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This is some sort of troll account/post, right? The amount of charge has always been present. There was never a feature to determine charge by licking. It was just a useless added function that's never existed with the current player controller.

You expect people to watch a 51 minute video between some streamer and some brand manager (who never visits the official forums)? This is the only way the brand manager can communicate on the official forums? Indirectly through streamer interviews and artsy videos? Sorry but this is a colossal waste of time. I made it through 30 seconds, which is about how much relevant information is likely in this video. We don't need a 51 minute video for 1 minute of information. Your marketing sucks. Try again. I see the lore is still very confused. Why on earth did a programming developer write this article and not the actual brand manager? >.< Edit: can some sucker watch this video for me and post whatever important information is in there? Thanks.

Yes. To me, the interesting part is wondering if the game would have been more successful (sold many more copies) if some sort of sponsored servers/events were planned from the beginning. Look at how they designed the code. They designed it for unmonitored official servers. A game 'built for modders' would naturally assume custom servers, owned by the community, and with active admin. ON PC. No need to implement security measures in the game code because admins would take care of issues. But no. The code was built for unmonitored official servers. That's why cars are server side. That's why we have BattleEye as a integral part of the blame circle. Just imagine if they had found a way to have had someone administrate their servers. Like, three people. I wonder how many more copies would have been sold. Would've hiring server admins been cost effective? Surely, just firing up a server and setting it afloat is a recipe for disaster. NO ONE can beat the cheaters without active admin. Online criminal behavior is a serious problem worldwide and gaming is only a part of it. It's unreasonable to think BattleEye could ever handle it on their own. Again, the only way to eliminate cheating on these type of fire-and-forget servers is to just shut them down. There are alternatives to official servers, but not alternatives for official servers.

Shut down all official servers, imo. Battleye was contracted as the anti-cheat provider. It’s clear that it doesn’t work. BI is also not willing to make changes. Ergo, the only viable solution to eliminate cheating is to eliminate the servers.

NO CHANCE.

yes no Various mods exist for private servers already. Why would you need to make things?

Personally, I think the darkness is pretty close to ideal, simulation-wise. However, servers going empty is a problem. I'm not sure what the answer is, but craftable NVGs are not a thing in real life. I was only going to suggest putting green and red lights on the vehicles so that we know which way they are flying at night.

"ScottyB," the DayZ PR and Brand Manager doesn't have an account on the DayZ official forums. You'd think the public relations guy would at least have posted here once. I'd be tempted to ask him directly via Direct Message, but I don't know if that's possible. Further, I guess he shows up at the DayZ podcast occasionally. Strange that the PR manager uses a discord channel podcast to relay information to the public, but I guess that's acceptable. I tried to find a point of contact at the Bohemia Interactive website, with no luck. I think some answers to relevant questions are overdue. First, let's point out this article that discusses his podcast conversation. https://www.gfinityesports.com/dayz/2022-roadmap-bohemia-interactive/ So, the first update of the year is now on experimental and we have no roadmap outline. "We're looking at something that resembles a roadmap" is a non-answer. Typically, first quarters of businesses start at the beginning of February. That date has come and gone and we still have nothing. We know that this first update is mostly about establishing a bug fixing platform, and that's great and all, but can we get something more than the typical rhetoric? Where is the roadmap? Are we going to have server wipes with this update? Can you post the answer to this with the experimental release update post? Will the public relations guy interact with the community outside of random podcasts? Can we get this information posted to the 'Official' forums instead of relying on checking twitter all of the time?

Just because the forums were made during the alpha phase of development doesn’t mean we’re still there. A craftable, portable train is a dumb idea. Doesn’t fit the game design. Too big of a project at this point and not even remotely authentic. These things don’t exist in real life. Try the search function. You’ll see that this idea has been rejected before and why. If you want to be taken seriously then don’t make countless threads filled with nonsensical ideas.

Please, no. For all of the reasons listed in the 20 other threads that have made this suggestion.

