Ben_uk

The muzzle flashes currently for most of the guns are rather big, and actually get in the way quite a lot when trying to aim down the sights. From watching videos of real guns being shot, the real muzzle flashes are no where near as big or as bright as they are currently in DayZ. One thing I did notice with real rifles is that there is far more smoke. Thoughts? Cheers, Ben.

Any sign of a fix for the non - responsive number keys for items, 1 to get your axe out etc. I have to hit them 2 or 3 times on occasion just to get them to register...?

Well, the definition of a beta is that it's "feature complete". Since this isn't the case yet with dayz, it can only be an "alpha", simple.

If we get barricading / base building, it would be good if you could do things like set buildings on fire, but that would probably mean having to have a complicated terrain destruction system, which I don't see on any roadmap.

- Barricading / base building - New graphic renderer (better performance + visuals) - Zombie AI overhaul

A few days ago I met about 4 guys walking through Berezino. They were all quite new spawns like me, I think I had an axe. We hung out for a bit just chatting, then we met two other guys, they tagged along as well. Then out of no where someone shot one of our guys dead in one shot. So we all decided to storm the apartment tower with nothing more than fists and really basic weapons. We managed to kill 3 fully kitted out bandits, that felt good… J

This is so often the way of things. People request features, then in reality when the features are in place, players go out of their way to avoid these elements. I play a lot of racing sims, and one sim which was released years ago didn't have rain or weather. For the next title the community begged to have rain included, the devs obliged. What happened in reality was that anytime a random weather server flipped over to raceday and it was pouring rain, the server emptied. When I asked some racers why they quit when faced with a rainy race, most of the answers were "every wet race turns into a crash fest", or "the rain badly effects my FPS". So why have these features if people aren't going to use them, its bonkers.

If they are holding guns in their hands, take it they are not "friendly", that's how I approach it.

I would think that at the very least the server would need to track the resting location of a downed body, maybe some of it is client side and some is server side. I would certainly say the actual ragdoll animation itself is client side.

I looted a magnum off some bandits that had been shot, I had it in my backpack for like a week, but then I got dead and never got to fire it.

I went up a inside ladder in one of those barn / warehouses, then I got out my axe as someone was up there with me. When I got my axe out, I then began to freefall through the metal platform down to the ground, to obvious death.

That martyrdom bullcrap from COD4 was one of the things that really started to turn me off the COD series, that and it's blatant consoleified features and maps. I hope such a thing doesn't come into dayz, it's just cheap and not needed.

I was pretty well geared up and was walking through Berez, this guy approached me, he seemed friendly enough, he just asked if I was with anyone and what id been up to etc, then we walked together into a house to find him some food (as he said he was hungry), then he said over his mic, "im really sorry but I need that AK", then he wacked me with his axe and I was dead in one blow.

I had a rubbish spawn location, so I decided to throw myself off a tall building. I jumped off, fell maybe 4 stories onto the ground, and then just carried on walking about. The strange thing was, that I actually died about 2 minutes later as some bloke shot me. I respawned on the coast, then I ran for maybe 30 seconds in open country, then I had a message saying I had broken legs and the screen went black and I was dead... :\

For me the interiors suffer from flat lighting and low res, compressed looking textures. I do appreciate though that not many buildings were enterable before, so that's some progress, but the things I've mentioned plus the terminally slow door opening speed are kinda frustrating issues.

Just wondered what the state of the weapon sounds were? I think some of the rifles sound ok, but guns like the m4 and even the akm don't sound all that great. Are these sounds placeholders for later "better" sounds?

I personally get the same lag issues and sloppy menu responses in a 5 man server and a 40 Man one, so I'm totally convinced that the lag is caused by the number of clients connected.

I had the same experience when I was a noob. You have to just keep wandering around until you find the first reasonably big town, find the town name sign (usually at the start and end of the town) then alt + tab onto dayzdb.map, look for the town name and try and get your bearings. The in game maps are next to worthless to be honest.

Didn't they used to have 100 player servers or something? Or is that in Arma II?

Yep, the m4 sounds particularly poor. I guess more could be done in terms of reverb effects and so on, but that would require sound engine changes I'd imagine .

As per title thread really. Taking shelter under large trees should stop you becoming wet/soaked. I guess this would have more benefit when weather and stamina come into play more.

Hmm, strange. It was pouring down yesterday on a server and I was sat under a big pine, yet was still getting soaked...?

Dean said it was a collision issue, I'm sure it will get fixed.

I want to make a nice hotpot or bubble and squeak. I'll check down the supermarket in berinzino tonight on my way home from some murdering.

I "fell" off the tiny 3 step entry platform of a police station and broke my leg. Kinda frustrating.