Doyal

Hello Dayz community I'm a Dayz standalone player from India. I have around 5 friends that I play dayz with. I reckon India is a very niche market for gaming, more so for Dayz, because all we play online is Counter-Strike, De_dust 2 all day long lol. I bought this game a week back, and I have found, to my dismay, that despite hailing from a country with a billion people, there are absolutely zero servers in India. Nearest are in Singapore, France, Germany, and Japan. This results into us having to server hop constantly because our ping is really really high, like north of 200, I get like 50 servers from 120 to 200, and we all know that is an unplayable experience. I have fast fibre optic internet, and I get less ping than my friends, so they get about 30 ping more. I play a lot of online games, so I know that you must have at least 50 ping. This makes us all think that we wasted 30 dollars (or 1800/- Rupees) on a game. I request any Indian reading this or anyone for that matter to please start a server in India, it's bound to be profitable, there must be at least a 1000 players in India, That doesn't sound like much, but it's a third world country ya know. I don't want to start a server myself because I'm a law student and I don't have the time or money. Thank you for reading. TL;DR-- PLS START A SERVER IN INDIA. P.S- Also, if the devs come up with stronger measures for server hopping we'll be royally screwed because we have to do that, to keep playing for any length of time.

Hey I'm a player from India and my ping is consistently above 150-200, which is hilarious considering the other players on the server have ping like 20-50. So I was hoping you guys could suggest a play style for me. Should I not snipe because whenever I'd shoot anyone from afar they'd have probably moved past my bullet? should I compensate for that as one compensates for wind? Also, I always lose close range too, because I keep shooting people in their head and nothing happens and they shoot a couple of bullets and I drop when I'm fully geared and they're practically bambies. This is really spoling the game for me. Shall I give up all combat? Should I check in after a few months hoping we have an Indian Server by then? Thanks

yeah same here, I am so jealous of the guys with low ping

but but but... don't they say that you ought to have like close to a 100? okay I'll take your word for it. But GOD man, do you ever sleep hahaha

SO I didn't find my own akm, I was on a pvp server in Berezino and I happened to come upon this huuuge stash of weapons and gear, There I found a pristine akm, and a drum mag but it was ruined, so I took the akm, knowing it's supposedly the most powerful (and loud) weapon in the game. So that was a week ago, and since then I'm been raiding krasinov and balota, military bases, schools, EVERYWHERE. and I just can't get lucky, I can't find a magazine, and I find tons of scopes, folding stocks, handrails etc for it, I even found 200 rounds. What I'm worried about it, I'm thinking this is a glitch, because I keep finding mags for amphibia, sks, fxn15, magnums, .22 30 round magazine, .22 round mag, every thing EXCEPT an akm mag, I feel like the game is taunting me, I have a fully pimped out akm and no damn magazine. Any folks out there with my problem? What do you guys think? Are we guys too fully loaded so the game doesn't give us good stuff? P.S- My friend whom I play with similarly can't find mags for his m4.

I believe that this is what the game ought to be, hear me out, in a post_apolcalyptic world, when someone runs away from you, tells you to stay away, you listen to them, unless you want to be killed.

ok :(

it's all good guys, I found my mag! Check out my Character, should I lose the mask because it's white?

I really appreciate it man, people like you are rare in the dayz forums, but I just found one! and my friend found another for my gun so I'm good! it's like the game follows my forums hahaha and Im trying to convince him to lose the m4 for the sks and we could share ammo then, but then again he doesn't want that. Again thanks for the offer! cheers.

I'll check out the construction sites then, damn I wish Dayz had fast travel, sometimes it seems the dark souls community and dayz community are the one and the same, both get a solid kick out of difficulties.

hahaha if I've ever learned anything, is that no one can be trusted and that I am a pussy, you'll probably just loot the bejesus out of my dead body lol

Yeah, it's really pathetic right now, I hope someone rises up to the task soon

I actually love ghosting bandits, kneecap them after it and hear them beg for my mercy, but I just leave them bleeding, and to the zombies, plus it makes you feel like a superhero! it's like you're the nightcrawler huehuehuehue. I really hope they don't take away this exploit.

In my honest opinion, I don't believe that they should follow through with their plans to get more zombies, I think they should accept that this isn't a zombie game anymore, it's just a Paranoia simulator 2014 (Feat- bad ambient-can-opening-zombie rabbits-chain-link-fence sounds). First time I played dayz i was disappointed about the glitching zombies, plus their ability to run faster than you, spot you from far away, and hound you for a million years. If you have gear, zombies are a mere hindrance, a single hit with a fire axe puts them to sleep. But if you're a bambi on the coast being hounded by three zombies, you're screwed. This takes away a lot of fun away from the game. I think we should all implore the devs to first fix the zombies before increasing their numbers, otherwise it's just more glitches in the game. P.S- The zombies sound more hilarious than scary, most of the times I die of laughter than bleeding.

yeah I was pissed when they said you could have more zombies you could kill in a lifetime, more like glitch in a lifetime. and I agree with you on the Zombies giving birth thing hahahaha :') They should have more variation in the zombies sounds, also one more thing, they apparently sold 1.7 million copies of the standalone, and I just recently heard about them hiring an audio programmer and audio engineer. I was like WTF these guys have literally millions of dollars, and their team so tiny, how can we expect them to get anything done, I think they should just fire everyone on the team right now and hire the ones who churn out such epic content for the mods. :D

I'll post a youtube video soon, then you can check for yourself. And a kilometer was just to show you how far they see you from, it has to be more than 200 metres, and if it isn't it certainly feels more.

That's completely wrong, on several occassions while travelling I could see a zombie running at me full speed from a kilometre away.

That's not true, here when I connect to any server with over 200 ping I get kicked instantly, plus you lag all over the place with a ping above 100 :(

hahahaha I love you

This thread is the perfect example of lowlifes in the Dayz community, here you might see the bandit plotting how to better kill fellow survivors, if you people don't want others to disconnect and want measures to be taken then I too suggest something. How about the server also determines whether or not the person being shot at is a new spawn, by a person who has a history of being a bandit, killing another player is not being a bandit. A BANDIT IS NOT A PSYCHOPATH. IT'S A PERSON WHO WANTS RESOURCES BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE. If the server can see that the player being shot has no weapons or a backpack, the player should be allowed to disconnect, and the PSYCHOPATH (not a bandit) should be forever kicked off Dayz, because they were shooting for the hell of it, not for resources, but just to satisfy their bloodlust. It's because of these people that the community is going to shit. And the devs are losing money.