William Sternritter

While it adds flavor, since the body is there the blood splatter is not all that important. If you just wound someone however; it would be nice to see splatters as they bleed and be able to track them. This does not have to stay long, few minutes is ok.

This is a curious thing, my friend who also uses track ir has jitter issues to the point that he stopped using it altogether because the headshake was too much. I on the other hand have no issues like this, but my tracking regularly freezes in the vertical axis and it take a few seconds to move again. It is definitely much less refined than it used to be. Shame since this game was basically the tech demo for TrackIR, back in the day. Track IR does get noticeably jittery of course with performance drops. I'm using this profile for the curves, with speed 1,5 and smooth 10 https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/250466/ Though it did help my friend a little, it did not solve his issues. The "fault" still maybe at least partially in some settings of your HW but I'd say the main issue is with the implementation in the game. For example, looking through scopes in your hands with trackir is borderline unusable. Movement of the scope is controlled by head movement and there it jitters and flies all over the place. So yeah, bad implementation overall.

Considering how it is more of the same, I still think they should have repurposed it as one of the other two regions of Chernarus and thus work on completing the map. Eventually stitching it all together.

Fortification of existing buildings should definitely be possible.

Speaking from experience on official servers, the area is now quite crowded. We also used to have it as a sort of retreat, there is nicely secluded pub up above, the camping area which was added not long ago is a also great for loot and there even is an industrial complex near by. Which I guess is what attracted a lot of base builders. Still, it's a nice place to lurk, quite a few spots to snipe from. These days you can be sure you're never alone in the area, which also means "lesser" loot if you're late to the party. If you want an tense infected encounter have a shootout there, as you say you instantly get a trainload 😄 (containers saved us more than once), sometimes the wolves come as well. However; if you stay silent you can easily deal with all of them one by one. We did this once, coming via the meadow from east. My friend knifed them, while I backed him with SMG. Proper Seal Team 6 action I tell you 😄

Yes, certain status messages, basically the symptoms, that help you identify the cause of your sickness should return.

That's point number one, being self sufficient and also, just because this is a survival game that does not mean that everything is ruined in an hour. I understand why games have unrealistic attrition rates, especially if they cannot rely on random failures. However; I hate it when everything behaves like that. I also enjoy the need to look for supplies periodically, but not constantly. I would also argue, that DayZ can (and does) present much more elaborate challenges than simple item deterioration. Here it is more about the suspense whether someone else is nearby. Decisions whether to shoot, manage silently or avoid completely. Will you risk settling down for a considerable time to make fire/cook? So I really should not worry about clothing degradation unless I get into a fight or slide down ladders constantly.

Of course, but for those occasions when you need it it's totally worth the effort and you will probably not need more than a few shots. Typically you can manage 2-3 shots before the suppressor is ruined, just enough to kill game or player silently.

Yet game mechanics are the same, in case you didn't notice. So if someone is proposing a game mechanic like permanent dog tags that every character will wear it does not matter which section it is. You can be quite sure, devs will not make it XB only. Which is why I'm able to advise someone in PS4 section, because we're all stuck in the same mess. Also, it gives you and us guys to get to know that there are still some differences due to how the infrastructure works on consoles and so on, which is not a bad thing to learn. But of course … you can always be a dick about it and resolutely say I should not comment in your section 😛

I'm not on console (at least not for DayZ), so I was curious. Thanks for chiming in though … it's not like you're late or missed the rest of the conversation … 😄

Also, it does not go to your inventory when crafted, but on the ground. So don't leave it there 😄

Hopefully, it is 1.06 and not just Livonia 😄 More importantly, 0.63 will not repeat, when they showed it at a con with quite a lot of features and stuff and then we waited for about six months until it really released and still it did not have half of the animations and basics like items on your back were broken.

Nothing like this exists on PC, at least on the official servers 🙂 maybe on a private server you can see the list of players, but anyway you can type whatever name for your char or leave it default. So there really is no way to get a hold of the others outside the game unless you also join Discord or something like that.

Anywho, even without the added layer of possible harassment or whatever, this would be quite an odd thing for everyone to have by default. Maybe optional, i.e. you find empty tags and can wear them and get something inscribed on them. That being said, basically we just need pen to return to the game. Yeah … in the old days you could write on a piece of paper and leave messages that way. You could also plant a paper with a message on a dead body, so that anyone who is reading it stands still for a few seconds … you get the point.

Well, this must be a console thing then. But if you already see the gamer tags anyone can harass you, right?

How exactly would another player message you? Especially if a lot of the players are still running around with the default "Survivor_##" name?

These are the so call dynamic events, besides helicopters there are also police cars. They spawn at server restart and then reposition every 30 minutes. Specifically helicopters, there's up to 3 of them, maybe 4, spawned with each server restart. Their repositioning is a bit stupid, because they will reposition regardless of player vicinity. We have seen a helicopter de-spawn right in front of our eyes, while running towards it. You can read a bit more here: https://dayz.gamepedia.com/Helicopter_Crash_Sites

Ah, shame 🙂 I just fresh spawned last weekend and got ma char together, so that's not so appealing.

Reading this, I might actually be pissed if I just continue as my current char tonight 😄

Wait, that's how you do it regardless 😄 You don't really want to linger near the water stuck in animation any longer than you have to. At least get behind some trees or whatever and purify it there.

It gives us something to talk about.

Seems like it. A while back I drank from a well and got the same reaction. Recently I drank from well again as fresh spawn and nothing happened. So there either maybe a chance of infection or that some wells are like this. Would be nice to have a definitive answer.

Yeah, one shot from a pistol aggros the whole horde.

How did the infected react? Silenced shots are still heard, if you fire in a room, there will be amplifying echo as well. However; other silenced guns still attract the infected, the MK2 should not. If it was a loud bang and the gun was not damaged, this could be a bug.

Interesting. So far, I certainly got sick from random canteen, even sipping off the well at one time and from eating uncooked food. As for cleaning canteens and bottles, I just purify them and never got sick from drinking purified water. Cold and rain, I'm not sure about, so far did not get into the cold (blue) indicator and rain, as far as I know is not implemented. There is audio for rain but I never got wet from it. However, the one time I got sick from eating uncooked food (I wanted to see the effects), the sickness lasted and kept returning for some time until it finally went away. More or less as you describe, I got the bacteria icon, took some tetra, bacteria disappeared, came back again and so on. It took quite a few pills to heal completely. But if you say you got this on multiple servers, with (presumably) different chars … that is strange. Maybe you're just cursed 😄