Gekkonidae

Hello All, I figured I would go ahead advertise my server here. It's already quite a busy server, being full at peak times, but I wanted to let everyone else know it was out there: The Drunken Huntsman 40 Slot Hardcore Server [ 23.250.11.194:2502 ] Forced restarts every 6 hours. This encourages people to get off of the coast and travel to many different places to get loot. If either admin is on, we give 10, 5, 3, 2 and 1 Minute Restart Warnings.Restart times are 12am, 6am, 12pm and 6pm Eastern Standard Time.Server is 5 hours of day and 1 hour of night time play. (This will spice things up a little for those night time lovers. Loot or fight under the cover of darkness for just a little while before a restart. Don't ditch that flashlight!)Zero admin abuse. Being an admin does not grant anyone the right to be a dick. We aren't dicks. We hate dicks.We encourage everyone to play using the playstyle they wish. Whether you want to help others out or hunt them, destroy their ego and then humiliate them before finally executing them, enjoy yourselves and the experience!BE Enabled (of course). Don't be a cheating, dickless nerd or you will get BE bant.While we will occasionally do anti-coastal bandit runs to clean up CoD children, and then hand out the goods to those less fortunate, we really encourage you to get off of the coast and do some exploring! There's plenty of gear out there for everyone, even on a 6 hour restart!Server is based out of NYC (East coast USA) (EST)Come join us! Bring your friends or meet new ones! Also, don't forget to add this server to your favorites so that you can find it easier later! See you in-game! :) :beans: :thumbsup:

Yeah sorry dudes. This server is dead. To do what you're asking though, we went through vilayer servers. Basically, you pick a server start time and aim for a target reset time that would accommodate the hours you want for day/night. Just gauge it.

I find that 90% of the time this is absolutely true. It doesn't always work, but most of the time it does.

I do like the idea of an abandoned quarry where you could go and mine some of the rock there yourself. DayZ Origins mod had a couple of abandoned quarries you could gather rock from. It was nice, but snipers loved to camp them for people looking to mine. Cannot tell you how many times I was shot at while mining. I agree with the wood mill needing electricity though. I think using an axe to collect a bunch of wood is fine the way it is. I mean there are a shitload of trees everywhere you look on the map.

I nearly just spit coffee all over my monitor while reading this.

^That may be true, but as 'customers', we also agreed to the terms and conditions of what this Alpha actually is. It's not just some annoying pop-up ad that we just need to close every time we fire up the game. It has a pretty clear purpose. What a lot of 'customers' didn't do was understand what those terms and conditions actually mean. The willingness to actually do that is left to the user, and from what I can tell, many have failed miserably in doing so. That's not really their fucking problem, nor their focus (and really shouldn't be at all). The fact that they even released early access is, in my opinion, both generous and smart on their part. With the warning, you have to expect a shitload of bugs and broken things. The fact that some people think that releasing to early access that this was somehow a user's playground for setting any sort of expectations from the development team is laughable and petty at best. It may be true to a degree that these 'expectations' are taken into consideration, but certainly not to the level of some people whining and demanding. None of the negative whining helps, and only serves as more useless shit they need to filter through to get any kind of meaningful feedback. In short, they don't give a fuck and will make the game correctly, not to the will of a million whiney, screaming babies. What many of these people need to learn is one simple fact: You are not fucking entitled, so get over it. Your opinion may matter, but you should know that it is exactly that, an opinion only, and does not dictate what, how or when the team should do anything. That is their job and not yours. I think many people need to change the way they look at their own expectations here. I'm not directing this post to you specifically. I guess i'm just sick and tired of so many complaints and misunderstanding from the user base. Anyway, i'm bummed that they couldn't figure out a fix for the rubberbanding issue, but i'm really happy they've identified the cause and are working to correct it. It is quite a pain in the ass to deal with. I'm hoping they can correct it in fairly short order. Best update out there so far, just that damn rubberbanding!

i agree with the map idea, not a mini map though a find able map of the area. i don't even know where i am or going ever. that will change when using the online map at dayzdb.com and playing enough. You will eventually know where you are and where to go pretty much as soon as you spawn in, believe me. Use landmarks to help you remember.

That scope with the folding stock replacing the wooden one, which appears to make the gun a shitload more accurate, is probably the most ideal setup I've been seeing so far. Good video!

All this poll tells me is. If you're a sniper, and you're found out, you gonna have a bad time.

Not sure I understand how an auto-run key would be considered cheating in any way. That doesn't make any sense. If anything, I would consider it a disadvantage to those using it, as it temps users to leave their keyboard while running, making them a running duck, ready to be shot down.

Yeah thank you! This is very helpful info! Also, to the guy posting about macros.. c'mon man, this is quite far from a macro. This is a single key press configuration.

They'll come back with more optimizations, i'm sure. Just give it time. They use those to test things when they are up, so i'd imagine they will make performance tweaks and throw them back up again for additional testing. It's a process my friends.

He didn't specify what you'd be in a firefight with though, so technically he isn't. I would say this is accurate if you got into a nasty firefight with a crazy rabbit.

