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I was starving and stuffed simultaneously. I did the game cache check and my movement has been ok. Double tapping on the direction you are going may work. Not 100% sure as I was tapping every option possible to stop in happening. Also had an issue holding a weapon and pressing space - it would raise it and then lower it again. It's like handling a drunk. I noticed it happens more in built up areas for me. I actually unplugged my keyboard and mouse the first time I played earlier:D

same with the controls here. comes and goes but happening a lot of the time. I died with my first character as I was stuck going one direction. I thought "woohoo auto-run is here at first" I dislike the new animation for sprinting. We look kind of like zombies the way we are crouched.

For fun. I'd get a bigger thrill from evading capture or even dying whilst trying to escape than being force fed disinfectant or whatever. Your chances of being killed while captive are exponentially higher than if you aren't captured so wishing to be captured seems counterintuitive. But if people want to role play some submissive role in game I'm happy they get that chance but I won't be torturing anyone and I'll be avoiding being tortured too. I've yet to be captured after I suppose a dozen attempts and only once was I killed escaping. For the record, I've been involved with three hold ups on the 'bandit' side and none of the holdups led to anyone being killed or tortured. In fact, I'd hardly term them as banditry at all as they were all cases of someone crossed our paths and we just wanted to secure ourselves. The last incident the 'victim' ended up with a kitted out akm and ammo. I honestly think the people going around hunting down people to capture are worse than kos-ers but that's just my opinion.

I went through a stage (friday I think) where I could only get warm next to fires so had to light them every 20-40 minutes. I posted about it around the forum. I verified my game cache and haven't needed a fire since. It seems quite a few people have experienced similar. I'm not sure of the solution/cause but people who don't experience the bug tend to presume you are just bad at the game. Must say, I kind of enjoyed beating the cold even though it was over the top.

I'd prefer to be shot in the head running away than captured by sociopaths who have convinced themselves that torture is a far more noble act than killing.

I got killed by zombies today as a fresh spawn. My own fault. Trapped myself in a hallway with two. I love the door sounds and the environmental effects (wet/cold etc) even if they aren't fully working for everyone they still add real depth.

Got killed by a hacker last night. Didn't have a chance to check out his wallet. I challenge anyone to grab this guys wallet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2BYGaijNVU

I prefer it to an unscoped mosin.

Verify your game cache. I could only warm up by fires before now I can warm up with clothes. Iused to have to light fires every 20-30 minutes and carried a fire kit. Now I don't.

Fires don't work indoors atm i.e. you don't get any heat benefit from them

Thing is, it's not affecting all players. I'm no longer having to light fires/cooling down constantly. I kind of miss it. Different game completely. The way I think of it is the op (and me previously) are playing as infected so have to eat way more/drink loads/light fires constantly or else they'll be zeds.

Not having a go at you but I was in the same position as the op and have about 600 hours and rage quit today. The bug doesn't affect everyone and the op is just venting. Big deal. Better that that pretend everything is perfect and we should call the game 1.0 retail. imo it is a game breaking bug for the vast majority of players. You haven't experienced the bug so you are speaking from a position of ignorance. The bug is basically this: you cool down constantly until you freeze to death. No clothes make any difference. Only sitting by a fire warms you and then within 20 minutes you need another fire. You can eat as much as you want and never get energized while cold only stuffed.

I'd try going into steam and right clicking on dayz (properties) then clicking on the 'local files' tab then clicking 'verify integrity of cache' - i was in a similar state to you where i never warmed up except by fires and that seems to have fixed it. also I notice some servers are colder than others atm. It's a bug that affects some players and not others. I played with a pal last night and despite having better gear I only cooled down whereas he sometimes warmed up.

Once I verified my cache it seemed to mostly go away but I notice I've been on two different servers tonight and on the first I don't see my breath but on the second I do. In either case it's back to being a trivial thing. I don't need fires whereas earlier today I would've died without them.

