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The night is too dark at the moment, true. It should be adjusted some more brighter. But people would still use the gamma/brightness trick. Here's my solution for that: While making a profile / character in the main screen, you need to adjust your brightness and gamma there. Once adjusted, you cannot adjust these settings ever again unless you create a new profile / character. So if you wanna play both day and night, you can't keep the gamma and brightness at max because the day would look too bright and ridicculous. Of course there might be people who are fine playing with really bright day or people who stick to playing only at nights (just to get an edge to other players because they see better...), but this would some what fix the gamma/brightness abusing at the moment. I'd like to play with these really dark nights but it's useless knowing that every player has gamma and brightness up so they can very easily spot you while you don't see shit.

Sharing body heat... Sounds gay to me. :shy:

I have already added 3 players to Steam friends list who I met in-game. We didn't know each other. It was back at the day when there still was side channel and people were able to chat around the map. I just chit-chatted with all people and then few times we decided to team up with someone. One time I was in Krasnostav and the other guy was making his way there. It was a dark, rainy night. The guy said the had found a bus and was now in Krasnostav. I was moving towards the engine sound and then saw the bright headlights of the bus. I ran there but zeds were banging the bus and not too soon, the bus exploded, killing the other guy. I looted his corpse (he had an M4A1 CCO and some useful tools) and when we later on (the next day) met again some place else, I actually gave him back his gear and he was forever thankful. From that point on, we've played together a lot. :P

So you can actually get off the map area? Didn't even know that. I thought people were whining even about that if you just hoard vehicles / other gear into a middle of a forest where people can't find it (well, so they say at least).

Bear traps can be used for protecting your camp/tent in the woods. :) Of course they may be used inside buildings to where people go to loot but if you can't see a bear trap on a bright gray floor of the firestation, you actually deserve to get your leg broken from it. Of course there needs to be a way to disarm bear traps (with toolkit perhaps?) but I'm sure rocket already has done this option.

I just wanted to add that I solved the black "Receiving..." screen problem. It stopped right after I changed "Video memory" from 'Default' to 'Low' in the game's Video settings.

I'm just playing normally with the newest beta patches and DayZ patches. But after playing fine for like 5-20 minutes (it varies), my screen goes black and I get the "Receiving..." loading screen (that you can see when you, for example, change Video settings or when you get back to the game from Windows's desktop). It's just stuck there and nothing happens. The game is still running in the background and I usually just have to immediately Ctrl+Alt+Del my way out of the game just so that I don't get hammered by a zombie horde. This started happening right after 1.7.1.5 or the new beta patches (don't know which but with 1.7.1.4 and the old beta patch, everything was fine). I haven't noticed any posts about this issue but I just can't play right now because of this issue. It happens probably every time I try to play. I have tried different servers. Got the same thing on both EU11 and EU12 just today. Help..? :(

Bump. Any ideas? :/ Posting my system specs here just in case: - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz - ATI HD 5870 1 GB - 4 GB RAM (DDR2 @ 800 MHz) - 80 GB hard drive - Windows XP Professional (32-bit) Tried re-installing DayZ, didn't help.

Would you rocket please look into this issue? The black "Receiving..." screen problem is still upon me and some other people. I really can't play at all right now because I have to reboot the game almost like every 15 minutes (and wait for the loading of the game/mod and the server which takes like 5 mins). Threads created about the issue here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=19045 (my thread without any replies) http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=19319 This all started for me after the 1.7.1.5 patch. I already re-installed DayZ and it didn't help so the problem is obviously in the newest code combined to something in my (and some other people's) system. Please see the linked threads for more information (in the second thread, people are also talking about some crashing which you should also look into, but I'm not having any crashing for myself, just the Receiving thing). Thank you for reading this (if you did). EDIT: It is working now! The solution was to change Video settings' "Video memory" from Default to Low.

What crash? My game doesn't crash. I'm talking about the black "Receiving..." screen which forces you to Ctrl+Alt+Del your way out of the game. The one that OP mentioned. He just additionally mentioned the crashing (which I'm not experiencing). So who is having the black "Receiving..." screen issue? NOT THE CRASHES. Please respond with your OS and in-game graphics settings. My PC specs: - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz - ATI HD 5870 1 GB - 4 GB RAM (DDR2 @ 800 MHz) - 80 GB hard drive - Windows XP Professional (32-bit)

I second this but I think 20 seconds is enough. And for server hoppers, I'd suggest that you have a cooldown before you can join another server so it encourages people to stick to the same server. I think a 5 min cooldown would be good.

How the hell do I know where east is in Canada 2 debug forest? I have no compass. Just fucking awesome...

I have a Windows XP (Professional) too. May that be the issue?

For the love of god, the game is still not set in Russia. :

Can't you play? I think everyone gets that same error message when they join a server. When I click "OK", I then just spawn and play the game normally without any problems.

Yeah take your time, rocket. The mod is really playable and enjoyble now so there's no rush.

That playstyle really pisses me off. This. And he even said he was playing on a server with only 3 people (of which one was his friend)... Such a pussy way to avoid bandits. I'm glad your friend got killed.

Wait.. what? You try and run up a very abrupt hill in real life. It's realistic that you cannot sprint it up. It's an ArmA feature too, not DayZ. It's good how it is since this game is supposed to be realistic.

Yes, they are spawning. I actually found two next to each other from a small storage house. Other than that, haven't found any but my friend has. It sure is really annoying that people keep blocking ways to firestations, church etc. with barbed wire and tank traps. :| Oh, and about morphine: I think it's good how it is now. People are forced to go to the hospital at some point of their adventure if they want to survive longer. What should change is that please add one morphine auto-injector into your spawn loot. When you spawn somewhere very far away from the two major cities, you're fucked without morphine if a zombie gets a good swipe at you. One is enough to make you able to go to the major cities and loot for more morphine. There's plenty of them in the hospitals. They do seem so spawn randomly somewhere else too (have found some from firestation and Balota airfield tower) which is fine. And bone breaking should be nerfed. Instead, make zombies give you more damage from attacks but at least nerf the bone breaking. And sorry, but I'm still complaining about the black "Receiving..." screen problem. I hope you look into it, rocket.

You're on debug hills. Search "debug hills DayZ" on Google and browse for a solution.

I'm wondering the same thing. I'd love to have 3rd person view removed from the game altogether.

Any sort of fix coming out for the black "Receiving..." screen appearing every now and then during gameplay (and usually even just staying there forcing you to Ctrl+Alt+Del your way out of the game)?

Hahah, this is golden.