Death By Crowbar

Here's the bottom line - Rocket/Dean is to DayZ as Bill Gates is to Microsoft, as Steve Jobs is to Apple/Pixar, as Elon Musk is to Tesla/SpaceX. He's the face of it that everyone is most familiar with, from a community standpoint having him around as long as possible is good, regardless of what his hands on role is. The community doesn't really need to be up Bohemia's ass about how much coding Dean does or what Dean's role is from a direction or lead standpoint. it's been well discussed how there's been handoffs of many things as the team has grown and matured, and everyone expects that to continue. Thus my opinion: Rocket going sooner is ridiculous and obviously not preferable to him staying on as long as possible (in whatever role that is). A criticism - I would like to see Rocket visit the community (this one, the forums) again. Don't think he's logged in since March. A compliment - I do like that I see dev team members such as accolyte here engaging with the community regularly.

This is spot on, because everyone knows that Shrub Rocketeer ™ is the protector of pigs!

One or two devblogs ago they said yes, for .49 they'd be wiping along with the patch that stops duping. Thus the world (apparently) will be cleansed of hacked mags and duped items. Here's what they actually said about it. Here's the Devblog where it's talked about: http://dayz.com/blog/status-report-week-of-18-august-14

Well known bug: http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=5169 Log into the Feedback tracker and vote it up!

Straight from the mouth of Dean himself. Listen, learn, enjoy.

So I'm in Polana (had just ran into a bunch of teleporters on "Grey Matter LOOT LOOT LOOT 24/7 DAY 124737" and logged instead into "#Royal22e.com Serveur [R22R] Quebec/Montreal", another high pop server, think it was 38/40 when I joined). I'm around the fire station dealing with a zed and I run into the invisible zed issue, it's beating me senseless and I can't see it so I retreat up both ladders on the fire station to the top and bandage then go prone and start eating (my vision had gone a little fuzzy). I eat and I eat, and after a bit I'm healing. Good. I take a second to check something on my phone when I hear that gun go off that sounds like a glorified potato gun (I've never found one, for the life of me I don't know what it's called either, no gun I've found sounds like that). Pah-ching! Misses! Holy hell, I'm on the top of the firestation prone, there's no other buildings in Polana high enough to snipe me from! ... errr, wait, there's the industrial / grain towers in Novo that someone might be able to reach from with an LRS. F! I scramble down the first ladder dancing up and down as I go, he keeps missing, by what seems just a foot here or there. I get down the top ladder, race across the roof, and get down the second ladder. He must not be able to see me anymore. Phew! ... but I've gotta know, where exactly IS he? I wait a bit, then navigate to where I have a vantage that's unsuspecting and break out my binoculars. I'm looking, looking, looking. Then I see someone on the rocks, WAAAAAY out to the right of Novo. It's gotta be the sniper (wish i'd gotten a screenshot through the binoculars of him). The Mosin with LRS can reach 800 meters, can it not? This guy put in an epic attempt if I'm looking at this correctly. If only I had an LRS for my Mosin to make a game out of it... Moral of the story is, I always say never assume you're alone, and apparently when someone has an LRS never assume there's not cross hairs on you from another TOWN!

Yeah you're right. I call half the things the wrong name. It is Cernaya Polana, The CP, you're right, not the plain "Polana".

Well, a detail I neglected to mention was to deal with the invisible zed I had to get behind a closed door and on a 2nd floor and camp and re-join the server. He could have moved in the minute that took but I doubt it. It was the only person I could see in a location where they could see me on the firestation roof.

Happens a lot when it's cloudy out I've found, and early morning late afternoon.

Teleporters in Polana right now! lastMPServerName="Grey Matter LOOT LOOT LOOT 24/7 DAY 124737";"08/22/2014 11:23 AM"

Just ran into a few on Grey Matter, they're logged in right now glitching all over in Polana. lastMPServerName="Grey Matter LOOT LOOT LOOT 24/7 DAY 124737"; "08/22/2014 11:23 AM" (EST of course)

Oh yeah, powdered milk! You can eat that stuff! Although come to think of it I've not looted any in quite some time. Hmmm...

Well DayZ seems lacking in the dairy department as well. Beggers can't be choosers in the apocalypse.... I'm still looking for that last Twinkie.

