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  1. Posted · Edited by The-MCV-

    Hey guys. I've mostly played during early access (460 hours during Jan 2014 and sometime until 2017). I haven't played much since, aside from some run-ins to check the good optimization and to take a few screens, and there's loads of content to catch up with. I've just finished Metro Last Light and Exodus recently and I have this post-apocalyptic rush going on.

    Is there a good roleplay mod/server or is there no such elaborate thing here? (Lately I've been doing that in another game, GTA San Andreas, but I miss DayZ)

    Is it still the same as before? Group up, survive/KOS?

    Is it worth playing vanilla maps? I have no clue about mods.

    Thanks!

  4. Posted · Edited by The-MCV-

    I play in the night more often than before. The flashlight is s**t, so is the flare, but it's fun to see nothing and just hear zombie growls or stumble about hoping to find a town. Of course it could be much better and appeal to more of the community if it were a tad lighter and more visible. My only current problem with it is that the surfaces of some buildings, be it floors or walls, respond weirdly to light and appear black or shiny black...

     

    Also it is quite fun to lure a horde of zeds somewhere, drop the light source and commence the bullet fest in that shallow cone of light.

  6. Posted

    Hello,

    I have 3 characters in the main menu, each to its own private shard. I want to die on one of the servers and respawn with a new character (especially since 2 look the same so I've blocked myself), but I can't. It spawns me with the same character over and over and I don't want that. Back in the day when you died and pressed Exit, you could reshape your default character. Now I can't since all 3 characters can only be renamed.

    Is there a fix? Is this something saved in a config file which I may have accidentally saved as read-only or something?

  9. Posted

    Hello,

    Came back after two years or so and I gave cooking a try. I boiled goat and chicken meat in a pot on a portable gas stove and neither the container nor the meat cools down, even after an hour. The pot got to about 200 Celsius, but since it's mounted on the stove, when stored on me, it doesn't directly 'touch' my backpack/me (weird, I know). The meat (6 or 8 steaks) are on the hunter jacket, all at 100 Celsius. I tried to ditch everything in a river and I began to expect the river to boil up too lol. No item cools down. With all the meat in the jacket and without an intermediary container, my temperature gauge is somewhat 3/4 on the yellow side so my character should be thankful for not freezing and not getting his equipment damaged, but is there any actual way to cool stuff down? The fireplace itself burned at 1000 then cooled to 30 and died out eventually.

  10. Posted

    16 hours ago, CJOhrtmann said:

    That was very quick indeed, the move from experimental to stable, which is great.

    However, i myself and a friend i’m always playing with both notice a significant drop in FPS compared to 0.61. Strangely, this is most noticable in cities, not in forests (however also there a 20 FPS drop is noticable). Furthermore, the both of us experience stuttering in cities.

    We now play on the lowest settings possible, which makes the game look horrible, and still we get way lower frames then we used to.
    This really is a pity, as the performance plays such a big role in the whole experience. Not to mention that it wasn’t all that great to begin with, anything worse then it was really isnt something this game can afford in my opinion.

    For the record, i play on a gaming laptop and my friend on a mid range pc. They both are nothing special, but they both are able to run for example gta V on High settings at 60FPS.

    My question to you is: Is this something that still has your attention? Are you still working on crucial performance improvements or is this the way it’s going to stay?

    I also lost a lot of FPS. Now I got 15-27 in Berezino down from 45-55 and the stuttering is impossible.

  11. Posted

    23 hours ago, boggle said:

    I've seen many PET water bottles. The canteens seem more rare but they are less useful anyway and hold less water. Why do you dislike the cooking pot as a water bottle? I love it. It's a water bottle and cooking utensil that doesn't take up any room (holds what it occupies). i personally hydrate at creeks and ponds and save my water bottle or cooking pot for if I'm in BFE and not hydrated and there no ponds nearby. 

    Because it breaks immersion. I don't think it fits in drinking from a cauldron lol... But that is just me.

  13. Posted · Edited by DontGoToBalotaAlone

    On 1/6/2017 at 11:08 PM, odin_lowe said:

    I have no problems finding water bottles or cantines. Civilian houses are your best bet.

    As you can see, this single character on a private hive has 3 water bottles on him. 

     

     

    Yea', the private hive I'm on is mostly full, but still, one bottle in hours over hours of civilian houses/towns/cities. Guess I am either unlucky or everyone likes improvised suppressors (kind of the reason I need one too xD)

  15. Posted

    Returning after a several months long hiatus. First character died to a pack of wolves in the morning. Had all the survival gear. Second character died to a player (intense duel melee duel). Third character got sucker punched by a fresh (I was also a fresh after char 2 died). Got gear again on the 4th and now I'm fishing and hunting. Still unsure if the cooked meat just changes color and that is the only indicator that it is ready to be consumed or there's still the old 'raw/grilled/burnt' name prefix (talking about chicken breast here, but had fish too). Also waiting for that sick status to fade after being curious what 'stitch myself' with the sewing kit would do even though I was not injured. Popped tetra pills and cleaned myself with alcohol already.

  17. Posted

    The performance improvement is real, but in the areas where it doesn't matter, aka forest, empty open spaces by being smoother at relatively the same frames. In towns and above, it's still useless. Usability-wise, I had to take it down asap. No status notifications, the inventory expand-collapse is a joke, can't rotate the character preview model, the hands slot no longer has the X button to quickly send the item where it used to be and I had to expand all the slots to see where I have some space left. The server notification texts are too big and intrusive, also the servers I played on had another big square on the right side notifying me which notification number I am seeing as if I gave a .... which one it is. My opinion as of 0.59 is kill it with fire. Hope it improves, although I am fond of the simplicity of the 'old' ui.

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  22. Posted

    You mind expanding on exactly what you mean? :)

     

    Are you talking graphically or ambiance?

     

    I guess graphically. I'd expect ambience to refer only to thrilling music like the mod had, maybe more gore, a sadder weather or different lighting of scenes (not necessarily as in more demanding graphic for that goal, but as style and approach) and what not.

     

    I chose 2 and 4 as well.

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