lemmac

You've only got to move to get loot. Choose a server with high loot and you won't have to move as much. There are plenty of servers that even start you with a full loadout, including food and water, so you won't have to move at all for an hour or two. Unfortunately even vehicles require pressing a button to move.

Far better to totally forego the car model, treat them like a mountable animal... have saddle, reigns and stirrups as attachments and having food levels/dehydration like the player where you can either hand feed them, stop to graze or lead them to rivers to drink. The mods that could be made from a proper rideable animal model in the core game would be brilliant.

Weird thing to get banned for, considering most gaming monitors come with crosshair overlays built in... sure it wasn't the 'toxic chat'? Can you still play official servers? (next time use a dry wipe marker lol)

open the game, go to the server list, click the official tab, sort by ping?

Start them on empty servers, during the server day... more loot, less stress, easier to survive and learn the basics. Tell them where the sun is in relation to compass bearings and thus the rough heading their shadow is pointing. That info is almost as good as a compass. Ask them what landmarks they can see and whether the road or railway is nearest the sea (if Chernarus - which it should be unless you made them shell out for Livonia before they knew they liked the game lol). With your knowledge you should be able to deduce where they are in relation to you, let them know which direction they should head to find you as you do the same to reach them. Stick to the coast and the main road/railway. Don't be afraid to suicide yourself to get closer to them - better you loot up together than you carry a load of OP gear to them. If they are really struggling with the game mechanics tell them to lock themself in house and go make a coffee while you get to them. Some things are easier to show than tell. If they can stay alive for half an hour max you'll have found each other. They'll pick it up in no time 😉

haha, if you read my post history you wouldn't be saying that. I've voiced my fair share of grievances. Mostly from when i was playing on console though, and mostly regarding stupid bugs. Since i started playing on PC i feel spoilt. Yes there are changes to the core game that can be made, to satisfy the niche gamers, and modders are making many of them. However consoles aren't 'holding the game back', it's the general appeal of the vanilla game to the majority of players that is doing that.

I played Intenz today. Fresh spawned near a well, and drinking from it was the very first action i did. Clean hands, didn't drink myself full. Crept another 50m and then i violently threw up. Then a food poisoning icon appeared and i slowly puked myself to death. Such fun 😞

Weird that there are plenty of servers that cover pretty much all that the OP claims he's missing from official... and blaming consoles yet console players can only dream of the wealth of options available on pc.

what about changing bear spawns only to areas that would more likely kill you if you tried driving in them?

happens to me... only way it works is setting voice chat to button press and then double clicking to keep voice chat on strangely every time i check the settings again they say i'm back on voice activation, so unless i remember to change the settings when i start a new session the first i know the chat isn't working is when i'm getting killed for having no mic, lol dayz, eh?

At first i though this would be incredibly difficult and require a complete overhaul for deformable landscape. Then i realised you can already sink preformed structures below ground level server side so a preformed structure looking like a muddy hole created like a garden plot would actually be a piece of piss. Instead of only being placeable on flat ground it could simply be restricted to land steeper than a certain angle.

Making a chance choice between two options is already covered with RPS emote mechanic.

And here i was thinking the military presence was all about protecting the general population ... Boar and even deer attacking when cornered or injured would be fun. That happens in Scum and can be really intense. The occasional infected appearing dead but getting up behind your back and attacking would be good for the odd trouser soiling too.

I totally agree with that. The absolute definition of an oxymoron lol ;) It's a game though and some things are just not as much fun if you try and make them more realistic. I'd rather pretend that i've already counted the rounds than have to do it myself. Some 'hardcore' servers force you to do this and it only makes things more tedious. I also like to assume that all items i put a battery in have some kind of meter or at the very least a low battery light. Although they can be a challenge to play some of these servers that make you keep your finger on left click for 3 minutes just to light a fire with a hand drill kit, it's really not the most interesting mechanic! I certainly wouldn't wish for it in the core game. Cooking on a stick is already dull enough, especially when i real life my stick would look like a shish skewer and my potatoes would be happily cooking in their skins in the embers 😄

Yeah there does need to be more to the game beyond a certain point. I like the idea of the linear progression paths we see on some modded maps but as you say they quickly become stale too. Some kind of spawning environmental events better realised than the current random gas zones would be a start. Even they could be vastly improved by only requiring a gas mask rather than a full suit, especially considering the suits can't be worn over clothes as they are intended in real life. All these random gas zones do at the moment is force players out of somewhere rather than change up the gameplay within them. Seasonal changes on the same map would be really interesting, with having to change equipment and gameplay to suit. Well realised horde events could work too, whether to attack player bases that have reached a certain size/level of loot, flush players out, draw them together, drop rare loot or a mix of them all. I could also imagine being able to get infected and experience a slow degradation to zombie (slow loss of vision and muscle control, enhanced hearing etc.) while racing against the clock to get to somewhere and cure yourself. Somewhere like the yellow medical tents with the beds and transfusion facilities. If you can't perform the transfusion in time or suicide then you might become a kind of uber zombie under player control that can cause a bit of extra mayhem until eventually put out of your misery by a human player. You might continually do a really loud zombie scream within a certain vicinity of human players so it can't be abused by squads having their own 'friendly' zombies 😉 Being able to craft everything you might need to survive 'off grid' in game would be great too. As far as i can see we're only missing clothes, water collection and ranged weapons to have that fully realised. That's an easy fix.

Credit for effort but i feel like i just ate a word salad. Initially tasty but overmixed, blandly repetitive and ultimately quite unsatisfying. Next time give me the meat, and give it to me raw.

Working as intended. They were hard locked on and made immune to damage as a bandaid to a bigger bug. See changelog for 1.20

I wonder what kind of answer you can be expecting when everybody has a different idea of what their particular problem is with the game mechanics? Plus every one of your points has been addressed in some form or another since you made them... 1.) Leaning speed has lead to people rapidly spamming the Q and E buttons to bob and weave their head while spraying people down. 2.) Going prone from the standing position takes a mere split second all while allowing you to hipfire your weapon on the way down. 3.) While rolling you are allowed to not only shoot but aim with hipfire mid roll. 4.) The Speed of walking and sprinting have been constrained to two speeds with nothing in between. With walking being arguably slow and sprinting being pretty fast.

yep sleeping bag mods and ability to choose spawn point mods have been going for years in some community servers... not very popular in any server that wants to retain any semblance to the core game though

imagine having a 4 dial codelock where you only moved one dial when you locked it... that would open immediately when clicked once right? No need for biometrics, no need for button press locks, no need for suspension of reality... only a need for a shortcut that makes a process that takes seconds in real life take much longer in a game where time is moving stupidly fast in all other aspects.

there's more than 1 experimental server?

describe it, i might try it... not gonna install 59 mods on the offchance lol

maybe the gennies are already there, stationary, and just need filling with x amount of jerries for y amount of power

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Slowly learning to steer clear of humans now they are all carrying guns 😉 I witnessed a bear run away the other day too. It charged us, i dropped to the floor, then it chased my buddy around a tree then gave up and scarpered!