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Anyone know a rough ETA on the standalone release? Or an educated guess? Not been following everything. Not even asking for a specific date, just a month/period. Do you think it's likely to be say....May...or summer, or dare I say it Oct-Dec time?

Just hijacking this rather than starting a new one - I echo everyone here. As well as barely finding any heli crashes as it is. I'm not sure if it's a change with the 1.7.6.1 patch but when I used to play Day-z (around 1.7.3 1.7.4 - 2 months ago) we'd be picking up at least multiple as50/m107s/dmrs/nvgs/ghillies/m14s/lmgs at crash sites and hitting the barracks we'd always find m4 cco sds, l85s (before removal) dmrs, m249 saws etc. Obviously not in 10 minutes but a good night looting. Some sites had 2 as50s, 2 m14s or a l85 and 2 dmrs etc. Since i've come back, nothing. Not even @ the barracks hitting it 5-10 times a session. My buddy found (like others) 3 svds at one site, The best we've found together is 1 svd, a pair of NVGS, a shit ton of m104 shotguns, a pdw and 1 dmr. In 4 days use of a helicopter on a private hive. Something is amiss.

thanks guys - we'll check em. any more suggestions? i have everyones GUID etc for registering..

sorted it! great server when i last played and even better now! cant recomend it enough!

Played on this server @ the start. Name was ghost I think - or starblazer. can't find the server on dayz commander?

my main gripe with the throwing is more the time it takes to actually finish the god damn animation rather than direction/trajectory.

Haven't played day-z in a couple months (since 1.7.3 time tbh) in anticipation for the standalone but may jump on tonight. This is exactly how I predicted the reaction to the stand alone release being however. In theory all these cool ideas sound great, like a real ''survival'' sim, but I guarentee after 2 weeks the novelty will wear off and the game will become a mundane grind. It's on the cusp of being something truely great, hugely popular, zombie themed survival MMO in a post apocalyptic world, amazing. But if there's too many tedious aspects to it it won't live up to expectations. It needs a balance between fun and the ability to just leap into it for a couple hours while maintaining a tough, empty, post apoc feel.

Agreed. I guess I want some news more for piece of mind than anything. I'd rather know it's coming out say...February, for arguments sake, than have no news and it appear on Steam in February or some news rushed out at the end of January. I understand it's the Christmas break and I respect Rocket and the devs wanting some time off, especially from the reddit/twitter/forum trolls constantly bombarding him, but can't help but feel a fair chunk of that would stop if we could get a tiny bit of news. I bet they have reasons though, I mean in this day and age it's no sweat to type a tweet from a phone or jump on a tablet/laptop for 5 minutes. Who knows.

I'm tempted to agree with this. I'm not crybaby'ing over the fact it hasn't been released in December, but some news would be welcome. '

I think my main...beef, if you like, with how this whole thing has been handled is simply because I KNEW deep down that the Dec release was a massive ask for the team yet Rocket stood by the December release. I even started a thread a month ago on here asking if anybody else was concerned at the lack of news and how December would be a huge push. Nothing against Dean or the team however, I'm in the ''take your time - release it later when it's ready'' camp. However, I'd like SOME news on the game and how it is progressing. I know it's gonna be a alpha, so not a ''release'' as such, but some news to at least give people a better idea of a release date would be nice.

Agreed, however I think some of these suggestions are gonna bite people in the ass come the stand alone release. It's not the sims, it's not minecraft, and it's certainly not real life. it's nice to ponder standalone life in a forest using only a machete and crossbow/blow gun with poison darts with a likkle tent to live off the land but for 90% of people, IMO of course, that's gonna get insanely boring quick and people want the WHOLE game based around this? especially for people with lives and a limited time frame to play. ''Herp derp there shouldnt be any military weapons as the characters aren't in the S.A.S'' or ''we shouldn't be able to fix vehicles that easy without mechanical knowledge''. really? hell, one dude was complaining the old bicycle is too quick! I think these people just need to go camping IRL tbh. Judging from the thread comments i'm in the minority. However if I'm in a zombie apocolypse with crashed helis, army bases or outposts set up to try control it I know exactly where I'm heading for gear. Also, to the guy above saying guns should be the end game and melee more common place, can you imagine the balance issues there?

