UltimateGentleman

Yeah but having 2 canteens also fills up 4 slots. I've never found myself needing more than one, even a water bottle is fine there are so many wells around you need only fill up every so often. In my experience hydration lasts a hell of a lot longer than energized, plus you get a lot of water out of cans of food. I'm not sure how ground water is going to have a random chance to make you ill, it should be obvious if the water is stagnant or not I don't think it should be ALL ponds have a chance to make you ill, unless there's a dead person in them that would be a cool feature.

Karma :D But yeah it is annoying especially when you just die suddenly, I'd like to hear what killed me. My last life or second last life a guy with a sawn off shotgun killed me from 30+ meters away. Was just instant you are dead, no noise. He could have already shot at me by that point, who knows I only noticed him randomly then tried to escape and thought fuck it, straight line because shotguns can't shoot that fa-...must have been one of they magic shotguns. Anyway yeah it's really annoying, and why I have no issue with third person you should be able to hear someone on the other side of a wall running around easily, third person makes up for the lack of sound in the game. Otherwise it's almost like playing the game with a sound blocking helmet on that restricts you vision.

Yes because just being killed is dull as shit, I can see the appeal to killing a geared up player somewhat, might be fun to destroy their hard earned gear and waste their time but someone who's best item is a stick... Being tortured would be a lot more interesting than oh hey YOU ARE DEAD. I'd love to get caught, get food poisoned and then somehow escape and survive, it would make that particular life a lot more interesting. In all the times I've been killed by other players I have never remotely been a threat to them, besides a few YOLO moments at airfields. People say they need to shoot to be safe...what sense does that make when you're gunning down fresh spawns with a 75 round drum mag? If they were dangerous to you why play the game... Show fresh spawns how mean the post apocalyptic world of Chernaus is, they don't learn anything if they're dead.

So after dying of starvation like 3 times in a row, dying from losing a bathtub full of blood after a player and like 10 zombies attacked me while I defended myself with a pitchfork that didn't hit anything, I then spawn here. Where once again INSTANTLY a zombie sees me, from that shore over there(and promptly runs in the water to do lord knows what) Then I see a player who leads a zombie away, which means FINALLY I get peace from zombies for 5 seconds to search for food! Of which there was none, naturally. Found a pickaxe though. Then I had to join another server, instantly a zombie attacks again while I'm checking an apple tree. Swung the pickaxe at it like 10 times, 2 hits... Then some douchebag with a shotgun comes out of nowhere and kills me from like 30m away. The game seems so much more of a hellzone than ever before and it fucking sucks you have to be extremely lucky to get anywhere now it seems. If you want to look in literally any building you have to somehow survive many zombies with no weapons and it's just ridiculous, even if you manage to lure them away or kill them without losing all your blood you're not likely to find anything useful anyway. Just wtf has happened since I last played the game a couple of months ago? It's just insane now. Last time it was at least survivable now you spawn hungry and more often than not get cold within seconds.

There's one at one of the airfields...but good luck testing guns there without people coming and killing you :P That's basically the problem, you can't really test how good a gun is if someone kills you first with better skills or a more accurate gun and you can't shoot at trees to check aiming because someone will hear the shots and find you before you get enough data to contribute to testing. And it's not like you can just say "plz don't shoot me" you'd be dead before finishing the sentence. So an offline testing area would be great it would save so much time and would give people who can't get in to any experimental servers something to do.

I'd love a Winchester or just any kind of cool lever action rifle, modified to use the same ammo as the Mosin maybe not sure what'd be the best fit. It'd just be great fun to wander around with a kind of novelty weapon like that, cowboy hat, Clint Eastwood set. Even if they were really shitty weapons the challenge would be welcomed. A bullet belt too, that would be great and it wouldn't be that overpowered it'd only be useful for weapons like that with no clip to load in.