"If you go to the beach and get sandy, it was your fault. Maybe he was cheap due to the hack, but take solace in the fact that he probably filled his canteen with your tears. So in essence, a part of you lives on, as long as that canteen exists. Cheerio!" Exactly. until he's pissed out those tears and is thirsty again. hacking (if it were the case) happens. The dev team is aware of it and will do what they need to. In the meantime, just find a lower pop server where the dickless swine won't target you so readily. I've seen 2 hackers now that killed me. It's alpha. restart and make another story for yourself. Try not to let it get you down so much. After all, they are literally still building the game.

I was actually thinking of a way to make torches the other day. I think this could be doable with maybe sticks and rags (torn shirts). But as far of the realistic aspect of it goes, I wouldn't really know. It would be awesome to have something like that though. Lanterns are nice, and I hear the fires are really nice, but I think this option would be pretty cool as well. I think it should be scaled more around the thought of a desperate attempt to see light as an "on the move" solution. I think they shouldn't last a really long time. You're putting yourself at risk, but at least you can make sense of things if only for just a little while. At least long enough to have a chance to point yourself in the right direction sort of thing. I haven't gone out and actually wrapped a ripped up shirt to a stick to see how long the fire lasts, but I would imagine it wouldn't be that long, unless a low burning fuel were involved. Good post. Flares are coming, so that's something!

Nice shootin'!

This has to be the most hilarious suggestion I've ever read. I don't think this can happen. I can only see it now: You're riding along with your friend, you see a huge pile of bicycles and corpses. Your friend rides ahead only to get smeared by a hail of bullets. You soon meet the same demise. 30 minutes later you see a huge horde of 30 people in a bicycle gang patrolling the coast, fully geared, running down bambis left and right. loooool

There are a lot of friendly people on the Exp. servers. Mainly, because most people are there to not only play, but to test/check out the new things. If they wanted an everyday deathmatch, they could just join a normal server. I have noticed that there are a lot more friendly people even on the normal servers lately though. KoSing has its fun, but I got pretty bored of it after a month or 2. I imagine I will do more of it later when persistent objects come into play (hopefully) at the end of May. Then, I think there will be more reason to become organized, resulting in more threats out there. Right now I just can't personally get behind a solid reason to murder people. I always find it more fun to play with complete strangers anyway. It's interesting at least.

To the OP. I don't think you're doing anything wrong with your responses to people. My friendly encounters as an armed person or as a naked fresh spawn are all relatively well received. I think out of the last 15 or so times I've attempted to be friendly, i've only been shot at twice. killed once and then managed to dodge the second and was able to escape. When I approach someone as a fresh spawn or not, I keep my distance and give a friendly wave. I wait for them to respond by saying or typing something and see how it goes from there. I stay standing in case they want to be a dick and try to shoot me so that I have a chance to dodge. If it goes well, I move in closer but not too close. I never have my fists up. Step 3 in that for me is crouching down to show that again, i'm not out to take anything they've earned. At that point I stand back up as we decide what we will do. Whether it's part ways or travel together, or they have something I can use or I have something they can use that I don't really need. When I give someone an extra weapon (actually happens a lot) I always place the ammo further away from the pile of other shit i'm giving them and tell them the ammo is there right as I part ways. This buys me some time to get away if they decide to be a dick about it. Never really had a problem with it though. People are usually pretty appreciative that I decided to help them out. I really think it's mostly about your approach to people. It's not hard to tell when a person is legitimately trying to be cool with you. If you have a freshy running full speed at you, I think you'd be really stupid NOT to fill them with lead. There are always going to be instances where killing people isn't only warranted, but downright clear that it needs to be done. Having played for quite a bit now, I think it's pretty easy to determine most people's intentions.

molotovs that set people on fire, improvised grenades, other explosive bullshit would be nice.

I think they will keep it like the mod. Vehicles bound to one server. So hide them well and they will likely not be taken by other people.

I'v experienced that a few times myself. It's still there, but you have to change out weapons for it to appear. I think it's a bug Also, to the OP. I personally prefer the SKS over the M4. Killed 2 guys who had M4s with one yesterday and another one today. I like that it's semi-automatic only because it has forced me to take more controlled shots. Not to mention the availability of the weapon and ammo itself doesn't require a greater change to have to run to bum fuck idaho to get parts/mags for it. I don;t even pick up M4s anymore.

I actually really like that idea.I think that it would be harder to track the player in the woods if this were the case, because of the textures. However, you'd be hard pressed not to find someone in town with this mechanic. I wonder how many resources this would actually take up with the server processing that information though. Still, definitely worth mentioning. I'd post this on the DayZ subreddit, too, if I were you. great suggestion!

Awesome patch notes! I'm liking the first impressions of the pig. I can't wait until they put grizzly bears into the game. I hope they will be able to tear your face off, if you don't kill them first. :) Shoot bear with .22 sporter. Bear gets pissed off. run like hell. What would be more hilarious be watching someone get chased by a bunch of zeds AND bears at the same time.