nexdemise

Well you're entitled to your opinion. However I love DayZ for what it really is (and what the forums try to claim it's not): An open world irregular PVP game. You have a huge map, hundreds of clothing items, a large array of weapons, and really you have no idea where people will be. You do have hotspots, but even then you get those oh shit moments where you're in some small village, you're looking for food and you hear footsteps in a house right next to you, and stealing stuff from a camp in the bumfuck of the map ends up in a total squad war because they're defending their nest and you're not giving it back without a fight. Frankly I like the PVP at weird places the most because most enemies don't improvise well. Go to Cherno and they'll have their routes they'll follow, forest outside of Pulkovo, they definitely didn't rehearse shit. I had a lot of one liners thrown at me when I wasn't happy with the state of the game in the early .50s when the focus was on farming and other half-finished mechanics few people bother with and getting your hands on an AK was a fucking chore, never-mind a fucking M4. "Maybe DayZ isn't a game for you" (no you won't get a refund), and "wait for modding". So yeah, have that.

Problem isn't who's going to host it (Vilayer, etc. files for hosting won't be public for a while because BI gets a cut, no other reason for them to keep a monopoly to 3 companies. They plan to release that to the public 5 years after 1.0 hits, and that's a tentative date, if DayZ is still kicking by then expect it postponed). The problem is - who is going to play it. Let's face it, you can't have mods on the public hive, unless you'd have several public hives for different large mods (e.g. SA's equivalent of Epoch), which won't happen. It could be done, but overall it's more effort than it's worth... So what now, you set up that super hardcore 100x zombie, .001x guns and food server. Who knows, maybe you can get it popular, but the more likely scenario is that by recreating early .55 you'll just have some people connect, realize that your mods make the game virtually unplayable not to their taste and they'll leave. You on the other hand will be free to roam around licking the roads for sustenance in what's essentially a single player experience for you.

Lol, encouraging KOS? Boy, I think you're far away from Club Penguin here. Everyone in this fucking game KOSes. We have some "holier than thou" types that claim to be heroes giving bacon to bambis, but you really aren't fooling anyone. Time survived isn't worth shit unless you're on private hive. Otherwise running around half naked somewhere in far north is equivalent to surviving while dodging bullets somewhere in a hotspot on a full server.

Don't like guns - go buy farming simulator. Takedowns were always a big no. The devs have said that combat like grappling, backstabbing, throatslitting, or other shit which limits movement of others like that will never be in the game.

So, I placed on order with Vilayer on Friday (1/8/16), after 3 hours I submitted a ticket asking how long will it take because their claim is "generally within 1 hour". Well turns out they don't have server stock available. The ticket was escalated to a refund request. I responded to it that I'll take any other hosting location in Eastern or Mid US. No reply as of today, 1/11/16. I submitted a second ticket after basically 1 day with no action on the other (so 1/9/16), that if they don't have stock in NY, I'll take any other location in US, Canada, or even the EU. If they have nothing they can go ahead with the refund, ideally to back to the 3 us of that paid via group pay. No reply at all. Wouldn't be surprised if they're dealing with a lot of pissed off customers because they sell shit they neither own or can obtain in timely matter. Still, the first reply was timely, a little over an hour and a half, and then they just put their heads up their asses and maybe they are hoping they can ignore me until the end of the month. Great business model. Yeah yeah, it's a necropost, I didn't feel like making my own thread just to shit on them, if you think I should then let me know and I will. Or spare me the bullshit, unmerge this post and give it a "Fuck you vilayer" title.

Can confirm netting spawning. It spawns on dynamic boats but since these spawn 1-3 items, you'll generally find stupid garbage like Dean's brand seeds and hats.

7.62x39mm does spawn in civilian houses rarely, usually as loose rounds. It might also spawn in deer stands but I have never seen it there. If you're going through houses and deer stands you'll likely find a mosin, blaze, or a winchester, and ammo for them, before finding 7.62x39mm. Basically, IZH is what Blaze used to be before the hunting scope. You can kill someone with it, but basically everything (with a mag) is better. If it could accept a scope then it would be at least usable as a poor man's sniper rifle until they come across a better one.

