Lukio (DayZ)

I've been playing for about 10 days now and only got shot once by a bandit. What is this bandit problem? Oh I forgot I don't mindlessly walk into the big cities and airfield. Actually imo there needs to be a better distribution of banditry all around the map - not only in the PK hotspots and along the coast.

YES Because evasion should be your first priority in surviving. Character reset when this gets introduced.

Some basic explanations: 1) Players are getting off the coast, because that's essentially what every new player learns first. 2) There are tons of tutorials, lootmaps and videos available, helping people understand how to move around and how the underlying beast named ARMA II and its inventory, movement etc. works. 3) Players survive by cooperating or being a hunting hermit. 4) Bandits and Zombies are mostly avoidable once you know your way around and what to look out for and where to stay away from. 5) On some servers its very easy to quickly gear up in Elektro / Cherno within the first 20 minutes and then bug out. All in all what you want to look into is a statistical progression of character survival time/per character. It would be the average time it takes for a character to extend their life expectancy for more than one hour. In my case it took me around 5-8 deaths to survive longer, from then on I'd easily make it longer than two - three hours until I fell from a stair or something else stupid happened. I'm pretty sure there is a certain ramp up time where deaths occur in a shorter frequency until most players "get it" and there is a large increase of life expectancy per character.

Closing the alpha happens when its ready for beta status, not dependent on the user base. From what I understood there are still several things that Rocket would like to implement and it'll probably stay an alpha until 90% of these things are part of DayZ.

Oooh good stuff right here! Thanks Rocket & Devteam!

OP try to look at it from the other guy's view: "Oh no a zombie hit me and another one, gotta stay alive. Kill zombies faster dammit! OMG someone else is shooting in my direction. Panic! Finally all zombies down. Oh my health is down to 6000 I'll never get out of here like that. Oh no another survivor. WTF he is pointing his gun at me, must be the guy that tried to shoot me but only hit the zombies. Ah well more beans for me." * Kills guy approching him * This game makes some people extremely paranoid, you probably approached him when he was all in panic and the best thing to do for his survival was to shoot you.

I was playing on DE21 (I think) when I happened upon a tractor. Inside I found binoculars which I took out by using the gear interface. I received the binocs, but somehow everything else got removed out of my backpack and pouches, except ammo and both weapons. I logged out and logged back in, nothing changed except that now my drink/food icons were blinking read. Note - before I took out the binocs I still had sth. like 3 cans of food and at least one full water bottle and some soda.Before I looted I had just drank/eaten something. Seeing that there wasn't much I could do and my equipment wasn't that good I simply decided to respawn. Respawning brought me to an empty desert (probably the area west of the map) without any equipment. I disconnected and moved to another server. There my character was still around the tractor, still food/water blinking and still nothing to eat/drink. What happened - and what can be done to resolve this? I already once made the hike about 3km east into the map and am not looking forward to starting without any equipment at all. Respawning doesn't seem to do anything. :s

I feel for you' date=' imo the ARMA II user interface is horribly clunky and has a low usability. Like in any game crank up gamma values at night, you'll see as good as in the "cherry picked" Youtube videos. Some nights are moonlit others have a heavy cloud cover, your mileage may vary.On top of that there are many servers that have adapted their time to accommodate for people wanting to play after work in the evening, no need to be rude or snotty towards the server admins.

jayarr916 try setting your video memory to default, not to high or very high. As ARMA II is very I/O dependent defrag the disk you have your ARMA II install on and make sure its on your fastest non-OS hard disk. Sometimes actually increasing stuff like texture quality will give you more frames than limiting it. Anyways don't start hunting ever FPS, if you get around 40 in the demo you usually are well off to play.

