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I bought the game expecting a survival game dealing with mostly pve and occasional pvp, not only pvp. I have a hard time to understand why players buy into this game wanting to just pvp when so many alternative games for that already exist. The niche DAYZ SA could fill should be something else then what is already flooding the pc game market. Not sure where fapping to a character came into the discussion, I guess there are games for that too...

Well I'm sorry to say I do hate you for killing players, using third person, etc. A retrospect should have entailed more than just COD PVP... But to each his own I guess...

If you have played 300+ hours for 30$ your reward is you probably had more gameplay and fun than you ever had with most games you paid the full price for. If you did not have that fun in those 300+ hours you are a sucker for not leaving the game until a higher development stage is reached. Just saying.

All I play on usually is experimental hardcore but my fps had become so bad it was unplayable. Seems to have become better now though so I may put some more hours in soon :) Hope to see you there (and that it will be a friendly encounter)

I like the urgency actually when you spawn to find food and drink. And, I died only once of starvation which was probably the first time I ever spawned in the game and had no idea how to survive yet. I don't really see the problem AND I object to suggestions to make the game easier where I feel it should be much harder to just basically survive on a physical level. I would have no problem with only having a survival rate after a spawn of, say, 33% due to a lack of resources. Only makes your character that does succeed to survive the opening stages of the game that much dearer to you. Edit: I like the adrenaline of having some cans in your inventory while your vision is greying out of hunger and frantically searching for something to open the damn things. To find that tool moments before you pass out is just golden :)

So we can hunt an animal and use its hide, chop or scavenge sticks but we still need to find rope to be able to make a courier bag or improvised backpack out of these materials. In real life cordage can be made from plant fibres, bark, grasses and even clothing (rags!) and so on. How about making it possible to craft cordage? I'm thinking about making them from (certain) trees, t-shirts and pants and the burlap sack. On a different note, make it possible for rope / cordage to restrain a player, similar to the handcuffs and also make it possible apply them to the feet and not just hands. I never restraint a different player but I think it should be possible and it could be very useful to immobilise a player completely.

Well up until 0.44 I had decent performance in DAYZ SA but since 0.45, 0.46 and now also 0.47 I have a massive drop in fps, even in small towns. Sometimes the game freezes altogether for 20 seconds, dropping to 1 fps. For some reason since the latest updates it takes much longer to load textures. (8GB RAM, i5 @ 3.2, GTX650)

Hehe, nicely done! Have my beans :beans:

I guess you are saying that the last clown was an admin and that he shut down the server before you could kill him? Probably it was just a scheduled server restart. And if this was on the experimental branch I'm pretty sure of it, I have session lost there all the time.

Would be kinda cool to have the balaklava in the game but I prefer the bandana since they can be used as rags. Even when all your inventory is shot to pieces chances are your bandana will be good to use for rags. If not, your are probably shot in the head and are dead anyway :)

Never encountered this but hey, better than KOS i'd say...at least they try to make it memorable.

In general I don't like the focus on weapons to be honest. My (!) DAYZ is not about a multitude of weapons or fire power. All I need is 1 weapon to kill a bad guy at about 100 metres (or yards) or closer and to hunt animals. The SKS seems fine in that role. More diversity in weapons just seems to put the focus on pvp imho and not on survival, where lies my interest in this game.

380? I don't even bother now with the 9mm when I can have the 357 magnum or 45 ACP (FNX preferred over 1911) let alone 380...never touch the 22 either, what point is there to it to use the low calibres unless it's all you can find?

Yeah binos are out for the moment, haven't seen one in a long time. I wish we could use LRS in hand and not only mounted to a rifle. I prefer the SKS to the Mosin but would be nice (and realistic) to simply use the LRS in hand (or mount them on an SKS)

Well not that much changed really in NEAF. I visited there today as a new spawn to check it out and got sniped immediately...

Thought I'd share for those interested.

I am pretty sure you are in Chernarus. (would be easier if you made a screen of a town name or more of the surroundings, this billboard can probably found in many places)

Almost died today on experimental hardcore but made a narrow escape. Fortunately he couldn't shoot very well (well to kill me anyway). Because I did not have my weapon up I tried to be friendly and greet him but this hero started to shoot anyway. When you see me opening the direct communication I shouted something like "fucking coward!" I had a shotgun but only 2 shells and no ammo for my Magnum so I did not try to fight or ambush him. Also, my FPS isn't great either on experimental so that won't help in a fire fight too. He hit me a few times and broke an arm, testament to the 5.56 doing less damage. I think a SKS or AKM would have killed me. My rags were ruined so it was a race against time to find some rags which I did just in time. So I lived to fight another day. Some think KOS is less prevalent on hardcore but in the last 15 hours of play I was KOS'ed 3 times...so don't count on it. Why I share this? Don't really know, because I can I guess :)

lol yeah, probably should have ran out immediately but he probably would still have shot me in the back. I felt there was a chance he would not shoot as he didn't shoot right away.

At this moment rubberbanding is not fixed yet on experimental. I just came into an endless loop again.

Dilemma here, I get surprised by another player who has his gun up. He is not speaking to me and not leaving the room. I made a split second decision and opened fire, just like him. I shoot first, now I will never know if there was a way out of this situation, we are both dead. I feel the other player is responsible because he surprised me and had me blocked in a corner. What would you have done? Take the risk of dying and getting looted but try to communicate and get out of the situation or would you have opened fire too hoping you kill the other before he kills you??

There are too many children in this game as it is...I'd vote for less children in this game.

Or bring shotgun calibre adapters in the game so you can shoot multiple calibers with a shotgun. The price you'd pay is it would be less accurate and single shot but can use most ammunition if you collect all adapters :)

(---POSSIBLE SPOILERS---) I didn't feel like helping others, nor pvp'ing, had all the stuff I need so today I decided to go on an easter egg hunt to visit the sites I never saw before. Did some research where about I could find them and started my big tour. Started with the bus accident a little SW of Krutoy Cap where I gave a bambi some food. Then off to see Bad Santa in the industrial zone in Cherno which almost got ruined by a swarm of zombies but I avoided them. Paid a vist to the commisar statue North of Komarovo where I enjoyed lunch with some sodas. Refreshed I made my way up to the Blair Witch project SW of Pustoshka where a bandit thought he could rob an innocent tourist.(won't be doing that no more) And while the sun was slowly setting I made a final trip to the pyramid NNW of Stary Sobor where I will have dinner and camp for the night. It was quite a long run and day... Who said DAYZ is nothing but pvp and KOS after you are fully geared? :) I believe there are some more sites to visit but I have to research them first. Tourist tips and approx. locations are welcome!

Unfortunately there's still no way to find or make bread but my lunch consisted of some tuna and beans washed away with a cola and for dessert an orange.