Dunxel

DANG i wish i saw this post lastnight. I painted a Mosin Black & i had my hands on a Green Can i could of tested this. :( I ran across another Mosin so i dumped my black one because yeah.. 1 round bug was a little annoying in Elektro using a PU Scope. :P

New patch! YEAAH! New Loot! Yeah! Nerf M4 drop rate. Yet i find it more often now.... Can't find my LRScope anymore.. NOoooOOoOoOoOoOOooooo

I've been playing for 3-4 weeks now.. And every week the game has gotten better. I will note that the Day of major patches it does appear to be a little buggy at first but They gotta be hot-fixing that stuff because the next day those issues are always gone. It feels pretty cool learning a game from the ground up.. each week something is added. Joining the MOD very late in the game it was OVERWHELMING for a new player. SO MUCH STUFF to learn. TBH the lack of items that are slowly introduced each week is just great for newbs to the DAYZ world. Last week Shotguns & Saws. This Week SKS & Machetes

There are also a lot of locations that currently lack loot spawns. Perhaps once they start adding that into the game it could make it more interesting out there. I would love to start finding stuff in Deer Stands, cabins & small farm houses. I have noticed though.. When spawning on the shore of a busy server finding every house picked clean. Only to find fresh spawns left over flash lights. :P Spending that extra time running In-Land to those inner tiny towns completely un-touched. Even with a passing visitors prior to mine it appears they must of had enough items on them to leave behind gear.

Since last weeks Patch. I find 2-3 Can openers a night.. 3-4 Hand Cuffs a night. 5+ FNX a night. Can't find any Mosin's unless i kill someone with one. (lots) of Shotguns or sometimes a M4s where i normally use to find Mosins.. Never seen a scope since.. Unless.. I kill someone with one. :( 7.62 rounds are freaking EVERYWHERE! I could nearly fill an ammo box in a night. I am assuming this is in preparation for the SKS? I also see no point in even picking up Melee weapons that are not Axes.. As they are EVERYWHERE & 1-2 shot zombies & People.

The idea does not have to be mandatory for all servers. It could be a unique custom server option. So those super naysayers with no decent argument other than QQ no no no. Can continue on with their regular or hardcore servers/hives & avoid the whole fiasco all together. This and many more other unique ideas for a different approach could prove interesting and a different change a pace for the game. Many games offer new game mode options as they progress to give players new & different ways to enjoy the game.

I always seem to find axes and just prefer them overall. Bat would be my first choice for blunt weapon.. Next would be toss up between Crowbar & Wrench.. Extinguisher always bugs out for me... I get 1 swing & then it i cannot use it, I have to put it back on my back then re-place it in my hands to swing again... I rather run from zeds & bandits than trying to use it. I am hoping they balance these items out to be around the same overall but with different attributes. For example. Bat would hit softer but swing more often per minute. Crowbar slightly harder but not as fast per Minute. Wrench hard hitting but very slow swings per Minute. Extinguisher i have no idea. I guess middle of the road. Fists should be very fast but very weak.

I personally LOVE the zombies right now compared to the MOD.. Minus the walking through walls.. O.o That is just plain creepy. Binoculars would be very great to have. A neat feature i would like to see added. Adding Rope to Binoculars &/or Compass to wear them around your neck so they no longer take up bag space. And possibly are moved to your hands more quickly when assigned.

I like this idea.. Not sure about the NPCs.. I could see people farming them for gear. I know I use to do this in STALKER to get decent gear early on. Have the location deep in land far from early spawns? Perhaps a way to make a small base that disables fire & attack capabilities. Trade Bullets or food? for particular supplies. Ammo Box full of pristine 7.62 rounds for a Jeep?

I've heard of it.. but never saw it till last night. Got into a NASTY gun fight inside of a 2+ story building. That only had 1 way up. 1 Friend down 2 of us left standing. The one who died surprisingly spawned very close by & ran back. The gun fight attracted a lot of attention and perhaps the return of those who we killed. Had a wall leaner telling everyone on the outside how many people were in the building what they looked like, what gear we had on, ect. Just before our friend returns some fresh spawn. (no gear). comes down from the upstairs which we checked was cleared. He tried to punch us, so we axed him. Our friendly made it back in about 6 minutes. Gathered his gear back & went back up stairs to double check. "Top floor is very clear. Coming back down." We hear that sound. *Gun loading* sound. Then just before my friend could turn around to verify if that sound came behind him from a possible server hopper... *M4 Rounds* go off and he is dead again. This guy server hopped to sneak into the building & log in above us to back door us. My other friend charged up stairs with his M4 & the guy combat logged already. The good old wall leaner was started to tell us that he was going to have his friend do it over & over until we are all dead. We ultimately went to all the bodies & hit *Hide Bodies* & logged off. So I would like to suggest a way to prevent people from hopping servers to sneak in above, behind or around you. Just to get you by surprise. When you have your self cornered so that there is only 1 way in & out.. Also wall leaning is a really dumb broken game mechanic.

