ThaMac

Well, sorry to be harsh but what did you expect from a game where communication is key to survival... And why didn't you initiate contact with the mosin guy btw through typing?

IMO the main issue is that they respawn to close to you. Its fine if they respawn. but make it 1 KM away from the player that killed em, and a short delay on when they become aware of their surroundings and start chasing people. Right now its a bit overkill when you have to spend tons of ammo just mowing down zombies that keep respawning right next to you. It's not very realistic. If you want to keep the dificulty then make them hear shots over longer distances so they will all converge on players shooting but at least they wont just pop out of no where.

To me, anything that is clearly not intended to give you a benefit is cheating and any 3rd party software might be considered cheating also. 1: Modding game=cheating (even singleplayer games but there no one including me cares, but you still cheated :P) 2: Changing visuals so you can see in the dark=cheating (its obviously not intended for you to jack up your gamma/brightness so you can see in the dark) 3: serverhopping=cheating 4: TeamSpeak=Cheating (its a feature that oters in the game don't have (talking while others can't hear you and talking over large distances)) But anything "Game" related that is a INTENDED mechanic in the game and can be used for a benefit is just gameplay imo. 1: Trading=Part of the online experience. otherwise they would not allow items to be traded.... DUH.... 2: Bandaging others is an intended feature. Having said all that, I have turned off postproccessing to be able to see further, jack up my Gamma like mad when its dark, change my FOV before sniping, use teamspeak etc. All those things I consider "cheating" I do myself . But they are not the way the game is "meant to be played" if you understand what I mean. And just having a global chat would fix my teamspeak argument because then people could all communicate :D

When just looting some small town I usually leave them open so others can see the town has been looted easely and they dont waste their time. On Airfields, big towns or other dangerous area's i close them so I can notice others opening them if they try to loot. If i'm looking for some PVP i'd also close doors hoping others would come in to loot (airfields etc :P)

Its still pretty common i still find them @ NW airfield alot. HAve 3 in my inventory right now (i dont leave them for others + some friend might need one. But I agree its to OP atm and I actualy feel they should be more rare. Only spawn in shit exposed areas (top of ATC tower for instance) or something to make them less accesable.

You need the client version of TS3. server is for hosting your own, you need the client to connect to a server :D so client 64-bit should work if your PC is 64 bits. (witch it prob is with windows 8 on it)

Holy shit you are completely new to PC and the game arent you :D 1)how do you type in sidechat if needed? left control (bottom left of your keyboard) is for voice chat. Everyone near you can hear that (you obviously need a microphone to use this). / is side chat, everyone near you can see this chat but some people dont read it and insist on using voice instead. 2) a message came on screen join our chat with some numbers and dots, how do i do that?. That was probably a Message Of The Day (MOTD) for ths server. and they where most likely letting you know their teamspeak server. (you can download teamspeak here http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads )Teamspeak is a VOIP program. it allows for voicecom outside of games, so you can talk to people no matter if they are near you or not. We at JustSmileGaming have our own TS and Game servers ( http://justsmilegaming.co.uk/server ) open for everyone, hop on there if you want some help, if i'm on ill gladly explain some of the basics and get ya started in DayZ. I'm usualy on between 19:00-24:00 GMT (themac) 3) a red/yellow tablet came on bottom/right quarter of the screen in half with some lines on it is that a problem with my PC? my internet or the game/ server? (it went red for counted to 89 then gone yellow then went back to server screen)Thats a "chain" yellow/red means you are getting desynced (basicly a connection issue with 9/10 is not your fault atm since the game is in alpha and the connection sometimes sucks for everyone) 4) I have no idea where i am lol. i ran along the treeline next to a road (someone shot at me, was a sitting duck cause i shit my pants and gone prone lol, they must of realised i was heading a different way and left me) and just after that i came to a big town. I came from the treeline down a hill next to road, ran along the roadside with a big wall on my right and turned right into firestation with a big tower next it (someone was watching it as again heard shots*may of been the lad from 2-3 minutes before*), there was also a chapel, shop and hospital (oh and two *maybe one* knobs watching the hospital surrounding area's) once i googled how to log out i tried to find somewhere save and ended up in a hut next to the beach and sea. To find out where you are : http://dayzdb.com/map/chernarusplus is an online map, just open the link in Internet explorer (or another browser) to see the map, you can then use the key combo ALT+TAB to switch out of the game and look @ the map. Make sure you are in a safe spot and not in combat before doing this or you WILL die :P alt+TAB again to get back into the game. you can zoom in and out using your mouse wheel.

