Demoth

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but every night server I've been on has a full moon. This makes nighttime servers incredibly fun because of several factors.... I CAN ACTUALLY SEE THINGS!!! Not well, but I can actually make out trees, towns and other things instead of just playing as though my monitor was off. No offense to the ARMA guys or the DayZ SA team, but while a moonless night without powered cities does look blacker than ink, it's not a fun experience to actually play in. As is you either have to switch servers or hunker in a spot until light... again, realistic but not necessarily fun. This may easily change if you could build shelters and more easily create light sources, but as is nighttime really is just simulating a broken monitor if the moon isn't out. Edit: even with full mmoon you still get the flashlight experience because inside buildings you can't see squat so it's still intense.

There are two reasons you are getting negative responses. 1.) You are complaining about getting killed for no reason in a game designed around paranoia, base survival and limited resources. That's like me going, "OMG, Call of Duty sucks because you have guns and you kill each other in multiplayer. Where is the diplomacy and rules of engagement before each firefight? This is SO unrealistic". 2.) You're telling everyone you're going to demand a refund. Unfortunately that really makes this sound like troll-bait because you know that knee-jerk hating on a game on its' official forms is basically like telling everyone that likes the game that they have shit-taste (Not saying you ARE, but that's how it comes across) We have all been killed for no reason while acting friendly towards people. It makes the game intense because you never know who to trust. What's funny is that it's much easier to get along with people until you start gearing up. At the moment I have a fully decked M4, The FN45 and a .357 and all of them have a lot of ammo and mags... so if I die, it's going to REALLY be painful, so I'm way more inclined to KOS because I don't want to lose my shit, whereas if I ran into my guy while all I had was an axe.... well, I might get greedy and want to stalk him and then give him a chop to the skull while he's looting something. I'm sorry you found one of the selling aspects of the game totally unfun, but it seems like the issue was moreso that you bought this game with 0 understanding of it.

I've been trying to find some information about before posting, but either the person is making a guess or there are conflicting answers so I though I'd ask the forums. Are item spawns random, and do they re spawn after a certain time? I ask because every server I go to I can never find anything. All the homes are empty and I'm crazy lucky if I find a can of tuna. I'm worried that if guns are static spawns then everyone will rush those locations and new players will never see a gun unless they read guides (which I find immersion breaking). Like, I get why a military base would have the highest spawn rates for military weapons, but is it rarely possible to find one just laying on a table in a house?

Gingatsu - it makes sense for weapons to be anywhere because military forces could have been going through and fallen victim to zombies, or a survivor escaped a firefight but bled out later... It just makes it (IMO) way more interesting to explore rather than having everyone always bum rushing one spot all the time.

Sorry to bump my own thread, but any information would be greatly appreciated, or if this is posted somewhere that I just somehow missed.