GarethAUS

Hi guys, have not played in some time, just wondering if tents still need to be packed up or lost every Wednesday? Cheers.

Yeah, I face the perks of coming back to the game and not checking up on any of the status reports :) I am now all caught up and await 0.58 lol

Yeah, cheers, I should have read before I placed my tent yesterday haha.

Hi, returning player here after a few months off, playing on high pop servers and I can't seem to find any other players. My question is where the hell do people hang out these days, I see few players hanging in elektro and only seem to find bambis on the coast, please help. Any tips on where people hang out and where I may find some action. Cheers

How helpful... I have been wandering the map (Including the coast) looking for people, instead of a dumb vague comment how about some sort of nudge in the right direction.

At the moment all there is to do in this game is... 1 - Find loot 2 - 2 Kill Zombies 3 - Kill people If the loot is too easy to find then too much time is spent on killing zombies and players, this game is meant to be a survival game not a getgungokill game, it is meant to take time, I am more happy with people running around with civ weapons rather than having every twelvie running around with full mil gear TBH... Loot is fine.

After a few weeks of the Initial release I quit, I had seen all I needed to see reported what bugs I saw and (at the time) the pace of development was too slow for my linking, then a few weeks ago my mates convinced me to download the game again and I am glad they did, I have had great times and (for the most part) not had too many bug related problems, well other than the damn ladder glitch and horrible server response times BUT I assume that will be fixed when they start focusing on optimization. TL:DR IMO most people who "Hate" the game just expected more from even an alpha and will most likely change their tune when a more stable game is released as I did.

Can we just round up all the little kiddies with a botnet and give them some good ol prison justice? so sick of these twats ddosing everything "Just cause they can" they need to get something better to do...

Anyone else having very few servers show up? A mate and I just got dced from an Aussie server and now have no aussie and very few other servers showing.

No, I did, Don't get me wrong a new patch is always weclome, But after a long dayZ work all I wanted to do was play the game :P

Some rusty swords and some new clothing, To be honest I would rather be playing at this moment, the new patch really does not seem like it needed to be "rushed" to stable with an extra maint session. XD

WOW, we have an extra 5 hours maint the other day and now this, all during prime time aussie gaming on a friday night... damn it.

Then why is there one public server still available? can anyone shed any light on this?

I think OP's point is being missed by most of you, I find that strange since it is the go to comeback when someone criticizes this game, the game is still in early alpha yet the features that we are here to test, Not play are being hidden thus making it hard for the devs to get an accurate idea of how things are working. They can always alter the loot tables later during the dev process but lets look at the recent addition of the V3s as an example, when it first came to exp branch there were something like 20 spawns per server, then after very little time that update was pushed to stable and the spawn number reduced to 3, I myself have been lucky enough to find a truck on more than one occasion and I can tell you they are far from finished, they are still buggy and feel really bad to drive so instead of sorting out the spawn rate, the best idea may be to get the numbers up a bit so that they can be tested and have bugs fixed before thinking long term. Now to counter that statement, the problem you have with increasing the spawn rates is that people start to get used to being able to find what they want, when they want so toning the numbers back down becomes problematic. All in all I don't really see the way around this but I do agree that for the better/faster development of the game we need to have a little higher spawn chance than we would if the game was compl

Hey lets do this on a friday... seems like a good idea to shaft the aussies here...

That was without a doubt one of the dumbest things I have ever read... I want to maximize my fun in a game not spending and hour with my finger on the w key running...and I don't think that that could even be classed as "Putting my self to the test in the environment Rocket has outlined"

How is the mod a step backwards, it has more guns, vehicles, things to do and with the next patch it is bringing in more stuff from the SA, I say that the alpha was a step back from the mod, I just can't see how they got this game into alpha when it is worse off than the mod (IMO) now don't get me wrong I still enjoy SA but I feel it should have atleast been where the mod was when it started.

Hey here is an Idea, lets add 3pp to all fps shooter games, now you can peak around the wall and never get shot in all your favorite shooter classics.... a game that wants to create tension sure ruins it by allowing you be to in perfect cover and see the entire battlefield, but that said IMO the option should be there for players to want to play in 3pp but the tweaking needs to be done so that your camera stays at head height and pinned behind your back not allowing you to peak from cover.

The problem with DayZ (IMO) is even though it is being developed by BI it still feels like an indie game, it seems that development is moving at a very slow pace and major features are a long way off, it seems to me that they need to hire more people to help with the huge task at hand.

Suicide? Lol I joke I joke, I kid I kid

I think the reason most people stay around the same areas is running is a bitch and gets boring real quick XD

Just like the tents in the mod to save some gear on a set server, what do you want to see in SA, and do you want them to be lockable or say disappear when the person who places them logs out?. I personally think that a tent system similar to the mod would be ok but not optimal, most of the good places to hide a tent are known to most people these days XD, I would also like to see (If it is possible on the engine) a further use for the burlap sack with a bury option, Wrap your gear in the sack bury it leaving something sticking out of the ground as a marker for the location so that others could also find it.

Just wondering what the community thinks in regards to vehicle numbers when they are implemented, as in how many vehicles per server, how they should work and how hard they should be to get? Personally I think that Vehicles should be pretty common but the fuel should be very rare, to repair them you should need tools and realistic parts (you are not able to shove an engine in a backpack), parts like spark plugs, fuel filters radiator hoses are the things that after some time would most likely be causing problems, unless the engine is totally buggered. I really do not understand the people who think there should be like 3-4 vehicles on a map this large, they must like running XD what do you guys think?

This I blame on the mod and the fact that the "Husks" were default Arma entities (Making it easier for the mod team to populate the map) This is something that I feel will change since you can not even sit in the vehicles at the moment, I assume the ones that are going to be accessible will not be as rusty XD, but I do hope that the car population is high but the things that make them run are pretty rare making it a real question to repair or not.

Yeah sorry bro, but this is the price we pay for the joy of participating in an early alpha release, if this was a full released game then I could see your grief but as we are in the testing phase it is to be expected, perhaps instead of a forum rant, go and use the report bug feature and let the devs know.