rman1974

Calm down guys, it is just a poll - I want to know what people think about it. I would like to remove some top guns as well (like M107, AS50, Bizon) or make them extremely rare because it is not a modern warfare game. First of all - DayZ is completely messed up now (I mean 1.7.2.4). It became some strange version of Sniper Elite with Zombies. Now it is not a game about survival in hostile environment - it's a shooting range where bored guys who look like ghost recont unit (mainly because they are using duping exploits) just shoot some noobs who just bought Arma to play in DayZ (not for food or loot but just for lulz and score). So I think top priorities are: 1. For Christ's sake - FIX DUPING EXPLOITS. If it's not possible to fix magic duping tents just remove tents at all for a while. 2. TOTAL RESET of all database. Tons of that duped stuff must be destroyed. 3. Fix alt+F4, server hopping, farming (I see regularly mountains of loot near NW airfield barracks), tune zombies behavior, etc I see suggestions like "Go get your own NVG, noob!" I'll say - yes, I don't have NVG. I had it once after 3 weeks of searching (If you play fair and if you play alone it's a hard quest to get nvg) - and I lost it in the ocean due unfamous ghillie bug. I like to play at night even without NVG (I can say more - when I had one, game immediately became boring) but now there are a couple of problems. First - nights are too bright now (it's not a DayZ team fault, it happened after some arma patch which "fixed" gamma settings). Second - too few night servers (may be 10-20 of 2000) because server admins are shifting time to avoid night. I'll better start a new thread about good old pitch black night. PS: Sorry for the mistakes - I'm not a native speaker and I'm still learning English.

Nope. I noticed that guy when I was running away from crashed heli. As usual I was scanning environment with ALT button and I noticed some movement. If I played on server without nametags I would have seen that guy anyway.

They HAVE TO LEARN how to survive in the darkness. Next I'm going to whine a little bit about "good old days". Nowadays it's hard to find night sever because most of them just shifted time (I would restrict that btw) but I remember days when most of people had to play at night. Night servers were full of people - flares and chemlights everywhere, shots and cries in the night - I loved it. Now night servers are almost empty, usually 10-15 guys, I suspect half of them have NVG and those assholes are sitting in ambush near NWAF/Sobor and waiting their prey or sniping in Cherno/Electro. I've been playing a month before I found my first and last NVG. I've been playing only at night because when I came from work there is night in Europe (GMT+3). I think idea "give flashlights to everyone at spawn" is pretty bad. Flares and chemlights make gameplay more interesting, more dangerous and more intense. I used to throw flares and loot buildind just on the edge between light and dark. I've learnt how to navigate in complete darkness using stars, trees and building silhouettes, using sound of steps (steps sounds more louder on a roads: if you want to follow a road - just listen). And I remember feeling of huge relief when you find a flashlight. And most of the people are running with flashlights like idiots - it's very unsafe. You have to use "stroboscope technique" - turn flashlight for a moment, remember environment and turn it off. Now it's all gone. I haven't seen flares and chemlights for ages (they are useless now I don't know why they are spawning everywhere). I miss those nights full of life, scary as hell

I haven't seen any polls regarding Removing NVG. All I've seen COUNTLESS posts about high end equipment. My poll is quite simple - do people want them or don't. I don't care about attention to myself - I don't need it. Only thing I care about - where does DayZ go from now, because now it's fucked from my point of view because of duping. So my point is simpe: if you cant stop duping rare items - remove them at all, because they aren't "RARE" any more.

Actually, most of night time I can see better without NVG because NVG has low contrast, monochrome palette and blind spots in well lighted areas. Here example - I shot some guy (I didn't kill him because he disconnected) who has NVG. I wasn't sitting in ambush near that crashed heli - I looted it and was going away from it when I noticed that well packed guy. I immediately went prone and he walked by me really close (about 30 m) and didn't notice. As I hate guys with NVG I decided to shoot him.

Added option "Keep NV, remove Thermal" to the poll

Good point about batteries.

