Insane Ruffles

So I work as a an anti-cheat developer sometimes, and it would be cool if servers could have the ability to disable BE in favor of another anti-cheat. This would over all increase server security for those who want a custom anti-cheat. As of right now, you cannot develop one because you get banned for trying to find exploits. What do you think?

Apprantly you can't help with SA, however I am Administrator on Surreal Gaming. Ill get the IP address for you if you want it.

I've had some people approach me with the idea of getting an Anti-Hack for their Dayz SA servers. This would open up more job opportunities for me. I do not see what is so terrible about it. You can disable it on mod and that has helped prevent many more hackers than BE would have been able to prevent.

In order to develop Anti-Cheats, you must find exploits in the system. What better way than finding them yourself?

Setting up a base in Epoch is extremely time consuming, and you cannot buy infinite building materials, as traders have stock. I also find an excitement in spending a lot of time earning gold and then putting it all to use in buying a small car or a cool gun that I wanted. Trust me, it is not easy to get gold in most servers. Just by doing missions alone, there is a 4/5 chance you will get either slaughtered by the AI or killed by another player attempting the same mission. It is very high risk in everything that you do, and losing your epoch character is actually worse than losing your Dayz character, because your epoch character has all the keys to your stuff, and there is an extremely little chance you are going to get them back. In many ways, epoch is much more harsh than Dayz. You can spend weeks preparing a base only for it to be raided and all your vehicles destroyed. I get much more angrier when losing a vehicle that I bought than when losing all my gear on a Dayz character.

Alright, Just by reading that opinion I can tell that you have no clue what Epoch really is. Do some servers have tanks and gunships? Yes, those are called "Militarized" Servers. However, you will find the vast majority of Epoch servers only have Vodniks or Humvees as the most powerful vehicles, and you will find almost none of them have RPG's. Also, Sky bases? Are you kidding? There is a thing called base maintenance and you cannot have gigantic bases, it is impossible to maintain because your base will disappear if you can't maintain all of it. I know many more people who like Epoch better than regular Dayz, simply because it offers more. With AI Island and Missions, the game is made sure to never get boring, as you keep raiding missions and competing with other clans, and base raiding is also the best aspect of the game. It sounds to me like you are completely ignorant of Epoch and have no clue what the actual game is. I am not being disrespectful to a mod, it just irritates me when someone who has no clue about a topic tries to shunt their ignorance in front of everyone else.

So I was walking through the city north of Berezino ( I forgot what it was called) and I had an SKS and a CR75 with a clip. Since it was close quarters, I decided to carry my CR75 with me while my SKS was on my back, thinking 9mm rounds would be enough to take care of someone quick. Suddenly, I see a guy hatchet rush me while screaming and Indian war chant. I quickly shot off 5 rounds right into his chest/belly before I had to dodge. I then turned around and shot 7 more shots, 4 of which connected into his back. It was at that point that I ran out of ammo, and the click click sound rung out through the buildings. Hatchet Man scoffed, "So you ran out of ammo huh?" before making a charge towards me. By this time, I decided to use my SKS, so I pressed my hot key for it. My character equipped it, then put it back on his shoulder. Frantically, I pressed the hot key again, only for the same thing to happen. Hatchet Man must of been confused, as he warily backed off into a bush as he watched my character struggle with his own coordination. Finally, after my 4th attempt, I managed to get my SKS to stay. I whirled around and shot off 2 bullets into the Hatchet Mans chest, and heard the satisfying scream of surprise as he dropped to the floor. This one conflict shows some major flaws in the engine, flaws I believe can be fixed easily. No man should be able to take 9 9mm bullets to the upper body and still be walking, and struggling with your weapon like my character did (and still does) gets you killed. If the Hatchet Man had decided to keep charging, I would have been dead. This brings the immediate question, "Shouldn't devs be more focused on fixing mechanical problems rather than adding to aesthetic appeal?" I for one was disappointed when the last patch was released, as it brought nothing but a couple of useless items and a crossbow.

But I am knowledgeable in this field of work ;) I program for my job and have spent some of my free time developing for a gaming community. My shooting model had it where for every bullet that hit close to another, the damage was increased by 6% and the next bullet 10% and so on.

We were at such a close range that riding the recoil was impossible. As for the bullets mushrooming, again it was so close ranged that that would be very unlikely. As for recoil, I am a shooting hobbyist in real life and I was always told to aim for center mass and that riding the recoil is very bad, as there is no grouping. In other video games, grouping in center mass is always important, as is in real life. Those 5 bullets grouped in the upper left chest in the front and those 4 grouped in the lower back should have knocked him out or disabled him/severely injured him.

Well, that is sort of my point. Any one who has studied history or military knows that pretty much every soldier is trained to aim for center mass, the reason being that that is where all the vital organs are. I would say 9 bullets have a pretty good chance of finding the lungs or even heart. Center mass is essentially the best place to shoot, as it is the biggest target on the body and also the 2nd most lethal place to be hit (besides the brain.) In WW2, when Russian soldiers would shoot their Mosins, the bullet would actually travel up at a high velocity and strike either the chest or head, making aiming for center mass crucial. When center mass was hit, Germans would be knocked off their feet way more often than not. I would also like to see that, characters getting knocked off their feet when hit with a big caliber like the Mosin.

