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Either that's a gross exaggeration or your game is truly messed up. I prefer 1pp but I usually have to play 3pp because most of the playerbase relies on a crutch- ah - I mean they like to see their characters, plus, as we all know, 3pp camera increases the FoV to realistic levels. Always annoys me how in 1pp I can't see the back of my head like I can in real life. I look forward to the 3pp camera change, partly because it might make playing on 3pp servers less about staring at the base of a wall, but also because the shitstorm that will come with it will be hilarious. "omg y u change da camera? dayz is shit now," "changing the camera caused me to projectile vomit all over my screen. please change it back so i am no longer terribly disoriented." Don't get me wrong. I like seeing my character frolicking through the grass like some sort of badass, but it isn't worth it when compared to how dull it makes the game. Peeking over fences adds so much tension to the game. I love lying on a roof with a sniper, waiting for some sap to come along so I can crouch, fire and then lie down again. Such riveting gameplay. Wow.

Oh. Haha! I thought that was a grip or something ;D

Pfft, whatever it is I approve. I suspect it might be a joke on Chris' part, though.

Nuclear power plants are pretty huge. Remember it's not just the main building, but all the power transformers and peripheral buildings and all that nonsense. Plus, yeah, nuclear power plants wouldn't be abundant in a mostly rural area that, for the most part, doesn't even have access to plumbing. Would be cool, though. I'm a big fan of STALKER. I expect we'll see something like this in a custom map.

What the cock is that? It looks like two guns glued together.

I guess my only problem with this is that it really cocks over freshspawns. Who's going to want to join a server which has, I don't know, fucking gorilla hurricanes and where all the food is poisonous if they don't have any gear? If one were to be involved from start to finish that'd be quite the experience, but nobody is going to be able to join part-way through because they won't stand a chance. Is an interesting point though. Once mods hit the scene who's going to play vanilla? There needs to be some sort of incentive to stay (unless the devs want to actively encourage modding, even if it butchers the core experience) so maybe these server-wide events would be a good way to attract people.

I'd like to see a wider variety of civilian backpacks. Plain black, brown and green ones would be really nice. I tend to stick with taloon bags since I, personally, prefer the way they look and in 1st person they allow me to look over my shoulder... certainly I'm not one of these 3pp scrubs that picks mountain packs because they can store the most phat loot */bait* But yes. A couple of generic backpacks would be really nice. I'd also like to see plain (non-checkered) shirts. A small, piffy suggestion I know, but I'd like to see this variety regardless. A lot of DayZ is about having a unique character, but such a small variety of backpacks isn't very conducive to this... and plain shirts just because everyone likes a nice, plain shirt... This may or may not be because I watched a Last of Us video recently...

It doesn't matter how much you say 'it's not an alpha'. It's an alpha. Money doesn't magically make things happen. I do agree, however, that they could be a little bit more forthcoming. Perhaps if an official server goes down we could be informed instead of being left in the lurch.

...apparently I am ;D

Good ideas. I'd like to see campfires produce more smoke, just so people have to think twice before setting them up. Traps have been discussed before, and I definitely like the ideas you pose. Would also be cool to be able to attach a gun to the wire so it's rigged to fire when triggered. Would be a boon for those who play alone and want to make sure the door behind them is covered.

Asking for stable servers on an alpha game is like.... somebody help me with an apt metaphor. It's silly, is what I'm getting at. Yes it's frustrating, and yes server providers are being paid, but you don't know what the circumstances are. Maybe a new item spawning in a certain location has caused the server data to become corrupt and they're trying to fix it? Or maybe they're just a terrible server host that aren't maintaining their servers properly. However, given the current state of the game it isn't entirely unlikely that servers are currently a wee bit unstable, and are likely to go down for extended periods of time.

Sleeping while offline is honestly some of the worst game design I've ever seen. I don't understand the appeal behind it - it just means you get to die when you're not even playing the game. I don't think anybody has even been beaten to death in their sleep, and sleeping for a couple of weeks won't do you any good, so it certainly doesn't make sense from a gameplay perspective.

Hidden files? Isn't it just the interface resolution? I'll grant it's not exactly prominent, and it must be pretty daunting to change the resolution... only for the resolution not to change, but I wouldn't call it 'hidden'. I daresay changes to the menu UI will rearrange the video options to be less terrible. Of course being able to reliably detect aspect ratios and such is never a bad thing.

Mosquitoes are pretty common in the UK, especially near bodies of water. I live near a lake so summer is an itch fest. Pretty sure they exist all over the world, except in deserts and, like, Scandinavia. Malaria is a different story, though. I wouldn't like it if mosquitoes could spread disease. Sure, it happens in real life, but it'd be a pain to hear a buzz and get a little pop up in the corner "I think I have AIDS". Disease from player interaction, however - so with zombies, drinking from lakes, eating near corpses, being hit by zombies etc etc is fine, but a feature that'd effectively function like a roll of the dice... not so keen on that.

