Minutes of daylight and hours of pitch black since patch

[pabloottawa 29]

Hi guys,

New to the game and wondering why ever since the patch 2 dayz ago, I'm always either in a server that is night time for hours on end or a server that is daylight for a few minutes (an hour at most) and then night time again. Seriously trotting around trying to defend yourself with a dinky flashlight for hours and hours is NOT fun. I even quit and went back to Battlefield4 lol

 

   Is this something that can be fixed on the server side by  the server admin or something that is here to stay?.... If it's here to stay, I'm out as I'm sure many other fans will be. This should NOT be a mandatory part of the game. Server admins SHOULD be able to decide if they want a daylight server or a "real time" server and strong arming them this way is pure BS.

[Damnyourdeadman 1045]

It's called accelerated time,this means you get to choose the duration of day/night cycle.

it can be tweaked from the server side (admin).This is a survival game,and night time has a large

gameplay signifigance value and should be mandatory.Nighttime is said to be a continious work in progress and is definetly to be improved on

the next patches according to the DayZ team.

[pilgrim* 3514]

Hmm interesting ...

Hi again DYDM, do you play?

 

I notice at <11.00 am >  in California its pitch black

and at < 11.10 am >  in Kuwait its .. pitch black

 

I don't mind, its just the 600 second wait to find out if any part of the planet is in daylight.

Would be nice if the servers told you what time it was? They lie.

 

xx pilgrim

Edited April 24, 2014 by pilgrim

[Damnyourdeadman 1045]

Hmm interesting

 

I notice at <11.00 am >  in California its pitch black

and at < 11.10 am >  in Kuwait its .. pitch black

 

I don't mind, its just the 600 second wait to find out if any part of the planet is in daylight.

Would be nice if the servers told you what time it was? They lie.

 

xx pilgrim

I think it's good that we don't know.

i have the impression that most of the servers

are 3hours day and 3 hours night seperatelly.24/7h daytime servers

were useless in a game like DayZ and i was glad to see this getting implemented.

 

"Only for a little bit,just to test the new changes

and see the new loot,i have yet to experience a whole day/night cycle change.

When i logged in Exp. 30 mins ago it was daytime."

Edited April 24, 2014 by Damnyourdeadman

[pabloottawa 29]

I can understand that this is a survival simulation game but the issue I have with it as I'm sure most will is that if I can only set aside 3 hours of gameplay per day I'm not going to do it in pitch darkness.

Think about it. You come home from a day at work, sit down to this game and now instead of just getting down to business, you are forced to sift through servers to find a daylight server. Combine this with 300+ second wait times to respawn if you accidentally spawn into a night time server PLUS trying to coordinate all this with your steam friends and this makes for a level of inconvenience that will turn many people away.

You say the night time play is an integral component of this game, that's fine I get that but then you say we can find a server that has some daylight left. That's a workaround and not a convenient one for that matter. It's still a game and server admins should still have the option to choose.

To the powers that be. PLEASE fix this.

[pabloottawa 29]

One more thing. I've already noticed that many of my steam friends have stopped playing the game...... Does this tell you anything???? HINT HINT

Edited April 24, 2014 by pabloottawa

[enforcer1975 1111]

One more thing. I've already noticed that many of my steam friends have stopped playing the game...... Does this tell you anything???? HINT HINT

 

Then the game isn't a game for them i guess?

 

Honestly if you only had one server to choose from because all others had miserable ping and you always have to play from dusk to nighttime what would you do? Play BF4 again or stop whining and accept that night time is part of the game as KoS is. And they are still in alpha btw....

I hope they only give the choice between 24/7 or compressed 24/7 values and not daytime/nighttime only.

[pabloottawa 29]

Of course it's not worth playing this way. We all get into gaming to relax and have fun, not sift through servers trying to find something that suits your needs while waiting for minutes on end to spawn in. That's the arguement and your fanboy comments are the most idiotic I've ever read. It's not about wether or not we love the game, it's about wether or not the experience is worth the inconvenience and it seems that you like playing in the dark. That's fine and that's YOU, buts it's not me and I'm willing to bet that it's not the majority opinion.

Bottom line is that we play games to get away and have fun and this is not fun.

[MagneticToast 102]

I still love the game as do my friends.

I also love the idea of accelerated time...but night just needs to not be so dark.

