Pyongo Bongo

There are many more fools in the world than there are geniuses.

I like the smaller clothes 🙂

I like! 😄

Must have accidentally eaten with bloody hands or consumed dirty water. Or there is an evil poisoner in the group 😄 Cholera and Salmonella cause that "take more than two bites you have to puke" behaviour. If it's salmonella you moan. If you don't then it's cholera which only comes from dirty water. Do you empty your water bottles you find before refilling them with clean water? They spawn with cholera inside. I just ate two ROTTEN apples and a disgusting rotten mushroom I found on exp and I am completely fine, also ate a bunch of dried ones. Rotten fruit and mushrooms are fine to eat.

I played solo. I also play with 1 - 3 friends sometimes who also know the game for many many years. If you have enough DayZ-Freak knowledge it really is impossible to die from sickness or hunger/thirst. We never get sick because we know every single sickness and how to avoid it. Don't eat with bloody hands, only use disinfected bandages, only drink water you know is clean from a container that was empty when you filled it or was disinfected. Don't drink gasoline or eat raw meat xD That's pretty much all you have to do to never get sick. Except for a little harmless influenza sneeze sometimes. It is pretty much impossible to die of dehydration if you: know exactly or look up where every well is, drink til full and then travel from well to well. You can drink faster with a bottle. And if you find chlorine you can also just fill up at any random pond you see inbetween. If you really want to be safe carry a full bottle on you when you leave the well (I never even do this). A fully functional fishing rod can now be crafted within minutes pretty much anywhere, so even food is nowhere near an issue. You are always within a few minutes of a source of water and fish, so even if you suddenly became red thirst/hunger you could fix it soon before you died. I don't know about the randomly sick and puking part. It could be a new bug, but 99.99% of the time there have not been "random" sicknesses in DayZ ever. It's mostly people getting 100% predictably sick for a very certain reason, one of the sickness-inducing things I listed at the start. Or and evil secret poisoner in the group 😄 (this actually happens often)

I really like this update. I have not been struggleing at all. But I have been playing regularly for over ten years and know everything, so I can't speak fro normal players xD I like the more realistic carry space in clothes, it was a little bit ridiculous how much you could stuff in your pants and jacket.

YES SNOW EATING MADNESS! DON'T EAT THE SNOW IT MAKES YOU CRAZY! 😄

"As far as I am aware, there is no plan to have the books back in the game (at least the way they worked), perhaps maybe as a decoration (as per our contest) but once again, I have not seen the plans for the next year yet. And even If I would have, I could not share them till they are final and official anyway... All I can do is to bring that topic up and see If the team can think of some book feature. But the way they used to work - that is a no, sorry." -Kyiara, former DayZ community manager

YES!!!!! :D

They want / need more money to keep improving the game. They chose to get more money by making a pay to play map.

You can play on a server where it is not possible to get killed by other players, its called PVE server.

M'laka

I like the masks :) i really love the knight armor! :D I went on a rampage on official, slaying all the Berezinoean peasants with my mace and sword, it was great fun! And look at how easy and resource- unintensive these additions are to develop and how much fun and endless possibilites they add. It would be even more fun if I could actually play a few hours on official without getting nuked by a cheater yes you are right about that. Haven't had that luxury in four years. And I can't even switch to other fun games like CS:GO or TF2, because they have the exact same problem. ;(

Yes I agree that the constant animal screams are a bit strange. All the passive animals do is sit there and scream xD More complicated animal AI is not needed, but would be cool and appreciated. It would be very funny if boars and bulls could attack you, maybe cows would kick if you melee them. Instant KO. This post reminds me of the time I went to Chernarus IRL. A bambi and it's mother ran right by us on the dirt path through the forest from pusta to Mogilevka. So if we were in-game we would have a chance to take maybe one or two fast difficult shots. They never once screamed though, nor did they ever sit still. There were sheep, goats, cows, horses and chickens by the wayside in many of the villages. They didn't make much noise, but they would be very numerous and easy to slaughter if an apocalypse like in DayZ happened.

