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since we have so many status effects now, Besides adding limping movement when your leg is broken, your walking and running gait should be changed with corrosponding levels of illness, starvation, dehydration. This will help eliminate status messages and make it more immersive and realistic. If you are red sickness, starving or dying of thirst, you should have a near shambling walk similar to the zombies and only be able to jog for a few seconds. If you're in the yellow your posture and run cycle should be slower than green or what we have now, Other players should be able to determine this from a distance by how fast you can move and your body posture animation. I think this will help not just with immersion, but also as vehicles are introduced. We really need a tired walking animation and status effects like blurred vision and increased weap sway when you're starving or sick that will finally lead to vomiting/unconsciousness. This can also be used with getting shot as blood loss would trigger the same staggering walk animation, meaning that if you just got shot by a 45 or 7.62 you can't just sprint away, hide and rebandage. You would limp or stagger away and probably get killed

omg why dont we have vehicles i cant wait to run over people

Hello People ;) I would like to invite you all to join the Zombies Unite DayZ Epoch Server, after some recent issues that are now fully resolved, we are looking for some new players to re-populate/liven up our dayz server. We aren't huge fans of advertising, but thought it may do our community good. We currently have One Server up and running with many features and additions, without spoiling the purpose of DayZ ( No 10000 vehicles, No JETS etc.) We have had other map/mod servers in the past but these were closed due to lack of interest from players. Our main server has been up and running for almost 2 years however! Our servers are both PVP AND PVE orientated! So you will find a mix of Heroes, Bandits, Raiders and very rarely....the assholes. Our admin team will gladly help resolve any issues regarding rule breakers, glitchers, cheaters, exploiters etc. We run our Epoch Server and Teamspeak on a fully dedicated machine with a fast connection, 2 Raid 0 SSD'S, 32Gb's of DDR3 RAM and a beast CPU. All this along with many optimizations will hopefully keep server performance maximized. Our dedicated machine is located in France, EU. However we have nothing against people from all over the damn place joining. Our admin team is mainly UK/US based. Server 1 Features: DayZ Epoch Chernarus, EU/UK Hosted. Server running for over 1 and a half years! Gold coin Currency - Bank of Chernarus - Online banking @ safes - Lootable wallets - AI drop coins - Refuel n Repair stations Customized features - Custom anti-cheat - Revamped vector + snap build PRO Some bug fixes/look improvements - Fast/balanced trading removed trade animations/balanced pricing - Faster crafting system removed craft animations, replaced with 3 second timer - Trade quantity selection Very useful for bulk buy/selling - Deploy/pack Bike & Moto - Spawn Selection/Fast Respawn Death cam takes you to heaven, fast respawn on death - Customize door and safe codes Ability to change/customize the codes to your safes/doors - Plot pole PlayerID save If you are the owner, you stay the owner - No plot pole required to build Not a must, still recommended - AI Missions from minor supply drops/caches to heavily guarded AI missions - Chat commands type !help for a list ingame - Friend system !addfriend !delfriend !grouptags - Custom player HUD !nohud to toggle - Suicide (only every 5 mins) !kill !suicide - Fire Dancing/hookah Smoking - Take clothes, teabag body - Self transfuse and consume Consuming blood gives back food, drink and health with high aids chance - Dynamic Weather Reduced rain % - Fixed Epoch Killboards - Fixed Epoch ore smelting - Removed R3F weight system - 10m near player tags Tags change colour depending on the players humanity - Custom military camps - Custom traders with safezones Some added items/vehicle variants to traders - Safezones only @ 3 major trade cities + bank - Many added buildings/reworked areas. Many building additions throughout the map/ Airfield reworks, trader aesthetic additions - Gem Dealer Trade ya mined Gems - Garbage Dealer Trade ya trash loot - Balanced admin events like CTF, TDM, DM, KOTH + more! Custom event system with automatic gear/position saving and recovery! !event/!leaveevent + All the other regular Epoch Jazzzz And a dedicated staff, with frequent updates - Maintaining needs to occur every 14 days, vehicles should be accessed every 7 days, safes should be accessed every 14 days. Not doing so will result in objects cleaning up/ vehicles & safes unlocking. - Please speak english in Side chat or when contacting admins and follow our server rules (Type !rules for a list) - Admins will try help whenever they can, however please be advised we will not be wiping ass every time a player has a tiny issue. We have a Website and Teamspeak running where players are able to converse, suggest, apply or contact admins at. Feel free to come chat on Teamspeak @ TS3: 62.210.188.240:9987 Or join our website @ Website: www.ZombiesUnite.net Server IP: Epoch Server: 62.210.188.240:2302 Hope to see you ;)

Awesome! I actually think that this is a very likely scenario in the Chernarus lore. Honestly I'd like to see more military involvement in the region ingame, such as blown up convoys and checkpoints outside of major towns/cities. What about crashed fighter jets? Some sort of makeshift encampment in the woods, with a camo net and a few logs holding it up? IED blasts next to wrecked vehicles? Shot up checkpoints? Those are some things I'd actually like to see in game. If you were to come across, say, a shot up convoy, you'd think, "What happened here?"

