Demoth

Then don't open the threads and let them die?

I love the thought of 100 man servers. I'm worried my PC will explode, however.

Been shot twice now by people jumping out of walls. Killed both, but both caused me to have broken legs, necessitating crawling for miles until I found either sticks or morphine. Then I glitched off a ladder and broke my legs again, in Dubky, so I had to again crawl down an entire skyscraper and all the way back to Balota where I had to log out and am going to need a friend to come get me at some point later. Let's also not mention that going near any building is now stupidly dangerous because of people clipping through goddam everything so they can see through every environment to see what you're doing. Yes yes, Alpha and all that, but I just want to bitch because I haven't found anyone yet who doesn't know all the exploits, which in turns causes more people to exploit.

There are certain buildings you can go into and then jump into hidden rooms (glitch / exploit). You then have full view of every part of the building because all the walls basically become invisible. So anyone approaching the buildings or inside the building is easily visible. Then when they least suspect it, you vault out. I know most of the spots, so I always keep my view in 3rd person and free look behind me so they think I'm not looking. As soon as I see them starting to clip through, I whirl around and unload, but every now and then there are environmental issues so not all my rounds will hit and they'll get a shot or two off, which is how I broke my legs two out of the three times today.... which is annoying, because finding ONE morphine pen is a pain in the ass, but finding 3?!? I somehow had 2, but now I'm just crawling all over Balota with dangly legs.

I don't know how it happened, but you got a broken arm. Were you shot, or hit by a zombie? Or punched, hit with an axe? Because My scope was steady as hell until someone shot me with a shotgun. After patching up, my aim was like yours until I morphined.

Let's face reality here. This game is about gearing up as fast as possible and then shooting at everything in sight. As long as 5 people per server are playing this way, it's going to spiral into server wide KOS'ing which further depletes all resources. You can run inland and sometimes find non-looted cities, but after all that, then what? There is no persistent anything yet. No reason to really value your character except for the gear you've managed to acquire.

Lately I've noticed that if I get shot, my aim is really bad after the fight, even if I heal up and get transfusions and whatnot. I noticed it especially bad with a Mosin with a Long Range Scope. I couldn't keep it steady for the life of me after I got shot in the arm with a shotgun. I would be prone, bipod, having not run or anything for at least 5 minutes. I was energized, hydrated and it said, "Healthy"... but my aim was now twitching back and forth, left and right. I switched to the pistol and same thing. So what's the deal? I don't remember reading anything about this addition.

Thanks for the update! totally missed that patch note. I thought it only said legs. Well, time to start looking for splints / morphine. Ugh.

After the latest patch, bullets do absurdly low damage. I am talking from the receiving end mostly. I've been walloped by a point blank sawed off shotgun blast that ruined all of my gear except my gun which was an M4, so I hosed the guy. Then today I was shot a total if 23 times by an SKS. Each time I took 2 or 3 rounds (can tell by the white flash shock). The fights were spread out and I healed up between some, but that's a ridiculous amount of punishment. (And all those SKS'ers were again killed by my M4). While looking for ammo, I got a new tac-vest in Balota barracks. I had a Mosin and suddenly the doors swung open. I shot the guy point blank in the chest. He let out a cry of pain and started bleeding, but this was the sawed off guy. It took a second shot to his head to kill him (all his head gear and torso geat were ruined) I feel the M4 is inna good place because it's crazy in CQC. But more than 1 chest shot for a 7.62x51mm? C'mon now... and the 7.62x39mm doesn't care if you have an assault vest with some beans.

While in the ATC in Balota, I just got hit twice with a Mosin. I ran downstairs, bleeding and fuzzy screen and another dude came in and shotgunned me. I killed him with 4 shots from the magnum (because of server lag, not sure how many shots were actually needed to kill with the magnum, as no one has shot me with one yet) Soooo, I dunno.

Because currently the game is only about hardships for people who log onto servers that have already been picked clean, meaning that a few people can get super decked out by simply camping spots and then running trains on newbies. It's still a game. I'm not saying it needs to be easy or free "phat lewtz" for everyone, but currently there is an imbalance at times. Not all the times, but at times. And considering everyone plays this game like Call of Duty shoot-on-sight, everyone wants a weapon to protect themselves. And currently the worst KOS offenders are server hoppers who jump to high pop servers after they're all geared up, camp 1 spot and murder everyone.

Well, I normally can go inland and find what I need, but some servers are getting picked clean at an alarming rate, and it gets annoying when you're almost in the center of the map, starting from the coast, and you die of hunger. It doesn't always happen, but I've never died of thirst or hunger as I have after the recent couple of updates. Then again, some servers are restarting more often than 4 hours, so that might be part of the reason why last night I was having 0 issues getting food after I died. Still, you are right about guns. SKS's and shotguns are everywhere.

Oh man, sorry for making a suggestion and giving feedback on the suggestion part of the forums. WHOOPS! It's not whining, it's simply explaining my position and giving some anecdotes about what needs to be tweaked. I shouldn't have survived the insane amount of punishment I received, and hence I just wanted to let the dev team know, or anyone who might even glance this, that even if these values are temporary, they are definitely not remotely in the right direction.

