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  2. Posted

    51 minutes ago, LarryBERG said:

    It’s also very bad on Xbox. Brena in server 8201 is so bad with it. I have a clip saved of myself in a wooden building across from the Sobotka bridge sitting in the room with no windows and the door closed and you can hear the guy on top of the roof (by hopping onto the white object on the side of the building then jumping and pulling yourself onto the roof) crawling around and rolling then bam a gun barrel clips through the roof and they shoot right next to me and miss but then his next shot kills me. Almost makes the game unplayable with how much time it takes to gear up and move around the map to die to exploits like this. 😞

    On PC, we went through that phase for YEARS.  You console guys are back in time probably circa 2016-2018 era.  So, from the future, all I gotta say is good luck, it's a bumpy ride.

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    OK... so the new physics engine is in place.  There are a crap ton of community servers that are possibly going to suffer worse now with this engine switch.  Vehicles and security exploits have been my main problem with DayZ, and while supposedly making vehicles try to run better with an engine switch, it better not be a final step.  We need some optimizations done on the server exe.

     

     

  6. Posted

    On 10/9/2022 at 2:26 PM, Kingfisher5564u said:

    The small number of people here on this thread represent a percentage sample .  So I count against  the wipe ? about 30%  30% of 60 k is a lot of players.  You assume all 60 k are for the wipe.  Again, Dayz should add an end game where geared players can opt out of the wipe . Several servers where there are no new player spawns . Where the threat of dying is greater, mpc attackers both Russian and  U.S. chopper attacks on player bases etc. If given the option? my guess is that number goes way up. 

    That's some seriously wackamole logic you got there.  I'd laugh at you if I didn't think you were serious.  Stay off your XBOX or PC or whatever it is you are playing and take some time to relax.  you obviously need a break from gaming.

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    21 hours ago, Parazight said:

    Right. I agree. Still BI’s problem. I posit that the issue could be somewhat mitigated, had they chosen better decisions overall. 

    I made this suggestion to BI a long time ago, and I guess it's worth repeating here even though I'm certain they don't give a shit.  Why not just encrypt client traffic and be done with it.  Yes, there is overhead, yes it means people have to have decent machinery.   But assuming SERVER EXPLOITS GET FIXED, it means making cheats will become EXTREMELY difficult.  And what's more, since BI owns the encryption, they can change it at any time.  Technically, it should be easier to figure out how people are cheating, and stop it in a small window of time.

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  8. Posted

    4 hours ago, clickptg said:

    i tried but i didnt like the community server, i like the game the way its are and i tried to find vanilla servers but i cant find so much or i didnt find correctly. i used the dayz sa launcher. so i just give up of those servers.

    There are community servers that are vanilla and have active admins to address cheating.

  9. Posted

    51 minutes ago, Parazight said:

    The mechanic for reporting cheaters is to tell battleeye.

    It’s part of the Blame Circle. BI tells you to contact BattleEye.  BattleEye says the code is the problem and then bans people when devs tell them to. 
     

    it’s pretty idiotic.  However, cheating is way, way beyond their control. 

    I stopped harping on this topic a long time ago.  ESP is the worst cheat for a game like DayZ.  Until that is fixed, everything else is  pretty pointless.  If they removed ESP, I'd say about 90% or better of cheating would be eliminated.  It would be primarily exploits only.  The problem is, THEY CAN'T get rid of ESP likely because of the way the game is coded and designed.

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    On 10/3/2022 at 5:43 PM, Kingfisher5564u said:

    And then have it all taken from him. What is the point of collecting , gathering ANYTHING In this game. Why waste time building a character only to have him wiped. You people are the ones who are nuts not me. There is no long term game here, just the beginning over and over and over and over.  Im here to put a bug in the ear of this games developers. Ill be here until the 19th. If they dont rethink the player wipes then Im out. If I spawn in on the beach the 19th? I'm done, my two brothers are done, my wife will not buy the game , my son will uninstall as well. I have three friends on the server who are also going to quit as well.  Thats 8 players leaving because of this nonsense. More people are starting to come forward as well. So take note DAYZ you are about to lose a lot of players. 

    8 vs approx 60,000 currently on PC and however many on console, I think BI likes it's odds.   Seriously, wipes happen dude, get over yourself.

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  11. Posted

    16 hours ago, Parazight said:

    So, you’re saying we should use Facebook to discuss wipes?  All of those things are totally one sided compared to actual discussion. 

