Kushko

...not only has the game not gotten any better (bugs and performance wise) but it has gotten worse. I am fully aware the game is in early access and i have no problem with that. My friend and i took a break 3months ago because the game was quite enjoyable but the overall performance and polish was lacking, so we decided to give it some time and try again later. That later was today. When we finally got in to a server (after a couple failed attempts on different servers) the first one we got on was unplayable because of lag (even though we were picking low ping servers), so we go in search of another server. Find a new one, working ok for me but my friend cant interact with any objects after 20minutes and a relog (he even had steam check his install if any files were corrupt). Finally around the third relog and switching to another server a glitched and invisible (to him) zombie killed him before i got there (i was checking loot around while he was fixing his problem-or trying to). Earlier a third friend glitched himself off a ladder and fell to his death...how does that still happen after all this time? Half the items in my backpack dont have icons anymore and the only way i can tell something is actually there is by the slightly darker shade of gray or by mousing over it. Oh and for some reason you literary cant outrun zombies anymore, even at full sprint as a fresh spawn they keep up and somehow manage to hit you on the move... I could go on, but i think i made my point. *edit* Just to add; all 3 of us have high end machines and broadband/fiber-optic connections with reliable providers so none of the problems originated on our end. How has the game not improved at all in the 3months? Granted we got some new items which mean absolutely nothing if the game is borderline unplayable to actually use/enjoy those items. Every time i check up on dayz theres talk about how they're putting in animals and cooking and all the great things none of us will get to enjoy until fix the games core problems, it just kills my excitement about the game (the little that is left at this point). I want to love this game, i know it has amazing potential, but when theres little to no progress or even some regress in all the places that matter its just starting to be impossible to keep faith in the game and the team making it. Enough time has passed for them to have no more excuses left for this game feeling like it was made in a garage by a couple people having their first go at game development. For gods sake, this is a high profile, high budget ($40+mil from early access sales alone) game. It should not be in the state it is.

Interesting that you talk about reading and reading comprehension when you obviously did not read or comprehend my post. So i'll try to make this simple for you; I did read the dev blogs but what i was saying in my post is that the game has not had any actual progress, not that no progress is being planned or worked on by the team. You see, for a player there is a pretty substantial difference in what was done in the 3months (or for that matter in the 6+months since i started following dayzs progress) and what has been worked on or is planned in the distant future. One is a tangible experience, while the other is pretty much all hopes and dreams. Also in response to someone earlier saying game development isnt like building a house. I'm not a programmer myself, but the 2 friends i mentioned in my original post are actually both game developers, and we all agree that game development actually is exactly like building a house. And in DayZs case the foundations are build over a swamp and the walls are cracking and so far most of the "progress" that has been made (again, not something they are working on, but what has actually been done and given to the players to experience) is the equivalent to new fancy furniture being added in to a house that is falling apart around them.

I would post there if i actually gave up, thought the game was bullshit or wanted my money back. But since i dont feel like any of the mentioned, i decided to make my own post for my own opinion. I'm not just randomly raging and i still fully plan on spending more time in the game once it gets on its way, but i felt like expressing my disappointment with the progress that has been made on the core gameplay (not the lack of items or new towns or anything like that, but the actual performance/stability and glitch/bug fixing).

The power plants are powered by all the violent deaths in electro and maintained by zombie workers.

I'm curious...what makes you think they were actually bandits? At first you thought one guy was chasing another and you went in to attack him but when it turned out they were together it was actually you attacking them and them defending themselves. :P *edit* Oh, i see Airgrafix beat me to it. :)

In two live streams ive listened to Rocket asking why the game even needs slow vault (not sure if thats how you spell it...) and him considering removing it, but i have a suggestion for it. First of all, should make it so that if you do a vault while moving at any speed you should do the fast hop over type and only do the slow one if you are standing still in front of an obstacle. Now my suggestion for the use of the slow vault would be to be used in situation where stealth is needed. Make it so the fast vault would make a noise and be used when you need to get over an obstacle fast and make slow vault produce little to no sound so we can use it to get over obstacles when a more quiet approach is required.

Is there any downside to just having it deployed all the time? Like when you're not prone to use it properly, is there some kind of penalty? Cheers!

Thank you sir, have some beans for that! :)

I believe its black and white for when you are low on blood and blurry for when you are in pain (but dont hold me on that). When you are hydrated and energized you will start to regenerate blood but im pretty sure it wont cure your food poisoning. Ive never personally ate rotten fruit, because its you know...rotten. :p But from what i hear, without charcoal tabs its eventually fatal.

