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1 in ~6 hrs! It was a sudden Session lost msg, but upon logging back in I was in the exact same spot. \m/

Where have you placed the snare? I haven't tried it since today's update. Thanks. I found two ropes recently - one in a shed at Pustoshka (SW of Vybor), the other in a shed in Pulkovo (SE of Green Mountain). Good luck!

np My hacksaw just now degraded to worn after cutting idk how many cans for food and bushes for sticks. It remains pristine for quite some time.

The fishing rod looks great, but the bow still has the solid white look and odd placement on the character:

If you cut meat with a damaged or very damaged blade, you only get 10% - 30% cuts. Instead, start skinning the animal with a damaged blade but switch to a pristine hacksaw to get ~90% cuts. As of now the hacksaw does not degrade. Video is 25 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ3_Ypgoz2o&list=UU-yq_O11Jkz3oSb1VJiyOAQ

Yes. I ran a pair of black and red jogging shoes for 3+ hours - from Stary to Mogilevka to Msta to other nearby towns - and they went from Pristine to Worn. Trying a pair of yellow work boots now. As an aside, the leather kit can repair a drybag.

So, we can search for chicken feathers in chicken coops. How? If I search the ground around a coop the only option is to find kindling. Searching inside the coop and on the stairs does nothing. Searching the wrong structure. :P

After logging back on the drybag reshuffled and the binoculars, that were in the bag, are gone.

I really damn appreciate the continued work to make shadows more resource-friendly! I can finally run shadows on Very High, along with every other setting. The performance on my rig has increased noticeably. Where yesterday I got 20 to 30fps in Staroye, it's now 35ish to 55 on an Asrock X79 Extreme 4-M mobo with an air-cooled i7 3930k 6-core OC'd to 4.5GHz, a single GTX660 @ 2GB, and 16GB RAM. Despite shoes now degrading reasonably, I sprint less often because Chernarus looks so damn good. You make this game any more addicting and my wife is going to bar my youngest and I from playing, and probably make me sleep on the couch. :) Thanks a lot. Restart message, fuck yeah Found a leather kit, then a drybag. Both in Mogilevka, and without stacked loot (Christmas loot). But, of course, after the server sustained heavy load for over an hour I get no msg received while cooking my first boar kill of the new patch. :)

As for zeds...I do what Sacha does. The axe needs to be Badly Damaged for the stone to sharpen it up 1 level to Damaged.

1. Wool fights the cold, raincoats and gorka pants are waterproof. Keep matches and remember it only takes two sticks and a rag/paper to start a fire. 2. idk, sorry :/ 3. Servers can't be favorited while in-game. (Yet?)

The starving-while-stuffed issue isn't resolved quickly once that cycle starts. Don't drink until you're stuffed. Drink enough to get a light green Hydrated message, eat enough to get the light green Energized message, and jog inland. Don't run or you'll burn calories and dehydrate too fast. When you search bushes for berries or trees for apples, check the same bush or tree a hundred times. Same goes for finding sticks and small stones, search the same spot. No need to move around and burn even more energy.

Great points here. Personally, I look forward to the day when weapons are low on the list of priorities. - When medical items like antibiotics and alcohol tincture are worth more than a pair of pristine high caliber firearms. - Having to search 8-12 hours just to find 5 precious rounds of damaged ammo for a coveted but crappy .22. - Using tools to fine-tune an inaccurate scope, maybe even finding a pristine piece of glass to replace the cracked piece I used for a month. - When I can setup Whiskey's World Famous Fish Taco stands along the coast. Not to poison everyone, but just because I'm a Good GuyTM.

Haha. Define immersion, ya know. No matter how many respawns I go through, I play as if my new map-less character has at least seen a torn map, giving s/he an idea of where to go. Kinda reconciling my knowledge of Chernarus with my character's immediate run inland, if that makes sense.

Haha, always left. :) "Go west young man, and grow up with the country." Also, a good resource - in case you didn't already know of it - is a map with spawn points for supplies, weapons, clothes... http://dayzdb.com/map

The instant you spawn: 1. Pick up a shovel/hoe/axe for self-defense if possible. 2. Like Kirby12352 said, do a quick sweep for food and water. 3. Run away from the ocean. Put the water to your back and head inland. Don't haul ass running unless you have food and water to replace rapidly lost energy; pace yourself until you find a small town. As things stand now, you have a better chance of finding what you need away from the coast.

I think it's safe to assume similar testing for most of the game. Base level tests, observation, analysis, tweak and repeat.

Oops, this post should've been made elsewhere; corrected. My apologies.

This is now my favorite thread in the whole forum. Beav the Bandit-Turned-Bandit-Slayer hammy55-The-FNG Many feels, much amaze, such agree, opulent emote: Bookmarked http://dayzretrospective.blogspot.com/ Thanks! \m/

drunk post deleted :)

1PP experimental 3PP exp, minimalist Hunter/Fisherman character -- 22 for hunting, hoe for digging worms, no axe, no pistol

Edit: sorry for the small size Is anyone else's bow white, like the model lacks artwork? 1PP view: A loaded bow shows the arrow sticking straight up: And the bow is lateral instead of vertical:

Gameplay statistics Does that mean something similar to the Bandit / Hero system of the mod? Zeds killed / Bandits killed / Murders?

Don't know about you all, but I would enjoy the Cancel current action option when searching for kindling and picking fruit. Then again, it gets my adrenalin flowing when a zed runs up to me soundlessly and whammy! right in the pristine backpack as I'm looking at the ground.

Good question. Edit: Aha! Like Yano pointed out in the post below - my resolution was 1280x720 in those screenshots. That's gotta be it. Edit #2: Maybe not! Here's 1920x1080: Maybe because I wrote 1280x720 in the cfg, so that's considered 100% resolution? I'll change it to 1920x1080 and see what happens. Final Edit: I guess not. Same font consuming the entire colored area, everything the same size. Could be the 32" Sanyo TV I use as a monitor (HDMI). If anyone here is a Linux user, the nouveau drivers don't handle this TV well, but the proprietary drivers work great (for a single GTX 660).