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Hey i took a break from the game for the last month + because i wanted this loot scenario to be fixed. i take it as of today its not fixed yet?

I too looting the military barracks get anxiety. Died once when i watched for a while to make sure noone was around. 15 or so minutes. i guess someone spawned inside the barrack, i ran in and got shot in the face, didnt have my weapon out, foolish. Other time i ran in and got killed by someone who was prone, KOS me, i think he was camping it out just killing server hoppers and others looting the barracks. But what you said about stuff in backpacks. I assume im not the only one that does this either but i will fill up the bags with the crap in hopes of finding good items under them. which in case has happened a few times, finding drum mags, pristine scopes, and pristine hardware. The base by vybor has been insane with guns. There will be 50+ ak's sks's and hunting rifles. hand guns too. but rarely a mag or ammo. i assume thats always looted.

I kind of compare this to wow such that, when I played during vanilla there were always towns to raid for pvp and such then when they added new zones xpacs and more content people didn't go to those places anymore. The game is still in alpha and still evolving and even when it does get finished I'm sure if it's successful then there will be more maps/xpacs but as they're constantly adding new content it's going to keep changing. Like others have said. The ship was big months ago. Now people are looking inland for trucks and crash sites. Plus now that the ne airfield was removed hanging out on the east coast isn't as useful or fun. as the game changes so will populated areas kill zones and hang outs. Either you adapt with it or you can sit on the boat and complain.

i've tried a few night servers lately and i noticed with all of them its still very bright, even with no moon. the moon makes them extra bright. and i dont have my gamma cranked up. did they up the ambient gamma during night ?

Most wells ARE clean water though. Drinking from a pond that has stagnant water gives a much greater risk of bacterial poisoning. That's why they have the water purification tablets. Right now though you don't get sick from water. Once that aspect is implemented then either using the tablets or drinking from a well are your only options. Perhaps they could make Wells more scarce. You really wouldn't find those old crank wells in the city so maybe country only

If by server hop you mean join a server and play there for the duration of my game then yes you're correct. So happens that I loot military installations and nothing else. I see them all the time. What I don't see are drums for the ak and pristine hardware. Seems like a trend in this game is you find a ton of shit you don't need and the stuff you do need you never get. How often I found a fully decked out AKM or ak101 but no magazines

Bumping this to refresh it. Been looking for bipod after coming back to game. Any confirmation if it was taken out? I have yet to find one in game. and both dayzdb loot map and dayztv loot maps are outdated.

i see one of those about every day. ;)

i just spawned on southeast coast and ran thru cherno looting some buildings made my way to balota then up to NW AF, only saw 2 zombies. 1 in cherno. other, of course, bugged out when i was in the barrack in NWAF and walked thru wall to hit me. scared the shit outta me. but yeah i've noticed a lot less zombies too

So i came back to the game about 2 weeks ago from a few month break. One thing i noticed is some servers take a long time to load into. Googled it and searched forums and found a bunch of mixed responses. So i log into a server today, get stuck at the black "please wait" screen. Usually it sits there from anywhere between 5-60 seconds. Just now it was well over 5 minutes. I actually got up to get a drink and bio and it was still there when i came back down. I pressed escape and it dropped me to server list where i found another local server and joined. When i joined my toon had been wiped. I know for a fact i didnt die when i logged out last which was only about 30 minutes prior and 2, this is the second time its happened to me since i came back. Please tell me im not the only one with this issue and please tell me devs know about it and its being looked into... Its rather annoying playing for hours and collecting items that are becoming more and more rare just to have my toon wiped on a server login bug. I know there was a bug back several months ago that after you got into game there was another black please wait screen that would seldom hang and if you escaped out you would get wiped... this still around?

it was a fresh session of dayz so i dont think thats the issue. and i just built this pc and it was doing it on the old one too and this new one. doesnt seem to be pc side, server or hive imo.

i just found my first today which is what brought me to the forums. I actually found it in a warehouse, house, shed combo. i've never seen so many pickaxes and batteries in my life. i didnt want to start a new thread since its related but my question is. What truly effects loot spawn on persistence servers. I get that non-persistence was the old way of new loot on server restart. And i love persistence now that, that doesnt effect it and people dont camp out waiting for restarts and server hop looking for gear. But if its not restarts what causes new loot? I'm not talking about these massive caches either. Just loot spawn in general. I read an article on google saying once you enter a zone and you leave it, if its empty for x amount of minutes loot will spawn. but is there truth to that?

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ah yeah that makes perfect sense. the thing with 5 minutes is its way too short to me anyway. i'll alt tab and troll forums or run to bathroom and in that short time its already killed the timer. a longer timer wouldnt stop people from hopping because there will always be hoppers, even people willing to wait the 30 minutes. but it should at least lower the number of them, cause people to say in the servers longer.