Yes, it was in a patch, and in my opinion is really dumb. Go look up gas masks, and most pictures you find will be of soldiers wearing helmets with gas masks. If they are worried about unbalanced protection, then remove the protecting factors for the mask and other items, cloth doesn't effect bullets at all anyways.

So i was walking through NE when I heard voices in one of the buildings, so I decided to try and take them with my m4 and 40 round magazine. I walk in the building and.... no one. I hear some guy go "He walked in the building, should we shoot him?" Then I heard "Yeah" and I got shot in the head by a wall. I have had this character for a month, and this drove me away from the game. I may not play for awhile, or at least until they fix this BS. No "Alpha" comments allowed. This glitch has been around for years, even during the mod, and there is no change yet :/

Oh yeah, that one. Honestly they need to include helicopters but make them optional. Some servers wont have them and some servers will. The community is so split down the middle on the topic that its the best way to go.

That was uncalled for. If I do recall correctly, you're the guy who didn`t want vehicles at all, correct?

Alright, so the one thing that absolutely irritates me in the sense of realism is how un-realistic the Mosin is in Dayz. Any Mosin owner knows that Mosins CANNOT fit any sort of scope without altering the stock/sights, and even this needs to be done by a professional (Survivors are not going to be professionals.) At the very least, a scope or different sight should require a rail to be implemented, and this rail should have a chance of damaging the weapon as chances are someone isn't going to know how to do it exactly right. The other thing is the cleaning rod on the Mosin. The current model in game shows the cleaning rod attached, so why can't we use that combined with cloth to clean the gun barrel a bit? The point is, the Mosin needs to be changed because you can't just slide a scope on it, the Mosin 91/30 was not made for that, the M44 model was.

I own a Mosin, do you? I have shot multiple firearms including brand new .308's and I can guarantee you the Mosin's velocity, stopping power, and accuracy was better. Maybe I just got an amazing rifle, but I doubt it. The Mosin DOES shoot and hit accurately with iron sights at 200 meters and at center mass, any Russian soldier would guarantee it. They are also extremely tough and their ammo was easily produced. It could be 500 dollars and still be a good rifle. Also, the effective range goes up to 800 meters and sometime 1,000 meters, however that is beyond the limitations of the human eye and since the Mosin could not fit a scope, the human eye coupled with the Mosin was only effective up to 200 meters. Stupid human limitations :p.

Mosins are around 180 to 200 and they aren't pos at all, they were one of the main weapons used to drive the Nazi menace from the Mother Land (coupled with the T-34). Russian soldiers would be hitting center mass on an enemy soldier 200+ meters away, with iron sights. That is more accurate than most civilian weapons you see now a days such as the .308

One of the reasons many people bought Dayz is because of the weapons and the realism they would simulate. Not having to adjust your scope to make the rifle more accurate is one thing, but making it so anyone can just magically plop on a scope on a weapon with no rail is inconceivable.

Well there is one right there. Apparently SA is going to crap because of players like me.

In all due respect, you need to knock this arrogant attitude off. You never give anyone's ideas the light of day because, "Everyone's idea is retarded, except for very few that I agree with." If you don't like an idea, then re-iterate WHY you don't like it, not just because "Ur all neb plyrs omfg." This forum is meant for discussion, not redundant accusations and petty insults.

Ok, so people have been talking about vehicles for awhile now, and the main thing that seems to come up is that vehicles will be rare. Now I don't know about you, but running everywhere is very irritating for me and other players who don't exactly have all day to play the game. At the same time, running is also sort of good as you encounter more stuff, so instead of having a lot of vehicles or having few vehicles and running everywhere, lets find a median. Bikes. Bikes should be very common, while requiring some repairs for some. The reason I say this is because most farming community families have a lot of bikes (1 per person) as they are cheap and effective. There should be different types of bikes, such as mountain bikes and road bikes, which would be effective for different things as per their name. Bikes should also be highly customizable, such as spray painting combinations which feature different designs. The land of Dayz I see is where a person's bike is part of their being, something that they spend a lot of time upgrading and customizing. Something that if you lose, simply finding another bike will not suffice. The same thing goes for people who manage to successfully repair cars, their car should be the most important to them. EDIT: I took out the car idea because apparently people do not know how to read and automatically associate it with "All I want is cars everywhere." Few people have the literary capacity to understand a short idea, so Ill post another topic later that goes into depth about it.

Dude that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at all. Im talking about regular helis like the Bell 47 and Huey's .

Because they need to be super, super rare. Helis are needed because it would make the game that more fun

So you're saying Dayz should be more like Cormac McCarthy's "The Road?" I agree too. It would be awesome to have that harsh survival aspect, and not seeing fully armed players everywhere but people who are just trying to make it through the next meal.

Alright, so this is a direct topic response to FrostDMG's topic. I believe that helicopters must be in Dayz Standalone, but they would be hard to maintain and have more difficult flying controls. The low thunder of a chopper passing overhead is one of the many good excitements to Dayz. Basically, this topic is about discussing what you would like to see implemented for helicopters/ what helicopters should there be?