Tonyeh

While I agree that tents and bases are pointless, I don't agree that buried loot needs to "just go away". Burying stashes should be the ideal method of keeping a cache of goods. What needs to go is the exploit that allows other players see buried loot. Because that's a serious pain in the arse. Storing anything in tents or buildings in DayZ, though, is a fool's game. Because the map is just too small. Your post apocalyptic home sweet home is simply bound to be encountered by someone. I tried it once. Found a really lonely cabin way off the beaten track and buried a lot of stuff in the garden of the house. I didn't build any structures or farm anything. So, it looked just like any normal house. My stash lasted for a few weeks and then I logged in one day to find everything had been nabbed. So that was the end of that. Now I build a crate and chuck it on the ground. Been doing this for a few months now and still have everything I've collected. You really need to away from the heavy traffic areas though.

Bases are a beacon. They, literally, advertise your stash, whatever it is. It practically entices players to try and nick it or at least fuck your base up. Any base that I have seen in the game has been hacked at at some point and absolutely nowhere is safe. Putting your stuff in a crate and chucking on the ground under a tree (don't even bother burying it) is a much safer way of keeping hold of your gear. Bases are pointless in DayZ, because [A.] the map isn't big enough for them to be truly remote, and [B.] You (or your buddies) aren't living there, so they are impossible to defend at all times, which they need to be.

I don't care.

What? There are more chickens in Chernarus than trees. Are you playing on official, or a super hard community server?

You have all you need right there to get food. Kill an animal, gut it and cook it.

Get off the coast. You're looking in places that have already been cleared out.

Why do people play games or watch movies/TV shows they don't enjoy? There's more than enough alternatives out there.

Exactly. A big structure just says "Hello!!! There's loot in here!!! See if you can break in to get it." Me, I'm still just dumping my stuff in crates and dropping them on the ground. Running the same toon for over two months now and nobody has found my gear yet.

I dunno. There are rusted out tanks and columns of destroyed military and civvie vehicles which suggests a longer period than a few weeks. I always figured that DayZ took place at least a few months into some apocalypse, maybe even a year. But that there's still an ongong battle between military elements and the infected, hence, still burning choppers. It's difficult to ascertain, but completely unimportant.

Agreed. I just think that the mechanics right now are absurd and after the first half hour cease to be important, because food is everywhere. If I had my way, eating would work very differently and would be something that the player would have to be aware of throughout the game, not just when the first log in with a new toon. I am not saying that players need to be always on the brink of starvation or be in a state of worry about it, but finding food throughout a toon's life should be a thing to be aware of. I'd also make food sources much more rarer than there are now.

I've asked a number of times before, but is food/energy really that difficult to implement in a game? Surely, it's quite simple no? If I kill a chicken and eat two chicken breasts, I should be ok, hunger wise, for a few hours or at least an hour of game time. I shouldn't immediately have to wander off and kill a slaughterhouse worth of cows to not starve. Food and nutrition in DayZ is a truly weird thing. I understand that the Devs want to make DayZ difficult and that a toon needs to eat SUBSTANTIALLY way more than anyone in real life. But at the moment it's mental. Plus, this "near starvation" period is only limited to the first couple of hours gameplay. Because once you're out of that danger zone, getting food is simple because it is so plentiful on the map. So, for many players, it just reduced things down to an irritation when they have to "reboot" their character after being killed. The only time players have to worry about food, or even just be mildly concerned is at the beginning of the game.

Horses would be eaten. 😁 If bicycles get in, I'd be grand with that.

He means legs, as opposed to bones elsewhere on the body. The devs have only made leg bones breakable in other words. Personally, I hope helicopters are never put into the game. It would be just silly. Having cars is bad enough. Having choppers zipping all over the map will turn it into the absurd.

Oh yeh, I killed one once just for that very reason.

Not an issue in DayZ. Sneak up to a deer, bang with a deagle...result. I've one shot several stags now. I don't know if being upwind or anything like that matters in the game. I'm sure something like that isn't modelled. But you can get very close to animals before they leg it. As for you seeing me in your scope, you'll never find me. 😄

All of the ammo in this game needs to be up'ed in terms of damage. You can, literally, riddle someone/something with .380 and they'll run away. 9x19 isn't much better. There really is absolutely no point whatsoever in even picking up the lower calibre weapons in DayZ.

I'm not a sniper. I find that a cowardly way to play the game. In any case, the deagle does well beyond that range quite easily.

The only issue is finding ammo for it. 357 seems scarce enough. Well, compared to 7.62x39. 😉

Too loud for me and if you miss, you're buggered. Desert Eagle, silenced, with a scope. It's my absolute go to now. I really hope the Dev's don't nerf it. It's a one bullet bitch at the moment. Killed a stag with one shot the other day. Can't even do that with .308.

Get a Deagle. The only gun you'll ever need. I feckin love it.

I think eating too much fat will make you hurl. Probably like real life, it has to be said.

I don't know why this can't be roughly implemented the way it used to be a few years ago. You get a break and you have to use a splint for x amount of time, forcing the player to get out of the way of other players and allow the break to heal. What's so hard about this? In .59 or whatever, I remember it being essential to have a splint in your kit bag.

It did. But your toon eats an insane amount of food. I wonder, is it that hard to make a mechanic whereby he needs to eat a decent meal twice (or even three square meals) in a game day? A couple of chicken breasts or a steak? I'm liking the new cold weather mechanic, but I've been dressed in Hunter gear anyway for the year, so this mechanic hasn't really been too much of a learning curve for me. And I've always avoided the rain, so there's nothing new to my playstyle with this patch with regards to that. Plus, I'll often just pick a secluded house to spend the night in, as boring as that sounds, so colder nights haven't been a factor. I think this patch has been harder on the crowd that run around at night in the pissing rain and newspawns the emerge on a desolate coastal area that go around in a panicked state and are now not only looking at their food meter going from yellow to red in the space of 20 minutes, but the temp icon constantly turning blue cos they're only dressed in a pair of torn knickers.

So, of course, Dayz makes a liar out of me. The last session, I found a VSS and an AKM with a silencer attached. I have been half a year searching for the normalised suppressor.

Heli crashes have been rubbish. Best thing I've got from hours of heli hunting has been a gillie wrap from my gun and a 40 rnd mag. 😕