I dont always hit military areas, but when i do i prey for a bugged out spawn with tons of loot...... when i randomly stumbled on a bugged loot area in a military place the other day. I finally found a Pso-1 scope and 120 rounds of ak101 ammo, AK hand guard rail. and some different stocks. ak74,ak101, aks 74u, standard ak mag, vests,backpacks ect so like all barrack loot x10. The scope i really didnt see for months, the rail for a long time, and the ammo was hard to find, i only had 40 extra rounds, before i found the bugged stuff and got 120 more rounds. SO until i got lucky and found that. Before loot was hit and miss for me. But when you find areas like that it makes up for the few weeks of not finding stuff. So after seeing that place i figure loot is still messed up. I havent tried to farm heli crashes. Lately, Thats what i want to start doing. im looking for an amphibia s pistol now, Smersh vest and backpack. The rare part for me was finding the magazine for the amphibia s. rare to me = weapon magazines(pistols mainly, havent seen a 45mag, i seen fnx,amphibia,makarov mags, 1 ak 101 mag, 1 standard ak mag, 1 cz mag ) , pso-1 scope(should be rare tbh) certain ammo.. i havent seen much sks ammo and 5.56 ....grenades dont care for.

Im cool with people. Use your mic and talk. For me the talking part is the major part. Youll get a good judge from that. Just have to get into more crappy situations to learn from them. IF they dont talk back or respond, that is a red flag for me. or if they sound 12 or russian. Personality plays a huge part in my decision making, the hard part is trying to figure that all out in 1-2 secs lol if they are going to be cool or not. You dont need to start kosing people but you can stop helping every person you see, and especially watch out at military places, those are hotspots, If you see someone and you respond and they dont or you dont say anything, then expect that shit is about to go down. Also if your looting pay attention to sounds, SO many times when im in a city, i hear someone walking near by. That has saved me a ton.

when im inside and get zombie aggro ill just run out the door and kill it. I know what your talking about. Till its fixed. i just deal with them asap. then keep on keeping on.

i think they made it more "rare" with the new loot economy, along with other things.

ya ive noticed that happening lately

you can use something like http://dayzdb.com/map/chernarusplus and depending on where you are, figure out loot routes that way. I just plan a route before i log in and ill have an idea of where im going initially, So when im playing it makes things easier. But after playing for a while youll learn the towns and loot locations. But id study the map, if your still new and learn where things are, get more familiar with it. make sure your in a safe place if your in game to alt tab to look at the map

Get arma 3 when it goes on sale. if your reluctant to get the SA atm. SA is good but you need to realize the game isnt finished and youll experience bugs ect, if your not a patient person then id wait on the SA and go play arma 3 when it goes on sale. I like the SA so id say to just get it. but i also dont care that we dont have certain features in the game atm, i just like to go farm loot lol and survive. Also be aware that things get changed and messed around with, so one example is loot being funky, so you might not find food or any good loot, that can be frustrating or really enjoyable. but be aware things arent 100%,,,if you dont want to deal with that then wait, Start watching some SA videos of patch 0.50(thats on stable now) so you can see where the game is currently and also look into the new exp patches 0.51 to see what they are working on next. For my shoot em up game i usually play arma 3 for my survival/loot farm game i play dayz. Both BI games

wait for modding to come to the community. till then man the fk up kid :) try arma 2 wasteland that is really fun

Im really liking the new towns up north. A town like this near the mining area would be really epic. Just in general the north area is coming along nicely. The new 0.50 towns are a nice addition to the north . I think the north will be really epic once done. Looking forward to the dayz to come.

Im pretty sure vehicles will be squishy and easily take damage from rounds. Like something in arma 2 /wasteland, you can disable vehicles by shooting tires or the engine block. or spray the driver with automatic gunfire.( shit was fun) but i can see the SA vehicles being a complete pain in the ass to maintain and i can also see them taking damage pretty easily(or certain parts always needing to be replaced). If you run into something or get lit up. I think most of the physics are getting worked out since its seems like a new thingy they have been working on(like throwing ect), so id expect it to be awhile before it gets polished. They got a lot on their plate so we just need to be patient with things. I dont see them being bullet proof unless you can add armor plates to them, but im thinking that might be more of a mod thing eventually(with armor). Idk if they had talked about being able to add armor plates to cars, if so then that should stop bullets. But i think either way in a car your more at risk to getting pwnt, since you can hear them coming from a distance and cars will and always will be bullet magnets

you realize loot is funky and that is the issue. Maybe read around more before flaming that food system is messed up because your died twice from not finding loot.

