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Awesome. I like taking pictures of zombies that get stuck on top of buildings/roofs.

Awesome. I was confusing the loot respawning with persistent items and storage. Thanks for the explanation which sounds spot on.

If you're referring to loot respawning...which is only working on Experimental, the evidence seems to point to a "building" based system. As a building is cleared out, new loot respawns there (or near there). I'm basing this mainly on posts on Reddit which showed players clearing out a specific building trying to force the respawn of loot. I'm sure the devs are trying to work out the kinks and eliminate exploits like that still which is why it's not on Stable yet. But I'm interested to know what's behind it too (building versus quadrant). I remember earlier Rocket discussions mentioning the quadrant system, but have heard nothing of it since.

Track suit jackets are finally here. ^_^ You can't tell but they hold 2 x 1 slots (only 2 pockets), just like the pants. Found this one near a freight train in Novo.

The whole outfit is for looks only...or for a roleplaying type of thing. The jacket plus the pants only gives you 4 slots total so yeah it's not very functional. But it can be good if you are trying to look non-threating or something like that.

Didn't they fix the female breathing thing? I actually suicided my HC female and turned her into a male because of it.

Finally I know who that guy in Hombre's avatar is! It looks creepy but cool!

Since it wasn't explicitly mentioned in the first post, I wanted to ask something (3 things). Can you explain the timing in more detail? How long do you wait between joining servers? Are you hopping or are you experiencing this during new sessions only? Are you all joining at the same server at the exact same time or do you spread it out a little? Players joining a server puts a tremendous load on the server and too many at once could cause issues (maybe?). And can you provide server names or more specifically which service providers you were trying (Vilayer, GameServers, Multiplay, etc).

That's actually a good rule: Whatever you need, you won't find until you stop looking for it. Knives are rather rare but that's OK for now. I had a good long search for rope recently too so I could make a fishing pole. It's fun!

Different service providers allow for different settings. I just signed up with Gameservers and did a bunch of testing. Gameservers is currently enforcing a mandatory 2-hour restart, not 4 hours as mentioned. Used to be 4 but changed in the past month or two. Time acceleration is possible and does work. I have it set at 6x which gives a nice 12-hour cycle during the forced 2-hour restart. In theory you could set this to 12x and have a 24-hour cycle instead or somewhere in between even. There is an option that allows you to use "Current GMT" as the time that server starts at after a restart. However it doesn't seem to work. The server seems to pick a fixed time to start from instead, unless set to a specific time. Put all that together and you get a lot of great options for day night cycles or even mimicking current time but things just aren't working quite yet.

Preface: I'm a survivor, not a soldier. I use weapons as protection from zombies not to rob or kill others. I've been killed at least (or should I say 'only'?) a dozen times during as many brief PvP encounters. A lot of them were just one shot and I'm dead situations but a few of them I had a chance to fight back, or at least attempt to. Each time something different happened. I panic. I lag. I make a dumb mistake. And I always die. But I usually learn something and try to apply that going forward. This is the story of my first PvP victory. On this day I was in search of an MP5K magazine to feed my pristine weapon with the hundreds of rounds I'd been hoarding for a week or so. I had not long ago dropped a Sporter 22 because I was running out of ammo for it. An FNX .45 was my only protection for the time being. The sun was setting and there was just enough time for one quick run through the Zelenogorsk. I saw the clues. Police station was sealed but there was nothing of value left inside. Police car down the road was looted but left closed. A gate was open along the back route to the military area, but again all doors were closed. Somebody was here but they were covering their tracks. I scanned the exterior of the military area. Looks clear. Clock's ticking. Now or never. With my pistol out and ready I enter the admin building. It's clear. All doors closed. There's stuff here but again, looks to be picked over. Careful to close all doors behind me as I enter and exit, I scan the first barracks building. All doors closed. Looks clear. Enter and move to the back room. There's stuff here. But the good stuff is gone. Approach the entrace of the other barracks and don't notice any activity. Before I open the door I see a yellow chain. "Crap, it's restart time." But after a second look I noticed it was actually desync. In the back of my mind I think this told me to be ready. I opened the barracks door and spotted a figure at the very back of the hallway. I mashed my fire button and strafed right to get some cover behind the first doorway. I hear shots. I hear a man scream in pain. My screen goes gray. I see the other guy fall forward. His clothes take damage. Click. Click. I try to fire again but my gun is jammed. Panic. Run! Gotta get out of here. Shit, now there's a zombie behind me. Alerted from the gun shots I guess. Just run for the woods. This guy's armed and if I didn't kill him, he'll no doubt follow and seek revenge. Stupid zombie. "Click click click". Why is my pistol not working? Inventory's full. Drop a soda while running so I can make room for the mag and swap to another one. Still not working. Still running, trying to use cover where possible. My screen is dark. I'm hurting bad but I'm not bleeding and I can walk. That's a good thing. Server restarts. I re-joined the same server and was happy to see I was still alive. Check my gear and sure enough, I was in rough shape. Before and after shots kinda Police Jacket + partial contents: Ruined Press Vest + contents including .45: Ruined Health: Critical In hindsight, it's possible this guy was waiting for me in ambush and I just got really lucky. It's odd that he was able to get shots off so quick. I remember hearing only .45 shots (no other gun sounds) as I was clicking my mouse but the first one or two could have been from him. It all happened so fast. Funny thing is even though I was firing my pistol it still became ruined when my chest was hit. Bug filed! Unless you want to believe the weapon was hit directly by a bullet while in my hands. Soooo...after about 10 losses in random PvP combat I finally eeked out a win. I think my gear and random dispersion saved my life.

