Why can't you talk or hit ESC button while in hourglass mode?

[WatchOut (DayZ) 1]

It's ridiculous.

[wh0oot 0]

coz you are unconscious, its a miracle you can actually look into the air while beeing knocked out.

[wolfgang784 13]

So that you cannot leave.

The hourglass only appears for 2-3 minutes for normal unconsciousness, which you can easily wait out. Normally when you are in that state you are bleeding terribly and likely low on blood already, so the hourglass prevents you from being able to combat log, which if you cannot wait 2 minutes you are obviously trying to do.

If the hourglass is longer than 2-3 minutes, meaning the 3 hour one, that means that you likely were attacked by another player and then logged out. The super long coma is the anti pvp measure because if you log out after fighting you get it, and if you close the game before the 3 hours is up the timer resets so you are stuck that way until a friend can find you with an epi pen.

So, basically, the coma is there to prevent movement when you should not be able to move and to discourage pvp logging. It is a necessary system that makes sense.

[dallas 5195]

You're suppose to be passed out.

[tiri 21]

If the hourglass is longer than 2-3 minutes' date=' meaning the 3 hour one, that means that you likely were attacked by another player and then logged out. The super long coma is the anti pvp measure because if you log out after fighting you get it, and if you close the game before the 3 hours is up the timer resets so you are stuck that way until a friend can find you with an epi pen.

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Have you a link to this "anti pvp measure" explaining more precisely what it is ?

[wolfgang784 13]

Have you a link to this "anti pvp measure" explaining more precisely what it is ?

Sorry, I do not know where it is posted and if it is in much detail, but I can explain it real quick.

If you have any type of interaction that the game deems player interaction, you get a symbol on the screen above the humanity face that looks like two bullets hitting each other with lines shooting out. If you log out before the symbol goes away, when you log back in later you will be in a coma for around 3 hours and the only way around it is a friend with epi pen. There is no way to respawn.

Player interaction is sometimes vauge however. If you and another player are touching, say moving quickly down a hallway or back to back in one and someone gets hurt by a zombie, because you got hurt while being in contact with another player you both will get the symbol and cannot log out. If you are shot, you cannot log out. Sometimes when you fall off of something and get hurt you can get the symbol as well, and very rarely I have noticed getting it after being knocked out by a zombie.

Also never walk through a doorway at the same time. Me and a friend accidentally tried to go through the same doorway from opposite sides and the game crushed us in the doorway. We both fell over right away with broken legs and 2k blood less and bleeding still. That also gave player interaction because we touched when the door tried to beat us to death.

[jonesyx@gmail.com 19]

It's to disallow you to disconnect normally but people just end the process to disconnect as it is so it really disallows nothing.