mortoopz

I hope so. I don't object to the occasional wipe but I've tried three servers, not one seems to have any loot at all.

Oh good, it's not just me. I thought I was going crazy for a while there, I kept following the compass north and winding up on the East coast. It's happened so often I no longer bother carrying a compass, more trouble than they're worth at the moment.

Play on the same server as much as possible, until you figure out its reboot schedule. Once you do and a reboot is due, position yourself somewhere overlooking military supplies and wait for the reboot. Rejoin ASAP then make a game of slaughtering server hoppers, you get a flood of em for the first few minutes, so even the fairly poor loot spots quite often get one. But please, Leave anyone who legitimately walks in alone, don't be a KoS douche bag when you're under no threat yourself.... anyone who just appears in a building is fair game tho. Trust me, it's a lot more satisfying killing people for a good reason. One tip, pretty much everyone starts at the front of a barracks and works back room by room, then when they leave they go from the back room out the front door..... in a straight, predictable line... which can be somewhat helpful for aiming ;).

Oh yeah, You just want to get close and have me let my guard down... because I just said how much awesome loot I'm Lugging..... I know your game buddy, I'm not new to Cherno ;) Good idea tho, Think maybe it's worth trying to gather a 'gang' of people who mainly want to test?. If we have say 6..8 people then we can just take over somewhere like Zelenogorsk (one of my favourite place on the map), 2..3 people on security while the others can just run around like lunatics doing their thing. I really don't have the first clue how people organise these types of thing tho, so if anyone else thinks thats a good idea: suggestions? BTW, 0 found on steam for 'Woodland Warrior'?. Oh, and I'm MortOOPz on steam. I guess connecting there is as good'a way to get started as any, right? (I honestly don't know, I only put steam on for ArmA3, and have never used it for anything other than starting games, has it got chat/VoIP/stuff?) I made a recruiting post, so continue this in the correct sub fora: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/163099-gang-for-testing-playing-gbwestern-europe-servers/

Yes, we can all be patronising, it's not tricky. I've got something like 75hours of gameplay racked up, I'm still getting 2..3 hours/death even tho most of the time I just run around (carelessly) looking for things to test out.... during which periods I make sure to never carry a gun, in the deluded hope that not being in the least bit threatening; will slightly reduce the likely hood that I'll be shot by the first douche I see..... It does not. Other times, when I actually want good gear. well, I get good gear... all of it, I've currently got just about everything except a rail forgrip for my M4 (so I can stick a light on), backpack full of supplies and a belly so full I don't want to eat any more in case I start puking... I even found a walkie talkie... not sure how to use it yet, but I've got one. It is indeed not hard if you constantly play like its a death match, but... ya know... I just don't want to do that ALL the time. And yes, they want gameplay feedback, but trust me, there's over half a million players now, right?... and it seems that just about every damn one kills everyone they see.... I think they've got enough data on the combat for now. There might be all kinds of weird bugs associated with fires or cooking or something, but how would we ever know when everyone is playing deathmatch?.

Two things. 1: I was asking not telling, I'm just so bored of running round collecting basics only to be shot for the... umm?, probably about 30th time. (there's really no need to gun someone down if they only got a melee weapon (unless he's charging at you) I mean, you've got a gun, what's a new spawn going to have that you need?). and: 2: You know this is an Alpha right?... The whole point being that it's for testing (not for playing)... It's kinda hard to test anything when people kill you long before you manage to gather the parts required to do that testing. I'm still wondering if a camp fire or camping stove, a cooking pot, a bottle of water and some raw rice can be combined to make cooked rice.... Never managed to collect up all the necessary bits and pieces to test it.... thank you KoSsers. Thanks for all the beans guys, Guess I eat well tonight :)

Me?, Just one guy who snuck up on me, I saw movement, panicked and hit him with my axe, I then backed off and apologised... but he wouldnt take the hint and just kept coming at me.... so I had to finish him off.

Added. but it does kinda throw off the statistics adding something after the voting has started.

