Zing Freelancer

In my opinion this, in my opinion that, worthless without giving a background or basis for your opinion. Let me tell you a story, an exec comes in to view progress on a new car game. He plays for a bit and then tells developers that the cars needs more chrome. Devs asked exec why he thinks cars needs more chrome and exec replied that he felt cars didn't go fast enough and in his opinion adding more chrome would solve the problem. Devs adjusted car speed on the fly and avoided redoing a ton of textures by simply asking for basis of his opinion. So what makes you feel that military weapons need to be more rare? What makes you feel that we need more civilian loot in barns?

Probably because DayZ wore off its novelty and there are more exciting games to play?

I tried using sewing kit, leather kit and duct tape on multiple different objects without these objects changing status from Damaged to Worn. Dunno if I missed a patch note or bug.

I was on experimental, could not find any servers...

Problem I experience with zombies is when I try to melee them. When you try to hit them in the head with a melee weapon and they are walling at you with their arms at a very high rate, their head is moving all the time, making head melee hits very difficult to land. Not to mention if you miss, they get at least somewhere between 2 to 3 hits in before you can swing your melee weapon a second time.

It's normal in game industry to pull 12 and even 16 hours shifts for weeks and weeks and weeks to come. There is a name for for it, called crunch time. On the positive side, maybe they have a team which is split in different time zones. Not unusual to for big companies to have two teams collaborating together on the same project. Lastly, it could be just personal preference to work during the night and sleep during the day.

After 4+ month of hibernation, I checked Geforce Experience to see what recommended settings it has for DayZ Standalone. To my surprise, it suggested to set the game to ALL VERY LOW/LOW. Now am not going to brag and say I have word fastest computer, but I got two 780 GTX in SLI and can run Witcher 3 on high settings. I am not even going to complain about the terrible loot system, not even casually mention that pipe dream of loot system we got in DayZ. Not even going to complain about athlete-sprinting-ninja-silent karate zombies, no no, not even casually mentioning the athlete-sprinting-ninja-silent karate zombies. I just want to know why is that I can't run DayZ on Normal?

I apologize, I should have clearly stated that I used to run DayZ Alpha on a higher settings than what I currently can. I tried going from very low to low or normal and FPS drop bellow 30 frames. Hence why I became curious, what has happened to DayZ in the last 4+ month that has reduced whatever performance I had previously to nothing.

Are they worth the effort to find them? I've joined a private white list server with 1 hours restart time specifically because I wanted to find a helicopter crash site which wasn't looted yet. After approximately six hours of running around West side of Chernarus I finally found it! Literally five minutes after server restart I spotted a smoking UH-60-somethingsomething outside zelenogorsk. I rushed there like a mad dog, finally my days of looting are over, now I can retire and live peacefully like a hermit. Well, I found 1x60, 1x40, 1x30, 1x20 M4 mags, 2 identical butstocks for M4, Amphibia S, package of ammo, a hat and basic iron sights. Best Reward vs Effort Ever Meanwhile walking over to aircraft hangars we can find foot wear in five different collors. What are your thoughts about Helicopter crash sites? How would you like for loot to be distributed on the server?

Hmmmm... Check this out then.

All right, looking solid. A bit bummed about the base building being pushed back by a whole year. But oh well.

Well yes, but with more Yorick.

Butch Flowers A loner, well established veteran of the apocalypse. Somewhat sociopathic, hoarding obsessed veteran survivor in his senior years. I stalk the woods, cities, military encampments in hopes of savaging something useful. I search long and wide for useful tech and food, then bring it to my base where everything just keeps on piling up until I got no more room. While not being big on social grace, if I spot another survivor, I avoid them unless they look like they don't even have two beans to their name. Live and let live, I would help them get on their feet, provide them with whatever supplies I got in stock and stick around long enough to make sure they can survive on their own, then go back to the woods. If I see some jerk being up to no good, I make it my mission in life to end his. There is enough ugliness in this world as is, without having some idiot pointing his gun at the living. Sometimes when I am lonely I talk to Bob, he used to be my friend, but now he is a skull.

