Electron

I like to keep things realistic when playing DayZ, and a huge part of keeping it "realistic" is kind of having the day / night cycle. Now, a 24h cycle would be kind of overkill, considering that the normal player only plays for some hours in each session. But a 2,4,8> cycle would be kind of nice if you ask me. So I'm wondering, are there any good servers out there which has these cycles? I'm kind of fed up about playing in daytime all the time, kind of takes away the stealthy parts of the game if you ask me. I live in Norway, GMT+01:00 - So central in the world. Could anyone please give me a server which has this cycle? I'd be very appreciative!

Thank you very much, this was indeed useful information! :)

Get off the coast, and head into the woods. Find a village with a water well (Look on the map), and drink a lot. Continue all the way to the north, and choose small village which you loot for canned food and water bottles. When you've found this, stay in the shadows of the north until you've found weapons and armor. When choosing an airfield to loot, go for the one in the north eastern part. The one in the north west, and south is usually filled with trigger happy people. That's just what I've learned.

Sounds good! I noticed myself that when there was nothing left in a military base, and I jumped to another server - it was packed! Now as you do, I enjoy worrying about others, I think that's a part of the game. But as your stuff saves and is the same on all servers, I think that this should've been implemented so that we'd go more towards servers with highers amounts of players. Who would want to join an "easy-loot" server with 1 player, if the only good loot you'd find was an A1 axe?

Alright, thanks for stopping by! I'm completely new to this forum, so if I by accident posted in the wrong section then please move the post and don't delete it. :) I've gotta start off saying that I am fully aware of that this is an Alpha version of the game. I've noticed bugs like most others, and I won't complain about them. I am still new to the game, and some features I see throughout the game makes me ask myself questions. But instead of asking myself, I'll ask someone who knows! So my first question relates to the graphics, and not the gameplay itself like my other questions. Lately when I've been playing, I notice that my FPS goes up and down like a rollercoaster, even on low graphics. I have a pretty good gaming rig, which plays the newest games on very high graphichs without even a single FPS drop. So I think my question here would be the following: Does other experience the same kind of problem, and if so - why? Does DayZ have a badly optimized engine, or is there something else causing the lag? Is this a problem of Standalone, or has it always been like that? -Does anyone believe this will be fixed in new patches?So my questions are the following: Is there a way to see how much blood you have left? I noticed when playing that after some zombies attacked me, and some bandits shot me - my screen turned grey, and became a bit blurry. This continued for about a day after I patched up the wound, I also made sure that I wasn't hungry nor thirsty. The colors never came back before I was killed. What bothers me about this is that I never saw exactly how much blood I had left. Like in the modded version of ARMA2, there was at least a small monitor to show you how much blood you had left - but now it seems to be removed, or is there a key I am supposed to push? Does ballistic helmets, motorbike helmets and army helmets actually protect you? I've just been curious to know whether the helmets actually protect you, or if they're there just for the "look". Does gas masks and respirators protect you from anything? Like with the helmet question, are these things here only for the look of it or do they actually serve a purpose? When firing an assault rifle, or handgun - is there any bullet drop? | If so, does weather affect it? Is the Day/Night Cycle currently disabled? Often when I play on servers now, even servers in my own timezone - at night; I experience that the time doesn't actually change. When I wanted to see how things were at night, I had to switch server. Why is it like this? Like with the Night/Day Cycle, is the Weather Cycle disabled as well? I don't see the weather changing either, only on one server I visited I was met with rain - but then it rained continously for hours upon hours until I died. On the others it's always been clear sky, and no sign of changing. Is there any way of getting your hands on 9V batteries? I've searched through the whole map, army bases to cabins - but I never seem to find them? Why? If you lower the graphics, you're more likely to see other players in grass from distance - this is because the player models are generated before the grass. -Doesn't this destroy some of the stealth if you're hiding in the grass, and players with low graphics spot you? I personally think this is taking away some of the joy, but what do you think? Will it be changed somehow? And that's about it for now. I'd be really appreciative if you could answer the questions. If not all, maybe one?