bogroll (DayZ)

Ship of Fools, Mad Max style. We all know we'd want one.

from info: The co-ords for Debug "fields" = 813,894 = pretty dead unless you have the time and supplies. 90mins running am told. The co-ords for Debug "Forest" = 004,116 = Basically off the bottom left of the map, NW of Kamenka and directly West of Povlovo.

Dear God - is that the only option?? Have got very good kit on atm but little liquid. Respawn - I'd prefer not to do, and running southeast for ages seems like a questionable proposition. Is there no other option than these?? The server's I try go on (all versions) always seem to have other players stuck on hills in the wilderness. Are a lot of people getting this? EDIT - I went on the Canada 2 server (for the *fix* as suggested) and have now spawned in the debug forest. Will go East from info: The co-ords for Debug "fields" = 813,894 The co-ords for Debug "Forest" = 004,116 So basically Im NW of Kamenka and directly West of Povlovo. bummer but am still alive with all my kit.

Two weeks ago it was difficult getting on a server, but now there are far more underpopulated servers out there. Logging on to max capacity server is obviously a far different experience than going on one of the freely available low population ones. It is also open to abuse with server / loot hopping / changing positions. Many people would be quite right to say it's a 'good thing' however I feel that the devs should address this if at all possible. Perhaps a sytem whereby you can only join servers that are 80% full (In many MMO's you stick to one server or shard and stay there). I do realise the many problems inherent with this idea at this time in the mod's development. Any opinions on this guys? It's most certainly not 'ruining this game!!' but it has introduced a developing dynamic by being able to freely hop all over the place in relative safety. I don't think that this is what the devs had in mind by metagaming.

Saw a vid where this happened to two guys - one fell to his death, the other had the presence of mind to DC then relog 4 or 5 times and made a controlled landing with no damage.

YES However the effect should really dissipate over time if you haven't killed someone in a day or so.

There's an option in the controls for blood. Zombies = gore and shit. Is this a kiddies game or what? Don't post and say 'search bro' co's I've not seen one post re blood since I started 2 weeks ago sorry. Discuss.

Gore man gore! The zombies are all grey. We want crushed testicles- burst anuses -- let's partyyyyyyyyyyyy Discuss.

5 DayZ days atm. Have died 5- 7 times before and only once from a player. The rest was lack of food/water/injuries and glitches. Almost lost it crawling away solo from the NW airfield. Was extremely low on blood and was passing out at an increasing rate and couldn't even stand, the timer appearing more and more often: crawling would only get me a few yards. Sorry state. No food in the bag. Had matches/wood but no alas no meat. Vision was all grey. Please game give me an animal -I'm about to croak. Dear gawd i thought it was allover - this was it, and I was contemplating respawning. Get it over with. Come round eventually whoa! - there's this big phat cow right in front of me. Bang! 8 steaks later and I was back on the road.

LOL - Lager is a killer

Can I ask if changing your profile name (I've got my default name but am currently running with a different profile) makes you respawn back at the beach? IE can you have different profiles in different states on the servers (one profile with a lot of good lewt and another one or two as starter beach bunnies)?

Walkie Talkies- great idea. Takes up a slot where your binoculars go up at the top of your inventory. Direct comms is lacking due to the range and evesdroppers.

Unless you're part of a clan, or friends from another game then forget it. I've been playing this game for 2 weeks now and have yet to have a conversation with anybody over direct chat. I watched the often hilaroius videos on Youtube with a gang of mates running riot and yes ofc i want that too. Yesterday I thought fuck this - I'll rig up a channel on a free teamspeak server and broadcast my intentions to form up group of willing players. See what happens. At least on the coast when you spawn you've little to lose: If the PK'rs ruin the party then keep trying till you get a solid group. Now that side chat (speaking to everybody) is on it's way out, the above plan is now pretty much defunct. I do understand completely that this game is trying to use real life mechanics, but it does irk that I can't form up with other players. Me? I don't really want to kill other players, not always 'honest guv' - but I have done and quite often done it extremely well (used to play Operation Flashpoint; This game hasn't really evolved that much -it's as good as ever). Far prefer to team up though. Am going to join a clan. Devs - please make a proper sub forum for clan recruitment. Lone wolfing it is becoming stale.

Re: Does the beta patch it mess up Steam? - Thank you for your replies. Am a new player - I think I'll apply that beta patch knowing now that I can be pretty sure that direct (limited range) voice comms work: and the caveat applies -if it fluffs up my fault. Better to know comms work when trying to communicate in those oh so awkward moments.

Does the Beta patch bork a steam intall??