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A little bit of a rant. I'm fucking fed up with night time. I have to stop playing as a completely black screen is no way to play a game. Yes I know there are light sources in the game, but that doesn't help with navigation and I find results in death by zombie as you might see one, but not the other 3 in the area that come to join the fight. And on the server list are not displaying the correct time. I have lost count of the servers that say its daytime and I log in to find its actually night time. This has been talked about a lot, but it seams that the deves are being slow to fix this.

I do hope Tent and Barrel placement is improved.

Well finally got a car to run. Worked out it needs a lot of water and oil to stop the engine from being damaged. Once that was sorted it drove like shit. Steering was useless and not being able to steer when breaking resulted in a lot of crashes. Why are the cars in such a poor state? Also I was running with a tyre in my hand got zombie agro and died as it took too long to change to my axe. Surley they should have the mechanic that you drop it for your weapon? What was a fun game is rapidly diminishing with all these little issues. Oh well its day F**** z.

Well I see we are playing whack a mole. Fixe one thing and something else breaks. Is it supposed to be that you open the barrel to see inside? I did this then I had a bug when nothing else would show up in the local vicinity bare when in inventory:-(. Also why do I have to always set up my key bindings before starting the game? On the plus side it is very smooth graphicly at the moment.

Ok not sure what is going on, but I can't play at the moment. My keyboard and mouse work fine in the main menu, but as soon as I get into the game nether of them work. I have a Merc stealth keyboard and logitech G903 mouse.

Very sad. Played Dayz yesterday ok, but today! nothing as I keep getting the blue screen of death when I get to the main page. It has happened a couple of times before, but it's consistent today.

When are they going to fix the night? It's as frustrating as hell. Also I know in real life you could not jog with the Mil tents, but it took me an hour to get to my camp and it was about 2 clicks away. That was a long tedious walk.

I would say it's rainz or nightz not to sure about the day part at the moment lol

Well RIP Woody and Road Runner. At the moment I don't feel I get enough time on public for car testing or base building. Any time we start getting close it's a wipe and start again. Might/might not give the game a break until its at 1.0. I can see there are going to be a lot of updates and persistence wipes. And Bio it is laughable when you get KOSed by a fresh spawn when you are a freshie yourself lol.

Sorry Bio I right royaly fked up there. I chose a server run by a shitie company for server updates. I promise to try harder next time. I was looking forward to a couple of hours playing tonight to find Gameserver.com like to take their time server updating. May be tomorrow we can try out a 4*4.

Well as far as I can tell base building is going to be fun. The camp me, IMT, Bio, Art made is no longer in a viable area as in the last 2 days people have been in that area as there are now interesting things there, were as before there were not. The whole map looks like that now and base building isn't helped as you are limited to flat ground. If you could build anywhere than it might open things up. I like the open servers for the thrill of being shot at or making friends and will your camp be discovered. But at the moment I find it just not viable. Its a grind to move things on foot so transport is the ideal thing for moving tents, barrels and building materials around, you need to hide it all and that I just don't see as an option at the moment. I could be wrong . And yes I know you could get away with a tent or barrel in the right place, but that isn't base building. I feel the game is unintentionally moving towards PVP and not PVE.

I wish night time was like very early dawn. You can see a outlines, but the terrain (ground) around you is invisible. I stumbled into things and dropped off rocks and tree stumps as I could not see them as they were close to the ground. All it needs to be night is to loose the colour and a dark sky. At the moment walking around the coal mine with no torch is not very enjoyable and even with the torch it is still not good for navigating as funny old thing it doesn't light up the land marks that are in the distance. And I don't want to be swapping to a compass all the time to be navigating (not sure if you could see the compass any way in the dark). Also combat in the dark is poor as you are fighting in the pitch black as you have no torch in your hand when you swap to a knife or axe.

So the deves have gone for a lot of night servers and rain. Are the pushing everyone on to the day servers to max them out? There is in my humble opinion some balancing required, A bit less rain or have raincoats working. Don't make the night as dark as it is. I know some of you might like it, but they are all the low pop servers so that has to tell the devs something. Personal I would be happy with 50ft where I can see things reasonably well and after that just outlines. At the moment it can be like walking around a coalmine with your light off. Balancing of zeds again. Too much Item damage being done. It would be nice if we were getting more of that damage and less on are items and lastly we have also gone from one extreme to the other for bleeding (haven't had to use any bandages yet). Apart from that the game is on the up.

Rain sucks they could do with sorting that out sooner than later. Running around naked was just as effective as a rain coat :-)))).

