Death By Crowbar

DayZ does have a BR mode - it's a 50/50 server and being in Elektro.

Do you know if the antibiotics actually work/help? I always chuck those assuming they're useless.

Make sure your server filter's MAX pop is set to 100, I recall once upon a time it was something like 40 by default but there's public servers that have pops up to 50 and experimental up to 60 (and occasionally higher). Also, until .58 is released and while .57 has the ridiculous loot pinata guard houses everywhere Berezino has 5 of them and does get a lot of traffic. In general though I'd wager you'll find the most people in the general Elektro area (including Kamyshovo). You'll find the most clueless bambis loitering in Solnichny. You'll find the most snipers in the general Cherno area.

My toon dates back to June of 2000 I think. I was a wizard, I got paid to port people. I even ported entire raids into PoH and PoA when they had no wizards available (for free). This is also the first game since EQ that has my attention in a similar way that EQ did... but the best part is you *can* play DayZ for hours on end but you can also accomplish something in 10-15 mins and log out, whereas that was next to impossible in EQ unless you were logging in to check on a spawn quick or something. What server did you play on?

The only way you should be able to know someone's name is: They write in chat. You are close to them and check their pulse. Three's 3 of you, and limited people on the server and you all have clan names. It would be an easy guess. You're talking in game and they go to the player list and mute you figuring out who you are, this is an easy way.Any other method is abuse, either an admin somehow or pink flamingo activity.

I'm sure many people died there... and spun on their crotches like a helicopter!

I think if you over cook anything it makes you sick and poisons you. I recall reading people griping about that, because intuitively if you overcook something it's completely safe to eat, obviously. I think they've still got some work to do in this area, it doesn't seem finished.

There's likely going to be a bunch more database/hive wipes coming, don't get too attached to your gear, now or ever. My advice is to hit up the new guard buildings and find an SVD mag, and then use it or lose it. Now is a good time to practice while loot is bountiful. If a character wipe happens and if the next patch makes any fixes around the loot economy then the loot Christmas that we've been enjoying is going to quickly end. Now is a time of plenty, gear up and enjoy the ease of surviving for now (whether that's running for your life, defending yourself, double crossing people, or mercilessly killing people).

You know, I've been wondering if the DDOS attack is actually over or not. When I logged in earlier today to check I noticed very high server ping times and a lot of rubber banding, which I hadn't noticed at all prior to the DDOS incident, which I'm assuming started on Monday based on the behavior that I saw? Does anyone know if the database/hives are back but the attack is still not completely dealt with?

Wait a sec - this guy looks familiar. I swear I saw a viral video going around a few years ago about his life and his few good friends. It can't be coincidence, anyone know what I'm talking about? Update: Found part of it, there were 2 place I'd seen him before. 1 was a really good story about meeting JJ Watt, and the other was a viral video about his life and struggles to be normal and fit in or something. I knew he seemed familiar! Seems like he'd be a blast to play DayZ with...

Deters gout? I could use one of those right now... *hobbles around*

I checked this morning and my char from before the DDOS was back like magic. I must've gotten lucky... I had my raincoat, improvised backpack, M5, SKS, etc.

Wow, that guys makes it work. Kudos to him! When I first saw this post my gut reaction was that it should go into the Gallery but this guy is something special...

My guess is no, you won't, but I'm noone official. The best people can do right now is: craft a stone knife (go to beach, search for stones, then put stone in hands near a big rock on the ground and craft stone knife). create improvised rope (6x stack combine with 6x stack of rags = improvised rope). create a long stick (use stone knife, go to tree and use your mouse wheel to find "Cut off branch"). create an improvised bow (combine long stick and improvised rope) create sharpened sticks (see step #3, use stone knife on it to cut into 3rds, then use stone knife to sharpen each one) get some chicken feathers (find a chicken coop, walk up to it and use the search function) create improvised arrows (sharpened sticks combined with chicken feathers)Now use your bow and arrows to hunt the defenseless mobs running up and down the coast! You'll be the only person armed with a projectile weapon until they get this issue resolved. Heck, since you can barely open doors it's not like there's anywhere to hide. I feel bad for people who've made long inland treks to NWAF or other places, they're not going to find anything for their efforts other than some zombies to box.

