TheYetiBum

Just a quick reminder that numerous Duping fixes have dropped in updates over the years. There's been at least ten different fixes since DayZ dropped on Console, unfortunately an Exploit cannot be fixed until its reported & can be replicated in order for the Dev's to find a way to block its use, which quite often is a lot harder than it sounds. The best way to combat exploits & help development is to make private bug reports explainig any exploits you may have found or know about, also as a community we need to stand against the use of exploits. I personally have morals, I hate cheaters of any king in any aspect of life, if I had a friend who exploited in DayZ he wouldn't be my friend for much longer. life's to short to spend with people who buckle at the first sign of difficulty & instantly resort to cheating, if people do that stuff in games they definitely failing at life. My advise would be to stay moral, remember its just a game & the difficulty is essentially the whole point of the game, & report those bugs an exploits

Head up to NWAF, Tisy or NW extract & you'll have SVD mags for days

Unfortunately Community servers are just that, run by a community member. They have no affiliation with Bohemia Interactive of the DayZ Game Team & the server space is rented & run by a private server owner. They have the option of making there server password protected so unless you can get the password im afraid you cannot get access to the server. You can try finding the server again & seeing if it has a Discord Server link in its name, the Discord server may have a whitelist application process to enable you password access to the server but failing that I'm afraid your stuck. The good news is that every community server is separate with a separate player files, so you can join any community server & start a new character who will remain persistent there without effecting the others. Hope this helps & sorry for your characters loss

Items no longer despawn & respawn on server restart. Also if you try to force respawn items then your proximity to the spawn pint will effect of an item will be spawned. basically items have a respawn timer & wont spawn if your too close. So if you arent finding items, someone else has been there recently or your too close for the item to spawn in. Hope this helps

Certainly doesnt look like it on Console. Ive been doing a lot of testing & am yet to find a single high tier weapon at NWAF, TISY or a Static Gas Zone. I suspected something wasnt right so started testing at odd hours when the servers pretty much empty & has been for a whole reset cycle. Lo & behold still no high tier loot, I haven't even seen a single plate carrier spawn on a zed or otherwise. Plus only heli out of 12 heli crashes actually had a special weapon on it. Something is not working as intended, I love the 1.14 changes but something is definitely effecting loot spawning in. if its not that inv/stash's are being counted then its something else. trying to get to the bottom of it as if this update drops & people grind out an NBC suit only to find nothing, constantly, out of an un-looted static gas zone, the social media whine will be heard on the moon lol . ps.its server DE 1825 on Xbox EXP, just in case a member of the socials team wants to bring it up with the dev team, I put in a bug report too. I realised the Blaze wasn't spawning on Console for nearly a month after it dropped in an update ages ago & let Sumrak know personally, it was fixed within a few days with a quick server change. So hopefully the same can be done here.

I suggest that with every EXP update that EXP servers should get wiped, not sure how accurate or effective data garnered from theses tests are when the Loot table is polluted before the tests even begin as there's been no wipe on Xbox EXP that I can remember . Hard to tell if increased loot in static gas zones actually works as intended. All i'm seeing in gas zones is Kolt pistols, SG5K's, SKS's & maybe the odd M16. very hard to give feedback when its hard to know if the loots broken or its because the EXP server hasn't been wiped in forever & there's tonnes of guns in storage blocking spawns.

I agree, communication from BI Social Media Team has gotten significantly better over the past few years. We went from a, tell you nothing because its supposedly a hardcore survival game & they want you figure it out alone (also equate to saving time & money by having a minimal socials team & communication with the player base. Thankfully we have seen dramatic changes in communication & info filtering down from management & dev team. But as you state, they can do better. We should have a fixed schedule of wipes & know when they are, like other games with regular wipes, unfortunately there previous position on wipes was that they pretty much shouldn't happen & let persistence do its thing. But a janked persistence, in combination with massive amounts of duping (Especially on Console) has led to a change in there attitude as frequent wipes at least get all the duped gear & huge lag inducing bases get deleted so the legitimate players can atleast have a week or two of a smoother experience & a chance to find a higher tier weapon. Long story short I agree wholeheartedly that every EXP update should state whether it'll arrive to stable with a Wipe, or even better have an announcement section coded into the games main menu, so players who dont use social media can actually see patch notes/ wipe announcements, etc in game.

