Knocturnal

But they shouldn't be "that rare". If you go on a military base, you will find military grade weapons... The fact is, having these places spawn military grade weapons creates zones of interest, thus, PvP. But whatever, I find having some access to weapons makes the game more interesting, I like scavenging places and have to always be on the edge of my seat, but I know if I pull through I will find something to defend myself with. I guess there's some hardcore survivor fans out there, but it's a game, and remove the ability to defend yourself from the bandits out there, it will cause a whole bunch of frustration. That's how I see things.

Keep up the good work guys! So, I have run into the common issues, such as character disappearing, but I have read the thread on how to "recover". So basically, I really would like to see that fixed in the next patch, Also, I agree that that military loot spawns were a little high, however, now it feels like they're too low. I'm not quite sure what the idea behind that was, but it's definitely not helping the server hopping issue. It's harder to get PvP ready, so it sort of encourages server hoping. Every game goes through balancing and it's never on the dot right away so I feel confident that the spawn rates will be adjusted. Especially weapon modules such as the ACOG, or RIS rail, I barely see any of those, and when I finally find a scope or red dot, it's badly damaged :( Aside from that, I have yet to find a shotgun, and have come across some new items such as the pistol flashlight. Though, I haven't seen a RIS rail mounted flashlight since the patch? Weapon cleaning kit is a cool addition, more things to pay attention to, which is awesome. Another thing that I would like to see fixed soon is the sound. I hear pop cans open, people eating and even in game communication from a distance. I was with a buddy doing some reconnaissance, we could hear 2 guys talking to the prisoner they had taken, yet we were never able to find their location. During all of this, sounds of reloading mags, food crunching, opening pop cans... Put us on the edge of our seats, but then we just couldn't pay attention to them because the sounds weren't legitimate. Again, keep up the good work, and hope to see some more fixes and features soon!

I have come across a few statuses, such as being sick, so I found out that you need to keep eating at an all time low, stay dry and making a fire can help. However, I did bleed at several occasions, sometimes I just suicide to make it easier, but doing so isn't the best way to go when you are hoarding some gear that took a while to get a hold of. So I read up on it, obviously bandaging yourself is the first thing to do. It has happened a few times that my screen got blurry, or dark, and no matter what I did, I couldn't become healthy again. Despite not having a blood transfusion, I followed the steps of maintaining hydration and hunger at its best, which was supposed to result in an increase in natural blood levels, though it never seemed to get any better...

Ahhh ok, cause in the steam store, under the DayZ tab, there aren't any indications about it being VAC secured. I have indeed heard that bans are not done then and there, but rather a day or even a week later. I just hope this game will be protected to a maximum because of whats in play, already it's a pure survival game, I would prefer not to come across people with ESP, aimbots, and speed hacks. The game is hard enough as it is, if you know what I mean.

Because DayZ is a early access alpha release on Steam, will it eventually be supported by VAC? I mean how well will DayZ be protected from hackers? I was in a game yesterday and met up with a random player, we started to scavenge together, then all of a sudden, the whole server got ported into a small room where some douche bag hacker shot all of us dead. That sort action is something an anti-cheat normally picks up on quickly, and proceeds with a ban...

I know there's a difference between licensing a Bohemia vs Crytek engine, and I understand this game is also a mod, thus, I do believe there are SDK's for the CryEngine, such that Blood Dragon was developed on. I don't hate the current engine because it doesn't provide something amazing for the DayZ game, but simply because it always has and likely always will be a poorly optimized engine. The game is great, and there's so much that hasn't even been added yet. I have faith that this game will see better days.

I think it`s funny some responded with offense. Apart from its possible map size, it remains that it's the most poorly optimized engine out there. There was significant work done to Arma 3's engine, and I would have thought that the standalone version could have waited to run on Bohemia's latest engine. Where DayZ currently stands (standalone), it's barely playable, aside from the glitches and connection issues, control setting are not all functional (Ex. disabling mouse acceleration), and it can barely run on my PC on normal settings. Where I run Arma 3 at max settings...

First, I must ask, why the Arma 2 engine? Arma 2 engine is one of, if not, the least optimized engine to see daylight in years... Mediocre graphics that require much power yet makes poor use of hardware. I truly dislike the engine due to its general feel, movement feels clunky, and simply strange, and there are plenty of glitches that were left untouched by Bohemia. Keybindings interference, thus requires to have a whole keyboard mapped out for simple tasks and actions that can all be combined in a few keys (Ex. Use/Interact combined with vaulting over objects.) Arma 3 engine would have been much preferred. Even CryEngine could have been an alternative, though may have resulted in a smaller map size (Ex. Farcry 3). DayZ has potential, there is no doubt about it. The standalone is underdeveloped, though, this was not kept secret upon release. I hope to see this game progress in the right direction, and see it reach the developers intended goal.

I'm EST, I played at 10:30 this morning, at noon and around 3pm, it was dark all the time. So what am I supposed to do because this is getting annoying?

I have played several hours at different intervals and I always seem to be on night time servers. I've had a brief 30 min period of sunlight and that was it. What is going on?

Yeah I think it is due to changing to a different server provider. Because I do end up at time server hoping when a server starts to fill up, and I did realize that I don't always choose the same server type, and pretty sure it's been happening due to that. Too bad though, had finally farmed so decent stuff and was ready to go out and enjoy the game =(

I understand the game is in development, though losing progress for no apparent reason is somewhat frustrating. I will spend hours scavenging stuff, but when I relog, my character is reset... Is this a known issue? Is there a work around?