[pabloottawa 29]

I agree and perhaps a really bright full moon can help shed some light on the night time aspect of gameplay. If you want to make it really realistic you can penalize a player by blinding him/her for a few seconds every time they turn on the flash light to simulate night vision recovery

[Gatekeeper61 1]

I don't mind darkness but inside a cave darkness is unrealistic. Even on a moonless night if I am standing out in the open I can see pretty dang well and I am a 52 year old man. Any one who says they can't see when they go outside at night with no nearby city light is just blind. I watched the server I was on yesterday go from about 35 players to 2 when night hit. I can see making in the woods and houses that dark for the game but not out in the open. This is only going to encourage server hopping more than is going on now and that is not realistic by any means. Not to mention I am sure given a few days someone is going to find an exploit or hack and start a gankfest.

[Dirty Joe 1]

Its early Alpha. What the hell do you want? No body is giving you fanboy comments, just speaking to you about common sense things.

If you dont like it, dont play it. Wait for the beta or final release, then try it and see if you like it again. Alpha games are about testing, debugging, seeing what works and what doesnt. What do you have a problem understanding about that?

[DelayedReaction 18]

night-time won't be an issue when (if) Night Vision goggles get put into the game, half of the issue with darkness in the game is that it is so utterly dark...

 

even the most new person to a dark area will be able to see in the darkness after 10-15 minutes of no light, but in DayZ it is permadark the whole time.

[agentneo 337]

Please dont listen to all the whiners, it is hard enough to find a server that isn't stuck on day. All servers should have complusory day/.night cycle in my opinion. Gamma/brightness should be locked. This is a zombie game, its not a walk in the park. Let's Av it.

 

As to the guy above. It is very very rarely completely black. 90% of time is moonlight/lighter clouds and you can make out buildings and silhouettes.

 

You spawn with a flashlight and battery. There is no reason for the moans. :D

Edited May 1, 2014 by AgentNe0

[DelayedReaction 18]

As to the guy above. It is very very rarely completely black. 90% of time is moonlight/lighter clouds and you can make out buildings and silhouettes.

 

You spawn with a flashlight and battery. There is no reason for the moans. :D

 

I wasn't moaning about it at all, I was just saying that the 'permadark' was a bit unrealistic.... and the key word there is 'spawn' with a flashlight and battery.  I usually play on daytime servers so I throw the torch away as it takes up 2 precious inventory slots.

 

The day/night cycle will be a lot better when loot respawns properly.  At the moment, the only way to get loot respawning is to restart the server.

[SGT. Kalme 106]

Well. I can tell you that on a moonless night, you can see shit and less. It would be stupid to even try without nightvision. Good way to find something to step on. Leaving real life aside, I like nights and even thought every other night being pitch black is kind of odd, the relation to real life day and night cycle is a good thing in my opinion.

 

If you can't find a way to make the game fit for your needs, adapt or quit.

 

People can speak all the crap about their cateyes and shit. Most people even forget how they are able to see. You can see perfectly with no light? I want to see that myself. Even nightvision doesn't work with no light and from real life example. On moonless night, nightvision works like crap. So if you think nightvision will make all the bad darkness go away, lets wait till they make it realistic. Lots of noise, life-like IR illumination. Past 50m your nightvision becomes useless in the woods.

Edited May 1, 2014 by SGT. Kalme

[pabloottawa 29]

So it's been about a week since the game has forced day/night cycles. Has this made the game any better?

HELL NO. The server hopping is rampant to stay on daylight time and night time is reserved mostly for looting. I don't even get why they forced this. It's not like it's making anything fairer or more realistic. Players are just finding ways around it and locking brightness and gamma is NOT the solution. Do this and most people just won't play and move into another game. And for those of you that disagree and are going to argue this point; Keep in mind I said ***MOST*** and not **ALL**.

I'm getting more and more used to night but that's only because with gamma and brightness jacked I can actually see stuff but it's not the way I prefer to play and once I'm done my night time looting I'll hop into a daytime server with friends and the fun begins.

[real meatshield 424]

Night time is not forced, and neither is accelerated time on servers.

 

I want to institute a day/night cycle on my server, but after the recent patch, my server (on gameservers) is no longer on a 4-hour restart schedule, but 2 hours- which they claim they cannot change. Accelerated time on my server, to add in nighttime, would mean the sun would literally be shooting across the sky.

 

Top it off with the horribly clunky night time lighting mechanics, and the players who abuse the gamma/brightness settings, and you can see why no one likes playing night.