lucianpin

I notice an importan aspect that will lead to not playing this game properly: Looting - is treated with too less caution, many players are looting in rush without being aware of surrounding dangers. Rush for gear. In the past, the reason behin this maybe was the low loot or uneven distribution of loot. You had to enter so many buildings and find nothing. So you start to be bored and rush next village and so on. Now, that loot is distributed much better, things start to be normal: enter some medium village and you already find usefull stuff. So don't hurry anymore and watch every step you make. Check every tent before entering, stop from time to time in a bush and check surroundings. Only a snake hidden under some stone can kill you :) It is a small probability that some sniper will kill you from one shot when you are aware of surroundings. This is my opinion: death is coming from short range in most cases and you could have seen the killer if you were more carefull. EDIT: if devs later decide to make loot rare, I think this is the most harmfull decision for DayZ because loot should not be an obsession - you start to be bored while searching for loot. I agree not finding canned food so often, but finding some knife will make you look toward some deer. You always have to find something.

I have seen videos with V3S trucks driving uphill with no problem. But I personally found 3 trucks and with each I was not able to do that. It is like not having enough power or when on the road (uphill) I saw the wheels spinning and truck not moving. Anyone experienced something like this? If you are not moving downhill, truck is almost useless. (0.52)

sorry to hear that...

And that is exactly what is wrong. Let's be honest: on the road any truck is able to start without sliding.

Guys, thanks for the shift key tip. I think that V3S is pretty good right now, except that the wheels are sliding on the road when uphill; it still needs some tweaks.

Good to know...

Thanks, I didn't try shift key, buy I will. As far as I know in current build, you can't be killed while driving with the truck.

That is true. It would be nice that after player commits several kills, he would start to see fake players (ghosts), for a long time, but not forever. Basically if you just use your weapon for self defense, probably you will not kill so many people, it will happen from time to time. But those who are hunting at the airfields and count many kills, will start to experience a paranoia and will fight with ghosts. EDIT: what I said here is valid only if DayZ is not intended a first person shooter of course.

It's good to hear another opinion, maybe you are right. I recently saw a video, one guy (the silent hunter) killed 3 guys between some tents. Any gun fight is so unpredictable. Being 3 guys was not enough advantage. Anyway, skill matters indeed; and practice.

If you don't kill, then what are you going to do with all these weapons? Self defense? If you are traveling alone and loot some village - so you are moving - so you can't point the gun at anything because of the weapon sway - you are an easy target. You can't defend yourself - return fire, because the hunter which is hiding, standing still can kill you so easily - he has no weapon sway. After you are killed like that, then next time when you are standing still and have the chance, you will do the same to some other player who is looting. So again, what are you going to do with all these weapons?

I have also reported some server, but the answer from the hosting site was: "Please note that this is now a private matter between us and the server owner. We cannot issue any updates on any action we may take." I periodically monitored the server, and it is still up and running. :(

No, after you leave the game for a few hours and come again and see that you got the reset, don't make any steps to walk around, just exit the game. I am one of those who lost the character a few times and recovered by this method.

no need to wait, just close dayz client after you exit some server.

I was reset too. And I am sure about what server I joined. There is a way to recover your character.

So, it happened to me, character reset and I am sure that I was trying public hive, 1st/3rd person servers. However, when you join a server and you see that your character is reset (no gear, different location) stop, don't move and exit the server. And very important, you have to exit the game too (if it did not crash already). This might be a usefull hint for devs too.

Yes, I think if you move just one item in your inventory or make one step, you just overwrite your character. So this is what I recommended too, don't move, don't do nothing. Just press TAB to check your character and if this is not you, exit immediately (exit game).

Who knows... Maybe some devs can help us here. Anyway, when someone is in this situation and you see that nothing works, just try to close client, don't move, don't do anything else.

Because just exiting the server did not fixed the problem. Once I just existed the server, joined another, and I was the same bambi on the beach. Exited again, joined another server and the same. So I decided to close the DayZ client. After this, everything was ok, loaded old character. Obviously something in the DayZ client memory was wrong. All this applies to 0.52 stable.

"A hardcore server could conceptually restrict players from respawning until 12 hours after their last death. We'll gauge how much impact this has on the design, and decide if it stays restricted to private shards, or we open this up to all public (consumer rented) hive servers. " This sounds interesting, I try to imagine how the game play would be affected by this 12 hours restriction. Should we expect less PvP? I doubt because there are many scenarios where some player has a clear advantage and will attack with no hesitation. Anyway, DayZ must be very good prepared and stable to add this option. In alpha stage, this option is just to early because death can happen from various bugs.

this is what I am saying, shadow play used for recording and no crash... try other nvidia drivers maybe. DayZ is crashing sometimes on exit, this is what happened to me.

i have never had any crash during game play with 0.52, and recording with nvidia shadowplay

I start to doubt about whole idea of cooperation between survivors. There will be too few strangers that you can put your trust in. This game if would be finished is fun when playing with your friends (trusted players). As lone wolf, after 360 hours of playing, I started to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R - amazing game that fits my needs. (not to mention Misery Mod)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K_4DkdLNys

Yes it is...but after some practice you'll see with different eyes.

I know.. but I am suspecting that even so, when someone just pops up in your face it can happen to shoot first and then recognize clothes. Just saying, communication and position awareness is maybe more important. :)