CAMO IS STILL UNSAFE! I had ghillie and camo (wore ghillie of course but kept camo in backpack just in case). My friend updated to 1.7.2 before me and he told me that his ghillie is gone. So I desided to change clothes before update - I put on camo and move ghillie to backpack then I updated. When I connected I noticed that I wear very strange military form instead camo. I looked in my backpack and saw that ghillie is gone but I have camo instead. I thought "OK, screw that ghillie let's put on camo (again)". When I was changing clothes SUDDENLY I was teleported in ocean for 1 second and back to forest. After that all my weapons and stuff in gear has gone (drown I suppose). Next time I connected I was on shore - no weapons, no ghillie, no camo, no gear (good bye my NVG - it took a month to get that one). I saw millions of threads about teleportation to the ocean during clothes changing. Was it fixed? No. But we have bear traps now.

Sometimes weapons just disappear. When you are disconnecting - you have one (in your hand/ in your backpack - no matter) but when you are connecting again next time - oops - no weapon. Two weeks ago I lost my DMR. Tonight I lost M14 EP1. It was in my backpack (I had two rifles DMR and M14 EP1 - it's really handy combination, they use same ammo, DMR for long distances, M14 for middle distances). I changed server and I noticed that my backpack has 9 empty slots and no M14 in it, only DMR left (in my hands). It's really annoying - so hard (for me at least) to get nice rifle and it's gone in a blink of an eye.

What happened: Time was out of sync with myself (explanation is below). Where you were: Zelenogorsk What you were doing: Exploring *Current installed version: 1.7.1.5 (beta 94364) *Server(s) you were on: RU22 *Your system specs: i7-3960X (@3.3GHz), 32GB, Windows 7 64, GTX 580 *Timeline of events before/after error: I connected to server at 22.30 (server time). There was night but moon was shining so it wasn't too dark. Moon was down at 0.30 server time and after that - almost complete darkness. At 1.00 I went to server lobby just for one minute (I didn't disconnect from server). When I connected again (I'm sure of that it was same server ) - but what is it? - moon is shining in the sky again. I looked at my watch - 22. 25. This is really nasty bug: when you can't see shit - some other players can see you because their time is different from yours.

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Why everyone is complaining about zig zag pattern? I think it's awesome. I would do it even more complicated. This bastarts should be hard to kill. Best zombie pathing I've seen is in Left 4 Dead. Zombie AI is checking your Line Of Sight and trying to avoid it - some zombies are not running direct to you, they are doing circle and eventually they bite your ass - surprise! This should be fucking ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE not a shooting range. SUGGESTIONS: 1. Spawn Zombies inside buildings. It was so cool in early builds when you wanted to loot buildings - you had to deal with zombies first (distract them with smoke, kill them quetly, you name it) 2. Increase zombie sense Especially when you are prone. Now if you are in prone mode - you are almost invisible for zombies, you can crawl, literally, between their legs. You can loot towns too easily just avoiding them. May be if you prone in 10 meter radius to zombie - they should become suspicious and go investigate - what is moving down there. If you are prone in 5 meter radius - they will see you 3. Zombie should run inside buildings Now it is too easy. If zombies aggroed to you what you need to do is step inside any building, drink a cup of tea and shoot 50 zombies who walks SLOWLY towards you. Piece of cake

I've been playing for 4 hours. I searched half of the map and I found tons of wood but no matches. Is this some kind of joke? Where is the matches? Now I've got flu in the middle of summer. This is ridiculous.

Being a good person now became even harder. Bandit's life is easy - just shoot to everyone, no difficult decisions "shoot or don't shoot". This is going to be the World Of Bandits. Definitely, humanity has to be rewarded some how. May be health or armor bonus or something - I don't know. Otherwise, I'm afraid, "silent guardian" means some useless numbers in stats. I'm expecting life expectancy will drop down dramatically. But let's wait and see.

This update looks like bad joke. If you alarm one of them don't even try - just disconnect. They spawn faster then you kill them. I'll stop play for now, it's almost impossible for lone player to survive. I'm going to wait next update. It's sad because idea was brilliant but at this moment it's unplayable for lone survivor style. But, I suppose, some players (may be one of ten) will love this hardcore zombie madness. Panic effect is quite annoying at this moment. Anyway, huge thanks for unique experience. I haven't felt anything like this before in any game.