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I wasn't sure how much of a factor it was. Where do you think the impression that it deals no damage stems from? Are people just hitting limbs or something? I remember oneshotting a healthy guy to the center of the chest with an UMP in 59, whose .45 ACP is quite similar to SP-6. You wish ^^ this won't happen before the player controller I think. I think it will be a gamechanger because, well, if you are on an open field and getting spotted, you are basically fucked without being able to zig zag bullets.

Ok so we have split opinions on the VSS so far.. some say it oneshots players, odin says it doesnt do much damage. But the truth is it deals 6800 blood damage IIRC (sadly I don't have the table/ spreadsheet at hand anymore), ranking only shortly behind the 308 and 7x56R in projectile damage, usually resulting in killing a player in 2 bullets unless the arms or feet are hit. The biggest weakness are the velocity and damage dropoff of the caliber I suppose. I'd rank the effective range of the VSS at around 100m at the moment. This weapon would become interesting if they implemented a 20rnd mag and it is one of the stealthiest weapons if / when the silencing works properly, which I am not sure it does atm.

Unbannable but mine stopped working after pathcing to 60. maybe I just gotta reinstall it.

Given the currently broken sprint zig zag movement I really wouldn't wanna use any low velocity calibers. UMP i.e. is good but the desync in combination with the ADHD zig zag sprinters has given me PTSD in the past.

Ak101 is an european export version of the ak74 so it fits with the nato heli and any AK attachments can spawn on any AK, thats why you found a PSO on it.

What does this mean? Civilian inventory as in.. civilian spawnpoints? The inventory of civilian clothes? Or civilian wardrobes?

You mention nvidia and someone else mentions amd.. and that turns it into a war? Just get whichever card has better performance/cost ratio when they are out. Bless benchmarks.

No but does anyone else dislike the kind of loot lottery involved in finding vehicle parts? It would be cool if there was some sort of structure to it other than having to rely on RNG and doing the same thing over and over (searching a million shacks).

Its nice that you replied, but some of your jokes are... Come to think of it, locking bikes would be awesome.. but what happens if you die and your body despawns and the unique key to your unique padlock is lost?

Its nice that you watch The Walking Dead, but some of those ideas are fucking riddiculous for DayZ. Padlocks would seem reasonable tho, but they have yet to announce their stance on stashes/loot/ loot "security" so to speak.

Well but thats exactly what I said.. it is good to drop to kill enemies behind walls. Thats all. It has no combat efficiency. Noone ever pulled out a grenade in a firefight, ever. Its just to kill campers.

Yes, the combat efficiency of grenades is non-existant, but they are great to kill building campers thru walls, if you simply unpin them and drag them on to the floor near your victims.

Plate carrier will be the only vest I will ever use for a long time to come. It doesn't look fat like the hi-cap and the UK assault, it doesn't look super noticeable like the press, it actually offers protection and 10 slots are more than enough. Plus thanks to the flawed lighting system camo is often useless as player models are brightened by light, but not so the surroundings. Especially in forests players are extremely noticeable no matter what they wear.

Great, now that we cleared that up, some people could stop bringing up how "great" 55 was.

I don't think that is the case and probably a server can handle a couple of "excess" barrels. Dont forget this can and probably has already been done via duping, but I guess people never really pushed it to find out whether there is a limit as to when the server will crumble.

Someone either has severe issues or doesn't speak english too well.. or both. I don't understand how so much aggressive behaviour simply gets tolerated all the time. On topic, can anyone confirm the 8 day thingy now? It seems to be working now, but it most certainly didn't at the time Brian posted it here, as several of the barrels I had placed several weeks ago vanished shortly after his post, even after being interacted with (and I am 100% it wasn't taken. Why? all my other, more valuable stuff next to it didn't get taken).

I know all of that. pilgrim doesn't want it to be that way. He wants it to be like this: you search a dozen helicopters, realize X rare firearm stopped spawning, and now have to search a 220km² map for it. Sounds like epic fun, am I right? Does anyone else here like that idea? Wait till helicopter spawns are fixed to 4h cycles again, their respective guns will be quite rare. In a moderated whitelist private hive where duping actually gets punished, things look much much different than they do on pub...most people can hardly maintain an AUG there. The reasons pilgrim lists as to why people supposedly get bored... well guess what, the duping coastal warfare pvp that is public hives does get boring eventually, and it continues to do so every patch, the main reason come back for patches is for new content/ guns /desync improvements. The main meta of coastal dupe warfare (which the majority of players seemingly participates in) will not change until the major duping problems get resolved. It's okay tho, that is what EA is all about. Guess what: most of the problems you mentioned do not exist on popular private servers, including players bored of having too much loot. Even on public, it is not a problem. Players haord because they can, want to and cuz there isn't much else to do. It is much less of a problem than you make it out to be, so there is no need trying to fix it. Maybe try to think more in long-terms, my dear sweet pilgrim. Because in the long run, these things will get evened out automatically, but it's hard to do when not even half of the planned features are readily in yet.

philbur can you blame them considering the shit they get? I'll link a post of one of the hurtworld devs (kind of a Rust clone). And that game has only been out for like what, 3-4 months? And it's far less popular. Imagine how the dayz devs must feel in comparison :D But then again, I wish moderation was a bit stricter in regards to ingorant / hate posts and devs would post or reply more often around here at the same time.

