Tonyeh

Does anyone say "hello" any more?

Namalsk hardcore is just too much IMHO. Tried few times, but there's just no fun to it. Might give the regular a go.

^ This should be the new Ice Bucket Challenge or something.

And I would.

A couple of shots from a .45 weapon should be enough to bring any man down. Having people run off after you've hit them a few times with a weapon of that calibre is dumb AFAIC and I've seen it happen. But TBH if getting rid of the "count weapon" flags increases the availability of AR weaponry I'd still do it in a second, because I hate those idiotic lines of code. In any case, if I had my way, I'd have no military grade weapons in DayZ at all. It would all be handguns, shotguns and civilian rifles. But they would be far more lethal than they are currently (shotguns aside of course). The military tents would be for medical items. Perhaps heli crashes might spawn the odd military gun here and there, but the ammo and mags would be super rare too.

I've been finding with 1.11 that the prompts for a few things have been that way. The Fill Bottle prompt at wells can be awkward too.

It may end up being the case that every one can end up with an AKM, but so what? At the moment, we have a situation where the vast bulk of players never even see those weapons, because a handful of people on each server can just eliminate them from existence. That's not a good gameplay mechanic no matter what happens if the "count weapon" flags are gotten rid of. And if players do want to grab an assault rifle and head to the nearest scrap, again so what? That type of player is going to do that anyway. They won't ever be stopped from doing that. It's been a thing with DayZ forever. The same as players who only play as snipers, which I have never understood. But there are plenty of people who play DayZ like me, who generally avoid other people and/or firefights if they can. But like to have access to decent weapons, of which the AK and AR families are, simply because the increase your chance of survival, which is the point of the game. The next best thing to an assault rifle to carry is an SKS, which is a poor alternative indeed. I have an AR at the moment (which I found just lying around ironically) and without it I would have been bear food last night. The 30 round mag I put into Mr. Bear is what helped me win the day and the 10 rounds in an SKS wouldn't have cut it. Neither would the .45 rounds in the USG I had before I found the AR. However, if people are uncomfortable with getting rid of the "count weapon" flags, the other option is to make weapons of more common type actually worth picking up. At the moment there is ZERO reason to even bother with something like .380 because it's so rubbish even against zeds and bambi's. Even 9mm is crap. I'd like to see all the damage values of ammo increased to actually make them something to be reckoned with, cos at the moment shooting at anyone/anything with below .45 calibre is next to pointless and, frankly, no player should be walking away from several .380 bullets pumped into them, which is what regularly happens in DayZ.

I really like it when that happens. I got surprised by a ninja zombie in a building yesterday and shot him. But despite having a suppressor on the gun, it alerted about 10 of the swines that were outside the building who then swarmed inside. Absolute panic stations. That's one thing I'd really like to see sorted in 2021 though. Suppressors on firearms that DON'T attract every zed within a 5 mile radius. How hard can that be to implement?

Yeh, this will be me too. I can just see it now....I stumble upon my beloved AKM, with a suppressor, a scope and two full mags of ammo. Then I'll log in the next time and find myself back in a pair of knickers and a T-Shirt because someone hit restart on the server.

Yeh, the thing about this durability messing is that it's so unnecessary. A few patches ago the durability of shoes and boots was absolutely fine. You got a decent amount of time out of a pair and eventually you had to go seeking new ones. Now it's like a pair of boots won't even last a game day especially if you're on a road. It's prudent to carry a spare pair with you everywhere you go because they're so flimsy. I've bought some cheap shoes in my time, but DayZ's footwear takes the mickey. But the knives durability is beyond a joke. Why anyone thought that they needed "tweaking" is beyond me. They were grand in 1.09. Nobody was complaining. Now every knife (including heavy duty hunter and combat knives) has the lifetime of plastic take away cutlery you get with your Chinese on a Friday night.

Ummm....well, I don't know if I can explain it any simpler. I spose that, yes, the outcome is the same. But the journey to that outcome is radically different, where one (getting shot, falling off a high building) is a result of playing the game and the other (switching the server off) is getting buggered no matter what you do, if you know what I mean.