Some people stress eat...you should try to calm your character down. Sit on the beach and watch a sunset or something. ;)

Pristine condition does not really make a rotten fruit any less poisonous. :p The only thing that will help you afaik are charcoal tablets...those cure food poisoning.

Indeed a great idea. Have my beans sir! :)

You really should report him. The way you do it is; you find the server you were on, click on the server details and than send the IP to one of the following: Multiplay: support@multiplay.co.uk Vilayer: abuse@vilayer.com Fragnet: abuse@fragnet.net GamingDeluxe: admin@gamingdeluxe.co.uk Gameservers: support@gameservers.com If it's unclear which provider, send them to all five. I reported 9 servers today alone because im getting fed up with admins treating their servers as private playgrounds and kicking people for no other reason than joining their server. As long as all servers are linked to the public character hive there is no such thing as a private server.

I'm not sure if this idea has been brought up yet, but i thought it would be really cool if there was a flare gun in the game. There would be all sorts of interesting applications for its use. For example if a couple friends were playing and wanted to meet up but they were unsure of their position, one of them could set of a flare for the others to follow, but since this would also alert anyone else that would notice it it would be a race against time to meet up before hostile players converge on the position...or maybe it was a trap all along and when the enemy comes close they are ambushed! Could also act as a sort of "i'm here come and get me if you dare" approach when people want to find action. And maybe there could be some interested night time and zombie interactions as well. For example; zombies could be drawn to the flare so one could make zombie choke points or lure them away (this would be even more useful once zombies become more dangerous/numerous). So in conclusion, i think a flare gun could add a lot to the gameplay and i would very much like to see something like it added. Cheers! :)

But but...DayZ has taught me that no one is my friend and everyone will shoot me in the back the first chance they get. :(

As long as one can hop from one server to another to loot the high abundance spots over and over (lets be honest 5mins to wait is not that long), anyone that really wants to gear and has a lot of time on their hands (and doesnt mind exploiting a little bit) will still be able to gear up even if military gear and ammo spawns less often. Reducing the ammo and military spawns will only widen the gap between the casual/nonexploiter and the toomuchfreetime/exploiter players. What i think should happen is slightly more of a decentralization and randomness of firearms and military/police/hunter clothing. Military bases should still be the best source of gear since those provide hotspots for action to occur but there should also be a chance that i enter a random home and it turns out someone from the military died there and left his gear or came home when the shit hit the fan or just had gear stored there for whatever reason. Every house, every barn, every shed should hold promise of even the best military loot (smaller chance than a military base of course), because as it stands now, once i get the starter melee weapon to fend of zombies and some food/drinks i have almost no incentive left to search homes instead of trying my luck at an airport/military base. Also on a side note; if possible it would be great if the server hop penalty somehow increased the more you hopped. For example if i log on to a server and log off within 10minutes i get a 5min log in timer, if i log off from the next server within 10minutes that becomes 10minutes and if i log off from the third one it becomes 15mins and so on, capping at 15 or 20minutes (because thats about as long as it would take a player to run to the next area with good loot). To prevent nonhoppers from being punished maybe make it so if you log on within 30 or 45s of coming in it does not apply the penalty (so we dont get it when some d.bag kicks us from their "private playground" or if something crashes during login).