Eeeh, not so hard if you look in the right place, searching just one area took my damaged and worn (as i found it) M4 to fully kitted out: acog, flash light, silencer etc, 100% pristine. (now I'm scared to leave the woods because I just know someone will try to kill me for my gun ;))

So. every time I've died and immediately quit the game (not 'rage quitting', it just seems a natural stopping point.... time to do something else for an hour or two). I robbed the KoSing bastards of all my gear?. Awesome, Couldn't be happier.

The M4 takes a pistol clip?........ Sorry, couldn't resist. ;)

There are M4s everywhere.... if you look in the places they are. I've not seen a Mosin in ages tho, first gun I found was a Mosin but I never found ammo for it and died. not seen another one since. Where do they spawn?

You don't really need to imagine, just run around like a lunatic in some big towns after a server reboot, you can get 5..6 of em chasing you no problem. I had about 8 once; just to see how hard it was to fight them off. a splitter axe made light work of em, they turn real slow so just run in circles and you'll be fine.

Loud enough that it appears to have broken every piece of glass in the world ;)

Just a thought, but how about some of you.... 'people' NOT _immediately_ murder everyone you see? At least think back to the good old days and mess with them a little bit first. shesh, you're making this a very boring game. Some 'person' with an M4 (and generally full military kit) just gunned me down even tho the only thing I was carrying was a pipe vice, no backpack, still in my original T-Shirt etc, clearly I had nothing he wanted/needed (unless perhaps he was out of batteries *facepalm*). You've got everyone so jumpy that even when I wave 'Hi' then proceed to not point a gun at them; they still either run and hide or charge at me. This game really should be more than a death match where you have to go find your kit!. Re-f'in-lax a little bit, eh?.

Well, It finally happened, I ran into someone unexpectedly while searching around in Polana, I waved; he lowered his weapon and carried on searching without feeling the need to kill me first. So, thats one other player who's not an arse out of 8..10 now.... that or he just didnt have any ammo.

Anyone been up in the far north?. There's all kinds of new road works there. Go to Gvozdno and follow the road north west for about 1km, Looks to me like they're in the process of adding a new town (it'll be a big one too, maybe even bigger than Elektroz). The ground looks like it's been/being prepped for buildings, There's a bunch of new road bridges and a train yard. there's even a football pitch in the middle of nowhere, so I'm guessing that will soon be surrounded with buildings Theres a bunch of industrial/farm buildings too, quite a bit of free loot up there with zero zombie spawns (yet). I for one will be watching with great interest to see how that grows with the coming updates, I kinda think the map needs something there and a big town would re-balance the map nicely. Also looks like there will be some villages east and west, so lots of new stuff up in that previously 'wasted' north :)

Wrist watches will be handy too, when they're added, should be able to ballpark direction based on the sun and time of day.

Yeah!, the game's gunna rule when there are in the ballpark of 100 zombies in even small towns. you're not gunna want to wade into that with nothing but an axe :)

Totally kidding n all... but yes. It does seem that an assault rifle is worth far less than a can opener, simply because of how rare the can opener is. really?.... I would bet my life savings on a random house containing a can opener... EVERYONE has one. Why are they so rare?

Ahhh, Screwdriver!. I did not think of trying a screwdriver, they're everywhere!. Bribase: indeed, fingers crossed eh :)

Indeed, a gang would be good. And I'm assuming that the majority of people running around on their own are thinking the same thing... so don't shoot me, come over and chat and poof, instant 'gang'. But yeah, I don't for a second expect it to stop completely, but it'd be nice if it toned down a little.

User experience may differ... But I've not 'met' anyone nice yet, but have been murdered for my gear four times. (at least, that's four attempts, one of which I managed to win)

Yeah... you wont see the other player until he beans you in the head with a fire axe and steals all your stuff... Sadly, it seems to be the way it's going.... banditry is apparently the norm, those of us who refuse to PK (unless they start it) are in the extreme minority.

What does this mean, and why is it cluttering up my screen all the time?... making me thing something important has happened.