I havent really looked for any tents tbh. I dont trust if they will be there on restart. With the persistence servers is it there always on restarts or do you get boned time to time with it not being there(not by a player taking it but from a restart) It would be cool to go out and find them but im just curious about the current state of them being there when i log in(not to a player taking it) but with restarts ect.

When i was on the exp 0.50. I was able to lock zombies inside buildings and also be inside, close the doors and they stayed out. Most of the time it worked. Seemed like some buildings didnt work at times, or if the zombies were to close to the door when I closed it the zombie will path through it(its getting worked out im sure), But it was something i noticed on the new patch. So it will get better in time. it was fun locking 3-4 zombies into a house for the next guy lol. \when i went back to 0.49 they go through doors and i couldnt lock them in. So in 0.50 it was better. Didnt have an issue with zombies coming in houses unless a door was still open, they will still get in, but not so much of an issue with them running through doors. It was a lot better. just one thing ive noticed.

Good work. Ya they need to add improvised tents. Since you can craft backpacks now. It would be ideal to create improvised tents/shelters at some point in the future.

Ya all the other supplies should spawn normally for sure. I was meaning more towards the can food. I know that bug with the loot 1st hand lol(died a lot not finding stuff, it was lame yo) but i also found an area that also had a crap ton of loot(solnichniy factor 9 rifles, axe, even seen a couple improvised backpacks, like all the loot was spawning in a few random building, so i got lucky. But i got a chance to have the kit to experience the rest of the map with the loot bug, and it was really fun with limited food. vs when its normal and stuff is everywhere The game would be fun. It doesnt need to be crazy difficult but it also shouldnt be super easy like it is when the loot is working.

Its funny when the loot system works the game is easy mode. When it doesnt its like a whole different game survival wise. It would be cool to see them start testing the # of food and drink spawns(more food, drinking seems more of a need once you get full on food, i seem to get thirsty faster then hungry after i get geared) It would be cool to find a good balance between the 2. So to get a good amount of food would be off animals, water from canteens from lakes/streams. Cans would be nice to see them reduced from the current rate to see how that feels(mess with different #) Seems easier to play with the food spawn numbers, to find a good survival balance vs doing other energy losses things due to weight or w/e(more extra work?) When loot was broken the game was a lot better. (as far as the survival part) for me. I felt the need to hunt, now ill just run by them. Before they seemed like a pot of gold. Just somethings ive noticed. Idk i just hate when i see so much food after my town to town apple tree survival trip/animal hunt, when you see an animal youll want to hunt to get more food. Then waste energy looking for limited cans of food, then when you get meat. You can afford to go out and make a long trips or farm military places, Since it would be cool to have no can food at military areas. So going to a place like NW isnt a straight run, but work to even get up there, have enough supplies to even make it back. Before you starve, idk would be more interesting then the current looting. Id like to see them start playing around with it more.

ya i noticed the same thing. Now i cant find anything. Yes back to berries and apples lol :(

I noticed when i found a Cr75 pistol in the police station their was a magazine for it in another room. Their was also a 9 rd P1?(idk exactly) magazine. That was the 1st time i found a pistol and mag in same building same time, so if anyone else notices that also, maybe they changed it so pistols have mags close by? or was i just lucky lol...Dayz...maybe just lucky. Oh also the Rangefinder i cant get it to display the distances. Mouse wheel option isnt working on it, if anyone else can get theirs to work,( had a pristine battery).

I found a Rangefinder, didnt get to play with it just got a screenshot b4 server crashed/restarted lol, ill get more pics later with it showing the distances ect

