Steam DayZ Thread (Standalone)

Yup, it is the one I'm most looking forward to using really. Assuming of course they have the sound and sound range sorted on it.

 

It'll definitely be the best choice for zombie clearing. Aggro range off of it should be tiny. How they try to balance the .22LR for damage will be the only question. If it can't make one-hit headshots on zombies then I can see players sticking to silenced FNX .45's when possible.

How silencers are handled is likely to never be perfect, though. Particularly with almost exclusively supersonic cartridges like 5.56. Or magically sticking silencers onto non-threaded barrels *cough* M4 flash hiders don't just pop off *cough*.

 

heres the big question.

do silencers even work now?

 

That is true yes, I'd rather they would be realistic but I don't see it going that route. There is a QD M4 suppressor that fits over the flash hider (admittedly it is usually a flash "hider" designed to work with the QD suppressor and not the stock one) and from what it seems, that is the one they have based it off in the game. Ultimately though there are depths that the game will just never go in, if they work at this stage both sound and sound range, I'll be happy.

 

Unless the latest patch has updated it, no. They've just been in to test attachments. The Amphibia may be a different matter, though. Since it's always suppressed the base sound should reflect that.

Yeah, it'll probably always have some "it's a game" aspects, but as long as it functions well that's good enough.

 

maybe they will just give it the same sound profile as the melee weapons.

 

Hopped on last night for the first time in a few weeks. The new melee animations and the fact you have to raise them work for me, otherwise it still just feels like running simulator and having clocked a few hours on borderlands 2 and arma 3 lately my frame of reference has shifted and yeah, it is almost unbearably slow paced.

 

Arma 3 Is more fast paced i think because of a smaller map and that there are hot spots where you KNOW there will be people like the random objectives and gun stores. Both of those would increase the action in DayZ. Also, guns spawning in every car helps a bit.

 

So they have added the new melee system to the stable branch?

I haven't been on in 2 weeks, just haven't had the time. DayZ eats time quite effectively!

 

Nope, experimental only at the moment. There hasn't been a Stable update in quite a while, its been delayed a few times due to bugs they've been unable to pin down and fix.

 

Ahh right, that's what I thought but as I haven't actually been on in 2 weeks I wasn't sure. Looking forward to the next stable update.

 

Smaller Map? I assume you mean Stratis?

 

Yes, i did. Altis is a monster. A monster thats eats to many frames and spreads out the action way too far apart. I almost NEVER play on Altis.

 

Kinda agree, my FPS is ok, but its too big a map to play on very well. 50vs50vs50 on the other hand may be interesting

 

50v50v50 would be a totally glorious warzone on stratis. Player made bases everywhere, groups in trucks patrolling the roads, small scale firefights every few minutes, large scale base raids...
It would be epic.

 

I haven't played dayz for over a month!

 

Same, bunch of us in my mil sim group, about 6-7 of us had a good yomp over a week, but the lack of content made it a bit dull.

Think a lot of people are similar, i may end up waiting till Beta now. Or at least until there is significantly more content.

 

Yeah I've just gotten my head into other things, like design etc, haven't played games - they can't earn me money!

 

http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/post/79960438354/weekly-report-a-step-into-survival

We got new guns, new towns and fire places coming

 

Awesome stuff.