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When I saw that ship up the coast from Berezino, I thought maybe that explains the wealth of people of different nationalities that start off somewhere along the coast. Being in a ship wreck, and being washed up on the shore somewhere is a bit of a cool idea behind the spawn mechanic. Of course this is just my interpretation but I like the idea as it explains why you're there in the first place.

Deciding upon a certain dress code for people who are friendly is all very well until the trolls find out what the dress code is...

No one is ever going to stop using 3rd party software unless the in-game system is better/more advantageous. What are people's suggestions for giving in game VOIP an advantage over 3rd party software? I understand why people don't like 3rd party chat programs, but you need to be realistic about things. There are huge advantages to using them, whilst there are huge disadvantages to using the direct chat in the game. If the disadvantage is not addressed there is zero chance that this perceived problem will go away. Ergo the people moaning about it need to have something more constructive to offer because saying "it's cheating" and generally being inflammatory is not going to get anything changed.

I've never ever had a problem finding loot... Scarcity doesn't justify server hopping, it justifies looking harder in places that people might not think to look.

If I die because someone kills me whilst I'm unarmed I usually sigh and say "ugh what's the point?" But other than that I just accept it and carry on.

You don't even need to move Balota, just make it so that fuck all gear spawns there

You know this? How?

There is no way we can get people to use in-game chat functions unless we give them some kind of advantage over using 3rd party software. I dunno how they can make in-game chat more advantage, but there is no other way to encourage others not to use 3rd party software.

I agree... All this autosave shit has made us far too comfortable. I remember those games that if you wanted a break you'd have to be willing to go back to square one...

The thing is that we all experience those situations in which we say "hello, I'm friendly" and get killed anyway. Speaking to someone who might just instantly kill you is putting you as a disadvantage because your guard is down. Its safer to just shoot. I've tried as best I can to avoid that tactic, but it becomes increasingly apparent that it is unavoidable. If I see you, and you're armed and a threat (i.e: got the gun in your hands) I'm going to shoot you. There's no reason to kill unarmed players on sight unless they come too close to you, but there is every reason to kill armed players on sight.

Sorry but the experience of one of your friends does not qualify you to make the broad statement that DayZ is not fun for new players. Try increasing your sample size a little bit....

The fact that you say he "keeps" telling you to go meet him and then you end up getting shot implies that you have fallen for it more than once?

On a side note, I don't think they set out to make the "game that you'd hoped for".

I don't mind them. I just think we need a 15, 10, 5, 3, and 1 minute remaining warnings, so we know what is happening.

Whoa there... What exactly is it about people with PC's that makes them think they are so much better?

Bear in mind there are what 5 or so guns in the game. I'm sure more will be added. So they might get slightly less difficult to find.

It doesn't bother me. I don't have a console.

I just recently got a mouse with a DPI switch on it. I never use it with the DPI turned up high cause the precision is terrible, but I'd be willing to test your theory by turning it up on my mouse in game for a bit. I'll let you know what happens. EDIT: For me I experienced no negative acceleration when I turned my mouse DPI up. Not sure what other players have experienced though

I must admit to having a similar experience. I have always had an initial dislike of the 1PP. Not sure exactly why, but it never felt right for some reason. Despite this the other day I joined a 3PP off server and gave it a go. After a little while I decided I actually preferred the feel of playing in 1st person. I felt really sucked in. It might have been because I decided to turn the head bob right down (something I'd never bothered with before), that made it tolerable, I dunno. But I'd like to say that I was wrong about 1PP and I will now be playing on 1PP servers only. However as someone that has been a 3PP'er before I will not be giving them any stick :) but I would urge them to try it after turning the head bob off.

My interactions with other people in DayZ have largely been non-hostile. Not necessarily friendly, but most of them don't result in someone dying. To tar all players with the same brush is a little unfounded and unnecessary.

Its a bit temperamental at the moment, I'm assuming that it is something to do with the separation of hardcore and regular servers. I was restarted today then discovered my character was still around later---which was weird. One even placed me back to a character that I'd used quite a while ago. Its a bit all over the place, but its quite nice to see the new items :)

They might well spawn in those places in Cherno and Electro, however if you think about the traffic in those areas, you might not actually find them before someone else does. I have only ever found them in barns and cars.

You can turn head bob off :)

I wanted to record a DayZ video the other day, however I was unable to do so because for some reason Shadowplay wouldn't let me. The screen went black for a few seconds after I pressed Alt+F9 and then the screen reappeared, however in the top left there was a green dot with a red line through it---which I presume means that there is some issue with recording DayZ using this software. Does anyone know if there is a fix for this?

Is there any point? From what it seems all the experimental servers are full. Might as well wait.