Porcelain_Punisher

Me and my buddies have been "grinding" for two weeks straight. Hitting every single military base multiple times and after multiple server resets. Havent found a single m4 or ak. Has nothing to do with being a "cry baby". It has everything to do with the unreasonable loot economy because some players that have no life outside of dayz can spend all night and day after a fresh update to find and stash all the guns. Dupers arent the only issue. Plenty of players find and stash enough guns and that screws up the economy too. If they cant figure out how to fix duping and players like yourself want to stash a ton of guns, then maybe they should find a happy medium and just wipe all underground stashes. Tents can be more fair to find and raid but this abundance of underground stash sites with a ton of duped and saved guns is dumb. Just a note, some of use have busy lives outside of dayz and still want to be able to enjoy every aspect of this game just like everyone else when we sit down and play for a bit to have fun. Kinda BS when after weeks of playing and searching and I only have a SKS.

I love when people get so butthurt about players that kill on site. If you dont like it, maybe you should play a less savage game where there is no killing. What the hell would you expect during a real apocalypse? People would be killing eachother for supplies. Welcome to reality

Then how are dupers duping still? Because I'm pretty sure the way to dupe was to drop your gear in one server and swap to another. Then you have to go back to the first server and pick it up. Pretty difficult to do when the game throws you all the way to the other side of the map after server hopping. Unless there is a new way to duplicate. I've also read months ago that regardless of duping, the developers made the guns more rare anyway.

Player built bases on top of the prison buildings. Has anyone encountered one of these? Specifically around the Zelenogorsk are? We found one the other day and its active. We are trying to plan an assault to take it over as the occupants are extremely hostile. They overlook the military base and kill anyone that goes near that or the train tracks. Anyone see this base that I am referring to? We need a few good men to help assault it.

Not sure and no way of knowing. It's on the roof and secure on all sides. There used to be a tower but it's gone now. Assume they server hop to it. We've gotten into 1 firefight with them and it was horrible. Since then we spent alot of time trying to recon it for weak points and we've been observing them basically killing anyone that comes near the west end of zelenogorsk

To start this off, I just want to say a few positives about this game. I love the idea of this game and think that it is unique and its been very fun to play, even though you spent most of your time running long distances with no productivity. The game play and firefights are tense and a bit more immersive (I prefer milsim type games rather than run and gun games like COD or Halo), so this game works well for me. I like sandbox games where you can play however you want, even though people don't understand this and complain a lot. In DAYZ, you have the option to go alone or with friends and just survive and build stuff. You have the option to be a ruthless pirate and ambush and take peoples stuff. You also have the option to be a weirdo and tie people up and torture them if that's your thing. You can kill anyone but you can also make friends. With that all being said, I have a busy life outside of my Xbox. I'm a big time gamer, but I also don't have the time to invest in a game all day and night long. I do prefer games of this nature rather than fast paced games like COD, so why can't people like me enjoy this game thoroughly as well. For example, this game is based during modern times after a zombie outbreak. Its setting is in a ex soviet country that has multiple military camps and dead zombie soldiers. There are also roadblocks, police stations, police cars littered all over the map. So, why is it near impossible to find at least an AK and decent gear in a reasonable amount of time. Considering the setting, it is absolutely unreasonable and unrealistic how rare these decent guns are to find. I can understand it is hard to find an M4, as M4s are western weapons. However, me and a buddy ran to every base on the map multiple times over the last 5 days and have yet to find a single AK? The problem with dupers is that they want to enjoy the game in the time they have. They have lives and cant play a game all night just to find a single weapon that they are highly likely to die and lose soon after. Put a few more guns on the map. Put a few more camps and stuff near the coast for those seeking the more tactical gear. Not a 30 min walk in land. Im not asking to make this game easier by any means. What I'm asking is that you not just cater to people with no lives outside of this game. Consider a happy medium for those that want to enjoy the game a few hours here and there. I stopped playing this game about 2 months before the full release because it was just a pain with the bugs, lag and wipes. I just happily returned to the game 6 days ago. In 6 days of playing here and there and nonstop looting, I should have had a decent outfit and at least an AK with enough ammo to sustain a quick firefight to defend myself and now I should be off minding my business and working on building a camp to survice for the long haul. NOPE! instead I've done nothing but run to every corner of the map nonstop to every single military camp and base. I've yet to find a single gun other than a crappy MP5 with 3 whole mags and mosin with little ammo, haven't found a single military backpack and still rolling with a bright red mountain pack. Every single military location and even tried on different servers. They need more loot in more places to accommodate the players like me that still want to enjoy the game on a tight schedule. They only cater to kids with no lives that only play video games and can spend their whole day and night just running around looking for gear and guns. People complain about server hopping but don't realize that some of us have to server hop just to enjoy the game because we don't have the time to invest in running for 60 minutes to MAYBE find a gun on the other side of the map. What your fix to server hopping? Oh yea, locking your character to a server. That makes a ton of sense cause what if I want to meet a buddy on his server to play with him. What if my server is night time and Im not interested to play at night cause they make it too dark and I dont have the time to sit there and find my way around. Moral of the story is add some more loot. Maybe dupers wouldnt have been such an issue from the start.

