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But they do exactly that... Do you need it daily?

I'd go one further... It would be so cool to be able to track the weapon stats at the end of "each season" (server wipe) ie: how many kills that weapon had, how many different owners, maybe a heat map to see where it travelled in Chernarus... Would be cool.

Apparently dupers have figured out how to stack tents loaded with gear inside of other tents/containers... And the next patch is not coming anytime soon... I'm having a hard time believing the playerbase will be here by time they do something to fix the game breaking glitches...

Isn't that what it is now?

No, we aren't all duping. No, we aren't all trolling the coast.

We can keep destroying it all we want. The dupers keep their "master" set of gear on an alt character that they never put in harm's way. So anything we find in the world isn't gonna cost the dupers anything. What we need is a total wipe and an actual fix to duping to restore the balance. It's the only answer. In the meantime, just grab whatever you need from the literal 100s of packed tents all over every server.

DM'd you.

Deal, I can meet around Berezino/Lumber Mill...

They never said there would be xbox news, only that there would be something cool to watch... and I guess the live action trailer was that...

We did get experimental servers, remember the 3 UK non persistent servers?

They said they don't have a date for 1.03 but as it gets closer they would be communicating more. And by time 1.04 is ready they are aiming to have patches launch simultaneously across all platforms or with as little delay as possible. Which means no more gap between PC and console patches.

No, they did not.

No specific date was given on the stream today. What was said was that "the closer we get to it, the more they would be communicating"... My best guess would be mid to late June at the earliest. They did say that when 1.04 drops, they are aiming to have simultaneous drops across all platforms...

Finding this has literally sucked the life right out this game for me. Can we have some communication other than "duping is a known issue"... A roadmap perhaps? Concrete answer on player locked or private servers maybe? Maybe start banning known dupers? You guys gotta have access to server metadata and be able to see anomalies in loot concentration and what players are interacting with that loot right? This game is going to die very quickly if this continues much longer.

This is highly disappointing. Private servers or we riot.

I literally found 3 NV scopes at the 4 barracks south of Novo yesterday. The irony is that the scopes are of higher rarity than the ARs and in total I have found 7 spawned NV scopes and 0 spawned ARs.

I agree that there are weapon alternatives and that the game is far from "unplayable". My concern is that it is very hard to grow a player base when this duping/weapon spawn thing is as prevalent as it is currently. People are absolutely turned off by it and only those of us that are willing to look past it and the dupers themselves are playing. This creates problems for people who are on the fence about buying the game. "Oh, I've heard you cant even find good weapons in that game because of glitchers..." is the current narrative. There is a problem with the underlying code that allows for duping to happen. All we've seen thus far are hotfix bandaids that don't fix the underlying problem and the dupers are finding workarounds for. I understand the reason for BI not wanting to server lock characters but this is what the community wants. It needs to be tried out in some capacity. Private servers would also be a welcome addition. The servers should be 25% server locked characters, 25% private and 50% public... At least give it a try BI...

The lack of "good weapons" spawn rates is directly related to duping, ie: only X amount of weapon A should exist on a server. If Weapon A has been duped to 500% of X, no more Weapon A's will spawn until the number of Weapon A's drop below X amount. Saying it's a hardcore survival game and it needs to be hard is simply disingenuous to the fact that the devs themselves have acknowledged that duping is affecting the spawn rates.

Not a terrible idea, only problem I see is if you normally play on a high pop server. Often times they become full, so people will naturally just go to a different server just to be able to play. Now say they were on a trek to a faraway place the last time they logged off. Is it reasonable to be spawned back at the coast now? Character locking servers also presents problems when servers become full. All that time you spent grinding your character is stuck in queue until a spot opens up. The only answer I see is private servers with admin tools for the owners to create true RP servers. Passwords could be shared with like minded players and the playerbase would be reinvigorated... Just my opinion...

Anyone that wants to learn will find the info... How about we use that energy to pressure the devs to fix it?

You're not wrong.

Day is 2 hours, night is 1 hour... The cycle is completely reasonable, but you are right. It is too dark now and reverting back to 1.01 nighttime would be a good change. Bigger concern for me personally is that they fix duping. It has ruined the spawn rates of the better weapons to practically nonexistent. The only hope if getting an AR is from a stash or killing someone with one. Heck, I can't even find USG45s anymore...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the CLE (Central Loot Economy) say that there will be x number of any particular item on a server at a given time? So if for example say there can only be 20 M4s on a server at a time does that mean if those M4s are in persistence, ie: on a player or in a persistence stash (buried, barrel, seachest... etc) that no more M4s will spawn on that particular server unless another M4 gets destroyed, *despawns, leaves server...? If this is in fact the case, then it would be reasonable to suspect that I should not really bother looking for one as they are already most likely in someone else's posession? I've been racking my brain and although I know they are rare items, I can't help wondering how on earth I haven't found a single AR in spite of having searched Troitskoe, NWAF, Tisy... etc, for hours upon hours. Does my theory make sense or am I missing something? *Edit: "respawn" to "despawn"