EzyStriderPS4

Central Loot Economy = CLE. It's a major part of the game's design, creating attrition and shortages. Riddle me this: If everything is in the ground or in bases, is it no longer retrievable? Now you can't run somewhere and just point and click, but have to become more resourceful. In an apocalypse, if you're late to the party, you don't get anything because there's no communist government rations waiting for you with your name on it. "Oh, let's just politely loot this and leave something for the next guy," said no one, ever. P.S. You are not entitled to getting any good stuff. Or anything at all for that matter.

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I would prefer to be able to map my own controls. Please include the ability to tap, double tap, hold, and combine (hold + other button) for the commands to all available game actions. IF THIS IS NOT A REALISTIC REQUEST (please try), the one controller input to change for PS4 is the zoom feature. I have no experience with the XBoxOne. Instead of double tap L1, re-map to click R3. Ergo, FPP to TPP and back would be double tap L1. This would make running around, free-looking, and zooming easier and intuitive. The player could hold L1 to free look and click R3 to zoom in and out instead of having to release L1, which re-centers the screen, then double tapping L1, and holding L1 again for free-look. The current input method is ineffective and could be simpler. This mimics ADS mechanic on console.

One day we will be able to make a Molotov cocktail... One day...

Negative, houses should be safe. I would like to see infected climb on cars and barriers first so that players can't just kite them/herd them. Maybe if there were five+ infected they could barge through doors... It's an interesting idea and I am also intrigued by your suggestion of fortifying a door by locking it!

Been asking for this since the new engine... There is still hope.

I'm looking down main street in Gorka, nice sniper spot. I decide that Mr. 308 wants to meet Police Officer Infected. Ranged him, whacked him. I wish I had a video clip for you guys... the infected got blown back off the street, over a brick wall, and Superman-ed onto a first floor roof. I just died laughing, it looked so funny! It was like shooting a raccoon with a fifty-cal.

Not that I'm aware of, my friend.

Point 1: No ; Point 2: No. IRL: The most widely used type of alcohol for disinfecting anything is isopropyl. This will make you sick if you drink it and there is also the possibility it will make you blind. IMO: Multi-vitamins should only help decrease the time for getting rid of ailments by bolstering your immune system, but only if you take the proper agent for healing.

Yeah, @etaab, I'm anal about the way my character looks. I've always wanted the option to wear a baseball cap backwards... The clothing could really be expanded, e.g. trench-coats, masks, capes, custom leather clothing and satchels/containers for odds and ends, ammo, etc. The characters all look really basic at this point based on the small percentage of desired loot (and an extremely mild lack of RP) ...The majority of the time I play, I've seen three types of players: black tactical, military camo, or starter gear with a motorcycle helmet, hahaha!

Bi-pod! Bi-pod! Bi-pod! Bi-pod! Bi-pod! Bi-pod! Bi-pod! [Breath] Bi-pod! Bi-pod! Bi-pod!

So far, the stances in ARMA have all been watered down to the basic three in DayZ, @DoctorScandalous. I haven't heard any rumors about this stabilization feature being implemented anytime soon.

Hey @Derleth, do you think we will see bears in 1.06 around S. Zagoria? I heard that the features and updates of Livonia would all be implemented into the current map.

My issue: Player lights at night are not visible through any scope. Changing gun draw or ADS time by a few milliseconds is nonsense. For the effect to be noticeable, drawing your gun will, in my opinion, feel artificial. I'd like to see draw time altered as a result of soft or hard skill specialization, which would be molded by gameplay. (Don't know how new you are to the game, but it's that slider with a needle and hammer above your stamina when the inventory is open that isn't being used at all currently.)

The developers don't have enough on their hands... clearly.

Your cartoon world where people magically cannot be harmed is NOT synonymous with the apocalypse, and the only time my adrenaline starts pumping, is when I see another survivor. And when wolves howl. That threat of death makes this game what it is: gritty, cunning, strategic, brutal, and a mostly merciless environment. You ever been out in the woods for a few days? Shit is real when you are not at the top of the food chain. And please, no infected in the woods, though, I must admit, a roaming pack would be cool now and then. There are decent private servers doing some of the things you are asking. Nonetheless... I agree that food could be quite a bit more scarce. Maybe a tweak for slower death from starvation to accompany this change? Trading and friendly encounters are happening in my home server, I play hardcore official. Guns, NVG, and batteries are common currency. Most other items are too plentiful, which is problematic, and what you describe. This could be as a result of the server population being lower than half, but it seemed the same even when there were high numbers. I tracked a player down yesterday, he was a n00b, quite friendly, and probably a little startled to turn around and see me standing there. I told him to play smarter, that most folks would kill him (to get him thinking less casually), gave him a quick primer on the terrain ahead, then I bestowed to he the M70 off my back and a stack of rounds. I've been much happier playing on first person only servers. The demographic seems more mature. KoS players are either jaded and/or scared of you killing them first, or worse, are just trigger happy to rummage through your gear for a spare battery or a can of bacon, all the while understanding the kind of pain you go through because of perma death. Stay sharp and keep your head on a swivel!

I ran into a dude building a base up North and after we talked and bartered, I told him one thing I was on the lookout for was a drybag bp (before I knew how easy they are to find along the coast). So I checked back with him two weeks later, and outside his base was a red, empty drybag!! I have no idea how long it was sitting there for, but it makes me wonder...

All buried loot will despawn after 45 calendar dayZ if not interacted with. Same for barrels, crates, and tents.

Servers switched machines to improve performance. I thought moving from NY server to MI server would increase lag, but no dice, runs reasonably well despite current game issues, with improvement in other categories.

That's what I've been saying from the beginning @etaab. Good man! I used to run around with a compass looking at the iZurvive map on my iPad for tree lines and other landmarks before NVGs. The nights were darker before 1.05 update. I still use the North star to orient myself at times. But yeah, NVGs are legit, and have completely changed the rules. On my last character, I was out West, checked a heli landing spot, and flipped goggles off to preserve battery. I'm running in the middle of a field and gunfire erupts 10m away! Was dead in the water, but almost got away with some zig zags. I wish the toggle for NVG was easier/quicker. You have to stand still and toggle from the wheel, and I couldn't afford to do that!!

BEANS, I SAY.

So far, on PS4, my home server (1PP HC) has seemed fine as far as CLE goes. Finding high-tier weaponry at heli-sites. ARs have been scarce and seldom found at military locations. The server restarts seem less often, and it seems that much of the good guns have been taken up into private collections. I just found my first M4-A1 about two weeks ago at heli-site and I've been playing since the title released on PS4 around May (?) .... The rare weapons are just rare on vanilla servers and I'm never bummed out if military locations have been looted before me, it's first come first serve. Many of the player bases on the map are abandoned and maybe if duping was going on, the CLE has absorbed these items after the 45 day clean-up cycle. Things seem good and balanced at the moment.

Hey bud! Drop the item on the ground and hold knife in hands to get to the crafting options. This method will always work, where sometimes, the combine function may not do what you intend.

Sorry! I thought you were still connecting KO to health.

The point is that shock is separate from health and you don't see how much you have taken.