I recently had a pretty good run and thanks to loot Christmas .57 I was loaded to the gills from the guard houses in Berezino. So I run south and run into 3 different bambis all begging me to kill them. So I do, even though it's no sport, but if it saves them time at least I'm doing something good. I finally get down to Solnichny and I find a guy in one of those red brick buildings trying to fend off 3 zombies with a hammer. I dispatch the zombies with my rak and we strike up a conversation. Then some girl comes running with another bambi chasing her trying to knock her out, so I shoot that guy. I'm feeling good about saving 2 people! Then we hear music and a 3rd guy shows up playing country music. We dance in the middle of the street as I dispatch zombies that keep coming. Icing on the cake was a truck kept coming by to listen to the music. It *seemed* all was right in Chernarus, for once. Finally everyone talks about going off to loot together. Feeling super hero like I had 2 loaded handguns and a spare loaded SKS. I drop one for everyone, the chick took the SKS and the guys took the handguns. Everyone seems super happy, we're all packing heat, a group hug ensues. The music guy is playing, "Why can't we be friends!" It's a super rare moment in the life of a survivor. ... one of the handguns goes off, and my black screen says, "You are dead." It was fun while it lasted, lol. I always knew you can't trust anyone, but I was curious if Chernarus would allow a happy ending for once. At least I know it wasn't the chick with the SKS that did it!

Issues I'm seeing are: Major rubber banding, the worst I've seen. No persistence in public hive, I get a new char for each server. Sometimes a chick or model I didn't even choose. No loot anywhere. Nothing, as if the databases aren't even connected. Everyone seems to be teleporting everywhere. The best I've been able to do were some fist fights on the coast, but people rubber band half way across towns and it's very difficult to even interact with people.

No... but I did gear up and go back to Solnichny again. A guy with a trumpet and no ammo I gave 2 boxes of .22, and this time I had 2 loaded rifles and 3 loaded pistols. However, as I ran around the town closing all the doors so I'd know when someone was in the town someone blind side sniped me, I never even heard a shot - but I saw my gear disappearing off my hotkey slots. Fun experiment, but reaffirms the golden rules of Chernarus: 1. Never trust anyone. 2. Never assume you're alone.

If you've not played in 6 months, don't expect any super drastic changes - but you will notice some things. The biggest things in my mind that you'll notice are different are: Berezino has been completely redone. Some other areas have changes as well, such as the school in Elektro, guard houses sprinkled around acting as loot candy, military tents added back by one of the towns (Staroye I think?). Zombies behave much differently now (you can sneak by them, and they also attack differently, you can't just circle around them anymore), but they're still working on them and since the .57 patch there's not that many of them as they're working through some issues with them. There's a bunch of new guns. No more LRS on the Mosin, if you want something similar look to put a hunting scope on the Winchester or Blaze. Personally I've found the Winchester and hunting scope rather hard to find. Land mines and bear traps can be fun. You can carve up and eat people.

Orlovets, Dolina (nearby factory with guard house), Msta, Tulga, and Staroye are places I visit on occasion when I want to keep near the coast but want to avoid empty buildings on higher pop servers.

A lot of people miss direct chat because usually all that shows up there are status messages that often don't matter or are buggy (I'm shaking when I'm not even cold), server spam (Join our teamspeak, donate, X city is a safe zone!), or BattleEye messages. It was good you at least tried direct chat first, especially if you don't have or can't use a microphone.

So.... did it say, "You are dead"? Or did you simply spawn as a bambi with no gear?

Any .45 ACP rounds I find are in FNX mags that I find in guard buildings mostly. Since the .57 temporary loot changes I don't see many boxes, if I need .45 ACP I end up having to find and empty FNX mags.

I want to craft a sun dial.

Animals and zombies have been rather scarce since the .57 update which got applied 3-4 weeks ago. It's a known issue but if I recall it was intentional (but obviously temporary, I think something related to server performance).

Since persistence is broken and thus globally off everywhere, any effort you put into this will be destroyed up server reboot, which will happen several times per day. I'd either do this in a costal high volume town or wait until persistence is back again, otherwise it will be a complete waste of time.