Yeah - this, and the fun/risk of it. When someone tries to hold me up and cuff me or something I respect the effort and balls that takes and am more likely to submit than run or fight. Sometimes I just want to see what the guy is going to say or do. I've managed to cuff someone twice, and both times was hilarious. One time I left the key in front of him and another time I force fed him some rotten fruit and ran off laughing (after taking whatever gear I needed). It's ok if some people are KOS or COD style of that's how they prefer to play, but it's gotten so rampant the last time someone tried to hold me up or cuff me was over 3 months ago, the game is so infested with dupers, hackers, and COD fans and everyone is now like that South Park episode, "He's coming right for us!" and shooting anything that moves, which is ruining the game. I'm so happy the roadmap to .49 includes removal of bugged mags and duped items as well as fixing duping.

That's your opinion, and it's incorrect. From the website directly: If this was just PvP there wouldn't be zombies, there wouldn't be various survival elements (fishing, hunting, crafting), there wouldn't be items and mechanics that ENCOURAGE interaction and not PvP (F key animations, handcuffs, burlap sacks, etc). And this, my friend, is why people say it's not COD, it's not KOS, and exactly the reason why people who claim otherwise are laughably and utterly incorrect.

That's why they implemented the ability to cut down trees. Cut them down, cut them all down! Ax is ruined, crap, get me another ax! Oh, there's another survivor, he has one... *BOOM* Great, looted a pristine ax! ... continue chopping trees down!

There's no link or way to tell their steam ID / name from their in game name. Your best bet is to post their names here and hope they see it and keep an eye out for them in game. To be honest it's going to be an uphill battle to find them because there is no global chat or way to contact them in game other than seeing them in the player list and somehow locating them as you blindly fumble from city to city. Your chances are better of getting struck my lightning. There should be a way to do it though... maybe on the forums there could be a "Have you seen me?" kinda like they put the kids on the milk cartons.

I wouldn't say it's about stealing, I'd say it's about surviving. PvP, PvE, trying not to starve, etc. Survival in DayZ includes: Have fun. Avoid zombies... F Zeds. Searching high and low for food and gear. Using stealth to not draw attention or be seen. Working with others to stay safe and trade needed items. Holding up or disabling someone up to get gear you need (you're not out to kill anyone, right?) Eliminating threats and competition by killing people (whether for gear or not)... and I would say ideally it would work in that order. But even though PvP plays a significant role in DayZ it's not and shouldn't be the primary focus. That's what people mean when they say "This isn't COD, don't KOS". It's a significant part of the game, but not the purpose of the game, and those who view it as the only point of the game ruin or miss out on opportunities for more meaningful and fun interactions.

Make it run, then make it run fast. A famous saying is, "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil" In alpha, and this is early access alpha, there's a LOT to be done. Also keep in mind that they are working on the engine redo, code named "Infusion". So technically that's in progress.

Zeds should be like people. If I sneak up behind a zed, I should be able to handcuff it and burlap sack it's ass, then force feed it whatever I want. Then I might shoot it in the head, I dunno, but zeds should be like people, because they are people, just diseased.

This. If OP proposed it as a drinking game I'd be even more excited... but I love creativity and this certainly adds that plus some challenge. Half the time I can't find ammo for whatever gun I've currently got.

Hahahaha... I've thrown my gun at 2 people so far on accident. Neither occasion worked out in my favor. :lol:

That I'm aware of, Zeds cannot kill in a single hit. So, one of the following is likely: A glitch death. Either the game's perception of gravity was off (happens around steep stairs) or something went awry. There are several known bugs that can cause this. Were you on the 1st floor or? A known Zed bug where there are invisible Zeds and other things going on. Possible but maybe unlikely - you thought you were alone but you really weren't, the second you stopped to confront the Zed someone outside who had been stalking you saw you steady and aim through a window and head shot you.Your best bet is to log it in the Bug Tracker, because it seems rather impossible (but obviously happened). You likely did nothing wrong and the Devs may have something helpful additional to look into. Give all the information you have, and if possible, try to put yourself in the same exact situation in the same building and see what happens (this is early access alpha, if you can reproduce it you'll know it's a bug and can provide better more helpful data).

I agree with jubeidok that the gear there and the amount of it is questionable (duping likely unless it was the staging ground for a clan). There's no infinite M4 mags or any of that, but without severe server hopping and likely duping since tents came out that would have taken a single person nearly every waking moment to come by solo. So it's not exactly solid proof of a problem, but the unlikelihood of legitimacy is in OP's favor on this one. You at least need to give him credit/kudos for wrecking the guys camp, it's honorable yet hilarious. "Here, let's lob all of the crap off this cliff, and oh, look at the bugged throwing animations of all of the items!" No matter how many times I think about this or watch it I laugh because it's awesome and silly.

That's the type of thought that had me sitting here at work cracking up, it's so silly and hilarious. Mr Moon should make a skit about this or something!