So today after 4 days of playing the game and several deaths from KOS bandits i finally got around to being pretty well geared with an M4 plus a revolver and decided to take that opportunity to do some good in the DayZ world. Logged in to a random medium populated server with a friend (who also just recently started playing) and gave him the revolver and some ammo so we would both be decently armed. The first player we came across was some fresh spawn that only had a crowbar and instantly bolted and ran for the forest when we tried to greet him using voice chat. After that we decided to try our luck in Berezino and saw someone running around the lumber mill area. My friend went to provide cover in nearby bushes and i tried to make contact over the walls with no luck. Moments later i came under fire from an unknown direction and since my friend did not see the shooter either i decided the best course of action would be to run inside and hide among the containers to get my brearings and identify the threat. At this point my blood was really pumping and it was hard to concentrate since this was the first time ive been shot at when i also had a chance to shoot back so i was pretty excited. My buddy was also running half on excitement and half on panic so at first most of his help was coming in the form of "omg i think i hear/see something" but shortly after he really came trough when he informed me that there was someone armed with a rifle sneaking up on my flank, so i got up and ran around the corner guns blazing. Voice chat finally flared: "please stop shooting! please dont kill me!" Doubt came over me and after running on instinct and adrenaline for several minutes i finally remembered my original plan to try to communicate instead of killing on sight, so i stopped firing but still held my gun on him since i still was not sure if he was the one taking shots at me minutes ago. He asked me if he could bandage and i told him that he could. At this point i was feeling really bad thinking i just randomly started shooting on an innocent passer by so i told him i was sorry but then he started acting kind of strange asking me if i was alone and if i need anything, and even after i told him i was fine on food he insisted he would drop some on the ground for me. I was still pointing my rifle right at him and told him he should leave (since i felt a trap coming but i couldnt be sure) and just when he turned around *BAM*, someone sniped him literary 5m away from me (thinking back on it i reckon the guy probably thinks i shot him, so if you are reading this please know it was not me). So yet again we were faced with an unknown shooter and yet again i bolted inside and took cover behind the wall but then my buddy also came under fire outside, so i manned up and ran out again. My buddy got a couple shots off but was killed before i got close enough to help. When i finally arrived there were 2 gunmen and i was on their flank, so i stopped, aimed my M4 and killed one outright while only wounding the other before he got behind cover. We played cat and mouse where i had the upper hand since he was bleeding so time was on my side and after a minute or so i finally got a clear shot off and killed him. So now theres 2 well armed dead bodies around, but i remembered my training (aka reading the newb DayZ guides) and decided to check around for more bandits before trying to loot them. After a couple minutes i was somewhat sure there was no immediate danger so i went to loot but their bodies had already disappeared (i thought they should have remained for at least 10minutes?). At least my buddies body was still there, only some unarmed fresh spawn decided to try to loot him just as i got near, so i pointed my gun at him and asked him politely to back away and then *BAM* he falls over dead as well (i swear someone looking down a long range mosin scope decided to make it look like i was killing people on sight lol). I decided that ive had enough action for one evening and that the pistol on my buddies corpse was not worth getting shot for, so i chose a direction and ran for cover and didnt stop running till i met up with my buddies fresh character a kilometer down the coast. All in all it was good fun and i came out with shakes from the adrenaline buzz. I just wish my buddy had gotten some more good action as well.

Is it just me or is this getting worse by the day? Feels like there are more and more "friends only, join and you will be kicked" servers on the list every day and just now i joined 3 servers in a row and got kicked within a minute of each join (and the servers didnt even have the kick description, although i am well aware that kicking is against the rules with or without the description). And while i think the 5minute server hopping rule is a great idea, i think that they should either really drop the hammer on those kick servers or make it so you dont get the wait time penalty if you are kicked (preferably both). I apologize for the rant, but it just gets to me that they're left to do this so openly even though it was clearly stated that its against the rules (i mean for gods sake they even put it in their server name...its not like its hard to find most of them).

They actually cant do whatever they want/can. There was a post a dev or even Dean Hall (cant remember) made that kicking a player for anything other than offensive/abusive behavior and/or cheating/exploiting is against the rules and will result in taking the server down with no refund for the server purchase. *edit* Here: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/158966-dayz-standalone-server-hosting-rules-server-reporting/

How do i actually prove it though? The kick massage doesnt state the server name. Do i have to make a video of it happening or will they just act on my information that it happened? Also TBH i think that threatening to kick non friend/clan players in the server title should be against the rules just as much as actually doing it is.

I'm not, i just added those to my rant because it was somewhat connected. :P The now 4 kicks happened on low pop servers (yes i know...but i want to gear a bit in peace) with no mention of kicking.

Ive tested 5 of my characters so far and every time it comes back the same (O+), so im starting to wonder if blood type is account linked instead of character or is it just one hell of a coincidence? Cheers. :)

Logged out an hour ago with a nicely kitted character, and when i was joining the game now i could see that same kitted character in the main menu but when i joined a server i somehow became a fresh spawn and when i tried different servers to see if i could get my character back i was spawned as a fresh spawn in a different location every time (meaning it was resetting me to a new fresh spawn each time i logged in to another server...also i did not make a mistake in choosing a hardcore or experimental server in any of those occasions). Dont get me wrong, i'm well aware its alpha and that these things happen and im not really fussed about my gear since i can get that back in a couple hours (and besides gearing up is one of the finer aspects of the game anyway :)). I'm just wondering what is going on. Cheers.

Well word on the street was there was going to be a wipe with tomorrows patch anyway, so i guess ill just wait until then. :)