***Dayz: Stand Alone Thread***

Don't get me wrong I know full well it was petty, but it was never meant to be this triumphant "AHA!" that blew apart the whole project... Just an observation of something that I've observed in several places and that the title screen reminded me of. Thanks for responding without totally biting my head off ;)
 
It's a survival game at it's purest.

It's finding the supplies to keep alive that's the true test, but with server restarts happening to refresh the loot so often it's easy at the moment.

Further down the line we should see less loot spawns when the servers are persistent and don't require the restarts, then we'll see the true difficult decisions of staying hidden or looking in that wide open supermarket for that pristine Kiwi that could help you stay alive.

Survival of the fittest and most organised will be key, but it can all be taken away in a couple of shots.
 
Gazanimal said:
It's a survival game at it's purest.

It's finding the supplies to keep alive that's the true test, but with server restarts happening to refresh the loot so often it's easy at the moment.

Further down the line we should see less loot spawns when the servers are persistent and don't require the restarts, then we'll see the true difficult decisions of staying hidden or looking in that wide open supermarket for that pristine Kiwi that could help you stay alive.

Survival of the fittest and most organised will be key, but it can all be taken away in a couple of shots.
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I'm not so sure that will be it.

If they limit loot spawns and only server restarts respawn items, then new players will have a near impossible chance to survive.

The biggest problem is there is nothing to do. Surviving is hardly a big issue at the moment, Eat and drink till your stuffed and you don't need to eat/drink for nearly 2 hours.
 
Yea exactly limiting loot is just silly especially limiting weapon spawns just another reason to stop playing and go back to overwatch or breaking point.
The time to fine tune spawning is after everything else pretty much.
 
C64 said:
Yea exactly limiting loot is just silly especially limiting weapon spawns just another reason to stop playing and go back to overwatch or breaking point.
The time to fine tune spawning is after everything else pretty much.
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Rocket said in roughly 2 weeks time you wont be able to server hop or combat log. Now i spent 2-3 hours this afternoon running around 1 server nearly starving to death, no food, water, clothes......nothing to be found, i went through Berezino, Electro and Kras without finding anything of use.

Then i swapped to a low pop server in Kras and bingo, found food, backpack, axe, canteen, bandages and so on.

This situation will only get worse once the server hopping is fixed. I would have starved to death and died. Respawned and had the same problem again until the server reboots.

You have to bare in mind that while making the game 'realistic' you don't make it boring. People play games to escape life, not to imitate it.
 
C64 said:
Yea exactly limiting loot is just silly especially limiting weapon spawns just another reason to stop playing and go back to overwatch or breaking point.
The time to fine tune spawning is after everything else pretty much.
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This is true, it kinda makes the game pointless if you can not do the only thing you can do, which is find a gun easily and kill someone. Loot does not matter at this stage hand out a shed ton of guns and do a full wipe on Beta and then again on proper release. Let people play and have fun and find bugs not bore them to death with nothing to do.
 
When I said limit I'm not talking about only having one or two items spawn, but with a persistent server, loot will spawn on it's own after a certain time and not rely on server restarts.

Over time people will gain weapons of equivalent power, M4's, Mosins etc, but getting ammo for them to be effective should be the hard part. Imagine only finding 5 bullets, instead of a magazine of 20

Something like that would work, but not to the extreme where nobody can get anything and one player is all powerful as that would be crap :D
 
have you checked all the houses?

a lot of people don't search properly and some things like tins of tuna can be missed if you run through quickly.
 
Buckster said:
can't find any loot period atm - well one set of painkillers
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Yeah, I just hopped through a few servers on Balota Airfield after finding nothing on my current server. Nowt on any of them. Not like where its been looted and you'll still find the odd shirt, helmet or pen - simply nothing at all in any area of the Airfield. Strange.
 
Me and a friend were travelling to airbase next to Cherno, we got to Cherno and everything looked clear. Lots of zombies about in the town. We were just going along the coast part taking it slow, looking around for people. We shot a few zombies, and I axed a few. Half way through Cherno we look behind and see 3-4 people with lots of gear and weapons come running to cover in the distance. There wasn't much places we could go to and we were pretty stuck behind a wall.

We logged out and switched server. I think if we had a couple more people in our group we might have tried to take them out but 4v2 doesn't seem good.

We made our way to the military base. Inside we find a shotgun, which we modify into a sawn off shotgun. My friend already carries a Mosin and an M4 so I carried it in my hands and tested it out on a few zombies. It's pretty good, although it only takes 2 rounds and you have to unload both before reloading.

We were scouting a building out and suddenly I hear lots of M4 firing. I quickly lie down in the room in building and my friend says "I'm dead..."

We had no idea how many were out there, sooooo.... we agreed I'd LOG OUT!

I hate doing it they really need to fix it!

Next time I'm in that situation I'm just going to camp where I am if it's a secure place.
 
Well yesterday before 8pm I really enjoyed this.

The gear reset didnt bother me, as satrting afresh is sometimes good, however now it wont save my char on ANY server :(

Plus now if I join a server in daylight it has been picked clean already, so thats no fun. Just had to run to elektro to find any loot, then the server died so I joined a new one on the same hive, that spawned me completely naked (no clothes or anything, not just kit)

Don't think I'll bother until these issues are fixed, not moaning because its an alpha, just because in an hours play as a new spawn you can achieve nothing!
 
everyone here has been complaining about less weapon spawn.....Thats a good thing it aint boring.In my opinion it makes you want to play more and to actually value the gear you have on. I remember the arma 2 dayz i would run to berezino military camp get all the gear i needed and map gps compass then would be OP and kill everyone. I got bored of the game like that. Finding weapons isnt hard check the NW airfield there are quarters there that have pistols and M4's(not the hangers,the buildings that house soldiers).

Me and Nix were camping the airfield and we got shot at. I flanked the guy and killed him i go back to Nix and we see a light armed player. We decide to kill him only to find out he is a combat logging hacker. The guy blasted us with his machine gun hands......

OcUK should form a DayZ squadron because atm i think everyones just scatter'd everywhere.
 
im all for the less weapons but what im not ok with is the attachment spawns.

after the update i spawned in kamishovo, i ran upto berezino and found enough gear to get me by (axe, bag and food) a few mins later i was axed down. boo.

next spawn i had was solnichniy, i ran upto the NE airfield and woohoo found myself an M4. back down to Berezino to meet up with the gang and then headed over to the NW airfield (cross country simulator) headed to the tents to pick up some attachments and there was absolutely no spawns in the tents (makes the tents on the maps totally useless now) used to be quite a hot zone, after people found guns you head to the tents for the attachments.
 
Anyway of improving the distant textures of tree's? They look like they have no graphical textures and then improve as I walk towards them. I think I may have tweaked the ini file at some point in the past when the game ran badly
 
C:\Users\yourname\Documents\DayZ Other Profiles\your dayz profile name\your dayz profile name.DayZProfile and set the following options :

mouseSmoothing=0 - This should help sort out mouse acceleration

anyone tried that ?
 
Was just up at the Airfield in the control tower when some dude opened fire on me, said I was friendly so he came up said hello and gave me some blood :) He then left but in giving me the blood he dropped his Mosin 9130 with zoom Optic's and monopod. I quickly picked it up and made a run for it, I could here him on the Mic asking for it back. I'm now the proud owner of a lovely Sniper rifle hiding in the woods from him :)
 
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