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Finding loot is supposed to be hard. That's kinda the point of this game.

Well it's not supposed to be "easy" to find the propably most wanted gear, is it? :) Loot airfields and military camps (prisons) and hope for the best. And stop server hopping, only naps, noobs and bobs do it.

Is (instant) dropping items working (outside buildings)?

CR75 is a new pistol and Amphibia S seems to be a wristwatch.

Until someone merges both threads, here my reply from the other thread:

1. Reason 1: Realism. Wherever (modern) humans live (or used to live) you'll find books. Is it necessary that you can read them in a game? Sure it's not. But is it a problem? No. If you do not want to read them, just don't do it and ignore them. The devs had to add books anyways, so why not use existing literature? Reason 2: Try to bring "classic" literature closer to the people. In my opinion it is a nice idea to implement them in a computer game. 2. From a psychological point of view, in an apocalyptic situation (being a lone survivor) you would propably carry many books with you and read them in a desperate try to satisfy your human need of communication and socialization. If you don't have anyone to talk to, you'll use storys and fantasy to create something like a "social life". Also, just keep in mind how many people carry for example a bible wherever they go. "Reading" and "Literature" is an important part of many peoples lives and has a significant impact on psyche. Apart from that, at a later point in time books will have practical use. For example use the paper to write on or make fire. 3. Yes! Being a student of economics, I tak great pleasure in reading Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations"...

This. It's the only option we have anyways. Winter seems to be (finally) over, its the first sunny day over here, grab a beer and relax. It's done when it's done.

People are not "disgraceful" because of the delay itself. I would wait another two weeks (and longer) if it was necessary. People are grumbling because of the communication. The Dayz Devblog still says that there is an update today (even though it's not). We (or I) are just saying it would be nice if we would be informed on what is going on on a slightly more regular basis.

Seriously... it's really not a problem if you need another two days. It's an Alpha, I know, no problem. But WHY is it so hard to talk to us? Until now (!1!!) nobody has managed to change what is called the "official Devblog". I understand that everyone is busy and the devs have literally "more important stuff" to do. But it takes only 60 damn seconds to click on "Add new post", write "Yo guys, We are sorry, we found an unexpected bug and will need another two days! :/" and click "Submit". Since the last Video claimed that they are douberling the number of people working on DayZ, I personally hope that they'll add in one or two Community Managers...!

Japp. This confusion is bothering me of since my 3rd day here. :D For everyone that want's up to date information without checking DevTracker, 10 Twitter-Accounts, the Devblog, several forum threads, Reddit and Facebook, I can only repeat: Visit our blog InsideDayZ from time to time. We try to do what the Devteam is not doing: Collecting and summarizing useful information from all the different sources.

I already said it 50 times, the communication is ... "not very good". The "official" Devblog says there will be an update to stable today so for now I'll just chill and wait for it to happen. It's an alpha, so it's not a problem if they delay it until friday, would just be nice to know what's goign on. ~.~

Actually it is based on Take on Helicopters (hwich uses indeed a modified Arma2 eingine though).

Obviously you are not a programmer and never touched a line of code. "Taking a few more bits from a3" - seriously, what do you think this is? You can't just copy something from A3 and paste it into DayZ. It's damn hard and one single bug can keep you busy for weeks if you don't know where exactly it is. The game alltogether has thousands of lines of code (x2 because client & server). That is hard as hell and those guys do a great job. Seriously, people that think they can compare real programmers to a couple modders really piss me off. So they made a custom soundpack? Big deal! Let THEM try to implement a physics engine, and I guarantee, they WILL fail. Modders are not programmers and NO, the can NOT help make DayZ better. Modders just use existing tools to modify what is already there (MODification). Modding is not a big priority at the moment because as long as the base isn't complete modders can't do anything.

Propably. However, there where "scrolling" water textures more then 10 years ago in Half-Life... the waves at the coast are animated, too... I have complete faith in Senchi, I'm sure he'll surprise us with some pretty lakes and rivers at some point! :D

http://youtu.be/GFrGF54B0r0?t=2m50s Bohemia has the "raw material", it shouldn't be that hard to paste it into the current engine. Maybe it won't look as pretty as in the video, but if they can implement physics I'm sure they can add water, too. I personally would love to see at least on medium size river...

It's not only the coast. In general Chernarus is a joke right now. The only time when the game feels "scary" is the first 10-15 minutes until you find a decent melee weapon. Since there are only a few, rather stupid zombies right now, the only reason not to survive are bandits (and glitches). Just wait, this will change a lot once the intelligence and number of zombies will increase. Respawning will already make the game a lot harder. At some point you will NEED to crawl and stay hidden or you will die from not 1-2 but 10-20 zombies chasing you. However, there is no reason why the coast should be more or less "dangerous" then the rest of Chernarus. The dangerlevel should be high in cities and low in rural landscape...

I really love how the same topic is posted over and over again and again here :D Guckstu hier So here (again) some suggestions what to do: Blow up a gas station Find the cave Find all heli crashsites Visit the shipwreck Visit Kumyrna ruins Visit green mountains

Search function! :)

Oh, and a fun thing to do is to actually blow up a fuelstation. It looks cool and most people don't even know it's possible. You need quite a lot of ammo though. Go far enough away and shoot the machine in the middle, try to hit the upper half. We were 3 people, took us like 20-30 seconds shooting with all we had (Mosin, SKS, B95 + speedloaders). As I said, each of us shot at least 10-20 rounds, if not more. But it's worth it! ;) PS: And don't hit it with melee weapons, works too but is not too healthy! :D

I was suprised too, but there are some. As raezion420 said, there is no loot spawning in them (yet) though.

Sightseeing! All castlesKumyrna ruinsShipwreckGreen Mountain towerFind all Heli crashsitesTravel Chernarus until you don't need a map anymore... :P

Especially the rain indoor only occurs on low graphic settings = bad computers. Get a decent graphic chip, turn everything on max and you won't have any problems. I never saw raining indoor anywhere and I personally love rain because it creates a great atmosphere.

Good morning! I've been wondering about this for quite some time now... there are signs like this all over Chernarus, I've seen them at at least a dozen different locations. Most of the time next to a street but without any landmark or location next to it. What does it say? What does it mean?

I definitly see the similarity to "He pass uff" (Eher Berlinerisch though than Hochdeutsch^^) but where did you get the "He Basoph!" from? I don't speak russian but phonetically the second word should start with the same sound the first wold ended ("З") which is more a "z" sound according to a phonetic chart...?

Aw, I solved it myself. :P After picking similar looking letters from a russian alphabet chart ("НЗ ЗАГОРИЯ") and googling it +" dayz" ich found this thread on reddit. Apparently it says "National Park Zagoria" ("Zagoria" being translatable as "Behind Mountain(s)"). So this signs seem to mark the border of a National Park. Kinda cool, i didn't know there was a National Park in chernarus. :P