Tatanko

It's that time again! This time, my first round of shots is just going to be a placeholder. It's VERY difficult to take good shots of these new places on Experimental right now at night, in the rain, with limited resources. Enjoy what I have for now and I will update this post with new, better pictures as soon as I get the chance :) PAGE 1: Prison Island & Skalisty Island PAGE 2: Graveyards at Berezino, Pavlovo, Prigorodki, and Pustoshka First up, the new Prison Island:

I am particularly fond of the new one at Pustoshka. It's pretty huge, actually has some loot (residential/industrial), and has the coolest layout in my opinion. The war memorial in Berezino is neat, but it doesn't add to the spooky factor :p

I'm happy to report that Nagornoe (092 007) is in 0.53 as well. I was unable to get any decent shots of it at 02:00 though, too dark :( When this hits Stable, most likely tomorrow, I'll update the entire thread.

I can't confirm that this is actually new, but it seems to be. The graveyard at Pavlovo: Next is a graveyard that I'm certain is new. This one is in Pustoshka:

I wouldn't read too much into it, honestly. The island is very cut off from the mainland (even more so than Skalisty) so more than likely it is related to the island needing to be mostly self-sufficient.

This is the result of spending about 5 hours playing 0.53 Experimental today. I am LOVING 0.53 :)

Being that it says 1941-1945, I would assume that it must be a WWII memorial. I can't really read cyrillic either, but I've done enough translating back and forth to read town signs and everything :p Most likely a list of names or something along those lines. Absolutely! Those graveyards would look awesome, and so would the islands come to think of it.

So I decided to do a little research today on the inclusion of salmonellosis (as of 0.52). I will lay out what I found below. I tried to be as scientific about the whole process as I could possibly be, but there are still a few question marks. I'd like some input from others who have battled it to see what your experience was. 1. First, I tried eating raw fish fillets. I ate two of them, and after ten minutes this had resulted in nothing at all. 2. So then I decided to eat an entire unprepared Carp. I immediately began getting status messages like, "I have a funny taste in my mouth" and "I notice a weird taste". After about three minutes, I began getting the message, "I feel nauseous" in red text but no "Sick" status or vomiting. 3. After about ten minutes, I noticed I was losing color and took antibiotics (according to what I had read online, they are supposed to be the cure). 4. At the fifteen minute mark, I was still getting red status messages and consumed a second round of antibiotics to see if it would help; it didn't seem to. Still losing color. At the eighteen minute mark, I had very little color left. 5. At the twenty-one minute mark, I became yellow "Sick" and lost my previously high levels of energized and hydrated. Almost immediately I became orange "Sick" and vomited, along with red text status messages about feeling light-headed. 6. At the thirty minute mark, I was still orange "Sick" and had zero color left. Still getting red status messages. Took charcoal tabs. 7. At the thirty-five minute mark, I observed that my color was starting to come back. Ten minutes later, I had plenty of color back. 8. After exactly one hour since consuming the whole unprepared fish, I lost my sick status completely and very suddenly. I was able to heal to "Healthy" almost instantly. At no point during all of this was my vision blurry, leading me to believe that the total health lost at any given time was very little (despite losing nearly all of my blood eventually). I can't tell if the antibiotics are what actually solved the problem or not, though, and whether or not multiple doses actually helped. Seeing as I took charcoal tabs after thirty minutes, I question whether or not they were involved in curing me. It was exactly an hour since I ate the fish, fifty minutes since I took the first antibiotics, and thirty minutes since I took the charcoal tabs. Hmm.

Finally, the last major map change in 0.53: the graveyard at Berezino.

Thanks! Hopefully it inspires/motivates you to make that film :)

:D Haha awesome! :)

Same here, but then again I had never shot an MP5 until my maiden voyage to Prison Island a few days ago and it's far less rare than the RAK. Now a sword, there's something I wish I could find...

The news of a new island AND a renovated Skalisty had me jumping out of my seat when they announced it :) Then I actually went and saw them... they're both great! As for your character... who knows? Haha. I still find it odd that they are only wiping the public hive since it could lead to exactly the situation you're talking about.

Made a stop at one of the new graveyards. This one was in Prigorodki:

The prison was placed on an entirely new island that didn't exist before, located off the coast south of Komarovo and Kamenka in the west. Skalisty Island got a complete makeover, but that is separate from this new prison island.

When you go to make a post, you need to use the "Image" button in the editing tools menu at the top of the text box. It's in the second row, 11th from the left (the little green square with a white outline that looks like an old Polaroid picture). You then paste the URL of the photo from Imgur or Photobucket or wherever you originally uploaded the picture, and it will add it to the post for you.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/2uas2c/unofficial_datamining_for_experimental_130_053_2/ According to the above discussion on Reddit, domestic pigs have been removed from "domestic spawns" in 0.53 for whatever reason. Being that the only place I ever saw them was Msta, it sounds like you might not be able to find any at all now for the time being.

Did you steak out the situation first? A little recon beforehand will never steer you wrong.

I noticed all sorts of weird things last night, but I could never be sure if it was just me seeing things or if something had actually changed. Good catch!

It goes down to the sea floor, but if you swim overtop of it you should be able to see it in your inventory screen. Might take a bit of moving around.

Yeah, I took a risk with that. It was just for a cool picture :) It will be gone soon anyway since it was on my public hive character.

Thanks! Can't wait to take some fair weather pictures when I'm not starving/dehydrated/hypothermic and really show off the new areas. Your gear can still drop, but if you immediately stop where you are and grab it, you can put it back on. Apparently Hicks would like to see that issue resolved. Yes, people still kill each other on Experimental unfortunately. I was forced to kill several people at the prison last night (could have seen that coming) and this morning two people tried to attack me on Skalisty, which is a first.

A few additional shots of Skalisty Island from this morning. These are purely intended to show you guys what has changed, especially on the backside of the island where the village was.

The bridge is quite awesome. It's fairly narrow (but wide enough for vehicles) with huge drops on each side so you tend to check your surroundings before you venture across. It's really two islands, hence the bridge, but they look like one big island kinda. Yup, I go by Tatanko everywhere :) I had no idea what to expect with Skalisty and was very pleasantly surprised! It appears that they not only added the castle, but made it into a tourist attraction as well. You're too kind :p These are not up to my standards really, but it was the best I could do only having a few Exp. servers to choose from. I'll take prettier ones probably when this hits Stable.