But what it won't mean is that the hoarding eliminates the possibility of other players getting top tier weaponry. The hoarders can hoard all the AK's they want, but the map will still spawn them allowing other players to find them. In other words, hoarding doesn't mean that the map won't spawn the high value loot.

Well sure, we know that gear "comes and goes". But how it comes and goes is very important. I've died many times in DayZ, as has every player. I've been killed by zeds, by players, by animals, by the environment and by my inability to understand that when you pull a pin on a grenade by accident it's better to chuck the feckin thing as far as you can and as quick as you can. But, those are all things that the game is about and while sometimes getting blown away can be frustrating. It's the actual game's stuff you're competing against. So that frustration of losing your gear through something like that is short lived...and you learn to do better the next time. Whereas the frustration of losing everything because someone wiped the servers will just make people not want to bother even playing in the first place. Or at least not bother playing to the game's fullest potential. And yes, there probably are many players that would go through several toons in the space of a business quarter and will die due to the game's mechanics and basically their number was up. But that's not the same as being eliminated in a server wipe.

A stray bullet in the face is part of the game though. That's what makes it exciting as you're not sure who is watching you and if or when the firing will start. It makes the player be very careful where they go, especially when they have more to lose. A server wipe is someone turning the entire world off and on again which kills the player no matter what they do.

Then I would propose getting rid of the IN_CARGO, IN_HOARDER, IN_PLAYER parameters that were introduced a few updates back, because they are WITHOUT DOUBT the absolute worst additions to the loot economy that has ever been implemented in DayZ. If "balance" is what the devs are after, get shot of those limitations because they do nothing for the game. Wiping every player's progress every few months is the nuclear option and, frankly, an appalling idea.

Have to agree on the...um...discomfort that semi regular server wipes will have. Before 1.11 I had a toon that survived around 5 or 6 months. He was the longest surviving character I ever had and had gone through numerous fights with humans, zeds and animals and came close to death many times, but lived to tell the tale as it were. I had a nice wee stash of gear that I had harvested and even had a few little bases built (and raided). To me that's the ultimate point of the game and it was the most satisfying period of DayZ that I have played since I bought the standalone years ago. But wiping everything makes even bothering with any of that utterly pointless. Why would any player go through building up a toon and their stuff when a wipe will eliminate it all in a second? And you're correct, what will result is just people going for any mid tier weapon (hello SKS) and heading to Cherno for some CoD firefights until they are killed and they do all again in the same session. Because doing anything else would be a fool's errand. On the server I play on mostly, there was a large group who had basically turned Cherno in a fortress. They had a massive structure around almost the entire city. I reconnoitred them several times going about their business and even had unfriendly encounters with them around other areas of the map as we were in competition for resources. But there was a certain amount of excitement about observing what they were doing. Now walling off a city like Cherno is probably a bit extreme, but it was a great example of what some groups can do. But all that is now gone because somebody turned everything off and on again. That must have made that particular group hit the roof. All of that work, and it must have taken some effort indeed, was zapped in an instant. In any case, I had thought that DayZ had reached a point where server wipes (or at least character wipes) were a thing of the past. So the news of them being a thing again isn't very welcome.

I literally have a backpack with about 6 knives in it now, cos they're so rubbish. It's insane. I cut up a couple of bushes today and my "pristine" knife ended up "worn". A couple more and it would have been "damaged".

I can't say that I have ever seen anything as bad as that. Whether on my current 7200RPM HDD or my old 5400RPM one.

You might see a better load time, but that's about it. I have Dayz running on an SSD and an HDD and the difference isn't anything to write home about.

An SSD won't make the game run any better.

Knives REALLY need to be sorted. They are piss poor at the moment. A couple of NORMAL uses and they're buggered. A hunters knife will be badly damaged after skinning a few chickens. This is ridiculous.

LOL. I don't think I have ever been relaxed playing DayZ.

Neither.

There was complete wipe. Can't say I was too happy about it myself. I had the same toon for about 4 or 5 months. All zapped. TBH, I am in no hurry to go and do it all again.

Stop doing this [crouch run] and this [throw objects] because you're only making yourself a target. Crouch running makes noise and attracts the infected and throwing things riles them up and puts them on high alert.