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I do think it is worth questioning the logic of adding belt fed LMGs. First off the increasing rarity of ammo will make the SAW no more than a larger and heavier M4, if it were possible to acquire belts of 556 the whole loot system would become unbalanced. There's already 4 Nato crash site exclusive weapons adding the FAL and SAW seems to me to be unnecessary variety for such a rare loot point, especially when there's only around 10 different rifles to be found in all the civilian locations on the map.

Black is a hard colour to achieve in real life! It would be impossible to to dye leather a consistent shade of black using the primitive methods in the game, Inconsistent colouring across different items of clothing is realistic and more interesting aesthetically in my opinion.

I play full servers exclusively because I don't enjoy the game if I'm not in constant fear of being shot. I have never got the impression that the 1pp crowd look down on PvP, the only popular 1pp server in Europe right now has a very strong squad play/PvP focus.

This is planned, the vehicle related tools might be usable as soon as the next patch.

As has been said by many people, making all public servers 1pp isn't what Brian was suggesting in the original tweet and making all public servers 1pp isn't what this thread is about. He was talking about making all official servers 1pp which are the servers without owners that server providers are contractually obliged to run alongside the servers people pay for. He posted the tweet you link because lots of people didn't understand the difference between official servers and public servers.

The only reason this is an issue is because at the current stage people generally don't live very long and a significant amount of playtime is spent meeting up before dying and doing it again. If the average life lasted a lot longer then the initial time invested in meeting up wouldn't be so bad.

From my personal experience i found a lot more depth to interactions during the famine of .55, more people wanting to trade rather than risk a gunfight and even when you did get KOSed it was more likely to be for the food than for the fun of it. Once things become more scarce i think that the item damage mechanics will have a big effect on peoples willingness to KOS, if they really need someones supplies they might attempt a holdup rather than spraying them down and ruining all the items. Anecdotal evidence isn't really much to support the claim but I'm pretty certain that making survival harder wont do anything to increase KOS at the very least.

And yea, the seer spake and he said "No Fun Allowed" and thus top banter was banished from the land. It wasn't my intention to persuade or to belittle anyone in this thread, i wanted to see what people thought about the series of tweets Hicks made. What they thought the consequences, if any, of making official servers 1pp only might be, how the new server browser might work and the effect that could have on peoples server choice. What perspective is better is irrelevant to that discussion however when things get Fun i like to have Fun too.

No, i wasn't around in those days and my ancestors never learned the way of the third eye because the spirit father said using the pineal gland while hunting was for casuals. P.S. It's more likely to be a kind of squash or marrow, bananas weren't readily available in that part of the world at that time.

Here's something i found in a Czech cave:

Here's the results of the same poll from reddit if anyone is interested.

Hicks gave us a list of blockers in the last status report, since then Eugene has said that the only one they are still working on is vehicle desync. What more do you want?

Doom 3 does have 3pp, no one plays it because it sucks.

Having all public servers 1pp Isn't what Brian is suggesting though, he is talking about making all official servers 1pp which are the servers without owners that server providers are contractually obliged to run alongside the servers people pay for. The reasoning behind this potential change is that Hicks wants 1pp to be the vanilla DayZ experience, probably because he thinks it is better.

Yes mate, this early access post apocalyptic survival game is totally incomparable with this other early access post apocalyptic survival game that was inspired by it. I'm sure that there is absolutely no cross contamination between these two irreconcilably different player bases and any lessons learned during the development process of one have no relevance whatsoever for the other. Hicks know this well, his absolute refusal to engage with Gary is well warranted as any attempt at information transfer is utterly futile.