baron334

The work around is to play without your Astro Mixamp just for Dayz. Pretty sure they disabled Test Mode to combat hackers and I don't see it getting re-enabled anytime soon.

This has NOTHING to do with running around. This just happened this patch. I was a fresh spawn went to a well and drunk and got stuffed after drinking the first time. I still wasn't hydrated. We had multiple people in Teamspeak that had the same issue and they were throwing up from getting stuffed really quickly.

So we played last night and had a lot of fun. We had a group of 6-7 and we found multiple trucks. We always had trucks but it seems trucks are more glitchy now than ever. We had two trucks go completely underground (one of which I will post a video to the bug section) and both died. Secondly we had multiple people die just getting out of the truck. Apparently now when you get hit by a truck you die but it only takes a slight bump to kill you so when two people are near a truck at the same time one can die. Later after I ran back to the group I wasn't hit by the truck but he turned into me so the back part clipped me and I still died. I'm not sure if I recorded that part but I will check when I get home from work. Also trucks can be driven to and from the prison underwater so hopefully that will be fixed.

So far the patch has been great but as others have said, Not being able to change our Private server to daytime instead of Real Time sucks. We all work and only being able to play at night is lame. The biggest issue is hydrating. It should not take 2 minutes of game time to hydrate your character with an animation you can't cancel. This needs to be fixed. Either let us cancel the animation, shorten the animation or make the intake of liquid per animation greater. Thanks for the patch, the Prison is AMAZING.

I found two in the past 3 weeks.

One of my clan mates decided to scare me by pretending to be someone I didn't know and chasing me. A few minutes later down the road he gets what he deserves.

Some fun last night with an ax.

I have played on quiet a few servers the the ones my clan hosts and I have never seen "server abuse" like you guys are claiming. The only thing I can imagine is it is on public servers and the owners are using it to gear up then switch servers to kill people? The private shards I play on don't seem to have this issue. I find it silly that server owners are threatened by just banning people. If you find a toxic player or a hacker on your server you think twice before banning him because the same little brats that hack report you for banning them. We banned a guy the other day and it is a pain staking process to keep track of the caught hackers incase they report you for the ban. At least in the top US servers the admins want players to play and I have seen no evidence of abuse from them, only them trying to combat the hackers and toxic players. I hope that the hosting companys and Dayz devs will be mindful of the fact that often the same toxic players that you remove from your server will try to get your server removed.

We don't run persistence on either of ours and I can confirm it happens to us often. Last night both servers were locked up when I got home from work.

Hey guys, we run two popular servers that stay 50/50 in the US. One is public and one is on a private shard but both lock up from a lot recently. We have only noticed this since .52. I play regularly and I have been able to narrow our lockups down to right before restarts 90% of the time. Our server is constantly spammed with people trying to join or spamming refresh and it appears to always lock up to the point where I can even call the lockups. What happens is we get to a restart or right before it and the server locks up and we have to force a restart. About 10-15 minutes after we restart the server the scheduled server restart happens. This isn't something that happens occasionally this is happening quiet often but not every restart. I can't tell you if it happens with under 50 people because we always have 50 but it is annoying and requires our admins to be around a lot to restart the servers. I am hoping it is just an issue with this build and will be cleared up in the next stable.

I don't understand why people complain about KoS vs acting friendly. You look at any survival scenario EVER where there are multiple people the strong prey on the weak or attempt to. If your family is starving and you can't find food but you know of a neighbor survivor that has more food than he can eat you will do what you have to feed your family. I'll give you an example in "zombie survival terms" In walking Dead when Rick, Glenn, and Hershel were in the bar and two guys walked in they were all very anxious and had a short conversation where the two guys tried to press them for information about their "home/base" eventually one of them reached for a weapon and Rick shot them both. As bad as the zombies have been throughout the whole series the humans have been worse. You take the average human and put them in that environment where they have to survive while losing everything, everyone they ever knew and they will turn to their animal instincts. I'm sure during the first few weeks there will be a lot of "friendly meetings" but those people will die quickly and the ones that survive will learn to not trust anybody. The ones that will survive will be the ones that can adapt and overcome. Lord of the Flies - Kids on an island ended up battling each other for control and power Revolution TV Show - The strong took power and made the weak submit. People killed other people for items A lot of entertainment supports the fact that during a survival situation the biggest issue may be yourself and other people. Throughout History to survive people have conquered other people. When Columbus sailed across the ocean and found the islands their meeting was friendly then he enslaved some to take back home to show. It is the way of life, people do what they have to for survival. If you are looting a town that is potential food I can't loot, that is one spot less that I can use later. Every mouth to feed is a risk against my life. Everytime I put a bullet in the head of another survivor I am increasing my odds to make it another day. Anyways good luck and have fun.

