TheYetiBum

Firstly Hey and thanks for clicking on the post, I'm a day one console player and have followed SA development since launch on PC. Ive found the main gripes and issues people have with console DayZ SA other than bugs and content updates are server hoppers and people ghosting into bases or ghosting combat positions mid fire fight. On PC this issue was fixed with community servers, what console would call private servers. On many of these community servers characters are locked to that specific server which completely stops anyone server hopping for loot or better positioning on an enemy combatant or base. It seems to me like a win win situation for Bohemia interactive to either allow private servers with a subset of server options for character lock, POV, Loot table timers etc or simply bring out official BI Servers with character locks enabled until a decision on private server availability for the console community is made. this post is not a criticism or a demand but a plea from a player who wants to play this unique game the way the majority of the PC Community already get to play it. take a look at the player figures for private hive servers versus vanilla BI Servers on PC, nobody wants to PVP, RP or base build on a server that someone can jump into with an hours of server hopping loot or server hop directly into your base. You have the power to eliminate this issue instantly for the player base that wants a true hardcore survival experience, I wait with baited breathe. if you agree with me please like or press the beans icon to draw attention to this post for the devs. Thankyou for your time.

Sledge hammer works as well as a pickaxe , just takes 8x large stones dragged into stone slot on fireplace to make stone ring then look at fire and hold RT to turn into stone oven. I like making a ring if them & lighting then at night to freak people out lol. Tip is that the ovens ovening that casts light will be the opposite side to where your character faces when you place the fire down before adding large stones.

Auto walk will be added in future but the devs are dead set against auto run. Hasn't been added in of yet but should come eventually.

Yep taking a break from streaming, I'll be back on soon though.

I agree with a short delay also but tbh I'd prefer to see experimental servers on console too, as often there's console specific bugs created with each update. So rather than be stuck with a buggy main update dropping on all xbox servers we can test updates more thoroughly & bug report before there pushed out in full. I have a feeling that we would be getting 1.03 now or earlier if it weren't for the bug ridden drop on PC stable branch, maybe they've delayed it so it drops more in line with hen 1.04 drops with hopefully some exploit fixes as the community has voiced so much disdain for the current state of exploits basically rendering the core game experience void, expect ally on console as there no private/modded server options. I personally don't think a week of testing on PC EXP branch is enough before it gets pushed to PC stable branch anyway as so many bugs are left untouched & it's just slapped into vanilla servers willy nilly. Tbf to Bohemia a lot f content is being added I each recent patch but taking abit more time to finesse things wouldn't go amiss before patches go live & without any console EXP servers were still games testing even though the games full release now.

Yep same for me & a series of stutters/total frame drop for 10secs whenever weather or night/day changes occur. Extremely frustrating to say the least. I'm getting desynchronised out more too.

I appreciate the feedback, hopefully some fixes drop in the near future. Unfortunately a great game being hampered a bit by people exploiting. Keep up the hard work , does the xbox team that port PC stable & EXP updates out to us working on xbox specific xploit fixes? Out of curiosity.

Those are only potential heli crash sights, they could spawn at any of those map markers & could despawn a few minutes before you get there if your unlucky. Best way to find them is travel using routes that go by as many potential crash sites as much as possible and travel far a lot. I never stop moving and find 2-3 a day sometimes but ATM it's pointless as it's only military clothing spawning due to duplication. I haven't found a assault rifle of VSD in the last 10-15 sites. Just sks and 45 cal pistols and most had no weapon at all.

Most likely, not seen many survivors growing food tbh. Did find four guys growing sea chests full of zucchini though, watched them for about forty minutes through my Atog scope as they were appearing & dissapearing from the server until there was about 15 sea chests. They all had VSD's on there backs too weirdly as I've not seen one spawn in many months. Would have taken the shot but figured why waste bullets when they'll most likely just grow more VSD's. Did grab a few zucchini from a seachest after they left though. Nice to fill my characters belly before I uninstalled the broken ass game.

Also water after planting. If you water before planting the seed it will freeze or crash your game currently

Sounds fun, I never KOS though no matter what server ( unless the other player has a gun in there hand) or I'm communicating in game & get no response (no mic = no life) so I abide by the unspoken laws of dayz, hell I've even had a chats with big geared groups at the NWAF before & enjoy gifting items and weapons onto new players or decent people I meet in land. Some of the best play sessions I've had have been role playing with total bambis & running in land getting them geared. It's a rarity to find a new player with a mic & who's friendly but when I find them it's gold. Good luck getting some RP going & dont dupe everyone it's gross & selfish as it ruins CLE for others.

It pains me to agree, I love the game & know the devs are working hard to fix exploits but there comes a point where it feels almost pointless playing the game. A week after every update or wipe the servers start stuttering really bad as there filling with stashes & gigantic bases faster than intended due to duping & all high level loot starts to stop spawning too. The excitement for me has always been getting geared through crossing the map & grinding for gear. Now that's become pointless & I can just get a shotgun at the coast kill a duper & be geared with an LAR & VSD in thirty minutes, the game feels hollow as that's literally the only way to get those items now. I just don't like being in a game with cheaters, it makes me feel gross tbh. And yes I've died way more times to lag & total frame drops an been beaten to death by zombies whilst totally unable to even see anything never mind move than killed by other players. The bad feels are real

Bohemia have only ever said it's something they would like to do in the future but also always state that they would have to either build an intergrated server control Into the game for server settings or a separate programme online to control hired servers, as well as deciding what options to give people hiring servers ie day/night cycle, CLE settings, spawns for items & players, admin controls etc. And also have to find a good third party server provider who specialises in good 1 to 1 server access & control at a decent enough price. They so far haven't made it sound like an of these things are currently In the works but they've got much better this year at not mentioning WIP until there almost ready to drop so it's hard to tell if it's being worked on or not tbh.

