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When you see a red brick house and you think "That one's lootable"

I'm posting this here because the 'suggestions' forums are continually flooded with utter crap 24/7, and besides getting very positive feedback so far, the thread keeps getting lost within minutes... Alternative Creepy Music for DayZ If you think that this music would be good in the game, please support the linked thread and help me get the attention of Rocket or the other devs. Cheers! :)

DayZ Commetary - Making the world a better place! We encountered 2 friendlies within the space of 20 minutes at the NW Airfield last night. One guy could have shot me, but didn't. Turned out that he needed morphine and a blood transfusion, which I happily gave him for not shooting me. The other guy basically ran right into 4 of us, lying prone in the grass...I think he was just happy that we didn't kill him. Unfortunately he died not longer after. I think he was probably killed by 'unfriendliness' when he got to Stary, where he said he was meeting his friend.

Hmmm...I don't like it. It seems completely out of place to me. Experienced it on a server last night and then again this evening.

Just base it in the Ireland...The whole island including the North and the South. That would be a pretty decent size...and I live here, so I could find my way about pretty well :P

Everyone eh? I had no idea about this until just now...Way to spread an exploit guys *slow clap* I guess by everyone, you mean all the people who look around for glitches and exploits to give them an upper hand in the game... :P

Yeah, the damage from pistols is a freaking joke now...I ate through 75% of my pistol ammo taking down about 10 zombies...and generally wondering wtf was going! 4 shots on average to kill a zed with an M1911...Not cool! It was fine the way it was in my opinion. This change was unnecessary.

Obviously the music has to be subtle. The idea I had is that music would be dynamically triggered in certain instances. For example, if a bandit/murderer is within a certain distance of you, or you hear gunshots near by, a variation of the 'paranoia' theme could trigger... Or...You are prone, creeping through an area filled with zombies, another variation of a theme plays... Or, you aggro a zombie, or attract a horde, and another, more frantic theme variation would play. You find a chopper crash or enter a military base, a variation of a more military theme starts to play. Travelling through the wilderness, more melancholic themes could be triggered etc. This way, the music acts as a cue and heightens the immersion, rather than takes away from it. there is a lot of scope for it in game. I think most people turn the music off in-game at the moment because it gets repetitive very quickly due to the lack of variety.

Bringing it back again...

I know this has probably been asked a lot, but I searched for a thread and nothing came up. What are the reasons behind not being able to have more than one survivor on the go at a time? I play with friends, but when we can't play together, I would like another character that I can play with on my own, so that I can carry on with my friends when we get the chance, without splitting up. I have heard people throwing around the idea that people would farm etc. but would this really be as big an issue as people are making it out to be? People farm servers and use exploits anyway...That is never going to stop (unless something changes in the game). Is it not more reasonable to assume that the reason we can't do it currently is because the hive server currently can't cope with everyone having 1 profile, never mind 2? Have the devs given a definitive answer on this feature? It just seems like an unnecessary limitation to me (if it isn't a limitation of the current hive servers).

Bringing it back...

Here's how to survive... When you see a big group that you don't know. Hide. When you see a small group that you don't know. Hide. When you see one person that you don't know, randomly scavenging on their own. Hide. If you are an asshole, shoot them in the back without them even knowing you are there.

If they were used in game, they wouldn't be played one after the other in such short succession, it's just a rough demonstration. Cheers!

Well... Rocket, if you happen to read this (or if someone can forward it to him) and you think that this music would be good in the mod, or in the stand alone game, please, do get in touch. :) I will make another batch and see if I can generate a bit more interest and go from there.

Cheers meshcarver! It's not really lack of confidence, it's just that I am new to the whole soundtrack creation thing and it's hard to get any recognition these days! haha I'm more looking feedback than anything, so that I know I am on the right track and that it is worth investing the time into. :) *edit* I would contact rocket, but there is no way to do that on the forums...Contact info is empty as he is probably trying to avoid crashing any more servers... :P

I was thinking yesterday, as I was travelling through the woods in-game that being able to pick berries, apples etc. would be a nice addition to the game. Also, having harvest-able veggies in some gardens would be great.

Just sharing my youtube channel that has a ton of cool gameplay/commentary of a group of friends and myself playing DayZ together.

So, still uploading videos. Still alive too! So just documenting this current life at the moment, but starting to cut down the recording to only really include the action, as opposed to travelling about.

I think there needs to be more emphasis on survival techniques. Introducing elements like survival bush craft etc. would not only deepen the gameplay, it would be educational and have real world, practical benefits.

You reckon this music is better? Or it needs better music than this? :P

Cheers! Yeah, I was thinking that music and sound could be a good audio indicator of the presence of danger...So say a murderer is about, a subtle, creepy piece could be triggered when you get, or they get close enough. Other pieces could be triggered by various situations like chopper crashes, industrial areas, forests, etc.

Cheers for the reply! Yeah, point taken. :) I just wish there was a bit more consistency with the beta version that servers are running. Everything was grand with everyone running the 94876 patch until about 5 days ago, then Six launcher starting pushing a new patch onto their users every day since. Unfortunately, it has completely fragmented the available servers. Keep up the great work! Add more survival elements into the game please, like bush craft! Watch Ray Mears and take as many ideas from his survival programs as you can! :D

Rocket, any chance that we can get all the servers running the same freaking beta update? Can you stop Six launcher from pushing every freaking beta update on their users? It's making finding a working server a nightmare. Cheers!

I see a potentially huge problem with this update... 1. Currently, a lot of servers incorrectly state their timezone, more than accurately state it. 2. A lot of servers are very unstable and give me 5fps. To fix the first issue, would it be possible to add information in the server browser (or even the lobby) that told us the correct time within a server? To fix the second issue...I don't even understand why this happens to be honest. It seems completely random to me. It usually takes my friends and myself a few goes to find a server that is correctly advertising the time and isn't really unstable.