Wall leaning is a no brainier.. just don't allow it. Server hoping.. not really sure tbh how to prevent that one. Kinda leaving that one open to the community/devs. I read they was going to add something like 20 second log off timers. Didn't see anything about server hoping backdooring.

Sometimes even trying to be Friendly... gets you shot. :( Can never let your guard down. I've seen people running across the open Air Field alone with a gun.. Yell Friendly & Wave.. Jerks open fire with NO COVER. WHY!? At least fake it until you can find some cover. I am more open to being Friendly when i have the upper hand. Most people just fire first ask questions later. Animation in the game is clunky as heck as well which doesn't help. "put the gun away! & i won't shoot." Press 1.... nothing... Press 1... nothing... Press 1.. gun gets put away. "TURN AROUND SLOWLY WITH YOUR HANDS UP!" Turn around... *Pull gun out animation starts* *FIRE* /Dead. " I SAID PUT THE GUN AWAY ARE YOU STUPID!?" Damn game and it's clunky slow animations.. ^ that has happened twice to me so far. :(

Yeah i had those settings at like 1800 & 1800.. moved them down to 1100 & 1100 on the crapple laptop to help with lag.. I've always had the issue of having to be Nearly on top of items for them to pop up.. UNLESS i use the Zoom Feature.. then stuff just pops up fine. I would say my view distance for basic items on the ground ect. is about 5-10 feet. Roughly 1-2 dead bodies length. :P All settings are pretty much LOW or VERY LOW and.. Disabled. :( My desktop that runs 2000 & 2000 doesn't have this issue. Crapple Laptop viewDistance=1100;preferredObjectViewDistance=1100;

I have this issue on my POS laptop but not the desktop. I know my settings are very different between the 2 due to hardware differences & capabilities of said hardware. Do these seem correct? or am i looking in the wrong area? sceneComplexity=150000;shadowZDistance=200;viewDistance=1100;preferredObjectViewDistance=1100;terrainGrid=32.5; GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1;GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1;

This weekend a friend of mine & I heard lots of reloading sounds.. We constantly kept setting up defensive positions expecting some geared player to spawn right next to us. but nothing. Later we kept hearing people EATING near Barracks & other nice locations that often result in heavy PVP. Later after i died & i was clear over on East Coast & he was at Airport next to Cherno. we still kept hearing the same exact sounds even though we were no where near each other. These random sounds really played a number on us. "omfg I heard someone drink a can of soda!" "Me To!" After the death & the long distance we were positive it was random sounds that had to of been Server Wide. I even went so far as to leave the server & return.. Still hearing the same sounds at the same time.

Trying to get an idea how to get DayZ SA to run decently smooth on my Crapple-Laptop. Macbook running Windows 8.1 Pro x64bit i7-3520M - 2.9Ghz (2 core 4 threads) Intel HD4000 Graphics 1280x800 (13" screen) 8GB Ram 1TB 5400rpm Drive :( What i have done so far. :Launch Options: -nosplash -noPause -world=empty -cpuCount=2 -exThreads=3 -maxMem=7168 -maxVram=512 :Documents\DayZ\cfg file: GPU_MaxFrameAhead=1 GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1 vsync=0 AToC=7 :Documents\DayZ Other Profiles\Name\vars: shadingQuality=1 shadowQuality=1 SceneComplexity=150000 shadowZDistance=100 viewDistance=1100 preferredObjectViewDistance=1100 TerrainGrid=32.5

