Tarkules

Last time my character was hungry, it was in 2018 and this was when I returned to play dayZ after a long break. Unfortunately, the only skill you need today to "survive" dayZ is to aim right. A "food can" should be something so rare that one would kill for it, vegetables and fruit should be found in the wild in abundance.

I really like the controls as they are. Much closer to realism than other games. I just wonder if they will dare to implement a clutch someday. Only players aged above 30 will be able to drive then, which is another step towards a safer apocalyptic world 🙂

S always functions as brakes. You put the gear in Reverse and hit the gas with "W" to drive backwards. I think most of the problems in vehicles originates from server/sync/lag issues, not lack of development. I mean, sure, a car honk would be a nice addition but network problems are more urgent and basic to address.

I think version 1.02 is the most stable version they got out so far, and I truly believe that this was a successful outcome of the new goals they have set, which are basically to release a full working game with all the basic functions to experience the basic DayZ. If you'll browse the forums back to the times when they released an update/fix twice a week (0.63 marathon), the community went mad and crazy like shareholder losing their investments on every release. The new pace of the updates has proven to be better, since the last 2 updates (1.01, 1.02) improved and stabilized the game more than ever. For those veterans who played the game for years, it's very painful to see the game missing so much content, but i'm sure (I hope..) that within a few BIG updates and by the end of the year, we will be back on tracks.

Correct, but the publisher can invest more money and expand the dev team. I believe this usually requires bringing in some investors and to do so, the product should be promising, or at least hyped. The game IS promising, and we're past the hype, but BI is investing itself in a game that most companies tend to avoid because it's risky and is a long-term development. So far, BI is doing it better than the others, and on it's own pace. I just wish they would prioritize their goals and spend their time on completing and polishing first all PvE features, then PvP (guns, basebuilding, restrain, etc) and lastly - vehicles (land, sea and air).

It just depends on what kind of a player are you. In my opinion, your feeling that 98% of the players don't bother to build - is right, because this is being designed as a secondary feature. While apparently, the first feature is combat. If you'll build a base, this is what you should expect: 1. The more items you keep - The more emotional stress you get. Everyday you leave your base out there, "locked" and unmanned while you're offline, you'll think about it all the time and pray no one found it already. 2. Great feeling of accomplishment. But prepare yourself for technical disappointments and frustrations on the way. 3. Having a self-sustained base that provides you some basic security, especially when having wolves in your area is great. I only wish there were more wild predators out there. 4. Hunt some animals, make a garden plot, make a fire, roast the vegi's - and that's your endgame. Game Over in 3 days. So, why is this boring? and why most of the players just skip that part ? Because they just don't need it. 1. Your character doesn't carry any real sign of being a long-time survivor. Your character have a beard - but it has 2 modes: no beard OR a seven-days-without-shaving-beard. 2. The environment doesn't really affect you. Not in way that urges you to find any shelter at any time. Not talking just about body temp.. 3. Stashing and building causes lags, BUT, I can't say anything bad about persistence - never lost a single thing. 4. You have TONS of food where there should be NONE. A post-apocalyptic world will hold like 10 cans of .. anything, all over, after a few months only. Also, the zombies will bring you food if you'll ask them. Oh, and they bring you axes too! My point is - you will never starve to death, your strength has nothing to do with your health (BUT! you have vitamins! + hospitals and what-nots). What's left to do? Guns. Nothing to shoot? Here are some un-related zombies for you. See you next year... OR Have some fun now :)

Can we make this game a little bit smarter ? 1. Reduce drastically all weapons and ammunition spawns (locations and quantity). If a weapon was found, it should be 90% of the time in a badly-damaged / broken condition until it's repaired. And what's broken, should be repaired, not thrown away. 2. Reduce the hilarious amounts of food and soda cans everywhere, and increase all organic food spawns. A food can should be more precious than any weapon. 3. Zombies are irrelevant, surviving humans and animals is hard enough. When you're hungry, everything is justified. 4. We need a lot more wild predators like the amazing wolves. Wild boars should attack humans if they sense him. This is the end of the world, fellas, it is expected from animals to dominate again their turfs. 5. NWAF and Tisy should be the ONLY (known) places to obtain weapons. They should be surrounded by massive herds of wolves and / or other natural predators, to make it harder to get in and out from those places. 6. Stamina - Jogging is nice, but should be limited as well. The stamina bar should go down very slowly as long as you jog. Base Building: 1. If I'm standing in the wild and I have a shovel and an axe and I want to make a stash - I just dig a hole, fill it with sticks and cover it. What's the big issue ? Why can't we have the basics first ? 2. Watchtowers should allow to add another module - "Stash unit". A big wooden box that should be attached to an inner wall, and should be allowed to create 1 per tower. Also, the player should be able to lock it with a lock. 3. Personal shelters combining 1 dead animal skin + 1 long stick, where are they? How can you start a base 4. IRL - If I had to move a barrel or metal sheets or anything heavy for long distances - I'd start with wheels. And if I have a half- broken car sitting next to me for decades and it's FUBAR or it take too much effort to fix it, I would use 2 wheels + wood + ropes to build a carriage. No need for horses, only a Sancho Panza.

