djporternz

Okay, granted it may have been a little over the top, but the fact remains that even with locked FoV on joining a server; locked Gamma and Brightness; locked 1PP or not; it doesn't matter what feature <x> you restrict or proscribe, there is always going to be something else that you can claim gives someone an advantage. Off the top of my head: what about rotational speed? I can set up my programmable mouse to give my in-game character an almost instantaneous 180. Could this give me an advantage? Hell yes. Should it be proscribed? Possibly, but how would you detect it? What impact is that going to have on game play if you have to check every piece of input against some 'normal' mode of operation? IMHO, we need to keep the basic game as free and open as possible. Just look around at the ways people are already playing within the DayZ world. People have taken this game already into areas where I wouldn't have thought possible. If you restrict a feature because it might negatively impact on your own style of play, then you are perforce proscribing someone elses mode of play. This should be done WRT private servers set up for specific styles of play, but it shouldn't be a restriction enforced within the base engine itself.

True, but I don't think that it will have a high priority ATM. There are some other more pressing issues that need to be addressed first. Also, just found this: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/153994-early-access-important-information-known-issues/ I'm prepared to wait and see what happens once all the devs are back online. Once we get further into the Alpha/Beta we'll have a better idea of what sort of game we'll be playing.

Okay... *deep breath* ... since a lot of you can't seem to work it out, check out this post: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/156129-confirmed-upcoming-features-for-dayz/. Work your way down to the section headed Server Management Options. Good. Very good. now read this part here: The important bits... "... that will operate on a separate database ..." blah, blah... "... we also want to provide passworded servers that will operate on their own shard of the database." And this bit... "Eventually, we would like to see these different communities on their own db running their own variations of DayZ to meet specific communities needs." Now I'm no intellectual genius, but the phrases 'separate database', 'own shard of the database' and their own db' would seem to imply that there will eventually be servers, you know, running on their own db, i.e. not running on the hive. So just sit down and wait. You're going to get what you want, eventually, because they've already said you're going to get what you want!

Thank you for asking so nicely. I'm sure Rocket and the team will now make it their first priority.

No. Not going to happen. And what they do implement something to fix the problem you're probably not going to like it. We just have to suck it up ATM until we're allowed to have truly private servers. Cheers and thanks for playing.

Umm... Is that move actually sanctioned?

Read my lips: I did not sleep with that woman! No, wait: It's an Alpha. Now, you're a grown-up so I'm not going to have to explain what an Alpha is, right? Now it's all well and good that you're doing yet another YouTube series on DayZ, because what we really need is another DayZ YouTube series, but you're doing it within the Alpha, man. Rocket has all but promised that he's going to screw you over. He was a little more polite about it, but that's what the large words that said "Don't buy this game, yet" actually meant. Wow, and thanks for telling Rocket to fix it. I'm sure he was blissfully unaware of the problem. Go you. PS: Sorry if I come across as condecending, but, holy crap people, it's an Alpha. And that's NOT an excuse, it's a reason. And for those keeping score, I actually did sleep with that woman, and I've got the four teenagers who remind me of that fact every single f'ing day!

Global inventory by another name. Might as well add an in game store with overpriced items, safe zones where you can't be KoS'd and change the name to... W... I... Aww, shit, anyone know what it's called this week?

Kids and show ponies, hitting the broad sides of barns on soft commercial targets. Just got to look at the list of targets and how much time they're spending blowing smoke up their own arses. This isn't cyber war. It's barely competent script kiddies.

IMHO, I don't think it needs changing. It should be like it is. I don't think there are any alternatives that would work here.

Specious argument alert. The problem is you can replace Auto Run with any pet feature that YOU want. Here's a few to get you started: Helicopters Jets Tanks Aimbots Player ESP Item ESP God ModeSee, all completely valid, and all similarly specious. The philosophy of the game is that you're actually playing it while... you're actually playing it.

I heard a rumour somewhere, that there's a no good bandit called 'Dr Zed' walking around as bold as brass with a pristine can opener. I say we gather us a posse and hunt that mother down. No way he should be allowed to open up any cans of beans like that with no effort. It's like he's laughing in the face of god or something.

Stayed alive for 8 days straight. Visited a castle. Walked off rampart trying to get to stairs.... *sigh*

Good advice if the server has been recently restarted, not so much if the server is older and heavily visited. Let me guess... Alcohol was involved, wasn't it?

And there's no ME in PvP.... Another one: The E in PvP is irrelevant! <- Sry, that one's v. weak.

Put flashlight/head light on ground. Turn on Step away quickly You are right, 'flashlight = certain death'. But for whom? That's the question, right there!

Run. Run some more. Hear that: It's you breathing heavy. Press 'F3' to sit down. See, your breathing gets lighter. Try it again, but this time don't sit down. See, it takes longer to recover your breathing. So, already in-game. Job done. Good job. Sleeping, though. Bad idea. Sleeping gets you killed! Period!

Okay, great... simple solution. Of course, now you're going to start bitching because I've got a triple head set-up and have two complete screens either side of me with additional peripheral view. And then the fact that I'm also using a Track-IR for head movement to augment my control set up. Pretty soon you'll be advocating that we all MUST be using identical CPU/GPU set ups so there can be no hint of an advantage, anywhere. They give us this sandbox to play in where we can do what we want, how we want. And even before the dust settles and we work out what we've been given, we've got people shouting out at the tops of there lungs 'NOO! TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOM! RESTRICT US! BETTER YET RESTRICT THEM!!'.

Mmmmm... Finnish Hardcore...

As Charlton Heston was quoted as saying: "You can take my beans, but if you want my can opener... you'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!" I may have misheard the quote, though.

Yes this is a known issue. If you go into config->video it should pop the graphics back for you. You don't actually have to change anything, just go there and it fixes itself by magic. Works too, if you go to a server and it appears blurry. I'll go as far to say if you have any graphical glitch, try config->video first.

And yet players are still being killed in their droves by these 'inaccurate' weapons. Not to call you on the figures or anything, as I have the same info available here, and there does seem to be a disparity between the figures that are contained in the config files. I don't thnk, however, that they are the entirity of the story. This is only ancedotal, and therefore probably irrelevant, but I still seem to be able to hit 9/10 targets at 800m with a scoped mosin on a bipod while prone and holding my breath. I'd be curious to see if those figures for dispersion were affected by any of those conditions and by how much. Not sure whether its worth the effort ATM with everything so much in flux.

This has to be a setup for a pedo sting, right? Got some balls, though, outright asking for a hook up with 12-15 yro boys....

Just want to point it out, you know, just to be absolutely clear: THE GAS MASK IS OPTIONAL. Thank you, now back to your bickering...