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That is probably almost an hour of time to recover that loot once you respawn. That is horrible. How will you cope?

I haven't seen em either. I also haven't seen walkie talkies since the patch

Yeah, the spawn situation is somewhat dorky at the moment, but any change they make now will have to be changed again later on, especially if they bump servers up to 100 peeps. I don't mind, but who knows what it will be like once we get bikes and all that.

I have an old laptop with a graphics card running 512mb graphics memory. When they opened Svetlo a couple months ago, I could not get near that city without massive drops, to the point where it was unplayable. With this new city, it is very smooth for me and I have no issues. I have not been back to Svetlo since this patch, but I wonder if it is better now.

Count me as not concerned. Sorry, I am playing a game where my pixels shoot your pixels, and vice-versa. It doesn't matter to me if my bullet pixels are bigger/smaller than your bullet pixels. However, I respect that some here are concerned about bullet pixel size and think they should push for it due to that concern. FWIW, bullets and guns are things that can be easily added later, with new updates possibly bringing new items to the table each time. It's not like deciding on allowing choppa's and whatknot. It's just some copy/paste from current models with the necessary modifiers for each ballistic.

I can't be sure, but I am seeing a ton of FNX mag's, and a whole slew of FNX Red Dot sights. I almost never found a RDS for the pistol before, and I saw probably 15 when I ran through NWAF today.

Yes, the alpha version of the game is about glitches and desync and rubber-banding. Throw in an adrenaline rush every time you kill or get killed, and you have the makings of what might be a fun game upon release.

Oh, we don't want to bother you. It's nice to see a story broken up into small chunks scattered all over, making it almost impossible to read it in any normal type of fashion. Well done little one, well done...

I was sadly disappointed with the place. Maybe I am too accustomed to other city styles, but I don't even remember seeing a police station in the new town. I think I saw 1 piano house and 1 brick house. They do have a lot of factories and industrial buildings, but I'm not too sure what type of lootz they hold. My fear of climbing DayZ ladders has kept me from exploring too much in those facilities.

yes, but why do you need a rock for a fire when you have zombies and PVP players running around?

Please come to my house with a small bit of acreage. You can find a million-and-one rocks, and I will let you take them all free of charge. If you get tired of picking them up on top of the ground, get a shovel and dig millions more just under the surface. FWIW, i've built a lot of fires, and I can't remember the last time I bothered with gathering rocks. This is a survival game, not a state-park campground. Rocks aren't needed at all. Wood, matches and maybe some kindling. Instant fire, and no 50lb rocks to haul around.

Actually, I've looted off that exact shelf a lot of times. The key is having space to loot the item too. That means empty spaces in backpack, taking off your shirt, or emptying your hands(to pick up Mosin on top). It used to get me too, then I came to understand that white dot in the middle of my screen. Aim it for the item to be looted.

Recent reports have stated that helicopter crashes are random, and a small percentage have a chance to spawn epic purple lootz. I saw a pair of shoulder-pads that were so epic, they were translucent...

Actually, you can toss your knife with no practice at all. The question is the effectiveness of the throw. Should we be able to take our knife into the woods, practice 100 times, and come back and be pretty deadly? Same for sniper rifle. Should you get better as you practice more? Too many questions, and not enough answers.

Just remember, boys are 100% stupid until they get to about 25 years old, or thereabouts. From age 25 to 35, they are only about 75% stupid. At 35, they typically have offspring and will start to act almost normal. I'm well above that 35 age, but I practice KOS routinely. It is the way I enjoy playing, as I am fearful that other players may take all my oxygen. I need oxygen, so I have no choice really. If I see you in-game, I will shoot at you well before you get close enough to talk. Sorry about that, well, not really sorry, just know that I feel your pain.

QWW is right, the crashing to desktop does blow. From never having a crash to now having multiples per day. I hope we see a post soon saying they understand the problem and are implementing a hotfix. Until then, it's just play and hold your breath so you don't crash when near other players.

Different strokes for different folks. If you aren't PVP'ing, why in the world would you move tactically? Afraid to spook the trees? Also, if you don't PVP, what do you do? I haven't made the run to NWAF in well over a month. I eventually realized it wasn't worth the effort. I don't need an M4 with every extra. I just need a gun, and another player or two as targets. I am glad you have found inner peace moving in a tactical formation as you migrate around the map, but I can assure you that you are a very small minority in this game. I see a lot of players, and they ALWAYS run full speed. I definitely die from time to time, but I would not want a game where I just sit back and never engage. If you engage enough, you will die. It's going to happen. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I haven't heard of anyone doing tactical moving across the map. I've made that run to NWAF probably 50 or so times, plus the return trip, and I never move tactically. Haven't you seen all the threads about how to lock the W key with a paperclip or stack of coins? You typically don't get shot when you are making that run, as snipers don't sit in the middle of the wilderness, unless it's near a high pop area. I will slow down and move tactically once I get close to NWAF, but for 98% of the run, it's full speed ahead.

Well, the current engine in it's current form is just a placeholder. Also, the network communication system is also a placeholder. The inventory management system is also a placeholder. They should be releasing a new engine called Impuksion soon. It promises flawless operation of the entire game. On a serious note, no one has really stated that they have identified the problem, much less that it is getting fixed.

Ok. You go ahead and tactical move and observe from Zino over to NWAF. When you get there next week, let me know how it was.

Nope, definitely not fine. I have been playing since early Jan, and the game had NEVER crashed on me. It now crashes 2-3 times a day. It even crashed on the server list screen today. They really dorked something up, but that is to be expect as WE ARE ALPHA! I would expect a hotfix relatively soon, but soon for BI might be a bit different than my definition of soon. The lag and FPS don't seem much different to me, at least so far. The new town was a huge letdown, and was made worse once I saw they removed the piano houses in Polana. I appreciate that they want to make gun spawn points more rare, but what it does is push people even harder to get straight to NEAF or Zino. I would assume this is the start of progressive loots, that require you to advance in stages across the map. Of course, this is pretty horrible since it's still a running simulator.

no.

I fear that if they put in a well designed and thought out system in place, that it will set back release by another 6 months. I guess things might improve, but the speed of current development already has us about 18 months from actual release.

Yeah, I've been playing on the gameplay servers and the rubberbanding and desync are horrible, even on servers with just a few peeps. I lost my toon yesterday as it desynced so bad while being attacked by a zed that I didn't survive. I do think that the currrent engine is just a place holder, as is the network it's built upon. Once they get those fixed we will be golden. Golden I tell you...golden.

Not sure why having more or less canned goods will make a difference. No matter whether you hunt animals or hunt cans, it's a time sink. Neither will be that hard, as that isn't the object of the game. I think many players 'say' they want it to be a hard survival simulator where you fight elements and disease and all sorts of that stuff. But I also think that if the PVP diminishes by a large percentage, and we have to spend hours running around looking for a bottle of vitamins, then the player base will disappear rapidly. I don't care who you are, the only time you have adrenaline flowing in this game is when you encounter and interact with other players. Seeing that bunny hopping doesn't cut it. Neither does crawling for hours to find some sticks. The nature of this game will only allow it to be successful as a PVP-centered game.