ColonelBurton

1st off: THE TEMPERATURE SYSTEM IS BROKEN ON MOST SERVERS Play only on Vilayer servers, since you will freeze to death 5 times as fast on non-vilayer 2nd off: when starting as fresh-spawn, try to find a server that hasn't been running for more than one or two hours. My first hours on DayZ I obviously spent on servers that didn't restart often, and all I found was rotten fruit 3rd off: the loot tables aren't at all tweaked properly. Since 0.49 I've found more guns and ammunition, even more bayonets than knives, for example. Even kitchen knives don't spawn in towns like Polana anymore. How are you supposed to skin and quarter a deer if a bayonet won't do it? It should also not be a necessity to have an axe to be able to make a fireplace. Give this game some time. Maybe at some point it will have some decent survival mechanics, but at this point... it's just an Alpha.

Then let's meet up and trade. I find 80 to 160 rounds on one single loot run from NWAF to Vybor Military Camp.

Well I just found my first Mi-24 Hind spawn on NWAF and BOY OH BOY was I excited, since the server had just started fresh. Since the UH-60 always spawned attachments to the M4 (but never an M4......) and I already had the AKM, I took the chance of getting sniped by one of the other few players on the server and ran right out to look for a picatinny handguard and a PSO-scope! Imagine what a wonderful feeling it was to find - Badly damaged boots - Damaged boots - A pristine gorka helmet (that, apparently, offers no melee protection btw) - A box of 7.62x39 ammo - some other common item I couldn't be bothered to remember I've spent roughly the past 4 hours running from Vybor through airfields almost getting killed in the process to look for a heli-crash site or a regular handguard spawn. Then I finally find a freshly spawned heli crash site and it has the same garbage I would have found in any of the hangars across from it? I think there should be a small reward for finding a heli crash site. Some, any item that is rare or impossible to find. Like in my case, the minimum I would expect to find is a PM-rak magazine or a CZ-527 carbine magazine. Not just some rancid old BOOTS! Apart from the fact that it is POINTLESS to look for heli crash sites (one of my mates is now at around 10 hours look for an M4, found roughly a dozen blackhawks)..... So the developers decide to add a new weapon to a game that is in Alpha stage They allow us to find some of said weapons, like the CZ-527 carbine, but make it extremely difficult to find magazines for it? Aren't we supposed to test this stuff out? Shouldn't this new stuff spawn somewhat more commonly during the introduction version than "super-mega-stuff-of-legends-rare"? I personally would have loved to try the CZ-527 out instead of always carrying Mosin, for example. But since it is ridiculously difficult to find mags for it, I decided not to. Same goes for the Sporter .22 - I have never bothered to carry one because for a matter of fact, I was only ever able to find a 30 round mag or 10 round mag for it in the sandbag bunker @NWAF So, in order to find a magazine for a civillian firearm, I have to head out to a military location. Same goes for speedloaders and snaploaders, btw. I only find them in said sandbag bunker.... I also don't get why it's harder to find mags for pistols (except the damn Makarov, obviously) that it is to find an SKS. This type of thing makes the SKS an overpowered start-up weapon.

Well I just found my first Mi-24 Hind spawn on NWAF and BOY OH BOY was I excited, since the server had just started fresh. Since the UH-60 always spawned attachments to the M4 (but never an M4......) and I already had the AKM, I took the chance of getting sniped by one of the other few players on the server and ran right out to look for a picatinny handguard and a PSO-scope! Imagine what a wonderful feeling it was to find - Badly damaged boots - Damaged boots - A pristine gorka helmet (that, apparently, offers no melee protection btw) - A box of 7.62x39 ammo - some other common item I couldn't be bothered to remember I've spent roughly the past 4 hours running from Vybor through airfields almost getting killed in the process to look for a heli-crash site or a regular handguard spawn. Then I finally find a freshly spawned heli crash site and it has the same garbage I would have found in any of the hangars across from it? I think there should be a small reward for finding a heli crash site. Some, any item that is rare or impossible to find. Like in my case, the minimum I would expect to find is a PM-rak magazine or a CZ-527 carbine magazine. Not just some rancid old BOOTS!

Some ambient noises should occasionally show up. Like I disagree with you on the bird noises. In fact, I'd like more different ambient animal noises. At this point, I don't need bird animations in trees (yet) But sometimes I hear sounds like some animal munching something, or like you said, gates closing, and no matter how little wind there is or how far away I am from the coast, there's this constant rushing noise that annoys the hell outta me. Not to mention the weird "WHAA?" animal noise I can't define. So yes. Please work on the ambient noises.

I agree to a certain sense. The devs need constructive criticism. The fanbois have nothing constructive to add, so they might as well not waste anybody's time on the forum or bugtracker.

Again: try to search for a "Vilayer" server. Meaning enter the word vilayer in your server filter. Worked for me every single time. Has nothing to do with that. On my video you can also see I have no breath, meaning the outer temperature is around or above body temperature. FIX is the right word. Because if carrying a box of matches, a pair of handcuffs, a key, a knife and a hacksaw uses as much inventory space as a six-pack of beer, then I'd prefer to keep the inventory system the way it is. Meaning I need to find ways of carrying around as much stuff as I would carry in a real-life scenario. I know I repeat myself on this issue, but depending on what you're carrying, some smaller backpacks have the actual carrying capacity of a woman's handbag.

A bunch of ruined crap? EDIT: Oh wait. Took me a while.

