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I always thought that you've reached the endgame as soon as you respawn. There is no progression of any kind. Either you're dead or you're not dead. It's an MMO, right? There's no linear path, there's no permadeath and the best loot walks on two legs in kamy. Loot is insignificant, imo, so the endgame doesn't really exist. There's just things to do. Hence, open world sandbox.

How do you know this? Where are you getting your metrics?

See, the problem with loot, cars, bases, and acquiring things isn't really with the loot itself. Loot, and things, don't really matter. Only knowledge matters. Once you accept the fact that knowing mechanics, how to fight, reading map signs, understanding typical player behavior, where to get things, and how not to die to the environment are the most important aspects then you realize how trivial loot really is. Become callous to dying because you don't care about loot. After this, you're able to fight without freezing to tension. You then recognize the bugs and find the work-arounds. You experiment with bases, despite knowing they could be gone at any time. But that doesn't matter, because knowledge is more important than shiny things. Knowing the game is ultimate workaround to permadeath. Loot doesn't enhance your experience, experience enhances the time you use. Dayz is game about theft. Theft of the time you invest putting importance on loot. Getting loot helps you survive, but this is easy, because of your knowledge of the game. Doing things, like pointlessly building bases is a great time sink that increases your knowledge of the game. Loot is dumb, interacting with other people, the purpose of MMOs and interacting with society is the goal, because humans are social animals and much more competent than static AI. It's not about having bases and cars, it's about doing the things. My brother, some of his friends and I have bases on multiple official servers, with like, SIX cars there. Bases get wiped, so we rebuild them, it's not any sort of loss.

It would give me an extreme boner if I could leave ascii art of penises in my brother's base when I take his M4s.

How are you dying to cars like that? The 'flipping out' is a client side visual for me 99% of the time. I've probably assemble 40 to 50 cars since 1.0 has been released and haven't died yet. If the car starts acting weird, I usually put it in neutral and hold the brake until it's calm, then continue on. For the longest time, you could get in a ADA and drive over landmines and there would be no physics interaction at all. Not sure about the very latest build, but cars were definitely NOT flying up into the air after running over a landmine, in my experience.

Yep. that's ghosting.

Most of the SKS rifles that I've found have been in military tents. I haven't found any in civilian spawn points. This has been on official servers.

Is this going to be another one of those servers with penis memes all over the place? I feel like that that is where this is going, due to the lack of any detail whatsoever.

I have two questions.

KEEP CALM

It's not a bad prediction to expect a polished release for xbox after the current experimental goes to stable. The original plan, iirc, is that 1.0 was planned for January, for Xbox. There's no doubt that the development team wants a good product pushed out, and for customers to be happy, with this next build. It looks like a constant fight against bugs, impatient community, and pushy executives not in the trenches of actual development at all times. The CR527 with Hunter Scope is a huge leap forward in gameplay. The SKS is a fantastic weapon, for sure. Patient fans should be in for a treat. Just remember to ignore the impatient 'too little, too late' newcomers. The product isn't fully complete, but don't forget that there's dedicated employees at BI, working hard at it, and not just passing around tweets of their golden lambos. Personally, I hope the nerf to damage/boost to health plays out well with the re-implementation of the Hunter Scope.

Haha. Yea, beans are generally given when someone likes something you say. It's pretty irrelevant, honestly. It also has no bearing on the title you acquire. At 500 posts you get the title of Bean King, which you can then edit, if you wish. Also, try using the Sledge Hammer on certain rocks. This works on the PC version.

A potential new player comes to the forums. Said player asks if the community is toxic and if the servers are dead. Player with 2000+ hours (rofl) replies that the community is toxic and that PVP is a clusterfuck even though he never plays on servers with other people. Mostly because he doesn't have the hardware and has proclaimed that he's extremely antisocial. Then conjectures that the devs just take consumer money to buy dope and lambos. So, potential new player states that he doesn't want to see his money spent on (lambos) and decides to move on. Maybe the best advice to potential customers is to seek out multiple sources of actual gameplay and decide for yourself. Watch some actual footage. Read up on the technology for yourself. Go to various websites, reddit, and youtube. Don't pose a question on forums, because you're likely to just hear from squeaky wheels.

