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Combat logging used to be far worse. You could be shooting someone, you knock them out and boop, gone. It used to be immediate. Currently combat loggers are serious bandit trolls who only care about keeping gear. Which I get it, fine, but 15 seconds desync is fine with me. Havent experienced any serious combat logging. Unless they lock the door behind them, if you're close enough when they run to log, you can probably kill them when they are not in game. Which means when they spawn, bam, they are fresh or see red screen. That to me is sweet enough justice for it.

I would like to see night time and the server reset times increase. So basically servers reset at 4 hours instead of 2 hours. And basically have the loot system work to respawn st 2 hours, so you have 2 attempts to get fresh loot if you join a server exactly when it starts. I can love without vehicles and tents, but they are a big part of the game, however I support the stability patches until things are smoother, followed by a content update. Night time and maybe night vision and ghille with a QoL update would be enough for me for the next content update.

You are going to have to adjust your screen ratio on TV settings as @JassperTheGhost stated. The iZurvive app is not an official BI resource. The team has stated that using it will be useful to new and old players, however, it is not part of the game. At one point throughout the games lifecycles there was a map in game you could use/own/craft, but it would not detail your location. It would just be the iZurvive app with no icons. Having a map that showed your location would hurt the immersion and I am against it. Currently it requires understanding the map and where you are in relation to a town, and where you want to go. Which is how it should be. Plus when you have run the map enough you have a pretty good idea where things are, and what towns give good loot. Experiment and play around. Explore. After that you will no longer need the map at all. Games like ark, conan for example, give you a map and a player icon so you know where you are. That is not the goal here. The goal is to have total immersion and relies on you understanding the map and where you are in relation to the towns

I put a reply here which based on @ImpulZ reply is probably right for the PC hosting at the moment.

The mosin is still my preferred sniper based on how I play. I dont like sitting in 1 place and sniping, I've seen enough dayZ stories to know that's how you get killed real quick. Mosin just only load 1 at a time. Works fantastic. If you look in the xbox forums, under the pinned thread "Known Bugs" this is there. A sniper in DayZ should only be firing 1 round maybe 2 to confirm the kill then move spots. But hey, play how you want. Personally I've had bad karma experiences with SVDs soooo, I stay away from that gun.

There was actually a post about this a few of us contributed to. Probably a few pages back. But we listed out all guns with scopes that you could go prone om your stomach and see through. Without the backpack blocking. I think it still effects PU and PSO-1 scopes. So mosin, svd, ak. I have m4 acog and it is working. The fix is go prone, hold LT, spin your right stick until you're on your back, no matter what scope it will always work that way. Inconvienent, but if you're being a sneaky sniper, you'll have time to do this and set up to watch your prey. Good luck

No way that's dope! Learn something new every day. Didnt even know about animals dropping bones and pelt until I saw your other post. Cheers

That isnt the case on xbox to my knowledge. Low loot is because it's been looted in server already or is nearing a restart, but still been looted. Medium loot is about right. High loot is only in concentrated areas such as military tents and barracks, mainly before someone jumps to the server and grabs it. I know some pc servers have put in (on dayz mod) to make it so tents spawn along the coast, so you get weapons and such immediately or within 10 min. I think the loot spawns are fine, but I have a pretty solid loot road. Polena, novy sobor, stary sobor, barracks south of NWA, tents at north NWA, barracks in forest behind NWA, hospital at soven

Can you post a photo by chance? I'm not sure what a bone hook is if I'm honest, unless you mean like a hook for a fishing rod, which I'm not sure how you equipped it to a bonnie hat nor even knew it was in the game lol

I'm going to guess you hold LT and Y? To reload? I tested this today on an M4, AKM and IJ70. All had about the same results. M4: LT+Y glitched me. Y worked fine. Manually ejecting mag, and combining with new mag worked fine. AKM: LT+Y, Y, and manual eject/reload all worked fine. IJ70: LT+Y glitched, Y worked, Manual Worked. By glitched I mean fired blanks. But it did resolve itself after I swapped mags again. I shot zombies and they registered shots. I'm going to guess you found out shooting zombies and not players? If you think your gun is bugged, which has happened to me when I had an invisible mag. Couldn't do anything with it, I had to drop the gun entirely. Sounds easier than it is I know, but just drop the gun that is glitched find a new one, and avoid LT+Y to reload.

