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Ruined shouldn't work. But the needle on a compass should always face magnetic north. Maybe they could make it get stuck sometimes but it doesn't make sense that it would be (consistently) 20-40° off.

I'm pretty sure it is caused by the method of reporting character position, trajectory and momentum. Think about it like this, the server isn't every single character location and animation at all times. It simply sends, on regular ticks, each character's current position, the direction the character is currently moving in and what speed he is running. So when you see your friend slingshot your client is actually just getting updated with the current server position from your friend's character... which is 30 meters behind where your client thought it would be based on its last character position update. Sorry if I didn't explain it that well.

Rubberbanding should occur. The client shouldn't tell the server what to do. The rubberbanding should drastically reduce after they lower the game's bandwidth requirements via "guaranteed messaging".

You are talking about a very specific type of game release called "Early Access". A lot of the software released under the "Early Access" label is actually pre-alpha. When software is usually in its alpha state it is close to feature complete (even if many of those features are not working).

The face-cover thingie is called a "balaclava". We used them when I was in the US Army. It is just a piece of fabric. It should be relatively common on military bases/airfields.

I work for a company that releases games in their Alpha status. DayZ would be considered a pre-alpha here and wouldn't be released to the public. It is not a typical alpha game.

They should just 1) add more spawn locations (so people won't camp the spawn points) and 2) save the player location on the server rather than on the global hive. Get rid of all of the horrible timers and "fix" ghosting/server hopping.

I have this problem as well. It is caused by the server browser. Kills my connection when I hit "Refresh" too many times. I can still browse websites that are mainly text-based and optimized. All Google sites work for me, including Gmail to a certain extent. After a short amount of time everything just starts working again if I leave the server browser and go to the main screen. Edit: I read it has something to do with your default MTU settings being set to 1500. I can't change the settings on my cable modem/router and can't figure out how to modify my MTU settings in Windows 8.1. I just gave up. Waiting isn't that bad... :lol:

I really don't like the idea of players living in the woods. I don't even like the idea of building new structures... I think players should be, pretty much, forced into a multiplayer experience. The easiest way to accomplish this is to focus all action on the towns. No building in the forest. Only moving into existing buildings. Police stations. Jails. Small cabins. Digging cellars. Gardens on rooftops. Barricading doors. Finite amount of door locks per hive (to avoid exploits). Players would make these towns come alive.

I'm not worried about players barricading a whole area as much as I am worried that the defense will be too hard to break through. A whole area being blocked off is fine as long as there is a way for a single player to get around the defenses. This would keep the game interesting. I don't want something like in Rust where you need C4 to raid a metal base.

This is definitely the simplest solution to both combat logging and ghosting. Character position should be saved per server. If your character was never alive on this server it respawns at one of the random fresh spawn locations. If your character dies all of your spawn locations are reset. When locking/fortifying buildings is added this will also prevent users from ghosting into character-owned structures. 3 fixes in one.

I hope Epoch-style base building doesn't come for a long time. I would much rather see the DayZ experience focus around fortifying existing buildings and using them as their bases. No hoarding of vehicles in a base. No NPC traders. This would lead to larger groups/clans taking over apartment buildings or police stations in towns because they would be big and easy to fortify and defend. If you want to keep your vehicle it should be hidden from sight (add vehicle camouflage + lockable garages). Every player should have a chance to steal a vehicle or siphon its gas. Bicycles would be prized over cars because they could be dismantled and stored safely.

I don't really want to see radiation. As was mentioned before, radiation is a long-term problem. I could live in an irradiated area for a while without suffering any ill effects. In the long-run I would get leukemia or cancerous tumors. Guarding against radiation requires a full-suit and acquiring something like this in a zombie apocalypse would be close to impossible. I also wouldn't like a gimmicky radiation system like in Rust. It really sucks. I would like to see CS gas canisters at some point. If you didn't have a gas mask on these would make your vision blur and making breathing/fighting almost impossible. If this game mechanic was added it could be easily modded to provide a radiation experience.

I don't want big barricades (like HESCOs) to be added until their impact on the game is thoroughly thought through. People would start hacking and boarding off whole towns/areas of DayZ so new players couldn't get any loot. Instead I would like to see a simple system. Users can craft 1 unique lock after gathering various lock parts. Multiple keys could be crafted to open the same lock but every player is only allowed to create one lock per server. This is entirely unrealistic but, in my mind, it seems the only way to keep people from making a bunch of locks and shutting down whole towns. Locks should only be as strong as their condition. Once locks are "Ruined" they are useless and the door can be opened. Lockpicks could be used to degrade the quality of locks by "using" them on the locks. Pliers and screwdrivers would also work but it would take much longer to degrade quality. Basic barricading could be implemented so you could board up every door on a house and have just one entrance point. Eventually I would like the ability to crawl in windows but that, obviously, can wait until barricading is added. Traps and like spiked barricades could be added after that to keep out zombies (they would get stuck on the spikes and in the traps). But no HESCOs please until their game impact is thought out thoroughly.

How so? I think he is saying that canned food should have the possibility of making you sick when the can is not in "Pristine" condition. This would mean that you need to cook all food to make sure it is safe to eat.

