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You can also set HDR to Low rather than messing with gamma. It helps a lot, in my opinion. Since I switched HDR to Low, I haven't touched my gamma setting whether it is day or night.

The loot distribution is currently in bad shape. What happens is that too many items are spawning in one location, thereby lowering the overall number of food items that can spawn elsewhere. I see you are new, so maybe you aren't aware, but you can always give farming a go. Find yourself some seeds, a tool for digging a garden plot (hoe, field shovel, shovel, pickaxe, etc.), lime if you can find it (not necessary), and some water. It could save you from death.

I could not agree more. It seems that after 400 hours, I still learn something new every time I play this game. The funny thing is that it is still nowhere near done and there will be tons more to see, do, and learn.

You might squeak by if literally nothing else in your home is using your bandwidth and (this part is important) your connection is especially stable and you always get the bandwidth you pay for. Dayz uses no more than about 500kbps which is less than half of what you posted. That said, I would try to upgrade your internet if you can. In today's landscape, that amount of bandwidth is just not going to cut it. EDIT: Also, why is your ping so high? I assume that test you ran was an automatic test through speedtest.net? If so, it should have selected a local server and if the best server it could find produced a ping of 87, then you might be in for some problems. Games require as low of a ping as possible.

Biohaze and I crashed a server the other day because we piled all the lootsplosion loot into one corner of a jail. There was so much stuff that it all started to fall out of the prison through the wall. It took a solid 5 minutes for the server to come back up. We only looted sodas from it. Lootsplosions make we want to puke. We were just doing our civic duty as Chernarussians and forcing all of that crap to despawn.

Blasphemer! Lol. I can't get behind that kind of statement. The game is fantastic in my opinion. I can't believe how many hours I have sunk into this alpha in only a few months. I fully expect to sink many hundreds, if not thousands, more hours into it before it hits release. Every update brings so much more to the table. Don't get me wrong. I loved the Mass Effect trilogy. However, Bioware bit off way more than they could chew and did not have a coherent outline for story. ME3 dropped the ball pretty hard in more ways than just the popularly acknowledged one. Fallout 3 was good, probably one of the best games I have ever played, but New Vegas was buggy trash that the community had to fix with mod-patches and it really only worked well on PC. I tried to play it for the first time on Xbox 360 and never could get more than 10 hours or so in before my game save corrupted. Morrowind was fantastic and I do like 4 and 5 but they moved into the AAA accessibility space and dropped a lot of the complex systems that gave Morrowind its charm, depth, and immersion. I don't get that impression, but perhaps its because I'm pretty aware of how a game is made. The scale of what they are currently working on to bring the engine up to snuff is pretty large and I think we are right on the precipice of massive beneficial changes. To be only this far into alpha with ancient tech and have it run as well as it does is a massive accomplishment in and of itself which is to say nothing of what they have in store.

I doubt servers for it will still be up in 2031. Otherwise, I think this game has the potential to be one of the greats that people still play many years down the road. Maybe it isn't the greatest game ever...yet. However, my point has more to do with potential than the current state of this alpha.

That sounds fun. Maybe I should start doing that.

Posting here, as is the case with nearly all games and their respective anti-cheat measures, is not going to help you. I would contact Battleeye directly.

There are more than before, sure. If you have really any gun, they are trivial at best. The fact that the player has unlimited stamina and can outrun the zombies make them basically a negated presence on the field. Also, I spawned in fresh on a private server a couple days ago and let 3 zombies beat the tar out of me until I fell unconscious just to see how much damage I could take. Excluding the 5 hits or so I took when I first spawned, they hit me at least 25 times before I lost consciousness. The zombie AI has better pathfinding than before and they don't clip through solid objects (i.e. walls) as much as they did before. However, they are still pretty damn stupid. For example, they pile into the back of V3S trucks when you drive into a town, do not attack the truck, and don't switch aggro to you when you get out. Zombies spawn in an area only when you leave the area. This means that once you kill the X number of zombies that inhabit Y town that you are in, no more spawn until you leave. Rather anticlimactic overall.

While this is technically true, I wouldn't expect it. So far (without actually farming for this effect) we haven't seen anything substantial spawn after clearing out the lootsplosion.

We saw exactly the same things happening. Leave a room, come back, more stuff after we had just cleared it completely. I swear I've watched soda cans spawn right in front of my face too, but I always wanted to dismiss it as something that perhaps didn't render right away or something I missed.

I haven't seen anything that definitively states the Mosin will never accept anything more than PU scope in the future. Perhaps there will be something elusive and higher magnification than the PU in the future for it. I wouldn't hold my breath, but maybe.

Seriously, good on you for not taking offense and actually listening. You deserve many cans of beans! :beans: :beans: :beans: :beans: :beans: :beans:

That's why death is bittersweet. Sure, you lost all your stuff, but gearing up again is exciting.

You don't understand game development. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be harsh or rude, but you clearly don't. The game is in Alpha because it's in that particular stage of development. Alpha = Features being added. When stuff breaks or doesn't quite work right, oh well. Soldier on and plan for fixing it when the exact right time for it arises. After all, what sense would it make if, for example, the devs spent weeks fixing some archaic system that was was being ripped out and replaced with another? Beta = Feature Complete. This stage is when the devs hit bug fixing hard. This is also the stage when things like balancing come into play.Beta is about polishing the crap out of the code monster you slapped together during Alpha. Gold = This is the release version. I don't think that needs explanation. The fact that this game is as playable as it is during this stage of development is a true testament to the skill, willpower, and ingenuity of the talented people at BI.

I'm sorry, but the message you were trying to convey did not make sense. Please try again at the tone. - BEEP - Joking aside, what do you mean?

Because..............ALPHA.

I stacked those backpacks. And my husband is quite satisfied with my performance, thank you very much.

He probably couldn't hear you or you couldn't hear him. Twice now I have had some kind of bug that prevents others from seeing typed text or hearing spoken word through the in-game communication systems.

Tried it. Confirmed this works. Excellent tip! :beans: :beans: :beans: :beans: :beans:

I guess I forgot about the current political climate.

I actually was kinda sad that we killed The Freeman, believe it or not. Then I thought about everything that led to our split second to shoot him. If the DA's shooting team had to investigate our actions, I feel like it would be ruled a righteous shoot.

I'm a new player so this went right over my head. What is he talking about? What are the Stary tents?

Thank you very much Tatanko! :beans: :beans: :beans: :beans: