RyanW1019

Extra tip: if you ever find a "Long Range Scope", right clicking will hold the scope up to your eye, then holding right click will zoom in even farther. This only works on the Mosin.

If you can't get out that way, try standing next to the wall, pressing V, and logging out in the middle of the animation. When you log back in the game should put you outside the wall.

Is this a bug or is every server full? Every server I try to join, whether full or empty, just gives me a "wait for host" screen indefinitely or says "maximum number of players reached." Is anyone else experiencing this inability to play? EDIT: Apparently it's a problem with Steam's authentication process. At the moment no players signing in through Steam can play. Credit to BAHADIR for linking me to the announcement thread. You can find it here: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum-76/announcement-8-important-announcement-servers-not-showing-and-waiting-for-host/ Additionally, it should be visible at the top of the page on General Discussion.

I've heard of huntable animals and cooking being implemented. But I haven't heard anything about agriculture. Do you have a source for that?

Hit tab to open your inventory, then drag it into your "hands" slot. Look down at the water (or any pump you find) and you should have the option to "Refill bottle." You may need to use the mouse wheel to get the options to come up, or the lake you are at may just be too shallow.

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/156129-confirmed-upcoming-features-for-dayz/ Read the above post. Rocket details which upcoming features are being worked on. More zombies will be part of the optimization process. Personally, it's not that big a deal to me. Yes, more zombies would make it more enjoyable, but as long as they fix it before beta it makes sense to ensure that the other systems are all functional before you crank up the number of zombies.

I once spawned on a sandbar and had to swim into shore. It was buggy like the mod (when you get to shore, you sink through the ground before popping up on land in a standing position) but never got stuck. Could be it's that pond. Could you tell us approximately where you were when this happened?

I found the only rifle that Standalone has (Molin I think?), and then found a bayonet sometime later. I attached it to my rifle (which makes it look awesome by the way) but I didn't have any ammo for the gun. So I wondered to myself, can I melee attack with a bayonet? A few minutes of testing confirmed that if you could, I had no idea how. Any idea whether this is possible?

I died of starvation not long after finding the bayonet, so I don't have a picture, sorry :( Mostly I was just wondering whether there was any melee option for guns.

That sucks, the bandwidth cap here is 8 GB. I'll bet part of the problem is that this is an alpha that just came out, so large updates are happening very often. Once you actually manage to get it downloaded the update process should go smoother. Only thing I can recommend is to try downloading again, and if you have to stop partway through cross your fingers and hope no patches get released while you do so.

V is step over something, same as before. If you hold v while running you can hop fences without breaking stride. In a more general sense, they've had to build everything from the ground up instead of modding an existing game, and they've finally just about gotten back to where the mod was. Which is why I think they released the alpha now, it's decently close to the original experience so most stuff from here moving forward will be viewed as progress and not retreading old ground.

Unless the part that you downloaded is the part that got changed with the updates?

I've seen many people complaining about melee. I was one of them as recently as yesterday. However, today I tried melee combat in first person and it seemed much better. You can clearly see where your axe goes and hit your target more often than not. Have you all tried melee in both first and third person?

The melee system in third person is awful. However, using melee weapons in first person is actually pretty easy by comparison, and a lot less buggy. You can see exactly where your axe swing goes and aim for the head more often than not. Have you tried using melee weapons in first person?

DayZ Development ‏@dayzdevteam1m Temporary solution for server authentication issue has been implemented, you should be able to join DayZ servers again now. Sorry for delay If this is true, Steam users should be able to log in now. Going to go try to verify this myself.

This was just posted by DayZ Development: DayZ Development ‏@dayzdevteam1mTemporary solution for server authentication issue has been implemented, you should be able to join DayZ servers again now. Sorry for delay

There is, on the front page of this very forum, a page that says "Blood Chart Types." Please at least try to search before making a new thread.

You most certainly cannot, even though it was listed as a feature of the new patch. The thread I started earlier confirms that nobody is actually able to open cans with anything but can openers. http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/155201-are-screwdriversknives-still-unable-to-open-cans-or-is-it-just-me/

I agree that it's impressive to recreate the entire mod as a standalone game, and it gives them a good foundation to build on. However, at the moment I have Steam and cannot log into the game. So check back in 12 hours and we'll see whether I feel better about the game. :D

"My thirst is quenched" is not the same thing as "I can't drink any more." Let me pull some numbers out of my butt for an example. Hunger and thirst are on a 1-100 scale. You lose one point per minute. You start at 25. You start getting warnings at 20. Five minutes into the game, you get to 20 thirst and start getting warnings. You find a well and drink from it, getting 5 thirst back. Now you have 25 thirst. Your thirst has been "quenched", i.e. you are no longer getting warnings. But five minutes later your thirst drops back down below the threshold, you have warnings again and rage. What you SHOULD do is: Start at 25, find a well, drink over and over until it starts giving you warnings like "my stomach feels completely full." Now your thirst is at 100 and you have an hour or two before you start getting thirsty again. All these numbers are made-up but the game mechanics are real. Five minutes later, you are back to 20

Since people aren't seeing it in the forum view, might as well start posting it on every thread. We are currently experiencing an issue with Steam authentication preventing users from seeing and connecting to servers as well as getting stuck on Waiting for host. Steam has confirmed the issue and are looking into it now. This won't affect players already in game but will affect those trying to join.

I should note that you will regain blood if you eat and drink enough. Note that the "hungry" and "thirsty" warnings begin at a very small fraction of your overall total hunger/thirst, in the neighborhood of 20-30%. So if you have enough food/water, don't just eat/drink until you are no longer hungry/thirsty--do so until the game starts giving you messages like "my stomach is completely stuffed" and the like. Then you can go a lot longer without the game yelling at you. And yes, these are likely being noted by the devs already, but as long as we keep things constructive this type of thread will be useful for them to see just which features are being missed the most by the community. Can't hurt to give feedback, that is the point of an alpha after all.

Last night when I played, I was doing pretty well for myself. Found a couple of hatchets, a big backpack, some openable food, and a rifle+ammo. Unfortunately, the scarcity of food and the quickness with which my hunger depletes meant that before long I was starving to death with about 5 cans of food in my pack. I have both a screwdriver and a kitchen knife, but I was unable to find a way to open any of the cans with them before I passed out. I heard that yesterday's update was supposed to allow cans to be openable with these tools, but I haven't gotten it to work yet. I just wanted to confirm that the problem wasn't just me, and everyone is still unable to use tools to open cans. Thanks! EDIT: I should mention that I also found a bayonet, and was also unable to use it to open cans. Where are all you people finding can openers?!?!?

I didn't see that, thanks. I can't see a timestamp on that post, any idea how long the problem has been going on?

There was another update this morning? I knew one went out yesterday which added hunger/thirst indicators and allowed you to drink from wells, but I haven't heard anything about a more recent update.