Ok since the hotfix I was constantly getting cold and never warmed apart from beside a fire so I checked the cache integrity in steam and for the first time since the hotfix I'm seeing "You are warming up" messages in game when not beside a fire.

just on the off chance I decided to verify integrity of cache. it said it was ok and then I joined a server and one of the first messages was "I'm warming up" - so idk any more. Earlier I could only warm up by fires.

I think it's certain players. Last night I was getting cold as my pal was warming up (both of us with very similar gear, my gear was actually superior in fact.) He was joking to me that he suspected I was already infected! I now kind of role play that I am infected and need to avoid rain like the plague and eat/drink twice as much as a non-infected plus sit by fires a whole lot. I actually like it even though it's obviously bugged.

I spawn in hungry and instantly get the cooling thing. I didn't get to light a fire for about an hour because I didn't have matches/axe. Last night I was playing with a pal and he was sometimes cooling sometimes warming up but I was only every cooling. It's a bug and it's not the same for everyone. We had a thermometer last night and we did some checks and I was cooling down all the time and he wasn't. This was when we were both fully geared (in fact I had slightly better gear.) I'm almost 600 hours in. I was wearing gloves, coat, wooly hat etc. I sit by the fire and eat. Not saying I'm an expert but I'm not running around in the water in my underpants wondering why I've got a cold or whatever. I found the cold/hungry/thirst trivial a worry until the hotfix to .49 I think we have to accept it's bugged but as I said I got a bigger sense of accomplishment beating the bugged game.

This is exactly what it is. I had the exact same thing. Basically the graphics card is shutting down to protect itself from melting. The op needs to clean his fan etc. msi afterburner will give temp readings in game or in windows http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm so you can confirm.

The only way I warm up is with a fire. When I logged in last night (fully geared/pristine) my pal was saying "oh I think you have that zombie flu" because no matter what I was constantly getting colder. Apples just tend to make me stuffed. I had stuffed/hungry/hydrated/cold all at the same time and last night I had the dark brown cold flicking on and off. Today I lit fires every twenty minutes once I got the gear and then when I finally got to full health I could maybe go an hour before being back to freezing. I tried every coat. I pretty much role played that I had the zombie flu and that's why environmental factors/food/drink had such extreme or negligible effects. That's what made it a challenge. Again, I'm not saying the game is right, just that I got a huge sense of accomplishment by 'beating' it in it's broken state.

Earlier today I was starving and eventually found a can of spaghetti, clicked on 'eat all', started eating then went unconscious. The rage was off the hook. Not defending the game because the statuses are all messed up BUT after I died that time I played again and played against the game properly. I accepted the bugs (you are soaked immediately in rain, you are constantly getting cold, you can't seem to get energized) and it was like a glimpse into what the game could be. Proper survival. I kind of imagined the zombie virus was something everyone had and that was the game. Fight off the virus and get healthy. Now I'm not saying it's not fucked at the moment but the sense of achievement I got today getting all light green (it took multiple fires) was outstanding. Also pvp was the furthest thing from my mind. Again, I'm not making excuses or saying how it is is ok, just that the challenge of playing against these bugs gave me a better dayz experience than usual. Usually, I can gear up super fast and then it's off to pvp. Not today. I was standing in houses cursing the rain. I didn't even have a backpack most of the time. I'd hate to be a new user starting today though! Jebus! The horror! I did actually rage quit earlier but when I came back it was my best dayz session ever and I only ended up with a shotgun after something like 5 hours.

I was a lot more optimistic about hordes when I first started playing but it seems to have gone very quiet on that score. It used to be the current zombies are just place holders but apart from them respawning immediately the numbers haven't really increased. I'd like thousands more and shufflers rather than these current ones.

haven't seen one since forever...probably something like .47?

I saw bipods in exp but none so far in stable. In the red door garage and the house with the best kitchen in the room full of shelves. Found a flash grenade in a barracks too. Haven't checked tents yet but that's generally where i get attachments/pso scopes. seems like forever since I've seen one

No. Used to be semi-valid when sticks were only a spawn and not something you could search for but it's not any longer. It's not that hard to find somewhere to suicide in if you haven't got the spawn you like either.