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this is the game they intended from the start. Obviously the zombies need a few tweaks not to make them easier, but it does seem that even if they dont swing their arms, just by touching them causes damage. Plus they only randomly stagger back when hit, i assume they need to stagger every time. But thats not me being whiny I just know that at the moment they aren't fully fixed yet. Again with the central loot economy, it is only the very first installment of it, and loot isn't supposed to bomb in the outhouses and military wreaks but again after tweaking military loot will again only spawn where it belongs and normal stuff appears everywhere else. That said Last night i was fighting the hunger and not having much luck. Today, me and the wife went somewhere else and we are finding all kinds of useful stuff.

sounds like its a specific server issue and not a 0.55 dayz issue. Persistence works fine on our server got 4 tents and 3 trucks, had them ever since the hotfix kicked in

Spawn out inside a house with the doors closed. i hear doors are persistent as well now

This is because military locations promise you nothing. Everyone has to lose old habits and adapt to new ones. The NWAF used to be the end game and promised you good military loot, not anymore. You can find nothing but clothes and the odd can opener, but the shed next to a civilian house will give you an ak47, an m65 jacket and a mountain backpack. People used to go into a town, beeline for the police station, fire station and then leave. Those days are over, you have to search EVERYWHERE, take your time, loot as you would in a real apocalypse, and expect disappointment, because you may come out surprised

I found out the other night that players are now pretty much the fist of the north star. Me and the wife were doing a bit of boxing, i was wearing a motorcycle helmet and she killed me with the 2nd punch. Before you would only get knocked out and i thought that you couldn't get knocked out if wearing a motorbike helmet, but she pretty much punched my skull out the back of my head, so I think they have toughened up players for when they are fresh spawns. Haven't tried it, but maybe you can kill zombies with 2 punches. I also found out that those little hammers that everyone ignores will kill a zombie with a single hit. However back to the original post. I'm glad that it has taken one update to clean out a lot of people who don't like where the game was always heading. You now have to adapt and change your play style to be a survivor, not a serial killer in a lawless barren world. Apple trees seem to yield more apples than before, so do berries. It made me laugh how some people say the kos will increase much more now, but it hasn't in fact its gone quite dramatically in the opposite direction. People now seem to be helping others, ammo seems harder to find, and those with m4's who would used to rinse out other players won't risk ruining someone elses gear because it doesn't make them better off, plus they can't afford to use the ammo, and then deal with the zombie hordes who come after the person firing the guns. I have found twice as many players are more friendly now than they used to be, even when fully geared and armed

Couple of ideas to add further down the road, probably when the new renderer kicks in and the game gets a bit more stable... I notice that there are a few power sub stations scattered around the map, would be nice if you are able to get the power on in the small regions where the sub stations are located, so houses have lights, street lights come on (at night) you are able to turn on heaters, cook food from stoves and generally have a little bit of civilization back, until someone blows up the sub station or the server resets. Alternatively, find power generators that have the same effect, but only for the house you are in. The downside is that generators make noise. But a region that has power from a sub station lights up half the map so anyone will know that there are people nearby Secondly I hear that in the future zombies will have real clothing items on them, like the ones we find in houses making them look more like players so when you kill them, you can take their clothes if they have the ones you are after. So with that in mind what with more sicknesses coming into the game it would be cool that if there was a very small chance you get infected by a zombie if you keep getting hit by them too many times (easily treated by antibiotics of course) and if you leave it untreated you get sicker and sicker, coughing and slowing down. If you eventually die, you respawn on the coast as normal, but your dead body then reanimates into a zombie, so you can pretty much run back to where you died, find your previous character still with all your gear on, wandering the land, only for you to kill it and get your gear back. Naturally when the server resets, your zombie will get wiped, but I love the idea of being in a group and when you die of infection, your team mates have to put a bullet in your head or risk your body waking up and attacking them while you are now on the beach crafting a stone knife and laughing at them on teamspeak getting torn to shreds by your old character, because none of them managed to put your old body down for good.

but its the most vocal player base that speak out and say what makes a good game. After all if more than one person says something sounds good, then maybe it also sounds good to people who were thinking of buying. After all, what is the point of having pre release alpha with gaming suggestions if the devs aren't prepared to listen? this is the joys of getting a game as its being made because its our voice that helps add to the development of the game. It alos says in the intro that when you accept the alpha terms that nothing is final and everything can change, so even if the lore gets altered because the majority want it, then why not?

