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Okey, thanks for answers. I'll try laters today with new hotfix Patch and see if I see more servers with a lot of people. Cheers!

Hello, I am not actually new player but I guess this kind of "noob"-ish question should be posted here. Anyway, in last few days every time I am about to play DayZ I see just a few full or high populated servers. Just less then hour ago there was JUST four full (40/40) servers on entire server list. Am I doing something wrong so I don't see all servers? I wouldn't even give any concern to this but I just read on DayZ Dev Twitter game has 1M unique players and today I saw less then 500 people total on all servers together (yeah, I counted lol), at least on ones I saw on the list. P.S. I don't have anything edited in Filter. Double... triple checked it. Updated DayZ and 95417 Beta patch.

You want to tell me Dwarden on this thread is legit and not some troll? Hmmm... Anyone wrongfully banned got PM back from him? Man, my friends and myself play on 95417 and no one of us got banned but I can't tell if this is just some campaign from scripters to get their bans reverted or some people got wrongfully banned for real, anyway I am scared to apply newest beta patches now. :( :( :( Would really appreciate some official stance on this issue (or lack of issue if this is one big false story) and I am pretty sure that I am not only one.

- Friend's Rangefinder gets duplicated every time he removes that item from main slot, and after each server restart. - Same thing happens with NVG and GPS but only after server restart. - Friend's Grenade has countless of uses, yeah - he doesn't even need to relog nor wait for server to restart, he can throw countless of bombs in row. - Our vehicles (3x) are spawning gear after each server restart - no matter what we take from our stash that gear comes back. - Our tents, same thing as vehicles. - About 20 tents we found while looking for places to hide vehicles also spawn gear after each server restart. - Etc... Question: how? We didn't do anything to cause this, played and looted as fair as possible and still this happens all the time. It's kinda stupid, ruins idea behind this game. Sure, I can chose to "forget" about access to every weapon in this game by just running to the nearest forest and play with Lee Enfield in Elektro but still... it's just stupid. Is there something we can do while looting/taking vehicles/tents to stop them duplicating gear?

Hey guys, this thread got me fully interested. I am trying to play this game as legit as it can and yesterday I was doing this "loot cycling" as you call it. My reasoning behind it was "Oh well, trash spawned, why shouldn't I move it - it will help me and maybe others to get better spawns", I honestly didn't know if it will work, never heard about this before (but I just recently started visiting forums outside of Announcements part). Was totally surprised when I saw new batch of loot respawned in matter of minutes. I was at tents with two friends on server with quite a few people (20-25) while it was day time, two of us got killed while being near tents (twice even!) but at the end of the day we went out of that place with better loot then we had before and we even left few nice weapons for other people who visit that place to take. My question is, did we do something wrong - something that can be said to be exploiting? Is it forbiden or bannable offense? After all we played on random half-full (which is of course not ours, and never got locked in any moment) while it was day and we even died doing that. Kinda in big dilemma, I watched that Rocket interview someone posted and even after watching couldn't say if he thinks it's exploit that is forbiden. I guess if you have your own, locked, server or you do it on absolutely empty server while it is night it could and should be characterized as cheating... but on legit server with people, crowded place, and daytime... I would say it is just taking advantage of not finished loot mechanic that can't be fully attributed to cheating nor exploiting. Is there any official word (from Rocket or other dev) about it on forums that you can link to me?

Is there actually any official answer/stance on changes for damage of weapons? I thought that was some kind of bug that got brought with 1.62 full and will get fixed in next DayZ version. I am not against the changes, I just had impression pistols do less damage because of the some kind of bug(s) not because that was intended by Rocket. P.S. Only complain I have is that this mod tries to go realistic as it can but now pistols like Revolver and M1911 do less damage then pistols with weaker caliber, that is just plain stupid. All I am saying, if this was intentional change at least do it right.