Yes, I realize that. Let me preface my previous statement with: "First, throw your xbox in the river, then..." (not really, but kinda maybe)

Yes, what ImpulZ says. Verify files and delete the DayZ folder in your Documents folder. I had issues coming back to stable from experimental and this information fixed it.

Buy two PCs. Get two steam accounts. Buy two copies of DayZ. Get multiple characters legitimately. Prosper.

???? You need to do more than consume one saline bag to stay hydrated. How is this not obvious to someone who isn't a new player? In fact, don't rely on saline bags to stay hydrated. You need to drink water, eat food, drink soda. This is pretty obvious. If you run for several kilometers in real life wouldn't you expect to get thirsty?

Well, traditionally "AI" literally refers to how the artificial intelligence and decision making executed by the generated entity plays out. The standard definition is/should be totally separate from the effects of bugs, player reaction and balancing of the combat system. With the traditional definition of AI combined with the reality of how the game actually plays out, it's impossible (IMO) to really evaluate and make suggestions regarding the behavioral scripting assigned to these infecteds. So with that, how can you tell that it would need fixing, seeing as how it's pretty difficult to tell if it's really broken. The system as a whole needs attention. Saying the AI needs adjustment is pointing fingers at only one facet. Aside, I don't find the infected to be difficult at all, as-is. Additionally, I've always felt that PVE has been, and currently is, just another trivial part of the true DayZ experience. Le zombies are just part of the environment, IMO. Further, if you're experiencing the title without the possibility of unknown players then you're missing out and not playing as the developers intend. (they DID stop supporting offline mode, afterall)

There are a number of things that ordinary, mortal humans are not capable of comprehending. Great examples include; quantum physics behind the singularity within a super-massive black hole, the colonel's secret recipe, layered levels of various string theory, and the reasoning behind balancing infected while melee combat is still bugged with full stamina. It's a mind-blowing phenomenon, to be sure. With stamina available, your projected toon will go full-on, psycho-killer, no pulled punches madman, stun-lock mode automatically. Why balancing is being done while this is still 'a thing' is not something anyone, even god herself, will ever be able to answer. The question of tweaking infected AI seems rather pointless when dwarfed by the obvious ongoing issue of melee combat being totally borked. Or, even somewhat borked, fixed, and then borked again. I know that all I can do is pray to the gods of the undead that someday zeds will be able to lift a firearm and pull the trigger. Disregard fully the ability to actually aim it.

haha. I would immediately cross-check the IP of Lize965 and Survivor1431 if I were a mod here. I mean, seriously.

They're working on a fix for the duping, for sure. Server hopping is a different issue entirely. There's been countless threads on the subject throughout the last 5 years. Do a search. It's not as simple as 'just lock characters'.

Just make timeless videos. Eventually they will be seen by people who like the game. Have faith and don't look at the numbers.

I remember when your videos used to be entertaining.

The current regeneration is just fine. If you get into a string of encounters you're able to stabilize and get out of it, or you die. It's not horrible when you consider zeds. You can either find a safe spot and get out of the jam, or you get overwhelmed and die. The balancing isn't terrible, in my opinion. As far as survival goes, well, I've always been of the opinion that PVE will always be a cakewalk and there's not much the game can do about it. Hardcore survival outside of PVP just isn't possible, you just cant balance properly in a single instance sandbox, mostly because there's no real progression. You're already at the endgame when you wash up on shore. IMO. I simply wondered why you think we need more player interaction. You *DO* realize that even killing-on-sight is player interaction, right? It's totally fine that you want regeneration to take longer. To me, it seems like the result will be that people will be sitting around doing more of nothing, which is fine by me, actually, but not really beneficial to the game. Also, some of your reasoning and logic seems questionable. I like that you're questioning the system, though.

There's nothing forcing you to work with other players. I posit that your odds of surviving wouldn't be less by hunkering down and just waiting it out. In this this case, tweaking the numbers just results in more waiting around. So, it's mostly about the patience of the player. That's adorable. /facepalm