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Why would we want an answer to it? The terrifying paranoia and tense standoffs are what for me and many others' date=' makes this game so damn great. If you want to sit around a campfire sharing beans and singing Kumbaya, that's cool, but in reality it's really not that hard to avoid bandits if you play smart, so if it is for you, urdoinitrong. [hr'] Even better! I just watched the vid. Although the weird maniacal laughs are a bit off-putting, it feels like justice was done.

The OP put forth an idea, and remained level-headed and reasonable even with puerile responses coming from some people. At no point did he display immature conduct or insult anybody. Then you came in the thread, called him a douche, and proceeded to post a thesus of irrational sarcasm and idiotic comparisons. You are the only douche here.

No. Just no. A thousand times no.

I wish I could rate a thread in minus stars.

THIS. With a rare radio item that could be added, as others have suggested. I don't get why people would think it "arcadey" - newbies would have a shot at seeing one, and the vets with a radio would flock to a crashsight, with hilarity ensuing. Somebody else dismissed this, citing a "bloodbath" as if that is a bad thing. It's not. The fact that you know other people could be coming would result in you calculating your odds for reaching a chopper first, based on distance, and how you deal with it from there. Can you imagine the paranoia? The PVP risk and rewards would be fantastic in such situations! I think there should already be a couple that initially spawn with the server though. I like searching for choppers, and that'd be rendered pointless if it was totally random and there were none to be found until these crashes occurred, and then with little chance of you seeing or getting to one on such a large map, taking away the element of "chopper hunting".

Really? You sound like you'd be a douche to play with. Actually you just sound like a douche in general. See when one of our guys was infected, we looted hospitals until we found antibiotics for him. We now have two spare sets of antibiotics and take measures to ensure we don't get sick again. Antibiotic rarity could easily be changed, in order to reflect demand of antibiotics. This sounds like it could add another dynamic, giving the game more depth than the serious amount it already has.

I think it's an excellent idea. I get that you don't mean visible ghosts dragging chains etc, but rather a rare ambient sound effect of footsteps or shuffling, or something to that effect. I think that would be terrifying. I'd want it to be impactful though, something like foosteps getting closer and louder then increasing in pace, almost as if something is running towards you, then suddenly it stops. I'd lose my shit, especially if I spotted it in my thermal scope. I think people are turned off by the word "ghosts", but if they read past the title, pulled their head out for a second, and imagined the scenario just with the sound effects, it's a pretty great idea that'd shake things up.

Unfortunately it seems to have become somewhat of a strategy for certain players to disconnect and reconnect when in standoffs. Previously, you could see the disconnecting and reconnecting, which tipped you off and gave you time to quicky adjust and prepare for somebody spawning in right behind you. I'm guessing because of clutter on the screen, that's been patched out. So we lose sight of a guy in a firefight. He can't flank us, because we've got eyes on every possible place he could run to get on our flank. Unbenownst to us, he'd actually disconnected, got on our flank in a different server, then reconnected in behind us, and suddenly we have a hail of bullets coming from behind which kills two of our guys. As one of our guys gets some shots into him, he bolts into a bush and we tense up and prepare. After a minute, one of our guys in the server browser spotted the name we'd called out previously over TS, connecting into another server. He'd disconnected again! We managed to grab the essentials off our dead comrades just before the server we were on crashed, and we followed the wounded server hopper into the new server where we found that he'd stumbled a few feet and bled out. Was a blessing that he'd hopped servers, because we got a serious haul of amazing loot off him (Heli crash loot). tl;dr Seeing the connecting and disconnecting players has unfortunately become an essential warning against the tactics of some players, and it's hard to have eyes both in the game, and the server player list. Clutter is a small price to pay to avoid getting reamed by dodgy players.

