I did a little test

[Mukaparska 55]

I waited 40 minutes on top of a construction site near Berezino and saw no one. Absolutely no one coming to the nearly most populous place in the game on 40 player server. How is that possible? How can every place be always looted if no one ever comes there? 

[maninthewall 470]

Wrong part of berezino buddy

[quantum2k6 348]

why should they? the damn map iss bigger then one town... maybe u should stop playing this game as a pure deathmatch...

Edited June 7, 2014 by quantum2k6

[Mukaparska 55]

why should they? the damn map iss bigger then one town... maybe u should stop playing this game as a pure deathmatch...

 

And who exactly said I take this as pure deathmatch? I'm tired of always running thousands of miles and seeing two guys and then being killed by some sniper. Now it's my turn, only if I'd see someone. 

[Mukaparska 55]

Wrong part of berezino buddy

 

But as far as I know, there's a common spawn location near that side of Berezino, and very rarely I've seen someone getting there from North instead of South. 

[Khanarac 252]

Go near the police station and report again.

[Qiwik 7]

In the last few days I've been standing afk on the crane near the constuction site in Berezino for a total of 2+ hours on full servers and recording video (in order to check it later). Sometimes changed direction. No shots were heard. There were some people, approximately one per 20 min.

Several times started my path in Berezino on a full server. And usually didn't meet anyone in the whole town. Moreover, it was barely looted.

Tried to spawn on the top of the control tower in NEAF, it led to death withing 10 seconds in 80% of 15 cases.

[Survivor_Ted 269]

And who exactly said I take this as pure deathmatch? I'm tired of always running thousands of miles and seeing two guys and then being killed by some sniper. Now it's my turn, only if I'd see someone. 

You just defeated the purpose of what you said,

[liquidsnake 275]

It's not everytime that lots of people die. It's very possible that only a handful of players perished during your stay in Berezino and that they happened to spawn in other places than the one spawn you've been keeping an eye on. Even other spawns in Berezino would've been out of your sight

[Sutinen 635]

But as far as I know, there's a common spawn location near that side of Berezino, and very rarely I've seen someone getting there from North instead of South. 

Everyone knows the ultimate tactic is to run to the "school", which in fact is an office, then through the "piano houses", all whilst in 3rd person and sprinting with your fists ready to take out some unfortunate armed players who can't afford head protection

[conan the librarian 99]

I can't wait until 100 population servers... maybe even higher. 200 would be a good number.

[TheWanderingMan 170]

I can't wait until 100 population servers... maybe even higher. 200 would be a good number.

 

 

The game would grind to a halt with that many players on one server lol.

 

Can barely handle 40 as it is.

[conan the librarian 99]

The game would grind to a halt with that many players on one server lol.

 

Can barely handle 40 as it is.

 

This is a serious flaw in the game then, it kind of makes the game obsolete.

[Mukaparska 55]

I can't wait until 100 population servers... maybe even higher. 200 would be a good number.

But then they must put some sort of item respawn system in place. 

[Murlough 192]

But then they must put some sort of item respawn system in place.

Im pretty sure thats already planned.

[So Sexy 259]

Pfft, construction site, its so last patch.

[Bororm 1156]

Go to the north end of berezino, hardly anyone goes to the upper part of berezino because it's lame.  The only reason I go to the construction site is to jump off, to spawn closer to the north end.

Edited June 7, 2014 by Bororm

[ld-airgrafix 403]

So you waited 40 min to snipe someone? The only experiment you did there was telling everyone you are a camping bandit.

[blazinone 72]

In the last few days I've been standing afk on the crane near the constuction site in Berezino for a total of 2+ hours on full servers and recording video (in order to check it later). Sometimes changed direction. No shots were heard. There were some people, approximately one per 20 min.

Several times started my path in Berezino on a full server. And usually didn't meet anyone in the whole town. Moreover, it was barely looted.

Tried to spawn on the top of the control tower in NEAF, it led to death withing 10 seconds in 80% of 15 cases.

This is interesting. Do you have any video? It would be cool to see a time lapse (speed up the footage) to see the random players scampering down the road.

[pacpac 22]

So you waited 40 min to snipe someone? The only experiment you did there was telling everyone you are a camping bandit.

this

 

and also pvp is the point of this game.

[Qiwik 7]

This is interesting. Do you have any video? It would be cool to see a time lapse (speed up the footage) to see the random players scampering down the road.

This is intended for this purpose, speed up x30, slow down a bit on players, add timers (so that it would be a truly short video). But the players were usually fresh spawns, have seen only 1 or 2 armed groups, a chasing axe maniac and an ambusher on school rooftop. So there is actually no point in it.

[Karmaterror 982]

OK, so you wanna be on the other side of banditry for a change that's completely understandable so il give you a few pointers....

 

1, don't use roofs of buildings, use the treelines surrounding the city, there elevation is higher than all the buildings. So you can try to pick off rooftop campers :)

 

2, make sure you have line of sight on high value locations. Hospital and market are key 2 in Berezino. Most players will wanna check these two buildings.

 

3, try to have los on the entrances/exits. Most players are aware of snipers and will dart quickly from building to building trying to move in a way that maintains cover.

 

4, slow fire rate and moving. Don't spam rounds....1st shot enemy only knows the been shot at, not where it came from. A 2nd shot in rapid sucession can be instant confirmation for them. I usually go for 5-10 secs between shots to keep them guessing. Also after every say 3-5 shots at that pace relocate, just in case they made your pos.

 

Don't let anyone tell you its wrong either, without the snipers there would be no tension. I prefer to play friendly, but if people stopped KoSing id be bored as hell. And im very guiltiy in the mod of getting bored grabbing a ghillie, rifle, and couple food/drink from camp, then trying my hand at a bit of electro sniping :)

[TheWanderingMan 170]

This is a serious flaw in the game then, it kind of makes the game obsolete.

 

people say that optimisation will occur when the game is finished but I highly doubt it'll ever get to that stage any time soon.

[So Sexy 259]

this

 

and also pvp is the point of this game.

 

No its not, the point of this game is to survive, and pvp is just a part of that, it is not necessary.

[gibonez 3633]

No its not, the point of this game is to survive, and pvp is just a part of that, it is not necessary.

 

Don't kid yourself man.

 

PVP is the main feature or point of dayz anyone suggesting that survival or any other thing will be the main point is only fooling themselves.

 

If you want survival play the Forest or rust, you can tell those are survival games right from the start and it is even more apparent with each and every new feature.