Barricades are key to the multiplayer component. They could implement mechanics like large barricades only being moveable by two or more players but breakable after a long time by one. The more players the quicker the barricade could be destroyed. Something like that. At the very least add locks for doors and lockpicks. :)

I was thinking about farming and how it could actually work. Only make it available on rooftops. Nothing on the ground. This is the infected apocalypse. No greenhouses, etc. This would, of course, require barricading to also have been implemented. Add mounted weapons and transport helicopters (no weapons; just to drop into enemy gardens) and this game is going to be so awesome.

My ideal endgame (that is possible in the short term) would involve basic persistent storage, customizable "faction" armbands, random spawn locations over the entire map, spawn control via buildable/destroyable device and only basic barricading (i.e. a wooden slats on a door or spiked barricades that kept out zombies). Nothing too advanced so that a single player with the right equipment (pliers, hammer, screwdriver) couldn't break in and take the loot.

I don't think anyone in this thread wants the human threat to be removed. No one hates KoSers... but I feel many would appreciate an in-game experience that didn't revolve around KoSing and griefing like in Mod.

Players would still have to remain attentive. You couldn't just immediately trust whoever you were with. But your trust could be verified by simply looking at the other player. After a while actual trust would form. This is only one component. The other would be team-based objectives. Helicopter crash sites with smoke that could be seen for kilometers. Have super-powerful military zombies guarding the crash site and you have a PvE challenge (so it wouldn't just be easy-mode looting.) Other players would provide the PvP aspect as they would also be trying to get the loot. This is just one idea. Adding multiple team-based objectives would transform the game. It would still be a sandbox environment but there would be many new dimensions of gameplay. This is DayZ. Sabotage should be a part of the game. I would much rather travel with a guy, fight off a horde of zombies and other players, get some sweet loot and then get stabbed in the back than the experience we have now... ...in other words, running through the forest and then you see a black screen saying "You are dead." Or running through the woods seeing another dude and choosing not to engage because he will probably shoot you. Or simply seeing another person and shooting them because they would probably do the same thing to you. The game doesn't need any more timers. In fact, something should be done to get rid of the timers we have right now. They suck.

This is a good point and I have taken it into consideration. Like everything else it seems that no one will be forced to use the survival aspects of the game. I mean, you shoot a bear, eat its meat, and then? Go murder some people in Elektro. The KoS mentality has to be attacked directly via game mechanics. I don't believe this will reduce griefing and KoS. In fact, it may lead to MORE of this behavior creating even more of a "deathmatch" environment. If I have a base up and running with vehicles and custom spawn points in my base. why would I care if my character dies? If you don't force players to utilize the survival aspects or give players an incentive NOT to KoS, the mentality will not change, in my opinion. I feel modding support will save the survival game by giving us all the ability to create the game we want to play.

This is my opinion as well. The cause of KoS is lack of ability to trust others. I should have been more specific. A certain amount of players enjoy KoS so as long as it is possible it will be in the game. I am more concerned with the players that feel they are forced to KoS, which sucks, to be quite honest. I don't think it is necessary to add all of these features. NPCs will comes with mods anyway. Same with safe zones, skill systems and factions. This game will devolve into a shitty deathmatch experience unless something is done. Add a minimal party system that is configurable per host is better than adding PvE servers, NPCs, etc. It is a simple change that would affect the game in a large way. How does it take away from improvisation?There shouldn't be a GUI anyway with a list of the players in your party. The necessary change would be the crosshair. Change it from a dot to an 'x'. Players could still backstab others. They could just leave the party. It could add a wealth of new gameplay possibilities (taking hostages, using other humans as shields, etc.) I stopped playing vanilla Mod due to griefing and hackers. If nothing is done the same situation will exist in SA. I feel that Rocket should either explicitly state that this is intended behavior or come up with game mechanics to counter this. I don't know about you but I would love to have a strong community play vanilla after modding support and private hives are added. Edit: Adding a basic party system is not difficult. Instead of the community saying "this is not DayZ" at least add the option for server admins to activate.

Before removing crosshairs they need to fix item "detection" when viewing your inventory because that shit does not work.

Thank you for this.

I saw the roadmap that Dean put together right before Rezzed. It is, to be quite honest, simply a slideshow and not an actual, well-planned, development roadmap like I am used to seeing. It gives tentative dates but there are no firm gameplay concepts, rather a lose set of features he likes. DayZ itself is a game that is heavily influenced by the community. If the community says "we would like this" Rocket will say "that sounds cool, let's try it." Ordinarily a game has a game designer that states "this is what I want my game to do and this is how I will accomplish it." That latter case is a clear vision. The former case is not. Rocket himself stated that he currently wants to focus on the survival aspects but has not taken into consideration that simply adding more features to the game will not make them used. In one game that I work on the Chinese developers have added massive amounts of features but they are ignored in favor of the core gameplay aspects, questing and raiding. Until Rocket says "this game is a survival game and I want to add game mechanics that FORCE users to focus on it" the PvP/KoS component will remain dominant. Edit: I will reiterate, I love many of the concepts that DayZ provides. I am not saying the game sucks or anything like that. :)