SyKotic

So .55, the first 2 to 3 days after reset are glorious, food, soda and gear are everywhere If you know where to look. You can die with impunity and gear back up or even better if a few minutes, intentionally agro-ing hordes of zombies to mow down with your mp5 and its seemingly endless supply of 9mm rounds. Then I logged in sunday, no nothing anywhere unless your looking for hats and books. I started starving. Dropped all my gear when I realized I wasn't gonna last till my crops grew. Respawned and starved to death 3 more times cause theres nothing anywhere. Managed to corner a sheep and eat it raw, then got smacked once by a zed and bled to death because I couldn't find anything to bandage with. Called it a night. Logged in on Monday and found an apple orchard. 20 minutes and 8 -10 apples later I wasn't starving(nowhere near energized) and went on my way. Lucked out and found a herd of cows. Thankfully two didn't run even when I hit them in the head 6 times with an ice axe so I could skin them. Ate the steaks raw and didn't get sick. That lasted me to get back to where I originally died. My garden plot was gone, they don't persist past server restarts, all my gear had despawned except for my backpack and my loaded mosin, so containers and weapons are as persistant as the devs say. Finally managed to make it back to my camp, tent still there with all my stuff inside. Planted some seeds so I could log off healthy, gonna try my luck again after Wednesday reset. Synopsis: -Loot economy seems to work for the first few days, I was finding new loot in places id been and looted previously going to and from my camp. By sunday there was nothing anywhere except books, hats, and wool coats, they were everywhere and seemed to have replaced everything, only useful stuff I found was in extremely out-of-the-way places that probably nobody had been since they first sold the game on steam. -Infected seem to have grown razor sharp claws, they ruin your clothing and make you bleed with just a few smacks. And how the hell does a human, infected or not, destroy a ballistic helmet with their bare hands? They are designed to protect you from a bullet, no matter how retard strong a human being is if they start punching one they will just turn their hands into broken bones and mush. Also they are back-stabbers extraordinaire. If you sprint they stay right on your heels until they run out of gas and fall behind, and if you stand and fight, when they don't glitch out and swing while facing away but still hitting you they circle around faster than you can move to hit you in the back. If forced to melee make sure you hit the head, using an axe, hoe, or hunting knife will drop them in one hit to the dome. I found the hunting knife the best choice, followed by the hoe then the axe, all due to how you swing it. - Press Vests! Press Vests everywhere! - Outhouses seem to be the best spot for loot, it likes to pile up inside so you have to pick up or move whats on top to see whats underneath. Other than weapons, anything can be anywhere, so look everywhere EXCEPT where you used to look, all the buildings that used to be guaranteed to have loot are empty, and the ones you used to pass by have all the goodies - Heli crashes don't seem to respawn loot and only seem to spawn at reset, so if you don't get to one in the first day or two your pretty much out of luck, but they make decent landmarks for travelling cross-country -VS3's are in abundance, and seem to like to spawn close to eachother. If you crash one or run out of fuel, remember where you left it, on restart it will be fixed and full. Also, they are great for clearing infected out of towns. If you drive one into the center of town, they will all run up and climb in the back(even if it doesn't have seats in the back). You can get out and they will pretty much ignore you unless you shoot a gun. Towards the end of the week they can be hard to find, since people have stashed them in camps or crashed them god knows where. -Sickness, not a big deal, drink what you want and eat all the raw meat you can, charcoal tabs and antibiotics seem to be everywhere. The healthier you are the more resistant you are to getting sick, so eat your vitamins, which is about the only thing I find more of than press vests. -Matches, sewing kits and leather sewing kits are back in, ive found a few, still haven't found a pot or pan to cook with, or a gas canister, plenty of stoves though