I do agree with this statement though. You can make them work, but you're looking like 1 assault rifle in hands, 1 sparks mag, few box of ammo, no cans of food just tuna as they weigh less and a canteen. Maybe you could sneak a small backpack or improvised back pack, but you're mainly playing that do so heavy pvp and dont want to loot horde. But what @Powell x91 said is correct. 80% of the time, vest or no vest, if you are caught off guard, or seen first, you're gonna die. If you can get to cover and spot the target and strategically take them out, sure. Win win. But at 200m-300m, I've shot at a group of 3 bandits before, and I was looking down my scope the whole time. They went to a massive open building, and they couldn't find me at all. So yea. I play by if I'm seen first I'm normally out, but I have had an instance where a cocky bandit rushed me and my friend. He damaged me but I banked on him leaving or rushing me like many do, and I camped the stair while my friend bandaged me behind me and fed me to boost health, sprayed him with an m4 as he walked up the stairs. Personally I dont play like that, if I see you but you dont see me, I'll fire a few shots, if you're alive no matter what gear, if you can hide and I lose sight of you. Or I feel it's too risky to rush because itll give away my position, I'll fall bac, reposition and aim where I last saw you, and in 60s if I dont see you, I dip. But that's how I play.

I want even aware skinning an animal gave you pelt in the first place, I though it just turned it into animal or human steaks.

Well, these server files are so people can create private servers. Yes it is a step closer to the goal. Regardless of PC or Xbox, I would imagine to host official open servers, there will be some sort of rental service. Like ark did with nitrado, or battlefield 4 did. Where you pay like dollar amount for x amount of time. And once it is up, if you havent paid again. Itll shut down. I think right now the pc is inching toward player dedicated servers. Where it will consume your CPU and RAM and spin up a server instance locally, and then allow you to play through the client. Itll wreck your CPU but that's where I see it. People with 2 pcs would utilize this but I dont think you can have steam accounts logged in on 2 computers. This could of course be the non dedicated approach where when you quit the client. The server goes down. Sustainable for small private servers. The hosting/owning/renting that everyone wants would be done with official dedicated where we would rent a server from bohemia and their hosting company, to then have a 24/7 running server. The owner could then promote admins and moderators, while utilizing an owner/admin menu. So they can adjust server resets, name, time cycle, spawning, server restrictions. All that stuff.

Yes and no. I did notice a mad rush to military areas, so the 4 tents/barracks areas I usually go to at fresh spawn qas pretty heavily looted, but in the coast towns I did find enough to make it up to the woods. Might not have been lucky for you

It is the pairing of the mosin, axe and 2 water bottles. I'm guessing you have a small back pack so you are probably at 1 jacket, 1 pants and a school pack? Maybe a regular backpack? 2 bottles at 8 slots is 16 slots 1 axe at 12 or 16, cant remember, call it 16 And a mosin at 52 slots. So by your inventory, you're at 12+12+50 = 74 (roughly) Those 3 gear is 16+16+52 = 84 Edit: 3 cans of food at 4 inventory slots is 12, so you're already at 96, probably with all your gear 110 range? Maybe? You're carrying about 75% more than youre inventory/carry weight (theoretically) would allow. So it makes sense. If your clothes and back pack are maxed, maybe not backpack but 12/12, 12/12, and oh idk, call it 25/50. Yea. It makes sense. You will drain food and water faster like that as well. So with those 3 items you're already encumbered. Just because you store on back doesnt mean the carry weight isnt affected. Factor in your other gear and bam. You're at 10% stamina. My advice is, unless you found 7.62x54 ammo for the mosin, drop it. That will probably give you 33%-40% stamina back, and if you can swap out the axe for a knife, you're back at probably 60%-70% stamina. Mosin is the heaviest gun in the game, pair it with a shovel. You're toast. If you had a ballistic vest... dont even wanna think about that haha.

I'm not entirely sure that is true regarding experimental branch on xbox. Stable branch is v0.63.0 We are on v0.63.148 which I believe reading somewhere is an experimental branch patch. Not sure what version numbers pc stable and pc experimental are on... The difference between PC and xbox, is we cant opt-in or opt-out of the branch. Either way, considering where the game is if it were experimental it would be stable-experimental. If that makes sense. So the pc experimental rules to can still be applied. Resets, either server based or character based can occur.

