Jrod (DayZ)

Neither, this is a survival mod. The elements of zombies (limited intelligence) and other humans (intelligent and unpredictable) is about as real as you can get given the scenario prescribed: "Go Solo, team up with friends or take on the world as you choose your path in this brutal and chilling landscape, using whatever means you stumble upon to survive." To add: You will have stories, trials, and tears. This game will produce events you will never have from other games. The suspense is constant. And its really about you and your actions.

Pretty sure rocket said elsewhere that vehicle save is triggered upon the exit of the vehicle. Though I do not know if this means that if 4 people are in it and then they exit it, that it will make 4 saves. It could be just last person out. Regardless, if you want to make a force save at a location, Id suggest you have the vehicle empty, get in, then get out and it should make the persistent save.

You dont die if you log on with flashing red, but if you dont get food or water soon, you will die. And if the game has been consuming your food and water while offline, sounds like the only safe thing to do is keep your food and water inside your pack so that it cant be used. When you log in with flashing red, move from pack to inventory and use the items needed. Did I get this right?

Yeah, the direction of the mod and harshness of the environment is great.

Yes, feedback is great and using it to shape your mod is a mark of good a developer, but also keeping to your own vision is just as important. The direction you seem to be going is very unique and I applaud you.

I say scrap them as well, the model/textures itself does not add much to the game. Even in groups of mixed bandits/non bandits, they serve no purpose. Some bandits are friendly, some non bandits are deadly.

Leaderboard are great, nothing like competition/epeen. Obviously these are alpha leaderboards and could possiblly give more information later in development. A suggestion I have, is for the top 10 ALIVE Murderers, to include additional info, like weapon of choice, or current server from save file, or active/inactive status (though I can maybe see this leading to logon traps). The same could go for the Top 10 Bandit Killers. Being a top 10 most wanted, you're going to have some additional heat.

Valid point, not very realistic I understand. Consider a group of players who enjoy hunting bandits, but not just any bandits, the ones that you are talking about. Maybe those players would call that fun.

I wouldnt really call it fixing the mod but I understand your meaning. The devs need to implement features, be they basic or extremely creative, that bring about the optimum balance. People will leave. But it sounds like the devs have a lot planned and its just going to require alot of work, whining (feedback), and testing.

I'd love to see the mod locked into 1st person, no green crosshairs, got to use your gun to aim, hold down alt to look around.

So in summary, lawlessness.

Other people using the same rifle as you, priority one.

I am NOT a bandit. But I have murdered (not in self defense as most would say) people. I have looted these people. I have not killed people and let them live. I prey on the weak but only when needed. What now?

As a consequence, maybe you shouldn't regain blood while logged off, or regain blood at an even slower rate.

People are going to be hard pressed to provide a good argument for keeping the food/water use offline. Immersion, ok, but the game is already stressful enough. Day/Night cycle. I'm not sure what the exact day/night times are currently, but a 6 hour night cycle, 18 hour day would sound like a good compromise. This would be a high latitude, summer solstice everday type setup.

Hate to bust your carebear heart, but there's ALOT of people and organizations playing that are only playing to play as if it was a true lawless survival, trust no one, shoot on site, end of the world, never produced before game. Arma II as a game has always been about tactics, avoidance, fire control, UNPREDICTABLE SCENARIOS. Your assessment of the situation is correct and really does not need to be changed.

Date/Time: 4/27 and 4/28 What happened: Arma exe hard locked and the database server appeared to stop responding Where you were: Middle of no where on 4/28, twice. On 4/27 when it happened I can not recall where. What you were doing: Looking at my GPS *Current installed version: 1.5.1. Also occurred with last 1.4 version before 1.5 was released *Server(s) you were on: NY, was on different NY servers, was not specific to a 1,2,3,4, etc *Timeline of events before/after error: Completely random but I was not the only person who had these exact events occur at the same time. Many people spoke in chat channel about unable to connect to the database server but only after experiencing a hardlock on arma exe.

This isnt a loading or file issue, I am up to date. I can play for hours and then this bug occurs for myself and others with similar symptoms. I even just went to make sure I did have all the correct files and I have the latest version of each of them. Highly doubt this is a user error, file version issue. I do not know if the bug is occurring client side and then creating a problem with the database, or if something happens with the database that then cause an error in the client, creating hard lock.

Also think some of the more powerful weapons were also toned down in damage, making ammo more needed. Used to be able to use my m16 to take down zombies in one shot in the chest at close range, now it is two.

The servers have been going through this phase every few hours today.

How do tents currently function?

I am having this problem on 1.4.11 after dying this morning. Just waiting for server response during new character.