BadAsh (DayZ)

So would the hunters of hunters of newspawns. And the newspawns that knows how to fight back (a wellplaced knock to the head can be surprisingly efficient).

I have a few times lost items I put in "Vicinity", but I suspect it is because they ended up inside nearby trees or walls or under furniture. That it should happen to a massive backpack seems more unlike, and anyway just make sure you drop it where there are no such risky objects present.

Here you go.

When I start a new spawn I do at least check out the houses in the spawn town, just to see if it is a freshly restarted server. At that point I don't really care about being spawnsniped, since I have nothing to lose, and I have been positively surprised by the loot in spawn towns a couple of times. One recent character I had spawning at the factory found a can opener in the garage, I ran to Solnichniy, thinking it was a freshly restarted server, and indeed it was, because in the warehouse I found a backpack, tactical vest and baseball bat. After having a drink I of course got the hell out of the coast as fast as I could.

3 years of playing a game you paid £19. That is a pretty good investment as far as modern video games go.

I have watched so many suicides from the big oil tank in Solnichniy, which I have always found really weird, since that spawn is about equal distance from Electro and Berezino (not to mention in close proximity of such little gems as Polana and the Factory). The only explanation I have is that they all want to spawn in Novy Sobor (probably because it is close to the NWAF). But it happens so rarely, that by the time you have killed yourself and respawned countless times you could just as easily have walked there yourself.

It doesn't look painted at all. It just looks like a regular Mosin screen taken by someone using the gamma exploit.

Yeah, the amount of exploits for nighttime playing atm is indeed quite ridiculous.

I am sorry but I suspect you are not being completely truthful when you claim that "I've played quite a few Alphas before". Your only example mentioned is a beta, and there is a big difference between a beta and alpha version of a game. Alphas are not usually made public, and alphatesters are usually part of a select group that has gone through a strict application process. As such the DayZ SA process is quite unique in its approach (for a non-open source game). I am thinking you screwed yourself, thinking that an alpha was just like all the betas you have tried. And it is a bit disingenous to include a disclaimer about not wanting "It's an alpha" answers, when that is exactly the only answer to your OP. TL;DR: OP: "I bought an alpha, ignoring all the warnings. Now I found out it is an alpha, and now I feel somebody should have warned me, or the game should at least have been free".

Indeed. It is a bug. If he first begins moaning nothing but a relog will cure it.

Dear god, that sounds pretty bad. Still not sure why people logging in should be punished because of people logging out. It will fix ghosting, yes, but not combat logging. The combat loggers has had time in the game and has had their fun, and they can still log out when in trouble. They don't necessarily feel the need to log in again. A log out timer seems a lot more appropriate for this particular kind of problem.

The ship and office buildings. If unlooted they almost always spawn there.

I like to collect the full cooking gear and then leave a turned on stove somewhere that is likely to be populated. I have no idea how long a gas can lasts, but I like to think it lasts long enough to puzzle the next visitors that arrive at the scene finding a sizzling cooking put in the middle of the main street of Berezino or some such place (I am considering placing one in the bunk room at the MP facility at Balota, it will sure make some server hoppers edgy, but I generally stay away from that place).

You can assemble the kit (gas can, stove and cooking pot) and turn it on, but you can't cook anything in it atm.

It seems every kind of drug or medication has this bug that gives you a "Sick" box while it is working on you. Antibiotics and charcoal tablets does the same. Just wait it out and when it is finished actively curing you (probably from nothing) it will go away. It should not be taken as meaning that you are actually sick when it pops up.

Kinda. You have to put it in the actionbar in order to put it in your hand (dragging to hands in inventory wont work).

Anyone have an idea what "queued login" could mean? Every solution thread I have seen mentioned doing something to logging out, not logging in.

Had you perhaps been sprinting just prior to this? Anyway it is not the gun. The m4 can be dead-on accurate, on very long distances even, if used correctly.

You got that "Sick" bar from the first batch of antibiotics you consumed. It's a bug and doesn't mean anything. And you only need to consume them once, then it will say "My wounds are cleaner" 10 times until it will say "My wounds are clean" and the "Sick" bar will disappear. So eating more antibiotics in one sitting is a waste. Anyway, they don't do anything for your blood level (as you found out).

Probably a timed server message written by some jokester admin.

It isn't. It is the golden chain of doom. You should count yourself very lucky, but probably in the minority, if you have never experienced that.

I get the same. I don't think I have been able to play continously on a server for more than 1 or 2 hours. But it happens at all times, sometimes even just after spawning. I have noticed that I am far from the only one, as I regularly read "Player X is losing connection to the server" messages.

I think the game already does that, only very quickly. If you spawn in a nighttime server and turn on your flashlight you will notice that at first everything is really murky, but in about 30 seconds it gets much brighter as the eyes adjust to the bright light in the dark. I suppose something similar is happening in reverse, the outline of trees and buildings slowly appearing against the sky (if it is clouldess) if you look closely enough when you spawn.

Yes it does get damn dark at night if you have no cities nearby that light pollutes the sky, and if it is cloudy and/or it is new moon. You don't have to go to the Amazon to experience that. You just have to go to any old countryside. The game is perfectly realistic in that sense.

Those tall apartment blocks that rings Cherno tend to spawn canteens on the roofs.