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I honestly don't know where I stand on this one ... I often use my smaller tv to play to get better frames and without zoom that makes it pretty rough , but then again I'm all for realism and making this game parallel real life at all times ... So I'm not entirely sure, I do agree with gews that a balance between realism and gameplay must be struck , but then again I do like ricks suggestion of making things sharper when you "right click zoom" on them instead of making the image zoom. But I think we'd need to give whatever gews would suggest and ricks idea a chance as we can't really be sure until we play both ways .

Sweet thanks for responding mate... Snus is sold everywhere here near boston come around some time (don't drink the water you'll get the flu :( )

Holy shit nice ! Hicks if you're there Mang , can you do this as easily for the gamma slider ? Or is that another ball game ? Keep up the good work dayz devs and Much appreciate the response if you get the time !

Well I'll be a donkeys ass ... Even so though , Landmines are incredibly easy to look for when you're goin into a sketchy situation ...

I've encountered servers where they are public and lock it for no reason , I've been kicked for killing certain clanmates / admins , and I've been on servers that have reset after killing the badmin of said server ... Reported them all and the only one that I couldn't get into trouble was the last one because vilayer or whoever said it could have easily been a mistake (although these clan a holes do it all the time when they get wrecked). Report admin abuse , it helps , and is really not all that hard , create an email message to all 5 or whatever GSPs with the video of you getting kicked attached, it may take a day or two but in my experience the server gets unlocked or starts acting like real admins as soon as they get a slap on the wrist ... Of course that was the easiest example of reporting admin abuse , I'm sure some of you have horror stories of trying to report certain servers .

Well I'm gonna sit this stable out , I greatly appreciate the work and bug identifying the devs and us exp testers have done but i can't play dayz without persistence , I remember before it was enabled at all I had many weeks where I didn't want to play at all because all I wanted to do was go into the woods or a nice house and make a persistence camp ! But it's for the better and I really hope there's experimental branches up during this stable with persistence and zombies enabled... Experimental save us !!

Lol nobody has done this old trick since the mod , and with lootsplosions I would say it's not a trick , also what is he going to do , wait on that same server for days just waiting for some random forum member to trot by ? Lol ....

Well I think it's time after a whole year plus to have a good break when stable is zombie and persistence less ... Persistence was one of the things that really make this game special to me, so without that or even zombies I'm going to have to avoid it like the plague ... I really hope this zombie and persistence "issues" are resolved quickly because I guarantee stable will be the most empty it's ever been ! So boring with just pvp , I really do hope that that stable branch stays for no longer that a couple weeks ... :( !

Actually they are , if you have ever taken the time to notice the status reports are written up by mixes of the following (depending on what content is in the latest update) eugen harton , Chris torchia , brian hicks , it all depends on what info they want to give us that week ... But chill guys we all know the status reports are always late because of some reason , it's definitely not the end of the world and i lose no respect for the devs everytime they miss one , because it always comes out during the week at some point , I'm hoping today .

There's no loot or scenery there right ? Like no trees or anything ? It's just a desert island or something I've heard ...

We need more islands !! But not debug islands :/ !

Well unfortunately that what you'll have to do until you can conquer the dynamics of an alpha game , we all know dayz is famous for Desync and lag (which it's working on) so when you get trapped or shot at you just have to know how to manipulate the battle in your favor ... Run towards the enemy in zig zags while taking as much cover as possible , while taking as many shots at his position as pissible to stir him up and make him move , then when he's on the move take as Many accurate shots as possible ... It sounds to me that even though you had kept your guard up for days before seeing anyone , you had let your guard down at the exact right time for someone to notice ... So big tip NEVER let your guard down if you don't want to die , so basically never relax and think your safe , if you can't handle doing that all the Time I suggest getting used to dying or get into a group who can protect you !

Well I'm really bored and found a tweet by eugen that said this : As You see , Chris torchia replied with his tweet and an image of a gun that looks like it's awaiting configuration and skinning ... Any thoughts on this ? Am I overlooking because I'm dayz craving ?

Lol you guys should know by now I don't know guns :D ... And here was this pretty little thread making you think a new awesome gun was coming to dayz lol ... I want an m-240, and an fn-fal (two favorite weapons for some reason) , how about you guys ?

Well now that you've linked that April fools day tweet I'm believing this is definitely a hoax lol ... I'm sure he's got a sweet WIP for us to see soon that isn't a joke!

Lol I know right !! I'm not really sure but we need clarification haha (I'm probably just looking too far into this ).

I believe the rainbows , along with the thunder and lightning (yes there was lightning and thunder in this game and it was balling) were removed to help performance some time ago , but that's just a guess from my experience as in my first 500 hours I've seen many rainbows, thunder and lightning , but in the last 1,000 I have yet to see any of the above :(! Bring back rainbows , thunder , and lightning !! I will make a thread of this and try and collect images If I have any of the removed weather phenomenon ...