Found the 4*4 hard to drive. I was in first gear and the steering was awful. I went from hardly any steering to massive over steering. I trashed the 4*4 I had running :-(. And I have noticed that Night and servers with rain on them are empty and the nice sunny ones are full. That looks like the way its going to be played at the moment. Time to get a raincoat and dry bag I think:-)). Oh and I don't mind that you loose energy at a fast rate whilst running or cold, but I was eating mushrooms and as soon as I had finished the arrows on the food went straight from supplying energy to loosing energy. So they seem to be the celery of the game and do nothing really.

So can I get this most definitely clear. It is most definitely going to Beta by Christmas? And at 1.0 we have a stable base platform of the game? If so you have 8 weeks to fix the base game. Good luck and lets hope you make it. If that isn't the intention and that it is made stable after 1.0 then "Houston we have a problem". I get the need for a stable platform to build on. But if you are opening it up to the rest of the world to play there has to be more in it as you WILL get bad press regardless of it only being Beta and more so when the content of .62 is touted around. Any one new to the game that comes to this forum will soon know how much is missing and how hard done by will they feel and may be go and give more bad press. Oh well the decision has been made and I think the wrong one. May be you will survive as people overlook the game as better things are out there to distract them and when the game is ready for a big song and dance you might get that influx of players as suddenly they seeing a cool looking survival game.

Well 1.0 is going to arrive in the next 2 months regardless of what we say which is going to be a big shame. It's as if the game is going back to day 1 and instead of being called early access it is now being called Beta and maybe in the next 5 years we will be back to a sort of .62 game. By the way the devs should be taking note. The stress test servers are empty and they were usually full with players testing. Oh well it's going to be milk and honey for me on all thoughs empty servers way hay lol. By the way IMT I do totally agree with you.

I agree with IMT's comments about you going to BETA. When you said you were doing it by the end of the year I thought that was a bit ambitious and you are proving me right. I understand you need to have an end goal, but there is so much missing from the current game engine that was in the old engine it's laughable. BETA is not going to be a survival game it's just going to be a PvP map with some infected as a minor irritation. And that is not what I was looking for in this game :-(. I grade this game as an L (listen to the community).

Have you tried to open a door when your axe/gun/fists are raised? I have and you can't. It's experimental and its clunky at the moment. The fact that when melaying a zed you walk through them so have to turn around to be able to attack them again isn't good either. I'm just a bit frustrated as the mechanic isn't intuitive with raise to attack lower to interact with an object then raise to attack again especially with doors. And lets be honest in real life you can run away very quickly from having a gun and you automatically lower it, so why not make it that way in the game? So why add this coming out of the attack stance to run? It's on the experimental side at the moment and I'm sure it will improve over time.

Ok I'm loosing track of the amount of zombie deaths I have had. I really don't like this raise weapon to attack things. It is very glitchy for me and I feel that if you have a weapon in hand and you attack it should automatically raise. Just got killed by a zed as he traped me on a fence and I just could not raise my axe to kill him or move to a position to see if I could raise my axe to attack. Nor do i I like it that you can't run in the attack stance or interact with objects. I do hope they sort this out soon as I'm starting to find it game breaking. .

Has any one else lost their camp after today's maintenance?

OK Baty is there a timer on vehicles that makes them all reset. We had a nice car park at are camp and all of them have gone. We had left some for testing this problem so they had not been interacted with since the update, But we lost a V3S cargo that I had only used a few hours ago as well. 2 trucks were right next to are camp and are camp had not been looted so I know it was not some one de-spawning them.

Not sure as I'm playing on a low pop server and don't see many people on it, but loot is very low even after the server restarted after update. That's when its clover time for loot lol. I don't mind as it makes the game more interesting, but it would be nice to know if they have dialled back the loot. I heard some one up at Tisy mil base. Don't think they are a good shot as they were going through ammo like they didn't have a care in the world. They must have been stuffed full of it. I would not have been wasting as much as it is hard to come by now a days. Even server hopping you won't find that much. Wish I had seen them to have seen them missing what ever it was they were shooting at. I'm a poor shot, but not as bad as they sounded. They must have gone through a 30 rd mag to hit what ever they were shooting at at one point.

Has the loot been dialled down on exp servers? They got wiped on the last update, yet I'm not finding much. I'm just wondering is it me not having much luck.

Are vehicles de spawning? I have lost 2. I could understand some one finding one of them, but both and not my camp? My second vehicle was not as easy to find. I hate the unknown. Oh well time to look for transportation. And yes I suppose they could have destroyed them.