Quite familiar with the sounds of all the weapons but like I said in the post I heard nothing but my shots. I'm guessing he had a .45 also. Didn't notice any long weapons but it was all a blur.

You're insane, Pilgrim. But I laughed. So you're saying the Nazi's did it?

Were you on Experimental perhaps? The same kind of "silent death" happened to me on Exp today in a fire station tower. There were other players near me and there were zombies around so it could have been a magic one-hit zombie in my case.

Happens to me to when using Arrow keys (Up, Down, Left, Right) to move instead of the default bindings WASD. I have all movements "double-bound" now so I can use WASD if I want to move with the menu open but I can NOT move when I use the Arrow keys with the menu open.

Wuuuh!? Source?

Outstanding guide. Very funny and well done. Several of those I'd never seen. I may pilgrimage to the Stain of Shame this summer. :lol: Question: Does one glean any special powers from touching one of the 9 boner stones? Looks like you made contact in one of the pics. I was just there too:

"Off The Grid, 12Hr Cycle" (Hardcore) They just switched to Hardcore the other day. Seems to be a good server.

Check in the wrecked military vehicles/jeeps. I found an AKM mag there once (around Zelen.)

I can totally relate. What a rush. It can happen in the blink of an eye. Fortunately, it doesn't happen like that very often. GREAT job on staying alive so long. Enjoy the re-gear.

Yes! Yes! See: Ruger 10/22 Charger

It sounds like you described the only practical way to handle high end loot. Items should be very rare and only found in specific areas. And some items have additional rarity by virtue of the attachment system as mentioned. This has been the template so far and I don't know if there are any other ways to implement it. Things like a gillie suit or night vision goggles clearly have an advantage over standard camo or headlamps and thus qualify as high end and very rare. I think you may be splitting hairs a bit when it comes to which firearms should be rare/high end and which should be common, but everything else makes sense. And speaking of vehicles, things like working batteries and good tires I see as being high end whereas vehicles themselves might be common. Not sure how that worked in the mod.

This might be a good thing for Hardcore. But a large portion of players I've seen (in game or in videos) fire from the hip anyway. They don't even aim down sight. It's more of a panic spray n pray. I personally only ADS about 75% of the time.

I got reset. Played last night (Stable Regular) then tried again today after the update and had a new character on the coast. I tried 2 different servers (Gameservers.com) and both had me as a freshie. First time for me.

Make Hardcore servers truly hardcore by removing military items and making ammo super scarce. What's harder to survive with? 1) 500 rounds of ammo and a fully modded assault rifle 2) An axe and a busted hunting rifle with 3 rounds of ammo