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All good ideas and plenty to work with. I also think this could do with some work. One thing I would add though (sorry if I missed it) is that anything 'attached' to a belt or piece of clothing should be equipable from the hot wheel, much like 'toggle lights' appears when you attach NVG and a torch to the tactical helmet.

Did the NVGs get reworked in 1.14 like all the other headgear? Edit: I see they have. Excellent!

I don't know what NVGs are like in real life either, but I don't think that matters too much. If we're going to go there then I'd suggest that I couldn't eat an entire cow in one sitting, a couple of chicken breasts could sustain me for a few days and taking multivitims doesn't cure every illness I'm susceptible to in 5 minutes. Like you suggest, I'd like to see less viewing quality, certainly less viewing range, maybe a bit of fish-eye going on and throw a bezel in there too.

Has anyone else noticed anything weird going on while shooting through/from being in a bush? I feel like when bushes interact with bullets they are causing huge damage reduction or bullet deflection. I've had three WTF moments involving bushes now. I'm yet to meet up with a friend and test it.

It's practically all you need. 45rnd magazines, Kobra, PSO1, NVG scope & suppressor. Other comparable choices at tier 3 uncapped are the M16, SKS and the KAS. The KA74 is head and shoulders above these alternatives. Its inclusion in tier 3 has thrown a spanner into how I view the other rare ARs. I wouldn't swap it for anything less than a LAR. I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's an unprecedented change to the loot pool in the couple of years I've been playing. This is from a console perspective, where full auto always wins because lets be fair, none of us console players can aim in this game.

Its strange that it doesn't already exist considering we have the stone circle and a stone oven, neither of which serve any practical use outside of decorating a base. Take the campfire tripod out the game and just have one you can craft. Great idea.

You've either got influenza from being cold/wet for too long with a low immune stat, or eaten from a dirty food source, or both. If you're getting ill regularly you're not eating enough. You shouldn't ever get ill once you're off the coast and have the means to find food efficiently. Flu doesn't make you vomit on its own, never in my experience anyway. I find the easiest way to cure this is to just eat a lot of food until your immune system is high, unless you have the pills. Food illness is a little more tricky if you don't have the pills, but one bite every minute or two shouldn't make you vomit and still see you gain calories. Over time, your immune stat will rise and you'll cure yourself of this illness too. Before they nerfed the calories or raw meat you used to be able to use this method to eat raw meat slowly as a fresh spawn until you were full, then you'd naturally cure yourself of the food poisoning. It was a bit of an exploit. To be honest, you don't really need any of the pills in the game once you get a hang of how the flu/food poisoning works.

For anyone regularly looting towns or killing other players, batteries should never be a problem. Rarely are for me anyway. I'd considered the idea of making them consume more battery, but I don't think that's a resolution. You'd still have the disparity between those that have working NVGs and those that do not.

Personally, I think I agree, I'd like to see how that would work out. For the sake of the game though I don't think its a good idea because even more people would stop playing once night time hit.

I'd like to see the default Quick Wheel slots increase from 3 to 5. At the moment I feel the Quick Wheel dictates what clothes we must wear to stay competitive. We already have to consider insulation, camouflage and storage space. It would be nice to have more room for personal preference. Not into RP personally, but it would be a benefit to RP players too I would imagine.

Your loot is more important than your feelings. Welcome to DayZ.

If you press the restart button while you're knocked out, it kills your character and you have to start again at the coast.

I've thought about this too and think it would be pretty cool, but I also think it would stop us from being able to hide in the bushes and use the foliage to our advantage, and thats quite an important part of survival in DayZ IMO. I already think NVGs are OP as they are for similar reasons, ha!

Stopping playing the game because of a single item seems quite drastic, I've never done it but I understand where you're coming from. I wouldn't go as far as NVGs being removed, I just think it would be keeping with the game more if they came with some kind of inconvenience such as FOV limitation, more grain effect, or counter. They would obviously still serve as a great advantage over players who don't have them. I suppose in third person view I've always felt illuminating the entire screen as a bit lazy.

