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I'm sure the spawn rates will be changed and there will probably be more than one way to start a fire. I made a post a while back myself about how you should be able to reliably find matchbooks next to those stoves in houses so people know where to look. It's just alpha, there is no reason to be worried about matchbooks really, of all things that are in DayZ.

Just be thankful they aren't being done on the playerbase.

I made this post earlier as a little joke, but I regret it now because I don't like the whole "make chernarus easy mode" bandwagon this seems to be and I definately don't want to be agreeing with anyone who is speaking in "this should/shouldn't" statements. Just for clarification: A survival is a game where you have a chance to die, this is why it is called survival for christs sake. A game where you are pretty much assured to succeed if you make some correct series of decisions is called a puzzle game. This being said, its a lot easier for people to just chose another server or maybe look for some matches right away if its cold instead of making a mad dash for the nearest police station then it is to change an entire game in which 2.5 million people have invested in than to make the game easy because a small handful of people can't find matchbooks in the alpha.

This is how I usually set up mine: 1. Gun 2. Other gun 3. Bludgeoning 4. Pipsi 5. Pipsi 6. Rasputin Kvass 7. Nokakola 8. Afterimage of disinfectant spray 9. Pipsi 0. Spite

Has .22 sporter, finds matchboxes. Has hypothermia, finds 50x .22 pellets.

The whole thing about DayZ is you can pretty much do whatever you want, including killing someone who is either careless or unlucky enough to be caught on a disadvantage; it happens to you, me, all of us... this game is brilliant in the fact that even the god forsaken hackers aren't immune to it. What do I do when I'm skipping through a field gleeful about finding my shiny new killstick and all the sudden its interrupted by ugly mosin death? I pick up my freaking balls, stuff them back in my pants, tear my shirt into rags and move on. I mean... if everyone was just geared up and got a long all the time walking from town to town gathering beans and organizing 20 pace gentleman's duels then things would get pretty boring, pretty freaking fast. "Why do people just kill me for no reason?" = "I want to play Chernarus easy mode, buy a house, then settle down and have a family in the apocalypse." It really doesn't even matter what gear you have, thats not even part of the equation for some people. Take off all your clothes, throw your flashlight in the pond and take a stroll through elektro and ask the first fine green-clad, M4 packing individual you come across if he gives two flying donkey kongs what you are wearing for the murder tonight. You got about a 50% chance of recieving a can of tuna and 50% chance of becomming human swiss cheese when you get within ohshit distance of him and his bambidar starts buzzing. This guy has been hearing ambient sounds of fences creaking, zombies and sodas cracking enough to be pretty much batshit crazy by now, he and his squad might just snap and bullet bukkake east elektro (don't google that). You say you found yourself a spiffy bright yellow backpack and a firemans axe? Fantastic, that means the next heat packing member of your local rifle club will enjoy killing you even more because 1) He knows yu gon be butthurt 2) You might have a nice can opener or something and 3) This is a zombie apocalypse and YOU are a resource that can be tapped to further his own resources and abilities in this world. Yes thats right, you are essentially a walking house with a collection of the best loot in the game. The price? Some bullets which aside from the sole purpose uniting your face with dirt aren't really worth much else. Don't give up hope tho bro! Theres chance, albeit a small one, that you might make it through this yet. Lets example what we've learned so far: 1) Theres people and stuff in those other humans running around controlling them. 2) They can do whatever they want just like you, its the apocalypse! This includes killing you. 3) They'll probably kill you, just assume that all the time. If they don't, consider it a bonus not what "should happen because me and I say so". 4) Theres RP servers, we didn't learn this really but you can stop reading here and just go check that out if you want. Now, for those brave souls who wish to continue living amongst the unwashed population how do we avoid horrible machine gun rape? Well believe it or not you have four main options availible to you, and several of them are so easy they put the "can do" in canniba... wait... nevermind that was a different thing. Anyways, your options from easiest to hardest are: 1) Make some friends! Nothing dissuades banditry like presenting multiple threats instead of a lonely sheep crouching down beside a well, then being handcuffed, gagged, burlapped, teabagged and executed! You don't even have to do it yourself, more than likely your new friends will happily do all the heavy lifting. If this is not your cup of tea, many players would also cheerfully offer their time protecting you or helping you collect beans to break up the monotony of the apocalypse. 2) Be real sneaky n stuff. Remember silly, you don't have to obey the law anymore! There is no law! Isn't it fantastic! Nobody is going to arrest you for not taking the proper route around deathmatch-for-canned-goodsopolis when plotting your course through neo chernarus, go around it. There is no governement around to tell you that you can't stealthily tresspass through the woodlands away from all the gunfire and hate. On the contrary, DON'T CROSS OPEN FIELDS. Yes we know you want to skip out to beautiful Stary Sober to see your new girlfriends, but becoming sniper bait and dodging hot lead shouldn't be part of your itinerary. What is the one thing a player must absolutely do before he can put his sights on you? He has to see you... well most of the time anyways, it it might work, you're actually the first guy so... but theory is sound, trust me. These are important, remember them. 3) Be OP. If you can kill a full squad with nothing more than a screwdriver and jerry can then your either god, my idol, a streamer, or driving a V3S while eating some tactical bacon and having an absolute blast of a sunday drive! Or a hacker, in which case you should probably just hang up your moms debit card and go home. This concludes todays session of Don't Shoot Me Bro 101, be sure to grab a flyer and throw your empty nokacolas in the street on your way out.

