Sykotron

Is it possible to change sound effects at all? I know in CS people modified their footsteps sound to be louder as to better hear people approaching. I wear a headset and all voice communication (Ventrilo) comes through the headset while all other sounds (game sounds) come through my speakers. I'm sure many people here have a similar set up, but this makes it dificult to hear footsteps which seem to be a very important aspect of this game. It would be really nice if you could modify them in such a way that instead of hearing different volume footsteps you just heard maybe the same volume always, but each footstep was followed by the spoken number for the distance they are from you as well as direction in some fashion. So as someone is approaching you you might hear *pitter patter 15m 7O'Clock below you*. It could be broken down into some shorter form as well to make it more feasible. This is a ridiculous suggestion that I know would never happen, but I'd like to be able to use the sound effects as well as hear my friends. Playing this game alone is very very boring to me.

You should probably do something like this for all of your change notes or have someone else write them for you because they're confusing as hell.I think each individual note should concisely state what the new and previous behaviors are without having to think about the wording. Something like "[Fixed] Infected are no longer deaf" would be perfect. Note the use of "No longer"

I've only seen loot spawn at a dog house twice EVER and both times it was floating in the air. Is loot spawning at dog houses broken?

I searched "dog house" and didn't see any other threads. Not that this is a critical bug, but I'm still surprised that this hasn't been brought up.

If you and your friend were too close he may have accidentally knocked you unconscious. It's happened with my friends plenty: we're proning around with no players in sight and all of a sudden one of us has a broken leg, loses large amounts of blood, begins bleeding out, and is laying unconscious. You get the shock debuff from taking damage from a player or the environment which includes many bugs involving your body clipping weirdly with other objects.

Huh? Your wording was a little confusing, but in my experience if I have say a Lee Enfield with 2 mags, when I move the Lee Enfield to my backpack it also moves the ammo meaning I need 12 slots free. I know if you try to move a weapon to a backpack without space it gets deleted, but I'm not sure how it works if you don't have room for the weapon AND the ammo so I always make sure I have space for both just in case.

I agree we should always, at least during the alpha, see death text. A lot of the time I don't know if I was shot from far away or some bug killed me :(

Fixed.

Unless I'm mistaken I think one of the issues on this forum is the lack of an effective search. From what I can tell it only searches for exactly the string you supply and doesn't actually allow multiple keywords. This problem is compounded by the fact that we have users of many different languages creating differences in phrasing. Am I doing it wrong? How do I effectively search for threads about potentially changing the hatchet to a secondary instead of primary? Searching "hatchet secondary" doesn't return anything, nor does "hatchet, secondary" or "hatchet; secondary".

Remove bandits and add dinosaurs

This one gives some nice additional info (such as what exactly generic loot can contain), but can you search in any fashion for an item? When I spawn I use dayzmap.info and search for ItemHatchet so I can get my zombie slaughtering tool and fearlessly run the city looting. Once I find my hatchet I change the serach to alice pack and continue looting. Whenever I find a vehicle I change my search to engine parts and get going. The search is super useful on dayzmap.info

I kinda figured these out after a long time exploring and reading the forums. A 'p' is a bus stop, a box with a flag is a diner (2 floors with a fair amount of loot), and blue square boxes are water towers.

Anyone else wish the changelog was a little less confusing? I know rocket has his way, but I wish I could read a line without it being ambiguous. I feel a line like "* [FIXED] Error reports are almost invisible (has now been fixed)" should read "[FIXED] Error reports are no longer invisible" as this concisely tells you both the previous behavior and the new one without you having to think about which way he intends for it to work. Shit, I wouldn't mind fixing those posts for him if I was able.

