Etherimp

I understand it's Alpha, but in case you weren't aware... It's our job as Alpha testers to bring up issues to the Dev team, and this post is written in that spirit. I am not complaining like "ZOMG GAME SO BUGGY GUNNA GO PLAY COD OMGWTFBBQ". I'm already tired of the "Alpha" cop-out and I'm equally tired of people bitching about well known issues/bugs and claiming the game is SO horrible and unplayable and that it was a waste of money.. I didn't say any of that stuff.. I just said "hey, here's some stuff to think about/look at.." If nobody brings these issues up, they may not get addressed.

Better yet.. Ragdoll physics.

Was in a DAL server earlier tonight and was travelling north with 2 friends... all of us got teleported back to the place where we originally spawned in on the server. (North/West of Balota Airstrip). 1 of us crashed. 1 of us Alt+F4'd immediately. I waited for a little while.. I was stuck in place, and could not move my camera or use any actions, not even access gear. I was then shot and killed. My friend who Alt+F4'd logged back in, and found 3 guys surrounding my body.. He killed all 3, and died in the process (3rd guy returned fire and knocked him unconscious.) My other friend then logged in, and checked the bodies.. At least 1 of their bodies was extremely well geared.. (Pristine optics on M4, Mosin w/ Optics and over 150 Ammo, etc.) As we were running back to Balota, the friend who died shortly after me and I both got teleported again, back to our spawn point.. This happened several times over the course of about 1 hour. We finally smartened up and logged into another server, ran back to our bodies, and logged in.. by this time, the guys who killed us were back there as well. When everything was said and done, all of our gear was "Ruined", and the guys eventually combat logged when they got shot at and took most of the good gear with them. So.. Anything like this happen to anyone else? Anyone know if this was a bug/server glitch/hive issue, or if this was intentional? It seemed that once we started changing our Steam names, we stopped getting teleported. Any info would be great. Thanks.

Well, the 150 bullets thing wasn't as suspicious to me as was the fact that there was a group of 3 guys hanging out near Balota who were THAT geared, so long after server restart, and who also just happened to be exactly at the place that I got mysteriously "teleported" to.. And then the fact that we KEPT getting teleported but as soon as we changed our names we stopped getting teleported.. It happened systematically, also.. Like 1 friend changed his name and stopped getting teleported, and then I got teleported, and after changing my name I didn't get teleported, but got teleported several times before that.. The whole thing was just very suspicious.

Bump.

Yes. You can die of dehydration/starvation.

Go to your options and turn VON Volume to 0.. This will remove the Sidechat but you will still be able to hear people talking in direct chat.

Wait until Zombies start respawning... Right now it's just a test period. Worry about difficulty once 20% of the features have actually been implemented.

Never found anything in the short/tall barns, but I have found a lot of different loot in the long brown and long white barns.

Yes. I'd like to know how you combined those mags, because I tried it and it did not work..

I visited Green Mountain earlier tonight as a black female. ..thing is, I spawned in as a white male.

Nobody was crying, sweetheart.

While you are correct that SOME private hives are well run and do a good job of "adding something fresh" without completely destroying gameplay... the fact is that if you open that door to THOSE servers, you're also opening the door to the 90% of other Private Hive servers that will abuse it and ruin DayZ.

There's a bug where you can be launched off ladders and die. Especially the "tower" part of firestations.. If you go to the ladder from the top and mount it to climb down, your character will sometimes fall to the ground, then appear to grab the ladder properly, then "you have died" will pop up and screen goes black. I am assuming this has something to do with a desync between the server and client..

I wasn't addressing you. What faded said was moronic and anyone who calls people out for being "PVE carebears" in DayZ is obviously a fool. Sorry it ruffled your feathers. On another note... Anybody else noticed how incredibly active MOST of the Public hive SA servers have been? Anyone else noticed how easy it is to find a Vanilla DayZ SA server with 20+ people playing on it at all hours of the day/night? Yeah.. I think that alone proves that DayZ Vanilla was ruined by mods/private hive. The gaming community I play with has never been so active as it is now.. all of the old players who enjoyed DayZ as it was in it's prime have come back and started playing again. Please do not let these EzMode COD kiddies ruin it for everyone else.