I think when you get enough hours in you learn to mix it up. I started off solo hanging around the coast for the player interaction. Now I run with my clan and we stay out west, sometimes north. You find alot of the more mature players out west and you normally can have good interactions both friendly and hostile. I know for most of us we like to find items to give each other, like carrying extra rice or morphine. Even when we are fully geared we will roam from Vybor down to Pavlovo and back on standard loot runs. Each day brings something different to do, you may get ambushed one day and the next day you are trying to ram one truck into another to get it unstuck. Sometimes I like to mix it up when I die, recently I got an axe and tried to make a bow and arrows to live off the land, I died fairly quickly that way. Sometimes I even go to the coast and grab the first weapon I can find and try to survive an "urban" environment where the only food I find is off people I kill. I do agree with you though, playing with people is 10x more fun. I found my clan through their server and by joining their teamspeak.

The biggest problem is unless you kill them you can't get their name. I have a recording that shows someone hacking but it doesn't show who. We were on a server on a private shard but the admins can't even see the name of the guy that killed me. I truely believe that admins should have a death log that just says. "Johnny Killed Stewart with a Knife" Then at least people have a chance to battle hackers since battleeye is ineffective.

Up until yesterday I had never seen a hacker before either. I had died multiple times with no warning but I had never seen an actual hacker. Yesterday I encountered one that was no doubt hacking and I recorded it. He was impossibly fast, could go invisible and I assume had aim bot from the way he killed me. He trolled me for a while crawling behind me just in sight range then disappearing before he finally killed me. So there are hackers out there and losing everything to one is frustrating. I know the people I play with it is the number one complaint. If play for a week and never meet one that is fine but just one death where you never stood a chance ruins the gameplay.

First I want to thank the guy in the NE airfield that I just met a few minutes ago. I have played a few times mostly with friends and I log on tonight to find myself gearless and back on the coast. So I start searching houses heading north while I find not one thing until I hit berezino. I find a backpack and some rags and decide to head to the NE airfield a place a friend took me and it had some decent items. Upon arriving at the airfield I find it empty and I began to look around. I find a helmet and some ammo, then a .45 pistol but no clip so in the middle of my searching the control tower I hear footsteps and suddenly there is a guy looking at me with a pistol in his hand. Here is how the exchange went down. Him - "Are you armed?" Me- "No, I just have an ax and a .45 with no clip" *he looks at me for a minute then drops a .45 clip on the ground* Him- "Merry Christmas" Me - "Thanks so much, I just tried to open a can of sardines and lost it" Him- "Is there anything else your short on" *then a thud, the sound of high velocity metal careening through a human body, his body slups to the floor in front of me, dead from a snipers bullet* At that point I run down the stairs and load my pistol while aiming at the door. I sit there a few minutes trying to decide what to do next before I decide sticking around the airfield is a bad idea so I rush out the door and run like crazy toward the trees. To the guy in the NE Airfield who was a nice guy and took a bullet I thank and salute you. I have played this game for about 10 hours and I have 4 pretty defining moments that have made me fall in love with it. I know its not even close to finished but so far it has been an intense game for me. My only downside I have seen at all is night time seems completely unplayable to me and since I play I night I am forced to search for servers in other time zones. I just wanted to share my story and say thanks to a person who did a good deed and died for it. I hope he doesn't think I was apart of it and choose to just shoot people from now on.