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Kind of lame, I think gamma should be enforced by server settings, because people who don't use exploits to ignore the ingame lunar cycle are sitting ducks to those who do. I've experienced this kind of thick darkness a couple of times in my life, where nothing but stars were visible. Star light alone is not enough to make features on the gound distinguishable. You need a moon or light pollution. There's no light pollution in DayZ, because of the whole zombie ordeal, no electricity, no clouds reflecting light for villages behind the horizon and the no a statical full moon, making your game easier.

Global chat in populated areas = yelling loudly = greeted by the official zombie welcome committee?

Checked it in the editor. When a handgun you rise to a knee, with a rifle you can loot prone.

His death made you feel bad, I sincerely hope you reported him to the server admin!

Please remove dark nights, PvP and change zombies into huggable pillow people and where's my health-regen?! Survival isn't suppose to be this hard!

Engine limitation and probably fits the gameplay too. Winchester and Makarov ammo come in bulk, while ammo for top tier weapons are harder to find.

On a scale from 1 to 10 is this thread working as it was intended or could it have been posted in another more relevant forum, could the title of the thread have revealed more about the actual content, rather than demanding attention and does the first four pages serve to achieve it's original purpose?

Did you have a handgun or rifle in hand while looting? I think if you loot with a handgun in hand you raise to a knee, but not with rifles.

Group/team designation. Not important in DayZ, because all players start alone in their own one man group. In a regular ArmA mission groups might look like this: 1-1-A Teamleader Grenadier Medic Machinegunner Rifleman Rifleman Rifleman/AT4 1-1-B Teamleader Grenadier Medic Machinegunner Rifleman Rifleman Rifleman/AT4 1-1-C Spotter Sniper

I think Rocket said Average Life Expectancy only starts counting players who survived past the two minute marker.

lol before I clicked, I thought about posting exactly that as reply. Great minds... aren't bandits.

I only tested it with an empty backpack in the editor and it felt like I could sprint alot longer, than what I've experienced in DayZ with a full pack. While swiming it's a bit difficult to hear your breathing over the crashing waves, but it sounded like, I regained some of my stamina by threading water or swimming slowly in "walk toggle".

I've experienced this kind of darkness a couple of times, away from light pollution and on moonless nights. The starlit nightsky is insanely beautiful, but without artificial lights, all you can rely on is sound, memory and the surface you walk on. Trippy.

Atm moon rises around 1AM. DayZ/ArmA has a real day night cycle, a real calendar year and a working lunar cycle. Just survive long enough for the moon to go full. Any action in DayZ, comes with a risk, so does traveling at night. There are less players on servers at night, so start getting comfortable using flares, chemlights, flash light and ears.

I think it's bugged. Should say 03:28 or 04:28, but someone sleep deprived forgot to add a the second hour decimal, so now it says 0:28. ;)

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The time you spend on dropping all your gear, you could use on resting before entering the water. If your character is breathing heavily, don't enter the water. You only drop your gear if you're exhausted.

Bandits are KOS.

This is not a rhetorical question, are you retarded?

Slow zombies only work in overwhelming numbers and when in situations where survivors are forced to barricade their shelters to rest and sleep safely, becuase they can't log out.

A dead survivor is cause for alarm and you need to acknowledge the mistake of not immediately leaving town after looting the dead body.

Moon rises at around 01.00 at the moment.