You've just proven yourself to be a moron. Plenty of PVP happens on Vanilla, and there are no "PVE Carebears" in DayZ, so take yourself back to WoW or where-ever you picked up that term from. The reason you're so confident in your "DMG" skills is because you're not afraid of losing anything because you play exclusively on Private Hive where everything is given to you and/or easy to get. I am fine with PVP. I am fine with KOS. I am fine with you shooting me for my "cookies".. Just know that if you miss, I'm going to mop the floor with you and take your shit instead.. But see, if you were on public hive, you'd have to deal with the consequences of that by restarting.. If you're an admin on private hive you can just spawn it back in for yourself. As I said: Fuck that. If you don't like DayZ the way it was designed to be played then go play a different game, and get over yourself. There's plenty of PVP and blowing things up on COD and BF4.. I enjoy Battlefield myself. Hell, I played Counter-strike competitively for 7 years. Don't lecture me about PVP.

If you don't want to play DayZ, go play another game with the options you enjoy. I've seen Mods ruin about every kind of FPS game you can think of, from Quake to Counter-Strike to DayZ.. It's an inevitable fact that as soon as people start modding the fuck out of the game it fractures the community and drives people away from the game. If you create private hives (again), you will see the same thing happen to SA that happened to DayZ: The only servers left will be 1000 vehicles, and people who want the core experience will be left sitting on their dicks, and searching for better games.

And THAT right there is why Private hives ruined DayZ. See, when you provide an alternative for the "EzMode", then what happens is that people start playing DayZ and join whichever server is most populated, and then they get spoiled based on that server and will never look to the Vanilla experience because they are too accustomed to the easy mode.. And players who originally played Vanilla but weren't patient enough to learn the ropes and get good at it just exodus over to Ezmode private hive servers because the player base is a homogenized pool of suck ass baddy scrubs and they can feel like badasses for KOS'ing everything in sight with their server provided DMR and Night Vision. Also, you have selfish server owners like this guy concerned about their server being "the most popular", so rather than running a server nice and tight and legit, they go out of their way to throw in whatever options make the server the most popular.. Want a hospital in Zelenogorsk?! Barracks at Elektro? NO PROBLEM! WHATEVER MAKES US #1! Fuck that. Leave DayZ as it is.

No. DayZ is not meant to have 1000 vehicles and custom loadouts and 24 days. If you want that shit, go play Battlefield 4. You're the one playing the wrong game, not "us". Some of us don't want the game to be ruined (yes, ruined) by thousands of private hive servers.

here's the problem... You find 20 articles of clothing and pens and other non-sense for every 1 food item you find.. I was unable to properly eat cans of food.. It just says "receiving", but I was able to eat fruit.. I was starving so I decided to eat rotten bananas.. not a good idea.

First of all, not everyone KOS's. On public hive, I'm a hero, and I only KOS bandits. Second of all, most people who get KOS'd, have it coming to them.. If the objective is to survive, you do not hang around Cherno/Elektro/NWAF all day then wonder why someone eventually shot you. If you want to survive, you take less traveled routes and get yourself geared up.. You also make wise decisions about approaching situations. Thirdly, a plethora of Mods and heavily scripted servers where you spawn with weapons, have 1000 vehicles, or otherwise ARE NOT A PUBLIC HIVE, encourage deathmatch playstyle. Finally, because at it's core DayZ is still a first person SHOOTER and in order to SHOOT you have to have a TARGET, and if you see someone as a TARGET you don't stop and talk to them in order to construe a reason as to why you should or should not shoot them. That's far too risky. As I said above, I play on Public hive as a hero, and I only shoot Bandits.. but if it was not for KOS bandits, then guess what? I would have no targets and I would get bored and stop playing the game..or I'd go play battlefield or CS or some other FIRST PERSON SHOOTER. And, to conclude: Stop making KoS threads. They're fucking old. Nobody cares. Go play another game. OR at the very least, play on Vanilla servers where the KOS rate is a fraction of what it is on private hive.

Us264 and US 659. 659 is more active but is also running several scripts such as dynamic heli crashes, extra vehicles and extra buildings. I like it all right but prefer us264 for the community and pure vanilla nature. Both are central time zone

note: The DayZ DB map is also missing the fuel tank E of NWAF.

Etherimp@comcast.net Add me on steam I play on us264 vanilla server starting at about 11pm MST on weekdays. I roll with a small group of heroes and survivors. We enjoy the survival aspect of the game and limit PvP to bandits or dire situations, though we occasionally hop on a private hive for PvP action/practice. We all use TS.

Handy yes. And I'll use one in a pinch. But if you get shot at you're toast. If you drive over a bridge, you may be toast.