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Yep coast is full of bambi killers, some of us go down to take out the death squads though, feels good. Vmcan feel pretty empty up north except at NWAF & stary sobor which are also PvP. Berezino seems to be worst coattail town for people killin freshys as it's such a frequent spawn. Once you can't eat human flesh without getting sick and going crazy it'll calm down a little as people will need food from other sources than fresh spawns lol

Firstly I love this game, even with reduced mechanics, items, button availability and bugs galore. but today is the first day I loaded the game up and there hasn't been even 1 single full NL server all day! even US has only one full server at the time of writing this, I understand that development takes along time & you can't click a magic button and add stuff back into the game. But this is the experimental build designed for game testing for bugs and balancing & if no ones playing it's gonna take even longer to gather the data and bug reports needed to Add stability to the game, at this point if either suggest adding a handful of cosmetic clothing choices back into experimental to draw people back or remove 75% of the servers so people are forced into higher population servers. I know some people like low pop but that doesn't help stress test servers or the game. If it take another month to even get a controller update or any form of content update , going by recent player base figures there won't e anyone playing the game in a month

Devs stated in last status report that zombie models will receive a rework in BETA which will allow for a larger amount of zombies spawned in without sacrificing frame rate or server stability.

Original DayZ MOD hardly had any doors open

Ghosting does happen, but if your on hospital roof then I'm assuming there's a thousand vantage points looking at you so assuming it's purposeful ghosting seems like a big leap. Which town were to in? Berezino, severograd, etc? As every town I know of that has a hospital has many other high buildings or hills overlooking it, an SVD, M4 or AKM can one shot. Also remember if you lock a buildings doors any player who tries said door will assume your in there and purposefully reposition to get a line of sight on you. But as I said ghostin does happen but I could have also been a guy just happening to log in to find you I from of him. I've had several friends out in the middle of the woods miles away from any major city, who log back In only to get destroyed by gunfire instantly. Just the way DayZ is, until we get private servers with 24\7 admins (which we may never get) then it's impossible to remove or perma server ban players who ghost or use exploits. Hell even if we get private servers they'd prob be ruined by corrupt admins abusing admin power and flying around murdering people in god mode lol.

Love DayZ , not that it doesn't deserve criticism as long as its constructive. I've played the original mod many moons ago and I've played nearly 16days on xbox now on the standalone. For or me it's one of the least buggy & broken game preview releases to date & the fact that the new engine can run on console is a testament to the dev teams ingenuity and resolve. I can be a heavy critic of this game and games in general but it's always from a place of respect for development teams and because I want to see a game grow and get better. Until the games 1.0 and full release I feel it's churlish for anyone to overtly rip on the game because ATM we only have 10% of the game , if that. I think they've done wonders and a year from now it'll be almost discernible from what were playing now , it'll be even better. well done dev team , just don't forget about us console users when that BETA testing starts ;)

Feels bad man, but the maps 100square miles so saying a guy who shoots you in the back wasn't there just doesn't work. I've followed so many players for upto an hour and never been seen , I could have killed them at any time I wanted. Unless your super vigilant, checking your six & posting up every so often to watch for people or squads shadowing g you then you get dead. Plus if your on the coast 90% of your playtime then your gonna get messed up eventually just because there's so many people who are so bad they can't get past the coast or choose to stay there to kill the people so Bad they can't get up north. Atm there's zero incentive to actually survive, hardly any items or cosmetic choices, no hair or beard growth , no base fortification or vehicles. so it's unsurprising that the majority of players just want to PvP, once the game goes BETA that dynamic will change. Just remember that this is NOT DayZ right now, it's not hardcore survival , it's easy mode to test weapon mechanics, server stability & create heat maps for player routes on foot, etc. This is games testing at work, it's game preview, you pay a lower price and accept the finished games still a year away most of the time

Hey guys & gals, Does anyone know if DayZ SA on PC has a FOV slider in graphical options? I ask mainly to ascertain whether this option will come to console, we poor souls get the option about 1 in 10 games and have to play at a 90 Degree FOV most of the time which quite frankly gives me headaches & eye ache. I find it disappointing that in 2018 people are happy with triple A titles because there at 4k for there fancy new gigantic fancy 4K TV , but then play a game that looks like the characters wearing blinkers. i would absolutely love it if we could turn DayZ FOV upto 120-160 so that it's closer to the average humans actual field of view , that way I won't feel like my survivors a total dumbass running around with a box on his head with a tiny hole cut out the front. Please illuminate this poor console whelp.

