ColdAtrophy

This is actually the perfect point. The game the OP wants already exists, and has for a very long time.

Anyone seen these lately?

It's tough to comment on this and maintain any sense of civility so I'll just say this: re-evaluate your position on melee combat AFTER the new player controller is fully integrated and the old physics system is fully gone. Everything else you said is absolute nonsense, a result of being coddled by an incomplete placeholder that barely deserved the term "game". You don't get DayZ.

So this little bit here is the Chernarus map as we know it. We don't have a river as this map shows. That makes me a tiny bit sad.

Client FPS should not be tied to server performance anymore. Not sure why you'd see that, unless one of those servers has some kind of insane bug going on with 800 cows in a herd.

Can confirm. However, the sawn off is not sufficient if you run into a mega pack. After this happened, I started recording again so I will have proof next time. I ran into what I believe was 3 separate packs of wolves which had somehow converged into one. It was horrifying.

This. I played the living crap out of the DayZ when I first got it. Even still, I binge a bit here and there, but since 0.55 left Stable branch it has been mostly time spent in Experimental servers. It wasn't until 0.61 that I have finally got the real itch to play it again. For different people. the patch that will reinvigorate them will be different, of course, but the fact of the matter is that the OP has spent 5000 hours playing in a distorted, partially realized nightmare world. Even in a finished, largely bug free state this game will surely be a brutal experience and some of the nastier bugs in DayZ have been known to cause people to have full on emotional meltdowns. I have encouraged anyone who starts to feel even the smallest amount of weariness or burnout with this game to go play something else until you can come back and feel a strong urge to stick around. If a player is feeling fatigued by the game, the bugs, the glitches, the exploits, the pace of updates, etc. and they keep playing anyway as a part of routine or with a group of friends they play with often, I firmly believe that it causes that person to begin to resent the game and the developers, leading to the highly toxic threads we sometimes see erupt from people who clearly love DayZ and put tons of time into it, but can no longer have a rational conversation about any of it.

In response to the title question - Me. To be fair, the wolves helped.

Sheds of many kinds. Also, lodges. True story. Found one spawned upstairs on a low pop way up north. Looked like a mini lootsplosion.

Other than eating, what might a person do with mushrooms in such a setting? Anything?

It was confirmed by SMoss last year that animal companions are not happening as a part of the 1.0 experience.

Hunting bag. Green motorcycle helmet. Green Raincoat. Green cargo pants. Military boots for the combat knife slot or wellies. Choose whichever vest you prefer. Whenever possible I prefer the Plate Carrier because you never know when someone might shoot you. This has been my standard kit for several patches now.

Thank you for sharing. I hope they have plans to implement something like this in DayZ in the future. Until gamma manipulation can no longer be done, in game lighting is never going to be used en masse.

Another fantastic weapons post from Gews. +1 If complexity was a problem for us, none of us would be here. This game is fairly complex, constantly changing, and offers literally zero assistance, hints, or tips to the player.

It looks like the line "preferredObjectViewDistance" in your DayZ cfg is a little on the low side. Try turning it up in increments of 250 by manually editing the line in your config file until FPS becomes a problem or you achieve the visual quality you desire.

Removing 3pp isn't the same thing as fixing it. Plenty of games have 3pp cameras that don't give you a god mode drone camera.

No one is talking about an extra server type, or at least that's not the way I took it. It wouldn't be 3pp, 1pp, and this other one. Enforcing 1pp while the gun is in your hands would always be active during 3pp. Does it 100% solve the problem? No, but it does help and since those of us who prefer fair gameplay are forced into 3pp servers due to population and the mechanic in question is absolute bullshit anyway (I mean, seriously, how is this even a conversation?), this seems like a pretty decent compromise since no one is ever going to get what they want anyway. This is alpha still, the game has quite a long way to go, and I've seen some rumblings from BI that make me think the fat lady has yet to sing on this particular issue. "That's the way it has always been" is a terrible reason for doing anything.

1 - I prefer 1pp and this proposed solution would make 3pp servers far more tolerable to me. 2 - At some point BI needs to start thinking about more than the handful of people who currently abuse alpha mechanics and how they'll throw a temper tantrum any time something is tweaked.

The game only exists through the Steam platform. When you buy through the BI store, they give you a Steam key.

What kind of attachments can we expect? Where will this gun be placed in the rarity hierarchy? What will it be chambered in?

My PC is more than up to the task. I have an i5-4690k @ 4.5ghz, water cooled, GTX 970, 16GB RAM, Windows 10 Pro, (2) 256 GB SSDs and a 1TB HDD. OS and games are always on the SSDs. GPU drivers stay up to date. It still could be my PC is not handling something specific to .61 all that well though. I am having an issue still where my GPU driver randomly crashes. I can binge anything else as much as I want. Doom 4, Overwatch, Titanfall 2 - all run flawlessly for hours and hours. Exp .61 crashes for me randomly for some reason. I've tried two clean installs of different driver versions and none of it seemed to make a difference. I wrote it off as Exp woes and didn't think much of it, but as forcefully as people are claiming perfect performance, perhaps I shouldn't have. I noticed a lot more loading/lag spikes in .61 than in .60. My assumption was that it was because of the reintroduction of AI en masse. I was also playing on a high population server too since I was in the mood for 1pp and there was only server which was staying full.

They must've improved it dramatically since I last played it about a week ago then.

I don't like you, but I do agree with you. No offense intended. I had to say it that way to silence the protesting voices in my head. Six-0, while a very important and excellent update, was not much fun. Exp .61 is a little better, but it's not hooking me either, despite the fact that I missed infected AI desperately for the last year. Maybe as they polish performance up a bit it will get more fun.