EzyStriderPS4

Don't drive then, the PTSD will come back with urgency! Hahahaha!!

@GeordieMarv : I like the idea of being able to split all those things except the matches. The way the containers for these items appear in-game, it seems feasible that you could tear off part of the packaging for chlorine tablets and the like, and hand them off to anyone else. However, I can't see the same thing happening to a box of matches; you can't really split the box if you think about it the way it is presented. Match-sticks would probably break in your pockets or backpack. P.S. The [v]Olga has a working clock on the dash. I personally don't care for a watch being added to the game, but that's just me. @Parazight is spot on with sun location tracking. I use the same strategy. I'd rather see a bicycle than a watch in the next update.

Solid! Thank you to everyone in the team!!!

The respawn rate of zombies--after killing a hoard of them--is ridiculously short in this new update. Honestly, it breaks the immersion slightly.

I agree, the hit boxes for certain animals could use adjustment to better reflect realistic counterparts. Also, if you get a decent shot at your target, especially any high caliber round, and they do run, bleeding out should be a plausible result, with the skilled tracker being rewarded after a bit more hard work. Watched a video recently where a guy hit a bull moose in the lungs with an improvised arrow. It took over four hours for the poor bastard to drop dead. It was a brutal video, to be honest; real sad. Violence rewards us with hardship and woe. Be grateful for every step of the way you are granted to advance.

Speaking of the airport, don't forget to check the green guard towers; there is good loot in there sometimes and no one cares to barricade those.

I like the idea of "fortifying" an existing structure. Do think it is unfair? Or maybe you prefer a different way to play from other experiences you've had. Remember, it's a large map and no singular player will be able to control all the spawn points of a specific item, realistically speaking. I'm just playing "devil's advocate," I enjoy debate and discussion, not argument.

You'll get the hang of the hunger mechanic with more experience. For me, it's no longer an issue, with proper preparation of course. Suggestions: 1. Find or make a fishing rod. 2. Hunt animals. (cooked fat is VERY calorie-rich) 3. The infected don't drop as much food as they used to, though you may get lucky now and then. 4. Even if the Apple icon for Hunger is full, you can still consume foods as long as your stomach is not full (separate icon). I eat everything I come across; unless I'm near the coast, in which case, I will spare some rations now and then for freshies. This strategy can keep you full for hours (real-time) and your inventory will be less cluttered!

I wish there was less food, and less non-predatory animal spawns. What you may be running into with the wooden walls built by other players is an exploit that doesn't give you the prompt to destroy the wall with a tool because of the wall's location (intentionally built that way by the player).

Yaw!!! I'd like to see the bleeding from 5.45x39 mm buffed.

A few months ago I was trying to role-play in Kamy, so I put on all the police uniform gear and tried to help fresh spawns. Many players have a tendency to kill bambis down there, it's an effin blood-bath; so naturally, other players wouldn't even give me a chance and would run off as fast as their feet would take them even though I was being the good guy. Oftentimes, I will run around randomly looking for players to spy on through a pair of binoculars or a hunting scope. I like to watch their behavior, and keep my distance. In early January I saw a couple freshies get betrayed by another player they met near Solniy, so I re-positioned and put a .308-sized bullet hole through his/her chest for being a back-stabber. That was cool. Sometimes I'll put a car together and go drive down the South coast highway. Lots of players like to act up down there, and buck-buck, so I bring the ruckus. I don't camp military spots. Pursuing shots in the distance is always exciting. Heli-hunting is a hobby of mine every few weeks. I like hunting to feed myself. I don't like that the animals seem strangely resilient to hot lead. It would be nice to see vital organ hit boxes expanded to be more realistic in update 1.08 or later.

Do fruit trees drop fruit when you chop them with an axe? That would be cool.

Already in the game @juliofs. Most calibers have a tracer variant.

Furthermore, when you spawn on the coast, it is very much apparent that you are a civilian, possibly just experienced a horrible misfortune at sea, and haven't been fed or hydrated properly. These are your primary tasks as a human, not a Navy SEAL.

This game is about interactions with other survivors. It's your choice to act in a manner you see fitting or entertaining. This game is NOT about finding loot. To be clear: All that shit you find laying on the ground all over the map is "fluff and fold." (Except, of course, food and drink. Sorry it's a bitch for you, really, I am.) If your MO is to loot military gear, look "cool," and rack up a kill count, that sounds like PUBG or CoD gameplay. By no means is this a wrong way to play the game! You are free to do so and I will not admonish your intentions. But to acquire such riches, one must be patient, be thorough, be persistent, sometimes aggressive, and fully understand that they are not entitled to find and possess these items.

