Experimental Branch: 0.52 "Holiday Special" Discussion

[ebrim 998]

Was really happy to spawn into my usual server and find it night time. Got some good use out of a chemlight and my flashlight, found a mosin and some basics and one of those cooking rods. Haven't used it yet but excited to try. Any tips?

Edited December 18, 2014 by Ebrim

[Seitan (DayZ) 36]

Need to take a break. But man game is nice now. Dress tested as a man. So sexy. :P Spawned weird place without any gear. I mean nothing.

I like the dark every now and then. You get used to it fast and chemlights, flares, fires all look so nice and makes the game world more alive.

So exciting to find town in a middle of nowhere and see that there is light in some of the houses because of chemlight or flare.

[akpe 36]

Where are all the european 3rd person servers?  :huh:

[St. Jimmy 1631]

Where are all the european 3rd person servers?  :huh:

Not needed :P

[Maia (DayZ) 93]

I have been finding nothing but old items since todays maintenance :( also not nearly as lucky in my looting. So far I've managed to break my shoes (can't find new ones), find a hundred magnum rounds, 50 mosin rounds, and every gun except the ones that use those lol

[☣BioHaze☣ 7337]

Spawned, immediately ran into "Kait" while looting boats.

 

Followed her for a bit towards elektro but I really had little interest in going there so I quietly parted ways by stopping at Kamyshovo to loot.

 

Found a lot of what I needed there.

 

I had trouble picking up a pair of green cargo pants and morphine that were laying next to each other.

 

Putting the morphine into the pants made me able to get both.

 

I don't really mind playing at night but I do look forward to not needing high gamma to see without a light.

 

I think I remember hearing plans for an improved night time appearance.

[Estevacio 62]

i dont mind pitch black darkness but with the gamma exploit it is hard to enjoy it! Absent moon at night you can´t even see your hand in front of you, moon cycles could bring an end to all those "too dark" "too grey" opinions!

[ebrim 998]

i dont mind pitch black darkness but with the gamma exploit it is hard to enjoy it! Absent moon at night you can´t even see your hand in front of you, moon cycles could bring an end to all those "too dark" "too grey" opinions!

 

I don't really have that problem, your character's vision in the game adjusts so that you can make out the general landscape around you. If you use a light source, turn it off and it'll be pitch black but just wait a few seconds and outlines and things will return. Typically then I'll use a light source for searching for items and such but navigate in general in the dark, never touch the gamma, you're just robbing yourself of night play.

[skoms 86]

i dont mind pitch black darkness but with the gamma exploit it is hard to enjoy it! Absent moon at night you can´t even see your hand in front of you, moon cycles could bring an end to all those "too dark" "too grey" opinions!

Agree on this.

 

But why have they not get rid of the gamma exploit yet? That should be an easy fix. Just remove or limit the gamma/brightness option. 

 

I do however see that the light engine is not very good. I guess that is something that's on the agenda and will be improved over time. Perhaps they are waiting to do something about night and gamma until then. There is a lot of good light sources in the game, so there should be no problem to play in pitch darkness. When that time come night time will give an whole new dimension to the game. Can't wait:)

[skoms 86]

So... Is it just me or is the european servers down?

 

I only find three 1st person servers, but of course they are all full. Same for you?

[Estevacio 62]

I don't really have that problem, your character's vision in the game adjusts so that you can make out the general landscape around you. If you use a light source, turn it off and it'll be pitch black but just wait a few seconds and outlines and things will return. Typically then I'll use a light source for searching for items and such but navigate in general in the dark, never touch the gamma, you're just robbing yourself of night play.

no man. You gotme wrong, i do not touch the gamma, the part i do not enjoy is others exploiting it, i love night time, the background sounds scare me sh*tless, have you guys ever tried with headphones??you hear weird stuff

[akpe 36]

So... Is it just me or is the european servers down?

 

I only find three 1st person servers, but of course they are all full. Same for you?

 

Same here, managed to find 1-2 EU 3rd person servers but after a while game crashed and I can no longer see any of them in server list.

Edited December 18, 2014 by akpe

[Maia (DayZ) 93]

Is anyone still finding the new items? I have yet to see any of them.

[solodude23 649]

Is anyone still finding the new items? I have yet to see any of them.

I've found some of the dresses and re-done optics but that's about it.

Edited December 18, 2014 by solodude23

[☣BioHaze☣ 7337]

Using the LRS as binos is great.

 

RE: NightZ - I believe it's well understood that the current night time simulation is lacking at best.

 

I would love to play in a rich ambient moonlit setting and it hardly ever feels that way currently unless a full moon hangs directly overhead.

 

Maybe this too will change with the new renderer....

 

Do I hang too much hope on the new renderer?

 

Maybe.

 

*sigh*

[Guest]

What Twitch channel are those comments by Eugene from? The official one hasn't been online for couple of weeks.

[blackberrygoo 1416]

Using the LRS as binos is great.

RE: NightZ - I believe it's well understood that the current night time simulation is lacking at best.

I would love to play in a rich ambient moonlit setting and it hardly ever feels that way currently unless a full moon hangs directly overhead.

Maybe this too will change with the new renderer....

Do I hang too much hope on the new renderer?

Maybe.

*sigh*

... I don't get why everyone's expectations are low for everything based around lighting ... This isn't arma , nor is it armas engine anymore (in my opinion plenty has been changed to warrant never calling the Enfusion engine an "arma engine" again) ..

Have faith people there WILL be drastic changes to the lighting system as it's been mentioned a lot based around the new renderer ... Lights will no longer shine through objects , I think a better milky way was being worked on a bit ago , and there was something talked about where there's more particles or something to make it look more real ...

There's no real release date or anything for these things so it seems like it's "just been forgotten" but have faith Guys realism is the ONE major theme of this game , I highly doubt the devs would make this realistic world and just keep the gamma slider and ugly nights and call it a day , they are perfectionists , so it just takes longer than usual to create things like lighting since it's so tied into everything else but it's going to look better than some of those cinematic single player games ! ;)

[PongoZ 127]

hard to believe this is a patched version of yesterday.

In a full traversal from South East coast to north west of north west airfield.

Never found one loot explosion, never found one empty zone.  man zombies can warp though. 

Everything seemed to be spawning where it should be. and water proof back packs showed up again.

Not sure how this build relates to the one from yesterday, but it hardly seems like a tweak, its more like a bit of a roll back then a roll forward.

But other then zombie warps like crazy and still being very flakey when you leave a match, it was pretty stable in game.

[xoue 2]

Hi have just noticed that you can "reinforce" items using duct tape. So far gas stove and the new cooking stick. It consumes a bit of tape and it doesn't change item appearance neither changes damage, just pops a message saying: "It's well reinforced" or something like that.

 

 

Excuse my typing.

 

Enjoy

[xCAPx 349]

Improvised Knife - that is so nice :D

 

 

You have to search a small stone. Look a the ground (a street) and an option shows up - craft stone knife.

 

 

Patch is good for me. No ctd, or other bad things. Yesterday I saw zero zeds in ~2h, today 3 in 10min :)

Edited December 18, 2014 by xCAPx

[sfx 22]

I get more crashes in this version :(

[Maia (DayZ) 93]

Can you use the improvised knife to skin animals and people? :o

[Foxtrot Nine 131]

Can you use the improvised knife to skin animals and people? :o

Yes.

[Maia (DayZ) 93]

Yes.

Nice! And it's only one square

[skoms 86]

Nice! And it's only one square

 

But its not so efficient, so you get less meat by using it.