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yes, sorry is https://downdetector.com/status/xbox-live/map/ helpful ?

other games work ? (worth looking, right?) SO - first make sure you don't have anything written in the server search boxes ? Then try starting with a new character ? see if that gives you a server list then check your local files with Steam.. .. uh.. and check : https://downdetector.com/status/steam/map/ Steam has been going down in parts of Europe (mainly) for the last few days .. lasts a couple or 3 of hours ..

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You have an Xbox - So do you have a friend who can let you try out DayZ for a few days or a couple of evenings ?? or he can come over to your place and log in, leave you to play for the weekend, maybe? something like that ? The thing about DayZ is that folk who like it .. REALLY LIKE it .. enjoy p.s. - DayZ WILL go on changing, and the players will go on changing, and - it's kind of part of the fun..

People complained that tents could only be placed on totally FLAT ground (some folk even said only a concrete floor was flat enough).. so at the last update they made tents easier to place. They will place on uneven ground and close to trees & walls, rocks, even if some area of the tent is inside sloping ground or partly into a tree root or branches or a rock or a wall. This is what players wanted. Now it's up to YOU not to put your tent in stupid places. A bit like real life ? Take responsibility. Know better. ps - Did you know in DayZ if you jump off a high place you die when you hit the ground? If you reckon this is a terrible glitch - you've been DayZ'ed! 🙂 .. er .. right ? There are ways around this new easy tent placement "problem" .. USUALLY .. but you should take the time & suss them out for yourselves. I did, and I'm definitely not smarter than you are.

Well this probably IS NOT the answer you're looking for, but : Do you have a PC ? (I have both) If you had a PC I'd say = DEFINITELY 100% BUY DAYZ YOU'LL TOTALLY NEVER REGRET IT = i am NOT saying Xbox is bad in any way.. I OWN one. When I want to PLAY DayZ I turn on the PC... (I don't even know why.. maybe someone else knows? ..) you could be playing it still 10 years from now. It is a GREAT GAME.. It is UNIQUE .. it is BRILLIANT.. there is a Mindset with it.. an Attitude.. (some folk don't get that). If you get the wavelength of what it's about you can/will play it forever. Also it's free for ALL TIME after one buy-in, no DLCs, no addons, no microtransactions, no DayZ Version II or DayZ III, no 6-month obsolescence, no Special Editions - pay once, play forever. I'm saying that DayZ on PC is TOTALLY BRILLIANT and ALWAYS HAS BEEN * < - what is going to happen to Xbox in the future.. who knows ?? >

It's OK meaningful endgame is coming : - when you get ten tents with 5 kitted AKs & 1000 rounds in each tent you get a Steam DayZ Hoarder Achievement - the same as above plus 180 cans of Beanz gets you the Steam DayZ ACE Preppy Hoarder Achievement - when you survive for 96 hours gametime you get a Steam Non-Violent Hiding in the Backwoods Survivor Achievement - when you kill 30 newspawns before they leave the beach you get a Steam Child Murderer Achievement - if you collect 18 working cars you get a Steam DayZ Elvis is Alive Achievement - when you kill 20 Infected from behind with a melee weapon you get a Steam Sneak "The Z-Hammer" Achievement - when you destroy 10 bases with at least one watchtower each you get a Steam Ruthless Steal Pillage and Destroy Marauder Achievement. - when you shoot 3 Steam friends in the back in 5 minutes you get the Steam DayZ Crazy Person Achievement But there's more !! - soon you will be able to win the - Steam DayZ making a fishing pole Achievement - and the 100% Vegan Diet Acheivement and the Total Cannibal Achievement these all double up.. naturally .. 10 of any will get you the Hall of Fame DayZ Achievement Achievement - start easy - filling three mags with ammo gets you the Steam Mag Reloader Achievement - and you get another EVERY time you do it! Soon we hope you will also be able to get the Steam DayZ My Camp Is Totally full of Fresh Fish Achievement now.. see ? - THAT'S not pointless is it.. have a nice endgame

GENERAL QUESTION Seriously - WHY does DUPING really seem to be a MUCH MUCH BIGGER PROBLEM on Xbox than it is on PC? I'm not making any REAL suggestions at all - I'm just asking for a STRAIGHT ANSWER .. from anyone ? I really don't believe it's because Xbox players shout about it a lot more, so the complaint count is higher - I think they complain more because it happens MUCH MUCH MORE Perhaps pn PC it is now difficult to dupe ?? - Maybe all the easy methods have been tracked down and killed off, or it just takes too long so it's boring, or it doesn't work mainly at all? (meaning it is a technical problem related to Xbox) Perhaps most PC players just cant be bothered to DO it ? .. Or maybe PC players mainly think duping destroys three-quarters of the interest of the game - it short-circuits the game - and most PC players want to PLAY the WHOLE of DayZ ? (meaning it is an "attitude-to-the-game" problem on Xbox) ? I DONT KNOW - you tell ME There are plenty of Official servers on PC, with plenty of players - so it is just as easy to use one character across all of them as it is to use one character across all the servers on Xbox... so THAT can't be the reason for mega Xbox duping. Sure, isolating ALL the Xbox servers, one character per server, might "stop the problem" but it would break the game too.. and we can see from Official PC free-movement-of-characters that there is SOMETHING DIFFERENT going on, IMO. Some difference between Xbox and PC ? Why is DUPING a big big big problem on Xbox and not so important at all on PC ?? or am I wrong about that ? xxP

