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I feel like Roy Battey "questions". Does loot respawn? Is there a lootsplosion some where? What are we testing? Is watching to much TV good for you? Why are we playing? Why is sea water salty? when is the next update? Why do my feet smell? Why don't I forage for apples and berries? Why do we wear clothes? :lol:

Ok loot seems to be an issue at the moment. I'm finding next to fuck all at the moment and have died several times from starvation. I could pick apples and berries, but i would rather die than spend 20 mins plus playing the random finding generator that is fruit picking. I wish they would sort this out and make it a better experience especially when making food more scarce than guns or so it seems. If you added infected into the current situation it would be next to impossible to get any where in the game and cause a lot of frustration with the player base I would suspect. If you went through 2- 3 towns avoiding/ taking out agroed infected and found nothing for the effort you are going to wounder why you are playing the game. In my humble opinion for a game to be successful it has to have good progression and good balancing by the devs and this will go a long way to making this game a success. Lets hope they can see this.

Its a good job the infected arn't hitting as hard as after 2 hrs playing I haven't found enough food to get myself into the green and healing phase.

What a shit day on dayz. I have been killed twice by zeds from good health to dead in 4 hits. Swapped a server and went from bright green hyd and energy to starving and dehydrated = death. Then put a rucksack down so to scout an area out so I don't loose all my kit to a zed death to loose it from a server reset. And I hate the way zeds ruin your kit from 2 hits I think I might have to give this version a miss and try the next one. just need to get to my stash so as not to loose that.

Are heli crashes moving around on server reboots? and if they are is the loot spawning on them? or are they still broke.

Well thats 2 hours after the time the servers should have been back up. I wounder what the problem is and if they will tell us?

Oh great I have no room for tents and the contents. Time to choose what to keep. Can any one tell me how long items stay on the ground before the disappear? After the update I don't want the kit I have to be ruined by a zed.

I have found both sewing, leather, pots and pans. Not lots of them mind, but they are out there and the pots and pans were spawned in as they were in the correct places to find them, not dropped by another player. I do like it that kit does spawn in all places I found a smersh vest on one of the houses you have to go up a few steps at the side to get in. Although it would be good if the military places spawned more items of that type and you found less outside. but still being able to find the military items (just less of it) out side military bases as you go around the map.

Thanks for the replies about small protective cases. At least I know they are still in the game, I just need a bit of luck. Found a ammo box in a cupboard in a house and a cooking pot. Nice to see you can now store items in the cooking pot. Also a frying pan in a prison (how bizarre). Dear stands seem to be full of loot or is that just me and any one found gas containers? I'm finding loads of stoves though.

Has any one found small protective cases? I have searched every where and nothing. It would be good to here that they are still to be found.

First impressions of 0.55. I think the zeds are going in the right direction, just need to be able to kill them a bit easier. I like it that loot is all over the place and not just to be found in there usual places. The down side is lack of loot especial food. I would not want to be a fresh spawn in this new build it would be very hard to get any where with the lack of food, drink and melee weapons really not much use against zeds. We have gone from the land of milk and honey to a dessert as far as loot goes. Loot could do with some tweaking.

I do like your Idea it makes the infected something to fear a bit more than they are now and I don't see anything in your suggestion about playing your infected character. Although I do agree that they should not let you play as an infected person. Just let your character be one more of the many infected the server controls.

It would be nice that in the future they look at the way you get food from the land like fishing and apples for example. At the moment it is hit or miss if you get any thing. It would be good if when you see fruit on bushes or trees you can get those items. It is more whether you get ripe or rotten fruit and you see the fruit diminishing on the tree or bush. The less fruit on it the more time it takes to find something. I just don't get much fun from the randomness for finding something. It could be the same for fishing, you can see fish swimming in the water and you have to cast in the right place and hook them at the right time to get them. I did get board after 5 mins of fishing looking at a blank patch of water and getting messages about whether a fish was close or not. You could also make it that you have a float that bobs around and when the fish takes the bait it goes under the water and you have to hook it just at that moment. Don't get me wrong I don't mind things taking time I just don't like the message thing when fishing. And the fruit thing on trees for me if you see it you can get it. So make the fruit bearing trees more random if they have any fruit on them that you can pick, not every one looks like it has fruit and it is random whether you get it or not

I'm glad I'm not the only one finding loot items a rare commodity. I have been inland for some time and I haven't found much. It does make the game a challenge, but its not good for any group with more than one person when traveling around lol. Even solo I'm just finding enough food to keep the hunger wolfs at bay.

Well at least I got 1hr of playing done this weekend before the servers went down. And I met some friendly people which was a big bonus many thanks guys.

What is the latest news for getting exp servers up and running?

Thanks for clearing that up for me Grapefruit kush. I have been looking at the tweats as well to see what is happening and do expect problems on exp, but even at the weakened I have seen them fix things even though most of the team I would guess are Monday to Friday people, never mind lets hope for fixes tomorrow. Please don't think I'm having a go or being sarcastic as my comments could be misread I do appreciate your reply Grapefruit kush.

Can any one get on the exp servers as I can't. What some outstanding testing from me at the moment. I have proved that the servers haven't worked for the last day and a half. And yes I have reported it.

After a poor start yesterday with the "wait for host" screen I finally got into the game. But for today we are back to "wait for host". May be tonight the servers will be running again as they have been like this all day so far.

Its the same for me.

is it me or are all the servers down?

After reading some of the earlier posts I'm glad i'm not the only one finding nothing. At the moment I find myself starving even though I'm eating apples and berry's. My problem is I'm in a catch 22 position if I fight zeds I just get fucked as I'm not healing and if I run from zeds I starve as I'm unable to get enough energy in. After 2 hours all I found was 1 can of beans and 2 drinks a knife and hammer to fend off zeds. Oh well serves me right for being late into the game.

Well that's exp done for me. Its not much fun as a fresh spawn with loads of zeds around. Can't do any searching as always being chased by loads of zeds, cant find any weapons to take on the zeds, no loot any way, lots of bleeding from just about every hit from a zed, no rags to stop bleeds and what ever kit you do have is ruined quickly. And yes I went in land eventual got a weapon, in the next small village came across 10 zeds. I took them out, but I had no rags left and I was unable to found any bandages or items to turn into rags so bleed out. Better balancing is required.

Ok. I get a server rest and I'm up in Polana. As the servers do they add zeds, And I can see that they have increased the numbers coming in (not a bad thing for the game) as I took on at lest 15 of them on in total in the village before they wiped me out (That's the most zeds I have come across in one place since I started playing the game 8 months ago). But, can't the deves sort out their AI first before increasing the numbers. As usual they are coming out of now where to take me on. I was using a hoe to start off with so no noise yet it seamed that for every one I took out another was on their way in. And yes I know it is exp and they are trying things out, but I don't think they should be upping the zeds at the moment until AI is better,

Any one else finding their mouse a bit laggy in the game? eg you move in a direction and nothing happens you lift your mouse up and place it back down so you can move in that direction again and it moves. I thought my mouse was on its way out, but it works just fine outside the game.