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All I have to say is I am very disappointed... I check back daily hoping to see if there is an update worth checking out, but I have yet to see one in over 2 months. Alpha should be updated daily, and if not, weekly. I could see if this was beta, waiting 2 months for an update, but it's not. What the hell is going on over there? Didn't you just almost double your development team?! GRRR!!! Stop catering to the players "needs", who cares about painting your gun? Wow, that is amazing. Make some worthwhile updates... break the game and fix it again. Do something! You guys have made almost $55,000,000 off sales and the game has made VERY MINIMAL progress since release. Not to mention that more than half the work you guys didn't even have to do, because they have been developing the ARMA engine since Flashpoint. I've been a huge follower of Day Z, since its infancy on ARMA 2. I feel like it is taking longer for them to get this ironed out than the mod did, and now they have full control over everything, unlike before. Doesn't make sense. It's like when I was in the barber shop the other day. The place is PACKED and these 2 guys decide to go on break. That is bullshit. I then had to proceed to wait another 20 minutes before I could get a cut. I feel like that is what's going on here. Stop taking breaks at the most crucial parts of development. Make some progress for a change, we are almost into quarter 2 of 2014 and most of the stuff listed to be available "Early 2014" hasn't even been touched on!

Sweet. You guys are doing a great job, keep it up. When will we be getting more server controls? In the last update you mentioned there was some private hive functionality added, haven't noticed anymore options available on my server. Also haven't had either of the last two updates come through on GameServers.com yet. Ugh. *Edit: There we go, patch installed on server. Still looking forward to more admin functionality though! Thanks!!

That would only work if you had multiple character slots like WarZ. The whole point of that anyway was to get you to pay for quick-revive. They also had a global inventory you could kit your guy out with right away at respawn. It wouldn't really work in this game.

As far as I know, the patch fixing the rubber-banding issue has not even been implemented yet. They are still waiting for clearance on Steam or something. I can't even update my server to the new build. Keep an eye on the announcements forum and wait for the patch to go from pending to rolling?

Most of Frankies videos that I have seen are from the DayZ mod. Hopefully you didn't get the two confused lol. Standalone will have all those features, plus some, when it's done. But for now, your not going to find much more than you already have. As for guns and military grade loot, that is at the airstrips and the few military bases around the map. Still, most of that stuff hasn't been implemented either. Just keep getting to know the game until more stuff is introduced, if you get bored set it down for a bit. Too bad you didn't catch ARMA 2 during the Steam holiday sale, it was really cheap. Keep your eye on it. Also, try out the maps on DayZDB.com and on iZurvive.com. Once you find a sign in the town your in, look for it on the map, and if you have a compass you should be fine. Otherwise just try to use landmarks and stuff like that. It's pretty easy to navigate the coastal area without a compass, but once you get inland you can get lost.

Yea, I hope they last at least the 4 hours between restarts? Would be nice if it was even longer, but I could see how it would be a server load.

Does this mean that items will stop disappearing when I drop them? Hate having to wait for that medkit to come back before I can take my stuff out of it! lol!

Well, as far as I can tell... The East is the starting zone. As you move West, you start to come across bigger cities and military outposts where the best loot is. Sounds right to me...

I think they should add more loot variety and guns, but not military. But, I am assuming that the reason we aren't seeing any is because we don't have many civilian firearms implemented into the game. The Mosin for instance is always found in a residential area, sometimes industrial. I've also seen the Magnum inside one of those restaurant/apartment houses. If anything, the police stations should have more ammunition/guns. To be honest I'm not even sure if it is a police station, but pretty much every town has these little one story brick buildings. I have always called them police stations. If they aren't, maybe that's what these towns need. Fire station is nice too, but those are only in major cities.

Would be nice to see. I'm happy that we can finally go inside of pretty much every building this time around. Once they iron some other stuff out, maybe they will go further into building interiors at least.

lol This is exactly what all three of us are wearing. None of us are bandits. I look for the clown masks. I never wore one because I thought right away it appeared as a stickup mask. Guess I should change my attire? lol. I think I love my 6 slot clothes too much.

dbl post... sry

Depends on the location. But Balota for instance, since it's the hottest zone right now, one of us stays up in the woods with a long range mosin while the other two advance forward. We all pretty much just take up a concealed position and camp out at that point and watch player activity. If we see some guy light up another player we usually take them down. Sometimes we let the firefights ensue and see if their victim can out-do them, but it doesn't always end that way. Then like I said, we run up with our overstocked medical gear, revive and replenish, then disappear back into the shadows. Once we are low on supplies we head back north into the country, or to some hospitals to get more meds. Theoretically there is no way to tell if someone is a bandit, but if you watch a hot zone your sure to come across more aggressive players, these are usually the guys we target. First off, I like your Phil Collins avatar. Sweet. But if you want to test bugs bro, go north and don't do it by the coast. In the meantime check out our server, we have a pretty good bunch of friendly players on there. Sure there is some KOSing going on by Balota and the coast, but don't stick around there. thenightwatchmen.clanservers.com

Interestingly enough haven't come across either of these in 48 hours of gameplay lol.

Me and a few friends will hunt for bandits and griefers when we aren't looking for saline. Always nice coming across a morphine injector or epi-pen too. Only found a handful of those lol. Been looking for a blood test kit for ages now to test a buddies blood as well.