The whole immune thing could change if public support is in agreement. at the very least if you succumb to the infection and eventually go unconscious, rather than see a "you are dead" screen, you get a new one saying something along the lines of "You have turned" giving you the only option to respawn. but still, i said the headshot because if your buddies want to save your gear its the better place to shoot rather than ruin your gear if you plan to get it all back

just be careful, we hit one the other night and it rolled us. The trucks do start to take damage now, although it does make a satisfying smashing noise when hitting a zombie, if you do it too often, your truck will slowly become harder to drive and wont go faster than 10mph

I actually want to see the bow get the polish treatment. It is a very un appreciated survival weapon, because in general the masses are only playing to find the holy M4 with grouped mags. I think the bow should have a longer drop distance & be more effective at killing zombies in one hit, making it the primary zombie defense weapon. Most don't use the bow because it takes skill to use, and people would rather stick a scope on a rifle and shoot from a safe distance. I hope the Devs really do tweak the bow to encourage it to be a must have weapon

you aren't trying hard enough. look harder. Global persistence is now going to be your enemy. Adapt

I'm happy where this game is heading. A lot of the pvp & KOS players may end up losing interest and moving on, meaning that in the near future we may actually have more friendlier meetings in game, and even need to get other people out of sticky situations.

tents vanish up to 5 minutes after you pitch them. Trucks reset back to their original persistance point after a reset (The same place where you found it for the weekly cycle)

Its how it should be, this isn't COD as much as some people want it to be. The devs and the community always said that eventually the zombies would become a real threat and we were to expect that. That day has come, so time to change tactics and accept the route its taking.

side stepping around them no longer works. They are too fast and go full jackie chan with swinging arms. Fire axe usually takes between 5-8 hits, chainsaw is 3 swipes. it has gone back to an earlier .40's build where guns are your best option to kill them quickly. Even better if you have silenced weapons. That said its much preferred if you avoid them completely by being stealthy. Oh and they are much quieter now, you dont always hear their attack scream, the first you know about them is when they are jumping on your back.

Would be cool if the end edges of chernarus were replaced with huge skyrim sized mountains that are un passable, just so people don't wander off to far and get the end of the world map. I believe that in the actual chernarus map there is supposed to be black mountains that separate the country from the rest of the continent

this is dayz. Zombies chase after animals and players but ignore trucks. So Yeah This kind of game really

True, but nothing quite ruins your camper sniper habits than having a huge 600lb bear giving away your location and possibly tearing you to shreds in seconds. Because lets face it, its going to take a few shots to put one of those down and if all you are doing is scoping out a town, you won't be watching this furry train of death coming up behind you. If you do, and you are lucky to put it down, you have not only made a lot of noise, but people are going to notice something that big running after something at the top of a hill

so you think you are going to be safe sniping from the hills because hordes wont stop sniper players. There are 2 problems with your argument problem 1. Problem 2. you see, both your problems are going to be spawning and wandering around on the hills away from towns, but more than likely around sniper spots. So whats your next question, please keep it short this time

Hey all, I want to use an ingame voice changer to make my voice sound like a demon/orc. Now There is an awesome plugin that works perfectly with Teamspeak, but it doesn't work ingame using direct chat which is what i mainly want to use it for. Now my issue is, 1 I need to find a good one that works ingame and secondly, if I use such a thing, is it going to cause battle eye to freak out and assume I'm using some sort of hack/script and ban me?

awesome, will look into it

yeah I was actually going to add this as a request in the main dev hub, but assumed they had already been swamped with this. I like to do a lot of filming & the text constantly appearing really gets on my tits and ruins the videos. Same as the inventory quick bar at the bottom. You can show/hide it by pressing the key above tab, but if you could keep it off too would be nice. I kind of assume that towards the end of beta stage you can also select whether or not you want crosshairs/dots on or off too. Would be nice in the options to have a selection for all these issues, purely for having a clean screen and no hud at all if not to help immersion, but to also assist with videoing & screenshots

have my beans. Im actually stealing this quote for facebook when someone actually complains about a sore tummy from the yoghurt they ate

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