The other day I spawned near some tiny coast town, so I go to check it and find a bandanna in a shed(yay...) Then some zombie bitch starts chasing me while I'm looking for something useful. And then some random slightly more fresh spawn shows up... I wave, as always. We're both in the shed so I take my fists out and figure this bitch is blocking the entrance lets take her out! I start hitting her, dude starts hitting me...then we're both circling round the zombie trying to "aim" it at the other guy so we have a boxing partner. Eventually we punched our way out the shed and I got knocked out... But I waited and woke up, to find the guy getting attacked by two zombies so I try to run and get knocked out...then I got up again. Guy was dead, he must not have had the patience to wait :D Then I died from a combo of starvation, blood loss and zombie attacks because there was just no food to be found. Moral of the story, don't seriously fight as a fresh spawn because even if you survive, you will die later from the injuries and/or time you wasted not looking for food and clothes.

It's a lot more of an interesting thing to experience in the game than "You are dead" though and it'd be nice to get to know the people who may eventually kill you instead of walk in to a room "You are dead" I just find it really dull, if you're killing a fresh spawn who literally has only the torch and battery you're hardly doing any major damage to them like wow I have to respawn somewhere else where I might actually find some unlooted area. Given the lack of direction in the game it'd be nice to be challenged by captors instead of shot by random douchebags who play too much CoD.

Sounds like a hacker stole from your inventory? Too perfect timing for you to have accidentally dropped it.

Oh I know it works some guy one shotted me with one from like 40m away it was ridiculous...

Nothing like that works in my experience they still just run through doors anyway maybe I'm spawning in all the wrong areas. Even if that worked it's fucking annoying having to do that every 2 seconds the only safe places are like fields and forests and with that there's no way to survive in them unless there's some secret way to take down animals and make fires without any items I haven't heard of yet.

Someone...lol he just replied as I said this, what freethink said. Apparently that works, I haven't played since doing it but I've definitely been cold constantly. But I've not been getting cold, warm, cold, warm it's been "cooling down" over and over so there must be something wrong with mine. I just hope it doesn't end up that fully geared people become immortal gods compared to fresh spawns, if you come across anyone geared you're utterly fucked unless the universe dictates they not be an asshole. Hopefully they make it so that being fully geared makes you significantly slower and less agile(in reference to switching guns etc) as people would be IRL.

So it's unbelievable to assume that a lot of people took their blankets or maybe didn't have many? Chernaus is clearly quite a poor area, it's very possible each home might only even have a single blanket. And to go with that, that people stole blankets from empty houses just to keep warm. I mean we can assume everyone didn't just die instantly there'd have been people surviving for weeks, checking houses who wouldn't take blankets? It makes perfect sense really. I'm not suggesting that there be a max of one per server but not like every single non looted house having one.

I'm not stupid I know it's still being made...but what makes them buff the zombies and stuff when they don't need to? Like why does setting up the navmesh mean zombies have to be changed, at all, besides where they run. They're far more relentless than they used to be last month they didn't see you from like 300+m away now they do all the time and they don't stop chasing you until even the best computer can't render them any more... The issue isn't that it's broken, it's that they broke it more when the zombies were fairly survivable and...well, why? Who decided "let's make zombies even more annoying when things like melee aren't working all that well so fresh spawns have a bitch of a time!" Can you explain how you get anywhere decent when you starve after like 20 minutes after spawning and might be lucky if an apple tree gives you an apple? There's not enough time to get anywhere with half decent loot in at least half the spawn points I've been to recently. Unless you get super lucky and nobody happened to loot places but that's just chance or if you're on a deserted server, which is dull.

Well, maybe not that but I don't understand the logic behind taking your t-shirt off when you put on a jacket... We should be able to stack clothes in a sensible fashion, like a jacket over a hoodie. However since it's going to be zipped up, the downside should be that that you can't access the pockets on the hoodie. Can you imagine how horrible it's going to be getting killed when you're geared up now? And just how much people are going to kill for that coat you have... The ongoing deathmatch seems like it's probably going to get hella worse. Not once have I thought of that, would be an excellent edition. While you're wrapped up in a blanket you can't attack so it leaves you vulnerable, though they should be semi-rare I guess. Or shitty blankets that get you up to survivable warmth if they're dry.

