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I feel I need to list a few problems i have with Dayz. My 4 friends and I who have played many hours of Dayz have temporarily quit the game because of these problems and I want the community to hear about our struggles. I completely understand that the game is in "Alpha" and I am simply listing problems because I want the developers to hear consumer thoughts. The biggest problem we have faced in Dayz is the enormous amount of lag and slow glitchy actions. We feel the entire game engine is trash and with profits the game should have had a new engine made. It takes roughly 45 seconds just to load into the game and 20-40 seconds more to load into servers. Then when you are in the game you experience terrible bullet and weapon registration, floating dead bodies surfing across the map, zombies flying through walls, and inventory issues. This is a major problem that should be addressed quickly before moving on to cramming more lagged features into the unstable game. Nobody wants to pull their gun out and put it away 7 times and then be forced to stand still to take out your axe to kill the 9 zombies that are swarming you. Zombies are very random and spawn on top of you every 3 seconds. This has become ridiculous and everyone is getting tired of hacking 40 zombies to death and then watching them respawn in front of their eyes. Hackers have completely taken over the game, everyone says some magical "Ban Wave" took care of them but i've dealt with them constantly since the game launched. Everyone seems to know where I am in the middle of the woods making no noise and shooting me through walls. Elektro is pointless because you just get sniped by the hackers on sniper hill. Are there steam account bans for this game? The last thing i have a problem with is the dreadful amount of unsurety you have when you try to shoot someone. You are constantly nervous because the person you just shot 7 times gets back up from death and shoots you in the face,

We shouldn't have to avoid bugs. Would you buy a lawn mower that has no wheels and say "Bro, i can just hold it like a weed whacker"?

I didn't know my post would draw this amount of attention haha. Well honestly switching game engine at this point might actually speed up the updates. With an improved engine they could make changes quicker and easier rather than working around a pre-existing framework for Arma. If Bohemia wont swap engines(which is highly unlikely at this point anyway) then they should focus on improving existing mechanics and giving players what they want secondly. A lot of the mechanics players want are being pushed to the end of the to-do list and pointless buggy features are being pushed into the unstable game engine. Over the last couple updates i have noticed the original problems of inventory/movement lag making a huge comeback and barely any new features have been implemented. Bohemia should be smart and cater to their fans before they lose too many to bad experiences. This is a major mistake most game development companies make and they lose sales over it. What makes you want to stand in front of Bohemia and fight their battles for them? Fanboyism? Why even argue the known facts with the "Its only Alpha" line? Maybe it is only alpha but that doesn't mean they are not diminishing their playerbase by their "Alpha" mindset. I have no problem with bohemia but it is our duty as consumers to push the game companies harder. Just as we accept the terms of agreement, they also accept the fact that an "alpha" mindset can destroy their customer satisfaction rather than build it.

I spawned in Elektro on the hospital roof and waited there to scout it out before i made my move to go loot. A man spawns in front of me with no pants, a mosin, and a stupid down coat. I shot him once in the back with my mosin and he fell down. I shot him again in the back and then once more in the head to make sure he was dead. I went move literally 4 steps forward to loot his body and he stands up, turns around and shoots me in the chest. I shot him once more in the chest and he shot me again in the chest and i died. I hear him bandage and loot my body. What the hell happened here????

This doesn't explain how i shot him 4 times with almost no armor on and he shot me twice with full gear on and i died. I was full health as well.

Is anyone else having huge problems with losing their character since the new patch? I have lost my character over 5 times since the patch hit and lost my character maybe 3 times pre-patch. I know there are different server versions and private/public hives so don't give me that crap. I just want to know if i'm alone.

Its obviously a bug from the new patch. Going to have to wait for another patch before we can play our characters for more than 4 hours.

Glad to see i am not the only one. Maybe ill take a day or two break from dayz to save myself the pain.

ATX MOBO ($85) Upper scale Quad-core CPU ($125) 8gb ddr3 Ram ($50) GTX 500 series ($125) 500gb HD ($50) Case ($65) DvD Drive ($20) 650W PSU ($50) =$570+shipping Go to Newegg and find a pre-built system. They wont screw you over but expect to pay $100 extra to not build it yourself.

I don't understand this at all. This system idea is completely flawed. If someone is a murderous bandit how in the hell are they going to wait a fraction of a second before they grease you? The problem entirely is that players purposefully camp loot spawns to kill other players. Whether they are bored, lack endgame, or want other players loot does not matter at all. The fact is bandit players are going to kill other players and ruin the game for anyone who tries to be a moral hero. Ranking a player on their humanity simply does not work. A good player can get screwed over and a bad player can abuse the system to appear as a god. The question is how can you grant free will but also use limitations to encourage good behavior? Use a system that allows other players to rank each other for being good only and only allow them a few rates a day. Ranking a person for poor performance would only be abused. Players should be rewarded for being good but not punished for being bad.This wouldn't weed out all the bad eggs of course but who would wand a candy land apocalypse where everyone has a merry christmas??? Of course bad players in a group could rate each other and abuse the system, but not if you made it so you could only rate a person one time(use steam ids to disallow multiple ratings from same players)? How the good players are rewarded is beyond me. Speculate.

Im stuck inside a house and i cant lure a zombie to kill me and everytime i join another server im stuck in the same area!

Cannot vault through any wall or window and server switch doesnt help. How can i suicide!?

I really like this idea. I have only played DayZ for 2 days now(didn't play mod) and i have already geared up completely and i just started camping and killing players/hostage looting. I feel like there should be things to do past gearing. Creating vehicles or repairing a town to post up in with friends. Towns could battle each other for supplies and other players would gear up and want to build their own stuff too.