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[IndieStu 23]

Lol first post clearly says it was supposed to be 25th. Expect it in a couple of days.

Yeah, i know that. But why shouldn'T anyone post informations like: "Guys, patch's not coming out today, new target is next Monday" it's one sentence in one of the channels or one edit at the first post.

Just my opinion.

[kostuek 47]

just got killed by a hacker after my 10 hour journey to NW airfield. Great. I went there and said friendly and he wasn't aiming at me. Then he turned around and stood still for a few seconds and suddenly i died. No shots were fired or anything. We were in a building so no one else could have done it.

At least you are not turned in a cow.

[Looter (DayZ) 22]

if you die, you die clientside. keeping the player modell ingame after pulling the cable won't do much because the server won't receive the kill message.[...]

Oh. Is this really the problem? If so, you have got the point and I am wrong. But still you should admit that only a few (very very few!!!) players will really turn off the PC that hard by pulling the cable. And I think the other solutions (having another app doing that for you or killing the app in task manager) are not really convenient and perhaps not fast enough as well.

I still believe, that disabling ALT-F4 (or sticking it to respawn functionality as proposed) will ease the problem quite a lot (I agree with you, it will not solve it entirely!). Together with the log out timer rocket mentioned it could be a good first approach I think.

[rocket 16567]

Please remember folks: this is to discuss the:

HOTFIX

Not things you would like to see added/removed/changed. It is to discuss hotfix updates to the existing build that is out there.

[dendron 4]

* [NEW] Respawn button is disabled during DayZ play

Rocket what about you sit and think about this additional 5 minutes? Why? Because I found solution to respawns in less then 2 minutes of thinking about it.

You are removing Respawn because people spam Respawn to find their dead body faster, or to spawn on spot where better loot is faster accessible. You want people to SURVIVE and while SURVIVING get to the better loot and all that nifty gear. Sure, I agree with that but you didn't think about countless of possibilities where you will need Respawn for legit usage. Example: hacker comes to server, breaks legs of all players, it happens you are in forests away from towns/zombies and you just used your last Morphine. Now, to start over you have to come to the forum and beg people for "rescue" or to crawl for hours to nearest Zombies to get killed.

Simple solution: Respawn button doesn't work for 5-30 min (you decide about the time) after you started playing the game/used Respawn last time/made new character after dying - you just defeated all those people who spam servers with malicious respawns but also you didn't harm anyone who wants that feature for legit using.

[Booker (DayZ) 47]

Please remember folks: this is to discuss the:

HOTFIX

Not things you would like to see added/removed/changed. It is to discuss hotfix updates to the existing build that is out there.

You must be new here.

[James_W_P1 4]

Are tents are helicopters still planned for this update like they were 90-ish pages ago? We have no word of them and its not on the list yet

Edited July 26, 2012 by James_W_P1

[trooper911 78]

As long as tents are fixed, I'm gurd.

:beans:

Edited July 26, 2012 by .Trooper.

[Problem? 33]

Great, but more would be better. Is this done with every disconnect, also if player hits ALT-F4 (or plane crashing into PC or whatever)? Would be REALLY great, if so!

5 seconds is great really. I think it means all kinds of disconnects from server. Though could be unlucky for players like me who have poor net connections but will also stop minor abuse like when some one is not able to fend of zeds and just uses alt+f4 only to find they are dead or severely damaged because of 5 second timer.

I admit I did that on my first day but think 5 sec idle is fair.

[deaded38 7]

Please remember folks: this is to discuss the:

HOTFIX

Not things you would like to see added/removed/changed. It is to discuss hotfix updates to the existing build that is out there.

So where are we supposed to discuss updates that are going to make a lot of people pissed off in an attempt to remove the bad feature in that update before the update starts rolling out?

[Problem? 33]

Please remember folks: this is to discuss the:

HOTFIX

Not things you would like to see added/removed/changed. It is to discuss hotfix updates to the existing build that is out there.

Any ETA of this?

[Atynine 1]

Rocket what about you sit and think about this additional 5 minutes? Why? Because I found solution to respawns in less then 2 minutes of thinking about it.

You are removing Respawn because people spam Respawn to find their dead body faster, or to spawn on spot where better loot is faster accessible. You want people to SURVIVE and while SURVIVING get to the better loot and all that nifty gear. Sure, I agree with that but you didn't think about countless of possibilities where you will need Respawn for legit usage. Example: hacker comes to server, breaks legs of all players, it happens you are in forests away from towns/zombies and you just used your last Morphine. Now, to start over you have to come to the forum and beg people for "rescue" or to crawl for hours to nearest Zombies to get killed.

Simple solution: Respawn button doesn't work for 5-30 min (you decide about the time) after you started playing the game/used Respawn last time/made new character after dying - you just defeated all those people who spam servers with malicious respawns but also you didn't harm anyone who wants that feature for legit using.

I'm glad he's removing it so I don't accidentally hit it again trying to change my settings.

[Gapi182 21]

At least you are not turned in a cow.

yeah... but i had a mountain dew and awesome gear :/... oh well. Let's try again.

[james222 49]

Please remember folks: this is to discuss the:

HOTFIX

Not things you would like to see added/removed/changed. It is to discuss hotfix updates to the existing build that is out there.