Last I checked this was already coming for unconscious people. I'm not too sure about dead people though. But yeah I can see that being helpful for cannibals. What would make it even better is if you could put dead people inside vehicles. The cannibals could kill a guy, stuff him in a car, and drive him to the cannibals base where they all have a nice cookout.

Once vehicles are in it would be cool to be able to booby trap your car a la Mad Max

Now that 0.50 has rolled out to stable branch, the focus of the team shifts to the incremental roll out of 0.51 for November’s monthly stable branch update. As with any monthly stable branch update, this comes with several new features, functional changes to existing systems, and its own unique collection of bugs and general game play issues. Those who encounter any frustrating blockers to their gameplay experience on either stable or experimental branch are encouraged to utilize the DayZ feedback tracker at feedback.dayzgame.com. Looking towards the 0.51 update and the Christmas break, in addition to the obvious feature and functional goals - Server side performance is paramount. Addressing critical issues and blockers in releasing 0.50 on schedule has resulted in reduced server performance and with our end of year feature/functional goals coming up the programming team is focused on ensuring a smooth and solid server side frame rate. Experimental/Unstable servers will be used to profile and test 0.51’s performance throughout the month, so if you are looking to participate in this stress testing - make sure to opt into Experimental branch! On experimental branch this week we’ve pushed out several new security related hotfixes, as well as pushing BattlEye’s upcoming changes. As always with security, working in tandem with our external partners (BattlEye and VAC) as well as observing exploits and behavior on experimental and stable branch servers allow us to iterate, and address via experimental > stable branch update paths. It is important again to understand that during the Early Access Alpha period of DayZ’s development vulnerabilities will be introduced as the engine and systems surrounding it are created. Addressing these vulnerabilities and iterating via the experimental > stable branch update path is a constant tug of war. Through utilizing the DayZ feedback tracker to properly report valid information and issues encountered surrounding these areas, we can more quickly “patch the holes” This Friday (the 14th) we had the first of our “dev play sessions” on experimental branch and the footage captured during this stream will be edited and commentated over in next weeks “dev experimental branch discussion” video to be released in next weeks Status Report. It is our hopes that combining general developer experimental branch gameplay with a “directors style commentary” alternating weekly will allow both the light hearted side of seeing the team play and experiment with systems in development, and the more serious gameplay and design oriented development discussion that the dev experimental branch discussion videos will allow. This paired with the upcoming restructuring of the Dev Hub, as well as moving the Status Reports to Fridays and rolling out “Update Notes” for Wednesday experimental branch releases (via the dev hub) will be the first step towards increasing community/developer interaction moving forward into 2015. Don’t forget about our private shard contest, announced during last weeks Status Report. Submissions are still being accepted! - Brian Hicks / Lead Producer Peter / Lead Game Designer “Not much has changed since the last status report update on our front. Vehicle implementation is still flagged with the highest priority. There are of course some issues down the road which needs to be tackled to some extent so it can be considered ready to go for public testing. We advanced a bit as we were passed the vehicle physics parameters in configuration to set up car behavior correctly which is not an easy task and can take countless hours of tweaking and balancing to get the feeling right and believable. For example we already had iteration where our beloved “V3S” was acting like a boat or was falling on its sides while steering. At Thursday and Friday we had a visit from part of the Bratislava team here to talk about features and design. It was nice to have them there and discuss things in details - like animals, cooking and horticulture. In meantime we’ve added MP-133 with pistol grips and fixed walkie talkies. We also added one more way to gather meat. Apart from that there are some new issues with restraining and struggling which we are taking the care of now. We are also revisiting the way how the suicide was supposed to be working and if everything goes fine it will be seamlessly integrated into the gameplay at the end. Come get some… see you in Chernarus folks!” Chris / Lead Artist “This week, I’ve been working closely with Peter regarding design of the V3S and will be working on a high quality interior of the V3S with functional gauges. The initial implementation of the V3S will have some placeholder interior as the high quality version is being created. We have also finished the prison uniform and are closing in on finishing the prison complex, which will be an interesting area to explore. We plan to also create prison-themed zombies which you will have to face if you want to explore the facility. The Steyr AUG model is done and we will soon send it for animations, cfg, and sounds. I am optimistic that it can be in for next stable release but its worth saying that it will be the base version only. We are looking into swapping barrels to convert from the standard AUG to an HBAR version. The military tent is also finished. I expect it will be found in next stable release.” Standup Notes for the week of 10 Nov 14 (Note: Standup notes are not a change log - they are a quick high level look at tasks the teams worked on throughout this week) Art: • Prison Complex • High fidelity V3S instrument panel • Steyr AUG • Prison-themed zombies Animation: • Mp133 Pistol Grip Reload Animation done • Player Suicide Animations in Progress • Vehicle animations • Throwing in crouch and prone • Animation changes for new controls • Zombies with new AI • Vehicles Design: • Configs and scripts for new items (V3S Praga, MP-133 with pistol grips) • Fixing restrain/struggling • Fixing walkie talkies • Fixing suicide • Vehicles • Horticulture • Cooking • Damage system Programming: • Critical inventory fixes • Vehicle settings for physical simulations • New gamecontrols • Loot distribution improvements • Zombie/Animal AI • Player connection issues (possibility of attacking players before they can play) • Character duplication fixes

