GanjaPalooza

You all take your time and roll out this update when it's ready! This "pause" in major updates is nice for me, I have needed a break from letting DayZ take over my spare time. I will be ready to come back once the update is actually complete and "stable", then I will enjoy ambushing all the punks trying to catch their first fish :)

Protip: Play versions only close after their release (stable and experimental) - new build = new code = old hacks don't work. If you're not down with that then you are screwed until there are private servers with good admins / community that will ensure hackers are banned on a regular basis from your server of choice.

instead of lootable items you should make a beard grow the longer your survive, kinda like a trophy to show off. Maybe like 5 stages of beard?

I have been enjoying this experimental build a lot at this point. Let's hope the team gets on the latency issues that were mentioned in the latest Devblog..... I cannot stand guessing where other survivor models really are and not where I am seeing them.... I wouldn't mind watching one actually climb up the staircase I was on top of instead of someone magically appearing in my face and swinging an axe. That Devblog got me excited for the upcoming patches!!!!!!

.... he said his friend could see the guy, that would be my guess.

As of now, you will see my crew and I haging out in Bere and Svet - we like the new scenery and Bere seems to be having a lot more traffic than earlier SA. We help fresh spawn as much as possible but love the sound of distant gunfire and snooping around. Once vehicles / reasons to move inland (tents, hunting etc.) become implemented I would imagine your problem with low traffic at NWAF will change, the only reason we hang out on the coast area is because there is not much to go inland for once you have checked out the new geography. BTW LeeFriendField - I LOVE your sig :D and you should add Svetlo to the vote!

you can't put Hunter Scopes on the SKS anymore as far as I am concerned. you're right about the reload animation, it's gorgeous

For about a month now I have been spending 90% of my time along the coastal region, occasionally making my way into Elektro, but not much farther than that. Kamyshovo and sometimes Solnichniy are some heavy hot spots, constantly running into geared players looking for trouble. This being said, I had a character for about 1 1/2 weeks running down the "Florida" area of the map that probably had roughly 20-25 gameplay hours before dying.

sorry, i am just getting really bored with what the Alpha allows me to do as of now. Once there are reasons for me to stay off the coast and play less savagely you should have more fun.

OP needs to leave

My guess is this is strictly a stability move until things run smoother, I could be wrong but that' how I feel.

This looks promising! Ready to try some new things out and get sucked into DayZ for another week! :D The one thing I am looking very forward to being implemented is definitely the ability to store items! I get bored policing the coast all the time and want a reason to move more inland!

I hate it when kids have to remind us they are pissed off every two posts, or remind us that the Alpha version of the Standalone is not good enough for them. Great, go play Rust. It's definitely the "DayZ for people who can't handle the real deal"

Well no date has been set but I am pretty sure they mentioned early 2014 as their goal date for tents. There is a thread in the Announcements forum that shows their initial plans for development and estimate of their entry into the Alpha

not the route the game should take IMO

He deserves 3 weeks? Tell that to all the people in the world that work 5-10 times harder than Rocket, and in far more dangerous jobs that don't get a week of "paid vacation" for the company they have worked for for 10 years. In today's world, especially in the game industry, there is no "deserved" break time, especially not 3 weeks. I am not bashing Rocket or the Dev team at all because I love the holidays and being with my family but I also am not a creator of a game that is going through early stages of testing.

We have been doing "Suicide Prevention" around the silo and "Factory" area on the East Coast to stop fresh spawn from ending their lives :P. Wish he had some footage from it, sometimes it turn out really fun and hectic. Solnichniy had become a blood bath because all the KoSing nubs know fresh spawn have no means to get weapons right off the bat anymore and can kill to their likings - this is why we have been hunting hunters when Suicide Prevention shifts are over :)

As new content begins to flood in, people will soon forget about murdering on the coast.... at least a good chunk of 'em.

To me, as of now, the game is almost not playable. This isn't a troll or complaining post, but with the rubberbanding of characters and them sliding in and out of walls/buildings to other players it's near impossible to play. All of my encounters now turn into me guessing if the player I was shooting at was inside or outside the whole time due to the wall issues. I need to take a break until the combat is less..... chaotic.

what happened to the days of minimal whining?

This happens to me too, I don't know if it's a bug or if like mentioned above, it's a sign that you are actually in the healing process.

So glad I found that video in this thread, thanks!

Hmmm. This might mean another fire-mode is in the works but not implemented yet?.... This is funny though, I didn't know you could swap the rate of fire even! I guess I love my Mosin too much :D

Well I will lay it out for you: My first couple weeks were played like I played the Mod - quickly get some decent gear, hydrate and get food, then move inland a bit to look around. Here's the problem with the Alpha, as of now there is nothing really moving inland for unless you want to get to the airfields or had no luck finding basic supplies on the coast (which seems to vary server to server and some days are better than others). Don't get me wrong, I LOVE exploring the new map and have touched a lot of the inland areas that are new/changed. We have lately been staying close to Elektro and getting in the midst of the madness because of how bored I got inland :P . I feel bad because I have KoS'd more these past few days than ever before but oh well, I am learning the fighting mechanics and having a lot more fun interacting with other survivors instead of trying to hold on to the little gear I have to survive kinda for no reason. Go North of Bere and check out some of Rify and the newly added area in Guba if you haven't yet - be weary.... it's a dangerous approach there but there would have to be one hell of a sniper to make some of the shots around there. Make sure you have plenty of food and water, it's a long trek and you might get sucked in farther north, I know we did :D Besides that, get on the coast and have some FUN.... not just KoSing everything - be smart and you can survive as a friendly in this hostile coastline.

I haven't seen that yet although usually when I get a military shirt I don't spend much time picking up shirts in other areas