Mr Jizz

Does food thaw on your person? I haven't had the pleasure just yet.. seems like I always need a fire.

You nailed it - the windowed mode was doing it. Hopefully other folks see this post. The fact that my character was wearing sunglasses didn't help, but it was only slightly tinting the screen. The haze was all about that "Windowed" mode I was in.. not sure how that even happened.

I'll try the fullscreen.. now that you mention it, I think I saw that it was in windowed mode despite being fullscreen. I do not however have the gamma settings altered.. so..

I share much of your sentiment. I may have a private server you'd like... PvP doesn't "ruin" the game, but it certainly takes the fun out of it for newer players who get twisted up by the controls and the general scarcity of effective lethal weapons in the early game. It also becomes quickly boring when surrender/submission isn't even a viable strategy if dickheads will shoot you completely unarmed with an open mic. I've been of the mindset that the developers are slowly ratcheting up the PVE system to the extent that gear-hungry PVP-obsessed players lose interest in promoting the behavior. It has to start with players like you and me, continuing to avoid confrontations where possible, and giving strangers an alternative to being shot. You'll never convince everybody, but if a few start to see the game as more than a shooter it might spread. The contamination zones certainly add a wrinkle to people who want to gear up.

I didn't get a lot of time on 1.13, but since getting back into this with 1.14 I've had to deal with what I can only describe as an ever-present haze... and I'm kinda over it. It's inside/outside/day/night and exists everywhere in Chenarus. I've driven around the map, I've seen it in all weather types, and played at different times.. so this isn't a weather or time-of-day thing from what I can gather. I've looked around and It appears that my gamma settings are all normal, but I'm happy to hear any advice. Here's a few shots from just now.. Here's a shot from 1.12 for reference (same server)

This appears to be working, for now. BEC was definitely the problem, and I tried a dozen different things. Ultimately what appears to have worked was a fresh install after a full purge of BEC, my server provider stepping in and looking over my shoulder for a fresh server install and several IP changes, and a lot of patience. What did not work: Deleting and verifying the BEC files in my Steam directories. Update video drivers Updates of OS and AV Deactivating the firewall Forcing an update of the router firmware Turning everything off, and then on again. For the record, you're better off asking a bag of potato chips for support versus reaching out to BattlEye. They sent me a link to their FAQ and said "reply" if this doesn't help, then never responded when I did. The DayZ support team, including one "Geez" also was no help and closed my ticket without a resolution.

It was six different iterrations of the reinstall.. so like a reinstall straight up, then one after scrubbing out BE, then another after changing firewall settings, etc. Literally trying everything. I have no clue why this is happening.

Bean. All the beans.

I can't play. I'm going through withdrawal. I've got over 3,300 hours logged, and something is giving giving me a persistent 0x000400f0 error and Kicking me via BattlEye. I've contacted BattlEye, and they're no help.. I've submitted a ticket via DayZ support and they just blamed BE and closed my ticket.. I've reinstalled the game 6 times, purged as many files as I can find ever time... I'm out of ideas and none of the support channels are willing to help. I get kicked after 10-15 minutes from any server. It doesn't matter if its official or private, modded or unmodded. Same error, every time. PLEASE PLEASE HELP..

Pugman, I agree with you, at least in part. I'm suggesting things that add layers of 'nonsense' for people who want to commit wasteland crimes (LOL). The idea of making the hood release an option from the driver's seat plus lockable doors would be easy to defeat if a player happens to have a lockpick, but the same is true if they just happen to have a battery and spark plug. Assuming they don't, you've added an obstacle for an assailant to overcome. That's where this game really shines... How many times have you gone running a simple errand to find something specific, only to find it suddenly/seemingly unattainable? You go looking for a lockpick and find yourself treed in a house surrounded by zombies. Another way they could do this is to add more components to the car which can be removed prior to logging out. At one point they had serpentine belts as a required component to get the vehicle running. Let's bring that back, and maybe throw-in fuses. I guarantee if the scenario of this game was happening in real life, I could do things to a car that would make it virtually un-stealable. For the sake of preserving an interesting player experience, I'm sure we could limit it to items that could be found in the environment... just more of them.

"Immersion aficionados" would hate these ideas, but I say immersion is a bullshit reason to kill any idea in a survival game when a compelling non-immersive element exists. If I can't be in the game 24/7 to protect my shit, then there should exist handicaps to thwart thieves and griefers. Speaking of which - are Landmines persistent yet? I had a few vanish (pretty sure no one hit them, and they can't be 'defused')

In general, cars are both awesome and brain damage. I've been thinking about a new mechanic to help reduce theft - the Hood (bonnet) can only be "popped" from the driver's seat (like real life), and the car doors themselves are lockable with the lock pick. I wish the devs would start to consider the futility of base building and putting a car together when it's so simple for assholes to steal and grief.

I'm hoping the community has a little experience that can shed light on things I've otherwise only assigned theories. My first question to the community is if anyone understands the Car spawn mechanic. Do the cars spawn on weekly server maintenance, or on the twice-daily server refreshes? Regarding glitches - will a car despawn automatically if any part of it is ruined? We had a car that otherwise seemed very safe with one ruined tire, and hours later (after a nightly server refresh) it was gone. Also, has anyone successfully parked a vehicle inside a structure where it DIDN'T disappear on the server reset? My current understanding is that cars (being a server-side entity) will 'drop' into place on a server reset, which in many cases causes them to land on the roof and thusly crash/ruin and vanish.

Hey, does anyone know the general spawn/timing dynamics? I spotted a smoking crash about 500 meters away (near Lopatino) and it vanished as I was running towards it.... no server reset, just *POOF*

Wrong? No. I've been using a variety of public servers, including NJ and GA servers. The latest wipe was on GA 2-15, before that it was on GA 2-19. My buddy lost shit on NJ 2-13. I'm not the only one experiencing issues. Is it just these servers with the generic titles?