This explains why on a majority of private hives I've been on the admins will always somehow ''find'' all the vehicles and always be geared up. My squad always knew they had some form of power, however this has opened our eyes to exactly what they can do.. I actually would be all for these tools if it forced the admins to take a back-seat, which I understand is completely unfair as they're paying for the server, however it's far to much power for one player to have if they're actively playing the game - I see why there's always admin ass kissers in every private hive now! You can speak about morals, ''I only use it to catch hackers'', blah blah however we all know it's human nature over half the admins are abusing it, more than that in my experience!

Before I start, I just wanna clarify that I've never geared up and gone down south purposely for PvP and can honestly say the only time I camp around Electro/Cherno is to countersnipe or gear up quickly. I also want to add I have a conscience and haven't betrayed someone and always feel some guilt for shooting on sight so I'm not flat out a bandit. My only argument with people who are against PvP and look down on banditry is realistically what else do you have to do? You can't tell me killing infinite spawning zeds is particularly fun, there's no reward in doing that anyway. Vehicles as a end game? I've been there, spent 3 hours searching for a wheel for example - boring. I've played on the 3-5 people max private hives who all know eachother, geared up with enough guns to start a small war to the point me and my buddy were ditching good gear because it was completely pointless hording anymore and...it's boring. I hopped on a 30+ pop at all times server, grabbed a akm and had a blast with no gear at all with plenty of PvP/player interaction. If everyone was friendly, there would be no tension at all in the game. It makes me laugh when people cry about there being no friendlies in game and being killed because they have good loot/ghillie which is only useful against players. Otherwise we'd all grab a common gun, like a Enfield, matches/hatchet/knife and a water bottle and just walk around the map. I've played on a few servers with medics/people giving taxi rides, role playing or just trolling people and I can understand that's fun but if there wasn't PvP in the game no other playstyles would exist IMO. PvP makes day-z what it is imo. And I'm aware i'm in the minority but I pray the standalone remains a hostile/PvP environment and isn't just spent grinding for various meds/supplies for days on end focused on PvE.

Am i in the minority thinking 90% of these suggestions would make the game tedious and boring? And no, ive never sat outside electro with a 50 cal however pvp and player interaction is the only excitement or end-game, grinding for 4 hours a day just to find batteries sounds lame. Inb4 just play arma 3, cant wait.

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i cant help but these extreme realism changes people want would be game breaking. how would having 3 bullets in a low tier rifle running around for hours starving to death be remotely fun? especially for people with lives and other commitments....it would become tedious. just my opinion...i think its wishful thinking but hindsight will be a bitch

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Hilarious, this is the same Bill that came onto the hatchet reloaded server and whos buddy got global banned within 2 days of joining and then announced he was ''leaving'' the server himself 5 minutes after before he got admin banned and/or global banned as everyones shit kept going missing! Grow up, faggot. Because you suck at the game it doesn't mean you need to troll and ruin it for everybody else playing legit. Black Ops 2 just came out, go play that.

Am I the only one in support of higher tier weapons? I would find people running around with hatchets, melee weapons and old school hunting rifles that take in game hours to maintain boring. I'm all for realism and agree ghillied up, thermal scopes and 50 cals behind every corner isn't realistic however there's a balance between being realistic/grinding/FUN. If there wasn't duping/scripting in I think with a few tweaks the balance would be fine. I don't have 12 hours a day to grind finding weapons in game. I hope and pray the standalone doesn't favour tedious survival over fun. Just like to add i've never gone back south to ''sit and snipe newspawns'', just feel it would upset the balance if guns were rare. Even reading this thread i'm scared people want things that sound good ''in theory'' but won't be FUN. Bikes should go @ 10mph for realism? Jesus. This isn't The Sims.

yeah it's dead easy :) all are welcome, everyone is mature and easy going and some kind sirs will even give you a lift in the medi heli if you make your way to the little medical centre which has food/drink and stuff :)

I would recommend http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/105894-hatchet-reloaded-new-uk-private-hivev174-6-choppers-60-vehicles-custom-content-vehicles-private-teamspeak-server no hackers, and the one time someone was obviously using a map hack got banned, then global banned, along with his friend and we got gear rolled back. admins are awesome, and after all the hives i've been on there's no ''admin arrogance'' or ''admin abuse'' going on, just some guys trying to keep everything fair. cherno/electro is a safe zone, along with a custom medi centre by the lighthouse @ cap golova with guys who are prepared to give you lifts and real ''medi'' attention (they love it haha)

edit : we found it @ kras, sweet :) managed to repair the old shitty russian heli...it's so quick :o makes the little bird and huey look slow

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