General Zod

Working boats and some interesting islands would be a great addition to the game.

If you press right mouse button once you go straight to ADS, while in ADS press down the scroll on your mouse once you will go into hip fire aim without having to hold any buttons.

Transitioning from hip fire to aiming down the sight should take time, because you have to move the gun up towards your face and then your head towards the optics. Which means the current system works as it should.

While I can't speak for locked servers, you got killed either by a hacker which the official servers are full of, or by a sniper, you wouldn't hear the shot or the footsteps if the shot came from a distance.

No, just like your base won't disappear when you log off. You're not supposed to have a permanent stash to fall back on every time you end up on the coast. Enjoy your loot while you have it, because in reality you only borrow it from the game and accept when your turn with it is over. And if you really need to have some gear stashed away try hiding couple boxes or barrels where they will be hard to see and use that. It seems to me that people in this game want to be able to build big grandiose base, hoard rare loot as much as possible and have their base secure 24/7. I know the game becomes lacing in survival the second you gather some basic gear but hoarding loot like Smaug hoards gold but this isn't the way to add some sort of end game goal

Hi This aimed at the devs / resps Is the spay paint coming back ? Is there an actual reason why it was removed and hasn't been brought back ?

But wouldn't the devs or reps on this forum mention something to their higher ups that there is a massive problem with cheaters ? If yes than the higher ups don't care if no they don't care. Either way someone doesn't care.

I think this forums mods should just make a sticky saying the devs don't care about cheaters don't waste your time making a post about it.

Cameras around the map ? Buddy have you seen the place ? Most building don't even have fridges and you want CCTV ? Also are you going to personally plug all those cameras into generators ? Because there's no power.

You're free to delay pressing the respawn button by 15 seconds yourself. You are dead screen is even better for reflecting. You could have camped somwhere yourself and make the recovery more difficult. And yes they got a lucky spawn, which sometimes happens and it's nice having lady luck smile your way sometimes. Either that or the starting gear on your server has something they can use to kill themselves with so they used that to get a better spawn. On official servers with limited stamina and nothing to kill yourself with they might as well have spawned on the other end of the map and never have the chance to get back to their bodies in time. So while there some downside to not having a cooldown on respawn most people are already pissed off enough when they die, especially when they die to hackers or bugs like cars or ladders. If someone just lost their hard earned LAR or SVD to a hacker or because their car tried to make the orbit and now they have to wait 5 minutes they'll probably rage uninstall the game.

FYI, pretty much everything can be a hammer. A rock, a prybar a spanner, even a gun can be a hammer. Even your forehead with a helmet on can be a hammer.

If you think the devs who seem not to care about the cheating which has been complained about for years now on this very forum will suddenly decide to create official premium server where all the features you talk about about are in place as well as paid admins you have a second think coming. I bought DayZ back in 2013 in early access and 10 years later and I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you but it's not going to happen. And it's not about me or anyone else having that kind of money (if you can refer to $10 as "that kind" of money) it's simply that what your describing is a vanilla community server, most of which are again, free to play, have admins and offer no changes to to what official servers do, which is why there are so many of them (literally thousands) which means your paid pass idea will not attract the crowd you think it might. In fact I'd probably be easier to find a group of like minded people, chip in that $10 each and start your own server with your own admins, hell you can even kindly ask people playing on your server for a small donation to keep it going.

So you want people who already paid for the game to pay again just to play it ? Because that's a brilliant idea if you want to kill the player base. Counter strike is not a good comparison because in CS if I encounter a cheater all I have to do is leave the match and join a different one, hopefully cheater free. There is no real downside to dying by a cheater. In DayZ however cheaters take away your most precious commodity, and it's not the loot, it's the time you invested in finding that loot. Making people pay to access the servers is not a nor should be a solution for non functional anticheat system. Unfortunately unless devs change the service provider or battle eye sorts their detection system you have 3 options. 1. Suffer on official servers 2. Find a pure vanilla server with admins 3. Play something else. The discussion of rampant cheating in this game has been going for years now and nothing was done about it. It sucks, but unfortunately no one seems to care about it enough to do anything. Most vanilla community servers don't have pay passes, nor will they do anything to your base unless you use it to be an asshole and block important resources nor do they have loot buying option, sure a lot of them have more loot or infinite stamina but plenty don't and there's a lot of them so take your pick. I've been on community server with extra loot and infinite stamina for well over a year now and I'm never going back to official.

Or you can leave this as it and give the person a chance to try and make it back to their body and recover what's left of their loot. Racing against hunger, thirst, other survivors who could stumble up their body or even the server restart time.

Nothing has been done about the hacker problem in so long that it's unlikely that anything will be done, ever. Either find a community server with active admins or pick a different game because I doubt things will ever change on official servers.

Does anyone know if mines are affected by being left in water ? Or if they can be set in water ?

Claymores are so rare that this would definitely not be a case. it's far easier to find regular mines or grenades to make tripwire traps. 4 hours is ridiculously short compared to 7 days for a mine.

I'm glad I play on community server with infinity stamina, these changes become ridiculous for people with limited time to play

I like a lot of what you mentioned in the post above this one. Apart from the need to sleep. Between full time job, gym and social life my time for games is limited. Being logged into the game just to sleep is excessive realism to a point of waste of time.

It makes sense as well. Even if improvised with a rope to create a slot for it. If I was in a situation where a lethal gas can drop on my head at any time I'd have that mask ready all the time. It's not like you get a warning that's it's coming anyway (and yes technically there is a flare, but unless you are outside and you look at the exact right spot at the exact time you'll miss it). And since literally no one is using the portable transmitter they could give it some purpose by implementing a warning announcement broadcast that you can hear if you have one of those.

I know it did, it worked almost as fast as wells too.

Hi all, I got inside the underground bunker but I can't find my way out. Now I'm playing on community server, but according to the server admin you exit just like in Livionia which I wouldn't know because I never played it. So if anyone could tell me which way to go I'd be very grateful. I logged out by the desk near the entrance. I'm starting to run low on batteries for my NVG and somehow bears can sometimes spawn in there and I don't look forward to fighting them in pitch black. Edit so I just watched video on youtube and it would appear I have a problem. The switch by the desk is not there on the server I play.

Considering the size of the entry hole for the water, bottles and canteens would take ages even in pouring down rain to fill. You could leave your bottle out for hours in rain, explore half the map, come back to your bottle and it wouldn't even be half full.

The new mummy zombies are a great addition (I haven't played in a while so they are new to me) two of them nearly killed me when I tried to fight them out in the open. Got knocked out very quickly after to my surprise the shotgun to the chest at point blank did absolutely nothing, woke up with 3 cuts and flashing blood, by the time I bandaged myself I was passing out all the time and had to sit in a barn for ages waiting to recover. Now I'm not saying all the zeds should be that though but the regular ones do need a serious buff.

So you not only want to have a base full of weapons and everything else so that you can have all your gear back with minimal effort after you die but you also don't want to have go back to your base to retrieve it ? Why don't we just make you able to cherry pick the items from your base before you respawn so that you're good to go instantly and save you the time you'd take to equip all that gear.