The only way to play safe is to avoid any encounter. And even with this you can get killed on sight by some piece of crap who decided to play sniper.

You sound like a sociopath. This is a sure way to spoil the game experience for anybody who is on the same server as you.

It seems one can't use anymore the stairwell on the fire station, so loot spawned on the upper floors (and that can be seen from the roof) can't be collected. It is just me or it's a new bug?

Opposite corner of the small room where the stairs begin? Or opposite corner of the fire station altogether (where the last big door is)?

Are all DayZ servers still down? The usual server maintenance (Wednesday 0600-0900 GMT) should be finished by now.

It's all of them. Having or not something in my hands does not make a difference; neither does being standing up or crouching. However I haven't tried sprinting, I'll try that one next time. I could make a video but it wouldn't be very useful, it would only show my character immobile at the bottom of the stairwell.

Houses with open doors is a sign they've already been visited and looted. Same experience here.

It works now, thanks pals.

My character is invisible on the start screen. I only see the words "Left" and "Right" and my name underneath. The scenery behind looks fine. I've already tried "Verify integrity of game files" on Steam, it corrected 1 file but this didn't solve the issue. OTOH, I am experiencing very frequent crashes, reported here: https://feedback.bistudio.com/T125486

When filing a DayZ bugreport on https://feedback.bistudio.com/project/view/2/ , all the data is public. This includes DxDiag diagnostics and a copy the DayZ homedir folder. Isn't this an issue? Sharing it with the devs is fine, but having the info from your customers' computers posted publicly for the whole Internet to see isn't a very good idea. Thanks for your concern about this.

Is this server still on? If yes, where is it located?

Now it appears to work. I was able to login and create a crash report.

I've the same problem. Time for the devs to have a look at their bugtracker and see why it isn't sending any mail.

How do you find a private server that doesn't kick you out? Sorry for the newbie question, I have been away from DayZ a couple of years, I'm joining back just now (just after buying a new tower PC).

Buffoons. But you shouldn't have shot them first. I am usually for a "talk first, shoot later" approach. Usually.

Game grinding for hours getting up geared and then getting killed by the first moron you meet. Respawn, re-gear, get killed, repeat.

Nice resolution. Which machine do you have?

There's always some interesting place to visit. Like Green Mountain. Or the military base between Kabanino and Vybor.

I'm quite surprised of what is happening. Zombies worked quite well one year ago or so. Then they started become invincible. Now apparently there's something really wrong with them as the devs had to remove them (albeit temporarily).

Thanks, I'll give it a look. See you there perhaps.

Dijin42 has not logged in in the last four months. Apparently that's another server that goes in the limbo.

It looks like the server is offline. Too bad.

I am surprised at how little DayZ is optimized. On my 3-year old high-end gaming laptop it runs quite sluggish although I use 800x450 resolution with medium graphic settings. Some week ago I bought Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead and it runs smoothly at 1600x900, max graphic settings. I know it's still an alpha, but come on.

I bought Arma II and Arma II Operation Arrowhead on Steam, then installed also DayZ Mod from Steam. When run, no matter which server I choose, it complains about missing files and signatures with the same error as here: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/224968-noob-needing-start-up-help/ Browsing through the forums I have read that one has to install DayZ Launcher, but other threads say to install DayZ Commander. There's even a DayZ Mod shortcut installed by Steam (this is the one I used to run the game). This is confusing. What is the most up-to-date, simpler, and recommended way to run DayZ Mod? Thanks in advance.

So why does it complain about missing files (see my first post)? Do I need to buy additional Arma extensions? In the only server I managed to join I was a bird and I could only fly around. And it was not possible to quit the game -- I had to kill it from Task Manager, very annoying.