Concerning the current temperature issues, here's a hilarious bug report Fireplace from hell drops temperature to 1 Kelvin, killing 4 players http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=17412 EDIT HAHA indeed, they should call the next one "coldfix"

It surprises me how many people SoS although they suck at shooting.

Another weird comment I can't make heads of tails of. As far as I know (and I just tested it out a few minutes ago to confirm) the gas stove does squat to warm me up I just sat in a closed gatehouse with the thing directly under my chest and under my butt and it did absolutely nothing.

I've heard this "after a SHTF scenario we all have to lose our morals or die" mantra sooo many times and it is simply crap. A society collapses within its' own decadence and is reborn within a new set of core values, simple as that. Meaning if you want to rebuild, you need to rebuild structure within a society. Then, the lawless gangs are swiftly put out of their misery by groups of organized individuals. It has been this way since the dawn of mankind. Over and over again. Speaking of having reached a certain level of decadence, just because there "would be" rapists and murderers of women and children as well as cannibals in such a world, does that really necessarily mean that we need game mechanics like cannibalism, rape and infanticide in an already violent and lawless video-game? I clearly voice the opinion that we do not. And I also support the argument that such a game will simply be banned in many Western countries. EDIT: I would explicitly request mods NOT to delete this comment. If necessary, I will move it to an own discussion board. But it is important to me to make this point! (a similar posting of mine has already been deleted... although it has often been shown that this type of discussion is a necessity on this board!!)

Yup, similar thing has happened to me on other servers http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=17291

This is exactly the type of nonsense on this board that makes me want to cry tears of laughter about how little some people know about the outdoors. Do some research about what troops went through in the World Wars. Many spent weeks in wet trenches with no fire but just a cup of piss-warm coffee that was brought to them every few days. Even in a winter's night you don't necessarily NEED a fire to not die of exposure. It is sufficient to be dressed warm and be well covered with a blanket and preferrably have some kind of isolation from the ground. I'm not saying you won't get disease or trench foot from this lifestyle in the long run, but you will not suffer this type of thing within minutes or even hours.

HAHA that's happened to me on two occasions as well. Oh well can always get geared up anew ^^ Just died while hiding under Vybor bridge. Was there waiting for some nudists to show up to give some of my excess gear and two full-gears showed up and killed me. How on earth they got a visual is beyond me. I was right under the bridge crouched in a bush in full camo.

You might have wanted to keep an eye on him leaving the building. Figure you would have seen him get in position to ambush you. Then you could have asked him what exactly it is he's waiting for at that corner ^^

This is exactly how I felt when I got food poisoning from eating burnt steak. But pretty much ... every... single... addition and change to the game implies that the developers had no idea of what it's like to live out in the wild. And that bewilders me, since I heard that Dean Hall had climbed up Everest.... The worst part is that when you point out that these things are hopelessly unbalanced, you are attacked by people who, more often than not, hide their age that imply that you have no idea about the harsh reality of being out in the rain on a cold day for fifteen minutes. It's mind-blowing.

This is true. But if you look at how few items actually go into a backpack, you know why people are resorting to this ridiculous inception-style exploit. I do it all the time because I refuse to accept that my character carries about as much stuff with him as a woman can fit into her purse. To make it clear what I mean: I can easily pack a real-life school briefcase full with items that correspond to an ingame mountain backpack if I pack all sorts of important survival items in it I have a real-life mountain back-pack that fits as much gear as four ingame mountain back-packs. And I think you'd be surprised, quite a large number of American preppers easily pack 150 rounds of ammo in their get-out-of-dodge-bag. Seeing as many yanks are pretty reliant on their guns and ammo when it comes to SHTF

Nobody in a real-life survival scenario carries wood around with themselves. Only tinder and kindling maybe. There's plenty of firewood lying around in the forest, just not in DayZ. In DayZ, you chop down trees and they magically spawn firewood -.-

Nice, but i hope they keep working on many more. The zombie cop The zombie fireman And of course, the zombie clown Yes, I'm serious!

****BREAKING**** Reporter "dreagon948" reported that only Vilayer servers work fine as concern the weather effects. I just joined a vilayer server and at least in this one instance, it is correct. Please test this out and give feedback (filter your server list for "vilayer") Thanks! EDIT: I just tried out several Vilayer servers and never once got this issue. Weird.

You sure it's a military camp? I've been there and I'm pretty sure it's just an internment camp for the infected... except there's no infected there. But also no military hardware either ^^

Nice sunny day you have there. Still pretty extreme that your temperature drops by one degree per 10 minutes, don't you think? Apart from that, where it says "I am cooling off" my game always tells me "I am promptly cooling off" And as soon as you do a sidestep, it says "I am slowly warming up" when my game says "I am cooling off" when I sprint! So it must be server related in some way.

For Chrissake calm down, I know that you're talking about something else. I only posted the video for people that don't know the glitch and not "to prove" anything. I have spent plenty of time in Svetlo mountain sniping at zombies and bandits and I know how freakin' hard it is. And yes, it sucks that you can't lean your gun on anything or that being prone gives you zero extra stability. This type of swaying around motion that makes you have to time your shot is something you should only have when shooting while standing up straight and not while being prone or crouched in front of a barrier.

I didn't notice any performance improvement or drop. Roughly 15 players on server just now. No loot. Died within 15 minutes from starvation. Would have moved ahead more slowly had I not constantly been freezing to death, which forced me to run the entire way. What I'm trying to say is that I experienced the unbalanced temperature mechanic on this server just now as well.