Added more vehicles, weapons, more buildings around the map and more!

Added Snap build pro, more vehicles and more.

Yep, would love to hear the devs start talking about enhancing combat experience. Would take that over vehicles any day

Rather than standard armoured vehicles, I'd prefer bespoke ones. Like a car with bits of metal plates and sharpened wooden spikes attached.

Well, ArmA 3 introduced firing from inside vehicles, so I can't imagine DayZ SA not bringing it in. So just find a V3S, duct tape a thousand cans of baked beans to it, and fire your AKM out the window. It'll be pretty much the same thing, right?

This issue already has a tried-and-tested solution from the mod: once you're survival-kitted, go into the forest and search for tents. It'll be much easier once vehicles are working - helicopters especially - but I can't count the number of times I've stumbled into someone's camp in the middle of nowhere and found myself suddenly a rich man.

My idea is the devs write a similar script to this to allow us to drag, and load large crates (that we could fill with supplies). It could also be used for larger items like generators, drag it to the car, load it, unload at destination style. This mod for Arma 2 does exactly this, and its really handy when operating in and around Chernarus... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb7oM6lYNyU&feature=player_embedded (ignore the heli lift part as I don't think wel see those type of heli in dayz) I think this could really push the value of vehicles up and add some more depth to the system beyond just repair. In the above mod you can shoot while dragging (but not aim properly), if the devs could get it working so we could maybe just use a pistol while dragging (and apply that to body dragging aswell) would also help with depth and immersion:)

The devs will add for the crowd that wants it the most and right now that is the soldier boy crowd. And not just for clothing. Weapons and vehicles as well.

that might be your style, but it's a multiplayer game and different people have different play styles. I too like being quiet and discrete. But having vehicles, including noisy motorized ones, will start to open up the list of ways to find/interact with other players. Finding the parts, fixing, manually refueling vehicles...makes teamwork more beneficial. Vehicles getting hidden in the forests, offers reason for others to explore the full map (instead of running between cities with W key held down by a paperweight). Setting up ambushes on vehicles. Tracking vehicles on foot after hearing one in the distance. Hearing people approach in a vehicle whilst looting somewhere quiet, wondering how many people are in it, do I hide/run/try to take it out or steal it? Thinking twice about running in open areas (e.g. plains near Putoshka/Vybor), since vehicles can chase you down if caught in the open.

Bloodred Community now has a Overpoch Origins server!! US Based server!!! The server can host players from any country and you don't need to be concerned about ping limits or being kicked. Rules and guidelines are posted on the forums. We have a lot of customer scripts running, a few popular ones too. Big active admin staff also. And always looking for new members!! If you have further questions or want more information simply jump on teamspeak to have a chat with the Bloodred staff or post your questions on our forums. We look forward to seeing you on our server! :) Teamspeak: ts3.bloodredcommunity.com Forums/News www.bloodredcommunity.com To join you simply need: Epoch 1.0.5.1 Overwatch 0.2.5 Origins 1.7.9 IP's for the server: DayZ Commander: 173.224.112.78:27616 DayZ Launcher: 173.224.112.78:2902 Launch parameter: -mod=@DayzOrigins;@DayzOverwatch;@Dayz_Epoch; Server Features: Paint vehicles plot pole 4 life (keep plot poles on death) group management plot management take clothes script WAI missions Single Currency with bank system CAGN safezones trader changes (removals, additional items, location changes) Heli lift/towing player menu w/ view distance and rules etc custom loot tables refuel/rearm/repair points (gas station pumps) Heli Evac

Yes save that for arma. Really hoping vehicles are really limited in standalone with far less vehicles in the map compared to the mod

In case tanks were to be added (they are not needed but I think they might fit if done in the right way) they should come with all of their natural disadvantages. Which means a tank in DayZ would less be a "battlemachine of your enemies doom" and more a "big piece of metal you need to work a full year to get going, needs a full crew to operate, goes for two kilometers before running out of fuel and can approximately fire three times before it gets destroyed". Everything beyond the very basic vehicles should be a logistical nightmare to get and maintain - scale it up and we can even fit a tank into the survival gameplay (more as a possibility than anything else).

