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The past two days have been the same for me. Every time I encounter other players, they teleport all over the place and it caused the death of my regular and hardcore characters. My buddy has fallen through the floor/stairs and died twice in the same building.(firestation in the newest town N of NEAF. It's certainly been the most frustrating weekend I've had with DayZ. I've had pings as low as 30 during all of this too. My ping hasn't been over 100 on any server that I've had the issues with. I closed everything except steam and it doesn't seem to matter. Makes the game unplayable. Is this just a problem with the game right now or is there something I can troubleshoot?

So yesterday I was having some terrible desync. It started with the "Battleye failed to update" issue. I downloaded the newest .dll and rebooted. That seemed to fix me getting booted from the server. I ran across the map and met my buddy near the north side of Khelm. We went to the NE airfield and started tracking 2 bandits. They went into the east prison and stayed inside for FOREVER. My buddy saw the doors open, but it took 5 - 10 seconds for them to show up for me. We shot and missed, so we started circling west. We got lucky and happened to be behind a wall when the two of them walked right around us as they were flanking our previous firing position. We gave chase and started shooting. I start desyncing a bunch and get shot up a little by an m4. I manage to get away and decide to log since I am lagging so badly. I kept seeing them run in a straight line then disappear. My buddy had to go afk for a bit so I picked a server at random and logged in. It was my poor fortune to have picked the exact same server. The two guys heard me yelp and reload as I logged in and they promptly took me out. Bummer. So I find a different server this time and start on the coast south of Berezino. I proceed to run through the coastal part of Berez, back through Khelm, NEAF and then on to Svetlojarsk. I sit in the 2nd floor of a green house and watch a guy on top of the hospital. A new spawn climbs up and asks they guy to shoot him, and he does. It was pretty comical. Then the guy on the roof freezes in place for about 2 minutes. I decide to log off since it's probably me that is DCed. I choose another server and my character is on the coast. Tried logging off right away but it didn't help. Yesterday was probably my most frustrating experience so far in DayZ. Luckily I like gearing up...

Surely you had some idea of what DayZ was when you bought into the alpha? I really have a hard time understanding the problem here. From the beginning DayZ has been about scavenging and inventory management. The excitement comes when you cross paths with other survivors and are at risk of losing your gear. If you want to skip to being fully kitted and fighting, why aren't you playing one of the 1000 other FPS's out there. BF4 may be a good option for you. This isn't supposed to be a combat game first. It's a survival game. I don't feel sorry for the people that want to play DM on the coast without putting the time in to gear up. My goal is to survive, but I also don't want to sit in the woods and avoid interaction with other players entirely. I go loot airfields and big towns for the thrill of being in a danger, and for the rewards of finding good loot. I take what I can get. Sure there are specific items I want at times, but I'm not mad at the game because it doesn't hand it to me. With complaints like this "grind" and a lot of the ones about the controls; I think so many are just conditioned for arcade shooters like BF and CoD etc that they cannot see DayZ for what it's supposed to be. A zombie apocalypse sim. If movement was as easy as BF it would feel just as cheap as The War Z. Some of my own clan mates won't play DayZ because it's not BF4 with Z's... This game isn't for everyone, and I'm fine with that. Please don't make this game easy or less of a "grind". It's what sets it apart. Surviving the apocalypse should be a grind. Eventually, I think it will be a lot harder just to stay healthy even without lead poisoning. Once there are more survival aspects of the game, maybe a lot of focus will switch from finding the best combat gear so I can go kill newbs on the coast, to doing what's necessary to survive the next cold and rainy night. Stop grinding and survive.

All the green army gear for me right now.

I was playing with a buddy and he shot a zombie with an SKS in the open field south of NEAF. Zombies started spawning in a circle around us. At first it was fun. But it wouldn't stop. Even when we switched to using our axes. For a little while it was pretty exciting. I couldn't see them spawning and thought, "Wow these zombies are coming from a long ways away to get to us." Then I started seeing them appear out in the middle of a field and that kind of broke the immersion. We had to fight them off for about 10-15 minutes after we stopped shooting. I don't mind zombies re-spawning, but they shouldn't spawn directly around you and already aware of you IMHO. I would like to have them re-spawn in the nearest town, out of site and unaware. It's better than it was, I like that they are somewhat of a threat.

I recently started to stream some of my DayZ gameplay. Nothing too serious, just having fun playing solo right now. You can watch my twitch.tv channel HERE and catch some high/low lights on my youtube channel HERE . I'm still adjusting my twitch channel and have some refining to do. Let me know what ya think so far. I'm a twitch/youtube noob so...

