UltimateGentleman

You mean the gamma? To be honest I don't really consider it a cheat since the night is so unrealistically dark anyway, torches should be a luxury not a necessity in order to see. Though obviously it's unfair when someone has their gamma up but you don't, they should just make it so night time is less dark since moonlight is more than enough to see in the dark in real life. Right now basically all you can see is the sky and silhouettes of buildings or whatever against it so it's really not fun to play just inconvenient. I'd be happy with the game if a less dark night was the case and it was real time but I'd rather it be less dark and not real time so it's easier at night but overall much harder. With days being much shorter and food being needed more it would actually get scarce, right now even on non high loot servers and a 2 hour restart at the 1 hour 50 minute mark there's still enough food for all 40 players playing around. So it would be awesome if starving after being in a server 6 hours was actually possible since currently it's a non issue if you know where to go when you spawn.

Yeah that's basically what I had in mind, currently it's like "Oh it's getting dark" *5 minutes later* "It's completely black!" It would be great to see the sun going down and having to scramble supplies for a campfire together so you can survive the night instead of just logging in to a daytime server since you would have to play night for like 8 hours to survive, which would be mostly boring. Perhaps in different seasons night could be 3 hours long, day 7 hours long and then in another season 7 hour night 3 hour day etc. That little hint of variety would make the game so much more interesting to play, it would cut down server hopping too I'd imagine. I'd like to play on just one server but when everyone leaves at night it's so boring, if I'm going to roam around at night I want there to be some chance of encountering other players and a shorter night would allow just that.

Oh I know, I just mean basically what they're doing is recreating the mod as it was but improving on it :P Imagine they could copy and paste it though that would be awesome most things would be done in a flash then they could improve them quickly :D

Yeah this is the main problem, but if they were to make the gameplay and hunger/thirst system take realistically longer, the game would be way too easy a few cans of food would easily let you survive. So I think making it a 12 hour day would be a great step, once people got used to it I'm sure they'd have a lot more fun since they could play the game 12 hours straight, experience a whole DayZ(see what I did there) and still have time for real world things like sleep or going outside or maybe eat food so as to not starve :P

And how old is the mod? Ok bad analogy. How about wine then, since it gets better with age(apparently, all tastes like ass to me) The mod is like a fine wine that's had plenty time to mature, the SA is still just picked grapes in comparison.

Yeah 2 or 1 hour restarts are just loot based really, I tend to play on 3 hour ones. After so long though regardless of loot servers get a bit laggy so currently if you had one on for 10 hours which had lots of people in it, it would be a mess insane rubber banding, fps drops, the whole show. When they get 64 bit servers up it should be fine for like 4-6 hours maybe? I don't really know but there'll be a big improvement. I tend to play the game like 6-8 hours so a server being on that long would be awesome, it would be cool actually seeing loot being scarce, as well as animals to hunt rather than knowing your few cans of food will definitely last you the 3 hours or less servers can currently manage.

This is the only way tanks should be in the game. Want tanks in the SA? Make a war mod or wait for someone else to, the base game is survival not war, except against zombies(though not really) Cars will be enough of a threat, if someone has a car and you don't they already have a huge advantage over you. Especially if it's not simply a case of get in, or out, accelerate, reverse. If they add in features like being able to duck behind the wheel people can hide from gunfire and run you over. That would be cool. On that, off topic but when cars are added I think they should eventually make them first person only, especially if they do that ducking I mentioned above, since in third person people could just drive like that and be invincible where in first person if you do that you have to be careful you don't hit a tree or something. I would probably play a war mod with tanks and such but having them in the base game would just be a hassle, I want pvp with people that need some legitimate skill to kill me not just blow me up from a distance and anything else that moves.

But if that clone dies you're fine, or at least I've logged out while being attacked by zombies multiple times and not been reset upon entering another server. That should at least only happen if you've taken some damage anyway. Well then I guess the game itself could log what the admin does? So Admin1 kicked Player1 and then shortly after Admin1 killed Player1 and loot their body. An instance like that, obvious abuse of power relieves Admin1 of their privileges.

Why can't you just disappear like when you exit on your own? Never experienced this but it sounds stupid. I'm all for admins having some power...but BattleEye or something should at least monitor what they do.

I love all these extremely pointless comparisons like the SA is going to stay as it is. All they're basically doing is copying and pasting stuff from the original mod in to the SA, improving on said stuff and then adding more. Of course it's going to be better, when it's done. This is like comparing a nice baked cake to the eggs, flour and whatnot of a cake that isn't made yet. AKA, stupid.