The wonderbox, lol. I had called the one we found the matryoshka ammo box. It was funny they brought back like a bunch of ammo boxes, AKM drums and MP5 mags and stuff like that to the tents, but nobody really used any of it because hacked gear and most everybody was already either geared up or had different guns and setups. It just sat there in the floor of the tent until eventually persistent items were wiped, so I guess its good it was out of circulation at least. I can't remember exactly how they had killed the hacker, but I think it was just one hacker and one of the guys in my clan snuck around to his flank and had caught him out looking through his boxes or something.

Then that probably makes you a hacker too if you've ever picked up an M4 or mosin off of someone, along with 99% of DayZ players. Seriously loose definition of the term "hacker".

Not everyone that has in their possession duped or hacked gear is actually the one that did it though, sometimes people end up killing hackers and taking their hacked gear. My clan killed a hacker last week that apparently had ammo boxes inside ammo boxes containing stuff for so many times that they couldn't find the bottom.

On the contrary, I do think you should be able to stuff some things inside ammo boxes, like jackets, other misc items and things. Everybody has or knows a grandpa that stores half his ammo-unrelated shit in ammo boxes, meanwhile keeping all of his actual guns and ammunition in shoe boxes under the bed and couch. Well... maybe only in the US but the point about storing other things in ammo boxes still holds. Really you should be able to store other stuff in medical pouches as well, I mean what black magic is it that IRL stops you from putting a soda into a medical pouch or ammo box. Maybe there could be some kind of perk to storing items inside their appropriate containers, like doubling their stack size limit. But yea exploiting storage by putting containers containing things into other containers inside containers is kind of lame.

Some kind of structure for masking the light from your campfire at night would be nice.

Heat packs don't seem to be working very well, at least not for me, I threw some stuffed peppers on the fire and that worked great though. Staying near a fire doesn't appear to be very quick to warm you up either, seems to take a while or basically just keep you from going hypothermic while staying at the freezing or cold level. Realistically you should be fairly warm if close to a fire, especially considering the slight difficulty and luck involved in finding matches vs the time it takes to freeze to death sometimes when its very cold. Matches I think should maybe not be more common, but at least easy to find, such as having a very good chance of finding them next to those little wood heaters and stoves that are in most houses and in the restaurants/bars and such, the ones that sometimes have food hidden behind them now. That way if you are in dire need of matches all you have to do is pop into a few houses and you know exactly where to look (right where matches should logically be). Come to think of it camelbaks (chernabaks anyone?) might be a nice addition to the game as both a water container and way to stay cool.

5 per server last I heard, I don't think they are persistent. The entire region and all the towns south of the NW airfield down to zelenogorsk have significantly more vehicle spawns than the rest of the map, run from vybor to zelenogorsk you'll probably find one or two. Sometimes they spawn at houses/garages and such out in the middle of nowhere as well.

Obligatory itsalpha response. No but serious... the freaking rain... oh god the freaking rain, my clothes are still soggy from the last 3 hour downpour when another starts, whatever happened to a light mist that maybe would just make you damp? Some fog or something would be neat. But the rain... oh god the rain, stops just long enough for you to wring out your clothes then another monsoon happens. IRL I love rain, I find rain to be very soothing and relaxing, but IRL it isn't. constantly. freaking. raining. It's like the devs turned rain on super intense 24/7 to test it out then just forgot to turn it off again. Not saying get rid of weather or anything, actually some snow would be cool too, but once in a while... just once in a while I would like to see the sun too. Has the sun even been implemented yet? I don't remember ever seeing it, all I remember... is the !@#$ing rain. all. the. time. I'll even settle for a plain old, monotone, overcast sky, actually that would be kind of cool too sometimes regardless, reminiscent of the enivronment in The Road movie and book. Maybe I'm just extremely unlucky, but it seems to be raining many times a day, or most all of the day on every server. Or there is a comedic rain cloud following just over my characters head everywhere he goes.

When the game finally reaches the point where zombies are complete and numerous what kind of performance hit will that cause? I'm assuming that will mostly cause an increase in RAM requirements for the game along with all the other items/things that are planned and whatnot.

Ah, I don't believe I have that enabled. I'm actually not very steam savvy, to me its just some program that annoyingly runs in the background while I play games. I suppose they will add screenshot ability to the game at some point.

So... how do you take a screenshot? This is a guide on screenshots right? I've just been using MS Paint. Some beautiful screenshots you've taken though.

Just started playing again and it seems the zombies are much more dangerous than last time, I'm having a harder time knocking them out, circle strafing them and they seem to take more hits, are faster (player full sprint aparently) and to my delight (and grief) they can now walk up stairs. One of the early weapons I usually always equip until I find an axe is baseball bats, they have served me well in the past to the point I actually thought about keeping it around even if I found an axe just because well... bludgeoning faces, cool factor and axes are just too common because they have no equivalent, no matter how rare you make them in the game everyone with more than a hour old character will always have one. So I started playing and immediately died a few times to players which is fine, then on my third run I came across a baseball bat. I've been beating and beating on these zombies with my bat but got they just don't seem to go down, its almost as if its the same strength as just bare fists. I would think a baseball bat would be a superb zed basing, skull fracturing weapon just as logic would dictate and as is in most zombie lore that feature baseball bats, you would think it shouldn't take more than a couple good bonks on the cap to down a zombie. So, do baseball bats need a buff? I sure hope they don't remain the way they are, they are in fact one of the more semi-common melee weapons in the game but lets face it... in DayZ starting out is usually the hardest part, and giving new spawns a tiny bit better chance against at least the zeds wouldn't be game breaking.

Thanks for the official reply and the awesome game, yea I realize that its alpha and all I just wanted to give a little feedback so my beloved baseball bat (and melee weapons in general) doesn't fall by the wayside. :)

AFAIK it should be in there, check all the way down at the bottom of user.dayzprofile.

Yea, this is true now that I think of it. There are many melee weapons in the game that don't live up to the damage they would realistically cause. Since melee is such a big part of the game and whenever you aggro a zed it becomes pretty much something you have to do, I think melee combat could use buff all in itself. I mean I like that there is a sense of some danger to zombies, but I don't see a zombie as something that should be difficult to handle and so damn persistent (go around a corner and change direction should throw em off) and fast (at least when compared to player speed) as it is in the game right now, that's just me though. What would be cool is if you could cause damage to zombies similar to how you can fracture bones in the player and whatnot. For example: Break their arm with a baseball bat or pipe wrench and maybe they attack a little slower, break their leg (or cut these appendages off with something) and it slows them down enough you can run away, or even just use a long shovel or pitchfork to hold them outside of their melee attack range from you. What if you could jab a pitchfork into them, then hold them at bay with them stuck on the end of the pitchfork, that would be useful sometimes. Either way, I hope baseball bats get a buff otherwise I can't really play a motorcycle helmet baseball bat psycho, because motorcycle helmets and baseball bats go together like peas and carrots... that's reason enough to give it a buff.

Yea I thought about that too, mirror just seemed more MacGyverish and more common than an actual periscope, you could find a bathroom with an intact or shattered window, break it and then theirs your rudimentary 3rd person. Maybe the mirror would only display a small fraction of the screen simulating the small size and difficulty of it while the periscope provided full vision around objects, corners and such. I guess this would also incur a sort of "price" for being able to look over and around stuff, that being you have to unequip whatever you're holding and take out the mirror/periscope. I don't know if they'll ever do anything about 3rd person, but it could at least be something for 1st person servers.

They used to be a fairly decent melee weapon not too long ago, and yea it does seem like you have to be pretty close for a melee weapon that should have a good amount of reach to it.

I think we're getting a little ahead of ourselves here, the game is still in alpha and things take time to be properly made. Many a game has went to hell because the community or the producers demanded too much in too little time and the devs obliged and ended up releasing a half finished game full of bugs and crashes.

I found a bunch of "jerry cans", they weren't actual items though and not able to be picked up. Is this fully implemented? edit: just found one after posting this.