Nails

I had the same issue earlier and I deleted my DayZ.cfg (just the DayZ one and not the user name one) and verified files and it worked just fine after that. Not sure if that's a universal fix but it did the job for me.

Mags seem to be rare all over. Every person I've encountered is using a shotgun, red-9, SKS or Mosin. Plenty of carbines and AK's lying around on the floor though.

Anyone having trouble finding pistol or rifle magazines? After about 6 or 7 hours of playtime all across the map I have only found one AK-74 mag at a helicrash and assorted SMG mags at police stations. Besides that absolutely nothing. Food is also overabundant. There's way too much considering that you get stuffed so quick now. Other than that it's been OK. Can't wait to see what they add in coming weeks.

Played for the first time in forever. Got about 3 or 4 hours in. Desync was bad but was still pretty fun. Looked everywhere but couldn't find a magazine for a pistol or any rifle despite the guns being plentiful. While looking for choppers up north got Session Lost out of nowhere. When trying to log back in got a message saying that my character could not be found and was reset. Ended up a fresh spawn in Elektro. Very frustrating.

I eventually ran into a few infected here and there at Grishino and NWAF. It's strange almost every building and area I looted on my way to NWAF had plenty of items but every building I checked at NWAF only had flares and other junk items. Also has anyone seen a chopper crash? It was dark but I couldn't see them in their spots they have been stuck in during previous versions of 57. Was wondering if they have been fixed or removed.

Performance has been good for me, although so far I haven't seen a single infected on the server I'd played on (Central 0-2 I think). Spawned in Khelm with like 4 other fresh spawns. Managed to get well kitted in under an hour. Aside from no infected this has been the most pleasant DayZ has been for quite a long time.

I really hope some good updates come in this next week. I just did a fresh OS install on my computer and I'm not going to bother reinstalling DayZ until I read something good on these forums. I've had a lot of fun with the game but it just seems like a boring grind to me now.

Apples make surviving easy, albeit not very fun.

Spawned in Cherno. No loot, no zombies. Only thing I found was a person running about in their underwear playing Def Leppard over VOIP. Headbanged with said person for a bit then did the suicide animation asking them to punch me out. Re-spawned literally 50m from where I died on the coast. Picked apples for 10 minutes. Found a hat in a nearby house I couldn't loot. Spent 5 minutes being teleported back outside the house trying to re-enter to loot the hat unsuccessfully. Hit exit to close the game. Let out a long sigh of defeat. Made a sandwich. Now I'm here.

It does seem like loot seems more natural the further north-west you go. I got to the barn cluster just to the north-east of Green Mountain and there were tools spawning and even found a soda and a can of tuna. I'm guessing the players moving inland are pushing the loot spawns inward. Hopefully the can adjust the CLE to compensate for this soon.

I hope so. Oddly enough the next town I got to I managed to find a tumpet and the materials to make a courier bag, then found a m65 jacket in a random house. Lol I should complain more often. Still I feel as if the play hours it took to get this far was a bit much, I'm still happy about my finds.

Nice to see some others have having some luck with this update. I've been from Kamy to Elektro to Pusta to Mogilevka and all I have is a beret, a sledgehammer and a green raincoat. I know the devs and some in the community might disagree with me but I feel that running from town to town picking apples isn't hardcore. It's boring. Just my observations. Gonna give it another try before I wait for the next update.

Yeah all the times I thought I had accidentally duped it just turned out to be visual. If I logged out and back in the copy was not there anymore. Could be different for others but for me it has just been for show.

Where'd you find 6 slot pants? I'm still in the jeans I spawned in with a silenced AK somehow lol.

Towards the end of my play session I was experiencing some really bad latency problems. Not desync but really high ping to where it was lagging. Checked my connection and it seemed OK but who knows. After a while of playing I realized that almost everything I had of value had come from PVP and not looting. Had trouble really finding anything good even after checking multiple military areas throughout the night on multiple servers.