Laneige

I've been away from the game for a few months and came back to try experimental. I looted Novo, then a server message read "This server will restart in 5 minutes". I grabbed what I could, and indeed after 5 minutes I got "session lost". I rejoined the very same server, along with a few familiar names in the player list pouring in, and saw that all the doors were shut again, as one would expect after a restart. I went in to loot but the items that I didn't pick up previously were still there. I checked multiple buildings, the same wrenches and spray cans that I had left alone remained after the restart, and no new items were there. Even a shotgun that I dropped with shells in it was still in the same place on the ground. This has happened 3 times to me so far. Would someone kindly fill me in on whether or not this is a new thing for loot?

Sure it takes time, but honestly it has never seemed to matter to me how long it takes. Being shot at usually means instant death anyway, no matter your health.

Given how zombies can detect us from incredible distances, animals might be able to detect us from a similar distance, run away, and leave us all to starve. Then it might take us about 400 threads of "deer are impossible to catch because they see me through mountains and run" before hunting works. We would also need a Crysis 3 style crossbow to even come close to killing the super deer. Proper hunting may come in 2018.

40 FPS? DayZ? What engine? Bwuhhhh??? Not happening ever.

I feel like the zombies are just cheap now. They follow you for way too long, and if you're unarmed (or even armed), it's just an annoyance to deal with them. If you stop to axe one, another will invariably spawn already aggro'd on you. Rounding corners just makes them clip through the buildings and keep coming after you, an even bigger reminder that they can ignore structures and you can't. They'd be less of a hassle once melee isn't so wonky, but that might be 11 months from now. But then fixing the melee combat will somehow give everybody terrible desync and may cause duct tape to kill the user if they accidentally clicked the middle mouse button on it in the inventory screen. Because reasons.

I'm a bigger fan of the old zombies (they could be more numerous though). The new ones are just a tad too fast, especially when they can clip through walls and aggro you from absolutely ridiculous distances. At that point they're a severe annoyance. Personally I'm more scared of lagging out and dying to zombies that spawn near me while being disconnected than I am of other players. The zombie behavior is completely fine by me, but their new spawn mechanics, the death by mauling while logging out in what the player believes to be a safe place, the clipping, and the aggro are the things that make them very unfun. If the connection suddenly starts to give up and you aren't in the absolute perfect spot to logout, there goes your character because now you're sitting down next to a grassy knoll for 30 seconds because the game thinks that heavy desync or lag = you're a dirty dirty combat logger and should be killed by zombies, booted to the server list, have your house burned down and then get a login timer that takes 150 seconds to bring you to a "You are dead." screen. Then another 30 seconds to spawn. +10 more seconds as you stare in disbelief at the death screen. So all in all it would take you over 200 seconds to die via zombies. It's an issue.

Hey man, I was in the same situation as you before, I wanted two Steam accounts to play two different characters. Turns out I only had one shared character between them anyway. But, the trick is to have two separate Windows user accounts for EACH Steam account. So go ahead and make another user account in the control panel and log in to Steam from that account. So when you want to play your secondary character, use your secondary Windows user account and play from there. And of course when you want to switch back to your primary character, switch back to your primary user account. And boom, different accounts having characters with different gear. Hope this helped!