Not sure if its intentional, but the zombie behaviour is weird. After they have been aggro'd by a player they seem to know where every near-by player is, despite not having seen them? I was watching a player get attacked by about 6 zombies from probably 30m away from another building. The other player locked themselves in a building and all the zombies immediately started to come to me and into the building I was in. I'd not made a sound. 1.12 was a little like this, but 1.13 seems to have ramped this behaviour up, and its not fun. I'm all for zombies being a little more difficult but this doesn't seem natural. So at the moment if you get attacked by another player in a town, you could aggro all the zombies and lock yourself in a building. The zombies will more than likely deal with the other player in no time giving you time to run away, kill them or logout.

What console do you play on? Like I say, I play in high pop EU's on PS4, have done for a couple of years now and must be nearing 2000 hours. I haven't seen obvious duping for over 6 months for sure. In the last few nights at peak population I've found 2 AKMs and a LAR occuring naturally in the server. Can't remember the last time I found a mega-base. Here's my issue. Before the wipe I was part of a group who were stacked. We had dozens of ARs stashed around the map, and would refresh the burials every fortnight. We had a 6x6 watchtower base, whose nails came from weeks of looting and dismantling other bases. We were the hoarders of the server. We got accused of duping all the time when we didn't, we just play a lot, killed people a lot, and there were 6 of us. I know that happens A LOT, and I know there are bigger, better and greedier groups than we were. They've raided me and my group, wrecking us in the process. The player-base doesn't help itself when it cries 'duper' at legitimate players who 'ruin' the loot economy, but do it fairly you could say. I don't write this to boast, you forced me to justify my position and experience. I'll call shit when I see it, in fact, I'll stop playing too, I did before. I have no doubt duping exists. I just saw it in the video posted above on the Xbox, I'm just floating the idea that it may not be possible or as prevailent on the PS4. But hey, I might not be experienced enough.

That's nuts! Honestly man I thought those bases were a thing of the past, I stopped playing after finding bases like that in 1.06, it was horrible. I started again in 1.08 and haven't seen anything like that since, so stuck with it. Like I say, I play multiple high pop official EU servers, most days. I don't get it... I hardly ever find good bases anymore and come across ARs/Heli guns at a healthy rate both on people/in militaries. My experience is not that. My only real gripe is the less skillful players needing to use alt accounts to store loot and defend bases. I play on PS4, you? Perhaps the duping problem is console specific?

I don't know from what experience you speak, but I don't see a lot of evidence of it anymore. I haven't seen stashes of identical ARs, or sheet metal mega bases since 1.06/1.07 era. I play in a busy/high pop EU server and I can safely say I am convinced duping is nearly dead. I suspect it's still possible, but I think it's difficult and probably unreliable to replicate the process. Now this is not directed at you, but I come across more people accusing others of duping because they can't find an AR in Balota Airfield, then I do actual dupers. I will happily be corrected if the evidence is there however, but that's just my experience.

I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure making real-life comparisons helps us judge the situation of balance, especially in a game which suggests an entire cow only provides enough calories to get us through a day. I'm no gun dork, nor do I specialise in the balancing online games, but what I do know is that someone had me bang-to-rights with a Scorpion the other day and left me with 6 bleeds and no health loss. Alright I had a platecarrier, but that doesn't feel right from a gameplay balance perspective.

Totally agree that 9mm, .45 and .380 need some kind of buff, at the moment they're way too weak, especially against bears and plate carriers. Buckshot and the KAS are the only real alternatives to the full-size ARs right now. I'd rather that than make the full size ARs more common. I could count on one hand the amount I found in my first year of playing because I played a low risk game, now I lose/find multiple ARs and helicopter guns a week because I chase gunshots for PVP. Even more since update 1.10 and the loot changes that it brought. The full size ARs are there, and they're not hard to find, but they're already on players as they should be. There's a risk/reward element to the way we play DayZ, and the rarity of the guns is very much part of that, which I came to accept is what makes DayZ, DayZ. I fear that might be lost if the counts were increased.

I'd like to see it go as well. It's just a big visual indicator of someone being nearby. I've watched people log out purely because a name pops up on the screen. It's a pretty crappy feature, but I imagine it's there for a reason if it's not on PC.