UltimateGentleman

Oh I know it works some guy one shotted me with one from like 40m away it was ridiculous...

Nothing like that works in my experience they still just run through doors anyway maybe I'm spawning in all the wrong areas. Even if that worked it's fucking annoying having to do that every 2 seconds the only safe places are like fields and forests and with that there's no way to survive in them unless there's some secret way to take down animals and make fires without any items I haven't heard of yet.

Someone...lol he just replied as I said this, what freethink said. Apparently that works, I haven't played since doing it but I've definitely been cold constantly. But I've not been getting cold, warm, cold, warm it's been "cooling down" over and over so there must be something wrong with mine. I just hope it doesn't end up that fully geared people become immortal gods compared to fresh spawns, if you come across anyone geared you're utterly fucked unless the universe dictates they not be an asshole. Hopefully they make it so that being fully geared makes you significantly slower and less agile(in reference to switching guns etc) as people would be IRL.

So it's unbelievable to assume that a lot of people took their blankets or maybe didn't have many? Chernaus is clearly quite a poor area, it's very possible each home might only even have a single blanket. And to go with that, that people stole blankets from empty houses just to keep warm. I mean we can assume everyone didn't just die instantly there'd have been people surviving for weeks, checking houses who wouldn't take blankets? It makes perfect sense really. I'm not suggesting that there be a max of one per server but not like every single non looted house having one.

I'm not stupid I know it's still being made...but what makes them buff the zombies and stuff when they don't need to? Like why does setting up the navmesh mean zombies have to be changed, at all, besides where they run. They're far more relentless than they used to be last month they didn't see you from like 300+m away now they do all the time and they don't stop chasing you until even the best computer can't render them any more... The issue isn't that it's broken, it's that they broke it more when the zombies were fairly survivable and...well, why? Who decided "let's make zombies even more annoying when things like melee aren't working all that well so fresh spawns have a bitch of a time!" Can you explain how you get anywhere decent when you starve after like 20 minutes after spawning and might be lucky if an apple tree gives you an apple? There's not enough time to get anywhere with half decent loot in at least half the spawn points I've been to recently. Unless you get super lucky and nobody happened to loot places but that's just chance or if you're on a deserted server, which is dull.

Well, maybe not that but I don't understand the logic behind taking your t-shirt off when you put on a jacket... We should be able to stack clothes in a sensible fashion, like a jacket over a hoodie. However since it's going to be zipped up, the downside should be that that you can't access the pockets on the hoodie. Can you imagine how horrible it's going to be getting killed when you're geared up now? And just how much people are going to kill for that coat you have... The ongoing deathmatch seems like it's probably going to get hella worse. Not once have I thought of that, would be an excellent edition. While you're wrapped up in a blanket you can't attack so it leaves you vulnerable, though they should be semi-rare I guess. Or shitty blankets that get you up to survivable warmth if they're dry.

Are you saying it's not almost unplayable right now? The devs keep changing things that just make it harder and harder to test the game at all can they not tell what's too much and what's not? Is it really that hard to quickly tone down how much health zombies have or how far away they can see you from? These things should have been adjusted before the navmesh updates, at least when they were glitching in to floors they couldn't relentlessly attack you or chase you for over 20 minutes. These are things that do not need to be tested, they're so obviously broken and need adjusted so we can check out other things the devs do with the game.

Yep it's silly right now when you spawn in you're hungry and instantly cold and if you don't find a good food source within that 10 minutes or so you're fucked unless you find a good samaritan(LOL) I think they should just spawn us in completely neutral until they balance it a bit, with persistent loot if you're on any server people have been on you have very little chance of surviving. So should we just go to known hot spots for food and server hop until we find something? It seems almost the only way to survive the first hour or so at the moment. Clothes are a bitch to find too with loot as it is at most I've found found hats in whole towns, most everything is just gone everywhere. And it's not like you have the energy to run to a far away town people might not have visited, you will die on the way no matter what unless you're exceptionally lucky.

Not when there are like 3 or very often you'll lose too much blood just trying to search a few houses safely... ...what sense does that make? You can still play it it's just not going to function as well as the finished product. How are we supposed to play it and test bugs if it's nearly impossible to live long enough to test any guns etc? Not like we can enable God mode and do whatever we want or spawn in new guns to see how they function, they should lighten the difficulty so we can actually test it effectively...

Yeah I've died twice in a row from starving now it's far too difficult to get sufficient food, of course it shouldn't be easy but it shouldn't be so 50/50. Like I searched a whole mostly unlooted town, no axes or anything to open a can with of which I found like 5. We need to at least be able to smash them open on the ground and get no more than 25% of the food inside for one thing. Cans should be way rarer but do more for you too who can eat more than 3 cans of beans and still be hungry? Running around a lot doesn't mean you suddenly have an empty stomach, you'd be fatigued not starving to death. Between that and overpowered zombies it's way too hard to survive right now, meanwhile people who've been geared for months have easy sailing >.>

Zombies still seem to run through them and they're so relentless now that it's almost impossible to survive unless you get super lucky. Was just in the town near the crashed ship(not Berenzino) and had like 5 zombies after me and 5 tins of food but nothing to open them with, survived on some berries. Food is a little ridiculously hard to come by now or at least...to eat, so many cans but no way to open them. It'd be a big help if we could actually shut zombies out and explore places, it's kind of hard to be thorough when you're getting cut open every few seconds and have run out of rags.

