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Balot airfield/strip needs a rework
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Im not happy about the 1.0 version of Balota Airfield, its underwhelming and is 80% clutter, there are 4 places that are worth while that are stetched over 400 metres. Many people will agree with me that early game fights are alot more fun than late game fights and having a location for that might be balota's new identity (high risk high reward kinda thing). I think it should be a hybrid of the pre-release version and the current.

Definitly remove the overgrown run-way thing which doesnt make sense since nowhere else has this effect and declutter the place, seriously it looks like someone just randomly punched the keyboard and placed props down. I understand that its the lore that it was a civi airport and the military took it over but for the health of the game it should be scrapped no one is looking for a shirt and pants they're looking for low level military gear early on.

My idea in my super high tec software:
https://imgur.com/a/9GFAKqo

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Severity
Tweak
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
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Operating System
Windows 7
Category
General

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5sety4 created this task.Dec 8 2023, 10:20 PM
Geez changed the task status from New to Feedback.Dec 11 2023, 10:51 AM

"early game fights are alot more fun than late game fights"

I have to strongly disagree with this. This is a very dangerous thing to encourage in my opinion. The coast is meant to be a spawn area, the whole gameplay loop of DayZ is that you should get away from the spawns and travel the map heading north. If everything is more focused around the spawn areas, then it means there is less people in the north, which creates less incentive for people to go north which means less people in the north etc etc and the cycle continues until the majority of players are all just fighting around the coast.

That isn't a fun or diverse gameplay loop especially for a game like dayz. We shouldn't be encouraging a loop of (spawn, run to Balota, fight, die, repeat). That's just so restrictive and repetitive and it really cuts off SO much of the potential for exploring the rest of the entire map and getting the really tense and rewarding PVP in the north.

Anyway, I wouldn't mind if balota got a *tiny* change, like a couple more military spawns at most. But it defintely shouldn't become some big military coastal PVP hotspot, that's just no bueno