I dont like private hives because what happens if youre geared up then the server youre playing on is empty, dies(loses popularity) or goes offline(temp or for good). youre screwed. what i like about this game is being able to join multiple servers with the same character, especially at different times of the day. and certain servers have different populations at different times. i have had at least 8 servers on my favorites list since i got this game a few months ago. out of those 8, 4 shut down for good. and 2 of them used to be full are no longer full. To stop server hopping increase the timer from what it is now to like 30 minutes if you join more than 2 or 3 servers within a certain time frame. however if you were kicked you shouldnt get the timer. also if you join server A, then go to B, then want to go back to A it shouldnt give you a timer. it currently does. the only way you dont get a cooldown timer now is exiting and rejoining the same server A->A. I am guilty of server hopping especially when im looking for 1 specific piece of loot. i will get into 10+ servers in an hour with the current cooldown timer.

Just want someone to confirm this or troubleshoot me. My mouse2 (right mouse button) is default toggle walk/run. when i hold it down its default zoom. im trying to unbind the walk toggle and it wont let me. in the key bindings page under toggle walk its blank. when i bind it to a different key my mouse2 still remains the walk toggle when i click it. when i tried to rebind mouse2 it tells me theres a conflict for zoom. nothing seems to be working.

Full military gear in pristine condition. 2 maxed out ammo cans for your primary and secondary weps. 3/4 of empty space is for primary wep. 25% for handgun. Fireaxe I've used both sks and mosin. I have mosin now. Full attachments. Full attachments for FN my secondary. 2 double tied mags For m4 Or 4 stripper clips for sks. Only one spare pistol mag cuz honestly when are you going to need 4 backups? That's wasting ton of space IMO. 2 canteens, right now I have 3 bags of rice. Rice is best food ATM so I only eat oranges and bananas when running around usually. If I get hungry I munch some rice. Can opener and handcuffs and keys. All of the above in pristine is fully geared to me. If not then you still have some lootin to do. Ooh med kid with Iv start and 1 saline bag for blood if needed. 1 epi pen an 1 morphine for broken leg. Sticks and rags take up more inv than morph. Epi is also better than defib right now.

resin i didnt say those things, that was a double quote i quoted and it came out only quoting the last person. the only thing i said were the 2 lines before the first quote.

Yes and no. I just did some trouble shooting of my own and found that out. but the toggle walk stems from the mouse2 also being default bind to "optics" if you have no weapon out, or a melee and you right click it toggles the "optics" mode as if you had a rifle or handgun out and you walk. This is just my opinion but that feature should only imply to having a gun out. I changed the bind from the default mouse2, to double clicking mouse2. at least now i wont accidentally toggle walk w/o having a gun out.

i could see this making sense considering how can you zoom your eyes irl w/o binos. what exactly are you aiming w/o a gun though? the problem in game is that i can hold right mouse to zoom and when i release it i continue to run. its when i just click it that it toggles the run/walk.

no, run toggle sprint is bound to something, thats not the problem. its the run/walk. thats empty. and saved. i will try this makes no sense, you're an idiot, edit; just read the thing over your avatar and it makes perfect sense

Not a dick imo. people who say you are need to QQ more. when i first started playing i would do this but realizing most people have weapons now i find it pointless. the only thing i hide are pristine or worn scopes because they're hard to come by.

who the hell are you guys to say how fast zombies "really" go? i laugh every time someone says that shit. you guys must be pathetic because the zombies are ezmode. sorry you cant run away from all of them now, i hear warcraft calling for you. EDIT: fixed this cuz of bad quoting.

Like a majority of people before me have said. Keep their speed and damage. Fix the respawning. Takes the game in a new better direction. No longer have to just worry about just bandits. Zombies are an actual threat and that is great. Once the respawn is fixed, Maybe add more to higher population areas so they swarm more Like they would in a real apocalyptic scenario.

You've obviously not been out in the country side on a cloudy night with little to no moonlight. I don't give a F**K if you have 20/10 vision you're not going to see your hand in front of your face. And suburbs are not country with 0 light pollution. People here are bitching about not having enough light when in reality the flashlight here is pretty accurate. Minus the glitching it makes it pretty realistic. I too don't know how the cities and street lights are still lit unless this takes place only days after any apocalypse then I can see back up generators and any remaining Power plant fuel supplies. Has anyone here played doom3 and remembers all the flashlight fighting? Hearing noises behind you only to turn around to nothing then turning back around to something jumping out at you. DayZ at night reminds me of it and I love it. Keeps you on edge.