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- Eat everything you have, there is no reason to store it in your backpack unless you want to trade with other people. (drink Soda immediately, too) - I'd put the ACOG on the M4A1 - Put the axe in your backpack, it will waste a bit of space but you can draw it with the same speed as from the back and it reduces your visibility.

I don't think that that's intentional. Not very realisitic to lose detail, even though I think the detail on the full map is enough. Check if it's already in the bug tracker, otherwise add a report there. (and put a link to it here)

@Kenny Kyle: Ich habe irgendwie das Problem nicht verstanden... Nur weil der Typ auf "do you speak german?" angegriffen hat? Ist wesentlich wahrscheinlicher, dass die da einfach rumstanden und kurz im TS beraten haben, ob sie euch platthauen. Viele Spieler, die grade ohne Waffe rumlaufen versuchen ihr Glück, kann ja nicht viel passieren. Ist mir grade heute auch passiert. Hab zwei Leute auf dem Dach einer Fabrik getroffen, ich meinte zu denen, dass ich ihnen nichts tue und sie einfach abhauen sollen. Die standen dann auch doof rum und haben mich nach kurzer Zeit angegriffen. Blöde Idee, haben es nicht lang überlebt. Verloren haben sie aber auch nicht viel, bis auf ein paar Konserven hatten sie nichts dabei. Für die Leute, die auf dem Server sind kann der Betreiber ja nicht viel. Wenn da irgendwelche Leute sind, die euch als Nazis bezeichnen, weil ihr deutsch redet... scheiss drauf, baller sie weg und sie halten ihre Fresse. :)

You bloody bastard, you! No, honestly, trying exploits is part of the alpha in my eyes, just report them in the bugtracker afterwards. I think you can mark reports private so not everybody can see them.

As kingrex said: the balistic helmet stops a bullet from killing you. I am not sure how the quality affects it though. Ruined means worthless and pristine saves you, I have not tested everything in between. A bullet that is stopped by a helmet has the chance to knock you out (make you unconcious). I am not sure if different bullets have a different effect here. Anyway, after one hit the helmet is most likely ruined and worthless.

The best way to confirm you have killed someone is that his body stays there after you shot him. Otherwise the body vanishes... damn loggers.

My Grandmother is pretty much still alive right now. I still find it extremely funny how everyone just repeats that notes were removed bacause of racism but only a few people actually challenge that claim. Some people really need to learn that not every written word is true, just because it sounds like a possible explanation (or even fits your general agenda to spread your bullshit against the group you dislike - probably because of other bullshit you never questioned).

... and capes for people who attended DayZ-Con!!1! :rolleyes:

People don't read stickies, their ideas are full of so much greateness, it can't be in there.

I wouldn't want any of those heavily armored cars added to the game. Some civilian vehicles would be just fine. eg: Kamaz Lada Niva Lada Riva Thinking about Operation Flashpoint, a tractor would be fun. And I guess an Ural would be fine, too. Most of the vehicles you proposed would need some heavy weaponry to destroy, and as far as I know adding heavy weaponry isn't planned for Standalone.

You forgot one type of player: The hunter, chases other players who prey on easy targets. Actually, I don't think anything has to be done about KoS, this will solve itself after more interesting gameplay has been added to the game. It wont completely vanish of course, but a lot of people are bored currently and the best thing they can do right now is to learn shooting with the new weapons. The real problem is combat logging, but we probably don't need "yet another thread" about it, as the devs are working on solving it already and I doubt that "yet another thread" will have an influence on how it's been done. If combat logging gets harder (eg timer), the Mosin KoS snipers will change their habits, too. Currently it is just too easy for them to evade the consequences.

This seems to be bugged currently. Sometimes the weapon is equipped again, sometimes it isn't. Also you can't keep the piece of food in your hand to keep eating, sometimes that works but most times the item is removed from the hands. If that gets fixes I think eating time is fine, too. I think my character still eats a can of spaghetti faster than I would be able to do it. (and I've eaten a lot of cold, canned pasta on festivals)

Have you really tried fiddling with all possible settings? eg: those from the FPS enhancer thread on the forums? As far as I know not every setting should be set to low, as in that case the CPU does it instead of the GPU. And DayZ primarilly utilizes the CPU so offloading as much load as possible to the GPU would be good. Not sure for which settings this applies, I only remeber that for shadows.

wat? :O

- Yes - Yes - No Shoot first, ask questions later is a valid strategy to keep yourself alive. And that's pretty much what the game is about: staying alive. I've shot on sight, even in the back of unarmed people who were not even aware of me. After two or three of those it got boring though. If people are unarmed or only armed with melee weapons I usually ignore them or tell them to stop depending on the situation. Armed people are different, depending on the threat they pose I might kill on sight, eg: if they are too close. Better them than myself. However I try to use stealth and not let them spot me, or simply fire at them from a distance and run away. I have not yet really robbed people. I stopped some and handcuffed them, but usually they ended up having more stuff in their inventory than before.