Got into a little gun fight with some KOS guy. Anyways. Guy drops dead has TONS of gear guess that is why he spun around & started to unload his M4 at my friend. Well my friend decided yoo i don't want this Mosin anymore i am going to use this guy's M4. Great. He swaps weapons with the dead body... Funny part.. M4 is still there & his Mosin is GONE! He also grabs a few items out of the bag. Funny part none of it disappears. He eats all the guys un-opened food cause he was hungry. I then proceed to loot.. EVERYTHING is still there.. I looted the same food & eat it as well. O.o Even the M4 is there. I also fill my belly with the same foods.. Note the food we took was still on the body.. We watched the body till it de-spawned as we enjoyed this food. Later We are holding up inside of one of the Prisons on the airfield near Cherno. Hear a TONs of gun fire outside of us.. someone comes charging with guns out.. We take 0 chances with the guy drop him. We then quickly discover the DUPING seems to still be happening. I grabbed the guys Red Dot Scope and put it on.. And grab all of his 30/30 mags. This is where it gets funny.. My friend then begins his looting turn.. He grabs the same scope & equips it.. THE SCOPE Disappears from my Gun & is now on his.. Then he grabs the 30/30 mags.. Poof they disappear from my bag.. Only the FOOD actually duped but the Weapon/Ammo/Equipment does not.. It appears to dupe but doesn't actually do it. I wanted to test this again with another fresh body.. but this time.. Have one of loot the gear & log off.. while the other loots the same gear.. to see if that would allow DUPING of the gear. Not to cheat but to help PINPOINT if it is a bug. ANYWAYS here is my service to point out we might of found a small bug with Duping Food for the most part.

I made this mistake.. about 4 times.. Mostly on purpose after the first time. Found a box of bullets. It was on the floor. I for some dumb reason just said "Empty" box.. instead of moving it into my inventory & then saying "EMPTY".. Anyways the bullets never spawned.. box is gone.. I waited a good 5 minutes.. Gave up moved on. I did this again & again on a few more boxes.. Mainly because i didn't really need the AMMO just wanted to see if it would happen again. & it did every time. Sooooo Don't unload the ammo from the box unless it is in your Inventory.

I use to fear KOS players... NO longer do i fear them. I fear logging off cause 90% of the time my SHIT is gone.. Think you found a nice server.. You know the one you log in out of over & over 1 night.. (Take poops ect. gotta log out for that.) ;) Come back the next day. Login screen shows you sexy geared player.. oh yeah baby lets do this.. Log into the same server as lastnight... Everything is lost. Try a few other servers.. Yep it is all GONE.. KOS Bandit's are yesterday's plague.. today is Logging off & losing your SHIT! :(

Is there a way to tell or at least a list of Working "Syncing" Servers? Really hate joining a server & not knowing if my efforts are going to be saved. :(

HOw does one AVOID these bad servers that Desync from the Hive?

I think i have a similar issue perhaps. Was running along the road with someone and poof i ported back about 5 minutes of running. Lost my new friend. I was actually talking to the guy the whole time, about taking revenge on some bandits held up in a Grocery Store. Later i was searching a school & all of a sudden my character just started to moon walk through the walls & ended up 3 buildings down the street. I had 0 control of it. Luckily no one was around.. but I some how aggro'ed at-least 5 zombies because of this. Also i kept getting this "lost connection with server" count downs that would get about as far as 10-20 seconds before catching backup.. Also noticed a red message saying "MYNAME lost connection with server.". I kept checking my Ping & i was around 50ms or less. Tweaked Graphics settings.. nothing seemed to help. Tried other servers with low pings.. same issue. Kinda just gave up just now. Really don't want to find my self dead like the guys above said.

Just a suggestion for having multiple characters.. At least 2. Reason I personally ask. I am NA player & I have a friend currently living in EU. We only have a short time to play together 1-3 hours a day. It would be nice if both of us had an alternative character to run around with when we are not playing with each other. Those extra 2-3 hours we spend playing alone or with others in our own country/time zone would be more enjoyable on a different Toon. I do see some foreseeable unfair advantages to having more than 1 character. But i feel just giving us this little big could make the game really fun! Just a suggestion.

I agree there are some negative uses that would have to be evaluated first before implementing. But I think the idea could be useful & rewarding for everyone. From a MMO standpoint it has always been a nice touch to jump between characters. To mix up the game play. Challenge. Think of ways this feature could be exploited & ruin your game play.. Then help think of ways to counter such an exploit! Exploit Idea: Trading Loot between Character A to CharacterB. Counter Idea: Prevent Character A from joining Character B's server for X minutes. Including if Character is dead.