I'd pay monthly if it would guarantee a dedicated and unified server infrastructure (and exclusion of the horrible Gamespy server browser) without any clan/private hosted servers. Else wise game game client only. - Studio / Team developed - Studio servers only with payment, Studio/Community mixed with client only. - Against Kickstarter

Instead of just adding more zombies, just add in a new type: The seeker zombie. It sniffs out players and actively roams around where there is food or dead bodies. Once it finds a player it gives alarm and all zombies nearby (as in "Lee Enfield range") join the hunt. Even if a player manages to kill them all, he will loose lots of ammo AND also get the attention of possible bandits nearby.

Yes. The very first time I drank something I was surprised it has 0 influence on blood. Ofc it should not replenish as much as a meal, but sth around 50 blood from drinking and only 2/3 thirst from soda would absolutely make sense.

Just have the bolts stack up to 10 per inventory slot, problem solved imo. Not a big fan of the crossbow either, but sometimes its the first main weapon you find, so at least having manageable ammo would be a good thing.

To help you out, please post PC Specs and run the benchmark (Benchmark 1) from the scenarios. You should get around 30 - 40 FPS with a typical mid-level gaming PC, even without much optimization. General tips: - Turn off Anti-Aliasing - Turn off Post-process - Set visibility range between 1500 and 2000 - Windows 7 Power Options -> Set to High Performance (Default is balanced)

Hey Nite adding -world=Chernarus to the startup parameters has helped me cut down on the loading message thing. It will basically load the Chernarus map during startup so it won't have to load in the background when you are connecting. Sometimes I still have to wait around 20-30s but then I usually am in-game.

Regular character resets during alpha testing? Why not. My character has bugged out so often now, loosing items, always spawning in some desert area to the west of the map, spawning in water etc. I think it wouldn't hurt much to bring every character on the same level for every new major release. This might make testing the alpha more consistent. (Maybe this is being done other wise, in that case its not necessary ofc). Regular character reset at different major milestones during beta? Maybe once or twice at the most; if deemed necessary by the dev team. Regular character reset when "its done"? Nope. The only real character reset shall be death (or a DB problem)

Date/Time: 11.6.2012 What happened: On reconnect lost all non ammo/gun related inventory items out of inventory, items in backpack saved. Where you were: Near Pusta What you were doing: Reconnecting after disconnect *Current installed version: DayZ 1.70, ARMA II OA Beta 93666 Player ID: 9920902 *Server(s) you were on: EU21 (same happened on NL4) *Your system specs: Atholon X6 1090T, 4 GB Ram, Windows 7 64 bit, ATI Radion 5770 HD *Timeline of events before/after error: Got disconnected, reconnected, items in main inventory missing ( Water bottle, bandages, food, soda cans) Details: Almost every time I disconnect from a server or have session lost, on return I'm missing items from my main inventory. What I am seeing is that I loose everything outside of my backpack and only items that either are not ammunition, tools or weapons. Soda cans, water bottles, food, bandages etc. all disappear. They are also not in on the ground or sth. This has now happened repeatedly. Yes I know its an alpha and things are still wonky, but as this has happened repeatedly on different servers I though it might be worthwhile reporting. I reported this beforehand but my reports disappeared somehow.

Well the quality sucks like everyone said, but thumbs up for the song, very fitting !

Almost every time I disconnect from a server or have session lost, on return I'm missing items from my main inventory. What I am seeing is that I loose everything outside of my backpack and only items that either are not ammunition, tools or weapons. Soda cans, water bottles, food, bandages etc. all disappear. They are also not in on the ground or sth. This has now happened repeatedly. Yes I know its an alpha and things are still wonky, but as this has happened repeatedly on different servers I though it might be worthwhile reporting. Servers where it occurred: NL4, EU21 Playing DayZ 1.70, ARMA II OA current beta patch (93666 atm) Player ID: 9920902

Thanks for the heads up!

Chernarus being mostly an agricultural area I was surprised that I never stumbled upon a cattle prod. Yeah I know ... Melee weapon. Still this would be very fitting imo.

I had contact with someone from the "German players thread" we had some PMs going on, but then the rollback happened. I don't have any PMs due to newly created account. You wanted to give me an update for TS3, please respond.