Sinphaltimus

What if you have more than one mic. For instance, mic on web cam and mic on headset? It's not do-able. People will play the way they want/can.

I prefer the magnum but will take a 45 when I find one. I use them for killing zombies. If I run our of ammo I will usually ditch it unless I don't have a magnum . I don't rely on them against humans.

I don't obsess about it but I do prefer better conditions items as guns are more accurate and wearable have better protection. That's about it. The only time I'll trade a better conditioned item for one worse off is going from any secondary weapon to a fire axe.

You don't have to be a hero or a bandit to survive. I've found my best survival rates are lone wolfing it and avoid people at all cost. As long as a glitch doesn't get you or you don't fall off something, you can survive a long time just by exploring the map. There's a lot of cool places not on any maps. You never have to worry about water because there is an abundance of it in the wild. Keep your sense of direction and you only need to hit a few small towns for food once in a while.

I don't combat log.

As frustrating as it is (I hate combat loggers and ghosters), I have to agree with the op. Without using this party tools, exploit this alpha, exploit the Hell out of it to ensure its such a well known issue that the devs never forget and are sure to fix it. This is, after all, a test bed. Find more exploits and brag about then. Report them, use them do what ever it takes to make sure they get taken care of as a top priority. The name of the game is survival by any means and these folks are doing just that. Now rig it so they can't. Period.

Please let sheriff smiley know I was having a blast until my computer froze. Didn't mean to disconnect from teamspeak without saying bye. Stupid Windows.

Holymolies.. you must be on the opposite side of the planet. 150 ping. Ming! It stopped to 112. Ok, maybe I try that.

I too am very interested in hearing any adjustments that can be made, where, and why (explained). What was your solution? This thread is not very useful at the moment.

I wonder how many bambis I can tie to the rails before the 3 o'clock rolls in.....hrm.....

A church. It only has one way in or out. Two players to guard the door and search players who enter. Someone by the door advertising the trading post over voip with rules. That could work if ghosting could be eliminated. You'd need a large crew of maybe 8 to 10 people to police it and protect against attacks.

There will be solutions to address these problems for sure. Something as simple as a log out timer will do. Maybe incorporate sleeping bags so you can't log out without getting in to a sleeping bag and you can't log in without getting out if it upon log in unless you are a fresh spawn. I don't know what they will do but I imagine it will be something simple like that. Right now, in the current state, server hopping is pretty much forced. Doing it maliciously is a choice because it's an ability without restriction at the moment. While I agree that getting spawning working, fixing glitches, and other things may take a higher priority than adding new loot and painting and such, I'm willing to think that perhaps these fixes are better off waiting until the full load of assets and zombies are in game so that the fixes work for everything. At this stage of development, you are being asked to test the game and actively report bugs. Complaining about things not yet being addressed or fixed is not productive not is it part of your agreement when purchasing it. Everyone who purchased this had fair warning about the current state of the game and what was expected of them. Save the complaints for beta. Save the refund requests for retail release.

Disagree with what? My experience? I opened with the point that I could be wrong but in my experience I have never found a box or gun or back pack ever that already had ammo attached or contents inside. That's me and it's true. That's not to say you never found such things. My first thought was it was left by someone. And if you think about it, that can still be true. Imagine a person killing everyone they see entering a base, then stripping them of their belongings and leaving those things laying around. Not such a far fetched idea. And, needless to say, I've lost ammo boxes full of ammo several times because I didn't know you can hold them in hand. I used to put them down to grab ammo and forget to pick them up before leaving. Sometimes I like to run around with a gun on my back and in my hands. When I get tired of that I just drop one, fully kitted and loaded. try looting an empty server after a restart and let me know if you continue to find loaded guns, filed boxes or loot in packs. I have almost 300 hours in and the only time I ever found such things was on a dead body. Perhaps these things can spawn fresh with ammo and contents. I've just never seen it myself and would have to experience before I fully agreed that it happens.

I could be wrong but my experience is this... you will never find fresh spawned guns with ammo inserted or back packs with contents. If you do it's because someone else put them there. Lastly, the west side of the map from the northern base north of NWAF to Bolata is a gold mine for guns and ammo. I'm not going to give up all the locations but I will say this, there are 7 locations almost in line with each other from north to south or vice versa. It takes about 1.5 hours to hit all of them in a single run. If you start at server restart and don't get killed along the way, you will find most of the gear you could ever want. If you're new to raiding while running it may take you longer. When I raid I rarely stand still except to actually grab something I need. There are lots of unwritten rules like trust no one, shoot first etc... but the most important rule for new spawns is "Go west".

