hello there, i'd like to know in what state the zombies are compared to the mod version. i've played dayz extensivly during the early mod phase and i recall an instance after an update where the zombies were a bit buggy so they could spot u a mile away, were relentless in their pursuit and more numerous than swirling flies on a long dead body... and it was AWESOME. later when the satndalone was announced and released i tried it out and found it had a pretty good foundation, but beeing an alpha the zombie population was horrible to nonexistend, so i quit playing for a while... now, a year later, i am wondering what has changed in this regard? - are there more zombies? - are they dangerous? - do they have a good AI? - what about zombies spawning? how had that changed? regards, red.

a 300 words essay?! what are you, in the fifth grade?

hi, there i'm pretty sure, many of u knew that there were grenades in the dayz mod. i would like to see them again in the dayz SA... well, but what i really would like to see in the SA, would be the possibility of pulling the pin off a grenade while still holding the safety lever in place. i.e. holding a grenades in your hands, that will explode once u drop it, ...like if someone killed u. this would add a nice setting, if someone better geared than yourself tries to steal your stuff and u pull out a live grenade threatening to blow both of you to hell... just a thought, well an evil one... :)

true, but it would "unbalance" the game as it did in the mod. heavy semi-automatic snipers are an outright invitation to hillsnipe and kos. even with the arma engine its so damn easy to pick off guys at 600m with an 8x zoom scope, while hiding in a bush... that's not a game i would like to play. well sniping is fun and should definitely be in the game, but in the sense of repeating "hunting" sniperrifles. they are not as overpowered as the military stuff and still "fun" to utilize... just dont screw an adjustable 8x zoomoptic on top... -.- well that said... what dayz needs is a big variety in calibers and guns... so finding a gun or ammunition isnt a difficult task. but finding the RIGHT AMMO AND MAG FOR YOUR GUN... that should be a rewarding experience not a matter of serverhopping the airfield 3 times...

well i can tell u what i dont want to see in the mod... ANY SEMI-AUTOMATIC SNIPER RIFLE! u want to snipe? then do it repeating style... but i would like to see bows. bows are awesome. knights are also awesome. but bows can kill knights, so they are awesomer. ...u see? they need to be in the game. because bows are awesomer.

well the thing is, the standalone is much more complex than the mod will ever be. just take a look at something as simple as the eat/drinking feature... also there is the security. since everything goes through the server, and all the spawns and zeds are also handled by the server its much more secure than the mod. hackers and cheaters will have a hard time compared to the mod... the possibilities of the standalone are just straight awesome. of course its still an alpha so buying it, is pretty much a choice of supporting or wait till a more stable and better version of the game is released. but there is no doubt that the standalone is superior to the mod.

hi there, i just wanted to play a bit, but my server-list is completely empty. in my history tab however, there are some servers listed (with players in it) i defaulted my filtersettings and i clicked on the internet tab, so i'm not searching for lan servers :) anyone else got this problem?

yupp its working again. have been able to play for a couple of hours... but is this really a steam issue? last time the steam authentication servers went down, i could see and join the servers in the list, but was kicked with an a authentication-error-msg within a couple of minutes... today there were no servers at all (visible)

lol ...but u should've removed the clothes, nothin can beat a skinned trophy^^ btw, killing on sight REDUCES your gaming experience and potential of dayz. ...guns, ammo, food and other stuff u loose when u get killed, can be looted again. the unique experience u may have had with that human player u shot for no reason however, is lost. ...forever.

well... i dont know... this game has already sold 1 million copies on steam. i get it its an alpha, its an indie game, people knew this was going to take its time...blablabla but even rocket said he never dreamed of so much sales. what i EXPECT now is that he invests that money and hires some additional crew. there is absolutely no excuse why things shouldnt speed up now. the game is popular and will remain so. beta in winter 2014? 2015? NO FRIKKIN WAY.

THEN WE PLAYED A DIFFERENT GAME. i first played the mod before the MAJOR hype, back when kos wasnt a real thing (was always there but not really a big problem) later when that article (rock paper shotgun? pcgamer? i dont remember anymore...) was published and new players flooded the servers, the real problem started... its not that those players were dickheads, casual gamers or the often quoted cod-kidz... players just knew what dayz was... before the big hype dayz was just a blurry game... no one really knew what it was about, what u could do etc... the only thing u knew was it had zombies, nights were terrifying and there was something dubious going on in the north-west :) so when u encountered another player u were excited... another one like u who didnt knew squat about the game too... so u grouped up... had a little chat und makaroved your way through the countless zeds together. also firing a shot in cherno wasnt the brightest idea^^ but again, when the hype started and all those websites and youtube vids went online pretty much everyone knew where to get those .50cal's... and then the "fun" began... there were countless players running around and the massacre went on. the last month i played (early 2013?) there was so much killing going on that the "multiplayer" part was almost gone (if u werent playing with friends.) kos was basically the norm. the forums were overflooded with complains and people whining about it. so less kos on the mod? NO FRIKKIN WAY. just wait until we get more zeds and then we can have the discussion again.

