Unforeseen

There really aren't any actual bandits anymore...well very few. KOS is not banditry. At least not in the form that it's supposed to be/used to be. I wouldn't give KOSing the benefit of having immersion label. It's only happening at this level because there isn't anything better to do while we test the game, and is totally unrealistic and intentionally so. A bandit is someone who will hold you up, and depending on the bandits agenda and how well you cooperate they will let you live after taking your things and leaving you naked and handcuffed in the middle of nowhere. They might even feed you a rotten banana. Anyone left that still behaves this way deserves a salute. I kill both, even if I am playing as a bandit I still kill other bandits.

Better RP right there. Than being a marooned shipwreck survivor. I spawned right smack in the middle of cherno today. I was shot in the back of the head 3 minutes later. People need to quit killing fresh spawns, it's just slowing down the ALPHA imo.

Well it was more than one kind of house, I also found them inside the apartments(not the big tall ones, I've never found a single item in there). 9mm seems to be extremely common compared to other ammo, with the exception of .22.

Is the issue with items not being able to be picked up a problem that requires a restart? I'm finding that when I encounter this(which is quite often), that I am having to reconnect in order to pick up any items at all.

We pretty much already know that there will be non-military equivs. for most of the military gear.

I find ammo everywhere, I found 9mm rounds(a lot of them) inside houses in berezino. What I never find, are mags.

Nesuma we should be thinking about the finished product not on how it would affect the ALPHA environment. Guns should spawn with or near their mags, this is realistic and it will be important when the environment is more dangerous. You just balance it by decreasing the amount of ammo that spawns. Instead of finding 20 rounds, you find 3 or 4 at a time.

That's not really any better than server hopping.

My goals? I don't think my goals can currently be safely accomplished because of the state of the game but after release i'm going to put an emphasis on getting a group of people I can communicate with IRL and pick/make a server that we only play on, set up a stronghold out in the middle of nowhere and start hoarding supplies, guns, ammo and vehicles there. Maybe try to get some kind of in server economy going using food as a currency and selling weapons and ammo.

Is it currently in the plans to add the ability to craft fur and leather clothing from hunting? I did a search and didn't see any topics specifically about this but I'd like to see this implemented at some point. I think that hunting should become a big part of the survival aspect with less emphasis on regular loot.

That would be nice, sorry I've been away and i'm not 100% up to date on what's been added.

I stay near the coast in general because that's where everyone else is. The game lacks significant challenge outside of pvp player interaction at currently so heading away from the coast will quickly cause me to become bored and quit the game as it has done on three different occasions since I started playing. If I leave the coast it is because I am looking for a crash site, or going to NWAF to get a new vest and some ammo/mags.

It entirely depends on how far they have progressed. Since they are still in the world they ARE at fault for not sufficiently placing them self in a relatively safe position for log out. However if they are ungeared, fresh spawns or clearly possessing little gear that would be useful to me I will leave them alone. If they are geared, and they have failed to "safe" themselves I will take the kill for the chance of gear that I need. On the other hand, if the geared player has taken the time to position themselves safely such as in the woods I will leave them alone because they deserve to live and are not a challenge. Killing such a player is no better than server hopping imo. In this situation, where a geared player HAS in fact "safed" themselves I will stand by while they log out for a short time to ensure they are not going to return and become a threat/challenge by logging back in.

Hi, my monitor is set for 1440x900 resolution and untill a couple of days ago that is what i would play with on DAYZ SA. After a server reset dayz crashed and i had to restart the game. From this point on i was having an issue where the screen was shifted to the right by a noticable margin. On the left was just empty black space. The only way that i could find to fix this was to change the resolution, however on the resolution that fixed the game screen the entire game looks HORRIBLE. It's very hard to see, all of the game sprites are very pixelated or barely viewable at all. The game is practically unplayable. How can i fix this? Preferrably i'd like to play on 1440x900 again as i had always done before.

Ok ok, I know this has probably been mentioned before.. I know damage has been nerfed quite a bit, but 2 shots to the chest at point plank with a shotgun not earning a kill or even knocking the target unconscious? I even wailed on the guy with a machete several times before being taken out by his rifle. It didn't even appear that the guy was bleeding. Damage needs to be rebuffed to ensure accurate testing. On another note... my leg randomly broke with pants ruined as if I had been shot when I walked up the stairs in the fire station in Elektro. There was no one around, and I was not near a window. No lag, no desync. Just randomly broke. Second time this has happened to me in about 4ish months. I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining, I just think that the team should put ALL focus on bug fixing and Zombie pathfinding and just forget about adding anything until everything else is working properly. That way it's easier for us alpha testers to test the new features, and it's easier for the devs to determine the cause of new bugs. My two cents..

