Pokey (DayZ)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9-hRivcIY8 Friiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiend!

Anyone know how the mechanics work now? Before it would spawn if you were within 120 meters of the building, and then respawn loot every ten minutes if you're in >30<120 range (and if there was space). Any idea how it works now?

Ahuh. That's one of the new backpacks that has been added. Someone likened it to a crushed Czech BP.

Another issue I've been having for a few days now. For information purposes; I'm not running the new DayZ patch 1.7.5, I am running the latest Arma beta. This started a few days ago (before the new patch, so that is not the issue). It first started happening with cooking meat, I cannot select the cook meat option it only appears on the context menu for a millisecond. I have tried many different things to try and cook meat. Moving away from the fire Mousing over every possible area Attempting to cook in an open field so nothing can possibly be in the way (trees) Attempted to quickly select the option whilst it appears in the menu, but it's impossible as it vanishes so quickly. I've followed every possible response in this forum, and nothing works. My other issue is filling Jerrycans, and it's exactly the same as cooking meat. The option only appears for a millisecond, and no matter where I go it won't let me fill. Attempted to run >200 meters out so it can load or something. No effect. Attempted to drop jerrycans and pick them up again. No effect. Tried every tanker that can refill the cans that I come across. No effect. It's exactly like the cooking meat. It doesn't matter where I position myself next to the tanker (trust me, I've tried everything imaginable when it comes to positioning, no innuendo intended). And no, neither the meat or my Jerrycans are in my Backpack, and the Jerrycans are empty. Any help on this one? I'm having to simply pick up lootable jerrycans to refill my cars now, and I'm in the process of repairing a Helicopter and this problem is making it a nightmare!

Sure am!

Latest version of the mod? I see you're in southern England, which is neat (also UK here). I'd like to see what my pings like on your server, I've been playing on the same server for just over a week and I haven't once seen an Admin, no resets, no updates, so I'm looking for a new home.

It just sounds like you let your guard down. It was your fault. Don't become complacent, and don't think you're ever safe. Check everything before going into an opening to gut an animal (especially when you're doing this). As a survivor, I thought you'd already know this, but it seems you still have a lot of learning to come! A player could be anywhere on the map, and yes that includes a bush in the middle of nowhere. Don't just go " Meh, I'm nowhere near a city, there won't be any other players near me", because that will get you killed. And trying to log out? That's pretty pathetic, it would have also taken MUCH less time attempting to run away and cover instead of trying to disconnect (zig-zag running is your friend, get to know him). This is just for the scenario you mentioned, not the hacking, as you can't do anything about that except force quit the application which will log you out.

It takes nowhere near an hour to run North, that's just a massive exaggeration. And you don't have to keep on doing the same routes, every town (and I mean EVERY town) has spawnable loot and the buildings it spawns in. You need to be able to recognise which buildings hold the loot, and which are just scenery pieces. In fact, I never raid Cherno/Elekto/other major towns, the only exception to this was today when I needed antibiotics and they only seem to ever spawn in Cherno. Right now, it just seems like you're making excuses, the loot is everywhere, learn the game a little and you'll be able to find all listed items very easily.

Oh god, DayZ on a console. Nope.

You just need to spend ten minutes learning which building give out loot. Seriously. If you do this all your problems will be fixed. You keep on saying that bandages/morphine/inset X item here is rare as hell; fact is they're not rare, at all, not in the slightest. They are all extremely common, especially bandages and morphine (hell, even matches are stupidly easy to find). The only rare and hard to find items in this game, from my experience are the following: NVG's, GPS, Rangefinder, Antibiotics(pre 1.7.5), Higher tier backpacks, higher tier weapons (M4A1 CCO SD/SVD Camo/Heli crash site weapons). Everything else in the game is ridiculously easy to find, but you need to actually put the effort in to learn where they spawn, when, and also, how they spawn. If you do that you won't be having any issues.

Weeks of stealth has given me the best silenced weapons in the game, along with Guille/NV/GPS. Learn to be stealthy, and you too can reap the rewards! (unlike killing spawns in Cherno, as they obviously have nothing of value).

You know, I'm running Bootcamp on a Mac too, and I'm sure I've seen this button combination before. I'll give it a go and see if it works on mine (even though I'm sure it did something like initiate/reset the SMC whilst under OSX :I )

SUPER EAGLE DIVE!

Good to hear! I haven't played the latest version yet as the server I frequent hasn't bothered to update. As a strictly survival player, this sounds like an excellent update. The only times I'd die from Zombies would be through mistakes, but now they sound a lot better. Thank buggery I've been honing my stealth skills over the past two weeks, being a survivor is about to start paying off!

Not sure on this. I have NVG's/GPS/Guille/M4A1 CCO SD, and I haven't killed anyone yet. I pretty much keep out of the way of other players, and with that kind of gear it's a very easy thing to do. I'm not sure what I'd do if I did run into another player, fact is most of the players would kill me for my gear, so I probably would shoot first. It's an odd side effect of having the best gear in the game, you know other people want it, and you know you don't want to give it up.

Just to update on this topic. I was finally able to fix up not just one, but a grand total of two vehicles! The Toyota truck and the Land Rover. I had failed again on the motorbike wheel repair, but I jumped back on today and attempted to fix up a few other cars. Now, it might just have been me being a noob, but I made sure to enter the vehicle first (enter backseat, move to front seat, move to back seat, gear) and I was able to repair without issue. It could have also been because I would regularly disconnect from the server and not enter the vehicle again before trying to repair (I'm a disgusting smoker, and after being murdered whilst AFK, I decided to start logging out when I needed my fix). As it stands, it all works now as long as I follow the routine above. Thanks to those who helped. :)

That's what I was worried about. I have no idea who owns the server or when it's reset. Haven't seen an admin on all week. Ah well, I think I'll leave the motorbike for now and try to repair the second ATV I found. EDIT: just noticed my Arma2 wasn't on the latest patch (according to Commander). Installing and testing.

I've been sticking to the same server all week, so no external parts have been used. I just tried to repair yet another wheel on the motorcycle, it didn't do anything again, despite having the success message come up (Tire still visibly missing, and still red status on the dropdown). I've been running between Gorka and Altar, so I'm not spawning in near the motorbike (and I was running from NWAF airfield to Green mountain to try and fix the Land Rover). Starting to get a little tiresome now as it takes a long time to find wheels (I can't believe the wiki when it says it has a 4% spawn rate, I always come across engine parts). Thanks for the suggestions, though :) .