relax. i did the exact same thing 2 days ago. sat on a hill watching balota. saw someone running to the barracks and tried to shoot him... well to be honest i just did so to check IF u can actually SEE someone at that distance with low settings and i wanted to try out the weapons... the m4 wont hit shit beyond certain distances -.- also u dont get any visual feedback on where the bullets hit... NOT COOL. so what i'm trying to say is... dont take stuff too seriously, there are hundreds of reasons to be shot at. btw walking around an airfield is an obvious reason to get shot at... just sayin :) p.s. did not combat logged though... the guy ran into a barrack and didnt come out... i panicked... (goddamn sound glitches!) and thought he may ghost behind me so i packed my things and got the fuck out of there^^

so u trying to tell me, u cant jog up a hill when fired upon? idk last time i played paintball and was shot at i practically jumped that hill chuck norris style! its not that we want to "sprint" up a 60° incline... but as soon as a bump appears in dayz the player immediately starts walking at the slowest pace possible... would be nice if we could speed up the walking if we have our hands free.

hodor!

that cant be it, because all the sounds are kinda "cut-off". u can only hear the first (half) second or so and then it stops. also, i cant tell for sure, but it seems that the sounds are played in a regular intervall... every couple of seconds a new random sound starts. this is a damn annoying bug... it makes playing the game nearly impossible, if u are a bit paranoid (because maybe u found that sweet acog scope for your m4 ...like i did^^) EDIT: btw... are random gunshots sounds also part of this bug? i heard them while watching over balota airfield... couldnt say if they were "real" or not... they sounded kinda muffled...

that would be a nice mechanic for dayz! if u have something in your hands, walking speed is the limit. with free hands u could jog up that hill... couse beeing shot at while trying to get up a hill, is currently a death sentence...

hi there, well, the topic says it all... how can i check on what server i am currently on? i.e. see the name and details of the server? a friend wanted to play along with me, but i wasnt able to tell him on wich server i was... i could've changed to another server with him, but since there are circumstances in wich a server change isnt the best option, like when ure on a fresh started server that isnt picked clean... and i dont want to write down every servername im joining... i would like to know how to check the server im on ingame.

hmm ok so there's no way to do it ingame... didnt thought of the steam friendlist thought :) i dont use steam that often... but this an essential feature missing! ...sometimes i have to get off a game for a couple of minutes but if it was a good server i would like to join the same again... well atleast i can check the documents folder thanks dj!

ok after beeing absent from dayz for a couple of month, today i decided that its time for some fun in cherno :) i didnt really wanted to get into the whole survival thing, hording stuff, find a nice campsite etc... i just wanted to stalk some people in cherno or elektro... u know having a good time for a couple of hours... so this is what happened... i spawned near cherno and made my way to the firedepartment to find some weapons. after alarming some zeds i decided to shrug em off in a house and in there i found a enfield. great i thought, a ENFIELD. best weapon to walk around in cherno -.- ...but hell, better then nothin. while approaching the firehouse, i saw someone walking around in the tower. ...hmm enfield+someone camping, sounds like fun. but then i lost sight of him and shortly afterwards i heard gunshots and zeds running toward the firehouse. well now or never! i runned towards the gunfire but when i arrived no one was there. i guessed where he might have gone and thought to myself that the market was nearby, should be a good spot to find him. so up to the market. first i peaked inside from the window side but saw nothin. so i made my way around... and guess who was making his way to the woods? he ran to the backside of a house and i followed him. after i managed to position myself behind him, i grabbed my enfield, took a deep breath and pulled the trigger. i missed. he turned around, i shot again and hit him. ´he dropped down. just to be on the safe side i shot him again. and again^^ how stupid of me. i shot him with a enfield, so before i could even check my prey's loot i was surrounded by zeds. i ran to the market to shrug em off there. this time i decided to take the back doors. bad idea. all doors but the last were closed. i paniced and dropped off the small ledge... so i needed to go all the way to the end and take the stairs there. but immedietly after i passed the last door, before i could even take a look inside, i was greeted by incoming automatic fire coming from the insides. bullets everywere around me and i barely zickzacked my way around the corner. i was bleeding like shit and everything was grey. i still heard a lot of gun fire, probably the zeds i had on my tail where not MY problem anymore. i took my chances. i went around the market to the main entrance, inside the market and from there to the backcorridoor. i saw countless zed bodies lying around and still more coming in from the back doors. someone was just sitting behind the corner shooting them, then i heard someone reloading. oh god. thats why i wanted to play this game again. :) well... i jumped around and there were two guys fending off the zeds. i aimed at the first one and shot him. i hit him, but he still was walking around, he spotted me and i hit him again. he dropped. the second one didnt realize i killed his friend, he was too concerned with the horde of zeds coming through the backdoor. so i shot him down too. after the zeds lost interrest, i was curious what loot would await me. sadly the first one of the marketshooters must have disconnected or somethin, because his body was gone. but the second one lied there and omg, what should i say... alice backpack. with ak holo inside. M16 with 3 sd mags. grenades, map, compass, matches everything. and a motherfrikkin GPS! i scrolled further down and that dead bastard left me a NVG! i couldn't believe it. GPS and NVG. god, back in early 2012, i would've killed for that stuff. err well...u know :) BUT the problem is. I DONT WANTED THAT. i just wanted to troll some shit out of cherno. having a nice time for two hours or so...and now the game just begs me to play it. i mean a GPS and a NVG?! damn. that was exactly what i wanted to avoid. now, i am afraid of losing my stuff. i am afraid of playing. great job dayz. u made me afraid again. i hate you.