My votes is for more vehicles. I should've also voted for Object Manipulation, but oh well. Why did I vote for it? Because I want them. Right now you have two big islands that no one goes to because there's little reason to and the swim is god damn annoying. I know the innawoods crowd is shitting their pants because their little camp will stick out like a sore thumb from above but hey, learn to adapt or maybe just "DayZ isn't for you". Enhanced Ambience - In all honesty, I don't care for it. Right now you just constantly hear birds sing in forests and close to the shore you hear the sea. It drowns out some of closer sounds. Music has little place in this game and I know anyone who is serious about PVP will likely disable it. What's annoying is that these crap sounds can clog up your audio pipe and are the reason for the can't hear gunshots afar bug. Updated Infected/Dense Populations - I'd say fucking fix them first and fix their detection. Once you get them working correctly instead of being the screechy, glitchy mess that has mental GPS and attacks regardless of any animations then you can try putting in more. Nonlethal weaponry - Aside being weapons of absolute necessity few would use them seriously. Oh yeah, I tased a geared guy with this stun gun. Well, let me grab his AK, kill him, and gtfo before his friends come to pick up what's left of him. Diverse weather effects - Like what? Snow? Hail? Pretty sure the engine can't support snow piling on the ground. I guess different visual levels of rain would be okay. Predatory Animals/Larger animal population - I'd say fix and learn from Zombies. Last thing I want is glitch broken bears clipping through walls... Also, remember that wolves tend to be complete pussies and unless it's a large pack they won't attack a human. Also most animals, predators included, are scared shitless of gunshots.

You can fish anywhere. I had a small puddle (about 3x6m) in my old camp back in .55. There were fish in it.

CR527 is basically the better option. Damage and accuracy are basically the same since they both use the same round which is the only factor of how the gun will shoot and how hard it'll hit. CR527 has a 5 round box mag (+1 in chamber) opposed to the single shot of the IZH18, and the CR527 can take a hunting scope, increasing it range and accuracy by quite a bit.

I destroyed a truck like this yesterday. It flew out, exploded, lost all its wheels, and then landed upside down. It despawned about 10 minutes later. I didn't even know you can destroy a truck.

Oh fuck no, I worked hard to stockpile all kinds of weapons and cars because I know CLE will be shit. Sorry Hicks but any recent attempts at changing loot systems have been piss poor at best. At least unlike the late Dean Hall you admitted that stuff wasn't working and pulled it back. Lootsplosions will go away eventually, they'll get picked off within a week. You want to nuke something that can be fixed with a shovel. Lootsplosions happen because previous spawns don't get wiped - this is the reason why there was nothing anywhere during CLE, because a single item could block an entire spawn. If stuff doesn't get picked it should disappear the next time stuff is meant to spawn. No one wants that damaged red beret and otherwise it'll sit there until the end of days. Only downside here being that you won't be able to establish a base inside a loot zone, but then again, do you really want to?

You're talking really hard out of your ass. There was 1 week where they actually tried CLE, realized that it isn't working and rolled it back. CLE might increase dispersion but eventually you'll be able to tell what building spawns what.

We just drop everything. Go to a military base or similar. Pick up a mountain backpack, pick up everything that isn't nailed to the ground. We found a spawnglitched Vybor base. It took us several trips to exhaust the supply of AKMs. My only issue being lack of really high end stuff. We are having difficulty finding PSO-1s, LRSs, and East Suppressors. I really love the 101 laying around in our base. Green body. Green Polymer Buttstock Tactical Handguard Bipod Flashlight Green 101 Mag PSO-1 Scope East Suppressor Woodland Ghillie Thing is as decked out as it can be.

Maybe, I don't really follow what Hicks says these days.