ColonelBurton

Has anybody else had the issue that particularly in Polona you encounter massive lag? I've noticed this really often when I run through Polana, but it gets far worse when I encounter zombies and even more so when players enter the arena. I had a firefight with two guys today and two zombies got involved and I was just lagging and rubberbanding all over the place. It got so bad that after a while, we were all three of us just teleporting all over the place while the zombies stood still bashing into the air (and hitting me although there were no zombies in my view). The only other place on stable that I had similar issues was Elektrozavodsk, but Polana is a tiny town with not too many buildings, so I wonder why I keep getting this. Sometimes, when I enter the town, my FPS goes down to 0-1 for at least fifteen seconds.

I think this thread can be moved to the graveyard. Turns out I always seem to get lag when other players come within 20 meters of me or something like that. Don't think it's restricted to Polana, I just had a lot of encounters there on experimental servers.

I don't know this, so I'm curious. Were there even any challengers? If so, how many held the town and how many attackers contested you?

It's hilarious how the discussion keeps going in circles. It's a cool weapon, let's have it -> but it's way too powerful, we must make it semi-automatic -> the G3 isn't semi-automatic -> but it's way too powerful, we need to give it a lower caliber -> how about we just NOT have a G3 before we have a fictional one -> but it's a cool weapon, let's have it! -> but it's not a weapon common to the former Soviet bloc -> but it could have been imported by the German, Turkish or other military force, that would make it really rare -> the thing is the G3 is so extremely awesome that you have to make it jam all the time to balance the game -> how about we just give it some realistic stats -> but it's way too powerful, we could make it neon-pink so that you can see it from far off -> REPEAT UNTIL BORED I have an idea. Let's balance the game and remove the M4, the AKM and the SKS since it's almost impossible to beat an opponent that carries these weapons using a Sporter .22 EDIT: How could I forget the Mosin!! Waaaay too powerful sniper rifle we should give it the recoil of an elephant rifle!!

No. It doesn't make sense to add a fictional version of the G3. The gun will have its' perks and its' disadvantages if it ever makes it into the game. It doesn't need fake nerfing.

RP? Cute ^^ No for real, I'm a big fan of it but DayZ needs a little je-ne-sais-quois or a miracle or servers with active admins and reporting functions for RP to actually be an element of the game. I became a SoS-wimp like all the others after only two weeks of trying to RP.... Back to the G3: there are scopes for it. Maybe it would make sense to have the occasional G3 spawn WITH a scope (not to mention a mag). THis is one of the things that annoys me about the looting system. You'll find a weapon flashlight spawn randomly somewhere miles away from the nearest pistol but never a pistol with a weapon flashlight? Did somebody spend the first days after the outbreak running around mischievously disassembling guns and scattering weapon parts all over the place?

Thanks. That pretty much explains a lot. You don't happen to know if the ordinary 12-gauge is better? Had the impression that it's more lethal than the sawed off.

As I said before, not the worst recoil in the world even if it is out of this world compared with ARs that fire 5.56 caliber. Why should it not have the ability to use a scope? It's a sharpshooter weapon.

Eeexcllent..... I can see the MG3 slowly creeping its' way into the game B)

Exactly. Another disadvantage that the G3 has compared to modern rifles is that it was harder and slower to reload. Roughly one and a half additional seconds for experienced riflemen due to the mechanics involved for example chambering the first round. I personally don't see why the G3 shouldn't at least show up as an extremely rare spawn. After all, many countries still have it in use, such as Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, but also Germany still stores many as marksman rifles. Edit in bold

Had it on different servers but did not check to see what happens if I left and returned.

How about, if you implement it, give it a realistic recoil. The recoil is said to be less than the AK47. EDIT: Here's a nice video that shows a comparison of the M16, AK47 and G3 in action. It has to be said though, that the soldier shooting the G3 must be a dope. What I heard from people that actually used it in service, it doesn't jam at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v3zCcvOb_E

I'm surprised an inanimate object with hardly any interaction options causes such a massive performance issue. And I'm not against them disappearing after a certain amount of time or after second respawn at the latest (this would also avoid people suiciding to spawn closer to their lost gear) but I think that the hide body function is just rubbish. And I'd like to add: I don't like the birds option at all.

Scratch the skeleton or rotting nonsense. This type of process takes weeks. Most servers reset after a few hours. EDIT: I was going to say takes weeks until you start seeing some real change. Months up to years to complete.

That is the weirdest interpretation of a near-death experience I've ever seen in a video-game. I can deal with unsteady or double-vision, increased head-bob, slowed down movement and even tinnitus.... but to go monochrome and short-sighted vision really was original. Wonder what weird kind of synaesthesia the guy who came up with this suffers from. I think the game tells you pretty clearly how bad your character is feeling even if I think it's a little bit dumb how it's dealt with. But I do agree the melee system is embarassing to put it in a nice way.

Great input as pertains to the topic. Go teach grammar at a school or something.

There is a broad discussion among German gun-nuts (yes, we still have some, too) and ex-troops. Many of the old generation believe that the move to the G36 was basically disarming the Bundeswehr. The thing is that the G36 is a more light-weight and easily handled assault rifle with a nicely accurate burst, but the initial idea was also that it was to be a more modular type of weapon where you can swap components for different combat roles, but there is hardly any doubt that the G3 was a far more powerful (and some say reliable) assault rifle. By the way, in the last few years the German ministry of defence has come under massive fire because apparently there is something not ideal with the G36 full auto fire mode. So yes, perhaps it isn't such a great gun at all. What surprises me is that people here keep saying that the G3 uses the same ammunition as the Mosin, but this is not the case at all. I'm not a gun expert but I'd be very surprised to hear that 7.62x51 NATO and 7.62x54 Rimmed are interchangeable for the G3. I have an expert in the neighboring town's military store that I'm going to ask sometime next week, he'll know for sure.

Totally agree. This "hide body" function is just stupid. I just touch the body once, a timer goes off and the body sinks into the ground after, what, 30 seconds? If I really want to hide a body I need to put work in by either burning it, burying it, or carrying it someplace else. Might as well ditch the function until it is properly developed.

:huh:

Read what I posted. Besides that the players names can be frequently changed in a heartbeat.

Banned because they don't stick to server rules or exploit glitches for example. Unfortunately, at some point player ID will have to be incorporated into the game whether you like it or not. Fact is that the age of internet anonymity is over and there have to be ways of holding people accountable for certain types of behaviour, such as sexual harassment or distributing right-wing extremist ideals. You may think that this type of anonymity is vital to the game but the people who rate it will probably have a different viewpoint about that. Besides, somebody who hosts a server should have a right to decide who plays on it or not. EDIT: And I was making a reference to the Resident Evil, not the Romero movies.. boy do some people take themselves seriously :blush:

Actually, we took a ride on one not too many years ago in the Philippines. Undeveloped countries tend to still use them as far as I know, although they really are extremely rare.

What I've noticed is that you die when you log out and go unconscious. It's a bit annoying how at this point you never know what happened to your char.

Weird. Because I always get that when I get the classical chareacter wipe on experimental / regular (don't get it on hardcore) It's a three line red message at the bottom left upon entering the "Please Wait..." screen that says something in the likes of "WARNING Your character was unable to be loaded and will be replaced, please exit as soon as possible if you don't want your character to be overwritten." I've noticed, however, that when this error message shows up, my actual character remains stored. The character that I play in the rounds where I get that error message are then wiped when the server crashes or restarts.

Did you get the error message while logging in warning you of a character reset?