exactly - @GutMaster So many people wanted basebuilding. They were not necessarily the best informed players, or long term players. Check their contributions to this forum over the last several years. [easily done] The single problem was that NOT ANY of these people who wanted base-building, suggested what they would DO WITH base-building when they got it. After more than 3 years of calling for "basebuilding" and smothering any discussion of alternatives (there were many) with the single "basebuilding" shout - eventually DayZ went with the mob, and the players were given the lego bricks they need for "basebuilding" If you look back in the threads and SEARCH CAREFULLY you will find there is ZERO discussion, or even ANY SUGGESTION of what basebuilding could be FOR or how it would work or in what way it could fit into DayZ gameplay. People wanted "basebuilding" and did not NOTICE that they wanted something that was "COOL" but with ZERO functionality. Now they have what they wanted. A cool thing with zero functionality. Now they START to wonder what they should DO with this stuff they have wanted for so LONG. What is if FOR? They will have to search deeply in their <"dreams"> ? <"fantasies"> ? and find out WHY they wanted BASEBUILDING. The only suggestions in threads so far (repeated a hundred times) are : 1) Make them INVULNERABLE 2) Make them like PUBG 3) Isolate EVERY Xbox server (strictly ONE CHARACTER per SERVER) and local-clan basebuilding communities will be SAFE. * In the world, I think there are 2 kinds of people - & they are extremes - at one end there are players who "want bases" (whatever they are, whatever they may be,<<We want them, we don't need a justification, they are COOL.. OK? ..and if they are not Cool, then they SHOULD BE>>. But those players don't seem to know why they so keenly wanted bases, what to do with them, how to fit them into the game without destroying it, and what to use them for now that they have them (as objects) , or how to improve their element by element design, fitness for purpose, or simple function - Interestingly, they don't want sane suggestions that will work for ALL players: those inside or outside "the base". It seems not the base-player business to discuss what bases "are" or how they work. They are players good at complaining but very poor at proposing solutions. They in general hate technical discussions, they do not read back over previous comments and threads, and they detest concepts like "game balance". At the far, far distant other end of the entire spread of human types, there are people called "software technicians, games designers & software engineers." These "designers" want to produce a GOOD GAME They have been working on a game that (deliberately) has an intense minority appeal - for years. Now they must dedicate themselves to : Producing a non game-breaking Technical SOLUTION ; To satisfy a majority who do NOT KNOW what they WANT. An interesting problem. I have watched it's development for several years. My opinion is that UNTIL players reach a consensus on WHAT BASES ARE FOR on and how their advantages and disadvantages (as in chess : as in any game) can be brought into an equilibrium AT - functional -and software -and game-play level, there will not be progress. Base builders will have to start thinking technically about how to improve the game for their opponents as well as (selfishly) for themselves. If the OTHER player has an indestructible base it is NO FUN at all.. right?.. But your own base should be fairly indestructible AND easy to build, OK? - ? - this makes sense - ? - xxP

<< I have currently a 4790K, Dayz seems to be using 4 cores >> .. seems to me all i7 4790Ks HAVE 4 cores .. so no surprise what DayZ would be using in your box ? I run it on an AMD twin core 3.6 Ghz with a good graphics card - with the OS and ALL the game files on SSD . DayZ works better now than it did before 2017 no probs.. I have a better rig here on the same desk but I cant be bothered to move DayZ over, it runs fine on this one. Truth - windows is really the root cause of 99% of all cr@p for what's happening in game hardware ATM try here : https://www.game-debate.com/hardware/ & look at the rest of the site = lot of info & opinions on these pages but you have to search for it xxP

Have you tried talking to them ? Perhaps you can find out what they are so mad about ?

I don't know- would you ? go look simple solutions are sometimes the best

it already happened .. did you REALLY miss it, did you keep your eyes covered ? Xbox duping in DayZ is a problem built in to the Xbox Network. This is why BI fixed duping on the standard internet TCP/UDP DayZ network and have a problem with Microsoft's specifically designed Xbox network. you DO all understand that duping on PC is OVER, and on Xbox it is RAMPANT.. ?? so maybe think about the underlying cause? - unless there's an explanation on YouTube, natch. who's betting BI and Microsoft have discussed this together ?

.. I can do that ..

https://dayz.ginfo.gg/ The journey is the reward

Nice - do gereenfly infestations still exist? I thought they'd vanished with fishing & etc.. - you can still use disinfectant right now on rags - still says in the rags description "use as bandages, but better if they are clean". Disinfectant spray still works on rags; uses up your disinfectant, but maybe operates on other clothes (I haven't tried) - Makes no difference, of course.

alcohol tincture for rags, yes true.. I thought disinfectant worked too. Never tried it on plants or fruit - what does it do.. heard it killed you ? You could sew up woulds with the sewing kit, also.