Eh I wear a mask. (Well I did until my character got randomly deleted last night) And I let four people live yesterday. The clothes you wear and the way you act initially towards other people does not inherently determine whether you are actually friendly or not. Two of those guys I had the muzzle of my shotgun in their faces nearly the entire time I was speaking to them. As I've said before I only KOS when I feel it is necessary to do so. Situations such as feeling directly threatened, or desperate for a particular item that I know for a fact that they have in their possession and would not be willing or able to give me. I wear a mask partly for aesthetic reasons, separating me from the rest of the crowd wearing ballistic helmets and such (because apparently you can't wear a helmet with a mask anymore which is pretty lame and kinda unrealistic), and partly because I like the feeling of anonymity that it gives me. If you feel threatened, then by all means open fire Gordon, open fire! If you run into a UN clan member, kill them. Don't wait for them to grief you and then either change servers or get the hell out of dodge cuz those kids travel in packs. If you see a guy running through a town with a mask on and you don't trust us mask folk, don't approach, don't shoot. Just leave/stay away.

Well I know it's alpha but I'm reporting it anyways... I was on my way to meet a friend up in the new city, walking through town slowly as several doors were open and I suspected there may be someone near by. Suddenly my game freezes with no CTD. I'm forced to Ctrl+alt+delete, but my cursor no longer shows up on my computer at all and I have to restart. Once done I load the game back up and relogin to the server, character still showing up on the screen like normal minus the pants I had picked up earlier(still showing old pants). I have to wait 30 seconds only to find that I am a fresh spawn. According to my friend I was kicked by battle eye during this time, along with quite a few other people in short succession including herself. She did NOT login as a fresh spawn however. Instead she was missing a gun she had recently picked up and there was an item on the ground that was not previously there when she was kicked. The server had NOT reset. The server was the brigade of misfits server for hardcore mode, I don't remember the IP. Anyways, have to restart again. Would rather of lost my character to a bullet to the brain, had some decent gear. Oh well :( Edit: Friend just told me that the server had reset shortly after this occurred. After logging in she walked around for a few minutes and then the server reset again. Possible abuse? Idk. Just reporting issues we're having. Plz don't flame me about it being alpha.

Should work like this: Admin initiates server reset, all character data is immediately saved and then all players are kicked from the server, server resets. You rejoin the server and you are exactly where you were and have exactly what you had at the moment the Admin started the reset.

Don't go to Berezino. Just a bunch of COD kids there. I once wandered Berezino hearing ALOT of gunshots to find a red flare laying on the ground behind some apartments...obviously it was a trap. I ended up sneaking into one of the buildings which happened to be the right one. You wouldn't believe how many dead guys were in there. Bandits, Heroes, Bambis. It was like something out of a slasher movie. Noone was alive. There was ruined gear strewn about all over the place. Half used medical supplies, ruined bandages, alcohol, cantines, guns, ammo boxes. A couple of armies duked it out in there. You don't want to be involved in that when your just starting out.

So i was just killed in Balota. He ran in and shot before i could get my gun pointed at him to return fire. My leg was broken so i fell to the ground. He had to reload, so i had a chance to take him down. But i couldn't! My gun would not raise, well it would glitchily for like 2 seconds and then lower again. Never long enough to fire more than 1 round and not at all accurately. So inevitably i was killed. It was as if my arms were broken, but i wasn't aware of such a feature and there wasn't a message. Just reporting a bug, disappointed but yeah i know this is Alpha :\

The number one thing i have learned while playing DayZ is that you cannot trust ANYONE wearing a UN Ballistic Helmet. Once you see one, it's better to just log out because they are a bunch of worthless griefers. xD Lol but in all seriousness i've not learned much that i already knew from DayZ.

While my other issue is the priority i thought i'd also post about one i had during the same night. This problem occurred after changing my resolution to make it so i could view the entire screen. When i logged into server, a sawed off shotgun that was in my backpack had completely disappeared. The game remembered that i had one, because it was still attached to button 1 on my quick bar. Just whited out like when you drop a weapon. I know for a fact that i didn't drop this weapon, and I am 99.9% sure i wasn't robbed. Everything else was there including the ammo, my SKS, my 1911 Pistol, clothes food etc etc.

Well i suppose the strange thing remains that the backpack was in the same order it was before. The shotgun was located at the bottom, and those slots were empty.

That didn't work, although it never happened before. Now of all a sudden my monitor is incorrectly auto correcting the resolution when i load dayz and it is ignoring the resolution set in game. I have to go into monitor settings and return it to default to get everything working normally.

I've temporarily fixed this problem by using my monitor menu to shift the projection to the left allowing me to barely see everything i need to see on the right.