Mrazik (DayZ)

I am not sure if you know what light pollution is, but it is the effect that lights have on our ability to see the sky at night. City lights decrease our ability to see at night, as they overlighten the horizon, reducing the effectiveness of the sky's natural light. Without lights, the stars should be extremely bright. Here is a photo of light pollution & no light pollution during a cloudy night:

I believe a nice solution would be to have a small stat list shown when you aim at another player. A simple list of how many zombies and people that they have killed would very much help one to make a quick judgement of character. I feel overall though, that the game should not be able to make character judgement for players, which is essentially what the bandit skin does. It tells other players that the game has predetermined that an individual is a "bad guy" according to its standards. A more open system that allows other players to pass judgement of each other would be more realistic and beneficial. We all know that some bandits have received the skin according to unfortunate circumstances. Therefore, the line that is drawn by the game for good/bad should be dropped, and a system which forces a player to pass their own judgement should be implemented.

The game can never simulate complete darkness. In real life, one's eyes would adjust to allow more light to pass inward after a while. There is no such thing in this game. When it is completely pitch black, that's it. You can see anything, it's discouraging. With no light pollution, you should be able to see extremely far, and very well. The only times when you should not be able to see anything is when there is extreme cloud cover AND it is dark. But this seems to happen quite frequently, and when it does, you can't even see the shape of your gun or your feet. I'm not complaining about it, but I am saying that it is not realistic, as many of you say. I would though, love to have the ability to see better after a while in the game. It would be truly cool if your eyes could adjust to the lack light, kind of like an opposite of the blur effect to when you bleed out.

They should be scrapped. For a player as myself, who is simply trying to survive as best I can, they absolutely KILL the gameplay for me. I am a bandit because players have shot at me, missed, and I have shot back and "murdered" them. Now I get shot instantly by other players 1/2 times, even though I try to properly communicate that I am friendly.