The time scale wasn't touched on in the status report. When I hear a dev say 'as soon a possible after beta testing has begun on PC' I fear the worst. I will keep my fingers crossed, I'd settle for being able to button bind my own controller so I can hold breathe and free look right now.

The main issue my friends & I have had is that the games not difficult or hardcore in the slightest, the 0.63 build has too much food, water sources everywhere. Even on full pop servers you can be fully geared within an hour easily. No temperature effects or wetness to damage health. No brain prion and very limited effects for food poisoning. Obviously the games alpha and 0.63 build on xbox is the experimental build so Lots of items, mechanics & weapons are missing temporarily. So this easy mode version is to be expected. i just feel that if the devs want to draw back players and retain the current player base they should test the beta build on console simultaneously with PC. Let's face it, when any game studio says something will be done in a month, what they realistically mean is three months. I'd rather play a broken messy beta build on xbox helping iron out bugs along with PC players ,rather than having to wait for the PC player base to test it for 6months which turns into 12months before we even get a sniff of new mechanics, items , etc. we don't want EZ DayZ , we want a DayZ that's so busy kickin your ass that other players are background noise in a world trying to eat you.

You gotta have your mags in you backpack if your wearing one, for some reason you can reload from other clothing without a bag but once you put a back pack on it's buggy as hell getting a reload of from trouser, shirts or assault vest etc (assault vest seem exceptionally buggy for keeping magazines in ATM so tbh I steer clear of them completely as more of then than not stuff seems to duplicate in them as the duplicated items and mags tend to exonerate bugged out. Also you'll need enough space in your backpack to remove the mag from your weapon first. For instance if it's an AKM or M416 mag it'll take up 3slots so you must have three free slots in backpack as you remove mag and place it in bag before removing the fresh mag for bag to place in gun. also there are still occasions where de-sync causes the server to think there are a different amount of bullets in a mag than there are client side for you, if you get a mag that will not under any circumstances load into weapon I'd advise completely emptying mag, drop it on the floor floor so the server is sent the info it's empty then pick up and refill with rounds and see it it'll load into weapon.

True dat. I feel Like I'll be the only left playing soon lol, out of 7 friends who bought it I'm the only one who plays anymore. And after having the game freeze and crash on me in the inventory screen three times in a row on a half full server with a pretty much empty inventory I'm beginning to feel like I might be the idiot lmao

Some sickness has been , food poisoning is currently in the games . ImpulZ a game dev confirmed that, but it only causes vomiting and higher water consumption temporarily which is pretty weak. But no brain prion from eating human flesh yet.

I'm suprised and a little dissapointed that they haven't atleast added a freelook button and a hold breathe key yet, why not just let players map there own key bindings? Hell elite controller users like myself are only gonna do that once they take 6 months to finally hard bind all the keys themselves. It's so frustratin not being able to hold breathe with the worst scope away I've ever seen in a game

This is definitely a game breaking bug, I've seen this already take over on the coast especially. Seen entire squads rolling as little death balls of murder. As far as I'm concerned anyone using this exploit gets shot on sight, keep in min that if you spot these players that there hit boxes are still in the same place it's just there character model that's folded in. So dont aim for the legs if they have any lol or the floating torso. Aim for high chest and head like usual and they'll drop a lot faster than those leg shots you'll be hitting. But as the OP stated just being able to see these exploiters can be nigh impossible in there shrunken state. Just a shame there's so many cheaters who would gladly see the player base die whilst still probably whining about lack of game content even though there being toxic and exploitative.

Hey, Anyone else feel like the sound mix is very off at the moment? I understand that reloading, eating, drinking needs to be loud in an attempt to increase player awareness & interaction but then why is reloading a gun or eating five times louder than footsteps? Even when I'm fully geared with next to no stamina meter I can sprint right next to another player with pretty much no sound indication at all. Yet I can eat a tin of beans four houses away and be heard. Obviously the games preview and will be tweaked along the way but that seems like a pretty easy balancing pass right there. Pretty sure the system is in place to increase movement volume based on weight and footwear etc so maybe at somepoint it'll be addressed. Also the server menu wind sound is beyond deafening, it's 100% above a safe volume for damaging ears if someone has earphones on full blast. I'm intrigued by other peoples opinions

This is getting abit crazy now, I've literally sprinted up on dozens off people and they didn't even turn and look at . If I didn't speak/shoot they'd have had literally no idea I was there. I use a decent headset and even I can only hear people sprinting up on me a few feet away max. I understand they almost want to encourage PvP for testing purposes ATM but tbh it feels pretty gross and basic when there's no nuance, you can just sprint about with max stamina build character owning squads by repositioning and charging people whilst there completely unaware your stood ontop of them.

