Bororm

I like that idea.

It's just another non lethal option is how it might reduce KOS, albeit a very difficult one. I don't think the actual disarming people is too "gamey," I think the implementation of it would be difficult without making it "gamey" is what I meant by that bit. I dunno how often people actually get hit in the hands/gun as is, so without that statistic it is hard to say how often it would happen randomly and whether that is even an issue. I threw an extra bit in my OP but I think you should also be able to loot/disarm an unconscious player. That one would definitely help reduce straight up killing imo.

I saw this in the patch notes for the upcoming patch: I'm guessing it means the Mac and 1911 are getting some much needed damage love? I'm just wondering if the revolver could get the same, if it's not already since it shares ammo with the 1911.

Don't forget the famas.

Yeah the notes are pretty unclear. I assume it's a buff because another nerf would just be ludicrous. Honestly I'm not sure what a reasonable damage would be. Originally they were 4500, at 6 and 7 shots respectively and the range I don't think that's unreasonable but I could see people potentially feeling they are too high, as that is more damage than a STANAG/AK round. I feel they should probably 1 shot zombies though, currently you may as well pick the pistol with the most ammo.

So I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this, or if there's already a thread, but for the upcoming patch there is a change to add a clearing around helicopter crashes so you can see the loot easily. Here is the picture: http://i.imgur.com/uVDfGym.jpg What is the point of this? It's not that hard to find items around crash sites, it adds a little bit of an extra challenge to try to figure out what's actually there and see what's going on. It also allows people to miss items currently, which is good because in the off chance some one does the next person along might still have a chance at finding something. This just seems like making it easy mode for the sake of making it easy, something I hate to see in DayZ. The completely artificial looking perfect circle is also pretty jarring. I think this shouldn't be put in. Sorry if this has been covered already.

Bumping this. Really hope it's not going in.

It's in the notes for the next patch, so I'm hoping enough people will speak up about it so it won't make it in, because it seems like a really lousy change.

The timer is too buggy. I will get away from all combat and get the 30 second timer. I will wait 30 seconds and still have it tell me I must wait 30 seconds. I will wait 5 minutes and still have it tell me to wait fucking 30 seconds. My combat thing isn't flashing, I'm out of town I'm away from everything. It's fucked, it's broken. I've never combat logged in my life, I hate people who even do it to zombies, I am a fan of a combat timer to prevent it but in the current state the thing is straight up broken the majority of the time.

Take out crosshairs. I always try to find servers without them. It makes the game a lot more interesting when you actually have to aim down the sights. It slows down the pace a bit and rewards player "skill" more imo. With crosshairs it is all too easy to just turn and spray on dudes, and with some guns like the light machine guns it really takes any skill out of using them. Try aiming down the sights with an LMG and notice all the recoil and how much you have to fight to keep it on target compared to just spraying with crosshairs. Another example is sniper rifles. With crosshairs even m24's can be used very easily in close quarters. I was playing a server once with crosshairs where I was in a church, a guy ran in with an AK and I was able to snap shot him in the head because of crosshairs. If they hadn't been on I would have had to use the scope and I probably would have been fucked, but I think that SHOULD be the case as a drawback to using sniper rifles. There's going to be a lot of attachments it sounds like too, so different kinds of scopes to throw on your gun and if people are just going to hip fire what will be the point? They are a crutch, get rid of them.

Yes please, very curious about this. If you could please elaborate on how you intend to maintain that current feeling of tension that results from the clunkiness while cleaning up the controls/inventory system.

My one and only concern is that you don't streamline the inventory/animations too much. I think a huge part of the tension created in DayZ stems from some of its klunkiness. Trying to sort through loot piles, swapping guns through your inventory, waiting for those animations while you're being shot at or zombies are around really adds to the stress of the game. Obviously there is room for improvement on it, but please try to keep some of that tension! If you clean it up too much it will really turn into just a run and gun fest. Keep up the good work though, this is the best game that has come out in years!

RARES/PERSONALIZING ITEMS: I think introducing some sort of "rare" items could be good. Nothing that actually has an effect on game balance (no rare super weapons) but small every day things that you are tempted to hold onto if you find. A good example would be the mountain dew, but even beyond that to essentially "trash" or trivial things like say a medallion or a coin etc. They'd have no real value except what players would impart on them. Alternatively for a more practical variant, different skinned weapons (no actual affect on them) with a very low chance to spawn. Things that you would want to hold onto, and if you were killed something to try to retrieve or run into later when you kill some one else, "Hey this fucker had my ring!" kinda deal. Maybe being able to personalize certain items as well, like etching your name/naming your axe or gun or whatever. I think most of us have found a gun we like and try to hold onto it through multiple lives. Naming your axe Zombie Chopper or something then dieing, losing it, and finding it on some poor schmuck a week later would add a bit more life to the game imo. Oh and more revolvers too!

happy birthday ace

Ahh bummer, thanks for hosting it while you did though! Was definitely the best server I've been on.

vehicles all over the place last night! anyone know how those respawns actually work? i've noticed when theres a patch and such most of the vehicles respawn, but don't think there was a patch yesterday.

sooo anyone else experiencing their character being frozen right now? tried switching servers and i can move, but on 195 atm my dude is completely unresponsive to controls. can't even open the menu. changed positions on the other server, came back, and same thing except now my dude is spinning in circles.

i think the game time could use a slight adjustment. seems to be night during prime gaming hours lately.

nice figured it was you guys.

Nice helicopter whoever had that. Was shooting at you with a lee enfield but ya'll didn't seem to care haha. the millions of zombies lagged me up pretty good though! heh we posted at the same time exactly evolsoul. ace is on right now i think.