Hello forum & DayZ developers. After a long break over summer my attention got drawn to release of new patch and I decided to jump on DayZ to see how far it has come. I had to start completely from scratch as my previous character got wiped out. Thus my mighty quest for epic loot had begun! I spawned in Svetlojarsk (north east corner), looted around for basic items, backpack, rain jacket, food, drink, shotgun and set out to North-East airfield to get some proper loot. Boy did I get disappointed by how empty North-East airfield become? There was absolutely nothing there to loot at all. On my way out I stopped at Krasnostav police station and headed for Severograd. At this time I had a water proff backpack, camo Mousin with Burlap grass wrap, 40 rounds of ammo for Mosin, PLU scope, medkit, couple saline bags, enough food and couple of canteens, everything pristine. Now that I think about it, I have not seen a single "bad quality" item in over 6 hours of play. I doubled back to Novodmitrovsk because I wanted to check a small spot in the forest between Novodmitrovsk and Krasnostav, then headed for Severograd, through Devils Castle and finally landed on North-West airfield (landed, hah). As I was making my way to the airfield I picked up an engraved 1911 with no magazines and sniping scope for mosin. On North-West airfield I wanted to hit the tents, find me remaining attachments for mosin, some mags for 1911 or even an FNX with silencer and few mags. Pick up some military clothing and maybe even find some storage boxes. But here where bizzare things started to happen, as I entered a fire station I saw tons of loot there, I literally picked up 6 storage boxes right on the spot! My guess there must be some bug with server restarting as it does not clean up old loot, but spawn new one. Anyway, I found a lot of clothing, boots, huge amount of backpacks but I could not find what I needed the most, magazines for my 1911 or even ammo for mosin. Not to mention something so basic as FNX. Military boots now can hold a combat knife, but after six hours I still have not seen a single combat knife. I found multiple Smesh backpacks but apparently to craft the full set I have to go hunting for helicopter crash sites and hope it spawns what I need. According to wiki each server spawn 3 helicopter crash sites upon restart, are you guys being serious that players has to look for a needle in a haystack in order to get some basic equipment? I tried multiple servers but not a single one had magazines of any type, not even for mosin or 1911. In my personal opinion I liked to loot NW, NE and Balota in order to get my gear in order, I also loved it when server restarts and you rejoin it and be the first one to pick up all the good stuff. Now, even though I visited multiple fire station and police stations on my way to NW, I did not find anything worthwhile, neither did I find anything worthwhile on NW. So where do I find this good loot I used to pick up on NW before? On another note, my character seem to like to overheat and refuses to cool off unless I bath him in water for 5 minutes, drench his clothing and then he will be fine for another 30 minutes of running around. I just want to point out that there is 2 common travelling methods, jogging and sprinting. Nobody who isn't role playing got time to walk from Krasnostav to North-West airfield. Am just saying that you need to take a look at your heating system, I left my fully dressed character with military shirt, pants, west, sky-mask and helmet, lying under a tree for ten minutes in rain weather. Only to comeback and he was still "overheating". EDIT: I could not help but notice that you "fixed" ammo stacking. Aka unload 60 bullets from a large magazine as is and pack them into ammo box, essentially tripling the amount of ammo you can carry. Which was insanely cool and super useful. Now you can only have 20/30 bullet stacks and in some cases that is just too little. For pistols 30 bullets in a stack is more than enough, 20 for mosin is also fine. But having 30 bullets stack for assault rifles is just a waste of inventory. I would greatly appreciate it if stacks could increase. Another small suggestion is to make ammo container have a fixed amount of bullets it can hold instead of fixed amount of slot stacks. Lets say one ammo container can contain 600 bullets of any type, what you fill it with is completely up to you.

Why is SPOSN Tortilla Backpack visually bigger than Hunting backpack but got less storage space?

Try googling your nicknames. Chances are you will find your real name on public display somewhere attached to that nickname.

Base building? They can be as rare as water in sahara, I don't give a damn as long as they are not the only way to obtain item X. After two days of running around looking for these damn HCS's and not finding anything decent after looting 5 of them, I would rather loot cycle NWAF to death than be forced to look for these helicopters again JUST TO OBTAIN A SMESH WEST. This is not Guild Wars or World of Warcraft where grinding for items is acceptable, this is a zombie survivor FPS with permanent death and loss of all your gear. Well, there are many things I do not like, but this is only Early Access Alpha, providing feedback and hoping that developers would listen is what we can do. Besides, nothing wrong with standalone being more like Epoch, after all, Epoch is the most popular DayZ mod.

I think this thread belongs in servers section. On the other hand, +1 to you OP, if you find such server I want in too. Miss the day/night cycle. P.S. Persistence is crap at the moment.

I am aware of the benefits they provide, but its BACON! Peaches are OP. Beans are fine. Sincerely, bacon.

Hmmm, well yeah I guess having overgrown helicopters makes sense. Why no to ultra rare? Well, it just does not fit in the current concept of the game. Arguably it fits on private hives, as everything stays within the server, you can make certain items ultra rare. On the public servers where anyone can join and loot can easily migrate, ultra rare is a bad thing. At the same time, an item should be as easily obtained, as easily as it can be lost. I would say that something can be classified as ultra rare when you put 12 hours to obtain a fully modded prestine M4A1. However if you meet another player, do you want to be paranoid and kill him on sight because you have an ultra rare item he wants? Or would you prefer to befriend him and help him obtain the same item? This is why there must be a meaningful way to obtain all loot in the game. Helicopter crash sites should only serve as loot pinatas, not the only place where you can obtain item X. Or there should be more helicopter crash sites, maybe ten.

Arguably it was intended to allow players to play on any server of their choosing. To prevent loss of player characters in case if your preferred server shuts down. Also allowed for server migration for the sake of game play, ala clan wars, ala kill spree on populated servers. What it was not intended for is loot farming on multiple servers. (Even though loot farming is my all time favourite activity in DayZ). Ghosting, logging on a different server and flanking a camper before you login behind him.

I think I can relate to OP. You run from point A to point B, some random zombie 600 meters away from you decides to aggro. You pull out a gun to get him off your back instead of waiting something like 20 seconds for it to run up to you so you can axe him a question. Try to shoot him but your gun swaying so hard you cant hit him at all.

Your best bet is to find AK based rifle in the barracks. Note, only barracks can spawn a decent weapon and magazines for it. Check military base north-west of Bolota and then head inland to Zelenogorsk, then go to military base north of Green Mountain, finally arriving at North West Airfield. You are only interested in barracks, any other military building will provide you with clothing, ammo or makarov mags. Tent/refuge camps used to provide you with decent amount of military gear, now they are limited to clothing, ammo, food, SKS and makarov mags. Lastly if you have patience for it, you can search for helicopter crash sites, but after finding circa 5 of these sites, I can tell you that they are NOT worth the effort to find.

So long as Hive exists, it will allow players to server hope and exploit this mechanic. Server hoping would not be such a problem if looting worked properly. However server hoping for the sake of "ghosting" past your opponent will occur regardless as long as hive exists.

I would hunt, but cooking stove always burns the meat and I am too lazy to make a camp fire >.<