I find it hilarious when people try to act badass doing military formations and stuff. What I do is just run around people with my weapon down, aggravate them, run away somewhere, take my gun out and then shoot them when they come round the corner. It's also hilarious how easy it is to dodge bullets in close range, the no weapon run speed is insane you're like Usain Bolt in every direction in an instant so very hard to shoot especially with lag and guns just generally having crap aim. Basically I just abuse how limited aspects of the gameplay are in order to get a rise out of people who think they're cool. Employing these tactics I only die if a sniper gets a lucky shot, I run up some stairs(so of course my guy slows down and walks...) or I happen to run in to a tight corridor someone is aiming down. It's a lot of fun, once I ran in to 3 guys near a farm who as per usual just instantly shot at me, ran away round the farm took out my Sporter and chambered it, kept taking shots at them and then just running right past them with the gun away. They must have collectively wasted like 100 rounds trying to kill me with their M4's, got hit 3 times but survived fine. As far as I'm concerned there's more value to playing to win and annoying people than playing it like it's real life, it is a barely realistic game after all.

So I'm not sure if it's my computer or what but when I spawn the game is frozen for a good few seconds until it loads properly, I appear to be in the game but can't move for a while. It seems to happen to other people too, one day some guy spawned in a police station right in front of me and he was just standing there immobile for a good 5 seconds...I...I shot him, he had guns, couldn't take the risk...so I think basically he was in the same boat where it's just frozen for a while, it seems like the world around you still functions though because a few times it's started working and I'm already being assaulted by zombies. As though I just stood there and let them come to me when really nothing was happening on screen just a blurry picture of where I spawn. This isn't a complaint thread just wondering if this happens to everyone and what the problem is, the game, connection or the computer? I've got an Alienware X51 which runs the game just fine, my connection is kind of sketchy though.

Yeah that happens to me a lot too, it's like it just lies when it failed to connect usually if I wait, even like 30 minutes it doesn't load or if I hit exit it just goes back to the server browser as though I never clicked it. I think this 5 or so second wait before you can do things is a bigger problem though, especially if your connection or the server cut out at an airfield or something so when you spawn in another server your character is just standing there in the open for some snipers target practice. I know it will likely be fixed just wondering why it happens, the whole world has to be loaded but could it not just load the vicinity you're in first and quickly so you can be functional immediately, or almost? So like the 100m radius you're in works while the rest loads up, then you can at least hide if you happened to disconnect in a not so safe position.

Well considering the frame rate of throwing objects right now is like 5FPS I doubt they could get crumbling houses worked in to the physics very fast.

So after watching Mr. Moon roleplay as a trader I was thinking, wouldn't it be cool if you could set up a sign saying that you're a trader, or just whatever you want? So you could say you're in a certain place, with a sniper guard and trade for things either you need or just to be helpful. Or you could just pretend and shoot anyone who shows up, either way people have to be careful. People who legitimately do it could encourage friendlyness amongst players which is...very rare, outside of groups. I don't mean ADD IT RIGHT NOW DEV TEAM but when base building is going for sure, that would be cool. Along with making an actual stall type thing or lockbox for your goods. I think it would be cool, people could set up a market of sorts, with armed heroes, it would also be fun to commence bandit raids on the markets of course. Maybe something with vehicles too signs on them or maybe you could paint something on them to indicate your intentions. When servers need to be reset a lot less frequently it could probably be a viable option and would make for some nice roleplay.

Well if it's just text no penises but I don't think that would really do anything to the game, I mean have you heard the vile things people say to players with female characters? Far worse than a sign or two saying swears. As long as racist text can be found and the players can be kicked for it it should be a fine addition.

I'm not necessarily against it but if proper military grade stuff is hard to find...that means it's harder to find and defend yourself against it. So you go in to this gun shop, running from a guy with a pimped out M4, military grade ammo and SWEET JOY you find an M4 and a clip! But it has piece of crap civilian ammo in it and you get shredded. No matter how rare the good guns are people will find them and just camp around with them, killing the suckers who can only find the crap stuff as it's all that's left. I would like some different ammo types but nothing significantly weaker or more powerful than standard, same with guns themselves. Hollow points would be cool I guess, if they made it harder to kill you while you had gear on anyway. No armour piercing 1-2 hit kill rounds though that would suck, especially for the M4/automatics they're godly and spammed enough.