Which in turn promotes further server hopping. But things have actually gotten worse lately, and it's starting to cause me to switch servers a lot. Not exactly server hop, though technically it is, but it's not to hot spots. I've done this server hopping twice, but it was to get some damn food. I went to two very low pop servers after getting my head blown off because the server I normally play on was full and the whole coast was full of Bambi hunters and after spawning dead 7 times, I got fed up. First server - Population 3 - Spawned near Nizhnoye. Place was picked clean. Went to Orlovets, picked clean. Polana? Picked clean. Then I ran to Gorka, Shakhovka and then died from hunger in Staroye. Second Server - Population 5 - Started between Kamyshovo and Solnichny. Ran North to Mysta, picked clean. Then Staroye, picked clean. Then I ran to Shakhovka and then Guglovo... found 1 can of sardines and a shirt, as well as a bunch of flashflights, starting sneakers, t-shirt and jeans. So I tried running in the opposite direction of where they were leading, because it looked like at least 5 sets of starter gear was heading straight north from Guglovo.So I ran to Vyshnoye, Pogorevka and Rogovo.... alllll looted. I went to Zelenogorsk, ran INTO someone who was looting who was fully kitted out with an M4. He saw me, I ran behind cover and he followed me. I was saying, "Dude, I got nothing man, I'm just looking for food", and he shot me after a brief chase, cause I was not confortable with his silence and his sprinting at me. Punched him in the head a few times and got him bleeding after he opened fire, but yeah.... after that I just server hopped as soon as the second inland town I went to was picked clean.

Characters in this game don't throw haymakers, or any type of knockout blow. I think it's fine, as you shouldn't stand SOME chance to fight back, but it definitely needs tweaking.

This really annoys me too, even when I'm on the receiving end. Some dude popped me 4 times with the SKS, making my screen "shock" with each hit. He shot 10 times but I only can confirm 4 of the hits. Like you, I didn't bleed. All my clothes and food? Ruined. Gun fights are starting to be much bigger spray and pray affairs after the last patch as volume of fire is needed to ensure someone is down.

I posted this on bug tracker. Please look at it and upvote it because this is becoming a serious problem. http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=8557 I heard some rumbling on the server I play on about a certain hill near Elekro having snipers that were impossible to take out. Eventually I got taken out, got mad and decided to go looking for this stupid sniper. He killed someone and I guess decided the coast was clear. He stood up and that's when I shot him with my SKS Problem was, he immediately went prone and all of the shot I fired started hitting some invisible terrain between myself and him. I then saw him sit, then go prone, and knew he was trying to log so I rushed him. I got about 5 inches from him and unloaded my entire SKS, point blank, ADS, the whole nine hards. Couldn't hit him. Switched to fists, and again, I was punching nothing. And then he got to combat log safely away (He was bleeding, but I couldn't loot him either so I know he wasn't unconscious or dead) Either way, I know I might get blasted for spreading the word, but the exact location isn't exactly known, truth be told, just on a very steep decline. Also, from what people are saying, I don't think it's becoming that much of a secret and if the word gets out enough, hopefully Rocket will fix this up quick.

He started off uphill from me. Then he was level when I rushed him, then I tried shooting down at him, meaning he was downhill. I think it's not just the angle of terrain, but perhaps he clipped into some jnvisible terrain.

I was about 25 meters when I initially shot him before he leapt into prone. Like you said, my shots seemed to be hitting below him despite having my PU Scope sights on him. I then ran till I was basically in his grill and unloaded, but this time puffs of smoke were appearing in front of him. Punching didn't work. So initially I was firing upwards, then on the same level, then above him, all ranging from 1 to 5 meterss away from him.

I get so angry in teamspeak when we're in a firefight and some people have side conversations. Me - "Who is that coming around back of the red house? Guys - "And then I says to Mabel I says.." Me - "Guys, which one of you is behind the red house with a black baseball cap and hunter backpack and camo Mosin!?" Guys - "And all twelve inches went in, I couldn't believe it! Lost that bet..." Me - "I'M SHOOTING WHOEVER IS BEHIND THE RED HOUSE" ...... *BOOM* One of the guys - "Dude, I just got shot. I'm dead in back of the red house, didn't see where I was shot from". Every... fucking... time

I was kind of taken aback by it and missed the opportunity. I did log out close to the spot so I'll go there and screen cap the position and edit it for the bug tracker.

I don't think that was the case. He was moving pretty smooth, and my latency was very good, and I got two clear shots that hit him, but he did the force prone dive. It was when he was prone that suddenly my bullets were hitting some type of invisible barrier between him and myself. Like I said, he then transitioned to sitting, then back to prone which is a sign the person is combat logging. I then ran to him, but again, even with only inches between us, I was unable to hit him or interact with him. I made sure to put a foot or so between us so my gun barrel wasn't going through him, and when I emptied all 10 rounds I tried punching, but nothing was hitting him and then he vanished.

I KNOW this has been discussed, but any search for "disappear" "Disappearing" or "bodies" shows 0 results in the forums.... well, I guess I'll ask here. Has anyone else experienced the disappearing bodies lately? I don't mean the 10 minute marker, I mean the 30 seconds one. What's the criteria for that? I got into a gun fight with someone in Balota. I shot them, they fell. Dead. I'm waiting for a little to make sure he didn't have a friend, and suddenly he disappears. It must have been no more than 40 seconds between him dying and then his body vanishing. So anyone have any idea what this is about?

I have to put Post Processing on very low because it murders my FPS.