Why would you dupe on PC when you could just download free hacks & fly, spawn in any item, shoot through any object or across the map, wall hacks, aim lock, etc. People using actual hacks is a massive problem on Official PC servers but duping not so much. If people could use hacks on Console, trust me they'd be using them. Duping is a big problem on Official servers but the more regular wipes have effectively lowered the amount of drainers plaining the game to just dupe. Hopefully BI keeps the wipes every couple of months as its definitely evened the playing field for legitimate players

Yeah I've been in a few gas cloud, one dynamic occurrence at Tisy & visited the static one at Pavlovo, thankfully in the dynamically spawned occurrence's there's a loud artillery barrage sound played 30secs before from the edge of the map, there's also a red flare for a short period & then the gas cloud rapidly spreads downwards & out over a huge area. I was lucky enough to have already pieced together a full NBC suit & gas mask with a few spare filters. Without any protection in 25secs you get to stage 3 sickness, throw up blood, pass out & die before you wake, only way to cure it is with the NOX epipen, which I haven't found yet. It'll take awhile for all of us to adjust to not logging out in towns due to potentially logging back into a dynamically spawned gas cloud & suffering the same unfortunate fate you did. The gas is very punishing, but to be honest I like it that way, but when the update drops there's going to be a lot of unaware people getting very dead, very often & very frustrated, but when isn't that true for any major update . My main concern was that there would be a shortage of protective gear but I've found it spawns all over in medical, military, & fire stations. oh I also found a few tier 4 & heli crash weapons at Pavlovo but only normal weapons at the Dynamic spawned gas cloud event, hopefully they make it so even at dynamic gas sights that the loot tier dynamically increases also.

This may be the case on PC but on Xbox especially when everyone has 10 accounts using one paid version of DayZ. Who simple log on there alt accounts sat at every mili base & potential crash site farming loot all day or simply picking it up & throwing into the woods so no one else can get at it. Admittedly that's a game breaking flaw with Xbox not the fault of Bohemia. Also what you suggest just means everyones running arond with Tier 4 weapons & running back to the coast to annihilate eachother like when Duplicaton was of the scale, doesnt exactly make a great gameplay loop when you can run to NWAF in less than 30mins from the coast & be fully geared

The same issue will remain, more guns spawning in means more hoarding. Admittedly it would increase interactions at military bases. I believe that stashes & barrels should despawn in less than a week & building should be totally remodelled with a tool cupboard approach instead of the Flag pole, requiring people to actually ram materials on a regular basis to keep there bases alive & the only way to stop loot despawning is to house it in a base. Also bring back gun bags & make it impossible to store guns on character except on the shoulder or in a gun bag to reduce alt characters being used on console as storage lockers.

I partially agree but the main frustration of many players is the lack of tier 4 weaponry as it gets stashed out of existence after the first week of a wipe & by just increasing its spawn numbers just continues to benefit those in large groups with large bases or hidden away stashes. it makes the game pretty dull for most. Having a fixed wipe schedule like most other mmo survival games gives everyone extra reason to come back & play on a regular basis. I am in no way trying to invalidate your opinion though, just a counter proposal is all. Also take into account the vast majority of players prefer to PvP rather than survive which is precisely why private servers are more popular, which wont be wiped & there's always some decent private survival based servers too

This is great news @Kyiara! Absolutely love the 3-4 month total wipes to give the game a more structured beginning & end cycle for players, Something games like rust do very well & think this would suit official DayZ servers perfectly. The new environmental threat sounds cool, Radiation, poison gas over high level mil bases maybe? or is snow being implemented? Either way sign me up Also loving the fact Zombies will receive some TLC, there movement & mocapped attacks are very frustrating, janky & only seem designed to exacerbate gunfights by largely prolonging there attacks with hopping about, running in circles around you or touching there own toes when attacking so you swing over there head. All of which look pretty ridiculous, offer no difficulty other than frustration & lack any kind of satisfying skill arc. So any changes to there behaviour is very welcome. (apologise I hate the Infected with a passion, my least favourite part of DayZ currently) All other news is great & as always huge thanks to the Dev & social team for there hard work in 2020

Is the SVAL a tier 4 spawn or a Heli Crash Site Spawn? loving the bug fixes & new weapon, thanks for the teams hard work. Will try looking on Xbox EXP for the SVAL

Yeah its rough sauce for sure, if I go on a server with more then 30 people & stick around on the coast where more people are generally crammed together, especially if there's a tonnes of bases & firefights its lag city too. Guessing its not your connection that effecting it? sure you would have ruled that out first, I cant even drive through any large city with my screen freezing for upto a minute & losing all sound so I know how you feel lol, & that's on a 20 man server with like 10 people on it. Original Xbox is Trash but its all I got lol

There looking into the Next Gen Consoles capabilities & will most likely bring out a Next Gen patch. I have a friend playing on Series X right now & he gets zero fps drop or stutters even on maxed server in gunfights or driving a Sarka like a mad man through Cherno. It sucks but the last gen consoles just cant handle dayZ tbh.