Legit happened to me yesterday. Me and a friend were controlling zelenogorsk for a few days straight. Multiple fights resulting in either victory or the others running away. Had a nice stronghold set up. Of course some p*ssy fart server hops into our spot and kills me from behind. I switch to a day time server so I can actually see since night time is absolutely garbage. So I kill myself again and again until I get a cherno spawn. Closest I got was elektro so I ran straight to cherno from there and then north back to zelenogorsk. Hunted for a hatchet all the way up which we desperately needed for our base since I died and lost it. Found the hatchet and made it all the way to 3 houses away from where my buddy spawned into and waited for me. Then I start hearing my own footsteps behind me because of lag. I hear a zombie yell but didnt see one at all. My screen flashes red and health goes down. Still nothing around me. I sprint about 10 yards and my screen freezes. Had to quit the game and restart just to find myself back on the coast as a Asian girl.

I've been playing this game for a while and with some buddies. Out of all my buddies, all the hours playing, distance traveled, and locations looted...only 3 of us have ever found barbed wire. If you are trying to build a base, what's even the point of adding barbed wire to one dense if the barbed wire is so rare to find. We've looked all over between military and civilian locations and its beyond rare to find. You're not supposed to dupe and really harcore players cry about server hoppers, so what are you supposed to do then. Play the game for 2 years straight and maybe have enough barbed wire to cover 5 out of the 15 to 20 walls on your base?

Saw this post and showed it to my good buddy for his opinion. He works for a major game developer and is an absolute brain when it comes to game design and computer stuff. We also play dayz often together so he knows the game and what its about.... He gave an immediate correction to impulz. He said that it's not that a fix to this "issue" wont drop for some time, it's that it will simply never be fixed. Said there is no way to solve this. Other than locking the servers, (and that's a whole other conversation) this will always be a thing. Also said that he is unsure of why duping is still an issue because it's an easy fix and explained some computer wiz sciencey shit to me about it. Basically said that the duping issue would be a fairly easy fix and it baffles him how dayz devs cant figure it out. Again, this isnt my opinion or personal thoughts here. I'm just mentioning what my buddy stated. Whether it's truly right or wrong I dont know but his background and knowledge is hard to discredit

Fact. Let's also remember that the players that actually participate in forums are typically the minority. Many of which are very like minded. I'll bet if you gather the entire dayz player base as a whole and asked them to vote, majority would say no to locked servers. Will locked servers help with duping, server hopping into another position to kill someone, and server hopping into a players camp? Yes. That's about all it's good for and personally it's not even remotely enough to outweigh the negatives of locking servers. Lock the servers, be prepared to see the playbase for dayz get smaller.

Fair enough. And I hope you are able to keep your new weapon as long as possible. I play a more risky way I suppose which is why I'd prefer to have more. Me and my buddies try to assault camps and set ambushes. So always higher risk of dying

"Honorable" lol Is the OP a duper? Has he ever duped? Did he dupe to get the weapons? If not then he or she is honorable enough. Should have taken more then just one due to how hard it is to find the stuff to begin with. Cause right now, hes gonna die and probably never find it again. Destroying that stuff did not help anyone. It's just going to be picked up and duped again and back at square 1. Yes, maybe not spread it out to others. I was thinking to be fair and give everyone a gun since they are all probably looking for one too but I suppose that is a bad idea because those people will dupe too. I also hate to say this, but I would bet my money that the majority of dayz gamers have duped by now. Forum rooms typically make up and extremely minuscule number of a games total population. Alot of us on here may not dupe but we are also the minority of the dayz community. So keep that in mind when you say "destroy it and let it respawn" because it's highly likely to get found and duped anyway. Might as well be the have rather than the have not and just keep the guns for yourself to use and have fun with. Shit, take a few and go find gun fights and die a few times. Practice your pvp, atleast you wont have to worry about losing precious gear when you die. Just make absolutely nonsense to just destroy it all. None

Thank you. Someone with common sense and logic. I say up the spawn rate as well until duping is completely fixed. Who cares if everyone has a m4 or ak. It's a game based in modern time anyway, that would be more realistic then everyone having a shotgun or sk only. I dont agree that these weapons should be "rare". Maybe keep them only at military bases but definitely not rare. I found 8 lockpicks last week and my buddy found 5 (and we weren't even looking). Yet we've been searching nonstop for weeks to find an m4 or ak and we only found 1 ruined m4 on a dead guy we killed and gutted

