LeYuno (DayZ)

don't sweat it rocket, we have a decent working build to playtest now, do your thing on 1.7.2 so it's enjoyable from the bat. I think all of us will appreciate it.

I don't know what happened, but since the last patch there's no reason anymore to use the crossbow. Where you could kill a zombie with one arrow the the chest before, it will take 2 or 3 now. I tried several times, and it appeared there's nearly no chance to one-hit kill with it against zombies anymore. Together with the random disappearing of arrows, slot space for arrows, the offset ironsight, the low reload speed and the delay between reloading and actually being able to fire it etc, it takes away the only reason one would actually use the crossbow anymore. You could cope with the offset with some practice, try to sneak up on zeds and shoot them in the chest up close to get the kill, but without the one hit kill on arrows this weapon became useless in every way. So please, consider making it a one hit kill weapon again. Thanks.

this. I bet some hilarious scenes will be going on within the next few hours. I can picture it now: numbers of people running about, trying to choose between epi-pens and blood bags, or special weapons. This was needed though, I've come across some insane camps in the past few days.

Yesterday I was a fresh spawn at cherno. I ran inland towards the east, where two barns were located. as I run off the hill, I see a guy fully equiped looking at me. I guess he noticed I was just a spawnee, and let me be. I ran into the barn, found a weapon, but didn't turn to confront him. We parted ways without any problems. I guess you need to be lucky.

logged into 1.7.1.4 server, had just started with new character. was holding road flares while prone, wanted to throw them to destract zeds. I see my character go stand upright, and then throw the flare. O.o full range visibility, good thing I magically didn't attract any zeds. picked up a remmington later on, and saw one hatchet slug fall on the floor when i did. upon picking it up, it disappeared.

I am also wondering this after seeing the fueltank hotfix. Are heli's back? I thought not since they were causing lag and desync problems? edit wrong question.

goddamn this will be so awesome

Just wondering.. I see people posting issues but there doesn't seem to be any change to the status of the issues and suggestions posted.

also, be very very careful how you're reloading the crossbow. As of now, there's a bug that causes you to get an extended visibility to zeds when you reload it in a prone position. I still need to test 1.7.1.1, but in 1.7.1 it even got to maximum visibility when you reload it while prone.

Bandits will need to start shooting other bandits in order to keep their COD way of playing alive. In the end they'll end up dieing from thirst and hunger since their victims won't have anything in terms of food or weapons with them. And that's just hilarious. Also, Players have stopped just shooting other players on sight near the coast. I noticed this after passing through two towns yesterday, newly spawned players don't bother with unarmed players since they need to preserve ammo for harder zeds. I'm going to be glad that these smug bandit posts will die out in the near future.

reddit Man this is just getting more awesome every day. Rocket you really know how to rustle them jimmies my friend.

confirmed. Had this yesterday. Also often spawned at a location I was at several minutes prior to disconnecting.

I predict this will get better once you are able to set up camp in a forrested area (hence, now)

to the OP. You do realise that if you would have gone prone in the building you would have gone "invisible" and the zed would start walking away right? How did you not try this at first when you installed the patch? It was in the patch notes, you'ld not be seen inside and you could hide from them.

love the work you are doing rocket. awesome patch, too. if you have time, can you take a look at the visibility bug with crossbows? with the new patch you have one wave of visibility if you're prone, but if you reload the crossbow while prone you'll get six (full range) visibility and attrackt all the zed around you. it's kinda sad really since even reloading while crouched doesn't have as much visibility. kinda makes using crossbows very difficult but i love the weapon very much. keep up the good work and thank you.

I just attracted every zed in my vincinity by reloading the crossbow in a prone position! I went from 0 visibility to MAX visibility and they all saw me in a split second. This is a bug with this weapon, it's better to go inside and reload or attempt to go crouched and reload because ironically enough it will not give you as much visibility as it will if you reload while prone. Just a heads up, I hope to have saved lives with this notice so mine will not go in vain. rip crossbow-man :(

Thanks for the sympathy. God I hope they fix this bug soon. I can't imagine that it would take alot of work to iron it out really.

no http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=13248

I messed up with the title. It was supposed to say, "despite patch notes". Fixed it, sorry for the error I'm not a native speaker.

play smarter, it's not that hard. you're just not going to be able to go through towns as fast, use the buildings for cover, go prone, avoid zombies and go inside if they spot you. just looted 2 towns succesfully, only took twice as long than it did before. It was too easy and now that is fixed. get on my level

that looks very well executed. I hope it makes the game after all :)

I did indeed die from a major swarm of zeds near a deerstand just now, and I saw many more after trying to run away from it. I can confirm that they are many, and respawn fast. I don't have a problem with them seeing better though. it was too easy before when sneaking past them.

i love the game again. it's fucking intense. Where you would go "shit shit shit" when you saw a zed pre patch, you'll go "Oh fucking mother of holy shitballs crap fuck run for your fucking lives" now when you see a zed. Exactly how it should be imho. died when entering first contact with zeds, they see you even when prone, now i'm on the beach with no weapons and i'm loving it lol. I HAVE to go in the towns to get ammo or something but I don't wanna because I know they'll see me. on a side note, entering buildings will stop them from following you. So that's a good trick.