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Stun Baton is great against zombies , and wastes less battery than the cattle prod .. But beware it sucks against humans (or so my experiences have taught me) I've struck many people with the stun baton and it seems to never bring them unconcious because of the shock . The cattle prod seemed to not work well against zombies because it wasted the battery so fast (first few hits are effective but after that it seems to do no damage) but it's great against people , someone kept tazing me with one and I went unconcious for 1-3 Seconds each time he would hit me with it .. But it is a small time frame that you knock the opponent out for so that's it's disadvantage i guess . The telescopic baton seemed fine , no electric shock but it is a little tricky to hit everytime with it .

My guess is a hotfix will be issued tomorrow for the crashes (lots of crash to desktops for me still when I finally get on exp. servers , which were actually playing pretty well this morning) and the map update including severograd will be in the .49 stable patch (hopefully on Wednesday). Just my view though based off of others found info ^^.

I hope they don't remove that I love seeing them Chase cows instead of me ... I think all zombies should have a hunger meter as well (lol) but when they get very low on the meter they would resort to running after animals , but that I'm sure would take up a lot of use from the servers but it would be great come end of alpha when they could also have spreading sickness to animals which would make some of the animals slow enough for the Zombies :0 !

In my opinion , barricades and locked doors by dead survivors should recieve half the damage of its health , for instance a lock on a door has health of worn (the lock) and after you die , your door lock becomes badly damaged ... Then when you get back to the door , you first have to lock pick it (if keys are in game then you must find a key again even though it was your locked door ) after that you'd be able to have access to your stash again , but ALL items inside the perimeter of the locks (or if there's a chest locked, all the items inside the chest ) will recieve the same half damage ... So if you had stashed a m4 inside a house with a locked door but it had any "badly damaged" parts then the m4 would be broken after you die and return to it and every time you die (only if you have "claimed or tagged" that lock/ barricade in that life will it recieve damage ) . So yes you will still know where your barricade / locked house or chest is but you will still have to work to get a lock pick , do the lock picking without breaking your tools or the lock itself (which if you broke the lock you would have to break the door down leaving your stash house completely open til you replaced the door ) or just cut down your barricades if you wanna have access to your stash but remember everytime you lock pick a lock there will be damage done to the lock itself , also everytime you die after you have "claimed"'a lock or barricade by using it or putting it up then all the items inside barricDes / chests/ houses will recieve damage . A fair trade I think for people who constantly stash things and expect and easy "re-arming"..

lol it wouldn't have been funny if there was no hashtag :P .. That being said ... stick !

Can't wait to make that bell tower my home ... Tried climbing up that bitch the other day and three zombies swarmed around the bottom of the pipe and the kept hitting me from ten feet below so I had to climb back down and beat they asses ... Unfortunately I got sidetracked ended up going to the conveinance store by the shore and got shot by a koser bandit when I tried communicating with him , I dodged the first shot as he had bad aim but after dealing with 2 more zombies on the outside of the store he was able to creep up behind me and take me out as I turned toward him :/ ... Long story short today I am making a camp fire and a base up on that tower .. On another side note when will WATCHES be put into the game ? My favorite thing was to know exactly what time it is so I know how many hours til sunset (although hardly any servers resets are long enough anyways but still we need watches :0!)

Lol I'm saving her for a special occasion ... Or was it my huge package you were referring to ? Lol either way I'm set - I spawned in Cherno before work found a moisin (in the five story grey-white office building at the very top after climbing the ladder , seen a moisin there twice this patch .) and then luckily found ammo and a backpack right after finding my medic clothing and zucchini ... Can't wait to play after I get out , it's really feeling "survivally" as of late ;) .

Lol ! ha he had it coming GG... damn bandits im gearing up Ivan Ivanovitch Ivanov , my Blue Medical Man to prevent such incidents from producing death ! See him posing here:http://imgur.com/kLBtrQb ( sorry dont know how to make a spoiler =[ )

Just used a medical thermometer , as soon as I did the server restarted and I got a crash to desktop ... Coincidence ?? I dunno ...

Hmmm ... No ctds here at all and I just played for 30 mins .. I'm loving the update so far the zombies are amazingly scary with their new harder to avoid path finding , the new animation(s?) , and lastly but not least much more houses seem to work to lock them out from last I checked :) .. Also the door opening closing sounds are amazing , definitely need more variety but it's a minor(but huge ) step in the survivally and realism direction . Can't wait to see it hit stable ... But oh anyone else see this bug ; when your usin a caddle prod and also have a compass in your inventory you switch randomly from the caddle prod to the compass in mid combat ? lol it's a tricky bug and I'll try and put it on the bug tracker tonight after work but anyone else have this issue ?

You're making me wanna watch the series again lol Octobers so close though ... So no one has news on the update ? Or am I blind lolEdit : ok I'm freakjng blind , just looked above me and saw it's Ready :) need to finish smaugs death scene first .

Yep , officially running out of things to do lol ... Maybe I'll play stable for a bit but I don't wanna gear up again :/

Come on update let's do this !!! I've been watching a hobbit marathon (1&2) waiting for this patch all morning ... I hope I don't get further than lord of the rings fellowship of the ring cuz that'll be about 9 hrs of patch waiting ! Lol I'm so impatient !

What's this Julius ? Have you spotted an update?!

