At least give servers the choice, some like it, others don't. IMO not only did it add a certain sense of 'community', it also made it much easier to help newer players. Not to mention it made those many alone hours slightly less dull.

Use 3rd person if you don't have painkillers. This is an excessive feature IMO, I couldn't bear to play 1st person with this effect.

Isn't this pretty moot since you'll never directly stare a bandit in the face anyway? Chances are one of you is going to be dead before you hear the heartbeat noise kicking in. That being said, YES, but only if the range is big enough to matter.

Why not a simple system comparable to most MMO's? You want to log out so you click disconnect, a message pops up: "Your character will be taken offline in X seconds (counting down realtime). You can still see your character during this time but can't take any actions. So if someting happening in this timespan you click cancel and react. You're back in the game and if you wanna quit you'll just have to do it over again. ----------- THIS

2 is nice and clean, though 1 would be ok too.

Think you should probably allow people to still use scrollwheel to interact with basic equipment tbh

I keep getting kicked off the server?

Sweet! Interesting to see how the infection mechanic works out, hopefully it doesn't cause everyone to just avoid nighttime servers, especially when it's raining.

Well, player corpses should be able to give you infections as well, that way bandits take more risks :D.

I was hoping for a small decrease in the amount of zombies as well, the performance boost that will give servers is a big enough reason IMO. It doesn't need to be the 1.5.6, just somewhere between 1.5.7 and 1.5.6 would be good enough. Happy to hear about the (hopefully much) slower spawn times at least.

Would be a very welcome addition imo, if it's possible at least.

You could have a server message display who murdered who, but that may be a little intrusive. I believe just displaying the name on screen (and in player list) in a different colour would be a good enough warning when crossing very low humanity players.

I believe this change is for the best, the bandit system, while being a good idea in theory, had too many downsides. Having players able to differentiate their look sounds amazing. I do hope it will still be possible to identify very low humanity players one way or another? Maybe you can just have their name show up in a different colour on the regular servers that show names? I think that would be a good way to keep a WARNING! indication. (You wouldn't have this on hardcore servers, but then again if you want to play hardcore, you probably won't mind)

Some people...

Waste of time tbh, walk 30 + min just to get killed on the airfield? I know there's more up north than NW Airfield, but many of the places simply aren't worth it. (considering the amount of zombies you encounter is huge now, even in the smaller villages that have only 1 - 2 places for loot)... Sure I enjoyed the adventure the first time I played Day Z, but several weeks down the road I really don't see much point in wasting so much time walking for so little gain. (A lot of my friends feel the same way) Cherno, elektra and balota offer most of the good gear as well, and them being bandit heavens only makes it more exciting imo. (Not to mention you can always PK for loot yourself) The only time I bother going deeper in land is when I have a vehicle, or when I happen to spawn close to some place that I know has a vehicle spawn chance.