TBH, your priority list is exactly that, YOUR priorities. I for instance would like them to develop more weapons and different weapons to combat the M4+Mosin supremacy that is going on right now. The only reason i ever pick up an SKS is because some clanmate might not have a gun. but as soon as i'm able, i go to the military bases and get an m4 + search for a long range scope for a mosin. I'd like to see different weapons, different scopes. Night Vision+scopes, granades, so much more to evolve the combat before even thinking of vehicles. With the current sprint mechanics vehicles are not THAT big a deal to me. (other then a combat chopper :P) I'd also love to see sickness, hunting etc in before vehicles but that is all my opinion, just like your's and it means nothing becuase the devs will have their own roadmap and some of my point might be on it and some of your might be also.

TBH, i think if i wanted to I could survive indefinatly just staying up norht and becoming a forrest dweller. But on avarage i'd say around 6-8 hours. Then i get bored and start PVPing at wich i SUCK

Yeah, there has been plenty of Berezino action on our server lately. NWAF is deserted, Baloto is sometimes great, sometimes boring and sometimes (still) combatlogger/ghosters paradise.

Ahhh this explains alot :P i have an FX8150 and HD7850 wich usualy runs (new) games at medium settings 60FPS with no issues. But Dayz is barely hitting 30 when i'm lucky and mostly 20 fps while overheating my PCI slot and underusing my CPU. But yeah. optimization is usualy one of the last steps in development so no rush for me :D

I always wondered why company's dont do the alpha/beta thing as much as they used to anymore (AAA titles BEtA is NOT a BETA 100% of the time last 5 years). But the more of these posts i see, the more i understand it... It's Alpha m8! everything is done in babysteps. And the pace at wich new content AND fixes AND changes to existing content is comming out is very impressive for a team this small and a game this big. And as for the "we are not testers" argument, you got the game cheap in early acces, so you DID get compensated for your testing work. and YES, we are testers. Untill the game hits at least Beta, you can log in, find bugs, report them (after checking if they have not been reported already ofcourse!!!) and if you have a good time while doing that, its a bonus. We are entitled to nothing, and honestly IMO the devs already created a product that works better then most alpha's i've been a part of in my life. (as in 20 years ago, when an alpha could quite litteraly ruin your PC) EDIT: And yes, realisticly it will probably be 1-2 years of development before the game is ready for a decent Beta test and release, and it will still contain lots of bugs and issues then and MAYBE 5 years from now, it will be stable and not being updated/changed so often anymore. If you cannot handle crappy builds, bugs, performace issues, exploits and other shananigans, then just check back in after 2 years for a more polished product m8. Edit2; for the OP: It's actualy Brashness to complain about a feature that does nothing... AFAIK, it makes you wet/soaked. but being wet/soaked doesn't do anything (yet) so it's just to test if you actualy get wet/soaked from being in the rain.... Next stepp will be, do you dry up from fire, being inside etc, The NEXT step is to assign symptoms to these statussus, (like shaking, coughing whatever when wet/soaked, healing again from vitamins, and drying @ a fire place... Or something else but you get my point...).BABYSTEPS!!!

schools tend to have mosins, the piano buildings can have mosin/sks/dual barrel rifles and i've found guns in the hospital as well, AND firestations can have guns (usualy magnum/fnx for me) Basicly most of the "Special" building can spawn guns. You just gotta look@ the right places :P

I noticed my shirt gets worse when i'm crawling, perhaps pants get worse when you are crouching? I dont know, but noticed the same...

If its about copying certain items if you have 2 of them.... Its a known issue and already in the bugtracker.