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If the player was in render distance of a town, then they should potentially trigger zombie spawns. The devs talked about spawning something like 4 or 5000 zombies on a test server. Even with a full server, you wouldn't need to spawn 5000 zombies at the same time to cover the render distance/spawn zones for every player. That would be a pretty fair idea for loot spawning as well and then using a cooldown timer for the loot spawner to handle loot respawns.

The easiest place to find them are construction/industrial type buildings.

Regardless, of whether the server restarts or not due to bugs at the moment when you drop something there's a chance for it to not show up until about a minute later, for the item to drop but clip into some game geometry and be impossible to pick back up or for it to just disappear altogether. Always a gamble.

I don't know enough about the inner workings of the mod and how it handled zombies client/server side but what we have right now in the standalone is a pretty static, limited and easily overloaded system.

Hunting will be added later in development. Foraging might be added as well. It sucks starting out but brother, once you begin finding food you don't stop finding food. Hell, the only thing you might have trouble finding is a can opener...but eventually you'll find one of those too.

Don't be too worried. A lot of other players have as much idea as to what they're doing as you...or in some cases, like this one obviously...much less. :P But yeah, if it was a FNX pistol, he probably couldn't find a magazine. Shoulda checked a firestation. If you're on a high pop server though, firestation in Elektro is prone to player attacks.

There's a number of guides available on the forums, most of which are hodge podge or specifically relate to a certain aspect of the game. I wrote a Survivor's Guide specifically as a walkthrough/starting point for new players. (link in my sig) You can also find a number of different tutorials on youtube. A little trial and error never hurts either, just familiarize yourself with the controls, get a mic/headset and expect to be killed but don't take it too seriously.

Hate is a strong word. I don't know anyone that actually hates him. I wouldn't so much say "accused" as "caught" instead. and: I think that pretty much sums it all up.

In the future of DayZ status effects, ailments and treatments will be much more important. For now, many of them aren't fully implemented. For now, the only way you'll get sick from drinking water is if you drink too much and get over-stuffed which will cause normal sickness.

This game shouldn't be easy for new players. A new players' initial reaction to DayZ should be something along the lines of, "Man, screw this. This is some f'ing bullshit." ...and then they spend another 4-8 hours playing it as they continue to complain. :P

A mic is a definite must have for DayZ. I like to sing Day-oh! after spawning on the coast as I serpentine away from coast campers burning through entire mags that can't hit anyone that isn't running in a straight line.

Related note: If you could actually use the Bible (King James) as a weapon to beat people to death with, this game would be ready for launch now. :P

The thread was apparently removed. Ah nevermind, it was explained above already.

Maybe not hand out weapons/ammo to newspawns for one. If you're gonna shoot everyone you see...shrug...shoot everyone you see...your prerogative. But don't try to justify it by blaming your actions on dumb newspawns to clear your guilty conscience. :P

Until we hear something different from the mod team, you can report haxxors here: http://feedback.dayzgame.com You'll need to register (again) to provide feedback.

Yeah, I got that if you read back up. I said, "Sorry, Balota, Balogna, NEAF, NWAF, different airfield, same story." I don't necessarily know this guy was hippity hopping as you say but I don't think shooting people at NEAF just because they happen to log in around that area makes you the good guys. Not that you have to be good. That's your prerogative. Maybe, I'm not getting the whole picture here but it sounds like you guys are assuming this sniper that you claim was in the woods was this guy's BFF. If that guy had a friend sniping in the woods...why wouldn't he just sit in the woods somewhere and ambush too? It seems pretty probable to me that sniper at airfield was no one's friend. At any rate, I'm sure fixes will be incoming for server hopping/combat logging/etc. This is stuff Rocket actually talked about addressing previously through logout timers/combat cooldown.

Yeah, there will always be cheaters but you're saying BattlEye doesn't work. Well, something is working because the bans are beginning to flow, whether it's BE, VAC or a combination of the two. Exactly, what would you recommend as an alternative? PunkBuster? The industry standard? Ptooey! I think we all know what a pile of junkware PunkBuster is and BE doesn't even begin to compare to the massive amounts of problems that PunkBuster causes.

It's almost guaranteed to spawn in the school in Elektro if it hasn't been looted already. Unless you're on a low pop server, expect people to try and kill you in Elektro.

He went to the airfield/camp on purpose and kept going back there repeatedly, knowing full well he'd get killed in order to "prove" no on is friendly in DayZ. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. He then recommends you kill and shoot everyone on sight. OP is saying this game is bad because of all the people who KOS...well guess what? That guy is one of them. (according to the OP anyway, not me) I don't care if you're a bandit, a hero or a chaotic neutral half-elf mage. Play the game how you wanna play it. Not saying any one way is wrong or right myself but just that you didn't really pick the best example there.

On the server page, there is an option for friends which will show you what servers your Steam friends are playing on. There is no built-in functionality for adding friends at the moment in DayZ. It is done through Steam or the Steam overlay. Simply joining the same server your friends are on won't magically teleport you to them though. You'll have to arrange a meet-up and leg it on your own.

Yes. You will have full access to the game during the alpha/beta and when it's officially released.

Sorry, Balota, Balogna, NEAF, NWAF, different airfield, same story. :P It's kind of hard to prove you were the white knights in this situation seeing how grey DayZ is in general but regardless, sooner or later we're gonna get fixes for combat logging/server hopping. Rocket actually talked about it before the alpha was released, instituting a cooldown/logout timer.

I believe the following is relevant to your interest in wearing pants. 1. Find pants. 2.

It doesn't bother me personally but I'm not exactly sure how camping at Balota NEAF (mah bad) and killing anyone who logs in there puts you on a higher moral footing. Since a lot of people are stopping here to reply without reading through the rest of the thread, here's a summary of my additional posts: I don't necessarily know this guy was hippity hopping as you say but I don't think shooting people at NEAF just because they happen to log in around that area makes you the good guys. Not that you have to be good. That's your prerogative. Maybe, I'm not getting the whole picture here but it sounds like you guys are assuming this sniper that you claim was in the woods was this guy's BFF. If that guy had a friend sniping in the woods...why wouldn't he just sit in the woods somewhere and ambush too? It seems pretty probable to me that sniper at airfield was no one's friend. As far as combat loggers and server hoppers go, Rocket actually talked about addressing this before the alpha release by using logout timers and damage cooldowns, i.e. attempting to logout when you've taken damage within X amount of seconds (i.e. combat logging) would incur additional time before the game would allow you to logout. Alt-F4'ing would just leave your body in-world and vulnerable to being punched to death until the logout timer had expired.

The dev team is aware of the hopping/logging/hacking issues and they are currently working on addressing them. That said, this is exactly the kind of thing that the disclaimer on the game's product page warned about.