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Of course it will. Why wouldn't it?

Oh definitely, if you're running for your life and then quickly stop to take a shot, these numbers should probably be closer to 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. In my OP, I was meaning more along the lines of you have been still for some time, you are in a stand-off with someone or scoping them out from distance and aren't out of breath at all. I agree on the sway as well, it can get a bit much at times.

Thanks! I think your numbers are too low though. If you're completely healthy, surely you can hold your breath for longer than 12 seconds, no? How about we meet in the middle somewhere, like 30, 20, 15, 10, 5?

I'm not suggesting you jog all the time, only right after you spawn as this is when you're most vulnerable. The very first thing I do is look for fruit trees and for infected to kill as both are sources of energy and hydration. Sometimes, those things are within eyesight right at the spawn point -- not always, but sometimes. Fruit spawns similar to how infected spawn, so there might not be any at the trees at first, but circle back after passing by and you'll find some. Dried fruit will help only your energy whereas raw fruit will help energy and hydration. If you follow a path of trees to a town, eating fruit as you go along, it is literally impossible to die of starvation or dehydration in the game -- again though, so long as you keep your finger off the Shift key when your bottle/apple is yellow. Once you reach a well (and drink like 30+ sips till you see the stomach full icon -- many people don't do this), then and only then is it time to sprint.

@vfxtodd Take your finger off the Shift key. You should not be sprinting, only jogging, until you can find food and water. Sure, you will travel slower, but will live much longer. Unless you're on a modded server that has reduced the start hydration and energy levels, there's nothing wrong with the default starting levels.

It's in his original post.

This is a stab in the dark, but is your Steam on a different drive from where the games are installed by chance (and one is on an SSD while the other is not)?

@THEGordonFreeman While I agree with you 100% in regards to how bad cars have been designed in DayZ, I disagree with how you are being sarcastic and basically a troll in your own thread. Constantly rubbing something in someone's face is not being productive -- that's being a bully. I think you've made your point, have you not? How about we let it rest now and let's wait and see if cars get any better in the future.

I like these ideas a lot. The files to implement it already exist if they use a specific combination of sounds. It could perhaps be something like one cough immediately followed by one Kuru laugh occurs if the person is logging out within a certain time frame of being shot at as the OP suggested. In this case, you can still log off in 15 seconds, but the character would remain on the server for perhaps as long as 5 minutes which would most likely mean death for that character since they'd be found and killed by those they were in combat with. If enough time had passed since you were shot at or you weren't shot at at all, you could log off normally as you do now.

@rvonpod Key issue maybe? If you have mods installed, make sure you've copied the .bikey files to \DayZServer\keys

Save the following as a .bat file and you'll have a manual restarter (change to match your drive/folder locations, port number, affinity mask, mods, etc. of course): @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion :shutdownserver taskkill /IM DayZServer_x64.exe timeout /T 30 /NOBREAK :restartserver cd\ cd "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\DayZServer" start "" /affinity {calc your affinity mask here} "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\DayZServer\DayZServer_x64.exe" "-instanceId=1" "-config=serverDZ.cfg" "-port=????" "-profiles=C:\DayZServer\" "-mod={mods go here}" "-noFilePatching" "-adminlog" "-freezecheck" exit If you don't know what I mean by affinity mask, check here and scroll down and read Method 3: https://www.dynamsoft.com/blog/insights/set-cpu-affinity-process/ When calculating affinity mask, it is best to run it on all cores except Core 0 as that will be the Windows default core and can cause DayZ server lag spikes when Windows is performing background tasks.

@Parazight Not difficult at all! lol

It would be nice visually, but it would also impact server performance because it would be that many more "things" for the server to keep track of.

Copy the contents of that mod from the workshop folder over to the similar folder you should have for it under the DayZServer folder. If the key file got updated as well by chance, also copy that to the DayZServer\keys folder, overwriting the previous one.

@THEGordonFreeman Yep and to the point I made earlier, notice when this happens to him -- it happens after he puts it into third gear. He would have had to respond very quickly, but if he had pressed and held the brakes at the :06 mark of this video (when the car has flipped on its side but hasn't started flying yet), he may not have died as the desync would have started to subside and the car should have came to a rest at that point. It would still have sustained damage and might have been ruined, but he probably would have only taken a bit of damage but not completely died from it. Don't get me wrong, he did nothing wrong here as you should easily be able to drive the car in higher gears, but on a populated server (which based on the performance of the car in this video I'm going to assume he was on), you simply can't drive this fast without risking exactly what happened here.

This isn't a solution, but has saved me a few times: hit and hold the brakes. I tend to never drive higher than second gear and at the slightest inclination that the car is "having a moment", I hit the brakes and hold the button down. It doesn't always work, but a lot of times, if you come to a stop and hold the brakes down for a few seconds, the desync subsides enough to save the car and continue. Again though, only works if you're not driving too fast. If you're in third gear or above on a populated server, good luck, either you or the car will be dead in no time.

There is...create your own.

Why would you build a base on an official server? Nobody is monitoring the server, many have hackers on them and Bohemia wiping them has been a thing for years now, yet every time, we see people complaining about it. If you smash your forehead into a brick wall and it hurts like hell, here's a tip for you: if you do it again, it'll hurt again. Build your bases on community servers that specifically state they backup and restore persistence files. That is your only chance of a long-lasting base.

3 or 4? Sure if you want airplanes for vehicles and all the infected stuck to everything. 1? Yes.

Here's my take on it and I have absolutely no source to back this up -- this is just my gut feeling. Bohemia hasn't announced what's next, but like many have speculated, I'd bet it's going to be Arma IV. It has been pointed out already that vehicles are a big deal in Arma and if they were planning to run Arma IV on the Enfusion engine, they have to come up with a way to make vehicles work on it. So, my gut tells me it'll be one of two things: Vehicles will never be stable in DayZ. Vehicles will be stable in DayZ once they are stable in the engine to be used in "Arma IV" or whatever their next big army title is. At this point, BI is looking ahead, not at DayZ in the rear-view mirror. It's a small team working on DayZ, but there's probably a large team working on the engine itself to improve it for the reasons I just stated. If that's the case, hopefully at some point, DayZ can get an Enfusion engine update that stabilizes components of the engine and hopefully, the vehicles as well. Fixing the cars specifically for DayZ though I doubt will ever happen.

I think this is where the disconnect begins between admins and players. As I said earlier in this thread, I had my own server earlier this year, so I was its owner and solo admin. If a player on my server came to me and said "so-and-so did such-n-such" my immediate response would not be "Oh yeah? Prove it!" You can make whatever argument you like, but at the end of the day, it's not up to the players to provide proof of cheating, it's up to the owners and admins to investigate and prevent it.

I used to own a server. I gave it up because the cost outweighed the benefit since it was very difficult to keep it populated. While I had it though, I always figured the burden of proof regarding cheaters was on me. To put it on those actually playing on the server is mind boggling to say the least.

@SwissArmy1984 If you're asking me, I have no idea if RandomFloat works. I have always used RandomInt and it has worked. I don't know the exact values in terms of when something pristine goes to worn and then when worn goes to damaged, etc. but I should think if you want the chance for something to spawn in ruined, the low value would be less than 50%. This is why I suggested to the OP to change his values to 5,100 which should cover the spectrum of ruined through pristine.

@nicepen1 Out of curiosity, have you tried connecting your son hardwired to the router (i.e. take the wifi out of it)? Dunno if it'll make a difference, but you could at least rule that out.

@Kyiara Hire this man and put him in charge of DayZ 2. It would be the best open world apocalypse game ever. Just sayin'.