Yes I agree with most of this, I will comment my own DayZ Veteran opinion below 🙂

Very "cool" xD I am glad to see devblogs with all these technical changes again, it feels like the development just got revitalised 🙂 I often thought that the fog would have the best of both worlds if we sometimes had completely dense "silen thill" fog, extremely spooky and atmospheric! And sometimes completely clear weather, because currently the gray film over every area of the game takes away a lot from all the scenery and colours in the game. Currently we only have medium fog always and everyhwere, which means it's never spooky and atmospheric, but always ugly past maybe 50 or 100 meters. I am glad to see a change on this 🙂 We sadly have the worst of both worlds currently. No spookyness of close dense fog, no crisp colours and scenery from 0 fog ever and we have to strain to make out details/players in the gray unrealistic sludge. The view distance change is also awesome, I have always been increasing view distance and scene complexity in the config file under documents. One problem I have here currently, is that it no longer lets me increase the scene complexity. It would be great if we can increase that either in-game, or in the config again. Trees and buildings morph from high definition to low definition models/textures constantly otherwise. I am not sure about this, I assume scene complexity helps with this. Whenever I set it to a value above 1000000 and launch the game, it gets reset to 1 mil. I used to have it on 1.5 or 2 million. Please let us do this again for people with powerful PCs 🙂 Thanks DEVS!!! 😄

I have not really noticed a real increase in difficulty while doing my usual zombie techniques. Lock em in, jump on cars and beat them without resistance, silently or loudly headshot them with cheap calibers like .22 or .380. This may be because I have many hours in the game and have dealt with literally thousands, maybe ten thousands of zombies. Newer players may notice more difficult zombies more. I did notice that they sometimes spawn infront of my eyes now like they are being beamed into existence.

Are you sure this is not client side? I know that when I log in around locks and such, that they make a sound. But I have never heard locks randomly make a sound when another player enters the vicinity. I suspect this is only heard by the person causing the noise, and can not be used to detect people. Or am I wrong? About tickets: Making a ticket does not advertise the issue, you can make a private ticket which only the devs can see 🙂

This has been suggested many times and the devs actually made animations for this many years ago.

When you go to the gas-station to refuel your car, you need a container. Let me use my mouth for this. MY mouth specifically, nobody else should be allowed to do this. I want to siphon the fuel into my mouth, then eject it into the fuel tank of my car, without needing a bottle. I also want to be able to store water from the well in my mouth, without instantly swallowing it. That means in case I find a dehydrated player, I won't need a bottle to let him have some water. Please add specific nose-breathing and close-mouthed action noises for this, for jumping and punching for example, like the gagged sound effects. Also please add corresponding animations for this action, please look at "bird feeding babies" on youtube for example. Thank you.

Yes it would be very cool, good suggestion 🙂 Many people in the community, and the devs too probably, want this and have wanted this for probably 10 years now. The devs know about this. "If DayZ was perfect, you could hang people" the producer of DayZ said many many years ago xD They sadly can't add that currently, and I don't have high hopes that we will ever get this withou a big engine rework or a DayZ 2. In the original 2012 version of DayZ, ArmA II DayZ mod, you could carry an unconscious person on your shoulders while one-handed hip-fireing an assault rifle, even machineguns on servers which enabled them xD One day a ghillie guy ontop of a firestation said he was friendly. He then shot me with his DMR, I went KO, and he threw my body off the roof with the moving mechanic xD

I recommend turning the ambient music on when you go there, it has it's own specific track

Cool (xD)

The bunker is an EXQUISITE addition to DayZ 🙂

The main menu music is too loud in relation to the ambient music. I have the "music" slider in the settings at a level which the ambient music is the perfect volume, but every time I go to the main menu the music is really loud and irritates my ears. Please turn down the main menu music a bit 🙂