So I'm dealing with this right now: See the cut off arrow bit? Yeah, that's where the settings are. So there's that and the game won't fit to my screen at all, it used to and then I went and hit optimize on Nvidia and it put everything to low and fucked up the screen size and I haven't been able to get it back the way it was since no matter what setting I try. Not sure how big my TV is, 36-38 inch maybe. Why can't there just be a "fit to screen" option or adjustable arrows? Is it so hard for it to know how big the screen is? (I get this is more a Windows/Nvidia problem not DayZ itself) It's really annoying while playing the game it's all squashed in to like 3/5 of the screen in the middle so text is unreadable and it's just downright awkward to play the game. Tried hitting default, updating Nvidia etc and nothing. When I first put the game on it was perfect...

Thanks a lot guys can actually play the game now :D Now if only my guy will stop being unconscious...

Nah it starts over the taskbar for some reason. I can't believe that in this day and age programs are still broken like this, it's ridiculous. Uninstalled it now so I'll check the game now. If that doesn't work what about deleting DayZ and redownloading it? It seemed to work just fine automatically. EDIT okay it's a lot better now...but the size is still a little broken, the "wait a moment" text at the top for example is mostly off the screen, it seems like it's all been dragged to the left a bit. But it's actually playable now at least. Wow yeah never downloading that Nvidia program again. OK lastly the only other problem I have is a weird box on my screen when there's no menu up, it's mostly transparent not sure what it is, slightly larger than the inventory menu.

So you don't actually need the program? I'm going to email them anyway but I shall try that.

Don't you need all of them though? So in the mean time each part takes up a whole space and you're not guaranteed to find them all at any given time.

I find it easier to just explore the whole map and get to know as many areas as possible, in game maps take up too much space, any space is too much really I'd rather have some food, a can opener or ammo in that slot nevermind when you have other parts too. I think they should do away with their being pieces and just have it be the full map, maybe slightly rarer. Why would it be in pieces anyway? I know this is an apocalypse...but what situation makes so many maps get ripped? (cleanly ripped too) I think if anything people would take good care of maps unless maybe they rip them up because they don't understand them... Anyway if ever I need a map I just use the offline map on my iPod the only issue with it is that it's slow to update, which is actually good I'd rather not know exactly where helicopter crashes etc are.

If someone else was attacking you they're just going to wait for you so you'd need to wait or go on a different server, so it would be combat logging though necessary it still leaves you wide open if you go back to the same server.

It would be cool if you could set up an event by knocking someone out and carrying them past a hoarde in to a city and leave them with handcuffs on so they have to escape :D Anyway like I said I think anonymous events could work, no zombie hoarde spawning counter or event notification just you'll be walking and suddenly something will happen. Dynamic helicopter crashes would be AWESOME for one thing, lot of loot to have but everyone in a few mile radius is going to have seen/heard it too and check it out...

I don't think zombie hoardes are really going to fix it. No matter what...you can just leave. Unless they spawn in a circle around you that's no reason to get friendly, you never really have to take zombies on with the combat system the way that it is it's better to not anyway. "play how you want" is all well and good but why can't people "play how they would survive"? Nobody normal in a zombie apocalypse would just shoot everyone they see, it might turn in to a fight, sure, people would get greedy but there'd be plenty people looking to team up who probably haven't seen people in weeks. What's wrong with a little roleplay instead of watering it down in to a deathmatch? "play how you want" makes it sound like there's a diverse list of play styles when there isn't.

And face the humiliation of combat logging?

I think that would be cool but it would make it too MMO'ish I think it would need to be an anonymous event to work. Like perhaps it could be set up that at night zombies come out in force and get more active. So fog could work the same way, when fog starts settling round a town zombies are going to be hunting inside it in hoardly fashion. With limited visibility and many zombies to work around, people would need to work together. Anyway I love how people actually voted saying it's fine as it is. Really? Have you ever jumped off a 3ft wall and found your phone, legs, jeans, money, pants, penis and shoes were completely broken? It makes no sense. Of course it will not always be that way but by no means is it fine the way it is... Items getting ruined should just have a random chance. 20 things in a backpack, one zombie hit = 1 possibly 2 items getting ruined, each item could have it's individual chance of getting ruined too. So some things like paper could have a 50/50 chance of getting ripped whereas a revolver, 10% perhaps although even that is madly unbelievably for a zombie to be destroying with a swing of its arm but for balancing. Of course you could load your inventory with paper or other weak items to effectively protect your other gear but there's still a chance and if you're inventory is 90% paper...you're not going to be well equipped.

So...the one where you're unable to attack in any way, making you utterly helpless until you relog or die is less game breaking? Ooook then...

That would be great, people will moan that it makes it "Too easy" but in a gunfight who wouldn't have their ammo easily accessible? It would be in a pocket for you to take out in seconds you wouldn't have to go through your whole backpack after running in a building and hope you find a mag. Unless you were extremely lucky to not have died yet but it wouldn't take long if that was how you operated... I guess since you don't need triangle, square, circle etc they could just be used for functions in the inventory menu, such as drop and combine and either it shows known "recipe's" or you just select another item that goes with it. Definitely wouldn't need the scroll menu.

Doubt it not many games are. I think the controller mapping will be fine, looking around could be achieved with either right analog click to toggle it or by holding R1 or something then moving the analog in whatever direction, it's in and works in quite a few games. There aren't really that many commands to worry about. It's the inventory I worry about, will it be like a mouse cursor or a highlighted box? I think it should be the latter a cursor would be too slow and often you need speed when switching out gear, I hope they make it nice and responsive.