Answer me this. In a real combat situation if you were trying to sneak up on someone or avoiding someone sneaking up on you. Would you and your squad mates be chattering like old ladies or would you all be SILENT? There are moments when you all need to shut up and listen. Turning up the footsteps is not the answer unless you are fighting enemies with a club foot. Answer me this. In a real combat situation can you heal broken bones with morphine? In a real combat situation can you hide around a corner until someone feeds you (do you see any needles) a pint of blood which will instantly restore all health? In a real combat situation can you put a helicoptor rotor assembly in your backpack and continue to move around and fight? In a real combat situation are you not able to smash someone with the butt of your weapon? In a real combat situation do you move your wrists only slightly while using your fingers to press keys to kill someone? Don't throw the realism argument at anything. This is a fucking game. I've looked around, but maybe not extensively enough. The only controls I saw were over music, sound effects, voice, and maybe ambience, but nothing about footsteps. Maybe theres a config file I could modify to turn up that class of sounds though? Looks guys, I'm not trying to start an argument. The fact is you should be able to more freely change the volume of different effects in any application. I was looking for constructive suggestions, but at this point I'm thinking I won't get any nor is there currently an actual way to do this.

It should be possible and more people should want such a feature. You're all just making instant judgements based off of a lack of understanding of how others play games. (A) If I can't hear my friends I don't enjoy the game. (B) If I can't hear footsteps I don't enjoy the game. In the current state I can't hear both my friends and footsteps therefor I can't enjoy the game. I shouldn't have to sacrifice hearing footsteps in order to avoid being an antisocial hermit.

Well ideally I'd prefer to not have to modify my game files. There should simply be an option in game to make footsteps ONLY louder. Even if I turn up my speakers to hear footsteps over the voices in my head I'm going to have to suffer through painfully loud gunshots O.o

It doesn't look like this actually modifies a file, but introduces a new one? If it does modify a file you would probably just be kicked from the server for running with modified game files.

Is it just me or do a lot of servers not work well at all? I use the launcher, enter a filter of 1.7.1.5, and choose a game where I have <200 ping and probably half of the servers I try to join simply don't work. Most of the time I'll get stuck in one of the 18 loading screens after getting to the lobby and seeing the list of other players. Also only slightly related, when in the hell does daylight start? I just joined an Atlanta server that said GMT -6 which means it should be 1PM... and it was still very dark. I joined a Seattle server (didn't specify, but Seattle is GMT -8 meaning 10AM and it was still dark too. Are the server admins just being stupid here or is something else going on? It should be light enough to see very well by 8AM....

Now more than half of the servers I join that it should be day on are turning out to be night time when it's not indicated in their server name? Is that a bannable offense for server? >:(

I really don't give fuck about the whole debate of Veteran+ being skills while Regular- being carebear noobs. I do not enjoy this game in first person. Plain and simple. There should be no attempt to distinguish the settings by skill. It is pure preference. I believe CH should not be argued at all since you could simply place a piece of tape on your monitor to give you a CH. Also I think the nametags are just broken. I'd like to be able to tell the name of who I'm looking at, but it shouldn't be showing me players who aren't even in my sight.

How do you get a vehicle to persist? The other night I found a military truck (well friend stole it by murdering the two occupants with a shotgun after they broke his legs trying to run him over) and my friends and I parked it deep in the woods no where near anything or on a route between areas. When we logged back in our truck was missing so. It's possible someone found it and took it, but I'd like to make sure I know the rules behind how this works as well. How long does a vehicle stay where it is on that server? Does a server reset place the vehicle back where it was like it does with tents? How do I get a vehicle to remain there for us to use when we play again?

Ugh, vehicles are fucking pointless. I happened on a freshly spawned Ural and hid that even more out of the way and now it's gone as well. I was hiding these vehicles around the left edge of the map in the forests and apparently someone found it. I guess I've learned my lesson and next time I'll drive for a minimum of 5 minutes off the map. It seems like this is the only way to really keep a vehicle since anywhere else someone is apparently going to just happen by it, but I really doubt that's what rocket intended players to do. Not wasting my time ever again finding the elusive engine parts just to never see the vehicle again...

Forgot to mention, but I saved the vehicle before we logged off. Does anything remove vehicles (server reset, what do you mean by server dies?) or did someone just steal our truck?