A couple videos from SA added. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHcFYkQ5JQ6PEaD7YDOx7HfGNEGaWXi_-

I've had the Mosin-Nagant since before the patch, I've seen several .22 sporter rifles and a couple of the .22 pistols, but never a magazine for either. No reason to ditch my current weapons yet. I'd like to find the CZ-75. I'm kinda partial to CZ. I love my CZ-P07 Duty :)

^this A double tap of shift will toggle between jog and walk. Also make sure you aren't aiming down sights (RMB) with nothing in your hands.

Here are a few of my favorites.

I'm using dxtory and xplit to stream on Twitch.tv. Those videos are what twitch exports to youtube. I know it's not 1080p but it's far from unwatchable.

I usually don't kos but the server I'm playing is a high population DayZ Overwatch server and it's pretty much DM. I'm trying to get better at surviving gun battles. Thanks for the input though. :rolleyes:

I never minded the hard installs, but some of my clan mates really had trouble. It will be nice for the easily discouraged...

I have a similar character for the public hives. I don't know how old he is but at least 3 months... I have NVG's, range finders, GPS, DMR and I actually jumped on a played him some yesterday. I had the thermal L85 in my pack that was removed I think. Couldnt equip it.. had to dump it on the ground. Sad. I shot a few people in Electro, I don't usually bandit but I couldnt pass it up. Not much else to do I guess. I have been playing private hives on other maps for the most part, so I just logged in to see what was up. I sucked it up and and almost got killed by a guy with a AKM that I missed on top of the school.... Was lucky not to die. A few minutes later a dude walked into me with a hatchet so I had to shoot him. I finally hit a few guys from range and then logged off.

Heard some shooting from Rog Castle and went to investigate. I snuck into the low spot by the circular wall and was watching the door to the tower. Finally 2 bandits that had just killed a few people came around the right side of the tower. I shot them both and just as the second one died, I lost my footing and fell into the crevice where they ground slopes way down into the wall. I could move around for a bit, but then... CRACK, I think every bone in my body broke and I died.... Never got to loot the bandits :( That thing is like one of those carnivorous plant traps.

Died from... Bandits: 204 Zombies: 23 Starvation/dehydration: 0 Yeah, I'm ok if they make zombies and survival more of a focus. Sure the zombies are less than perfect.. but that's why the stand alone is being made. Right?

He got a lot of kills before he got trolled in the heel by a hacker.

I vote no for now. Since the soldier AI makes them hard to hit at times. But in the SA since they will run more directly at you, I wouldn't mind if they hit a bit harder. I just don't wanna have a zombie take me out through the wall.

Zombie AI is being rewritten for the SA. They will run in straight lines. yay

Nothing in the factory? Only like the best place to find every part needed to repair a car/heli. Wheels, scrap metal, engine parts, Main Rotor Assembly, not to mention food, higher end ammo, tool boxes.. It's like your one stop shop post-apoc hardware store! An it makes a great fort/base to fight over :) I'm happy to see an update finally, but I wasn't worried or upset about the delay. Rocket wants DayZ SA to be a success more than all of us combined I imagine.

Haha nice job!

Bambie: "I'm in a barn, I can see a large field and a tree line through the door. Anyone know where I am?" Rest of Server: .............................................................................

- Since there will be a lot more buildings you can loot, hopefully good loot will be rarer. It should be a real struggle to find enough food and supplies to live. - Military gear = very rare - Ability to construct lean-to for shelter in the forest. - More severe environmental effects, severe storms, rain, snow, freezing, heat. Protective clothing that will help. Coats, poncho's, gloves, goggles, boots etc... - The environment and zombies should be such a great threat that pvp is an afterthought unless done for ACTUAL survival. - Hunting and trapping wildlife, more realistic animal AI, (hard to get close to and much faster) - Ability to choose from set of character skins/sex after each death. - Improved melee physics/animation - Improved inventory (duh) - Roaming zombies - A limited but personal stash along with larger stashes that are discoverable by anyone (like tents now). - No electricity, find generators to turn the lights on in one building that uses very rare fuel. - Ability to barricade off sections of town areas to create safe zones (only safe from Zeds) Barricades must be crafted and placed. - Biting zombies that bleed you every time. Don't really like the melee zombies.. DayZ/L4D - Dismemberment and exploding heads with close range shotguns and large caliber weapons. - Remove the ability to exploit brightness/gamma (even though I do it :P) and make night vision either .01 % drop or non-existent. Maybe a NV optic/binocular but no head mounted NV or nv scopes. Moving at night should be dangerous and require a light source if the moon isn't shining. Use of flashlights, crafted torches, glow sticks, or a rare LED headlamp would be sweet. - Just keep delivering tense, paranoid game play that I've always wanted and finally got with this great mod! Keep the price of failure high and chances for success low. :o