There really isn't anything wrong with DayZ, the latest patch should be stable as hell if the current one is already very playable. DayZ needs more things to do.

The only fix I can comprehend would be removing radar in the choppers.

Edited July 26, 2012 by Chernarus

[RayPugh 146]

just got killed by a hacker after my 10 hour journey to NW airfield. Great. I went there and said friendly and he wasn't aiming at me. Then he turned around and stood still for a few seconds and suddenly i died. No shots were fired or anything. We were in a building so no one else could have done it.

10 hours to get to the nw, did you crawl from elecktro?

any new (Not so) deadline for the hotfix rocket?

[Looter (DayZ) 22]

I'm glad he's removing it so I don't accidentally hit it again trying to change my settings.

Wonder if you are still glad if someone turned you into a cow and you can not move anywhere and do nothing at all than wait and die of hunger and/ or thirst. Happy waiting on this one... Even if rocket promised no one will spawn in DebugHills anymore... if it happens to you anyways you will no longer be happy about this.

Your post reminds me of the woman driving a camping bus pressing the auto cruise button (which is intended to maintain speed at the previous level). She stood up, left the steering wheel, took a few steps in the back of her camping bus (that still was driving about 50mph) to make some coffee. Of course, the camping bus left for a little offroad trip, finally stopped by a tree. The woman sued the maker of the camping bus, as she expected "auto cruise" to do the entire job for her. The point is: If you press a button and do this accidentially (or don't know what this button does), do not blame others for the consequences.

Edited July 26, 2012 by Looter

[Gapi182 21]

10 hours to get to the nw, did you crawl from elecktro?

any new (Not so) deadline for the hotfix rocket?

went from cherno to electro and then town after town. Some hunting. Gotta be careful

[Growbian 0]

Rocket what about you sit and think about this additional 5 minutes? Why? Because I found solution to respawns in less then 2 minutes of thinking about it.

You are removing Respawn because people spam Respawn to find their dead body faster, or to spawn on spot where better loot is faster accessible. You want people to SURVIVE and while SURVIVING get to the better loot and all that nifty gear. Sure, I agree with that but you didn't think about countless of possibilities where you will need Respawn for legit usage. Example: hacker comes to server, breaks legs of all players, it happens you are in forests away from towns/zombies and you just used your last Morphine. Now, to start over you have to come to the forum and beg people for "rescue" or to crawl for hours to nearest Zombies to get killed.

Simple solution: Respawn button doesn't work for 5-30 min (you decide about the time) after you started playing the game/used Respawn last time/made new character after dying - you just defeated all those people who spam servers with malicious respawns but also you didn't harm anyone who wants that feature for legit using.

Good approach - but i dont think its enough to just delay / block the Respawn for some amout of time. What about Squadplay?

Scenario: Playing around with ur Team in the North-East Area, getting killed, be able to Respawn once, since its blocked afterwards. Player1 will Spawn in Kamenka, Player2 will Spawn in Otmel, Player3....and so on

@Rocket: I think about a combination of the Idea of DenDron and the Feature of Spawn-Areas, which means you still have to run to get to your Body / Mates, but its more like running from Otmel to Electro instead of running from Kamenka to Three Valleys or something.

Edited July 26, 2012 by Growbian

[mdevch 12]

5s is enought for a lethal hit.

another funny way.. teleport him instantly to the nw airfild on the airstrip in the middle and expose it for 20s sitting ;) this would be heavy ;)

[Turk (DayZ) 82]

Many people are either forgetting or haven't read that the main reason to disable RESPAWN button isn't to appease those wishing to loot killed survivors but to lessen the stress on the hive server which is causing massive amounts of "problems".

See how it goes 1st before demanding that it not be removed.

Reasons given to keep respawn are often rare occurances and though a nuisance for those experiencing them yet still mild in comparrison to the potential benefit of not having 1000's of people repeatedly respawn until a favourable locale is eventully found.

Btw this is an exploit, little difference than Alt-F4ing to avoid death at the hands of a killer/bandit.

Other causes of dropping in and out of servers could also be fixed with a better server ui that clearly shows server settings, times and versions, making server selection a 1 off action rather than a multiple attempt gamble.

Yes Commander exists but not all use it and although better than the server ui it has flaws.

Edited July 26, 2012 by Turk

[Godparties 7]

Jesus, this is still going on? Wtf. Just read through the first 93 pages. If you can't find it, then post. Otherwise, shut up and keep playing, you aren't saying anything Rocket hasn't already read.

[Fearganainm 1]

Seems to be working in server terms. Loading times have improved.

[Problem? 33]

Seems to be working in server terms. Loading times have improved.

I think loading times improved too but because of the arma 2 1.62 patch?

[Turk (DayZ) 82]

Jesus, this is still going on? Wtf. Just read through the first 93 pages. If you can't find it, then post. Otherwise, shut up and keep playing, you aren't saying anything Rocket hasn't already read.

You forgot to tell "them" to go play CoD and that the game is still in alpha ;P

I think, like you, many (inc myself) are just letting off steam.

[FlatFeet 46]

Desperately need the tent fix over anything else.

Even if you can just push a hotfix for the tent issue I think many of us would be more than happy with that please! :D