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Yes, you can shoot through those walls. Great story btw.

Pristine improvised suppressor on my Red9 (9mm) lasted 4 shots in 0.60, 2 days ago. It varies greatly from caliber to caliber.

I was surprised to see that lightning strikes also happens in the menu. I had to take a video (shadowplay) and then take a screenshot of that, then modify the brightness, so in the end it looks wonky. But I'll use fraps next time, as there's no brightness problems.

You can check in houses, civilian, where it usually spawns, and in clothing. I usually find lots of ammo in train wagons. But the best so far is in clothing items, so much ammo spawns in them.

Very interested to see the new menu and browsing method for the servers. I think it's a great idea to separate official servers from the private servers in different tabs. That said, I totally disagree about not showing player stats for private hives, for many points. First, it's only sure environment to play hacker-free since they were first made available. And there's the fact that the character's life is bound to the server he plays on, making his "life", all the more important. No server hopping, all interactions been done within the same "community", that can relate to. The experience in private hive is very different. Anyway, thanks for sharing Mr. Hicks. Looking forward a bright future for DayZ, and a fun present! ;)

Hello fellow survivors. Just a quick question: Is there a reason why Hicks said in the September 23rd 2015 Status Report that "NATO military gear will be moving out of the Quonset Hut Barracks and back to their proper NATO chopper crash spawns." but now anything from the NATO (UH-1Y Venom "smoking" crash site) or Mi-8 crash sites can be found at military locations, either barracks, quonset huts or tents. Will it ever be back to normal for the exclusive crash site gear to return to their spawns?

Where are Steak&Potatoes and Hetstain by the way? I haven't seen them in a long time!! I miss them...

We can swap the crossbow holosight with the longhorn scope, and vice-versa, since 8 or 9 months ago. It's been a while alright. I think it was in 0.57 if I'm not mistaken.

Never underestimate the Topito!

Very nice!! Interesting to see the new login process when selecting a specific "character" connected to a certain hive. (private hive server, public servers) This seems very useful to me and interactive. Keep it up devs!! This is looking good! Cheers! ;)

I found quite a few plastic bottles, and cooking pots. I've seen some deer too, so just get a barrel and some garden lime to tan the pelts and you'll be able to craft the water pouch. As you can see, I have a pristine plastic bottle in my backpack, and an improvised suppressor on my Red9. (made with plastic bottles)

It seems it could be a prep facility for fuel as part of the Tisy base was supposed to be used to test rockets. Still needs some confirmation. In page 96, there's a nice video provided by Barnabus that shows the "real-life" location and structures of the Tisy base. Pretty awesome if you ask me. Always enjoy seeing those. Only thing we need now is dynamic snow... ;-D

Those platforms? Top of one of the platforms. (I always really like to see IRL origins of the structures and locations in DayZ.)

I got 4 pairs of Craghopper's, and only wear this in the summer. In the winter also, but with underpants as it can get pretty cold. Lovely wife you got there! :) Cheers BCBasher!

While sporting a hunting jacket fall camo. Personally, I'd like this, and some Craghopper's pants. ;)

Hmm. About them being much easier to come by, I wouldn't go that far. For the M4, yes, since it's totally absent from 0.59 (unless you cheat) but as far as the UMP goes, I've had and still have my hands on many UMPs in 0.59. I've found more than 20 UMPs in 0.59, and the mags are pretty easy to find in military locations. But in 0.60, UMP is pretty rare, and the mags are even more elusive. Only came across 2 mags and 1 UMP for 15+ AUG, 10+ M4, and everything else... As for the main question, I would take the UMP for it's stopping power with a powerful round, it's stats in close quarters combat and overall aesthetics. It's just a personal opinion really. The UMP saved me many times in 0.59, and I love it. The M4 is great, but for urban combat I would try to used the CQB stock and magpul grips with a RDS for the scope. I like the M4, but I like the UMP more... ;) My first UMP in 0.56 experimental.

I just came back from a morning run with Weyland Yutani at the Tisy base to check out the new building. Any ideas on what the purpose of the building was/is? I really like the shooting range. The Tisy base was very quite. For being on a full server, and staying there for about 40 minutes, everything went well. I didn't really loot the base, even though the doors were closed and no one had been there for a while, since it was my purpose this morning. Even though I enjoy 0.60 a lot, I can't wait for 0.61 with the wolves, dirt bike and the rest of the animals to come back. (Boars, pigs, goats, sheep, foxes and rabbits. Haven't seen any of those in all the different 0.60 patches. Only saw deer, cows, chicken and roosters. Sorry for not putting spoilers, but the new forum features are pretty weird and hard to get along. It's either all spoiler without any visible text, or no spoiler.

It's the zeroing on weapons.

That's interesting. I dropped weapons, ammo, food, clothing, accessories (fishing hooks, compass, lockpicks, etc.) and after 40 mins (44 exactly) I started to backtrack and every single item I had left was still there, and the items I came across but didn't pick were also still there. About an hour and a half had passed when I finally made it all the way to my starting point. This was on 1PP AUS server. I've stopped now but I'll try to do more tests tonight. Also, rubberbanding was back in Elektro when I respawned, but as I left the town, it was gone.

After starting fresh again in Elektro, I made my way to my usual spot in the Green Mountain surroundings, stopping at a few villages here and there. I decided to back-track after 40 mins to see what had happened to stuff I left prior to being KoS. It seems "persistence" is fucked-up, as everything I had left or switched was still there, and nothing new had spawned. So we can agree that the 30 mins timer for despawning items doesn't work right now, either for items that were not manipulated by any players, or anything left on the ground from players, no matter the condition. I didn't go back to where I got killed to check if there was also ruined gear on the ground, but I'm pretty sure there would have been some. We're back to being dependent on server restarts for refreshing and cleaning up the loot. The only thing I found that worked great were crash sites. They respawn every 30 mins, and have good loot overall. Great Scott those moon rays are strong! The only thing I'm sad that I lost was my Engraved 1911 with pristine suppressor and a mag, with spare ammo. Favorite weapon in the game...

My wish to start fresh was granted! ;)

Oh well, starting fresh anyway, just got KoS....

Played a bit yesterday. Met a few players, non-hostile, on 1PP servers. Traded a few items and continued on my way. Was finally able to reach Tisy and take a few shots. I love the new lighting system... The updated engine looks fantastic so far. Heavy rain + sunset = weird and interesting scenery. Heavy rain + moon = fascination once again. Hoping there was a wipe so I can start fresh on the coast again... ;)

And wolves, and bears. ;) It'll be different and interesting for sure. And probably a much better experience overall.

Server I was in just restarted. Had no issues with interacting with environment, items or doing any actions. Very stable experience. Going back in to see if I still have my character after server restart.