Firstly, they should be there for picking stuff up or maybe the vicinity thing could be tweaked so it knows you're looking to pick something in front of you up rather than having to look right at it. Anyway so shooting is just ridiculously easy in this game and the cursor is why, nobody has a cursor in real life so why in the game? It makes third person view even more godly since you can look over walls and not have to use the iron sights or y'know, have some skill at shooting. I think they should remove the cursor completely so that there's actually something of a learning curve for shooting, in reality no random guy in a survivor situation can just instantly have near perfect aim so it would be cool if people actually had to judge where to aim. When not using the iron sights or a scope it's always going to be a "aim somewhere in the middle" kind of deal but not definite. Just firing with your gun raised, not looking down the sights is far from easy.

Yeah sick of you are getting wet you are no longer getting wet you are getting wet you are no longer getting wet I'm hungry you are getting wet you are no longer getting wet. That one certainly needs to go, I mean it's fairly obvious when you're getting wet. For when you're not getting wet, for example under a tree the sound should be the indicator the rain noise should muffle a bit to show you're not getting hit. Everything else in the TAB menu for a fracture your character should just be holding their arm or limping. Hunger shown by stomach growling. Thirst I'm not sure about though, maybe when you badly need one it could come up saying so.

Well I did wait and see if any similar topic titles came up, all I got was one about pooping :lol: Well yeah but even if they do it shouldn't be a case of aiming at one part of the screen, without using the iron sights there should be a good amount of swaying so putting a dot on their screen only gives them a general area, they might shoot to the left of the dot or all round the dot and everywhere but the dot. That's how it should work, people should have to use the iron sights to have decent aim without them it should be like blind fire that's in various games, though less extreme.

With all the money they have why can't they employ some more people to fix bugs? As someone said it's pointless to add 10 more programmers to fix the same thing, 10 more artists to design the same thing....sooooo....don't make them work on the exact same thing, there are a whole host of bugs and other things in the game. Get a couple of people working on the whole zombie brokenness, others on visual glitches and such. Rather than just a few people tackling all the problems. More money isn't an instant solution but it does allow for more people to be employed to come up with solutions faster. At the rate they're going plenty of other games are just going to steal their thunder by the time DayZ hits beta.

Yeah comparing medieval crossbows to M4's, like they're as powerful as modern crossbows is retarded. They might not look much different but the technology has evolved greatly, in a survival situation a crossbow would be damn fatal, no bandage and morphine would just fix it. As for I how I use it, not had the chance to use it on a person yet I usually find the bow and no bolts or bolts and no bow, then when I find the thing I needed...I've already found an SKS or Mosin with nearby ammo anyway so the bow is long gone. I wish SKS's etc were MUCH rarer and bows were more common so people would have to use them and actually have some skill instead of just getting an SKS and spamming the shoot button until you're dead, with no real need to aim.

How does getting sniped from miles away when you couldn't possibly see someone make you suck at the game? Or if they're in a wall somewhere, or if you just plain get ambushed. The games core is also not just about murdering everyone you see and it's like what 99% of the players do, the point is giving them tanks and giving them even more firepower to do so is fucking retarded. Non KoS and legitimate PVP should be encouraged not just "Hurr durr Im such a badass killin ppl on the coast when they have nothin"

And they're going nowhere so yeah lets give them tanks :lol: There is nothing to do in the game right now yes but a tank is just too much, ridiculous even they're only ever in post apocalyptic kind of settings like in the series Jericho to be eye candy they're not at all viable unless you want to intimidate people IRL. When they add in cars, hunting and base building that will be enough of a goal especially if they add in bears so you can try solo them or get friends to help out, maybe they'll even add in animal tracks at some point instead of just look in to the distance of unrendered territory, BEAR. I'm all for tanks, like I said before, if they stay on designated battle servers but not EVERY server because it will just make the game awful. What about people venturing to an airfield, where the tanks would probably be looking to find some gear? Those places are dangerous enough as it is with tanks relatively fresh spawns have basically zero chance to explore, there's no need to limit the experience of legitimate players just because some assholes want to blow everything up in an incredibly unrealistic scenario. So yes add tanks, if they're only in certain servers.

But there's no guarantee that there will be multiple teams fighting over them and a whole clan could just have all of them, or all the resources for them. It would divert some attention away from the coast yes, but only for a while. And also no sane solo KoSer would bother going up North if they were obviously going to get bombed so it encourages solo players or small groups to just dig in and enjoy ruining the game for coast spawns. I don't see how they could have vehicles not respawning completely work properly, if people left then they'd just be leaving this armoured up car or a tank for anyone to find so that just makes it even easier because it's already set up. Then there's helicopters too, finding the tanks would be both a piece of cake and take no time at all. Most KoS cowards aren't interested in fighting people who might actually kill them.