Why didnt you just server hop all of their shit into a new server and keep it for yourselves??? Or message the other players on the server one by one and start meeting up with them to hand out all this stuff for free or for trade even (although this would be risking dying). I would have atleast server hopped the gear to another server and build my own base or buried it all for myself. Might as well gain something from this. You and your buddy took 2 LARs? You're gonna die and lose those and never see an LAR again until you magically find another duper to loot. You guys need to be smarter haha

Dude, the OP makes a valid point that is hard to argue. The night time in this game is obnoxious how dark it is. I've been to places in real life where you dont have lights for miles and nothing but the moon and stars and I can still see a reasonable distance...even on a cloudy night. You cant see a foot in front of yourself in this game at night. No excuse for it. Survival game or not. Its beyond unrealistic

Easy solution: add more m4s to the game at military bases. Less of a reason to dupe. Problem is that they blame it on duping (which is an issue), but really most people I know that have duped have only started to dupe once the m4 became impossible to find. The lack have weapons has forced even more people to dupe because spending 3 weeks trying to find one and failing is just absurd. Legit just add more m4s to the game. Who cares if everyone has an assault rifle. The game is based in modern times and the map has military bases all over the place. Realistically, everyone would have one of the weapons anyone if it was real life scenario. Plus, it would make the game and firefights even more intense and risky. Everyone says "lock the servers". I understand but that's a horrible idea as well. So someone stuck on a small server that wants more action now has to start on a new server with a fresh character? F that. And not everyone has the time to play at night either. Night time takes much longer due to the inability to see. Cant light a flashlight cause that's just a recipe for death. And for people that work all day and might just have time to hop on and play for a little bit may not want to wait an hour just got the sun to come up on their server.

Easy fix to your concern: its not your base, so stay out of it and mind your business haha. On another note, I would case the place for a while from a high point and try to pop shots and the owners when they appear. Or you can server hop into their base too from another server where you build a watch tower trying to get to it. Personally I find nothing wrong with server hopping. Only issue I see with server hopping is when people try to server hop into a position to better kill you. Most people I know though only server hop to find loot. You have your occasional asshole that'll sever hop to a better position to kill though. Or server hop into your base instead of destroying walls

I know I complain about the lack of decent gear and weapons in the game (despite the abundance of military bases) and people bitch and moan that I should find a new game. So i mean what does that say about your complaint. No offense man but you're playing a cut throat survival game based in a zombie apocalypse. You cant trust anyone just like you wouldn't in real life in this scenario. If you do, then you will die and rightfully so. This game is designed so that decent loot is extremely hard for a casual player to spend time and find, so I dont blame people for wanting to shoot on sight and take other peoples loot. OR, kill on sight to avoid dying themselves. So many people complain about being killed on sight in this game. Unless I'm reading your post wrong, but that's basically what it says

Yea I have an ssd too. I know that when I play pubg with my buddy his game renders noticably faster than mine. He has an X. Figured maybe an X would help me with dayz but then again I'm not dropping 400 on a X just for some quicker rendering scopes. It just sucks when im in a firefight and risk dying cause I cant aim. From what you're saying though is that there isnt really much difference though so I guess I dont feel as bad

I'm looking for answers from players that actually use the xbox one x. How does this game run for you? I play on regular xbox one and I have been refusing to drop $400/$500 on essentially the same system. My issue right now that I'm having are: 1. Scopes taking too long to load in. 2. Occasionly buildings and trees dont render when in and out of Scopes and also just when turning. 3. General lag where my footsteps take a second to actually catch up to my character which makes it sound like people are running behind me. Those are my only major complaints on that issue so far. My inventory menu has been working fine compared to the game preview. It's mostly scopes and rendering that is an issue now. Before anyone mentions internet or network issues, I have excellent internet and I know that that is not at all the issue. Any thoughts?

I've been playing since it first touched console and even played on PC before it came to console. I no longer play PC games anymore. I agree that they were perfectly acceptable level of spawns prior to duping getting worse. That's how it should be now and should be in the future. I just disagree at the route they are taking right now. They are clearly having an extremely hard time with fixing th duping, so I merely suggest that they up the numbers so that it is fair all around for people to obtain these weapons (until they permanently fix duping). They are eventually going to wipe everything again anyway, so it's not going to he permanent that everyone has one. I've been searching for longer than 60 hrs at this point. Found one m4 and it was ruined from killing the guy that had it. Locking the servers is suggested to he a fix to duping but quite frankly you are going to also screw alot of people over by doing that. Especially more casual players with less time to devote to the game. People fail to realize that although this isn't particularly seen as a "casual" game, it can still be played by people with tighter schedules. I work a lot at often doubles and triples. I still really like to play games when I have the time and I've always preferred more serious milsim type games. So when people try to recommend games like pub or cod to me it really irritates me. That basically those people saying that this game is for them and them alone and people with less time to devote to the game aren't allowed to enjoy it either. As my original post said, this game is catered to people that have nothing but time to devote. This is exactly the type of game I enjoy, I'm simply looking for more immersion and challange. I do NOTconsider multiple weeks of playing and searching nonstop for a single functional m4 and failing to find one as a challenge. I consider that absolutely absurd and lack of realism.