In case you are done making a fool out of yourself, answer the questions. What do you actually want to make scarce that isn't actually scarce already? (food doesn't count - it is already on the to do list of the developers.) How would making, say, an SVD any rarer make the gameplay any better whatsoever?

I don't have any ideas mixed up and I understand perfectly well what scarce means. Comparing items with vehicles doesn't help your cause. You want to search for X items in player tents, fine, I don't and I'd wager most other people don't, either. We don't need a "search woods" simulator. It is simply not a good idea to limit "essential" loot (I imagine you want guns to be this way...) to whoever gets it first. In the case of vehicles and containers it does, because they are neither essential nor can and should they exist in larger quantities, plus they are persistent, so they eventually get passed on to other players. Empty phrase. Give an example of how, say, having only 20 Aks spawn across chernarus and including tents and player inventories (which can be logged out aka safe stashed) would be a good idea. There is people that loot up and then never log back in. There is people that have 2ndary accounts to stash loot. There is people that would grief by glitching tents and barrels away with rare loot. Like - waht do you actually want to make scarce that isn't actually scarce already? An SVD or FAL can take days to find and that is with the current helicrash respawn timer which respawns helis 8 times as much as intended. How is that not scarce? How would making an SVD any rarer make the gameplay any better whatsoever?

A bit more on topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/4b1yod/psa_beware_your_base_despawning/ So yeah. Maybe there are some unresolved issues in that regard.

So we can have some griefers run into the server right after it wiped, collect all items of X sort and then hide them or worse, logout with them? Sounds extremely toxic and anti-fun to me. It's probably the worst idea I have ever heard. Also I already do (1st person private hive). As opposed to you I guess. No doubt, that is what freedom of speech implies. The question is just - why the pointless negativity? There are plenty of scarce things that are hard to find and desireable. Want me to list? Okay, sure. All guns from helicopters. Smersh vests are ultra rare. Boar pelts are somewhat rare. Ghillies are super ultra rare. M65 jackets are rare. Swords. Knight helmets. Nettings in general. Drummags. Silencers. 5.56 ammo. .308 ammo. Tires are rare - at least the ones that you need for your car, seemingly. Scarcity is a complicated topic. I don't want scarcity if it results in monotoneous, dull gameplay, that's for sure. There needs to be a balance. Removing all canned food from the loot table or having X item only spawn a couple of times isn't a solution to anything really. Player choice.. also: what goes around, comes around, right? I have shit stashed and still get an adrenaline rush when I get shot at. Besides I dare you to get a camp going on a populated private hive.. I bet you are one of them peeps hiding their shit on a low pop public. Well guess what, on private servers your camps usually won't last very long unless glitched or hidden super well and barrel, protector case and ammo box spawns are depleted after like a week within wipe if not way faster. That dynamic goes out of the window on public. In short, the problem is with you. Noone forces you to play like that. And most of those problems are fixed on a private. Hiding shit on a private for long is hard - and that is with a "severe" lack of vehicles and 50 pop max. Wait till that gets fixed.. then I'll say: good luck to having a stash or camp. :) Maybe because it isn't particularly exiting to watch someone find an item? But there are a couple of videos of that out there. Because that is all there is to do right now, essentially. Lack of features is what you signed up for in an EA title tho, isn't it? First of all, the game is what you make it to be. If you decide to sink a massive amount of time into it and do just that, then yes, that is what it is. See above. More precisely tho, the game is unfinished and in alpha stage. I think you are overanalyzing honestly, but can't really blame you for it.

Ehm... you would prefer if someone could just grab all the grenades of the server, stash them away and prevent everyone else from getting grenades? Maybe it would be healthier for you to move on and let the game go for a while. And this forum.

Appreciating the dev replies, but I kinda have to agree with emu, I also made a similar observation. Had barrels on public and they haven't been touched for more than 3-4 weeks, still standing. Then again maybe the server was buggy - I remember cutting down a tree and 5 days later it was still cut down.

If two privates are connected to the same hive, how many barrels will there be in total?