Putting the animation aside, we really need the respawn button to work at any given time so we can respawn when stuck in a glitch.

The end of the world as we know it.

Been playing on the same server a few days now through deaths and and decking out. Today I only had several hours to play in the morning with one mission, get some better gun parts and clothing. Plan, avoid human contact then retreat to the forests once I have the parts I need and cloths replaced. Hidden in a tree deep in the woods north of the little installation north of the NWAF sorting inventory, then Red chain, server going to reset soon. Server resets, I rejoin and..."You are dead". WTF, well, that completes my adventure for this character after about 15 hours of game life. Fudge packets. Time to start all over again. But not now. Have work to do. *Walks away kicking a stone through the dry dirt hands in pockets, head hung low* As much as I love this Alpha, I am very much looking forward to these kinds of things getting resolved. I doubt very much I was killed by another player or Zed. After playing hero and bandit and lunatic, all I want to do is see how long I can keep a single player alive on the same server by avoiding people, zeds, stairs, apartment buildings and ladders while being fully geared up "Just in case". Don't get attached to anything - you will lose it due to no fault of your own. At least at this stage. *shuffles off* *looking back* if you're anything like me, you'll be back for more.

I will add that to my list of thing not to do. Thanks.

There is a realistic compromise for sure. The game is supposed to be realistic is one of the most uninformed, stupid arguments I ever heard. For instance - infinite sprint? Yeah, realistic... And the whole food, water hungry thirsty cycle, hooray for realism there. It's a simulator, things are simulated, far from realistic as no one really has the time to live a second digital life for realz man. It's a compromise between what makes sense to implement and what could kill the project if implemented. *rolls eyes* Oh wait, realistic and Zombie apocalypse - think about that for a moment, Let it sink in pal.Nope, it hasn't sunk in deep enough.... keep letting it.Deeper....deeper....

I found one today in a military Barack on theotop bunk.

I broke my legs being chased by 3 Zeds. I figured i'd lay there and die. I watched them killing me, then one drops dead. Hmmm. weird. Then the second drops dead. Wow, are they killing eachother? The third and final one killed me. ----- Today, playing with a friend chatting via TS. He's far away. He tells me I won't believe what he is watching. He said he is watching 2 Zeds fighting. Then one dies and the other stands there. Zeds vs. Zeds. Dunno if it's a bug or not but I think it's cool as hell they hurt AND attack each other. I searched the forums and found no info on it. So maybe I'm the first or possibly the dumbest?

Sometimes the death is so frustrating and I know I won't be on long enough to do anything useful after, I will run around the map in my underwear blaring the Benny Hill Music through coms. Sometimes it can be a tactic. To draw out the enemy or distract them so my squad can identify targets and take them out like last night at the construction site southern end of Berenzino. There was a squad there killing anyone who came near. Lots of dead bodies around. Using this tactic we were able to kill l several of them but alas, there were too many. That was the second time I've ever done it. The first time I had no targets. Just running around. I actually had several players join me. It was hysterical. I'm the 200 plus hours I've played the mod, I've done this twice. Both times together less than an hour. Hey, it's my story. And I'm sticking with it.

I was waiting to share this story until I edited the video that supports it. Last night, I'm a new spawn with geared friends not far away. NEAF is picked Bone dry but still searching for scraps. See something...zombie or player, move closer, move left and bang, gun shot. Then run and bang another shut. Both miss. I come back run punching, I dunno how many times he skit at me but they all missed. I got him bleeding and when I see blood I got nuts, telling at him over coms. Chasing him when a buddy catches up and axes him a question. Guy bleeding more and running, word are exchanged. My last words to him, "I have to give you credit for not logging" and in that instance, poof...gone. grrr. I could have went from fresh speak to full fear in minutes. Damn them all. They shot first but log at any threat. Wimps.

Stick plus rags equals crutch for fixing broken bones.

Patch certainly has a "much less loot" effect. Items respawn when the server restarts which is 4hr cycle standard. Some have a shorter time cycle. This is temporary. Loot spawning will change eventually and I think they may do away with server restarts when that happens.