I already play pub and you're right it is a good game. You're wrong though, Fights are greatly determined by the type of weapons. Tactics and "skill" ofcourse play a massive role but when you are stuck in a gunfight with a sk or shotgun and trying to avoid the hail of rounds coming from m4s or aks, it's a bit tougher. Again, the game is based in modern days and this map has multiple military bases on it. It makes absolutely no sense to not gave assault rifles and there is no logical argument against that. If a zombie apocalypse happened today, is everyone going to have a bolt action or shotgun? No, likely everyone will have assault style weapons. Again, not very immersive given the setting. Also, more people having access to assault rifles would inevitably make the game harder and more intense. Fights would be more violent and risky. Dying would be greater possibility. No excuse here

If you cant see that more assault rifles for more people would make the game more intense, harder, and riskier then that's your fault. Yea, people want a game that's based in modern times to have a reasonable amount of more modern weaponry to use. The game is meant to be hard, yes. It should also be meant to be played how anyone wants not just how you want. If you want to go off in the woods alone and build a base and plant pumpkins and wave at other players passing by, you should be able to do that. If you want to gear up in tactical gear and grab an m4 and go be a savage bandit and hunt other players, you should be able to do that. Unfortunately the second is not really an option right now which is a little stupid. If you don't want to risk being gunned down by a tacted out military group then dont play the game dude. It's a zombie apocalypse. That would realistically be a risk. You just complained on another forum post of people killing you on sight. I'm sorry you demand people be nice to you in a savage survival game. I think minecraft would be a better option for you

That's what you like to do and that's cool by me. It's a sandbox game and you should play how you want. That's what I like about this game. Me and my buddies personally take a more hostile route. We like to build camps and survive off the land. We also like to set ambushes and look for other camps to plan assaults on and wipe them out. I guess you can call us "bandits" but we don't typically care to loot people. We also don't touch coastline fresh spawns out of respect. We aim for other geared up groups. We like the rush and risk of fights. Plus a firefight in dayz feels more intense than some shitty call of duty

I agree it will be much better if duping is fixed but it didnt help for the developers to lower the spawns on top of it. I mean do any of you seriously believe that this issue isn't causing more duping. None of my buddies ever wanted to dupe anything because that's not the point of the game. We enjoyed the risks of dying in a fight. However I can almost guarantee that if any of my friends finally find an m4 or ak, they are 100% probably going to give in and dupe it because its beyond absurd and unrealistic how hard it is to find one. And I wouldnt blame them for doing it now. I found one last night on a guy we killed but it was ruined. So on a serious note.... can anyone logically and correctly inform me why they cannot just add more? The lack of these weapons undoubtedly cause more duping in itself and lowering the spawn rate did more harm. If they cant permanently fix the duping issue right now, then why not just add more weapon spawns until they do find a way to fix it. This will logically give dupers less of a reason to dupe as well as keep honest players like me and my buddies from constantly being outgunned by dupers which happens quite often. Why should us honest players suffer and enjoy the game less and feel way less immersion. Literally just add more. Who cares if everyone has an m4 from a military base. You still need to run inland to a military camp to find one and the game is based in modern times. You're not gonna run around in a zombie apocalypse in real life with a 5 round SK or shitty ineffective mp5 if you are in an area with multiple military bases and dead soldiers, are you? Nope. I'm not asking for a best guess, I'm asking for a legit honest answer to this question. Also, adding more will give people less of a reason to server hop constantly just to find a gun on a different server which ALOT of people do now. I do not want to see servers locked for multiple reasons. It does suck that some cowards will need to server hop just to get into a player camp or to reposition themselves which we have had happen alot as well. But I see more harm than good with locking servers. My suggestion to fix multiple issues is to just simply add more loot. Its not going to ruin the game for hardcore players that much and its notngoing to make this game any less extreme. If anything itll make the game more extreme because people are more lethal and firefights will be more intense. Another serious question...I would kinda like to know how many of you people that are against the idea of more gun spawns actually possess 1 or more assault rifles at this time. It's a matter of haves and have nots. Naturally the haves want the have nots to stay inferior. I bet if you lost that loot you would see the logic