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I do agree as well, introducing different weather not only would add a major piece to the game with cold, snow, rain, drought and heat, that you would have to account for conditionally ie: the cloths you wear but also visually. It would also alter all other elements of DayZ drastically giving them a different flavor depending on season. Weapons may react differently in each climate, strategy would change dramatically for the conditions, water bottles could freeze in the cold, heating elements could become essential, wearing lighter gear in extreme summer to keep cooler due to loss of water through sweating, the list is endless. The challenge is major and the mountain to overcome so that this may be implement is tremendous. If it ever were to be implemented, the task would be very time consuming, and probably wouldn't be finished until post-beta.

Shit that could have been me, I always spawn as a black dude...

I hope the campers fate was Polish firing squad - that's one thing that gets me about differing play styles. How can someone find it fun to just camp one position for hours on end. Fresh spawned at Sol, looted, ran down the coast trying to make it to Balota, looting along the way. I manage to avoid danger somehow and approach the airfield from the north woods as I made a loop. As I approach the tree line just northeast of the hangers, shots ring out. I frantically look for the inbound fire, but cannot locate because the sounds are a bit off at the moment allowing for directional awareness. Eventually I get sniped in the woods... ok no big deal, the shooter retrieves my gear and I hear him over comms talking to a partner, I believe this is a bug. Spawn back in same server after exit and rejoin, this time at Kamy, I figure why not make the same run. Get all the way to Balota more than an hour from when I was sniped, approaching from the east. I take mosin fire yet again, but spot my enemy up in the tree line north of the hangers, and like before I am sniped. This time though I was much closer to the enemy, and he approaches my body and I hear him over comms again, same player. So you mean to tell me you sat there for that long?? How many hours did you camp that tree line lol. Just seems boring to me. I have had a great time with some of these player interactions though. It is hilarious how tense everyone is in game, their communication over comms during those tense stand offs and the results. For my own experiences, its about 50/50 whether the encounter is a danger or a friendly welcoming.

I am with all you guys on combat logging and its annoyance, but I want to make one small correction to the OP. There absolutely IS player interaction. To suggest that there is almost zero interaction is entirely false. I have had many humorous, tense, violent and friendly interactions with unknowns throughout my 60 hours of in game experience. To the OP's content, he is correct, combat logging does need to be addressed. If you combat log at first moments notice of a shot fired, then what is the point of logging in at all?

Thats what I kind of assumed, thanks!

How long does it take for the average server to restart?

I find the subhives most interesting. This may actually stop the back and forth warring over the PvP vs PvE argument. Personally I am of the thought, to each their own. If you want to be boring and just gather gear, by all means do it on your own hive!

Great update, looking forward to Monday! I call dibs on a slot in experimental, you heard it here first!!! :P

Enjoyed watching these, keep up the good work.

Watching this I couldn't help but laugh at you Alex

I have had several items lost to the black hole called vicinity

LOL I was not implying this and was able to get my keys bound last night. Was just going off the original poster, I am pretty aware of primary and secondary key binds and figured this was obvious to all.

This right here. I'm new but have been reading up a lot, just purchased the game today and haven't even begun to play or setup key binds. I do not use the default layout for any shooter. Specifically I hope I am going to be able to make mouse 2 my "Move Forward" bind. I actually use this type of layout, maybe the OP is similar, hope these settings can be changed. I know there are a ton of binds to consider aside from the generic posted below w = move lefte = move backr = move rightc = crouchv = walkx = pronemouse button 4 (left edge side) = zoom / iron sights