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Basically 1st person players want to be able to play on 1st/3rd person servers and not be at a huge disadvantage. Imagine instead of 1st person and 1st person/3rd person servers there were just servers that we could all play on together fairly? Unfortunately instead of making this point they start insulting everybody and get angry. I've mainly played 3rd person but around christmas I starting playing on a first person private shard and it's just a much more intense game. Take Vybor Military Base for instance. In 3rd you can just stand at the wall and just about see everything happening inside. In first you don't know what to expect. It's a rush. I'd urge anyone with any kind of decent rig to give first a couple of hours. It takes a couple to get used to but once you play for a while and have some encounters you'll need to play 3rd just to wind down. p.s. Coincidence that berezino has a lot less walls in exp and the new cam is on it's way? p.p.s. I still play 3rd

dx12 in dayz 2 maybe

I think it's more likely the artist wasn't a science buff and based the art on the wrong source. Interesting find.

Didn't crash once on lower pop servers (low pop because it's night.) It's amazing how well the hotbar works now as someone mentioned earlier though it's take some getting used to after the built up trust issues we've had with it.

Does anyone know about the -dologs parameter? Eugen mentions it here: but is there a link somewhere explaining where they are kept etc? tia

Similar here. Constant crashes. I'm lucky if I make it 5 mins.

Yes and I died shortly afterwards (of dehydration) when I ate a full bag of rice. Was within about 50m of a well. And I just got killed on sight in berezino (which I struggled to recognise at first) - I hope it was the guy from the well tbh.

Met another starving player inland. He begged me for food but I had none. He asked where the pump was and I showed him the way then shot him as he drank. Took his stuff then carried on and found a deer stand with a rangefinder and bi pod. Tried to drag bipod onto winchester, winchester disappeared. Karma is a bitch. So how do we get rid of the sick status? Charcoal tabs?* Also crashing a lot. *made myself vomit drinking at a pond

First thing I heard about 'pre-load' was when I arrived on this thread to see what was the score with servers.

Damn you pre-load damn you to hell! I was so excited to see the download I immediately launched the game - no servers:(

so new loot and persistence wiped basically. hopefully we'll get a proper wipe/update soon.

Cheers. I'll have a look later. Haven't played in days. I suppose it could be we're just getting the initial loot spawn again.

So what happened? Just a server wipe? Character wipe or what? I haven't got any updates

You miss the point which is they are all different types of zombies. It doesn't matter if they came back from the dead or not. To say they aren't is pedantic imho.

They do but there's a school of thought that thinks if they didn't die first then they aren't proper zombies. And they keep on informing us about it like it's some sort of divine knowledge. And it's bs based on a myth that became a fiction.

People should look into voodoo and the origins of zombies before they start lecturing people. The whole coming back from the dead thing is a fictionalization of a real thing where people appeared to be dead but weren't. They were just drugged. imo the people saying zombies are the dead come to life are the one's who are misinformed. The original zombies were humans drugged to appear in a coma and then later to basically be brain dead. Vice did a good doc on 'Colombian Devil's Breath' http://www.vice.com/video/colombian-devil-s-breath-1-of-2- That's part of the origins on zombies. Voodoo just used different but similar drugs (derived from puffer fish if i remember correctly.) What annoys me is people wanting to narrow the definition of zombie to the undead when that's just one of many fictional definitions. Someone walking around with no higher brain functions is a zombie imo. It doesn't matter how they got that way so stop lecturing us about it. Please. [Just general comment, not directed specifically at the op] Here you go btw: The ethnobiology of voodoo zombification http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/09/13/the-ethnobiology-of-voodoo-zom/

Agreed. I'm not too fussed about weekly status reports either. It's just an arbitrary time scale. I'd much rather them based around releases/milestones. That way they'd have substance.

Good stuff. Given no new wipe when I get back from work tomorrow (in approx 15 hours) I'm going to suicide, respawn and see if I can survive. It should be very difficult. I think I'll record it. Not that it'll be an entertaining vid but just as evidence. Actually looking forward to this. Hopefully there's no wipe in the morning but I kind of suspect there will be. If you guys are playing tonight and do it then I'd love to see/hear how you got on. I wouldn't back myself too strongly but I think I've only died of starvation once in exp ever. Thing is I usually go the route of the road less travelled rather than fishing/hunting/berries/apples etc. Should be interesting. Feels a lot like The Long Dark Dayz.

Quite late here and I've an early start. I'm only working a half day tomorrow though so if no wipe happens in the mean time I might try it then. When was the last wipe? Monday/Tues? At least it'd be a challenge.

I'm tempted to suicide and see if I can survive. I have before. How long since the wipe?

Also a couple of the smaller houses too e.g. the red/green house with the two front doors, the brown and green houses that only have an upstairs etc.

Yep I notice people aren't looting certain building that much at all just because they didn't spawn loot in the past.

The road less travelled is what you need.

What direction are you going? Given a release has been out days, if I spawn in berezino I run straight to kelm and krasnatov then Vyshnaya Dubrovka. Usually by then if I'm not all green then at least I'm not starving. I don't check berezinho at all or try pick apples/berries there. If I spawn at cherno/electro I'll be heading north without checking either. Lots of small towns/villages/solitary houses around.

Thing is straight after the wipe you didn't need to do any of that. I ran everywhere, didn't eat apples nor fish or farm. But that's because I got on early. Before the last wipe and after I died a few days after the wipe I did eat berries and apples but I still ran inland asap then once I got to all green through pumps/found food and got a gun + ammo I was over the hump and it was easy surviving. I think the devs are mainly seeing how long it takes for most of the loot to be taken atm. Seems like 3 or 4 days before you need to really work hardcore survival skills. Even then if you can just get out of the spawn areas and visit less popular locations there will still be loot about.