Proper Gander

Boo f-ing hoo! ALPHA! Submit a bug report. ALPHA! Come up with a "better" system and recommend it to the peanut gallery! ALPHA! You are obligated to "test" the ALPHA, so please let us all know you conclusion to this problem. ALPHA!

What exactly are the point of bases? So that one can keep his/her gear? What if I could sneak in the middle of the night and cut throats? How are your bases now?

Video or it didn't happen.... Just kidding, Gov'nor, have some beans!!! :beans:

Where exactly did you find your ballistics vest? Or are you talking the regular assault vest?

Who force fed you 5.56mm rounds? You need to find some new mates! I'm not sure that charcoal tablets will fix that one! Edit: On a side note: I was "force fed" some 5.56mm once in game and died instantly. Of course, they were traveling at 3,000 fps, so that might have been the problem!

What is the bug again? You died from being sick and you want to get back to life?

Yes, the military gear is at a military base. Most people want to gear up quickly in order to go fight other players (or kill new spawns); to these players, the game is simply an elaborate PvP. As this is a sandbox survival game, the choice is all yours.

You deserve all the beans in Chernarus!

You mean ten bambis?

Everyone knows that sever hoppers know each other; they are like the sheepdog (Sam) and the wolf (Ralph) in the old Looney Tunes cartoons!

Certain cultural difference between the US and Canada, I guess. In the States, people buy what they "want," and let everyone else worry about what they "need."

Don't get used to it: http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/01/30/dayz-patch-to-add-machetes-clapping-server-hopping-penalties/?ns_campaign=article-feed&ns_mchannel=ref&ns_source=steam&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0

From my understanding, simply having a bipod attached reduces the dispersion rate of the weapon (more for the Mosin than for the M4). This is an "arcadey" type of aspect of the game. http://dayzdb.com/item/562-atlas-bipod

Apparently a bayonet increases the dispersion rate of the weapon to which it is attached. So, if you wish to have a more "accurate" and/or "precise" weapon, remove the bayonet.

The book or the movie? I think that Max Brooks is very specific on this point in his books (from which the movie deviated dramatically): “Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.” ― Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead Noting, of course, that these aren't classic "zombies" but rather "infected" living.

I used to check my six for other players, but now I look for zombies as well (I've also seen them follow me out of town).

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. -Friedrich Nietzsche

It is an identified bug: a painted Mosin only holds a single round. Expect it to be fixed at some point.

How many bambis are dead bandits? At least as many as are dead heroes.

Killed a guy like this before the latest: he had a Mosin, M4, FNX, and Magnum. I was an M4 guy at the time, so his long-range scope interested me little. Hope to find his spawn again in order to pick-up another one.

I used to avoid ladders (not stairs) due to these glitches; now I'm like, "hey, it's alpha" and embrace the pain. Been all over the ship at Rify and the ladders at construction sites; I haven't had any problems (yet). As of this post, you guys should probably check the bottom of said ladders to find a bunch of good stuff!

Off topic, but I think that every driver's license in the US should have this data. However, it would also add a level of bureaucracy to an already tedious process (getting/renewing a driver's license) by getting a doctor involved (it is difficult enough for the DMV employees to administer a vision test). As for the top 1% of the US population, however, it is written on their dogtags.

I think that you are right; I'd be interested to see what kind of statistical data there is on this, but I have a character who has been alive for a long time now (30+ hours). I do this by avoiding confrontation. I know that many other testers might find this a bit "boring" and having "no point." But, if the point of the game is to survive, then this toon will continue to survive long after the spawn-killing beach campers have left to play the next version of CoD or BattleField.

Perhaps the American presence comes from "advisors" in the country?

I think from a play test point of view, I would like a little more information on what exactly I should be "testing" in the alpha. I don't want to report that something is "broken" if it is already known to the developers; for this reason I check the bug tracker. By the way, I have yet to find anything in the alpha that is NOT on the bug tracker, so I haven't reported anything that is "broken" yet. But to the OP, I would concur that a little more feedback from the developers would be nice. And I have never produced nor "tested" any game before.