Yeah I posted a similar thread. Seems not enough people have been affected yet to see the issue snowball, but hopefully that'll change as more people get it. My friend had it for several hours of gameplay, but we finally managed to find some antibiotics after recycling the loot in Berezino hospital for hours. My advice would be to not worry about the boxes in the hospital, just the junk on the floor. I think the boxes just spawn the same sets of gear each time and won't spawn antibiotics (though not 100% sure, it's just that every time we or anybody we know has seen antibiotics, it's been in the loot on the floor, not in a box). Take any stray loot not in a box and dump it outside the hospital, same with the loot on the roof. By the time you get the loot off the roof the stuff on the ground floor should be close to respawning etc. Rinse, repeat, ad nauseum. Eventually antibiotics will spawn.

Terrible thread.

Terrible thread.

We read your post, another whiner who wants the game to change specifically to suit them. Almost every change thus far, has at least had a consensus go into the decision. The negative feedback for NVGs is minimal because they are that rare, and the instances of somebody being screwed over by another player with NVGs is just that rare, that any change against the grain of "realism" for the sake of "balance" would do nothing but polarise player opinion just to appease a vocal minority. If the game's development thus far is any indication, that won't happen. Good luck with your crusade.

You lost me at this point. If NVGs were nerfed, the benefits would not be equal to the work it takes to obtain them. There are other items in the game which give people no less of an advantange to what the NVGs give, like the L85A2 RIS CWS for one. To make use of the NVGs, users also have to play primarily at night and in the lower possible light levels, when the servers generally aren't populated enough to confer the kind of "fatal" advantage that you exaggeratedly try to assert there is. At any other time of day a makarov can still end an NVG user's life. At night, the same if the user telegraphs his position and doesn't play smart, or if there's another player with either a L85A2 RIS CWS or even an FN FAL ANPV S4. If you want "balance" and noob friendliness, go play a regular online FPS.

A higher spawn rate? Teammate has been sick for several hours. We can't do much with his dodgy health and loud cough. Tried recycling a hospital for hours - no antibiotics. Kind of stuck at this point. Not very fun :/

Read somewhere that this was added, but I can't find any info on it. Can somebody give me the run down on the feature?

Cheers.

Up until 1.7.1.2, I literally could not stop playing DayZ. The PVP was where the fun was at, and the zombies were more of a nuisance, but could be a significant threat in some circumstance. It was a pretty tight balance. Now the zombies are too easily agroed, and with bandages seemingly being so hard to come by now, it seems like the fun has been sapped from the game. It was also a kick in the teeth when I spawned to find that my M14 AIM, GPS, rangefinder, and pistol had been replaced by a makarov with a few mags. It took countless hours to find those items. Loot seems to be broken on every server, and I can only seem to find tin cans. Bandages were kind of perfect before, you'd usually have just enough in stock to save you after a zombie agro incident gone wrong, now none of us want to spawn in because we only have two bandages left between several of us, and can't seem to find any more. There's a group of about a dozen of us, and we'd normally jump on 4 or more at a time, but since the last few patches nobody is playing. Until the zombies are nerfed, the lack of bandages, food and other loot is resolved, the game is just unplayable. I'm a huge fan of DayZ, and love all the tireless work rocket and others have put into it, but in my opinion the latest few patches have thrown everything into disarray and broken the game.

The only thing in my gear that I could be unsure about was an M14 AIM that I got from the barracks off a dead body, and an M1911 mag that I got from a pack of tents. The rest of my gear - rangefinder, GPS, M1911 - was all gear that I had either picked up from a spawn, or been given by a friend who picked it up off a spawn. Yet today, I and basically half of a server crashed in the dodgy update, and when we respawned after rolling back to 1.7.1.1 we lost all our main gear and it got replaced with a makakrov. What the hell? I've never duped anything, wouldn't even know how the hell to do it, and find that sort of crap abhorrent, yet I and half of a server lose all our hard earned loot because we picked up an item that unknown to us might have been duped? If that's even the case?

I don't suppose our characters are retrievable? Lost an M14 AIM, GPS, rangefinder and pistol was replaced by a makarov.

Lost my M14 AIM, rangerfinder, GPS, and M9 SD was replaced by a makarov and 3 mags. It's like it wiped all my gear and gave me the old starting kit. I suppose it's not going to be retrievable?