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ever since about February I noticed daily lows of about 20,000 players, as well as a sharper increase and decrease during evening and late night hours. For a long time before this the player counts never dipped below 30,000 and the daily ups and downs of playercount numbers were much smoother and less dramatic. this is a link to the dayz steamcharts https://steamcharts.com/app/221100#7d my question is what could have happened in February 2023 to cause such an abrupt shift in playerbase trends? I started playing again on pc recently and for a whole year before i took a break 3 months ago I never encountered one cheater. but in the last two weeks being back on the game i have encountered 3 obvious cheaters, My theory is that dayz has seen a surge in cheating recently. One of the largest threads on the dayz steam discussions right now has almost 3000 replies and is a user complaining about experiencing more cheating in the game than usual this is a link to that post https://steamcommunity.com/app/221100/discussions/0/3192492886087735382/

TLDR : ( The new spawn system made it unfeasible for me to play with my friends. It has increased the time it takes to meet together by a large margin. ) The only way to quickly meet up is for both of us to kill ourselves and respawn together. I like to introduce my real life friends to this game by having them spawn cycle until they find me in a certain city or vise versa. Because they are new to the game i would show them what a landmark in a city like cherno looked like and tell them when they came online to meet me there by spawn cycling. I would usually hike there before hand or one of us would usually cycle through spawns as a fast way to get together. usually me because i did not need the gear to survive and because i would be far off north playing solo when they were not online. Now because of the new spawn system both of us are forced to kill ourselves and start fresh every play session because of the unpredictability of spawns. and trying to get geared up and survive in a town thats been looted already on a populated server is a tedious task, directing noobs to towns inland and meeting halfway when they have little to no experience is also unfeasible. we are stuck in the early game far too long and traveling to meet up when one or more of us has no idea where to go takes too long as well. Most people with jobs and lives don't have longer than 3 or 4 hours a day to play with me and since the change to spawns all of that time is taken up just trying to get set up. Playing with my noob friends and introducing this game to new players has become a boring chore. right now it feels like i either waste all of our play session time hiking to meet them. or have to start as a group of freshies in a looted town. and because i want to play solo when they are busy, logging off and on together is not an option. it destroyed the way I play this game with friends and i think it is a huge deterrent to introducing new players to this game. Great for solos and experienced groups, but awful for the onboarding experience... all of my new friends think this game is just a freshie simulator and refuse to play because of it. Before i was able to meet them with some basic gear and guide them through the early game frustrations while they learn the ropes. Everyone i introduced to this game before that change has become a dayz addict, everyone after the change has refused to play after a few 3 hour sessions end in failure. i used to love playing with noobs, being a teacher, because i got bored of the cycle of faction combat / being a deathsquad. Now its no fun, I quit. ... for now My suggestion is to gamify this one aspect of the game and allow friends to spawn together in a party. All of my experiences come from official servers, and it will always be my preferred way to play the game.

just to update the topic, i was playing on console at the time and the way it works on console is once you start the unjam animation it must finish before you can do anything else i have since moved onto playing PC DAYZ and noticed that unjamming a gun is a button hold instead of a single press. today i was in a similar situation and noticed that once i let go of the reload button the animation stopped, the situation was almost identical to the one i posted about but instead this time i was able to stop and switch weapons before the unjam was completed. I killed the fuck that snuck up on me this time. that reminded me of my post here and thought i should update. i had no idea i was complaining about a console specific problem. on console once the unjamming animation is started you must wait until the gun is fully cleared of a jam before you can do anything else.

i hear somebody sneaking up on me. but i already started clearing a weapon jam. i know it would be faster to switch to my pistol but im stuck in the animation. i don't think its realistic, in real life i would have thrown the gun away and switched to my pistol if i heard somebody coming up a ladder at me what a stupid way to die

can confirm xbox series s here have to log in and out every time i want to have a fire

I have 1000 hours on official over the last year and have been SUPER BORED after about 1.20 or so the loot on official has been so trash lately i cant even stand to play it I cant find any pvp nobody is taking any risks because it takes days to even get a loaded assault rifle I went to rify and found ONE GUN 1 KAM and thats it! Badly damaged and no magazines or any ammo for it! I ran the coast for two days straight to find nbc gear AND GOT ONE UNUSABLE GUN. SMGs no longer spawn on coastal military no AKs anymore or even m16s unless i run to zelenogorsk THE COAST IS DEAD and inland is too dead as well because everyone is way to invested in what little gear they have... I havent had a single pvp kill or death since update 1.20 FFS. not to mention zombies have been completely broken for a while, if you throw bait the zombies run to your location not the location of the sound of what you threw. they seem to just see you through walls and walk towards you without ever seeing you or going aggro B O R I N G