Greetings. Restock is unavailable for helicopter crashes. However, if you want them to be more rare, increase the lifetime value. This is a simple solution, though not exactly what you wanted with the mechanics. Lifetime is 2500s vanilla. If changed to 43200s, helicopters would only randomize twice a day. Effectively, there would be 6 helicopter crashes in a real time, 24-hour cycle. 28800s for 9 helis, 21600s for 12 helis, and if you only want three per day, set lifetime to 86400s.

Great info in here! Quick question summary: 1. False. 2. False. Three helicopters will spawn at a random crash site every 41-42 minutes. Only three appear on the map at one time. They randomize after every 41-42 minute cycle. 3. True. The way I am interpreting your question is that loot will spawn only if a helicopter is present. It will not randomly spawn at the sites without the helicopter crash event. Some loot is specific to helicopter crash sites, and cannot respawn in other civilian or military locations. 4. False. (Loot will despawn with helicopter despawn.)

Hey dude! I play on US MI:2392, and we have a decent crowd playing in the evenings, and especially weekends. The day and morning time can be a bit slow. I'm trying to grow the local militia so as to have a strong, dependable, insightful, persuasive, and most importantly, autonomous group of survivors that are not bogged down by militant hierarchy, nor restricted to only playing with the group. My PSN is EzyStrider, send friend request. Where are you from? When do you play? What's your style or role? @Anwah

It seems you guys are assuming I'm just burying AR's... Everyone either despawns items in stashes above ground or steals everything on console. Burying things is the only way to be somewhat safe from that. @drgullen If the persistence timer is only 7 days, that means I can't even go on vacation without starting from scratch! 14 days seems short to me because I don't play everyday. Several of my stash points are 10 to 13 km away from each other.

Military uses 10x scopes as standard for sniper rifles. That hunting scope is already legit, what more do you want? Let's add a telescope to the game, then mount that to your Mosin with some duct tape... sorry if this is offensive, it is not intended to be. Shooting 500-1000 meters is not supposed to be a layup.

Does anyone else think that underground stashes should be persistent longer than 14 days? Currently in the 1.08 build, it was brought to my attention that the persistence has been decreased for underground stashes by threefold. For the casual players, it seems too short of a time frame if they have established themselves on a server already. If you play constantly, this is not much of a hindrance. For example, the player has several stashes, in different parts of the map, so that instead of constantly scavenging for supplies, all the basics are taken care of, and the player can pursue other interests, explore, role-play, etc. It would be nice to do more playing and less maintenance if you only get a couple days or hours of free time per week. 45 days is a long time, probably too long. What about decreasing persistence time to 30 days instead of 14? That's a nice number, and easy to keep track of. Thoughts? Arguments? Thanks for your feedback in advance. @ImpulZ / @jakub_bohemia

It would be great to have the option to map out your own controls in such a complex game.

Very possible that you caught a sniper's well-placed shot to the skull. If they were far enough away (250+ meters), you wouldn't hear a thing because the sound waves would reach you after the round cut all the life from your body. I have experienced the same thing as you man, a couple times. Once, a buddy fell dead right in front of me the moment we met up thanks to a hidden sniper. They're out there. P.S. [ Not sure what the status of hackers is currently on official PC servers. The hackers had this capability to kill players without being near them on the map. I am on PS4 (obviously), and we don't have those issues. ]

The option should display at the bottom left corner of the screen, below the item name, when it is in your hands,

You can eat more calories even if the apple icon for hunger is "full," as long as your stomach is not. I have run around with a full hunger apple icon for sometimes 4+ hours before it shows a decline. [ So that's not an actual problem at all and is simply a factor of your play-style / decision making / perception. ] My dude, the mod, prior to the stand-alone version of the game, helped establish and fortify the entire genre of survival games. The notion that it was lazily pieced together and labelled as a survival game is, at best, foolish opinion, without factual support. The hunger system has been meticulously crafted from scratch (stand-alone version) and further balanced over years worth of experimental branch testing. [ My only gripe about the hunger system is that I wish it took longer to die from starvation and that your character could hobble around super-weak--the yellow and red states of health--and be far more vulnerable to infected, predators, and KoS folk, whom they cannot out-run! ]