Tatanko

Thanks! :) What really got me into taking screenshots is contributing to the wiki. Many, many, many of the unedited images on the wiki are mine (click on one, you'll see my name). Since I was uploading things to the wiki, I wanted them to be as high of quality as they could be and it motivated me to get better at it. I could post whore all day with new pictures from each time I play the game, but I try and spare the community from that.

I have a degree in Telecommunications, actually! I'm a huge nerd, not so much an artsy type. I do enjoy photography, but I don't own a camera or anything either (go figure). I don't have any formal education or training in this kind of thing either, so if someone who has a film degree comes in here and tells me I'm completely wrong... then I'm probably completely wrong haha.

It's my way of asking other people not to take credit for my efforts. I don't believe anyone is going to profit from my screenshots :p

As a matter of fact, there are at least 14 more towns to be added to the game. Those are just what we know of, I'm sure there's a possibility for that number to change. All of them are in the North. I'm more excited about the overhaul of the South though! Weyland and I have been discussing some goings-on with "hidden" development of the map. I think you'd be a valuable addition to the conversation :) I like your ideas for new maps, too... they largely mirror my own thoughts. That's basically the reason I can't be bothered to watch them. That, and I doubt they would keep my attention. I'm not the kind of person who watches a lot of YouTube videos, so it's no surprise that I don't watch game streams either haha.

I'm from central Pennsylvania and believe me when I say that, particularly right now (Autumn), Chernarus (aka the Czech Republic) looks EXACTLY like where I live. I basically live in Chernarus, just with way more urbanization. You wouldn't be getting any variety in the game by making a map from anywhere on the East Coast :p

A few more pictures this evening. I made a return trip to the new military camp near Myshkino to snap a few more pics.

Interesting hypothesis. What makes you think this?

That's precisely why I focus my effort on pictures. They're just a moment, but they're very high quality.

I'm generally playing with at least one other person, so there's lots of dialogue about what we're doing next, where we want to go, what each of us needs, telling stories, etc. I also check a map every so often while I'm running long-distance just as something to verify my position.

I would like it to be possible to survive on your own, but I would like it to be much more difficult than if you are in a small group.

Yeah, it's still a very rough prototype of the final product I think. Just their way of getting started on it in tandem with the removal of the Balota camp. I can't wait to see what happens with the Balota Airstrip this week (they promised an update to Stable that included more changes to it).

This is a touching story. An accidental kill turns into a wonderful friendship. I'd like to buy the movie rights, please! All kidding aside, I REALLY feel like the forum needs a "Missed Connections" sub-forum for exactly this kind of thing. It would be massively useful.

Maps have a purpose if you're not willing to "cheat" and use an external map. Books can be read cover-to-cover in their entirety believe it or not. Wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers, and other tools will have a use at some point. Many. many things in DayZ Standalone did not have a purpose when they were originally conceived. The game is still in development, don't forget that.

No loot spawns... where... "anymore"? Kamenka? Kamenka definitely spawns loot.

Nooooo! I didn't get any :o

So well said! (Check my signature... been the same since January ;))

+1 There's also Kumyrna and the supermarket west of Kamenka on Bay Tikhaya.

Preach! Yeah, really. Looting this place is going to be risky business. I think the spawns only go as far west as Chernogorsk, but still, your point is valid.

That it is. I hope they do some nice finishing touches to it later on, but I don't want it to change much from the way it is now. It's a haven of sorts. The first chunk includes places like Kopyto and Castle Rog that are great destinations, too. You pretty much just named all my favorite areas of the map :P As for the Northwest still being sparse, that won't last long. I remember when I first started playing the Standalone that the far north seemed incredibly intimidating because it was just vast swaths of nothingness. Now the eastern half of that nothingness is full of towns! :)

Yep! There's still soooo much more to come, too. There are at least 14 named villages that have yet to be added to the game, along with what sounds like an extensive reworking of everything old.

I can't believe how little we were told in the changelog about the map changes compared to the sheer tonnage of changes that were actually made. Quite a pleasant surprise!

I like that this location is naturally balanced somewhat by its peril.

When I visited, it was nothing but water bottles and cantines :|

...and finally, just a few pretty screenshots of the Industrial Zone at Novodmitrovsk and the nearby, newly-named mountain of Khrebet between it and Svetlojarsk:

Next, we have the Military Camp near Myshkino. This is essentially where the Balota Airstrip camp moved to: