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I normally don't get it, but today has been pretty bad for me, so not too sure what it is, I've tried unpopulated and populated servers, guessing it may have to be my internet connection.

Was nice watching that video again of Dean at Rezzed, it's good to know that with updates, we get new things and we also get some previous bugs getting fixed, that's the way it seems to be. Update: Flashy new objects New mechanics, Bugs from previous updates fixed. Update 2: Flashy new objects, New Mechanics, Bugs from previous updates fixed. The way the game is at the moment, helps them work out what is going wrong quickly, as when you're on a team of 20 doing testing it is very easy to miss out bugs compared to when 100'000 people are playing it and finding bugs all the time. It seems to be that a lot of people aren't satisfied with the progress, but they also need to realise that every single update will not be 100% perfect every time, infact, it will most likely be 70% progress, 30% problems. Because the company is so small at the moment, it will most likely end up at branch number 0.5 before we see any real progress being made when the basic structure has got rid of say 80% of the bugs. That's my opinion and thought process anyway.

Best idea I have read on this forums, sort of reminds me when they find the town in The Walking Dead with civilisation. :)

I hope this wasn't sarcasm. Just incase it was: I'm not particularly scared about night time servers, but when I'm outside and it's pitch black and I don't have a torch...it's pretty much impossible for me to see anything, I'd be greatful for just thirty seconds on a daylight server where I can maneuver myself out of wherever I am into open area and would quite happily switch back to night time and carry on. After all my hours of gameplay in the north, I know pretty much exactly where I am going. :)

Had this last few days, outright pain in the fooking ass.

Probably this character, but only because the servers I've been on the last three days have ALL been night time servers and I can't see shit, pretty sure I'm stuck in a shed in the middle of nowhere. Am I going to kill myself? No way. I've got amazing survival gear. Guessing about thirty or so hours with this guy.

I've had this problem three days in a row now, really cannot be bothered with waiting six/seven minutes everytime I try and play this game...

More players / more loot Less players / less loot This is how I'd like it, rewards players who have balls to interact with people and stops people going on empty servers just to find good loot. Also, would mean that with more players being around more loot, you'd have to be even more careful. I'm guilty of running openly around everywhere, even straight to the airfield in the centre of the map, just because I can because no one ever dares go more north than Berenzino half the time.

The waiting times are a bit annoying for the honest players though, I've been kicked from four servers in a row now and my current wait time is eight minutes, I've given up, no one should ever have to wait eight minutes to play a game, unfortunately I haven't thought up of any solution to this, perhaps change the amount of time waiting on a new server depending on how long you've been on a server? E.G. Played on one server for an hour, leave and join another server - 5 Minutes. Played on one server for half an hour, leave and join another server - Two and a half minutes. Played on a server for 15 minutes, leave and join another server - 1 Minute. Players will not have the chance to gear up, get in a gun fight, combat log and do their ghost thing if they have been playing for a while, yet people who are trying to join games and get kicked straight away will not be punished as much as they will have had the least impact on the server. TL;DR The more impact you have on a server; the longer your server change wait should be.

Can people just not be arsed actually going round and finding things for themselves, taking fun out of the game and making people lazy.

Because the game is always having 5 steps forward, three steps back. With updates, comes more problems, but previous problems being fixed. Nothing implemented in software works correctly first time.

You already can play on DayZ using a mac using bootcamp, a bootable USB of Windows (Can download a legal trial of Windows 8.1 Enterprise on the mdsn part of the site , albeit low settings because the graphics card looks about 10 years old. However, I'm in favour and always will be, even when I get my new desktop, games should be universal. But right now, the development team HAVE to concentrate on making it a stable game first.

Can you increase the amount of allotted space the game can cache?

Lol at this OP... Why celebrate updates... seriously...this must be the most ridiculous thread I've ever seen on any forums.

After looking at the DayZ DB map, the south of the map, where Cherno etc is, seems very clustered and as you get more north, it becomes more scarce and there isn't a lot to do up there at the moment, which seems to explain why there is so much loot up there, people normally go as north as the airfield and stop there. Do you think they will add more attractions up north like a big city or something? Perhaps a huge nuclear powerplant? Something like that would not only add to our imagination of how it all started off, but it could become a huge focal point for people going up north, with added gear such as gas masks actually coming into use, radiation metres, etc.

I explore mainly, I've roughly been around 75% of the map, infact I've only just gone into Elektro and Berenzino for the first time after 175 hours, only been to the main airfield once and never been to Chernarus, I like to take things slow and get to learn my surroundings first, as it's only in alpha I don't wanna gear myself up fully just yet and end up being bored straight away, I've considered the thought of being a medic, but also the thought of not trusting people puts me off... but you never know, you win some, you lose some.

Sounds like you had a good time with meeting up with people, just remember, it could have been a very different game if either of you decided to be the tougher guy and lay a few rounds into either of each other, this is the part of the game I have yet to experience yet would fully enjoy doing, shame I never find any people to actually meet up with. :D

Definitely agree to this, not only would it make the game more emmersive, finding out how someone died in your vicinity, either an axe wound, or is it a mosin bullet? M4 round? Or were they force fed disinfectant? Who knows.

Unfortunately, it wasn't me who was doing the shooting, some guy with a magnum asking if I was friendly, blah blah, bang bang, hope he enjoyed my collection of three guns and about 600 rounds of ammo, lucky guy. :)

I spawned right in front of you, and found a magazine for my .22 rifle and loaded it up (non offensive), you shot me, I screamed at you down the mic saying I was friendly and you apoligized and handed me over a wooden splint. Thank you very much for your help after as well. Nice guy was nice. Especially when 99.9% of people would kill me after seeing someone load a gun, fair play.

Also playing at Bloodstock, it's a pretty good festival this year... bloodstock.uk.com still a lack of power/folk metal, not that i care too much anyway but still. :P

Actually.. a hoodie! But beans for noticing! Was at Bloodstock 2009 I think, my first ever festival. :-)

It's a sign that some people will still help..even after opening fire! :-) Isn't it nice to hear about people being nice.

Could you not get your own server and password it, so you're ultimately the only person who could go on the server?