just thinking about this coming update a little more.... zombies not hearing gunshots, yeah that was a bit much. But here's my complaint......now that in 1.7.2 you've added this random factor of a zombie suddenly having super sight, it makes impossible to get into a town, never mind actually loot the town, without getting some kind of aggro. When you combine this with the fact that zombies will continuesly respawn and continuesly aggro as you kill other zombies....you are basically screwed. You'll never have enough ammo because the zombie hoard will never end and there is no way to get rid of the aggro. Even if you lets say run through a building and manage to lose the one zombie, you will eventually get caught again (usually shortly afterwards) by the random zombie super sight. It's just ridiculous. Having zombies not hear the gun shots was a counter balance. Sure you'd get aggro but you could at least deal with it and move on without getting aggro from every damn zombie in the town. Taking away this counter balance is going to make looting in town damn near impossible. In 1.7.1.5, you could at least be very slow and careful and manage to get through a town (for the most part) without getting aggro. I mean you really had to be slow and careful but it could be done. Now you can't and you've got no way to effectly deal with the eventual aggro you are going to get. Do I think the zombie not hearing gun shots was unbalanced. Yes. But I think the random super zombie sight is also unbalanced. Take out the random factor. Honestly I think the zombie mechanics were just fine in 1.7.1.5 minus the hearing through walls.

well hopefully the vehicle issues are solved before you start banning people because I end up having to jump through dozens of servers to find another one after the vehicle I had AGAIN magically disappeared after a server restart. I also some rebalancing of loot is done as well. For example, I can go into a supermarket and find 6 watches but I could search the supermarket and every little corner store in cherno and not find a single compass, or a rifle, or a box of matches, etc. I could also search every shed in cherno and find at least dozen tank traps and a dozen wire kits but can't find a single tool box. And if you want a car....yeah good luck finding those engine parts. The spawn rates for some things are just way out of whack and the only way to find them IS to server hop...unless you enjoy spending days running around the map to find the one thing you've been looking for...without a compass. Regarding the removal of the respawn button...... PLEASE put a prirority on giving us some option to choose a spawn location then. It's already hard enough to try and get together and play with your friends ( or meet new ones since you've taken out side chat)

even after saving I'm find that vehicles are just randomly dissappearing and do not come back after restart. I've had two cars disappear over the past couple of days. One was parked and saved and a couple of guys in our group were at it just a few min before a restart. After the server restarted boom it was gone. The next one, we were in the car when the server restarted. When we got back on, car was nowhere to be found. we traced our entire rout from the last time the car had been saved.

not gonna point out again the obvious stuff already listed. I will say though...... the daily aoa beta patches are getting a bit annoying. Unless they are fixing something critical I'd much rather have them release larger patches then yet another update that has only a random change or two in it.

I had this happen to me as well. I was all the way north and spawned by kamenka. It's data corruption that causes it. The corruption happens generally when get stuck at loading or character creation on a server or if you randomly lost connection. Good news though is that rocket has worked on this so that when there is data corruption you get spawned on the map on not off map in the debug plains (which you can't really get out of and you have to respawn and lose all your gear)

I found one the first building I entered

manually upated to 1.7.2.3 and 94876 (from 1.7.1.5 and 94444) no issues getting on a server with the correct versions. (I did notice a few servers that said they were updated to 1.7.2.3 but were were not.) I can't comment on the gear as I was starting with a new character. Still waiting for the server with my camp to update and make it back there to see if my camp (tents and cars) is still there. It has disappeared and reappeared a few times since 1.7.2 came out.

It's really great to see a thread in here that made it past the first page without it getting all bleep bleep bleep cod kiddy bleep bleep noob bleep bleep cry whambulence bleep bleep. Nice job guys on the good discussion. Thanks rocket for responding. Good to see you're alive and well. Hopefully you've been able to get some rest with all the craziness going on.

lol I have sort of the opposite issue. we have a bunch of tents in our camp that should have de-spawned by now (because we died) but they haven't.

First let me say as a former clan leader and server provider I understand the amount of work that goes into keeping a server up and running. It takes a lot of work and is a thankless job. So let me thank you all for what you do. It is appreciated. I do have one issue though..... server names PLEASE can you guys fix your server names. It's making finding a server VERY frustrating. Common issues are - UTC times are incorrect (this happens a lot!!!) - Server difficulty is wrong - No server difficulty listed (yes I know you can see it below but you can't filter it) - Difficulty edits not listed (ie crosshairs, third person, etc) - wrong dayz version listed or not listed at all - wrong arma version listed or not listed at all There is a standard format for the names server number/location/dayz version + beta version/difficulty/difficulty edits/UTC/host Can you all PLEASE follow it and make sure your info is correct. Many people would really appreciate it. Thank you.

Its a great idea since I'm the one who actually came up with it. ;-)

So far in about 130hrs of playing I've found - gps (2x) - nvg - m107 (2x) - ghillie suit (2x) - mk48 (2x) - L85A2 Just got the L85A2 yesterday in a chopper crash. My bud picked up a m107 and there was also a DMR there too. Was a pretty epic loot find. Crash site was in the middle of nowhere.

I've had no problems getting rid of the tank traps at all. Just put my site on there and used the scroll wheel to get the option.

Gotta agree with the OP 100% I've spent a lot of time on a ton of different gaming forums. This one is certainly special...and not in a good way.

I'm just going to echo what many have said already..... There's a fine balance between "realism" and "playability." No chat... - makes it MUCH harder for newer players - you have to assume everyone is hostile because the direct voice/chat doesn't allow for communication at a distance. You are forced to shoot first ask questions later (which you can't even do that now) - makes it virtually impossible to be able team up or coordinate - makes it virtually impossible to meet new people I just started playing this mod about a week ago and have been able to meet a few people. The best times I've had was when I was able to team up with others. Now that I can't communicate my intentions I won't be able to do that. I've really enjoyed playing the game (almost obsessively) prior to this latest patch. I wasn't fond of the no gun, zombie buff, etc but I could live it. However, being forced to essentially play the game by myself is the last straw. If the chat changes stay, I'll be forced to move on.