Bororm

I'll say it's pretty spooky having one aimed at you in the SA because you know if they hit its gonna kill you. I was just using one and the reloading stuff is really janky. Also, the sights take a little getting used to I think.

You shouldn't have to buy a new pc to play, but you shouldn't have an advantage for having a shitty comp either, is the point.

Is there? When the spawns were more evenly distributed I used to go to the NWAF some times, but it was pretty slow to see people. I'd imagine it's only worse now, but maybe I'm wrong I guess? How many people do you generally see in an hour.

I've easily spent about 40+ minutes just switching servers lately, and it's not because I'm a server hopping scumbag it's stuff like joining servers that are listed as day but actually night etc.

But what's the point of getting all that loot? I realize not everyone plays this game to pvp, but there's not much else to do right now, so I'm genuinely curious as to what other people are doing. Just collecting stuff for the sake of collecting stuff?

I've yet to see the shirt, found lots of pants though. The red and the green ones are stylen. I hope there's yellow so you can get your bruce lee on.

My basic route is I suicide till I spawn close to the neaf/new towns then I grab a gun and go to the neaf because it's either that or sit in berezino/the new towns and I'd rather play with more than 15 fps. I'm surprised people go to the western side of the map, what's the point? I mean I'm not judging, people are free to play how they want, but I honestly don't see a reason to go any where else on the map currently. You can get everything you could get at the major mil bases/nwaf from the neaf and the immediate towns. All the spawns are up there now, why go further than you need to for the same stuff?

The patch did make desync and lag issues worse imo. I feel like their guaranteed messaging system isn't sending enough messages or something now, and then the server tries to catch up or something. It's not individual connections, although those issues can exasperate the problem, because the servers lag up for everyone in my group at the same time and we all see each other running in place etc. Individual desync is worse now because I think your client sends slower/fewer messages, resulting in the player warping around a lot harder than in previous patches. I think they'll work it out and it's probably a matter of adjusting how often their guaranteed server messages occur. Obviously I have no fucking clue what I'm talking about and it's just my theory based on what they've said =P It is currently worse though in many regards.

Got shot by one, I was using a shotgun and most of my pellets missed (I swear they've increased the spread). Gotta hand it to the guy on his aim I guess, the thing is a 1 shot kill. I haven't found bolts often enough to use one myself, I think they should be craftable or something. I'm glad it's less useless than the mod.

They crammed about 80% of the spawns up into the north east corner of the map, the other ones being shitty 3 valley/solichney spawns.

I don't care how they handle it but they need to do something. I don't want my game to look like shit (I play with all trees/grass/shadows), but it puts me at a big disadvantage to both people with shitty comps and those who just turn their settings down purposefully, which is a lot of people. I've watched pvp change over the course of the mod as more and more people realized they could just turn their settings down. There's a lot of other factors too of course as people became more familiar with the game, but concealment and sneaking started to take a big back seat and encounters got a lot more straight forward imo, which is more dull.

I think it's fine, if you get knocked out by some guy punching you when you have a gun you deserve it. I highly doubt all the people complaining punching is OP never pick up a gun themselves.

Elektro and Cherno were the coolest towns, Berezino was always very snoozers. The new spawns are lame. I miss spawning along the entire coast. I haven't been to Cherno since they forced all the spawns east of elektro, and I haven't been to elektro since they forced all the spawns to the north east. Because there's no reason to go any where currently.

I think they should have some form of cars before bikes personally, although they've said bikes will be the first vehicle. Vehicles work best as a sort of end game, group effort deal. Adding bicycles just for the sake of making individual travel easier is sorta crappy imo, as the map gets small awfully quick with vehicles of any type, and bikes are an awfully selfish form of travel. They also like to compare vehicles to weapons in terms of how they will be modified etc, and considering they started by making the "hardest" weapon (their words) first with the m4, so that it would be easier to implement other weapons why not do the same with vehicles? Any ways, I think we'll see bikes fairly soon, like next 2 months or so.

Obvious or not it's still lazy =P

Graphs are a lot nicer when they have some sort of description! Bullet travel time in general is pretty lousy in the SA imo.

Very true. Is that your server in your sig or do you just play there? I actually jumped on there once a week or two ago and dug the name. I live in Hawaii myself =P

Not so much the chain but I notice a lot more lag issues since the patch. I'm a bit disappointed considering a lot of people were raving about it when it was on experimental. Now I see a lot more instances of the server lagging up and people standing or running in place. Individual player lag seems worse as well, with people teleporting around because their desync is really high. I'm sure it's a work in progress, and hopefully they'll sort it out, but I think on the lag/desync side of things its worst since the patch for the time being.

Why can't they just put rocks or some shit in these buildings to stop people from doing this. It's getting extremely annoying, and more common. It's apparently super easy too considering the ease in which people go in and out of the walls. Honestly, this and duping are pretty much the only exploits/cheats I see commonly and both seem like they should be fixable at least. It would be really nice if they'd dedicate some time to this shit, because it would make the alpha a heck of a lot more enjoyable.

People are seriously complaining about weird/interesting guns? I'm all for it. Every other game has all your typical boring shit of 1000 m4 and ak variants, I love seeing stuff like the blaze rifle or this thing. It's fun. Besides, they're already adding your more typical weapons as well and there's more to come. Variety is nice.

Ahh good to know. In reference to the dust cloud I meant compared to the mod. I haven't actually done much sniping for a while, and none since the patch. If they've changed it that sucks, it was already hard enough to tell where your shots were before.

Unfortunately between the shot hitting effect being really small now/hard to see, and the animation of the mosin kicking up on reloads it's pretty hard to see your shots past a certain distance. After about 500m or so you also have to aim a decent amount down and left of the center crosshair. I'd say get some one to spot for you, or else try to shoot things that make a noticeable effect, such as metal to get a feel for it.

I think until they get loot to respawn/more incentive to stay on one server they should make it 2 minutes max. 5+ minutes is ridiculous.

They should make it so you have to leave your menu open for like 5 minutes straight and not move your character, then you can respawn. If you close the menu/move, it resets the timer. So if you're stuck, you open the menu and wait and respawn. This will help mitigate respawning just to suicide (that's all that's going to happen if you implement respawn at any time) and be pretty much only useful if you're stuck.

Kinda would prefer they lay off the camo/green sorta colors for a bit and add more civilian style stuff with more slots. It's sorta boring when the majority of people are all dressed in military/hunting gear, and besides style there's not much incentive not to. I guess it would be cool if these actual camo sets have less inventory, even though it probably doesn't make sense. I personally go for check shirts (bright blue is the best!) and a sorta cowboy/hobo look, but I know a lot of people just grab whatever has the most slots.