doctorbadsign

When you first ever start DayZ they should have a calibration image for you to find the right gamma and brightness settings. This option should be saved and cannot be changed anywhere other than the main menu. When it is changed you should have to restart.

I think it should be drag body. Allowing the player to drag or carry a corpse out of sight. Maybe also a cremate option once jerry cans are in. But the fire should be visible for quite some time. I seriously doubt any bandit would ever really waste loads of energy burying anyone (although perhaps the option should be there for role players who want to give their fallen comrades a proper send off)

Overalls would be cool. Some different kinds of backpack would also be good. T shirts with logos, perhaps some humorous send offs of actual brands "Not-a-Cola" style Trench coats would be sweet

You know you play too much DayZ when you hack at someone's legs with an axe in order to break them, before force feeding them rotten fruit and disinfectant, the proceeding to bandage their legs, and break them again, then hand cuff them and shoot them in the face after forcing them to strip to their underwear.

Don't worry when they add mod support, the first thing that will happen is probably "Choose your spawn location, spawn with an AK and 200 helicopters" servers :)

If you take the whole experience of the game to rely on finding your friends you most likely won't enjoy it that much. Personally I like playing up to the point of meeting a friend, if we don't meet up that day it doesn't bother me, cause its a good game. If you actively hate the process of meeting up you likely aren't gonna like the game that much more when you are together.

I want a short clip of Dean Hall in white robes if you've been a hero saying "welcome to heaven my son", if you're a bandit I want him dressed as Satan saying "welcome to hell you cunt"

Well isn't the point of an assault rifle: it's versatility: i.e: single accurate shots at range and rapid fire for close range?

There is lots of that in DayZ lol The other day I was running along in the shipwreck, saw that I was near the edge so decided to release 'W' in good time. My character was like "Imma gonna carry on running" right off the edge. BAM "You are Dead".

I like the dull nights. There is not enough light at night time for us to be able to see colour properly, so the grey scale is accurate. There is no electricity in Chernarus so there would be no street lights etc. It would get pretty dark at night time. All it needs now is for wondering zombies, or zombies that track you without constantly making noises or making subtle noises that you can't quite place. Imagine how scary it would be to get jump attacked by a zombie that you couldn't see or hear! On top of that we need wolves howling in the background and owls hooting and night time will be genuinely creepy. DayZ is a zombie game, and zombies are first and foremost part of the horror genre, and DayZ is severely lacking in the horror department. If done correctly the dark, dull nights could play really well into this. EDIT: On a side note it is pretty silly to call people pussies for not wanting pitch dark night time in their game. Its not like playing with them makes you actually hardcore or anything. It's understandable that an integral part of many people's gaming experience is to have something on the screen for them to control, so you can't blame people for wanting it. I do think however, that DayZ should keep its dark nights and the whingers should probably play something else if they don't like it. DayZ isn't for everyone, and it should never change in such a way so that it does become that.

Where were you fishing? Maybe go somewhere away from other players? Same goes for chopping wood. With hunting etc. I feel less and less need to go anywhere near the hot spots

I doubt you could buy new rig that will run it out of the box. But that is not to say you wont be able to fix something up. See if anyone on ebay is selling their old set up? When I built my first PC I spent about £70 and that would run DayZ. I inherited an old PC off my parents and was donated a new motherboard from a friend. I then spent the money on a budget GPU and a cable to connect my old laptop's hard drive. It is doable but not with brand new components.

Brian Andrews

DayZ is competitive. This leads to a widespread desire for an even playing field, which then leads to people who only exploit gamma and brightness because everyone else does. Henceforth every exploit becomes hugely widespread. I agree that my suggestion is not a 100% fix, but I do think the devs should acknowledge and tackle the issue. I don't want to be at a disadvantage because I want my night time experience to be authentic and as intended by the developers.

I play as a lone wolf and generally try to avoid people. Paradoxically whenever I actually want to seek out interaction I don't find any...

I think they should just do away with the ability to adjust brightness and gamma in game on the fly. Have it so you can access it through the main menu, perhaps with some kind of calibration image, but don't have it in game.

I don't want individual servers to control the loot. It will wind up as it did in the mod, trying to find a decent server among the "1000+ vehicles / spawn with a mega gun" servers. I don't think any control should be given in that regard to loot. Having said that I also do not think server hopping should actively be encouraged.

I know, but if you allow admins to control what spawns in their server you'll find that most servers will turn out like that.

Server hopping is the opposite of what DayZ is all about.

Better than every server with 100000000000000 helicopters if you ask me

The first person I killed was quite clearly driven to insanity by the events in Chernarus, they could see I was well armed, yet they attacked me with their fists inside the barracks. No sane person would do something so nihilistic and stupid. I fired a couple of shots and they dropped to the ground, dead. I didn't feel bad. Whoever they were they died a long time before I opened fire on them. I couldn't risk someone so murderously insane picking up a weapon. The second person I killed was more out of reflex than anything else. I went in the prison building at Green Mountain to find a guy inside looting. I panicked and cursed myself for not approaching with more care. This guy was well armed, his back was to me, and it seemed he was just as unprepared as I was. If he turns around I'm dead I thought. I sprayed him with bullets. Piercing his backpack and peppering his entire body. I felt horrible. But I was too scared. If he turned around to see me pointing a gun at me he would have fired I swear. The guilt plagued me for a long time. Perhaps he would have helped me and we could have become friends, but instead I killed him. Shot him in the back like a coward. Since then I have not killed anyone. I have become adept at seeing people before they see me. I stay out of their way.

For some unknown reason, rather than the standard display of your character in their current gear, my background is just pale blue. That in and of itself does not bother me... However, I now cannot change my default character. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks that would be it... I didn't even remember putting all those launch parameters in

Not even that fixes it for me

See I was on the look out for something that actually looks like an ash tree... Now I know where I am going wrong...