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I think weapons spawning in less than pristine condition should play into this discussion/mechanic in a big way. A pristine weapon of any type should not be affected by the kind of wear we'd be seeing in a typical character's life. But, a damaged or badly damaged automatic rifle or pistol should need to be tended to before use. If not, then you run the risk of jams or your accuracy suffering. The question is, where is the balance between weapon condition/degradation being a non factor, and it being a gamey, over the top mechanic that takes away from gameplay. The simplest implementation that comes to mind is two-part. The first part is how items degrade over time. I think there being a percentage chance of the weapon dropping to a lower stage of condition after each shot fired could work. Of course, we're talking tiny percentages. The next part, would be an increasing chance of weapon jamming based upon weapon condition. Both of these parts would be different depending on the weapon, and would need to be prevented or counteracted with varying levels of difficulty dependent upon the weapon and how badly degraded it was. Just a thought. Edit: ammunition quality could also play into this as well!

I played with a pair of newish players for 4 hours, waiting for my chance to kill them. One, with an AKM, watched his back consistently, making my task difficult. At 2am, when they finally decided to log out, I punched him out and stole his gear. The next day, he messaged me on steam and asked if I was the culprit. I denied it. To this day, I will see him log onto dayz and I feel guilty about what I did to him. I stole his first AKM, and likely built an inherent distrust of other players within him. Forgive me.

I played with a pair of newish players for 4 hours, waiting for my chance to kill them. One, with an AKM, watched his back consistently, making my task difficult. At 2am, when they finally decided to log out, I punched him out and stole his gear. The next day, he messaged me on steam and asked if I was the culprit. I denied it. To this day, I will see him log onto dayz and I feel guilty about what I did to him. I stole his first AKM, and likely built an inherent distrust of other players within him. Forgive me.

For your hardcore "settings" I would suggest increasing the difficulty in the opposite direction. So rather than forcing us to eat and drink constantly, or become fatigued every time we jog, make food scarcer and make the time to regain fatigue longer

Or, during the time it took them to assemble those M4s, they also found other good gear that is easier to find. Stereotyping is mean!

Well, considering that other players have M4s with pristine sights and furnishings, what do you think? They're all hacked in? Helicopter crashes are the only place they spawn. If you're going to start a new thread to ask a question, please so a quick google or forum search first. Someone who's been a poster as long as you should know better. Tsk tsk!

Think of it this way: you're getting the opportunity to drive a car while it's being assembled. The car being able to even get around the track at all is basically where dayz is at right now. And you're over here complaining about the quality of the ride. "Well I paid $30 to test drive this thing! It should handle like a completed car god damn it! It has a metal steering wheel for Christ's sake!" Remember that caveat you click to move past everytime you launch the game? It tells you in clear English that the game sucks, will likely suck, and should suck for some time. Forum moderators are being forced to waste time defending you because you have a sense of entitlement over spending $30. TLDR; you paid for early access. You didn't purchase a game.

I've got a pretty cool looking pristine OREL uniform jacket and pristine UN helmet if that's worth anything to you. Could look cool if you ever get your hands on that press vest and police pants...

Hopefully, with the need to boil water, at least the thirst aspect of the nutrition system will be a bit more involved. I think cooked food speeding up the healing process or even just bringing up your core temperature would also improve gameplay. If the devs want to keep the "cod peasants" happy, I think the thing to do would be to allow us to continue drinking soda and cold canned food like we can now, but also reward the players that choose to take better care of their character. I think this could be accomplished with higher shock cap when you eat and drink healthier, or maybe faster health/blood regeneration. That way, the people who don't have the patience to spend 5 minutes an hour on cooking/boiling/cleaning don't necessarily have to, but the players that do will be better off for it and not feel like they're wasting time.

So if people think the hunger and thirst system is.... Over-bearing, what would they suggest as far as balancing? Food being even more rare and hunger and thirst setting in at a slower rate? In my opinion, slowing time down like this would mean also slowing down healing time, the time it takes to eat, the time it takes to regain stamina, the time it takes to open cans, etc, etc. Thinking before you speak is a great way to avoid being hypocritical.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I tgought they removed the ability to do this. As far as I know, all cargo pants and jackets take up at least 4 slots in your inventory now. If I am wrong, please let me know.

Several people here have claimed to have checked multiple villages and starved to death before finding the supplies they need. I'm curious as to whether these villages are strung along the east coast or are interior towns. If they are the former, I think you deserve your early grave. Every newspawn starts on the coast and you think that you're going to be able to find anything there? Insane. But, if in fact the interior towns are lacking in sufficient supplies on experimental (I know this is not the case on stable), there MIGHT be some need for tweaking before it hits stable. If any of you played the mod around the 1.8 mark, you will remember when the infection rate was jacked way up (25% chance from bloody zombies). This, coupled with the low spawn rate of antibiotics, enraged players like the OP. "What do you mean I have to struggle to survive until I find antibiotics!!!? Waah just let me roam and kill unhindered!!" But, within a few short weeks, everyone learned how to cope and the whiners moved onto the next topic to whine about. Food and warm clothing scarcity is one of those whiner buzz topics. It increases difficulty but doesn't give instant gratification like KOS does. I wouldn't get worked up over posts like this. Honestly the OP is just embarrassing himself by refusing to admit that he needs more practice and experience to become proficient at dayz.