Some weird stuff going on in Elektro tonight. Heard people all around the hospital, went on the roof and didn't see anyone. Then what seemed to be an invisible guy with a machine gun kept shooting. Then I saw a ghillie suit guy on the roof with me, when I went to shoot him he disappeared (may have just logged on saw me and dced i guess but i'm not so sure). then at one point saw tracers firing into the city from an elevated position on the coast? unless it was a helicopter i don't see how anyone could have been that high, and didn't see/hear any helicopters. some other strange encounters too, but i dunno, it is night time haha. seems like an aweful lot of ghillie suit/machine gun wielding dudes running around though. ***** well before the elektro shennanigans (i ended up in elektro on a respawn) I had gone into cherno with my nightvision and an m14 and nothing else (even left my backpack). heard some explosions and gunshots and went to check it out. came around a corner and saw a ghillie suit guy staring at a wall and shot him in the head, as his friend ran up alongside him who I didn't see till i started shooting or i woulda shot him first haha, and we exchanged shots. pretty sure i pegged him a few times, he dropped me fast though. first guy that died was named Big Boy, and in the chat while dead he said "fuck this!" and then left the server. not sure who the other guy was, didn't seem to actually get a kill on him. any ways after the elektro stuff above i went back over there to see if my corpse was still there. it was gone but both their corpses were there, i guess the second guy may have died from me after all or just suicided when his buddy left. Both of these guys were hackers. they both had weapons that i am preeeetty sure are not in the game, unless i'm wrong. one had two m4a4 acog GL's, which seemed to have camo patterns too. the other had some sort of silenced m4 that i don't think was the m4a1 camo SD, along with some silenced ammo that didn't look like any silenced ammo i've seen. they also both had NV, range finders, coyote packs and the works. i took the nightvision and basic tools off one of them because that is what i had lost myself and my body was gone. didn't touch the rangefinder or any of the gear i didn't have myself, including their packs. hid the bodies so no one else would take their cheat code guns. I guess maybe those weapons have been added and these guys were just geared to the teeth and looking for trouble, but i'm not so sure.

how come the server doesn't seem to show on six launcher any more? and yeah i know how to join it manually, just curious though.

Haha for sure, that place is a death trap but you can have a lot of fun. I did shoot who I'm assuming was your friend on the other roof again once I reached that tunnel area I believe. Right after I had killed you I killed another guy who spawned in on the roof, kinda around the corner of that thing. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the DC guy trying to ghost his way up to you or something, which is super lame if so. cherno was definitely a zoo last night though.

Hey whats up, I just wanted to clear up what happened as I was the guy who asked you "how do you like that?" after you'd been calling me a "DC faggot" moments before =P. So here's the deal, I think you had me confused with some one else though: I was to the nw of cherno, mostly west in the trees in the field sniping at you and your buddy on the other roof with a cz550 for like half an hour. I was the guy who had you guys sticking to the south/SE side of your roofs taking shots every once in a while. After about 20-30 mins of that (i think any ways, it was a while!) my friend logged on, he was the one Acebane mentions with the L85 and Night Vision. He joined me to the west in the trees where we took more shots at you and your buddy, around that time I managed to headshot your buddy on the other roof while he tried to binoc us. I'm fairly confident neither of you realized where we were, just the general direction. I'd hit your buddy once before too but he hadn't died. At that point I got down to something like 3 or 4 cz ammo so I decided to run south into town to try to find more or get a better angle on you, since you were hugging the SE side of the building. I think around then either you, or some one else started shooting at me as I entered the red brick house close to the market. It sounded like it was some one closer, but it could have been you. Any ways they got me as I tried to ditch back out of town and back to the trees. Around the time all this was happening my friend with the L85 had decided to go into town himself, I think he was trying for the building your buddy was on and was killed by Acebane it seems. We both respawned close to cherno, I ran back with a winchestor, climbed the long ladder to the 2nd to last platform (with the tunnel) and looted the corpse I found there who had a Lee Enfield. It was at that time you started talking shit to me saying something to the effect of "I hear you DC faggot, come up" or something. I didn't respond because I wanted to keep you guessing a little at least. At that time I'm guessing you were trying to lean over the edge to see me or something, but in any case my friend had reached my original corpse and looted my cz550 and managed to kill you with the last bullet. I went up and asked you "how do you like that?" and shot you a few times to make sure you were dead. I told you my friend had sniped you, although I think I was accidently talking in group chat or something. Then another guy spawned in on the roof who I shot immediately, I looted your DMR and got killed soon after, apparently most likely by Acebane with the L85 looted from my buddy haha. From there it turned into a bit of a blood bath as people kept coming around and people kept dieing back and forth. Any ways, I never DCed at all (I really hate people that do, and I don't care about dieing myself), you or some one else killed me and Acebane got my friend. I think you must have had me confused with some one else, I'm sure there were lots of people taking shots at you up there. No hard feelings on my side, and I hope none on yours either. From my point of view it was a pretty fun fight which lasted like 40 mins from the start of me taking pot shots at you guys. I think you stayed up there too long though haha. Look forward to seeing you guys around, enjoying the server! BTW did some one lose their car tonight? hehe!

I'd just like to say I've been playing on US195 with a couple of my friends the last few days and S6 seem like cool guys to me. They've apologized about the recent hackers, they have a system message when you log on that combat DCers will be banned and they've been polite. The server restarted earlier today to switch to daytime too if that's the restart being referred to. On that topic, I'm curious what's up with the day/night cycle on the server though. I'm guessing it's out of wack since you guys reset it, but it seems like every time I log on it's a different time period haha. Any ways, I'm enjoying the server, and I'm glad to read you're actively trying to stop those hackers, seems like there's been quite a few in the last few days. I wish admins had a few more tools to stop them. I look forward to seeing you all in game!