Nayte

I’m sure most people coming into this game know of it’s development history. That said, I can’t think of another survival game that’s gripped me the way this game has, and continues to. 350 hours invested and counting..

Yes, your bag can be ruined. You can still use it, just don’t take it off until you’re ready to swap it out. According to a seasoned PC player, a ruined bag offers no protection to you or your gear when damage is taken.

Yeah, found it odd when I was prompted to repair my two way with some duct tape. Also allowed me to repair my mag. Found my new favorite item..

Just a heads up, it’s going to be a full server/character wipe. Nothing stored or buried will persist through that type of reset.

A big part of DayZ is creating your own challenges. Just because you may find lots of food and weapons in houses and on zombies doesn’t mean you have to take it.. Try creating handicaps for yourself if you’d like a tougher experience.

I would LOVE to see private or even a local server option. Even if it was restricted to a certain amount of players.

I would 100% second this motion. Perhaps up the timer to 5 minutes after 2-3 quick re-logs. That way you’d give those who may have froze/crashed a chance to rejoin without an undeserved restriction. Or, as you mentioned, they were able to track players who were blatantly hopping.

I agree Maybe have a 10-20% chance of spawning a complete vehicle, with gas having the same spawn rate.

I wouldn’t be surprised if players have found a way to usurp the logging off method. The only way I can think of, aside from pulling the ethernet cord, would be to close the DayZ app through the console face. Now, I’m not sure what that does to the in-game character, if they’re still in stasis for the standard amount of time or not. Currently, when you log out of DayZ on Xbox, there’s a 20 second countdown until your character physically leaves the server. If one joins servers too frequently, it causes a 90 second joining timer. There aren’t any other preventive measures in place as of yet.

As far as I’m aware, developers have free reign to implement any preventive measures as far as their servers and property are concerned. So long as it doesn’t breach Microsoft’s ToS, I don’t believe there’s much BI isn’t able to do to police their servers. It seems to be a matter of what the best course of action is in regard to deterrents and/or punishments BI chooses to go with.

Personally, the duplication issue far outweighs the other issues you’ve mentioned. I’d go as far as to say it’s borderline game breaking, depending on your goals for that characters lifespan. At least the other exploits don’t (or at least didn’t) seem to affect the ability for military rifles to re-spawn. To play the devils advocate, the other methods at least still resulted in a natural process of loot spawning in. I’d be willing to bet duplicating is messing with the spawning algorithm in a major way. Here’s to hoping there’s a somewhat timely fix in sight.

Yeah, I think the duping issue far outweighs any other exploit, aside from perhaps “meatballing”. Fingers crossed this is addressed ASAP.

I’d be curious testing the smoking barrels in a pond, some RP tempering.

You’re right in that Microsoft handles party chat. Developers are not allowed to integrate their game chat functionality with party chat for privacy reasons. I think it’s really up to the players if they want to go the full blown immersion style of using two way radios to communicate long distances with friends. That way, one is able to chat with random players in game. Party chat, being the far quicker and easier means of communicating with friends ends up preventing the ability to talk to others, which tends to exacerbate the kos mentality.

It would be nice if Xbox had some test servers we could try out before they’re pushed live.

It would be fun, especially seeing a server being invaded by the forum community. In a..hopefully peaceful manner, we know how crowd mentalities tend to go.. I’m in the NA time zone, weekends I could be on anytime if free. My tag is the same as this user name.

Like that idea, I’m in. Im usually on late evenings during the week.

I wouldn’t necessarily say they make a game better, that’s subjective. They do offer various ways to play for those who may like certain changes, extending play time for those interested. Maybe if/when private servers are implemented.

Modding support for private/player dedicated servers would be great. I’m not sure I’ve seen anything modding wise on console where PvP is concerned, though you never know.

Haha, guess Chenarus just got to him.

I feel like they need way more time. Never mind adding in the content that’s been missing, but the amount of bugs and optimization’s that still need addressing is concerning. Who knows, maybe this update will be a cure all, though my optimism feels hesitant. Guess they really want the 1.0 to scoop up the PS4 crowd..

Maybe they could just implement a handful of single character locked servers, along with the standard servers. That way we have the best of both worlds.

Yeah, I remember reading something from the devs (can’t seem to find the link) where they mention duper’s effecting the spawning of military rifles. Personally, I don’t think they should be littered all over the bases, though currently they are seemingly nonexistent. As a test I shamelessly server hopped around 15 times after looting my way through nearly all the bases. Spent around 6 hours looking...nothing. I’m really hoping they find a remedy for this issue.

Too often people are more concerned with the destination, trying to hurry their way through the journey. Trouble is, in an apocalypse, the destination is death.

Hey, this is the PC section, just an FYI. I’d have to agree that adding indicators would make this game way less immersive, and a bit too easy. What would help is if you download the iZurvive app. You can start groups and add markers to that map if you’d like.