    When we have questions, feedback, or bug reports, maybe we should use truth social or Twitter?

    I understand what you are saying @Parazight Personally, I don't understand why they don't just focus on delivering relevant game information through their blog/twitter/facebook whatever, but do actual discussion and Q&A through DISCORD!  That is the trend, and a damn good one if you ask me.  Discord now has the ability host FORUM DISCUSSIONS within the same platform, and it works, really damn well.  I, too, am over the standalone forum discussion format.  A great portion of their target audience uses Discord, and it's a great way to communicate directly with players.

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    8 hours ago, Madiakz said:

    Hello comrades,

    I used to run a DayZ server some time ago and there was a tool we used but I cannot recall it's name exactly, we could open admin logs with it and see details such as the amount of time a player had played on the server, amount of kills etc. Does anyone remember this tool? If it is no longer around, what out of game tools do you use to monitor your servers?

    CFTools by Gamelabs

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    1 hour ago, DefectiveWater said:

    They really need to bring it back though (or remove it altogether to make it fair game for everyone). It clearly still exists but it's linked to the overall quality, I don't think it has anything to do with consoles though. Consoles can't change settings so it really shouldn't be the reason why it got removed.

    Also servers can change render distance too.

    You keep denying it, but so much of this game changed  to cater to the console market, it's not even funny.  The money grab was too tempting and so much of this game has suffered over the years because of it.  One of the challenges is keeping parity across three different platforms.... I will speculate that the reason it is taking so long to fix the vehicle simulation is because of having parity.  It has to work everywhere and there has to be good performance on all three platforms.  Many times to make that happen, you have to make compromises, and on the surface that makes sense, but if you only had to support ONE platform, as the game was originally designed, then you could tailor the performance much, MUCH easier.  But hey, MONEY!  Meanwhile, PC Fans have to suffer through a bunch of nonsense that should have never happened.

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  17. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Girth Brooks said:

    We used to have a distance render slider in the options. Then the consoles happened and that went bye-bye.

    Because consoles really are inferior and always will be to the PC.  You can argue their graphics are close to being on par with PC, but you will never have the same level of performance you can get with PC, Consoles always have to make compromises and oh yeah, they are limited to waht the manufacturer puts in them.  For some people, they buy Apple and enjoy a closed system and Apple tells them what they can and cannot do, and for those that really want a powerful phone with many more options and a bit more freedom, they buy Android.   To each their own, but I'll take freedom over control any day of the week.

     

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    38 minutes ago, DefectiveWater said:

    There's a part in that post (dayz in 2022 post) that clearly states: "As for the rest of the year: ....." and then they give several bullet points about what they want to do this year.

    That's a roadmap if you ask me, maybe a general one without clearly set goals, details and deadlines, but it still is a roadmap.

    No, it's not.
    https:// gtfothegame .com/ roadmap  (remove the spaces)
    That is an example of a publicly digestible road map.  The details, goals and deadlines are CRUCIAL in understanding said roadmap.

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    @Parazight There has been this huge push to get people away from the forum and have everyone move over to their podcast, where they literally can screen questions and not have to take difficult ones like we ask.   And they are calling the information about the update for 1.16 the roadmap.  They give political answers. Uncommitted and void of details.  So there you have it, you were patted on the head and summarily dismissed... LOL!

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    On 8/23/2022 at 11:52 AM, Parazight said:

    “Not months, weeks” was said about a roadmap. It’s been over half a year. Y’all planning on releasing the roadmap for 2022 maybe late November, at the earliest?  What about vehicle simulation?  You teased about that, then nothing. What about the under promising and over delivering premise? When does that start?  
     

    Maybe you guys should replace the fictitious brand manager with a real one. 

    And you haven't been put in DayZ Jail yet? This system is rigged, much like our own Justice System here in the States.

  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, elijah gibbsss said:

     literally just purchased this game earlier today at like 1pm after previously having it on my old account that got hacked so i made this one bought the damn game again for $45 and i go to load into a server and get global banned like wtf, i literally had like 5-10k hours on my old account which was mrmeowgical, can you help with the ban or not like i can prove whatever the hell i need to i dont even understand wtf i did wrong seriously I JUST INSTALLED THE GAME!!!

    You have to go to Battleye for help.  No help given here for bans.