I can't wait for morning , I keep crashin ;,( (although my first crash was only after two minutes , now on my 5th crash I was able to play for a good 40 mins before it happened again ) .. I really like the door opening and closing sounds it adds a real level of watchfulness being able to listen for doors opening and not Just footsteps, also the new animations for the zombies are awesome .. And it seems they "pathfind" even better now ,staying even closer behind you while you run than the last experimental patch .

I think that they might have made Changes to the renderer which Is why light looks different cuz it happens on my computer too but only after yesterday's experimental patch .. It would make sense seeing as they already said it would change lighting a bit .. Just my guess .

Id say stay away from power lines as there are many areas in the north that just end and turn into debug zone ... Just direct yourself with the sun , it rises in the east travels over the southern part of the sky and sets in the west ... if the server time (only shown before you join) is 12:00 or later then the sun is already going to be past direct south towards west , if it's before 12:00 then the sun is more in the eastern sky and has not yet passed it's zenith (being at its highest point in the sky which should be direct south) . So for instance if it's 12:00 on a server and you spawn in olsha (town right near the northeast airfield closer to the shore ) and you wanna go to the shore (east) you know the sun Is going to be very close to direct south (zenith , when it's highest in the sky and when this occurs it's almost dead south) so if you keep the sun behind you east should theoretically be to your right ;) .. It takes some practice as you can still get confused but it's much better than the alternative of trying to find the right roads or power lines for that matter ..

Anybody see the new status report ? It's amazing ... Vehicles barricades and glitch/ hacks are addressed ... Oh and here's to hoping that they are gonna put in horticulture in the next update !!

I just .... I can't .... I don't even know what to say , so much awesome freaking stuff in one page =) lockable doors and barricades mentioned , vehicle work beginning , filthy glitchers and hackers going away for a while and a whole lot of good little surprises :0 ! Great work dev team !

That's disappointing :( but at least predators will make it in soon , after this new weather stuff from .49 I'm really looking forward to all the survival enthused changes :0 !

If anyone sees wolves you must let me know . I want a wolf . Otherwise I cannot wait to get on experimental today , had a great run on stable before work but now I'm craving some real survivalism gameplay without that auto hypo bug :) no hypothermia here I come ! Me and a friend got everything we needed before a session lost made us stop yesterday , as we decided we wouldn't log in again until the hot fix I didn't realize it would be so soon ;) !

No , "is" a fun thing ! I don't like to run around for kills and experimental felt like home when it worked last experimental . I never had a problem with the temperature system of the old experimental patch , it was perfect for me and now it's unplayable for me . I guess the tables have turned but I think people were truly complaining without reason last time but now it's truly bad... Considering I can't leave my PC on all day because she's an energy sucker (and also that's very bad for your PC ) but now that I think about it you/ exorade said it best : switch to stable/ don't play for 48 hrs , so I think I'll just pretend there is a temperature system and look for a tent or something in stable til they hot fix this bad thang !

This existed far before the persistence was even in I believe,but when servers started to have persistence it did start to happen like 500% more lol ... It seems that before persistence there was one or 2 servers that needed to be reset because they were stuck or "broken" now it seems many are like that and im with hoth on this one I think some people don't care about their servers and when they get stuck in this state they don't check them to get them fixed . But as for experimental it makes no sense because those are hosted (i think) by Bohemia or the dayz devs or something .. Maybe the devs don't even check the experimental servers but that seems far fetched ?

Yea this patch is pretty rough , I think switching to stable is the only option at this point , me and a friend searched all last night literally all night , scouring the eastern hemisphere for an axe ... We saw and killed many people that tried robbing us for our matches and our imaginary axe (everyone was hard up for that lol even though we were looking for one too ) I even became a bandit for an hour with my cray cray bandit friend .. We held up many souls and cattle proded (tickled) them until we were satisfied that they truly didn't know where an axe was (lol) and then at the very end of the night after going through many small villages , novo, berezino , and svetlojarsk we ended up dying by a guy we couldn't even see ! We were in the blue medical building (in Svetlo I think ) and both of us were crouched down , I was about to leave the room so I turned around towards the door , nobody was there and as I turned to my friend in real life (he was next to me) I looked at his monitor and saw a few bullets hit next to where I was as I look back on my computer screen to see I went unconcious - not seeing anyone .. My friend waits silently behind the door and we hear him(m4 fuck) tap his m4 trigger once more as I see my "you are unconcious" turn into " you are dead " I wait watching his screen (he's now laying down to avoid m4 deuche bag from shooting him from outside from behind ) all of a sudden he moves backwards to be in the corner more and he just gets "glitched pushed" towards the door opening , and without seeing anyone he dies .. A sucky way to end 3 hours of searching for one item ! I have no idea if he was glitched In a wall or what cuz we heard that m4 all day when we were in Svetlo , he must have been doing something sketchy unless he was just the best dayz player ever and just happened to have 100's of m4 bullets cuz we heard that m4 go off at least in 10 different occasions before we were met by him So long story short I can't wait for all fear of duplicated mags to be gone , I can't wait for all buildings to be unclippable (if he was somehow clipping through and seeing us) and I can't wait to really get this hypothermia fixed cuz you can play on one server but as soon as you need to log out your screwed unless you make a fire first :/ ... I really enjoy the weather effects and I don't wanna stay on stable for long devs please hot fix our asses soon please ? :,(

I want wolves :( and a hypothermia fix ?:D