bad_mojo (DayZ)

People love 3rd person because it's better. I don't want better. I want difficult. I want immersion. I want to adapt and overcome. I can live with having the option for 3rd person. What I can't stand is (like stated above) how 99.9% of populated servers are first person, 24/7 daylight, over9000 vehicles and full military starting gear. And when somebody brings it up, the reaction is all "Don't tell me how to play!" "Fill your empty servers!" and other nonsense. All valid points, but none of them address the trend that is happening in this community. The trend to turn DayZ mod into another watered down pvp shooter. What happened to populated night time servers? Why does everybody have to use the invisible periscope?

You need a "Because everybody else uses it(level playingfield)" option.

I believe the shotgun shell model is just a placeholder, the ammo it fires looks more like the .45's the 1911 fires.

Because that island is pretty much the only place where hiding a helicopter would be possible, if it requires a boat trip. Your post made it sound like they needed to use a boat in order to get the helicopter. They mention their camp being NW of NWAF so 'extremely far' sounded like Skelisty island. You said nothing about moving the helicopter, just that they got it as soon as it was repaired. I guess I read too much into your lack of details.

Why post this nonsense in a server report thread? The abundance of servers should not exempt people from the rules. I expected better from someone with a blue name.

I don't have time to read the whole thread right now, but I just wanted to add that I'm a person who doesn't like 3d crosshairs, but I've seen them used in shacktac videos where there isn't a dot in the middle, and it's just the two outside lines. This makes it useful for up close but to get a precise distance shot you still have to pull up the sights. Dslyecxi wrote up a paragraph about why they use it like that, and I think the same should be done for DayZ. http://dslyecxi.com/shacktacs-usage-of-crosshairs/

It's that type of negative attitude that kept games like DayZ from being made for so many years. If the people want something, the guys with the money will respond. -Show me some games having to pay for a product placement, and no, using sports teams isn't the same thing. -That picture above shows Doritos and Mountain dew sponsoring a game which includes plenty of killing. -Exclusive deals? Heins beanz? Really? Did WarZ get some deal that I haven't heard about? LOL

Who's asking for money? Rocket already spent some time sending emails & phone calls. It's now up to us(the DayZ community) to get Heinz to notice DayZ rather than ignore it. Rocket & BIS don't have to do anything at this point. I'm not against people being creative, but I would rather have the real logos. It takes very little time to write up a paragraph and send it on to Heinz asking for them to consider DayZ. Less time than it would take to design a logo. So why not give it a shot? It's something we as the community can do to help the game be better. I don't care how good the user created logos are, it would still be better (in my opinion) to have the real ones.

I'm surprised how easily people give up on this. I'm not convinced that Heinz wouldn't let their name be used if people pushed the issue.

@admin, Where exactly was this bait helicopter left? If it was on Skelisty island than that seems like fail bait, since the helicopters default spawn is there. How could you know somebody wasn't heading there to check the spawn?

It doesn't matter what they want, what matters is what the DayZ community wants and what we can do to make it happen. I wouldn't push for people to ask if they had denied Rocket, but they simply didn't respond.

I just don't think those companies would ever ask for money for product placement. Either they'd let DayZ use it free, or they'd pay DayZ for the advertisement. Maybe I'm wrong.

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Why can't those off-brands be used along side the major ones? Variety is good. Creativity is good. I just don't think we should be throwing in the towel or talking about boycotting these 3 major companies because they've overlooked DayZ. That just seems childish. DayZ is big & popular to us gamers. But, to billionaire food CEOs, it's not even on their radar. If people show a demand for it, they might have to check it out, and are more likely to even consider it. As for them charging money to use their name. Uhhh, I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. Usually when you see a product in a game/movie, that company actually paid to have their product shown.

Ruins (my) immersion when some small up and coming companies products are everywhere, with no coke & pepsi anywhere to be found.

Guys, big companies like this likely won't respond to a "non-mainstream" game developer, but they're more likely to respond to customer demand. If we want this to even be considered, we've gotta get lots of customers to ask for it. We're living in a wonderful time where these big companies are just a click away, but we've gotta make that first click. http://www.facebook.com/heinzbeanz http://www.facebook.com/cocacola http://www.facebook.com/pepsi http://www.twitter.com/HJHeinzCompany http://www.twitter.com/CocaCola http://www.twitter.com/pepsi Edit:

Everybody go to the Heinz Beans facebook page and post on their wall that you want to see Heinz beans in this game.

Someone needs to start a campaign to get these companies to allow it. Show me a petition to sign, give me addresses to email, where's the banner for my sig? I think with enough support via social media they would reconsider.

I'm a bit of DayZ purist I guess, I prefer servers with the default DayZ settings. Things like no side-chat, regular loot, regular number of vehicles, full day cycles, etc. I always have such a hard time finding servers with those settings when I try to play private hives. DayZ commander is great for a lot of stuff, but it doesn't show those settings and most servers don't put them in the title. So... can anyone recommend me a good private hive(any map) that runs ALL the vanilla DayZ settings? Populated would be a plus.

Start up Arma2 OA, go to single player scenarios and click one of the two "Benchmark" missions, run it, observe the average FPS, then go into your advanced graphics settings and change stuff and then repeat the benchmark and see how much it improves. Do it over and over until you get good results without lowering stuff too much. I used to run DayZ at ~30fps max at highest settings, but then I tried to play the Wasteland game mode and it was unplayable in some places, so I did the above and ended up lowering a lot of settings to get Wasteland running smooth, now when I go back and play DayZ I get really great FPS at all times. It might look slightly worse, but it runs much better.

I think the vehicle channel does enough for the loudness of the vehicles. It wouldn't be fair to set your vehicle volume to the lowest so you can hear other sounds while driving around. You should be less aware while near or in a vehicle. Also, note that while in 3rd person view it's louder than first person. (i'm assuming by vehicle meter you mean a slider in the audio options, if I'm wrong, I apologize but your post isn't very clear.)

Disappointingly, I've never had someone tell me to drop my weapon or demand I give them my gear, despite having a ton of player encounters. I do play on the main hive, so that could be a factor. How about you? Have you ever been held up? Were you armed? Did they catch you unaware? Direct chat? Side chat?

I despise the whole idea of side chat in DayZ. I feel it ruins immersion and takes away the thrill of human contact. I have a few other reasons for hating it so much. But, I'm not really interested in debating the pros and cons. What I really want to know is how many other people feel the same way I do about it. I can't help but notice that almost every private hive I've ever joined has re-enabled it. Does this reflect the community at large? Or is this a case of server admins not wanting to exclude those who want it? What's your opinion on its popularity in private hives.

I think I might try holding someone up just for fun. But, the catch is I'll do it with no ammo for the weapon I'm holding. I'll drop my ammo when I see an armed player and then try to get them to drop their gear. If they comply I'll give them whatever they want from my gear, if they decide to kill me they'll be surprised to see I had no means to actually kill them. Maybe I could go one further and fill my backpack and inventory with tin cans, just so they know I wasn't out of ammo, I really had no intention of even killing them.

You are correct, but that only indicates they're connected to the offical hive. I'm looking for private hive servers with main hive settings. For example a Namalsk server will never be considered "official" but it might share the same settings as an official hive server.