where have all the servers gone? long time passing, where have all the servers gone? long time ago, private's have picked them every one... when will they ever learn? ... no but seriously^^ havnt played the game for a couple of months and the apocalypse was calling me again. to my suprise there were only bout 30 active servers in the browserlist, most of em private one's with high end starting gear... i mean, last time i played, there were bout 100+ servers with mostly 20+ players on em... is something wrong with my server browser? or is dayz dying a slow death?

thats my problem too, commander keeps choking my router... so i use the ingame browser.... no filters its just that, like i said... in summer there would be like over 100 mass populated servers...

hello, i was just playing on de34 when everyone got killed. after logging in again, u got killed instantly on spawning here is the video of everyone getting killed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faTOTdrSE2w&feature=youtu.be i cross-checked the names of the players that got killed with the ones wich where currently on the server... the only ones not beeing killed (at least in the period while i was recording) where: nail striker doctor32 so maybe one of em was the one responsible... i dont wanna acuse anyone, since i dont know the mechanics of HOW a hack works... but still, i think, at least my post wont hurt anyone for the record: * Server this happened on. DE 34 * Time that it happened including your timezone. about 13:30:00 UTC/GMT +1 * What happened during the incident. moving/looting/playing in/around electro by the way: funny story while this happened... i spawned near electro, found some bodies and looted a kobra with magz, an akm, a alice pack, a wholelot of gear (matches, compas etc) from the bodies... i didnt wanted to press my luck, so i headed out of the town... but then i spotted an enterable building and thought what the heck, last building before i head north! inside i found a bodie with some stuff and a ghillie suit :D i dressed up and headed north towards the wilderness not believing how damn lucky i was... not far away from elektro, i wanted to check my inventory when i realized i only had a empty coyote backpack... i think it has been swaped when i took on the ghillie suit (or while looting the body) :( that was really a shame cause i had alot of equipment in there like spare stuff (map, compas etc) and the early on found akm with couple of mags... with a tear running down my cheek i decided to forget about it and head north... but then i heard gunshots... loud ones...and they were near! i decided to investigate it. not long after i saw a dude running from zeds, with a long rifle on his back, i aimed and shot him down... i went to the body and he had a as50! damn lucky i guess...^^ but the really weird thing was that he had MY EARLY LOST ALICE BACKPACK! and it was definitly my backpack cause it had all the stuff inside i lost... i really freaked out and was giggling like a schoolgirl, what are the chances for that?! must have been my lucky day^^ well about 4 seconds later, everyone on the server got killed -.-

hello, i was just walking through a forest near polana when suddenly the framerate dropped and i saw houses spawning everywhere, i could hear the "flies-sound" of other dead people and a couple of flashlights beams pointet at my direction, immedietly someone opened fire at me and i was dead... i think i got teleported to somewhere where a couple of hackers where waiting... the server was full of people (36/50) when i joined so maybe someone else expirienced the same thing or knows more... the server was SE 3 Sunday, 22 July 11:49:05 p.m.(GMT + 0:00)

lost alot of good gear... isnt there a way of tracking the hackers through the server logs? i mean i only died once on that server, isnt it tracked in somekind who killed me?

no its not 100m per milidot... try youtube there ARE some good tutorials or download a shooting range mission and try for yourself