Server owners arent even part of the xbox release as there is no way for us to rent servers. It sounds like you got seriously unlucky with those spawns. How he knew it was you is beyond me. But there should be no way for him to do that besides that 1 in a million chance. And you got it. There will always be private servers where the admins are out of control and abuse privaliges, however, mostly... on public servers that someone rents/owns... 1 or 2 admins are mature enough, generally the owners, that they take no BS. And if they have server mods or admins that are reported to be abusing powers, teleporting, with good authority they are promptly stripped of rights and banned from server. But that is with proper owners.

I havent even been able to bury a backpack yet. It gets wiped on game updatea and is server dependent.

1. Vests do provide protection by about 1 or 2 bullets depending on hit registration. Helmets I'm not sure. I dont use helmets but I mainly aim for upper chest to lower face, so it wouldnt matter because I aim for above a vest and below a helmet. Motorcycle helmets used to be bugged and offer protection, but most helmets probably protect against 1 bullet. So the first headshot would break, 2nd would kill. Headshots are 1 shot. Upper chest around about 2-3 I've seen both. Without vest it was 2, and with vest it was 3. 2. Ballistic vests weigh alot, but offer 1 bullet resistance from ARs, and 2 bullets maybe 3 from pistols. Not sure about SMG. Svd and mosin would probably be 2 or 3 shot. Again, I've seen mosins kill in 1 shot under 200m, and 2 shot in the 300+ range. Stab vests offer a little protection from knives and axes and such. 3. Press vests are kinda a combo. Not heavy duty like with but offer some protection Although tbh, I havent really noticed on someone I've shot, but shot me with a ballistic vest and I took 3 bullets and was still alive. Probably the 4th would have killed me. Not sure exactly what the statistics or protection rates are though. So dont quote me on these numbers, just from my experiences

I've found them in the most random places. I've found one in a shed, in the little garages, or even just in a random house. Oddly enough they are most known to spawn in hunting cabins, but I have yet to see them there

I have been kicked off the servers 4x moe. 1 server I was in for almost 90 min, never saw a reset message. The next one I was in for 20 min, and never saw a reset message. At first I thought it was because reset times jumped from every 2 hours to every 4 hours, but yea. Anyone else experiencing this? After posting this I put into another server. Kicked me within 5 min. And database locked me.

You are over encumbered. Odds are it was a can of food, box of ammo. Something in the 1-6 weight range that did it. Drop some less than important items one by one and jump, see if it works

Patch notes are located here: Which detail a character wipe. Which is what half the community is enraged about and half the community who instead of raging. Went into the game and in 2 hours are back to where they were pre wipe. It's a natural process and needed. There were multiple fixes and the best way to ensure they worked is to wipe everyone's characters so there is no stale character data blocking out the bugs. Its DevOps/QA for Software Development 101. If people have issues, apply the fix, wipe all data, reload with new data, and check to see if issue is there. I'm not sure what people dont understand about that.

I know the point of your post thanks. And the wipe is making it better for everyone. Personally I can survive for 2 weeks playing 3 hours a day or so, while engaging in a gun fight a day. But hey. I'm not complaining all gear was lost. I encourage character wipes. Making people who camp with full kits restart. Its funny The issues are big but it is GAME PREVIEW BETA meaning even with patches there will be some issues. Please just report them in the appropriate threads. I cannot confirm or deny your issues as all the updates have worked on my 3 characters every time.

Yes it is. I've had the same fear for 1.5 weeks, wasnt killed. Its so boring. If you're good enough you can get that exact same gear in 2 hours. What's the big deal. It is a survival game. When you die you start from zero and build up. I just dont understand why people dont recognize that concept. If you havent died one time in the past 2 weeks, and you've been running around fully kitted. Lol. Sorry to say it, but if I get bored I suicide emote with full kits. I'm not saying collecting gear and hoarding is bad, but you gotta start over a few times. And if you're not gonna die because you roll in a 10 man crew and dominate a server, then sweet, let the character resets happen. It's unfair entirely when an entire squad has SVDs and aks, with more food and water than they all can deal with. If you dont think it is unfai, try playing lone wolf for a bit and running across these guys.