SO after playing exp for a couple days. With the loots in the starting areas seems like its bugged. Idk i couldnt find anything when i spawned in solnichniy so i died eventually. Next spawn was the factor above solnichniy. Ran into the small garage shed thingys. Their was a shit on of loot. Went to the Health care center same thing, a shit ton of loot. Went up to the farm building, The Brown wooded large barn thingy, had 9 rifles in it, sks, 22, cr527, axes, ect. Ive never seen that much loot spawn in on certain building. The entire factor seemed bugged with loot. While other places had nothing, this place seemed to have all the missing loot. Even found an improvised backpacks, the small and large one, so those are craftable backpacks. That were in a building. So something is messed up atm in areas. as i worked my way west. From solnichniy. It wasnt till i reached stary that i found food or noticed a more normal loot spawn. When i got to Rogovo/ pogorevka. Seemed to have food around there. then when i went Pustoshka the loot seemed normal there. I actually was finding cans of food. So the initial spawns are hard to survive with loot being weird. It was by far the most fun i had in Dayz trying to survive. I think with how quick the hunger and thirst are, would be fine if the fresh spawn areas werent funky with loot. It would be a good experience. I think they need to fix the loot spawns in the starting areas so we can get a good judge on how it will be to survive with the current hunger/thirst system, survival really is based off atm if you get lucky and find a can of food. or if not spend 30-1r searching for apples lol. After i got geared it was easier(axe,knife,gun,food, found sodas but no water bottles or canteens), Well after i found more cans of food, its easier to manage. But i had fun trying to not starve lol, i like where this is going. It should be difficult to survive, well see once the starting areas loots are corrected.

PLayed the exp servers yesterday. From going from the .49 to playing the .50. Even though the hunger/thirst is really sped up on the exp servers. I found it really challenging finding any type of food. Let alone something to open cans. Picked 2 apples and they didnt do anything. Would be nice if they buffed those, if i ate 2 apple id get full but im not a fatty lol I spawned all over the map to just die to starvation pretty quickly each life. One life found 2 cans of food. Ran around Novo trying to find something to open them with, then died. Loot did seem more scarce on the spawns near Solnichniy, Kamyshovo and prig. Seem like i had zero chances to survive in those areas due to my personal loot finding experience or lack of loot. I had better luck with spawns up North in the new towns but still couldnt find anything to open cans. The only place i found cans of food was up North in Novo. I never made it inland lol. I did find a shed with 3 damaged cr75 pistols lol. Then a book shelf with 9 books around it. Idk for me loot was fickle. I found a defibrillator, used it and got knocked out lol, I felt my survival only depended if i got lucky and found food and then something to open it, nothing. before i died in 15mins to starvation. Surviving on .49 is easy mode, with .50 its making it harder to survive based on the speed of it, on top of that low loot drops, a good combo for death. I like where its going, they will find a balance. BUt after playing each life i felt if i lived it was based off if i got lucky and found food. thats it. Oh idk if it was on .49 but on .50 i was having a blast locking zombies in building, was really easy to lock them in a house and a funny present for the next person coming along lol. They didnt seem to bug through walls anymore, zombies are getting better.

So i was thinking. We have backpacks, and we are also able to create improvised backpacks from rope, sticks and pelts. So i was running in the woods. I was thinking why cant we make improvised tents or shelts in the future, once they get things worked out on persistent items and tents down, add a future recipie to be able to craft an improvised tent. Like in a survival situation you would buiild a make shift shelter out of trees and whatnot from materials around you. Would it be a good idea to be able to create something like that?. to have another option other then a tent. So you have the option to use a tent or to make an improvised tent that is more camouflaged and low profile like how you would use an improvised backpack is over a mountain backpack.But the improvised tent would carry less items then a reg tent. How the improvised backpack carries less then a hunter or mountain backpack. So it would be more crafting to build a tent. It could take more rope, sticks and pelts/burlap sacks to craft one.Have an amount of mats that makes it hard to build one, so it not super easy but takes some time to do. http://www.holmbushpaintball.co.uk/bushcraft/images/holmbush-bushcraft-shelter-3x.jpg http://pegasusoutdoorventures.co.uk/word/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/shelter4.jpg I dont know your guys thoughts if you would want something like this in the game? Let me know your thoughts.

So i was playing the the exp servers the other day. I was hearing explosions in the distance. I eventually went to the area i heard them and noticed in the distance was a gas station but didnt hear or see anything when i was looking at it. IDK if anyone else has noticed that. I was thinking maybe it was people blowing up gas stations or throwing grenades or a new hacking thingy. I heard an explosion and seen a huge black cloud, so i was thinking maybe the gas station was getting blown up, but didnt see anything when i was able to view it from a distance. . i was just curious if people have heard explosions before on the exp servers and can clarify what exactly is the cause. Is it just a gas station explosion or something else? . I heard at least 4-6 explosions so idk, never heard that on dayz befor, I thought i was in wasteland for a while lol.

oh ok, i wasnt hearing any gun shots but just explosions. But ya it was blowing up often so i guess its a bug that they explode every so often. It sounded cool but i wasnt sure lol, thanks for clarifying