TheScruffyBandit

well, this update is garbage and basically unplayable, also hasn't addressed any of the issues with base building and the new spawn zone system is game breaking. Isn't this supposed to be the final full release version of the game? why the hell are we dealing with such awful updates now we're out of alpha.

5 years of early access, 5 years of thousands on thousands of free play-testing hours and DayZ still doesn't have working zombies after releasing and having the nerve to charge £35 to new players? While we're at it, the netcode is STILL fundamentally broken, there are less weapons than during ALPHA, half the systems in the game are so bare-bones to the point of being meaningless in terms of their effect on gameplay, base persistence is practically non-existence and bugs are still the most likely cause of death. Bohemia clearly have no respect for the customers to whom they promised so much and failed to deliver to time and time again. I (a long time ARMA player) will never purchase another bohemia product, I will advise every single person I know against giving Bohemia a single solitary penny. This is wholly unacceptable after years of messing around the community with delay after delay only to release a game that has barely improved since alpha and I can only imagine bohemia have spent the last 5 years laughing at us for foolishly expecting them to deliver functional game while spending our money on blackjack and ladies of the night.

I like PvP as a concept and it's a required part of the DayZ experience so long as it is framed within a context of hardship and scarcity, however I don't like the current factors that make PvP in this game extremely unrewarding as an experience. There seems to be an idea within the DayZ dev team that DayZ should move away from its ARMA roots and establish itself as something different, however they're often throwing the baby out with the bath water while doing it and losing the satisfying mechanics & realism that made ARMA an enjoyable experience.

You play with ATOC on? that'll be why then. It's much easier to spot people hiding in trees, bushes or lay in the grass with it turned off, even though it makes the game look like ass. As for me, I often play backpackless or even backpackless and vestless for extra challenge, so quiet often if I carry a secondary (for the purposes of having access to a suppressed weapon then it usually ends up being either a CR75, 1911 or Mak with a pistol suppressor on it as space is at an absolute premium.

Given how bad the desync is and how rubbish the current shooting mechanics & hit detection are, I don't see how being unable to place a weapon in your hand would effect your lethality much.

Same here, on the rare occasion when I do use a vehicle I park it a good 500-600m minimum away from a town and hoof it the rest of the way to maintain the element of surprise in case anyone is looting that town.

Good job, I might give that a try too. Can't stand these "no KoS" and "Kill = kick" servers that are springing up all over the place.

I don't even notice the difference between my 955BE 3.6ghz system and my 4.5ghz 2500k system on DayZ most of the time. Past a certain point I don't think it matters what your specs are for DayZ, you'll be limited by the server side and poor optimization rather than raw system power anyway.

I don't see the point, DayZ without other players would be the most boring experience I could imagine.

I've only found them pristine so far, so I haven't been able to test how damage effects accuracy.

I've had similar experiences with 0.57 weapon damage too. Seems kinda derpy and random, at one point watching a guy soak up two torso shots from a .357 Magnum before hitting the deck with a broken leg from the third & losing consciousness and one guy with broken legs taking 5 7.62x39 rounds to put out of his misery. Not quite sure what they've done with weapons in this patch, but I don't particularly approve of it.

It'll run just about as well as DayZ ever runs. Just expect low FPS because we're all stuck with that regardless of specs.

All play styles are not legitimate or we'd have no need for battle-eye. Dupping and server hopping are hopefully high on the developers list of things to resolve and I'll be glad to see the back of them, despite the fact that directly targeting these players by ambushing them on low-pop servers at high value locations is one of my prefered methods of getting rarer pieces of gear. Secondly, you mistake me for someone who complains when he dies, usually I'd congratulate someone on besting me and more often than not my deaths are the results of mistakes on my own part such as missing a critical opening shot or taking follow up shots too rapidly and without repositioning. I'm still de-training some of my more aggressive tendencies, however rest assured I do give a pretty good account of myself even when outnumbered & outgunned. Due to my play style, on the majority of lives I am forced to hunt and kill people on a regular basis, both on private and public hives. However, I have always obtained my gear in legitimate ways either by killing other players and taking it from them or by searching it out myself without the use of underhanded tactics.

In that regard rockets vision was fundamentally flawed. I wouldn't be surprised if this is precisely what he meant when he used those words. The reason that people & clans server hop (or worse, have a "gearing up server" they guard jealously and kick non-members) through NWAF and Vybor base rather than just playing ARMA3 is because in ARMA3, teams of well armed and equipped players engage each other on level footing, this isn't what the typical server hopping individual or clan wants, if people wanted to engage other geared up players in organized groups we'd see different play styles than we currently do. What these people WANT is to get geared through whatever means is fastest, nefarious or not and then head back to the starter towns to "PvP" with the unarmed or under-armed & disorganized fresh spawns. I believe they want to do that for two reasons: The troll or spoiler mentality, where the most fun a person can conceive of having in a given situation is the satisfaction of ruining somebody elses enjoyment or because they simply wouldn't win the majority of engagements with equally well equipped players with similar numbers.

I never listen to music while playing DayZ, hearing is too important a tool, particularly on 1pp to compromise it for background music.