Used to be that the bottles of disinfectant you can still find now, were for bandages and rags used for bandaging - they weren't only in the game to force other players to drink. There was a change of getting infection in a wound (a while back)... and also some zombie bites could infect you too. Antibiotics & also disinfectant were a key thing to have at a couple of different times in DayZ.. a guy once shot me in the back and apoloigised online because he just needed antibiotics "real bad" - So you could use the disinfectant on the rags (prepare them) - in fact you still can right now, it just has no game effect Also bandages and rags were used for making splints when you broke a leg - that was another injury the Zs could inflict, as well as from gunshot or melee, or just by falling down a steep slope. Antibiotics Disinfectant Chlorine tabs - each had it's specific use AND you could keep an empty tin can to boil water in, to fill up your bottle with non-infected clean water. And not eating raw meat, natch, or drinking from ponds - both had a risk. Basically there were a good number of ways of getting sick or infected, and you had to avoid them or have a cure to hand, or drag yourself off looking for one before it was too late. these SHALL come back right Devs ??

No prob .. [I just got sanctioned for being evil & snappy half an hour earlier, so I was feeling uptight with bl00dy ****heads ] BI cant mess with the Xbox networK - however cr@p it is - but they CAN mess with their own game as MUCH as they like.. I think the standard xbox net dupe trick can be solved from inside the game. A serial number is VERY EASY to add to a spawn - it would be the server IP plus a locally sequential number, (to avoid all servers having to contact each other every time they spawned a weapon) - on Xbox these are ALL stored in one DBase - the universal Xbox public hive - so they would be trivial to police. Every week (whatever, as required) the redundant despawned serials can be cleaned up, re-sequenced) and a new series started from that point. Real weapons in the real world have Serial Numbers as I guess you know; Not a thing that worries me. This is a form of manufacturer/legal control, as most everything have serial numbers IRL - cars, cans, chocolate bars, parachutes, weapons (even games) * But funny you should mention gun control - [I'm in favor] - as I just spent two entire full 14-hour days conditioning & recharging .308 cartridges (3 diff brands) with different loads and diff powders (and diff bullet seating depths) and yesterday was firing them off and making notes on the targets - I measured every one of those b'stard loads individually one-by-one by hand, exacty. Today I'm supposed to be working out the results.. but maybe I'll take a break & go play DayZ instead. Or we had a late strong snowfall unexpected last night so I'll go up in the real woods see what's happening .. I live at 600m - jeez, there were lizards out getting the sun yesterday noon, now there's 5 inches of snow. Serial numbers is just a thing that exists - climate change is REAL and needs sorting or we all Dead * The nighttime "tree glow" seems OK to me . Other objects don't show, this makes it risky around rocks & uneven ground etc (which nighttime should be).. all fine to me for navigating in semi known wilderness. Don't know what effect a face to face with another player produces yet. That could be interesting. I DO think zombie detection (sight) should be reduced in darkness. They are not supposed to have BETTER eyesight that non-infected.

bring the Chianti no prob - I've been smoking Old Northern Ogou Feray woolfhair & mushrooms mix for too long - started to hear some really STRANGE sounds even in the day.. or sometimes a sudden weird silence and then a big wind, ya know ? .. .. Also bring a friend, if we party we may run out of barbecue & I like to leave something extra scattered around for the Manitou .. xxP

yeah that's where I put the spare human parts - help yourself there's a fireplace right nearby & and some already cooked and a couple of drinks make yourself comfortable - I'll be home soon honey

You can place barrels in bushes - just get into the bush and "DROP" the barrel. Then you usually find the barrel half way up in the bush at an angle. The TRICK is that there is only a very small area (somewhere) that will let you "open barrel" so you can access it from your inventory. It might take you ten minutes to find that spot. Usually I crouch down and get under the barrel, scan its base from underneath back and forth until I spot a flicker, and then locate the "open barrel" message. Next time I try it will still be in the same place and is easy to find once you KNOW it's there. . This kind of puts off anyone from taking stuff if they find your barrel, they think it can't be opened. . Also, if you don't like your barrel placement, you can try again, it is easy to pick up and move even inside the tree/bush using "vicinity" - but once you have put stuff in it of course this cannot be done. - so it acts more like a safe than a barrel - You have a barrel that is fairly secure if you have the patience to place it, and folk who find it cant find the way in or assume it can't be done. <hey, now I told everyone>

No - they stay in the game. Also you can place them in bushes and still access the contents from your inventory screen, even if they are off the ground hanging in the bush. This is useful because they are hard to spot.

is this another Troll, please ? I was speaking as a programmer and technical author who has worked on game development with a number of European games companies.

Hey gringo - did I say anything on this thread in Spanish ? You translate comments into Google Spanish to reply to them in English - You are one STRANGE person. and Bullshit to you too, hombre - goteo de residuos anales de un perrito de la pradera defectuoso - as we say in Berezino . Have a nice stay.