action is that on many servers the direct and global chat functions are just plain disabled. This actually plays out like they would have forbidden to form a team for lots of player. Remember, most other user are not forum folks in the vast majority and they also hardly start using team speak stuff. Boils down to: - Group management system is needed - Communication system is needed - Ziliphade needs to learn better insults, since he sucks big stile at this. Then you still can add optional time outs for different difficulties or for being defined sever wise.

Maybe. I wouldn't enjoy it. Maybe they add an option to define a time out, e.g. on veteran servers or whatever. Generally it's not a good idea in my book. Would have a better one.

The game progress a player made would be a better catalyser. Edit It really would emphasise the team play a bit more. This would be a great thing. But the team mate would need to wait the time as well, ingame, maybe alone. 30 minutes time out? I don't know, maybe I'm just to new for the game for that.

Yeah I know. But trust me, your ideas are awful. Think about new people. It's quite frustrating enough without time outs. And not only for the new people. Forced time outs are not best fun times for everyone. A game should not be about frustrating people. Not only. ;D See the game has lots of other challanges. The late game for example is very week. You ran out of interesting tasks quite soon. This maybe even is a reason why so many people are cheating. 1. because its frustrating 2. because they dont know what to do else There also are still a lot of bugs. Zeds glitching through walls and stuff. Additional, you have loads of cheater and the server situation is not best. So I don't know what one would do to make this situation even worse by adding additional fun killer. The game can be played in very different ways. It's up to the player to create the challenges. If you always run to Cherno and die there, then again spawn in Cherno and so on, the death really does not matter much. I see. But this depends on how you play. Most thing that matters if you actually made a progress before you died. This hurts. I think your ideas might be good for a sm version, rally hardcore stuff, finding empty tin cans 99% of the time and so on. But I figure I wouldn't enjoy it very long.

Run Steam as Admin. Start the Game and every Addon as Admin Have a look here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/29401-guide-steam-to-those-spawning-invisible-no-debug-errors-beta-update/ and here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/53723-no-more-copying-to-your-oa-folder/ Use DayZ Commander to launch the game

Dude, know what I have to do to find my dead could body? I usually, have to travel almost once accross the whole map. And every time I just hope that there's still sth left and the cadaver is not hidden. Why should I even bother to find it if I couldn't loot it anyway? Coolest thing you can do to make death matter more? Survive until you get killed by a hacker on day 3.