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Yep indoor lighting is simply too bright. During the day it is not a big problem but during the night it just looks ugly and unreal. Problem is, according to the map designer, that old parts of the RV engine that are still in the engine block this from happening. If you want to check it out, Adam said this in a tweet conversation somewhere in the summer. They can make it somewhat darker by other means but not by the way you mentioned, if I am correct. Funny thing is that those new barracks at the NWAF from Arma3 are much darker inside during the night in comparison with other buildings. Might be a taste for what is to come when the building interiors will be redone. My screen is pretty dark by the way, during the night I cant see anything in a forest, a bit more in the fields. Its the same as the screenshots. My friends game is also much brighter and similar to you, his screenshots are also much darker.

Seems you are pretty poor in doing research then if you came to that conclusion. I give you a hint: clickbait videos on YouTube is no research

Challenge accepted! I jumped into the offline version and thankfully found some deer (elk?) rather quickly. With my red hoodie I could come pretty close. So I don't think that clothing matters. Maybe they will in the future, since it should affect the infected's vision since last patch. I made two screens which you can see on my profile: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197971506802/screenshots/?appid=221100 The second screenshot was made seconds before they run. (Edit: I might make more screenshots in the meantime, just look at the ones with all the leaves and guy in red hoodie) I tried to come from behind as you might see in the first screenshot, but they all stood up at one moment and walked right to me. Now I didn't test yet how close you can come by jogging but I'm confident that is not as close.

In 0.62 I once crawled pretty close to some deers. Might be different at the moment in 0.63, but I am pretty sure that with 0.62 the player stance affected the detection zone.

Well cities are bigger than towns so overall there are probably more infected, but still not as much that it gives the same impression as it does with small towns.

Would be a kick in the nuts if they just brought back tents and barrels. That's no base building either, by my definition. And I'm not talking about those ugly kind of constructions you see in other games. No I just want the use the kind of walls mentioned by the devs, build a watchtower and place some lights with generators. And within the wall some tents etc.

I did not see him get mentioned but BabyNades also makes some very good DayZ videos. I really like how you follow him through a long play session and he perfectly edits it into a 50 min video.

Vehicles will be coming to the PC version somewhere in the upcoming months. So there is a good chance Xbox will see it this year as well. Don't quote me on it though.

I also seem to encounter less infected than before this patch. Might be just bad luck, will keep on looking. Also, with this patch my stamina bar and health, blood, thirst etc. icons are not located precisely in the left and right corner anymore

Yeah I don't receive that one and probably missed that forum post, even though I check it daily

They have to rework the whole interiors of many houses and industrial buildings and make them more lively. (Give the impression that people really lived and worked there, currently it looks to clean). Moreover, the houses are also too bright inside, especially during the night. Also, they should replace certain low poly furniture, floors and doors for example. The map developer of Dayz said a while ago on his twitter that revision of interiors of houses is on the to do list. So I am hopeful we will see some definitive improvements.

Because they did not specify that it will be released today in the SR but did for server owners in the newsletter, which I don't receive.

Yeah I also re-read it and I can understand why some might read it that way. Difference would be 'Within a week (7days)' and 'Within the next week (mo-su)'. I was just very surprised that I saw so many people on twitter going on about it.

I know, but this week is not over yet, right?

Why is everyone thinking that the server files are being released today? They said this week, so sit down and wait.

From everything we got so far, diseases is that one thing that is just too vague, even so vague that I almost do not even believe that there are like 5 diseases in the game. There used to be just one disease during the stress tests, cholera. Which you should get from drinking contaminated water. Well I never got sick during the stress tests, not even after drinking endless amounts of pond water. Now with the experimental candidate we are supposed to have five or so diseases. But I drinked liters of pond water and ate kilos of raw chicken..... and nothing! No sneezing or coughing as was mentioned back in July. No ill characters. Only a few times I randomly started to vomit. Its a disappointment because they said we would get diseases back, but in its current form it is hardly a feature.

It is a bit strange. You got the white fog, which feels like real fog and happens not often and then you got this blue fog that varies in its intensity. Sometimes on the coast it is pretty clear but other moments the blueish fog can really reduce view distance. If you start up the offline mode the weather should be sunny without much fog and clouds, like the standard weather setting. It might give an idea how clear it can look, even on the coast. By the way, I do have a feeling that the blue fog happens much less often than the earlier 0.63 versions, which I'm very happy about. Might have to do with the latest cloud update. Have been shooting lots of screenshots with the sometimes amazing views. And like Pilgrim said, it happens a lot during the early morning. I can confirm this as well.

The status reports should give a good indication about what to expect in the next content patch

By jogging or just standing still. If you mean that the white bar does not fill up, it means that you carry to much heavy stuff. Some things still need to be balanced. I read on some places that mushrooms weight 1 kg at this moment

Are we getting diseases that are more deadly and require more drastic actions to cure?

Because of the difference in engine.

There will be an animation for grabbing weapons from your back or inventory. They showed it a couple of Status Reports ago so I would guess it will be in the next major patch. That should give you a bit of more time to react etc.

Hope they can do better than this. I agree with nl and would like to add that they should make some detailed interiors in the crashed helicopter and put the loot inside instead of strangely finding clothes and weapons in the grass

I was wondering about this as well actually. I checked the Gamescom agenda but did not find anything like a PC games stream or something like that. Still there should be some information on the pc version according to the website of Bohemia: ''Key advancements have been made during the year thus far, and the game’s biggest milestone yet is just around the corner. The game will be leaving Early Access this year, and we now have an official date ready to share. We'd also love to talk about our new engine, as well as the current plans for the game - including the return of Survivor GameZ battle royale mode, modding support, post-launch development, and DayZ's imminent console debut.'' So yeah, I am really wondering when they will talk about all of the above.

I think the difference in server performance between Dayz and Vigor is because of the engine. Vigor uses the Unreal Engine which obviously is very stable etc. and Dayz is their first game on their brand new self made Enfusion engine. This basically makes the ''alpha forever'' argument redundant as well. Doesn't say I am not disappointed though. As a PC player I hoped to have the content patch much earlier on experimental and so far it it seems they cannot get the lacking server performance and BE kicks under control. I still hope it comes before the end of August though, as Xbox game preview starts then as well.