FrostDMG

Why not rent a server from GameServers then?

3-4 hour restarts are perfect. Hourly restarts are for lootwhoring noobs. Long restarts however (5h+) the servers get unbelievably laggy

This would promote 24h day servers even more.

Increase FOV - this is something very common that affects a lot of gamers. Too tight of an FOV will make you feel like you're looking at the game zoomed in - gives me a headache. Turn headbob off - I leave this on, but only a little bit, however I'd suggest you turn it off. Try 3rd person when not going through towns etc.

Vehicles and storage are coming. The number of weapons is limited because they're still working on them. I'm quite sure that in the final release there will be a lot of weapons to choose from. There will never be "missions" in true DayZ - if you wan't that crap go play Epoch. Chernarus is clearly a very rural county, and if you've ever been out in the country in the Eastern Europe, you'd find it's not too dissimilar. Again, no NPCs. This isn't an MMO. Or WarZ/Survivor Infestation Stories (LOL). More buildings will probably be added and combat logging + ghosting is easily fixed by preventing someone from joining a different server let's say 5 minutes after they just logged out or something - yeah awkward for legit players, but what can you do. You have to remember this isn't a final release, so most of your expectations are very unrealistic of an alpha.

Same. Game should stay the same price when it's early access... Only rips off the fans who got it straight away when it went on sale!

Lol. Alpha on sale? Dafuq is this... 0 sense made.

Poll isn't the greatest because of other factors that may be in play at the time. For example, in the first scenario, I wouldn't just start shooting if the guy hasn't seen me and I was in a highly populated area - i.e NWAF. However, if I was in the middle of a field and the dude saw me, sure, he's toast. The second example is also a little controversial. If the two players saw me then I would probably shoot them, however, when answering the question I was assuming that they haven't seen me yet - in this case I would let them live. The third scenario is the only clear cut one in my opinion. Seeing survivors just walking through the forest would not cause me to just start shooting them. I might follow to see where they're going, but I wouldn't just KoS them for no reason.

Haha awesome story! I love stalking groups and taking them out one by one - predator style! Shame about the crane though... Would've been an awesome conclusion to the story.

Is this "wall glitching" the 3rd person camera clipping and leaning into walls to see through them?

Oh god the duping's already here... And we don't even have the tents/storage yet... WE ARE NOT PREPARED!

I agree that the servers are absolutely overpriced, and quite frankly it's disgusting how they can get away with ripping communities off this much. However, the Public servers have always had very strict set of rules - this is so that if you're going from one public server to another, you'll have the same experience, and you won't suddenly join a server with "PVE ONLY". If I was going to rent a server (which I'm not going to do), I'd wait until the private servers take off and then you can apply whatever rules you find fair.

This thread delivers... OP firsts asks wants to switch the engine, then hell, why not just make a new one from the ground up, right?

Yeah... It's their engine alright. Think how many YEARS it would take them to develop their own engine with zero foundation... YEARS. Then they would have to develop the game. It's far better that they stick to what they know, even though the engine can be a bit clunky as we've seen with the mod and SA development.

The AI wasn't that bad in the mod, and even though it seems unimpressive to you, consider how many zombies are on a server. Again, I tell me an engine that would be better suited for DayZ. I see everyone bitching but nobody coming up with any other ideas...

Damn VSS would be awesome... I agree though that guns and ammo should be rare, and like you said, having multiple guns sharing same caliber will indeed make it very common...

Sigh... Yes the engine sucks, but to be honest, what other engine would you suggest? One that supports a massive map, random lootspawns, vehicle physics, aircraft physics, AI, etc etc.

Never played on easymode servers, this is probably why I havent seen it.

Wait... there's crosshairs in SA now? Shows I haven't played it in a good bit...

PEOPLE WHO DELIBERATELY USE BLACK BACK DROP FOR THEIR FONT COLOUR PLEASE STOP. YOU CAN'T READ THAT SHIT ON MOBILE.

I enjoy both, even the Arma 3 Zoombies thingie was good fun.

What? Crossbows are meant to have a long reload time. If they are balanced properly, long reload won't be an issue. What I mean by proper balance: Clear cut ironsights - none of that nonsense that was in the modAbility to craft bolts from wood + scrap metal (probably need a toolbox on top of it)Allow us to retrieve boltsRare bolts - i.e Aluminium should be lootable and be much more durable than crafted. Long reload timeSilent kills (obviously)

It's a legit question. We were told that players would be able to store items at campfires, sort of like a mini tent. I think it's really sad that the devs choose the cesspit that is reddit over the official forums... And I've been saying this about the lack of devblog updates for the longest time lol... You gotta keep us updated!

Pretty sure people hosting official servers have adhere to strict rules you know. That was the case with the mod at least, and people who abused their admin powers had their servers blacklisted. And yes, kicking people - EVEN PVPING NOOBS - is admin abuse, unless it's your PRIVATE server with it's own rules.

Not to be *THAT GUY* but this being your ONLY post might cause people to be a little suspicious... You should link other server you've hosted before or communities you've been involved in.