  24. Posted · Edited by THEGordonFreeman

    16 minutes ago, Kyiara said:

    But they do know 😉 They have a roadmap - the development plan counts even with summer months. 
    See, and that is exactly the reason why devs don´t want to say much. Cause you say weeks, than its changed to months (and that is totaly normal in gaming development, actually in any development more or less - roadmap is a plan, but plans can change based on needs) and people go mad. If you don´t say any dates, people are mad that you dont communicate - If you say your current plan, they are upset If the plan changes. Why do you think so many releases are being postponed? And its not just games, its also movies etc. Plan is a one thing, realisation is other thing.
    We try to communicate as much as we can and even not saying much or details is communication. I replied to so many people "I have no info regarding that"...and even that is communication. Being silent is no communication.

    I worked in software development for years and did project management a number of those years, and I can assure you, you CAN engage with your customer on a daily or even weekly basis and KEEP THEM INFORMED of what is going on.  People do realize that shit happens.  The problem with BI over the years is that they ran their mouth and didn't deliver much of what they said, THEN they took the opposite road of not saying anything and delivering very little.

    I appreciate you engaging with us, but you really should read the old threads on this forum for a full of understanding of how things have been compared to now.  BI is virtually neglecting it's fan base.  Livestreams that few people even know about don't count.  The non-update update announcements we get don't cut it.  We are in the dark and no one there gives two shits at this point because there is no accountability.  Oh I'm sure the suits hold people accountable, but I mean accountability to the people that support and buy your product.  You guys are yiour own worst enemies at this point and nobody there gives a damn about it because why should they.  You made a ton of money and that's it.   Look at Hello Games, they screwed the pooch on their launch so bad, I mean it was one of the worst launches in video game history, and look at them now.  Are you guys just not capable of demanding more of yourselves?  Are you not capable of weekly communications with players outside the influencer bubble that you have continually been counting on?

    Why can't the devs explain why the client/server security is so lax?  Why can't they let community server owners know they are working on fixing it?  Why can't they give updates on their progress on all aspects weekly?  An update on progress is not the same as making promises or even saying release dates.  Hello Games turned out to be masters at doing that and engaging with the fan base CONTINUALLY and that is a small company.

    We expect better of you guys, and you continually let us down.  We love this game, but as a development company, BI is simply not anything special at this point.  Please DO BETTER.  AND FIX THE SECURITY EXPLOITS AND VEHICLES.

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    2 hours ago, Parazight said:

    Is this working filter a human being or are we pretending that you have some code to do the job?  Please share that technology with the rest of the world.  Why not entice a single volunteer to do the job?

     Okay, I watched the video.   Go ahead and watch it again.  All they say is that they're working on problems, and that it's difficult.  Regarding vehicle physics, they simply state that they're working on these same band-aid fixes and not actually dealing with the root problem.  They said they're tweaking the suspension.  lol.   They're never going to fix cars. 

    Also, it seems like those two nerds don't actually work on the critical parts of these fixes.  They also make the excuse that devs go on vacation during the summer instead of realizing that this is a business organization who should be able to plan for such things.   If I told my CEO that profits are down because people go on vacation then the management would be replaced, rightfully.  It was 10 minutes of not answering any relevant questions, IMO.   Nothing was said about 1.19.  Only "devs are working on stuff".  Just another random youtube video trying to make noise and not really say anything.

    I have to agree with Parazight here.  But my argument is that if you can't make your game secure with the most BASIC of security checks (ie make sure a client and ONLY a client can connect to your server), then how in the world are we to expect you to fix complex physics and calculations involved in such.  I mean we have gone BEYOND meme status, joke status at this point.

    All of this speculation come from Bi going silent since going Beta.  They have essentially stopped communicating with their fans and now only do these livestreams that few people even know about.  Again, I point out Hello Games as the defacto ultimate example of what EVERY game company should strive for, ESPECIALLY when your product turns into a shit sandwich.  After a stupendously horrible launch with No Man's Sky, they not only delivered on their early promises, they are OVER DELIVERING.  They had a shit sandwich and now it's the finest piece of Wagyu steak for gamers to enjoy.  BI has yet to hold a candle to them.  All we get are cryptic responses from DayZ community people and non-announcement announcements from the devs.

    Look, I want DayZ to be amazing, I want it to succeed, but if I want in one hand and crap in the other, all I'm left with is a gooey shit-covered hand.  Only BI can fix this debacle.  They haven't done it since 2014, I'm hoping they will at least offer us a towel to wipe this mess off.  Until then, we get to enjoy the stink excreted for us.

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