I've made it to Severograd and the surrounding villages and I'm yet to find much of any value. I found some bullets in a house that clearly hadn't been picked over, but that's it. I'm yet to find a single food item, so I get to search trees for apples. I get a 1/10 success rate, which is so fucking frustrating I can't even. Wool coats are everywhere. In fact I'd go so far as to say that 9/10 of the items (bar books) I've come across have been wool coats of varying colours. Isn't uncommon to find a house that has a dozen wool coats and nothing else. I'm yet to find a bag or a gun that didn't once belong to somebody else. Bags that have items (all useless) in them and weapons with a single round chambered or in the middle of a field are the only ones I've found. Canvas pants and jeans are the only legwear I can find. Wool coats, rain coats and the occasional bomber jacket/check shirt/ hoodie are the only tops I can find. Footwear and headwear seems more or less normal. Finding houses with no items whatsoever is extremely common, to the point that I'd say around half of all houses contain no items while the rest contain useless items or clothing. I lucked out and found a can opener very early on. It is worthless. I tried to farm but I was told I needed water. Didn't try it in a greenhouse but at that point I'd said "screw it" figuring that picking apples and berries is probably the most efficient way of gathering food, as fucking awful as it is. I hate picking apples. Please God. No. I've noticed that I seem to get hungry a lot more quickly now, and shoes seem to degrade faster. Actually had to replace my shoes. I've gone from energized or not hungry to dark red hungry a couple of times now. Not sure if they've tweaked it or I'm slowly going mad from picking these fucking apples. I approve either way, though. I'll see if I can head further west. I may as well skip NWAF. I don't think they have apples there.

"I can't believe you slept with that zombie skank!" *Sharline punches Dav in the face* You are dead. INSTANT DRAMA. Spoilers, Dav comes back as a freshspawn to see Sharline looting his corpse. More drama. Such drama.

I like this. Would be neat if the bow functioned as a super modular multi-purpose tool that does stuff like this. Would give a use to loose ammo for which there is no weapon - so it'd be especially useful to players who are yet to find a gun but have a bow and a few rounds.

Eh, I just don't like Rhino. Comes across as a twat. I've heard that Frankie hacks (or used to, at least) but I really don't care. Sure it's not very ethical, but when everything else is staged I can't be too bothered when he hacks to create interesting content. Isn't like he was shooting through walls or teleporting everyone to an island or something. I don't watch many DayZ-focused channels. TheRunningManZ is the only one I'm subbed to for gameplay videos (and I have been for some time, he's a great guy) but I also subscribe to Wobo and SepticFalcon for news and such. If I'm really hankering for some hot DayZ action I usually trawl the gallery. Most of the stuff there is a bunch of nasal-sounding American teens wall peeking and calling shooting a freshspawn 'clutch' but there are a few gems on there.

Probably added in post.

Good idea. Fire could cause sweating too, if you sit too close to it, which could really screw you over if you started a fire because you're freezing.

My favourite too. Seem to recall the devs dismissing it, however, on the grounds that Chernarus isn't an island. Honestly I'd rather the 'lore' be bent a little bit rather than be faced with an endless nothing. Certainly things like chasms with broken bridges, mountains with blocked tunnels and so on would also be cool, though hardly an obstacle for air vehicles.

Does loot not respawn yet? It should. DayZ seems to suffer greatly from "oh, you spawned two minutes after everybody else? Too bad, it's wool coats and books for you." Heading inland does help a little bit, in in my time playing experimental last night I did not find a closed door. In fact, I didn't find a single food item, not even a can of soda. I had to spend 30 minutes searching through apple trees and berry bushes before pushing further inland and finding room full of damaged wool coats and nothing else. The current system would be fine if there was more clutter and it was more difficult to spot things. As it stands, however, the can of beans sitting in the center of the room is a little conspicuous so it makes it very easy to clean out a house, a street or even an entire town. It's not uncommon to find towns and villages stripped of anything of value whether you're on the coast or inland. Sure, if you're inland you're more likely to find that one house that was missed, or that one can of beans that was skipped because the guy was stuffed, but it's extremely frustrating going from town to town and finding nothing more valuable than a lockpick.

Only if it gives my companions +1 to damage rolls and +1 morale for saving throws.

I expect we'll see a lot of community maps when modding is introduced. Having played on this Chernobyl map I can say it has promise, but most of the buildings can't be entered, even the ones that are open. Hitboxes are wack and there's a lot of STALKER content so there's no chance this'd ever become an official map. Regardless, I'd love to see a polished version of this map, or something similar, be developed. Always thought DayZ could benefit from a grown-over look. Really I'm looking forward to STALKER-themed maps. As much as I love Chernarus, I love the zone more.

I watched the old man. Instantly sold when I learned the gun has some sort of vortex attached to it. If there's one thing DayZ needs it's a resonance cascade scenario. Can't really argue against more guns. More the merrier, I say, especially if it makes use of existing ammo.