Artophwar

Holy crap man, take a break. 125 hours is ridiculous. Especially this early in a games development cycle. Of course you are going to have nothing to do or feel bored. 125 hours in most games would mean like 10 full playthroughs of said game. Come back after a few major patches. It is going to take at up to a year till we get a more fleshed out 'end game' if not longer.

I like playing at night in a lot of games but the night in Dayz is too dark. Dont tell me that it is really that dark in real life. I dont live in a big city and I have gone camping in the woods plenty of times far from civilization. I can see my hands, I can see my feet, I can see enough around me to navigate. In the game every thing is pitch black and the only way I can travel is to follow silhouettes on the horizon or with the flashlight. The flashlight also sucks as it only lights up a small cone and doent look realistic at all. I am not asking to be able to see hundreds of meters but at least be able to navigate my immediate surroundings. EDIT: Also they should use time compression. I think having the day/night cycle follow real time is bad for gameplay. I would much rather be able to play the game and enjoy going through the full day/night cycle in a single session. This will also mean more people would play at night because they would know it would get brighter sooner.

I have to agree, house doors open into the building. It bugs me as well when I approach a door and it pushes me back because I am so used to real life where the door would be pushed in. It is ok to have the outside doors open out on to the street in office buildings or apartments but not for houses.

How do people learn in real life? By doing actions and reading books. Now in game repeating actions can be exploited so I would prefer a book system. I can accept reading a book will improve my skill level in a particular subject and they can have an in game representation of this. You can never have true realism in a game until we have a holodeck. The current game already simulates real life with gamey systems. I dont see why reading books and magically learning to be better at something is any different from eating some beans and drinking some water to heal. I would even say the book thing is more real. My idea for the book skill system would be when reading you would have be sitting for 10-15 secs each read. Every time you read the book it uses up a certain amount of the available skill level. This makes you vulnerable when reading. Also finding better quality books means you can learn more from it. This is a basic outline but I think it makes sense. Everyone starts out as able to do anything but they can improve themselves by finding books. And some things would be very dangerous to do without some extra training, like Heli piloting. This would encourage people to team up more as well to make use each other varying abilities. Back to the original point, having some progression to your character makes you more involved in their survival.

It is not special treatment, it is equal treatment. This is not Counter Strike or another FPS where you can run a private server and kick my pubbing self. EVERYONE, including you and your clanmates, are using the PUBLIC hive. Everyone has the right to be on the server unless they break the current rules of verbal abuse or exploiting/hacking. Everyone can join any server and expect to be treated the same as every other player. If you get caught kicking players for clanmates expect to be reported.

No one has missed the point. They have just been trying to point out the ability to abuse the system if you allow too many reserved spots. That will basically allow a clan to setup a loot farming server as every member that joined would kick the current players and some clans could get 40 members on with no competition for supplies. I understand that people have paid for the server but it is being run on a PUBLIC hive where everyone is basically playing in the same persistent world. This isnt like counterstrike where every server is its own community. Every server on the hive is part of the same community with the same rules. I would also like to remind you that your server could be reported for kicking players to make room for clanmates as that is against the rules.

I fully support melee weapon buffing. The machete should be the best as it can be used a lot more effectively in real life than a fire axe on a human/zombie.

This basically what I was going to say. To me it looks clear that you are not allowed to kick people unless the players are being verbally abusive or abusing ingame bugs to gain an ingame advantage. Just because someone has helped pay for the server doesnt give them a reserved spot on the server and for someone to be kicked to open a spot up to them. Currently all the servers are public and have to abide by the terms of service. Until they allow private servers you can be reported for kicking players without proof of their verbal abuse or exploiting. If you dont like it, then dont rent the server or contribute to the server. I appreciate the people who do pay but you still have to play by the same rules as everyone else.

I do think the naming of HARDCORE puts a lot of people off that dont know it just means 1pp. They see HARDCORE and think it has harsher food, thirst, ect. I do hope they add HARDCORE servers with harsher penalties but I do hope that they have a regular server with just 3pp disabled too. Not everyone that doesn't like 3pp also wants to play with harsher penalties.

I have starved to death from not being able to open the cans on me. I even had a crowbar but it wouldnt let me use it to open the cans. They should add more ways of opening cans with different chances of spilling food. At least we can get something out of the can and not die from starvation with food on us.

At some point for everyone getting gear is going to become easy. There needs to be other things to make your life valuable. I agree with adding some form of skill system where you get better at thing the more you do them. I also read about books being made into things you can learn from in another thread which I think is a great idea too. Adding these things will make you more attached to your character and less likely to want to suicide because your character has things that cant just be found in 20-30 mins but has to be earned over a much longer time.

It is a pretty minor wait time and if it bugs you that much you must be switching servers too often....

I hate the chain link fence ambient sound. Most of the time it just makes no sense and annoys me. I am hopeful the ambient sounds will be worked on in the future.

You obviously shouldnt be playing till the game is finished. There are tons of warnings about not buying the game if you are unwilling to deal with game breaking issues.

I think this is a good realism idea but it also enhances gameplay. It makes the survival aspect tougher as your are more limited in what items you can carry as the pockets on gear are separated. It would also allow for different gear setups so not everyone is going for the "best item" because it carries the most. Some vests could have deeper/wider pockets so like one vest has 8 1x2 slots and another could have 3 2x2 slots. If you want to carry a bunch of M4 magazines the first vest would be best but if you want to carry more medkits the second vest would be better.

There are no Non PvP servers. It is against the server hosting rules to kick or ban a player for killing another player. The admin can call it a PvE server or Non PvP all they want but players can still kill other players. The server owner could lose their server if they are caught kicking and banning players for killing other players.

I hate the zooming in general. In real life I cant focus my eyes and see an extra couple hundred meter clearly. It does not simulate real life eye focusing. It basically feels like I have bionic eyes that can zoom in like a camera. I would much prefer that eye zooming be removed and only allow binoculars and scopes to zoom.

I dont understand how people are against this. All it does is make the person not have to hold down W. People already jam objects in their keyboard or people macro the key anyway. Having an in game key for it just makes it simpler. It is not like holding W takes skill. The player still has to control direction and watch for danger. They cant just turn on auto run and go afk till they get to their destiantion.

Reminds me of the Replay function at the end of Civilization games where you can view all the stats of your civ over the years and watch the map fill up with cities. Watching a timelapse of my travels on an overhead view of the map would be cool.

I really hope the change the timescale so that a full day only takes about 3 hours. That way I can play and see a sunset and sunrise in the same gaming session.

KOS will never stop but you can make it less prevalent with lower ammo spawns, and spawning more controlled from the HIVE level rather than the server level. That way you cant just restart your server all the time to get more ammo. More and improved zombies will also lower KOS as people will be more inclined to join up to protect each other from zombies where as right now zombies are a non factor.

The clouds setting seems to have a large effect on how your nights look. I tried turning them off as other people suggested but that didnt work. So I tried turning them to Very High and that actually fixed it. Now I can see, the ground isn't black, and it looks more like a normal night. This is with default gamma and brightness. So I would suggest others try all the cloud settings till you find one that works. Hopefully they will fix nights so it works on all cloud settings.

I agree with this. As said you still have to test the blood.

I want to be able to play through a Sunset to Sunrise in a single normal gaming session. From a fun and gameplay perspective, a time compressed day is more enjoyable.

Except players want to play on the servers with the best ping, and those servers are going to be local. They need to change the timescale of the game so that the day/night cycle is faster. That way I can play on a local server and it still be possible to play at daylight without having to play on a 24/7 daylight server. I still want to play at night time and would love to see a full sunset to sunrise during a single play session.