OrganGrinder

I think the heli crash sites should be truly dynamic. Three crashes anywhere on the map (including remote forests or in cities). Would make finding one a real treat and more likely you'll be the first on site. I know - not likely to happen, but it would encourage people to break their region-haunting habits and go explore more.

Dude, As soon as he starts yelling at me I would so take out my sawed off shotgun and remove him from my ZA reality. :)

I'm not even sure about the immersion value. If it takes a hundred hours to *realistically* wear down a pair of shoes that your feet hurt then maybe it just doesn't need to be a factor in this "immersive" game. So I agree with Jexter's point on this one. Christ, I woud think I'd be seriously ill of an infected tooth ache from eating all the peaches and Cap'n Crunch without brushing for a few hundred hours. And let's not even consider the ill effects of drinking hundreds of cans of Pipsi that have been sitting out on the black-tar roofs of buildings in the hot sun.

As others have suggested, there is a good game-driven reason why this process in DayZ is not realistic. Of course it is the same reason that we do not spend 4 hours locked in animation to construct a pig-hide backpack. As a prehistoric archaeologist I feel a little annoyed that people can use a hide without having to first tan/cure it with the animals brains and stretch the hide as it dries. Then I remember that I don't want to do that in the game either ;) For that matter, no one should be able to skin a cow or elk and cut out steaks in 5 seconds either.

Of course the trick is actually finding a bipod to help reduce sway. Haven't seen one since 0.48. I think the odds of finding one are slightly worse than being in Cherno when a nuclear bomb goes off B) Also, you can apply a splint (presumably to your arm) to reduce sway. They should make that feature a little more explicit I think.

I did a run from the coast at Svet to Severograd in a T-shirt the other day and was fine other than really hungry and thirsty. So it's not unreasonable

How about running for 5 minutes, gun in hand or not. I haven't shot many guns in real life but I would guess that an untrained person holding a gun out in front of him would not be able to keep the gun from swaying slightly. Remember, when zoomed a lot of visual sway in the scope is not really that much in the hands. I'm curious why you feel there should not be any sway - in game or in real life.

My avatar gives you his beans (replicated) for following the Prime Directive

The perfect thing with which to dope-slap your buddies when they screw up

You know where you might legitimately find metallic paint? A theatre (as in creating sets). Apparently Chernarus was not known for its love of the arts as there is nothing remotely like a theatre in the area. It might make for an interesting addition to the standard building models but I wouldn't call it a dev priority.

Honestly it sounds like you would rather be in a real apocalypse than play a simulation of one. People are going to play how they want when they are not truly at risk - it is cultivated entropy and it sounds like entropy is your true enemy :) The ultimate way to accomplish your vision of the game would be if you lose your account if you die. In that game no one would be running down the street in underwear and a pink balaclova and the vast majority would think hard before spraying a gun gold. I suspect you would like your odds of survival on such a server. I on the other hand would be out 20-something dollars rather quickly.

The harsh lighting/shadows thing is really irritating me as of late. Especially inside rooms with no windows facing the sun. As for the guy in the stairs - was the problem that your computer rendered slowly or is this more of a desync things where he appeared to teleport up the stairs?

Agreed. There are probably some optimization settings you can do that speed things up.

I haven't been seeing squat in those garages anymore. Almost not worth looking... of course I still do out of habit.

That's the known bug that happens above ground floor on the municipal type buildings. You take massive damage for seemingly no reason - especially the legs getting broken and usually it is fatal. I don't think the sniper got you.

That reminds me of a while back (0.48) where I desynced through the wall on the middle stairway platform in an ACT and was gently plopped on to the ground behind the building. Left me scratching my head as to how I didn't die from the one story fall. I wasn't about to ask too many questions though ;)

It is my belief that the amount of players who would spray paint their stuff in flashy colors in DayZ would greatly exceed the amount of people who would do that if it was real and they only had a single life, in turn unnecessarily making the game less realistic than it could be by simply not introducing those spray paint colors. Sure, such spray colors would exist IRL and be available for people, but in DayZ players would use them for the lulz because their in-game life matters way less than a real one. It simply is not worth it, as it's too trivial a feature to sacrifice realism for it. An example: Flares and chemlights are everywhere, and I usually light them up as I come across them. Why? Because I can and it doesn't matter. Would I do that IRL? No, it could draw attention of unfriendly people. Are they worth being in-game? Yes. It's a much needed light source. Can the same be said about flashy spray colors? I completely agree with that. I still would not be opposed to some color in the game but you make a good argument.

I cannot recall either way if I see that message so I'll assume it is not there and your issue is different than mine - possibly related to the latest stable version.

That has been happening to me since at least start of 0.48. But just for clarity's sake, the times you were not able to get you data back how quickly (roughly) did you exit the char-wipe server? I tend to do it within 10 to 15 seconds of opening my eyes (not sure if the loading time counts here) and do not lose my character. In other words, if this is the same as your experience then maybe there are two different issues being discussed (even if they have the same symptoms).

Exactly. You have about 2 minutes to exit that game before the wipe is permanent. This has happened to me dozens of times and I have never lost everything because I just leave quickly. I always move to a different server after that anyhow because, well I would expect the same behavior if I tried again on the same server. Its really not something to fret about. Even if the server was persistent (thus you really want to get back to that particular one) I suspect the issue resolves itself eventually, probably with the next restart.

You know, it would make for fun play to see if you could get it without being sniped. Unfortunately I have neither the skill nor patience to pull that off :P

Of course if I am "just trying to survive" in some marginal sense then I don't really need to spray paint my gun or axe at all, right? It seems pretty clear to me that beyond the first hour of being in Chernarus a player is generally no longer surviving but actually trying to carve out a sustainable living in this landscape. If that were not true then we would all just walk off the map in a straight line away from the infected madness and toward unaffected lands. Sustainability can easily include a few creature comforts (like a constructed base, which is coming) and some ability to distinguish yourself or members of a group - sometimes as a serious act of establishing clan identity for the purpose of intimidation or the demanding of respect. For an analog consider the fictional post-apocalyptic Australia in Mad Max. People banded together for safety and/or banditry and there were plenty examples of clan (or anthropologically speaking, tribal) marking. It has a purpose beyond basic survival. In that world a gold-colored gun would certainly be evocative and play into the plans of many types of characters. I think your definition of play in DayZ is too limited in scope.

Hey, that's one more than I've found :(

I thought of that, however the status had already been changed to Damaged after being hit without (presumably) having moved stuff around, so why would moving things around again update the condition to something else? Of course this all rides on the OP being certain that the vest wasn't pre-damaged before the zed hit him. That being said a friend has claimed a few times that certain items are getting damaged or ruined for no apparent reason. On one instance he went back and watched his video and found that he was indeed hit but didn't remember it at the time. Just sayin'

God forbid anyone try to bring a little cheery color into the drab, morose world of an apocalypse though. I get and mostly agree with your point but I don't feel the "measured realism" BI is trying for would disallow a random rare spawn of colored spray paint.