Looks like you don't have your traderatm mod up to date. Mods not being up to do date does not require a game reinstall. >.< You need to let Steam update your mods. Try powering off your PC for a minute, then reboot. Try this again after you've updated as much as possible.

BI developers working on console mods would be sincerely hilarious. Especially trader mods which totally undermine the CE. Maybe it’s time to graduate to PC. Or find a different game. Why are we centering the text here? It doesn’t help.

The brand manager doesn't visit the official forums. This used to be the designated hub of information governed by the brand manager. Now, all the brand manager does is make insipid videos that no one cares about with footage that doesn't use actual gameplay. Is ScottyB even the brand manager anymore? Who knows? Maybe it's someone else's turn to pretend to do something useful. What's the plan, ScottyB? When are we going to see transparency? When will game-breaking exploits and core mechanics get fixed? When will the constant 'micro rubber-banding' get fixed? Is this a great company to work for, or what, mr. brand manager?

So, good players know that strafing is bad? Inertia is a great feature. They should have never removed it long ago. Player inertia reinforces the importance of time investment into your character by forcing you to be careful with your decisions. Often in twitch shooters, mistakes can be mitigated by zig-zagging and tactics that take advantage of the unrealistic nature of not having player inertia. You have to play the long game in DayZ and be careful. This is a great move towards the original design of the title. Adorable.

Interesting. Are you saying the developers have distant plans to change base building? Could you link a source to this information? As far as locks go, I would agree. 4 dials are pointless. Staff has said codelocks are not possible because of "reasons" but have only cited lore related reasons. Which is hilarious. The reality is that we need something like Codelocks because the game is not stopping the cheating that is currently breaking the mechanic on official servers. Plus it's a huge quality of life improvement, in my opinion.

The words say “I’m serious”. But the font choice disagrees.

I voted for Dayz for the labor of love. I suggest we all do the same. All this time I thought they were getting paid actual money for their work. Apparently not! Explains a lot? Hopefully the labor of love extends into next year by fixing game breaking exploits and a new vehicle simulation. Also parity with .62.

Someday they should make like, a punch card to grant special access to underground bunkers. When I find locked doors, I let it be. Usually the loot is some bambi with a bk12

Double tap, bruh.

I checked out your server. It’s not bad. However, It doesn’t have a balanced economy, in my opinion, as advertised. You can’t have a trader AND a balanced economy. When you have a trader it dramatically skews the economy. No longer do players pick and choose loot when there’s a trader. You vacuum up everything and dump it off for money. Traders ruin the central economy on every server. Completely undermines it. It’s fine and all if you want it, it’s your server. But let’s not call it balanced, please. Good luck.

Strange that you’d blame the devs and not the management. The devs (a handful of people at this point) do what they’re told. It’s Spanel who is a shit business owner that no one in their right mind would work for if they’re concerned with their own careers. Otherwise, yea. The issues you mentioned are a total mess.

Out of curiosity, do you believe that actual hackers DDOS’d you specifically? Hackers targeting individuals like this is uncommon, IIRC. Maybe it was those developer tools. Either way, no one here can help you with your ban.

In my opinion, the Viaga is enough. This is the gun you want when you just start to head out of bambi land. You don't want an SKS or a double barrel. A pump action shotgun might do. But when you're new and running through the map and a bear comes up on you, you'll wish for that common Viaga you just passed. Great against wolves and bears. There's nothing like the spaz cannon when you need a lot of damage at close range. Also, having a weapon that can shoot shotgun shells AND .308 is a dramatic change to the balance of the metagame. Your Con is irrelevant. Being heavier and not being able to saw it off are not really big downsides to anything.

We don’t even know if updates will continue in 2023. Let’s hope for fixes to known exploits, actual vehicle improvements, and parity with .62.

Maybe you should try community servers. Building a base on official servers is never profitable, considering all of the security exploits right now. Maybe place some traps in your base. Or move.