0.64 Freerider

Looks to me like you're starting to pack up. What are the servers reassigned to?

Yeah it's a difficult topic. I personally don't need them for DayZ to be complete to me.

Hmm, I'll have a look at those, but yea I'm wondering how they want to get helis working.

How do we have "a long way to go before DAYZ "ends""? How do you know?

Yes, if they at least made a clear statement regarding the departure of Nespesny now. I mean come on it's the LEAD DESIGNER ffs. It's just worrying is all. I don't even need to know exactly what they're working on, I just want to know if they are working on it and if they still intend to deliver a FINISHED GAME some day.

Yes, I understand their approach to underpromise and overdeliver but keeping us completely in the dark while simultaneously the LEAD DESIGNER jumps off board can have one a bit worrying.

Yea I guess it would have been wiser to include this change in one of their "cool stylish new" update videos. Our characters weren't harmed though but I haven't touched the game since. Like I described, I could think of 3 different better solutions from the top of my head. Very annoying and quite frankly idiotic.

What do you guys think, should we have been warned? To the REPORT TICKET

Well it's a lovely idea, but making horses is even more complicated than making cars as I estimate. I'm sure the devs will confirm this, but the animation system for a horse is very very complex. Given that they're even struggling with the comparably simpler animation systems of say, the revolver. This would blow the roof off. Even the bicycle is probably alot easier to do than a horse, so I'm sure that would be the main reason. The number one transportation in an apocalypse would be cars I believe. Simply because they can go the fastest, they can carry luggage and there are plenty of unused ones around. This is why it should be alot easier to get a car going than it is now and from what I understand, the devs intend for alot of cars to be standing around and having NO MORE of these cars that are only props that loot spawns on top of. But considering that they have now decided to not tell us what they're working on at all anymore, not to mention avoiding a roadmap entirely as well, it's hard to say what will ever become reality of these sweet dreams. Rest assured they've only just milked the last dug teat, releasing this unfinished game for PS4 as well. Announcement regarding the avoiding of roadmaps ->

I would advise you to search for a nice community server you like. There are alot running the game pretty much vanilla but with custom length on night and daytime. The one I frequent, has about 30 minutes of nighttime and 2-3 hrs, I believe, of daytime. It's also Private Hive which gets rid off the nasty server hopping issue. I very much wonder how you broke your leg though, because fractures are currently not in the game. Perhaps you are travelling to us from a different time? Sad to hear that there are cheats to bypass the gamma exploit fix. Maybe you can point the devs to it, in the unlikely case it's not on their radar yet.

Well issue with the flare is, it runs out after some time, which for most noobs might not be enough time to find their way to a longer lasting light source. So I really see no reason how the flashlight wouldn't solve the issue.

SPAWN. WITH. FLASHLIGHT...PROBLEM SOLVED

Sure that would be useful, but noobs might not make it in time, so yeah, for the moment I still think flashlight would be the best. Loved the trombone ;D

Yeah, I know we spawn with a flare but to quote @ImpulZ Now the flare I believe runs out at about 15 minutes which, let's be honest, for a complete noob with no map-knowledge can definately lead to getting completely lost and that, combined with the absence of proper moonlight is quite a problem. Here's another question I have for you: ImpulZ is speaking of compromise here, but I really can't picture any form of compromise, so please tell me if you can. Here's why I can't imagine any sort of compromise because both outcomes negate each other: You either 1. have enough light around you, so you can orientate, leading to you not needing any light sources, or 2. don't have that light and thus need to find a light source. The flashlight would be very long lasting. I, and you probably as well, was always able to navigate by silhouettes alone, but that cannot be expected of a new player, I agree. The flashlight would be the perfect solution here in my opinion.

I think that's very likely to be true. By the way, I don't know if I'm going crazy here or if I'm overseeing anything, because it just seems so incredibly obvious and simple. What about the idea of spawning with a flashlight? Any objections? Seriously, the problem would be solved in a far more natural manner. Please tell me if you can think of anything that would stand against this idea over the personal night light, because I really can't and it kind of scares me that the devs might not have considered it and I don't understand why.

While the devs did an overall amazing job with Update 1.02 it just hit stable and the following is unfortunately part of the patchnotes for now. They will likely not get the backlash that is required to revert it, because new players always want it easy. They fortunately didn't listen when it was about the stamina bar and pulled through with their design. But with the "personal night light" it seems they are starting to take the knee, to these new players who don't and can't really know what they want. Excerpt from PC Stable Update 1.02 [LINK]

"intoxicated" hehe, funny way to label it ;D thanks for the info regarding the nighttime, sounds a bit counter intuitive at first glance, but yeah, at least we got those options.

Oh I just checked, says you've already voted last thursday 03.28.2019 - 9:58 pm. You voted "Lose it".

Hey, If you open the post, you should be able to see the poll just above where my original text/post is. There you should be able to select on of the three answers and click vote in the bottom right I believe it is, but you'll easily see that.

Right on. Maybe I misinterpreted, but in case I didn't, the Kazuar is already in. It can be found in military locations.

Hi, I feel the exact same way about the game as you do. I've noticed the issue with way too much food being around as well and hence made another post for it, where you can VOTE as well: The different length for Day/Night are definately possible as I've seen it in effect on some servers. I think 75/25 or something around that mark is a very good balance, because IRL you would need some sleep too, right. So the night being shorter than the day makes perfect sense to me. It's a game after all. But yeah, thanks for your post, it's always nice to meet like-minded people, especially when it comes to DayZ.

You mean like moonlight, clouds, fog and rain?

Haha, wow that winchester is going bananas. QA anyone? Anyways, the ingame light sources are there to be used and once moonlight is back, the nighttime gameplay will probably appeal to alot more people. However inside buildings you should always NEED to use light sources and that is my biggest concern with the "Personal Night Light", as I've explained. I for one always play on Private Hive Servers, as I cannot stand the concept of shared characters and the resulting issue being server hopping. I would be fine with nighttime being considerably shorter than daytime, as you would sleep most of the night IRL. Anyways that's up to the individual server owners and there is alot of freedom there.

Couldn't agree more. Especially the things regarding interaction and an "even field". Well said, sir.