Thanks for answer mate. I do understand sniping is easy in DayZ and probably should be "nerfed"/made harder but for someone who is not experienced DayZ player and even less experienced sniper player it's not that easy because of range finding. And it's not that it is hard process or time consuming, it is that I have no idea how to effectively do that and I can't find any resources to learn how to. At this moment I have M24 and I always play on Veteran servers without built-in range finder, it's kinda hardish to guess how far my target is. P.S. Your proposition to use DayzDB map is clever but I would like to be able to estimate range in-game, just gotta figure out how mildots work or what is "formula" for it. :)

Rocket what about you sit and think about this additional 5 minutes? Why? Because I found solution to respawns in less then 2 minutes of thinking about it. You are removing Respawn because people spam Respawn to find their dead body faster, or to spawn on spot where better loot is faster accessible. You want people to SURVIVE and while SURVIVING get to the better loot and all that nifty gear. Sure, I agree with that but you didn't think about countless of possibilities where you will need Respawn for legit usage. Example: hacker comes to server, breaks legs of all players, it happens you are in forests away from towns/zombies and you just used your last Morphine. Now, to start over you have to come to the forum and beg people for "rescue" or to crawl for hours to nearest Zombies to get killed. Simple solution: Respawn button doesn't work for 5-30 min (you decide about the time) after you started playing the game/used Respawn last time/made new character after dying - you just defeated all those people who spam servers with malicious respawns but also you didn't harm anyone who wants that feature for legit using.

I wish there was some tutorial for every sniper in DayZ and how to successfully "range finding". I am using M24, and got pretty decent with it but when I had M107 it was totally different thing because of "two-zooms", also from my testing on different servers DMR center zeroing can be both 300 and 400 which is also big thing when you want to be accurate. Sniping in DayZ is hard on veteran servers. :D /me being noob and don't know how to get to "armory/editor" and test stuff.

I thought I was one of luckiest people week or two ago, because until week ago I never experienced hacker. At least not one of those who teleports and kills everyone on the server or changes your gear. I might've been subject of hacker who has that UI-helper that basically auto-aims for you or similar (will never know). BUT... oh lord... in last week or two I died more to hackers then from legit situations. Hacking is getting out of the hand and if something pushes people away from this game will be hacking. I hope Rocket and everyone involved with DayZ realize that. :/

Game purchase or cheaper game purchase with small monthly fee. (whatever works best for the game) I wouldn't even consider playing DayZ if it goes "buy4power" model a.k.a. microtransaction model that is popular so much nowadays where I can pay for boosts/weapons/etc. Just saying... Studio developed with strong community input.

http://dayzmod.com/f...t-banned-users/ - has outdated list of banned users. I really hope they start banning people more often because, judging from my own experiences and forum threads, hacking is getting out of the hand. I would post some links but someone might find that to be "hack advertising" so go to youtube and just check out VODs of hackers - it is unbelievable what hackers can do/use, it almost seems they have more dev. power then Rocket himself. Once again, it is unbelievable... never thought hacks in DayZ/ArmA are so fully developed with countless of features. Biggest threat to this awesome mod is hacking, I really hope Rocket and buddies understand that. No way they are that much clueless to let keygen'd keys work on official servers, just no way...

Finally, someone who experienced same thing. Days ago it happened to my friend as well, I went to forum to check up what the heck is that and couldn't find a single report on forums - so I decided to not make any thread because I didn't manage to get screenshot (proof I guess) and day before I already made thread about hackers so didn't want to push it too far. Three friends and myself were checking far north forests hoping to find some tents or vehicle when at one point my friend got turned into Zombie. He still had his gun, he still could normally move but every single of rest of us heard those Zombie growls and saw him as Zombie without a gun (normal, plain, walking DayZ zombie). After about 2-3 minutes both my friend and myself heard shots... but not normal shots, we were on the mountain, surrounded by forest and shots we were hearing were like someone is breaking the glass (i.e. glass at hospital). Also we didn't see nor hear bullets dropping near us and no one of us got hit. After a while, when we got sure no one is firing at us for real, we disconnected and reconnected... we all, together with friend who got turned into Zombie got that stun-timer of like 5 min. Funny, every next time we relogged on same server we started stunned but at least friend got his normal skin back. 1.7.2.3 and one of DE servers, it was full around 50 people on it. We thought it was some hack, but if it was hacker decided to not kill everyone. Also when hacker comes to server and starts messing around people leave server faster then sound, but this server was full all the time while these strange "bugs" were happening to us, so I guess it was bug for real or some hacker just was testing new hacks or something. At the end of the day we didn't die, and everything was fine and normal after we changed the server.