Zombies everywhere is a good sign, it is very likely that there hasn't been a player nearby, especially if the doors to buildings are closed. Attract the attention of a few zombies, run away eg to the woods and try to break the line of sight there. Then you can return and search the town in peace (apart from other players). There are maps you can find as items ingame, but you can also use a map like the one on dayzdb.

If you find good loot and a good place (whatever that is), chances are someone else thought the same. Military areas are probably the most dangerous places (except ladders). If you feel you are dying too often change the way you play. Be more cautious, observe, stay out of danger.

Ability to mark players: Nope Ability to mark characters: Maybe, but only close range (or if you have zoomed in close enough) I'd still prefer a solution without any name-tags floating in the air. I like the idea of not being able to identify players (or characters) if they haven't talked to you.

I had several FNX45 that didn't work. Pristine mag, pristine ammo: Just clicks, nothing fires. It seems almost like there are stats on weapons (pristine, damaged, ruined) but they are hidden.

I think the spawns are OK if you don't stay there too long. The problem you mention with getting instantly killed is due to the fact that there is not much to do after you are fully kitted. There is no reason to roam the streets any longer, the zombies are no threat, you can't build anything, you can't store anything. The only thing you need is food and you can simply "trade" your ammo for food somewhere along the coast. There IS friendly interaction, but you should have ways to defend yourself. I met a lot of people and handed them stuff I didn't really need (drinks, food, spare compass, medical stuff). Someone with a melee weapon shouldn't be able to kill you, don't let him come close and tell him to stash his weapon. Stay careful, a fist to your head can knock you out pretty quick, too. You really need to be extra extra cautious if you want to survive. So far hiding and observing turned out good for me. I created the character I am playing last Friday, currently I play 6 hours a day (I am addicted to the game atm ;) ), I've killed several people, armed or unarmed, myself being in a team or alone. I also ran away from fights, two days ago I fought two guys in Solnichniy while my buddies were in the quarry concerned with a handcuff problem. I shot at those guys and draw their attention away from the quarry. Ran several hundred meters and shot again, then took cover in the woods until they gave up the search and left town. You don't need to take a kill out of every fight, running away can be better, especially if it saves your life.

A lot of people simply have no idea how much money it costs to develop software. And developing a good software costs even more. More money does not necessarily mean faster development, with each new person that works on a team the overhead for managing the team rises. It can be very damaging to increase the number of people working on a project, up to the point that no one is able to work efficiently. It is only wise to grow slowly and save the money to assure development over the course of several years.

As far as I know time on a server can be controlled by restarting it (this is allowed), I guess a config file can define at which part of the day a server restarts. To keep a server at night the config would need to be set to early night and the server needs to be restarted before morning. (at least every 10-8 hours or so, most servers restart more often anyway). There is no specific server setting for "night only". If the server doesn't restart regularly and you are in the "wrong" timezone (opposed to the admin of the server), the complete cycle will run through. However nothing keeps a server admin from naming his server "Nighttime Server" to scare people afraid of the dark off and then keep it at daytime. I don't think any rule prohibits this.

A ruined compass works as fine as a pristine one currently. (unless they changed anything since 113925, but I doubt it) As to the maps: There are 9 different maps available: NE, SE, SW, NW, N, E, S, W, Complete. Combining two small maps (NE, SE, SW, NW) gives a medium map. Combining two of those (S+N or E+W) gives the complete map.

As bad as NAT is, I would've thought that today every piece of software supported it, especially games... One more reason to switch to v6 asap.

You only need to read the names of cities if you are communicating with friends. In that case just read the Cyrillic signs if they were written in Latin letters and describe your surroundings. There are not that many cities on the map, should be easy to figure out your location. Try to figure out alternatives if you lack certain abilities.