Well I'm guessing you were in the end killed while geared because you tried to finish something you (or someone else) started ... In an apocalypse there are many loose ends so don't try and hunt someone down that you just had a close-to-deadly encounter with , just make the smartest decisions to get your ass out of town undetected and be grateful you still have your life ! Try swerving in between trees and using cover to your best advantage when fleeing a fight (and you should be fleeing more often than not if you think you can't outgun your opponent ! ). Edit : also aren't you having fun just playing the game ? Why must you be clad with aks and mo5s in a safe player less zone to feel like you're having fun in this game ? Lol for me the fun starts when I spawn and ends when I log off ..

Forced you? How big is your "little" brother lol D=! I bought standalone because I liked the mods but only two of them (dayz origins , dayz aftermath) truly captured my attention as a "survival zombie apocalypse game" and I instantly saw how dayz standalone was going to improve on that survival feel ... It has and keeps on going , I can't wait to see the end product !

Flash is indeed a bit crazy in this game , I would say it's one thing novices to guns like myself , like to point out as "realistic" but taking in consideration of caliber and how overall big the gun in question is and that it's usually day time when these photos are taken for dayz , it does seem "Hollywood" like ... But that being said I highly doubt the developers who are such realism buffs , would let this slip all the way to full release , I'm sure it's something recieving a fix soon If not in beta .

Just played yesterday on us south central 0-1 3PP (never play third person but just had to check the situation of loot) ... It looks as if it's easy enough to survive on this "broken" server , I started in Cherno , rummaged around and found only clothing in the 20 buildings I searched , and managed to sprain my ankle somehow (lol)... So while I was dealing with that I made my way up to kozlovka, found a can of beans and picked some apples , I also found a water bottle among a huge lootsplosion of clothes in a one story cabin house , so after finding seeds and a hoe in Drozhino, I was almost set up , just needed more food to sustain myself for farming .. So I made it to Zelenogorsk , made some peppers and found even more seeds , food and a water well , I know live In Zelenogorsk (still technically on the coast mind you ) and I now had to switch servers b/c southcentral 0-1 was doing some weird lockup thing ... But when I switched servers I found the FNX45 and the other stuff at zeleno mil base ... Not too much, not too little , all obtained in about 2 hours of play before work and I only had to pick berries for about a collective 15 minutes to survive Cherno to kozlovka ! EDIT: will add pictures when I get off of my mobile soon . Long story short CLE is NOT broken , that would imply it's not working at all ... The term-phrase this thread is looking for is Not working as intended , because I literally saw loot appear in a garage I had just been in (with no loot previously) when the server went down for a restart , it wasn't there before restart then after restart it was a hoodie, rope , burlap sack and I believe some type of food ! I believe it appeared somewhere between kozlovka and Drozhino so my guess is the CLE is working , but putting it in places that people rarely go (and not to mention it seems like CLE only "shuffles Loot" on restart , as if items ONLY despawn on restart ?) . So I think restarts are governing when the CLE despawns and respawns loot , when really loot should be despawning at all times , but again CLE is not broken as we have seen instances of it doing it's job , it just needs further work as this is the first iteration of it. EDIT : this is the spot where i found the PET bottle inside of a huge clothes lootsplosion: This is how he looked before logoff:

Bodies disappearing only happens so quickly now to help server side performance , so expect the bodies to eventually have a decaying mechanic and stay until a certain restart or hard wipe when they will be removed , I'm guessing this will be by beta though and not put in for alpha ... This was talked about by devs around February of 2014 I think , but was said to be something added far down the line because again server performance needs help ATM ... So soon we will see bodies everywhere again !

As if red ensigns comment wasn't derogatory ... You people do know Alzheimer's is serious and if you were to get it you would most likely want to kill yourself ? Ya not cool, and if anything it was red ensign who deserved to be slapped on the wrist first by the mod ... Red_ensign never has anything good to say about this game or other posters , better to hide his comment than to only give a no no to somebody just defending themselves (rather rashly I'll say though senodog lol ) .

VZ61 Scorpion Nice!! Alos, nice to hear that experimental will have infected , its quite strange stable ,after .57's update, will not have zombies though...

Well i hadn't gotten fully geared yet and was checking out Northeast Airfield as i don't normally head up there. As i raided the back computer room of the jail house i saw a shot wiz by my face. Instantly i drop to the floor and roll out the door to the main corridor, close the door belonging to the room the bullet just landed in and slammed the button for fraps. This next minute is after TEN intense minutes of waiting listening to try and identify sounds he was making (clicking assuming he was dropping and switching between his two main arms he had) My message is that good guys (usually) always win...so watch and enjoy , hopefully some will recognize the soundtrack.