Yep unfortunately there is very minimal sensitivity options compared to other games. No sense slider for different Views (TPP/FPP), no slider for different scope levels. This has ben asked for quite a lot but so far no response from Bohemia. I have my Sensitivity set to maximum & when in full ADS its painfully slow trying flick onto a target using Controller. I do not believe that max mouse senses is anywhere near max controller sense on console either.

yeah PC is the way to go. If you are on a Xbox One the game is rough sauce framewise, lots of hitching & frame dropes, total freezes etc. better on one X but still choppy. new consoles decent for it but PC is pretty damn stable tbh. Sorry to hear the rough experience you've had though dude, I feel the pain

It feels bad but trust me once you've found all the numerous bugs (sorry features) you will find this one less offensive. Take the game with a pinch of salt bro, its still fun as hell but just expect to lose your gear continuously

One your rude as hell, I spent time replying to you only for you to have a hissy fit. Two your odviously fairly new to the game as you have no understanding of the sickness symbol. you could have thrown up just from drinking to much whilst suffering from food poisoning or cholera. the amount of rude 15yr olds on this forum is insane. take a deep breath & realise you need an attitude adjustment.

Yeah the Cobra goes on the Vaiga Auto Shotty too but tbh all the 1x scopes are way to clunky & obscuring for me, iron sights all the way. The only decent sight is the relfex but it has such insane reflection on it unless your in a pitch black room I never bother.

Id advise reporting them to Sony if you know there user name, not sure what play Station Terms of Use are but on Xbox if someone is purposefully exploiting in a game, then it is technically ban worthy. But remember without being able to submit direct evidence the report will purely come down to how many other reports said profile has against them. With DayZ being on Console now, I should imagine that said console companies have all the power to deal with users & not DayZ itself. You very rarely hear of individual game dev's banning console accounts unless cheating is proven & prevalent. It sucks but Id advise sticking to private servers with decent 24/7 admins you can contact & relay any evidence of cheating too. But if PS4 is anything like Xbox it wont matter. cheaters have 20 accounts so dont care if they get banned. feels bad

Yeah sometimes with updates weird Illness effects can show up but I suspect the OP suffered from was over eating. Now the food & liquid icons are more representative of there actual reservoir, on top of this the Devs have upped the amount of calories I pretty much all food & reduced the amount you can consume before the Stomach Icon appears for eating to much to fast. Cooked fat is the main culprit here as eating one whole piece of fat in one go will generally always cause vomiting now regardless of your hunger level. Just remember that the stomac icon can show up for less than a second before you puke & it represents eating to much to fast, not having a full stomach. Just make sure to eat half of the fat at a time & pay very close attention to your churning stomach symbol when eating/drinking

No rabbits on PC Stable branch, someone must have seen a Mod being run on Private or more likely seen some old 0.62 test footage when rabbits were still a thing. think they got removed for the sake of server performance & they offered as much calories as a chicken which was very little at the time. They were removed & haven't been added back in unless it was after 1.10 & not mentioned n Patch Notes

Yep they altered the Hydration/Calorie Indicators to more accurately portray the reservoirs. Thank god as its been way to deceiving for new & old players alike for years. At least now people know that the players stomach holds a huge amount of food, even now when the food indicator is full, it isn't. I still advise anyone to continue eating long after the symbol is full & now actually keep tinned/packaged food in inventory for an emergency, such as extreme cold with no cover, therefore burning calories much faster or being unable to find an animal to kill. But I agree that for most experienced players this wont provide much of an increased difficulty curve, if you can fish or kill an animal early , know which clothes offer best heat isolation & keep said clothes repaired, its still pretty easy. Love the game but I still don't think its a hardcore survival game tbh, the difficulty curve is purely based on game/mechanics knowledge which the developers purposefully omit from the game in order to create a false difficulty curve based purely on doing research about the game whilst out of the game lol