Go into your key bindings and assign it to turbo or fast-forward or something. I always have to try one or two different assignments before I get it right.

If surviving as a fresh spawn was nearly guaranteed, why even incorporate it into the game at all? Why not just spawn us with matches and a splitting axe and a pistol? And if that is the experience you are looking for, I would suggest trying arma 3 breaking point. I played it recently and it's a lot of fun. But, it is not the "anti-game" that Rocket promised us. Think about it: if every asshole that was confronted with zombies and life after electricity could cope and equip himself to survive long term, why the fuck did chernarus or even the rest of society collapse? And if you're not finding adequate food and supplies to survive, learn from your mistakes!!! Don't just come to the forums and claim the game is in some way flawed. "Failed the exam: science should be rewritten so I can pass the exam!" I see this logic everyday on these forums and it saddens me that these whiny brats are our future. When confronted with a challenge, they expect the challenge to be removed. I pray to Rocket and the other gods that the development team is as disappointed in these whiners as I am, and that their demands for an easier game go unanswered.

The problem is that everyone is hungry for the best items as well as desiring pvp. The harder it is to find uber gear, the more punishing it is when you die to pvp. What they don't realize, is that creating that relationship between rare gear and "permadeath" is the main source of tension in dayz. Without that tension, the game spirals into boring, predictable pvp that stays stagnant. Think of it this way: that AK101 that you spent 3 hours finding is important to you. You don't want to lose it. But at the same time, it gives you an advantage over players with easier to find rifles. So while those top tier players are harder to kill, they have more to lose.

You're saying the server restarted and the crashsite was still there? Or are you saying you logged in after a restart and the crashsite appeared for the first time? I ask because as far as I know, crashsites redeploy to new locations on server restart. This would mean that the crashsite you hit must have undoubtedly been unlooted, and you were just unlucky and found nothing.

Which is why no one's posts are identical.

Mookie and officer25 have made my dreams finally become a reality. I now possess... an M4 with a red dot sight. Now I can retreat into the fringes and become paranoid again :)

The PU and acog are also midrange scopes.

Mookie, I have recently made the switch to regular so that I could trade for one of your coveted M4s should the opportunity arise. For the first time, I possess an item on your want list (sort of). I have two badly damaged pristine cases!... I know you would prefer pristine protector cases, but these two are all I have. But, to make up for the poor repair of these two, I am willing to offer other wares. I have: Blue camo top(p) Mp5 (P) AKM+ 2 drums (not that you would use them, but perhaps in a tent for a future trade) Can opener (P)lol I also have a very well equipped hardcore character. His gear is available as well if you are interested. I know I do not have too much to offer, but I thought I would extend an offer to you anyway. If you are interested in my offer, or would like additional details, send me a PM.

And after you've invested 20+ hours into finding one, what are you going to do with it? Go pvp in the south and east? Continue hitting military bases until somebody gets the drop on you? I'd imagine most Smersh vest owners are too afraid to log in for more than an hour at a time, avoiding towns and mil bases all together. This does create a lot of attachment to your character, (assuming you aren't in a highly organized pvp clan that can just recycle your equipment back to you) which can bring a lot of tension to the game.

Try and be patient, or make the switch to the mod. The mod has many features that haven't made it to the standalone yet. I wish game development was faster too. But it's like reading a book while it's being written.

Just had kind of an odd idea... What if you role played your character as a mute? You carry a long-winded note around with you explaining that you cannot speak and that having another survivor with you would make handling player confrontation much easier ie an invitation to team up. You'll still have the issue of players not trusting you because you aren't able to announce yourself as being a nonhostile quickly when confronted, but there are ways around this. Cuing your mic in known patterns (think SOS) while you friendly dance or whatever before you hand them the note could work with some survivors. Although your situation definitely makes life harder, I would, if I were you, do my best to tie it into your gameplay in a fun way instead of allowing it to only slow you down in a purely negative way. Good luck!

Keys need to have the server that they belong on "marked" on them somehow. Otherwise we'll be collecting keys for hidden bases on random servers we'll never find. If you kill an uber geared out guy with a clan name, it would be cool to have the name of his home server marked on his keys that you loot from his corpse. This way you could join that server and start snooping around.

Think about how much gear you're lugging around on the verge of exhaustion. Of course you'd run like a big fatty