We need inner/outer dead zone sliders. Freelook sensitivity , TPP sensitivity, FPP sensitivity and sensitivity settings for all scopes magnifications too. Plus being able to control the ramp up speeds for both sticks. vigor which is made by Bohemia & will be free to play when it goes live also for xbox has so many controller settings & unfortunately all we get on dayz is vert/horizontal sensitivity. Feels bad man

Unfortunately the only response about this subject from ImpulZ was yesterday in the server removal thread, he stated that a fix for this issue won't drop for quite some time (heard that sentence for a few months already). Expect 1.03 patch to be hell at night time as all the little duper squads will have NVG's duped from day one so they stop spawning & they can camp all night killing freshies. DayZ has officially become DupZ

I appreciate all the hard work the team is doing in regards to fixing exploits but I believe it benefit the game & the player base if this background work on exploit fixes was discussed more frequently with the console community to increase faith/hope amongst players. Also some official statement on all social media platforms stating that this behaviour is viewed as cheating/exploitative may stop a few players doing it, I'm aware that the dev team do view it as such but many new players don't. The logic that pushing casual players, survivalists, etc onto higher higher pop servers to apply pressure onto people duping or making duping bases more easily found is flawed. Sending a load of SG5k players to fight metal fortresses filled with LAR toting Dupers doesn't sound like a fair or fun gameplay experience & is likely to just push more players away. And arguable having character locked servers with loot that actually spawns, a server that runs effeciently but may get shutdown causing players to lose loot & character is still better than people not finding high level loot due to duping & having bad server stability across the board.

@ImpulZ I've personally got nothing against servers being removed, but it seems like a knee jerk reaction to a lower player base when massive issues such as duplication, server hopping, combat logging, etc are still driving players away. People are stopping playing as even heli sites don't spawn high level weapons anymore. Servers are running very badly as there full of gigantic bases built with duped materials. Until these issues are fixed the player base will continue to bleed out

Also the dev team have considered character locked servers but decided against it, several threads about it in the past with direct links to community managers garnered no response but I did get a direct email response stating there reasoning for not trying server locks. 1) it'd confuse players with another server option In the server list. 2) they want to try methods for stopping exploits they had/have in the works in upcoming updates. The email was from before 1.01 hit console. So I'm assuming the methods were bringing character locks back which have since seem to be removed due to errors in the system & making people sit through the 15sec log out timer, both of which haven't stopped duping, server hopping etc. Hopefully there's more effective methods in the works.

Last four I've found only had a ump and an sks ,two had no weapons at all. Duping a stopping anything from spawning. Hope it's fixed by next update as the games getting boring now.

Id rather see a complete fix for duplication & meat balling. Good to see a lot of work going into patches but most players would rather see some survival elements added back in to this survival game.

Thanks to the OP for bringing more attention to this. The issues got so out of hand now even myself who used to stream this game five days a week barely touches it due to the fact that playing the game in it's current state makes me feel kinda sick tbh. There's tonnes of Facebook groups with hundreds of members dedicated to duping. The central loot economy's completely screwed & even though I'm a friendly player, every player that I've had to take out in the last few sessions after being shot at, had an AK & an LAR or VSD. It's such a shame as this game was what my channel was built on & I used to happily promote it, but now when someone asks if they should buy it . The answers is rapidly becoming no

Devs have stated that Duplication does effect the central loot economy, so yeah unless your hitting those heli crash sites, then good luck find an M4 or AK. So until a solid fix is in place i imagine it'll remain as such

Either way I'll still find sea chests full of Duped Plate carriers, & LAR's in bases with a hundred walls made purely of sheet metal, rendering the entire conversation moot. Apologies in advance for the whine....sometimes the sadness needs to overflow. Also i feel making the armour completely tank all damage before ruination is too arcadey for DayZ, basically just an over shield at that point.

BI frequently directly reply to posters on the forum, they have also directly responded to me via email before. Also Duping is not a part of the game it is a player exploit that is not only cheating but damaging the central loot economy therefore detrimental to others game play experience. Several updates have included partial fixes to methods of duplication so to assume it wont be fixed is pure folly.

Just go checkout DayZ on Mixer, you'll find Partnered and non partnered streamers with high viewer counts blatantly duping weapons and materials to build huge bases, they openly admit to it with no shame. Any news on further improvements to the preventative systems to stop this toxic childish behaviour? @ImpulZ . I love the game but not only is the central loot economy being ruined, the servers are running terribly due to being over loaded with duped gear. I appreciate the dev team are working on this issue, but for someone who has always been an avid promoter of this IP, even i'm beginning to give up hope. I mean hell theres facebook groups of dupers with over a thousand members, so lets be real this is the biggest issue facing the game atm