Are you saying it's not almost unplayable right now? The devs keep changing things that just make it harder and harder to test the game at all can they not tell what's too much and what's not? Is it really that hard to quickly tone down how much health zombies have or how far away they can see you from? These things should have been adjusted before the navmesh updates, at least when they were glitching in to floors they couldn't relentlessly attack you or chase you for over 20 minutes. These are things that do not need to be tested, they're so obviously broken and need adjusted so we can check out other things the devs do with the game.

Yep it's silly right now when you spawn in you're hungry and instantly cold and if you don't find a good food source within that 10 minutes or so you're fucked unless you find a good samaritan(LOL) I think they should just spawn us in completely neutral until they balance it a bit, with persistent loot if you're on any server people have been on you have very little chance of surviving. So should we just go to known hot spots for food and server hop until we find something? It seems almost the only way to survive the first hour or so at the moment. Clothes are a bitch to find too with loot as it is at most I've found found hats in whole towns, most everything is just gone everywhere. And it's not like you have the energy to run to a far away town people might not have visited, you will die on the way no matter what unless you're exceptionally lucky.

Not when there are like 3 or very often you'll lose too much blood just trying to search a few houses safely... ...what sense does that make? You can still play it it's just not going to function as well as the finished product. How are we supposed to play it and test bugs if it's nearly impossible to live long enough to test any guns etc? Not like we can enable God mode and do whatever we want or spawn in new guns to see how they function, they should lighten the difficulty so we can actually test it effectively...

Yeah I've died twice in a row from starving now it's far too difficult to get sufficient food, of course it shouldn't be easy but it shouldn't be so 50/50. Like I searched a whole mostly unlooted town, no axes or anything to open a can with of which I found like 5. We need to at least be able to smash them open on the ground and get no more than 25% of the food inside for one thing. Cans should be way rarer but do more for you too who can eat more than 3 cans of beans and still be hungry? Running around a lot doesn't mean you suddenly have an empty stomach, you'd be fatigued not starving to death. Between that and overpowered zombies it's way too hard to survive right now, meanwhile people who've been geared for months have easy sailing >.>

Zombies still seem to run through them and they're so relentless now that it's almost impossible to survive unless you get super lucky. Was just in the town near the crashed ship(not Berenzino) and had like 5 zombies after me and 5 tins of food but nothing to open them with, survived on some berries. Food is a little ridiculously hard to come by now or at least...to eat, so many cans but no way to open them. It'd be a big help if we could actually shut zombies out and explore places, it's kind of hard to be thorough when you're getting cut open every few seconds and have run out of rags.

So I'm dealing with this right now: See the cut off arrow bit? Yeah, that's where the settings are. So there's that and the game won't fit to my screen at all, it used to and then I went and hit optimize on Nvidia and it put everything to low and fucked up the screen size and I haven't been able to get it back the way it was since no matter what setting I try. Not sure how big my TV is, 36-38 inch maybe. Why can't there just be a "fit to screen" option or adjustable arrows? Is it so hard for it to know how big the screen is? (I get this is more a Windows/Nvidia problem not DayZ itself) It's really annoying while playing the game it's all squashed in to like 3/5 of the screen in the middle so text is unreadable and it's just downright awkward to play the game. Tried hitting default, updating Nvidia etc and nothing. When I first put the game on it was perfect...

Thanks a lot guys can actually play the game now :D Now if only my guy will stop being unconscious...

Nah it starts over the taskbar for some reason. I can't believe that in this day and age programs are still broken like this, it's ridiculous. Uninstalled it now so I'll check the game now. If that doesn't work what about deleting DayZ and redownloading it? It seemed to work just fine automatically. EDIT okay it's a lot better now...but the size is still a little broken, the "wait a moment" text at the top for example is mostly off the screen, it seems like it's all been dragged to the left a bit. But it's actually playable now at least. Wow yeah never downloading that Nvidia program again. OK lastly the only other problem I have is a weird box on my screen when there's no menu up, it's mostly transparent not sure what it is, slightly larger than the inventory menu.

So you don't actually need the program? I'm going to email them anyway but I shall try that.

Don't you need all of them though? So in the mean time each part takes up a whole space and you're not guaranteed to find them all at any given time.