Issen (DayZ)

So, I read Im required to have a knife, bayonet or the like. I have SKS Bayonet and the Bayonet for Mosin, none of them works for skinning a shot animal. Any bugs or am I required a kitchen knife?

So, anyone else having this issue on the newest patch. I join, I get the player and it says "waiting for host" then boom, game shuts down, no warnings, no errors. Happens everytime and only with the new patch.

So, is it just me or have something happened? Before it took a minute tops to just start up the game, now I'm hitting somewhere around 5 minutes. Same when joining a server, instead of 15 seconds it takes about 2 minutes. So is there some new thing that happened when patching or is it just me. Cause everything else seems to run just fine?

Well, I guess most ppl felt now when the servers have been malfunctioning. But did anyone else just finally get in, but without anything on you and at a random spawn point? :/