Really Rocket, really? This is Alpha, we all know that because this forum has like 1000 users who dedicated their time to tell you "ALPHAZ!!111oneoneeleven" as soon as you "whine" about something, and in broken Alpha like DayZ mod is you decided to remove Respawn feature? - Hackers: teleport you around, break your leg(s), send you to debug forest. - Spawns: debug forest. - Playing with friends: I am playing with 5-8 people, can you imagine nightmare of us getting together now? We will literally spend HOURS to just meet and start playing together, that is your intention that goes along with game's core design? I have to quit my job and my friends have to quit their studies if they want to play few hours of DayZ with me, because now... well... it's impossible to play DayZ for couple of hours as we will spend those couple of hours just running to find each other. Oh cmon, don't just remove something like Respawning without giving us any alternative. What the fuck is my alternative if hacker breaks my leg in middle of nowhere while I am running through the forest? Is part of game's core design to have damn hacker on every damn server breaking my legs and teleporting me around? Most of people are already annoyed by overal hacking in this game, now we have to think about being stuck in nowhere without option to respawn/start from scratch. Thank you Rocket, and your data collecting. I don't even know what is benefit of ALT+F4 in DayZ but people are talking about that as it is form of hacking. I guess people escape danger doing ALT+F4 but I never understood why is it different then Abort->Disconnect. Anyway, fighting against anything that annoys most of players is always good and nice but reading like 20 pages of this thread I found out you will also bring a lot of problems to legitimate users. - Server/Client Performance: for some reason I can't explain nor understand why is my FPS changed by server's performance based on hardware and/or internet it has. I can NOT know if server I am joining will work well for me hence every day I am playing DayZ I have to change at least few servers before I find one that works fine. Why should I get punished for trying to play this game on server that gives me more then 15 FPS? - Friends: same thing as above, different people have different PC configurations. When I play with friends some server we pick gives good performance to half of our group, while other half has shitty FPS. We gotta keep "server hoping" until we find server that works decently for everyone. Punish us? Of course, we are such abusers and exploiters... - Misleading server information: AT LEAST half of servers "lie" about timezone and settings. Countless and countless of times I entered server where (by description) it should've been day but is night, or it says "CH:ON" but CH is OFF and so on. Should I be also punished because server admin doesn't care for updating server's name and description? Basically this patch just PUNISHES me as legitimate user that doesn't ALT+F4, doesn't server hop for loot, doesn't abuse this game by any other means and surely doesn't hack. I play as legit as it is possible and after this patch I'll have HARD time playing with friends, I'll get punished for going through difficult process of finding decent server - difficult process that GAME/mod enforced on me, also I will spend my DayZ playtime running and trying to find friends OR I will crawl in forest for hours trying to find a zombie to kill me after hacker teleports me to forest and breaks my leg. Or... I will just be stuck in debug forest. Really nice of you Rocket, instead of fixing bugs/hacks/performance issues that are here for months or AT LEAST enforcing same DayZ version/beta patch version on all servers you are adding Bear Traps and shitting on players who play this legit. Thanks dude.

Hello, thanks for your answer. Well, at least now I know they are very aware of this issue. I just hope sooner then laters they work on that security, because I can't imagine people to stick playing this awesome mod if these hackers/scripters (whatever) keep doing this more often. To be honest this was first time I encountered this but I really got bumped down because of it.