May still be a problem with tents. I had managed to get a small camp setup, 3 tents, stone fireplace and a vs3 in case I got killed I could make my way back and gear up easy. My camp persisted for 2 or 3 days just fine, it was always there when I came back to drop off the next bit of loot. I decided to venture pretty far away and the vs3 I was driving got destroyed, so I started making my way back on foot. Couldn't play for a day or 2, finally made it back to my camp today and everything is gone. It is not very likely that it got raided, it was in a pretty remote, out of the way place not near anything, and even if it had been raided tents are pretty much all over so they most likely would have been left to make room for all the loot. If the servers are still cleaning them up if it thinks there are too many, perhaps its "timer" gets reset when you interact with it, but go too long/too far away and it may be gone. Also ran into a bug, painted my ak74u black and the mag that was in it disappeared, so if your gonna paint a gun take everything off of it beforehand. I also noticed that vs3's that are flipped/destroyed/out of gas get reset to full, useable condition in the exact same spot they were left on a restart [Edit].....May have been a total server reset, a smoking Blackhawk heli crash site that had persisted in the same location for the few days my camp was up is now a soviet heli with no smoke cloud. If that is the case then it is still not safe to leave tents up for the normal Wednesday resets

But I don't think it means what you think it means. Rubberbanding. That term has been thrown around a lot lately, but I haven't experienced it at all. Rubberbanding is when the game goes slow-mo or freezes, then speeds up really fast executing every input you made while it was slow/frozen before returning to normal. Hasn't happened to me one bit. When rubberbanding teleports you, its usually forward, a super sped up execution of your inputs. What HAS happened to me, and what most people are saying is happening to them, is i'll be moving along and then suddenly teleported BACK to where I was at an earlier point, most often when exiting a building and sprinting. Build up a head of steam then suddenly back inside the room, not facing the door, but facing whatever direction I was running in. This is something the devs put in."Fixing the invisible players and zombies was a product of moving to the client/server architecture but retaining some legacy aspects of the architecture. To solve this we have been hard at work continuing to revise the way the game works. A workaround we have implemented is that when desynchronization occurs between client and server, now the server will enforce the players new location by ignoring the clients reported position and teleporting the player to it’s position" Quoted directly from the last dayz tumblr weekly update that is still up on dayzgame.com's home page. Basically the complete opposite of rubberbanding (your client overriding the server), the server is overriding your client.

edited above post after checking, while the game still makes the same sound i believe the underlying mechanics are there, it may just be me but it does seem the "aggro radius" of surpressors is smaller than just firing a gun without

Killing with an axe still makes them respawn, they just dont automatically attack you when they respawn

So then they eventually stopped coming because they were getting killed while too far out to hear the shot? Ya the respawn system is a work in progress to basically stress-test the servers for having a ton of zombies AND players, but just wierd that they get to retain their "memory" from before they died/respawned

I believe it does. Have supressors on both the FNX and M4. Since the new zombies were put if, if you fire an un-surpressed weapon you will have pretty much the entire town on you. Even though it makes the same noise (plays same sound file), firing a weapon with surpressor attatched aggros every one within hearing distance, but not the ones at least 1 1/2 to 2 blocks away. With the zombies ive seen spawned on rooftops and sticking half out of walls, in a town theres just more around than you can actually see. At an airfield un-surpressed weapons bring pretty much every zed in sight, but with a surpressor you only get the closer ones on you, the further ones are still in sight but dont come running. The Amphibia S is super quiet anyway, labelled as integrally supressed and firing 22 calibre rounds, it makes almost no sounf at all. But a surpressor is just that, it doesnt make it silent, just quieter

