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[romanski 33]

I could make all sorts of grand statements, and make some cool concept art, but it would be dishonest and ultimately pointless.

Concept Art you say ?

I'll take your compliment :)

thank you kind sir

[Diederik 68]

Great Updates Rocket!

Can't wait to see the fix of the infected hearing in-game.

[djshauny1 222]

he can only get away with it because it has the alpha tag slapped to it

but the reality is this : how many times has rocket fixed something that turns out not to be fixed at all and 10 times worse?

exactly

you fuckers need to pull ya head outta rockets arse

seriously

[djshauny1 222]

No. It's not:

http://dayzmod.com/f..._200#entry67815

yes it is

wtf is it then huh?

i dont care wat tht post says.

get over yaself

[vanden1989 15]

What if the player is entering a lot of servers because most of them are giving errors such as "Bad version" and "Loading screen freeze"? Will he still be punished?

[KennyNZ 121]

Take ALL THE BEANS, you need them bro.

[Valec 55]

Yes it would, and this would be a valid point. I'm not sure what the answer is here.

The answer is obvious. It should affect them the same as everybody else. Server hopping to loot or server hopping to 'medic'. Still server hopping. I'd be mightily pissed if I just knocked someone unconscious at range with an M4 and then some random server hopping medic gets him up while i'm trying to get closer, allowing him to escape/return fire.

Server hopping is server hopping and shouldn't be condoned for any reason.

[osiriszoran 33]

Yes it would, and this would be a valid point. I'm not sure what the answer is here.

I doubt many players are acting as server hopping medics.

I also dont see how this will stop people from disconnecting during combat against people or zombies.

[Silva (DayZ) 1]

[FIXED] Clothing no longer spawning (now it spawns as it used too)

Welcome back mass duping :/

[rocket 16567]

The answer is obvious. It should affect them the same as everybody else. Server hopping to loot or server hopping to 'medic'. Still server hopping. I'd be mightily pissed if I just knocked someone unconscious at range with an M4 and then some random server hopping medic gets him up while i'm trying to get closer, allowing him to escape/return fire.

Server hopping is server hopping and shouldn't be condoned for any reason.

Point taken.

[Distance 29]

Cant w8 for this update :) sounds awsome Rocket :D keep up the good work :)

[Hyd 21]

You Sir, can have all my beans on a lifetime basis! Keep it up.

[i_deadly_i 10]

Uhh, i have quite a bad connection and i get kicked often cuz Battleye:lost connection to client. and i have to reset my internet and rejoin the server. If this happens would i be affacted by the anti alt+f4.

[Kebab (DayZ) 10]

The mechanics are being tested, but it will put a "timeout" if you successfully connect too many times within a period of time.

Good, because I've used alt+f4 only to get away from hackers (two times when they've spawned me in some kind of meat grinder of theirs), but had to deal with people ghosting and logging out in mid combat to re appear.

Doesn't fix people at+f4ing in combat but it's a start. Thanks.

[chefwillis 33]

Firstly, we will do what DayZ always does... we will collect data.

At the same time, initially, login cooldown will be applied (and grow) where you transfer to another server, and cooldown will be applied significantly if you try and reconnect to the same server (with an alive character). Once we have enough data, we will use that to determine algorithms that detect a players behavior over a period of time. This will allow us to then start applying warnings > punishments > database bans; to those players who continue the behavior.

What about dying, will we have to sit through a cooldown because we died and are forced to d/c and r/c. Also, what about finding servers that aren't lagging, people are going to switch through them to find a suitable server. As well as leaving hacked servers, personally I don't want to be in a server that is being hacked. There are too many reasons to switch servers, I personally don't like this. I'd rather have some kind of boolean "inCombat" thing that toggles true and false depending on if in combat "with another survivor, zombies aggroing is too random atm for implementation" and add the cooldown for when you log out when being shot at. Makes more sense to do it that way, instead of the incapacitated add cooldowns.

[InsaneJarhead 7]

Would this change (hive tracking login/logout) effect those that server hop as medics to help other players out?

Sure....Sure....

[Gustav Mahler 40]

What if the player is entering a lot of servers because most of them are giving errors such as "Bad version" and "Loading screen freeze"? Will he still be punished?

I'm guessing the logging will only occur when you actually enter the game.

[Zawe 0]

Rocket, what about the use of missing files to see though objects?

Like this:

and

[Valec 55]

I'm not really in love with the respawn button being removed as people don't want to spend hours re-connecting with their friends.

Unless this is causing an issue with servers? Otherwise, without being able to respawn, it's going to take an extra 3 minutes to find some zombies to kill me and let me respawn. Much less time than actually walking across the gigantic map.

[AzinGaming 60]

This news about the 'Alt+F4' fix is really disappointing. Effectively Rocket is saying that nothing will be put in place to prevent Alt+F4 to avoid death, only that if someone does it a lot that they will get perma-banned. So we will have to live with Alt+F4, because let's face it, people will push it as much as possible.

This is probably the worst thing I could have read in this thread. It is the main thing harming Day Z at the moment. It must be stopped, not punished.

[Valec 55]

Rocket, what about the use of missing files to see though objects?

Like this:

and

Holy god that is terrible. Is that why i've seen people connecting with errors like "blah blah blah different from server rocks.pbo"?

[chefwillis 33]

I'm not really in love with the respawn button being removed as people don't want to spend hours re-connecting with their friends.

Unless this is causing an issue with servers? Otherwise, without being able to respawn, it's going to take an extra 3 minutes to find some zombies to kill me and let me respawn. Much less time than actually walking across the gigantic map.

But then you'll have to disconnect then reconnect to live again, thus giving you a significant cooldown. I don't think this cooldown thing is going to work.

[plymouth_colony 10]

Why disable the respawn? What if you get stuck in the wilderness or the sea?

A valid point. I'd say: Find some Zombies and try to aggro them.

As for ALT-F4: definitely there must be coming some more punishment soon.

Edited July 23, 2012 by plymouth_colony

[puppetmaster11 229]

Agreed. I'm going to spend more time on this issue and going to trial something more extended around the disconnection despawn times..

However, quid pro quo... I will do this only in return for a ceasefire agreement between the RDF and the ARA,,,

RDF ---><--- ARA

[itsnej 0]

But seriously, you guys fucking eat each other alive in here sometimes.

Harvest steaks from dead survivors..... Worse than murders....