We should be able to train a wolf and put it on guard when needed, or take it with us for hunting / journeys. Barbed Wires are supposed to keep a distance from you and the fence, so you won't be able to interact with it, but you will need to use pliers first to get rid of them, and then an axe to destroy the fence. When you destroy a fence - Instead of having an option to destroy the entire fence, you should be prompted to destroy each plank or metal sheet in the fence, so you''ll need to destroy them piece by piece to be able to get through. You should be able to build an Underground Storage Unit inside the base - using wood, metal and the right tools, to store your item. For example: you place the kit wherever you want to build it, then you dig it (should take a long time, or multiple excavations to complete this step) so you create a big hole, then add wood and metal sheets and nails and build it once. The final structure should have 2 appearances: Covered and Uncovered. And you use a shovel to hide (cover) it. And you should be able to place anything on top of it. Otherwise it's not really practical. Also, this structure should be an underground option for watchtowers, so it could save you a lot of space and allow more flexible designs. Just a thought :)

Hi, Can anyone explain how does the hive system work on official experimental servers? I have 2 characters, until a few days ago whenever I logged in to UK servers, I got a specific character, on DE servers I got the other one. Since yesterday, it seems random. Either the names are misleading, or I just don't understand how it works. I spent more time on reconnecting and hoping to play with a specific character, than actually playing. Also, the main menu is really confusing and buggy. Characters menu is unclear, filters seem to work partially, currently the only way for me to find a good server is with trial&error and to write down the IP:Port before and after I play.

Agree 100%. In 2014, I bought the game when it just got published. I played it a little bit, really liked it, but I decided that I'll get back to it when it's ready. In 2018, I played 0.62 for roughly 2 hours just to see what's what, but the performance were terrible. When 0.63 came out, the performance and graphics got really improved. It was a blessing. But where did the content go? It's kinda boring. Believe it or not, the best experience I had so far was watching YouTubers like TheRunningManz and other great guys, playing earlier versions, up to 0.62. So I started to test out the stress test builds, and to be honest, I lost my enthusiasm. See, I do it because I just want the game to be done already. I'm willing to test it and spend the time and report bugs. But whenever BI exposes me to another unfinished feature and or new bugs, I lose some of my faith. I'm just a consumer for that matter. Then I stop playing for a few days, then go back to play it on xbox. Then I check the forums, twitter, I get pissed off but I let it go again, trying to stay frosty and cool about it, and it's been like that for 2 months. In short - you just "woke me up" in August 2018, just to tell me that the game is not ready yet.

Is this the reason for the non-stop rain? In the last couple of days I played on the same server and did not have a single dry moment. Having rain is great, but the sound of it is too loud, it never changes due to winds, it rains in the same pace for hours, no thunders or lightnings. I had to quit the game because the sound started to get on my nerves, it's just static noise after a while. Also, i'd like to have more encounter with wolves and boars and any wild predator at night, should we expect any changes in the future to make nights more challenging?

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Man, I swear, if I'll ever find some nails on ST 51, I'll PM you right away. I see you take this matter very seriously... (: you have my sympathy. On xbox world, we're still stuck on bugs and we even don't have full day/night cycles. Base building for us sounds like Sci-Fi at the moment.

Sounds like trouble. Post the server number and name of the city. We'll be sending "The Hound", Over. * "Battlefield 2" Music theme in the background *

A smersh bag can be found in a heli crash site, but it's useless since all you can do with it is just carry it by hand. You can store it in your inventory only if it's empty and takes up 24 slots if I remember correctly. I can give you mine if you want.

There are too many army bases anyway. We need hammers and nails, not rifles and bullets.

Yep. Getting attacked by wolves is fun now. Too bad I can't call them to play a little.

Dude I'm outside the door and its locked.. Edit: Just wanted to tell you guys that he WAS there and greeted me. You should visit and bring your favorite meat with you (: it's an nice spot.

Thanks for the fixes! My inventory remained as is, nothing was gone. Reload with Y works nicely with all my weapons. Edit: Reload with Y stopped working all of the sudden. Edit #2: Works again. I don't know. Server messages are back. Don't know if my stash got wiped or not, can't find my server. As I understand from a different post - some of the servers are missing at the moment until tomorrow. My flashlight is on quick slot already, got 3 spare batteries, let the sun go down and bring us the moon (:

Hey, maybe you could hook up with @Major Plums. If he will be able to form his group and find a proper place to occupy, perhaps they could provide you the necessary defense with his the UN soldiers. Anyway, we have about... 3 months to discuss this and we will need merchants at some point, right ? Don't give up :)

@pilgrim* - I would have voted up your last answer as the correct one, if it was possible. Thanks for the clarification.

This one goes for the developers or any official person from BI that can respond to my sugestion: Maybe we can have some night servers? There are dozens of empty servers with no use (except for the new trend: Hop&Hoard). Playing the Preview for a month especially when it's always 9am - is just boring. Since we did not receive any news about the next update, maybe this can be done to allow us experience the better sides of the game. I am not talking about getting the Time moving, just put up some night servers at constant hour 6/7/8pm, when it's dark, but enough light to handle yourself without flashlights or torches. As a bonus - maybe it will get some people "off the edge" in the forum, seems like they gonna kill each other pretty soon (: Just a thought. Admin: if this thread goes sideways like many other good threads, please kill / lock it, or just lock it now. Ponies are allowed, though.

If you want to "force change on games", making such a post on BI's forums or any other games company is just pointless. Should have posted this on Microsoft or a news blog. Your frustration, like many others, is because you got used (too quickly) to get weekly updates and patches and tweets, and worst - you let yourself to get carried away in the xbox hype (myself included). The only real problem I see here, is the lack of super-heavy and professional PR management. This way they could tell you in the nicest words to "Take it, or leave it". But instead, only here you can discuss your feelings with thousands of bored and disappointed xbox players who can share you misery. I bet this forum is being refreshed countless times by players like you and me hoping to hear some news, but hey, what if nothing happens, like forever? Cheer the fuck up.

You should be able to fish with it. https://dayz.gamepedia.com/Bone_Fishing_Hook But not in the current version.

Ha! Funny But no update this week.