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That statement reeks of bullshit on a completely different level. Congratulations on the Fox News level spin of "it's alpha". Part of developing game is adding things, part of development is went you add those things sometimes they break other things. Forcing persistence to every single server, when it clearly doesn't work on every single server. What a joke. Keep smokin those poles.

Congratulations, you've found a server or servers that are working, somewhat? somehow? Who cares. Who the hell is making these decisions? "Oh, right. Let's force persistence on every single server, even though we know it's been extremely broken the past 5 "stable" patches. Test it?! What? Why? We ran it on one server in house and it worked great!!!!!" "BRILLIANT!!! PUSH IT LIVE, GO GO GO!!"

Nothing in this game will happen because of that, as it should be. Developers should carry out a goal and game design, not keep catering to the "most" vocal playerbase.

Yeah he's certainly not a brilliant actor or anything. And that's not a fictious portrayal of a character either. What demons are you dealing with?

So what you're saying is, the developers intended and intend for us no new players to be able to survive unless by the grace of not new players who were around for the first 24-48 hours of a new patch, when there is loot? Seriously? You mods have the worst, smart ass, absolutely helpless answers. If this is what the developers intend the game to be in regards to "survival", that's a complete farce. Persistent != Loot never ever respawns, and that's exactly what is happening. What a SURVIVAL when a LUG WRENCH made out of METAL is worse than your BARE FISTS to kill a zombie! What a joke!

Have you read the patch notes preview? They're talking about adding a 12 hour timer option to private hives after death to lock you out, which is basically what you're saying, only you're suggesting a Battle Royale style. Being locked out after death would actually give some weight to dying, which the only current weight and risk is losing some gear which doens't take long to get, and getting back to where you were which isn't hard either. If you died and couldn't join the same servers all your friends were on for another 24 hours, you probably wouldn't want to die... at all. Right now all you have to do is hit respawn and run back to where you died, no harm no foul.

To be realistic, they've sold 3 million copies in a year, without the game being finished. To be realistic, they sold $1,000,000 worth of product in the first three weeks. To be realistic, they'd be complete idiots to spread themselves too thin and underdevelop the game like most other companies do, IE Sony Online Entertainment. I bet you SOE is working on a H2Z2 already, and that's because they're a horrible fucking company with no idea how to run successful games. See where I'm going with this yet?

I mean what successful gaming company doesn't do this, look at Rockstar! They had just put out GTA IV which had online gaming and lobbies, and what did they do as soon as it was released? Why they just left it sitting there and never touched it again for updates!!!! Back to reality... Bohemia would be fucking retarded to be working on a DayZ 2 when they're already redoing the engine for the first game and aren't even 50% of the way through developing it. Why the fuck do people like you feel the need to start such shit threads?

On the 50 person server I play on, which is always full, the action is in Berezino, Elektro and Cherno. Cherno and Elektro seem to swap out, there's never action going on in both, but always one or the other. Kamyshovo, Kabowabo, seems to be a hotspot for banditry and general asshattery on just about every server.

Have seen a sword, and have also watched someone try to find one for a few hours. They're in the game, they're also rare as hell. I would imagine it's the same for chainsaws. They probably have a chance to spawn in every single garage/shed that spawns the melee weapons/lime/glowsticks etc, but probably the same as swords (at least as rumored) - 1 per server per restart, if they even spawn on that restart. I don't think there's a guaranteed sword spawn every restart, but never more than one per.

Shouldn't hear when unconcious or dead. But it does make for a more entertaining game while we can :P

It was a police car yes.

I always joined No PVP servers because we always knew there'd be people trying to pvp. If you really want a no pvp server, try playing on a private server. Though, you won't be able to do all that server hopping for loot to look badass while you're interacting with no one, so there is that.

Definitely makes sense that the most dangerous and highest risk of combat rewards you with the worst results and worst chance to actually do any damage. That's a great development call!!

Baseball bats along with 90% of the melee weapons are horribly broken and useless. Why are we slashing with knives? Why can't you literally cave someone's skull in with a baseball bat, sledgehammer, or shovel? I'm sorry but if someone swings a shovel at you, and hits you just about anywhere and with any amount of force, it's going to fuck you up. Even if you got grazed on the arm or leg, it's going to rattle your senses a bit. Getting hit in the chest, legs, head, arms, etc, with any of the aforementioned? Certain death or broken limbs. Show me one person that can take a fucking sledgehammer to the arm swung with two hands, and be ready to keep shooting and running around. Melee is the stupidest part of this game right now, so fucking broken.