From all the chat you'd have thought that bikes were going to be release long before vehicles. However with each release vehicles have come closer and the mention of bikes has dissipated.

I don't like the idea of tanks, and dislike the idea more if there is no way to defend yourself from them; tank traps, IEDs, trenches, etc. I'm not even sure I like the idea of there being that many vehicles, although I realise how useful they are. Any updates on the bikes, yet?

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I get where you're coming from, but guns, blood, and vehicles are three different things. Yes, they're all pretty "Hardcore", but they can still be done simply. Blood types, it's literally a matter of finding compatible blood (Just like finding a compatible optic for your gun). Repairing vehicles, you don't see us going into every single nut and bolt of the thing, and I don't think the devs intend that. And do you know why? Because that's taking it just too far.

Which does not mean merely finding an optic and a compatible rifle finish your endeavor. Should blood types be removed because finding a donor and a blood kit is hard? Or repairing vehicles when they are implemented?

I've not tried the stand alone DayZ yet myself, but I did grab up Arma 2 for like 7.99 I think or basically 8 bucks on Steams Halloween sale for the sole purpose of trying the mod because like you I am not really into military first person shooters. That being said however I will say I do not regret spending my 8 bucks. It was an 8 bucks well spent. Now here are the problems I have ran into personally. I have found for me connecting to servers takes more time then I care to deal with. One server with Dallas in the name of it for Vanilla DayZ I was banned not even having been logged in it for 5 minutes. I barely took 2 steps before that happened. The others I manage to connect to seem fine just trying to find a way to increase my latency for a better connection. About 90% of the servers I see have bad lantency and are unconnectable to me. The other 10% is a challenge. More of a hit and miss sorta thing. I am playing version 1.8.2 even though there is a 1.8.3 out I am not sure what I need or where I should even go to download that. The links I found I am not sure how much of the crap I need just to play so waiting for either Steam or DayZ launcher to upodate and then just download it threw them. That being said I am not seeing that many servers out for it anyway. Actually I not seen any at all. Also now this is one thing I like which alot of players may not, but I like it for the learning value is there is a single player mod you can get at this link which if your new totally it is good to have so your not logging on to servers and being a complete and total noob. http://kodabar-dayz-daizy-single-player-forum.1084782.n5.nabble.com/RELEASE-DayZ-X-1-8-0-3-Update-0-1-17-02-2014-td3034.html I found this mod very helpful being a new player trying to learn the game on my own. Now my reason for going with the mod first before the SA was simly this logic. The SA was created based off the popularity and success of this mod. I wanted to see what the orginal was like first so I could know what to expect from the SA as it developes along. Downside to the mod version of DayZ is this one fact to me. Compared to the SA which I understand is about ball park of 6 gigs of hard drive space. The Arma2 DayZ plus the DayZ mod along with all the other mods from the DayZ launcher is I think probably going to be about 40 to 50 gigs of hard drive space. This is a guess as I have not finished downloading them all yet myself, but if your like me you will download all of the ones offered in the launcher simply because you will want the ability to join any servers you see listed without being told you do not have the files to join them. That being said if you don't mind the headaches and the use of disk space then you should be good to go. You do and will get that mmo world feel when playing the game. That's one of the things that has impressed me and as I said I also am not into military first person shooters, but Arma 2 has won me over for the sole fact the maps in this game compared to any other FPS I played are without a doubt the largest I personally have ever seen. You have vehicles and all kinds of stuff in the game. Really all it lacks on DayZ side is a mission system sorta like what you would see in a game like State of Decay, but not everyone wants or desires that aspect. It is solely player based which I do love that aspect about it. So whatever direction you take is and will be solely made up of your own will and choosing. There is no game direction other then what your pixel feet take you towards. I say try it. At times it's a pain the behind, but honestly well worth 8 bucks and your time devoted to it. Just know the game does have it's issues like any other game and I'd imagine it'd be easier to find and get connected to SA servers then mod ones at this time. Atleast for me anyway. Grab it up when it's on sale if you do. Hope my assement helps you out some. Hope you enjoy it if you play it. Best of luck to ya mate. :)