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Not sure why you feel the need to besmirch the Arnold. What I've read is that Dean is envisioning a "barricade" to help prevent ghosting. What that means is that when you have a group defending a position nobody will be able to log in within a certain radius of you, instead they would be moved outside the set radius. Not sure how big that radius would be. But returning the login sound seems like an easier way to correct the issue for now. Not sure why they ever removed it.

A few weeks ago I was playing on a hardcore server, was outside of the NEAF. Some guy approached me and asked if I left a note. I said no, he then showed me the note. whoever wrote it said they were heading to NEAF, join up with them if you can. The guy said he found the note in Berezino. He was so crushed that I wasn't the guy who wrote the note, but he pressed on to the NEAF, determined to find the author.

There's no such thing as a 24/7 daytime server. Servers make outlandish claims in their title, but they have no control over the time cycle. Only thing they can control is how often their server resets. So if you see a "high loot" title, they most likely reset their server every hour. For daylight, look for a server time between 07:00 and 16:00. I think the game is set in wintertime, when the sun sets earlier. So it starts to get dark about 16:30 or so. Pitch black by 17:00 by my experience. Hope that helps.

Happened to me and a friend tonight. We were in the woods. Didnt see any other players. They stripped me of everything, left him with just gloves. A third guy was with us, right by me, and he didn't get touched. We logged out and joined a new server. Stuff was still fine. 3rd guy was still untouched. Just bizarre. Wish I knew what server it was, but since the history isn't in any particular order IDK.

And there IS an ingame map, but it's tricky. The map is split into 4 quadrants. You might loot one of the quadrants (NE, SE, NW, SW) or a half a map (N, S, E, W). The parts can be combined to make a whole map. You access the map by putting it in your toolbar then hitting the corresponding button. Unfortunately it doesn't give you an icon or "You Are Here", but it will center on your general area. That is ONLY IF you are in the section of the map that you have in your inventory. TBH, I never use it. After playing a few hundred hours you'll know the map by heart, and can use the Dayzdb or iZurvive map to guide you in less familiar areas. Hope that's helpful.

And to answer your second question, yes, all guns are empty when you find them. Also, some guns will require a magazine to be truly effective, otherwise you will have to reload 1 round after each time you fire.

I've got a couple hundred hours in game, and it's never happened to me. BUT...I saw a post on the forums not too long ago that somebody experienced a wipe, said they saw a message that came up when they were logging in. Said something like "cannot find character, reverting to default character". They said if you see that message hit ESC and join another server. 2 nights ago I was logging into a server and just happened to notice the message come up in the lower left of the screen, in red text. I didn't take any chances and hit ESC, went to another server, and all was fine. I don't remember the server name saying anything to try to ward off people from joining, I think it was a pretty generic DayZ server name. I will definitely pay closer attention to that login text in the future.

Disabling Vsync did NOT work for me. Hopefully the (allegedly) fixed build on experimental will come live soon. These crashes always seem to happen when I'm getting zombie attacked. RIP me.

You really shouldn't be dropping acid while playing DayZ.

You might want to throw some safety orange in there so the hunters don't mistake you for a moose.

Killed somebody logging out? You must be so proud of yourself, miss.

When the experimental build goes live you'll be able to forage for sticks in the woods. That will make the availability of spliniting materials more accessible. Now if they'll let us tear those curtains off the windows to make bandage rags...

What a waste of a saline bag.

Are these the same crash sites that are already on the DayzDB map? Or are they new locations?

Suppressors do not work currently. Don't know when it's scheduled to be fixed. BUT they do look cool and have no effect on ballistics or precision.

Awesome story! Beans for you...

Quick answer to the OP: the server you were on was buggy. It shouldn't be pitch black until about 16:30 or 17:00, depending on weather conditions, or possibly your video brightness got turned way down? It seems the game is set in wintertime, when the sun will set very early. I base this on you being able to see your breath in game, indicating it is cold, AND the sun is very low in the southern sky, even at "high noon" (12:00).

Great ops this weekend! We provided security for newspawns, taking down bandits and zeds. If that sounds like something you'd enjoy, contact us.

Cuff 'em or make them lie prone while you do IV I guess.

Rule #1: Cardio. You do run your ass off in this game.

It's missing Svetlo and that other new town north of Krasno, not sure what it's name is. But it is a nice map, I'll definitely be using it.

You may have aggro'd the zombie earlier. Some are slow to catch up, but stay on you even though you may have gotten miles away from them. The other day I was following the train tracks towards Svet. I ran across another player who was heading south. We stopped and talked a minute, then we both continued in our respective directions. About a quarter mile later I saw a zed running towards me down the tracks. But he ran on past me, he evidently had agro on the other player, despite the great distance involved. Can't wait til they fix that.

OK, thanks. If somebody struggles out of the cuffs will that break them?

How?