Did a little experiment at an airfield. Got a supressor and a couple full 60 round mags for my m4 and decided to have some fun. Was pretty much out in the open with a few non-aggroed zeds in sight. I pop one and two more hear it and start coming for me. A fourth is in sight but oblivious, too far away to hear my supressed shots. These three i got just keep respawning and coming after me non-stop. With an average of 1 to 3 rounds per zed i just stood there killing them till my mag was empty. I reload and they keep coming. Then one spawns too close and lands a hit, i start bleeding. I shoulder the m4 and pull out my axe and start chopping away. All of a sudden they stop coming for me, no more are attacking even though one just spawned less than 20 feet away, but facing the other direction. I take this breather to bandage my wounds and refill my mags. I look around, see 3 Zeds. Theres the one that spawned less than 20 feet from me, one out a bit further, and that oblivious zed that was in sight (about 200 meters) but out of range of hearing my supressed shots for the whole massacre. I raise my m4 once again and pop the closest zed, the next closest aggroes too. I kill it and spin in place, they are spawning far enough out i have time to aim and 1-shot them. After about 10 kills now there is only 1 that keeps respawning, sometimes further out than that one i can see but just stands there. He comes right for me no matter how far out he spawns. He is spawning way out of hearing range of my shots, and shouldnt be able to her the shot that just killed him, but comes for me nonetheless. I kill him about 15 more times and eventually he stops too. What did i learn here? As far as i can tell supressors function correctly, if they are out or range of the sound they will not attack. Killing wiith an axe does NOT make them auto-aggro on respawn. Shooting them DOES make them auto-aggro on respawn, no matter how far away they respawn. And if you can hold your ground and have enough ammo, they will eventually stop. On a side note, Ive noticed that if you shoot a zed, it will automatically go to where it died. Shot one in the corner of the entrance to a hanger, moved to the opposite back corner for some loot, turned around and saw the respawned zed run across the opening to where it just died, hit that spot, turned then came after me. Also if you havent moved very far and they spawn in front of you, they will run almost totally right past you, heading to that exact spot they died, before noticing you and attacking(has happened numerous times)

I like the new zombies, its good they are a threat. When they were slow you could walk backwards and just keep shooting, now you have to shoot a few rounds, turn and sprint, turn back and shoot some more.The spawning mechanic desperately needs to be tweaked though. Ive had them spawn right in front of me, which is bad, and the auto-aggro instant respawn is worse. When they respawn they will head straight back to where you were when you killed them, stop, look around, then run for you if they see you. They will sometimes do this even when killed with an axe, but always seem to if you use a gun, even a supressed one. Its silly to have zeds keep running at you and you keep shooting them dead, all the while you can see 1 or 2 just standing there ignoring you because they are out of hearing range and arent looking in your direction. And whats with the occasional zed standing there attacking a wall or the ground, swinging away at nothing and ignoring you even if you walk by right next to it? Some zed spawns are just wierd, seen a few chilling on rooftops that have no ladder access. Aggro range is still bad, they can lock on to you even before you can see them. A few times ive seen a zed in the distance, did the zoom in thing to get a better look. Cool, he's just standing there, but as im looking i can see another one materialize from a tiny dot and getting bigger as he is running for me. Zombie hordes are awesome, but if theres a horde it needs to be there from the get go, killing 50 zombies at a time is epic if you can survive, but killing 50 zombies 2 or 3 at a time as you stand in one spot is just silly.

Its an immersion/realism thing. Military gas-masks are designed to be worn with ballistic helmets. Civilian gas masks not so much, but those are the kind scientists in their bubble-suits wear, and they look totally different. The ones in-game are definitely military design, and as someone with a military background it was a WTF; seriously? type moment when it wouldnt let me wear both at once. At the moment it is a non-important issue fit for the back burner, but for the sake of realism and immersion it does need to be made known so it can be adressed

Im all for the more agressive, more numerous zombies, but they still need to be brought back in line. 1 hit and your bleeding seems a bit much, and they have ridiculous reach. I swung a pitchfork at a zombie the same time he swatted at me, i missed and he didnt...if your backing away, they can stop to swing at you, their hands look to be a good foot or two away(in first person) but they still connect. All in all, this is good step forward, zoms are supposed to be dangerous and deadly, but we are dealing with zombie x-men than can walk through walls, see through walls, stretch their arms, focus in on you from miles away, have super strength, and can fall from any height.-yes, saw a zom chillin on a roof, must have spawned there, came at me after falling off the edge like nothin happened. A fall that would have killed me should have at least broken his legs and left him crawling. Only took about 2 deaths to figure out how to take them down without getting hurt at all, especially with a fire axe. that is, when they dont teleport 10 feet to suddenly be in my face. They dont need to be taken out, just tweaked to be brought back in line