I've had it occasionally, I've found that ifyu purify the water then log and rejoin the water won't keep it's purified state & that sometimes tablets themselves will bug out and not work completely but if I drop them and grab a fresh batch they work again. So I'm with you they seem very hit and miss, thankfully the uncooked food & dirty water only causes vomiting and slightly increased water Intake for awhile. But if/when they implement harsher consequences for food poisoning then this could become a bigger issue.

Think it's gonna take awhile, saw a member of media team saying it's being worked on but that it's a difficult exploit to fix. The aiming bug of character model getting misaligned and scopes being blocked by backpacks have been in PC build since 0.63 released months before xbox launch so you may wanna modify how long you'll be waiting for it to be fixed, the dev team had got there handsful with these particular bugs\exploits as trying to fix them probably messes up twenty other mechanics somewhere. Patience is to be required with DayZ , it'll be another four years before we earn the right to whine louder than the PC player base lol.

Lol awkward we answered this guys question at exactly the same time. Yours was more concise though :)

You have to switch to game chat, the devs have never stated it'd work simultaneously. So you have tomanuLly leave party and go into game chat then push down on D-Pad. Make sure you turn the ingame push to talk off before switching back to the party chat though, if not you'll bug out prox chat so that if you wanna hop back into game chat it will no longer work till you restart the game. Also if you need fast answers on any dayz topic use the search function as there's already several threads on prox chat. Also the frequently answered question sections very useful for mechanics questions :)

I know I said it's a misunderstanding from there side as there are no green or black ballistic helmets in the game currently other than the ssh68. Most devs and social media teams working on SA Dayz are Czech so a lot gets lost in the language. They will most likely have thought the OP was asking if they'd be in the finished game. Plus the dev teams announced several bug fixes that didn't work so you can't expect all information to be correct as multiple people are workin on multiple builds of the game etc, it's easily done when teams get moved about from project to project it's hard to know what's in any particular public build as you never get to play the game you're workin on because sleep is more important in the five hours your not working lol

All coastal towns are just PvP death zones, even if your trying to be a peacekeeper or hunt bandits , it's to hard to tell who is who, especially with big groups of players as there's always one nut job offing fresh spawns even in a group of people trying to be chill and friendly. Any big city on the west side if the map such as Zelenogorsk is generally quieter ATM due to pretty much all south western new spawns bein removed in 0.63 which kinda sucks tbh as that side of the map has some great loot , mil bases and cities but hardly anyone other than experienced players already kitted venture that way. But no matter play style, RPing or how your dressed, coastal cities are flat out KOS the majority of the time unless it's freshy to freshy contact lol. ive met over ten seemingly friendly players all over the map the last few days and not a single one of them had a microphone , if it was any other player and not me , they'd be dead right now. A lot of people hating on the KOS and heavy PvP attitude ingame but running around in party chat not communicating that there friendly instantly when bumping into people and wondering why they get lit up.

I've been to every military base numerous times and have 15days of playtime accrued already. Not seen a single black or green ballistic helmet other than the ww1 ssh68 helmet. The dev probably meant that in the full game there is black green ballistic helmet, in there offices they have a build containing a lot more items and mechanics that we don't currently have. I'm calling it, devs either wrong or misunderstood the question, we don't even have spray paint ingame so there's no way to even spray the UN helmet another colour and unless there spawn rates 0.00001%, so low you'd never even see it , I doubt they exist right now.

So after a visit up north to the Northwest airfield I lost two friends with two SVDs but managed to rack up 6 Kills against players logging in inside the ATC And industrial tower in irdee to snipe at other players or server hop for loot. i don't usually KOS but if a couple of guys are in full camo sporting SVDs and ARs with scopes ontop of a vantage point I'm gonna fulfill there wishes of combat. Thankyou random four and two man squad for the gift of two fresh SVDs for my friends when I next meet them on the coast, the fights were fun and I nearly died a few times but sitting up on vantage points and server hopping all day apparently isn't that good for target practise.