ColonelBurton

Default port meaning? Any number?

I don't get it. Don't I need to know the port to join??

Whoops. I was going to try this on a friend of mine last night but the server restarted as I was doing so. Didn't get around to trying it. Glad I didn't!

Chances are slim. Anybody who does a loot run usually logs out somewhere outside, somewhere safe. In other words, if you don't want people to think you're a desperate server hopper hopping for some mags, don't log in or out of the prison building. If you run out of luck and your server crashes or something, log in in an empty server and move to a safe location, or expect people seeing you spawn in to shoot on sight. There's just too much hopping going on in prison buildings and on airstrips. You don't ask questions or risk getting shot. EDIT: Besides that, he killed his friend. What the hell are you talking about???

Yes, the M1 was all over the place during WW2, pretty much everywhere except for Russia *epic facepalm*

First thing I do when I see an airstrip building with open doors is that I am twice as wary since the recent looter might still be around. And I don't need to tell you about 99.9% of DayZ players shoot on sight at airstrip buildings. Closed doors decrease awareness and give you the advantage when inside. As for me, I will still go into such a building even if the doors are open (just more carefully) because mostly, they've been ransacked by said server-hoppers, who mostly are just looking for one or two single items, like a 75-round drum or a smersh backpack, then leave all the other good stuff behind and all the doors open, go up to the top floor and log out.

This happened to a friend in the upper level of the same building on NWAF a few days ago. He was suddenly standing next to him. After checking where I was at, my mate unloaded and killed the guy. Man, he was loaded with protector cases, ammo, weapons and all sorts of neat stuff. This is why you should always have a clear strategy of who is where in the building and why you should ALWAYS close all doors behind you, as well as always reckoning with this type of thing happening. Saves you the three seconds of asking questions. I've spent some days just observing the camo building near Svetlo bagging guys like this and it's incredible how many people spawn in and out right in the building.

So would that be the M1E14 7.62x51 caliber then? I personally liked the latest move to weapons more common in the Eastern Block.

Yeah but they only do about 10.000 litres of water filtration, which, in DayZ standards, is roughly 10 uses before the item is ruined.

Burnt food tastes like a$$, but it also causes cancer in the long run. But I also went on a rant when cooking came out in experimental and a friend force-fed me burnt meat which put me on a wild chase to find antibiotics, vitamins, and god knows what else because I wasn't sure what would cure it. That totally made me lose my faith in the developers pretty much for good.

I wonder what is "not pure" about ground water that comes from pumps. I drink it all the time when I work in my garden and I never, ever even get the slightest bit of stomach trouble. Drinking from a pond or lake, okay. But there is absolutely nothing about ground water that causes a need for purification.

Strange things are happening lately. A friend of mine freshspawned naked in Vybor. What I think is so strange about this thing is that the bambis all have different clothes, but the same skin model. So weird.

Agree fully, but once you know the tricks of the trade it's pretty simple at this point: 1.) Run far north and head into places that don't have zombies, like Turovo, Dobroe or the sheds north of NWAF that don't have zombies 2.) Find an axe, settle for nothing less => this is your best tool against zombies 3.) If you find a firearm use this against players only 4.) Hopefully the game will be playable again with version 0.50, since 0.49 apparently fixes the zombie problem but forces us to deal with a ridculously over the top stamina and weather effects system See you guys in a month!

I couldn't find a thread that deals with the bug / glitch induced character / gear wipes. So on this stable / first person, I've had three occurences where the character is wiped and I start as fresh spawn in the past 10 days. Before I go on, I was not killed, I joined the same server after restart (no message received since 11 seconds....) and I DID NOT get the warning message about the character not being able to be loaded. I figured out what my mistake was this time. When I rejoin a server that was reset, I've noticed it takes a while for the time to actually be set. So the process is, for example - Server finishes (no message received since 11 seconds....) - I exit the game - I refresh server list - my server shows up with game time being 08:00 o'clock -> if I join now my character is wiped!! - I wait and refresh, wait and refresh - my server shows up with game time being 10:20 o'clock - I wait and refresh, wait and refresh - my server shows up with game time being 12:00 o'clock - I wait and refresh, wait and refresh - my server shows up with game time being 12:01 o'clock -> now I can join without being wiped. When I do get wiped, I noticed that the initial "Waiting for host...." screen takes way too long. That's another indicator something is wrong. But after a server restarts, wait for the time to actually progress by a minute to make sure you don't encounter a wipe. I look forward to getting feedback from other players that have had this.

Thanks for correcting me, the message is "Waiting for host...." And I agree, this topic should get its own thread since it happens quite frequently to a lot of people.

Yesterday I shot my Mosin at a guy with no pants, shirt or shoes but hunter backpack. Simpy because I hate it when people run around without pants. I broke his legs in the process. He was calling out something to me and I don't know what he said. I was in the dilemma between finishing him off and helping him back on his feet. I chickened out and ran off somewhere else. Later, in bed that night, I really got a bad conscience. What if this wasn't a no-pants guy, but someone who had been robbed sent him off without any clothes? He was obviously looking for stuff and he picked up the backpack at the barracks, and then I shot him and broke his legs. I felt so bad. Especially for not going back to help him. If you're reading this, I'm so sorry, man! If I could turn back the hands of time I'd go over and put you out your misery! (just kidding, I'd go over and help)

So DayZ took another dump on me today by wiping my character, but at least now I figured out how to avoid it the next time (save for the global wipe obviously) But I decided, despite being cheesed off to the maximum, to give it another shot since I liked hunting server hoppers so much. Spawned at Svetlo South entrance and ran through a lot of buildings gearing up the basics and found an SKS as well as a Blaze and some ammo for the Blaze. After encountering a player in a house, I ran for my life and headed to above mentioned military barracks to look for some ammunition. As I discovered two full AKM clips in the upper room, I suddenly heard an array of clank noises around me, making me think I was being fired upon by an array of arrows (could have been a sound bug) So I ran out looking for the aggressor but couldn't find him or her. When I arrived at the top of the hill, I heard more clanking noises so I thought my hunter was nearby again. So real slow, I crept along the cliffs looking for him. Still no luck. So I decided to hide in front of a tree hoping the guy would come by perhaps. How I hate that. Standing in the forest, hearing all sorts of strange noises around me that startle me occassionally, only turning out to be my imagination. Suddenly I hear a step behind me. I turn looking (not really expecting somebody) and a black-skin full gear with painted AKM and drum mag and painted Mosin is spawning right behind me. I immediately unload my SKS and the guy disappears into thin air, his weapons lying around on the floor. I pick up all his stuff but have some difficulty obtaining some things, since his body went invisible. Still, I got all my lost items back I lost with the wipe. Minutes later, as I'm still clearing away my old weapons, suddenly a black fresh-spawn shows up running towards me. I warn him he ain't gonna get his stuff back. He keeps coming so I unload. "WHY ARE YOU SHOOTING AT ME!?!?" he cries with a French accent. After he goes down, I finish clearing away my weapons. And would you believe, just as I'm done with them, the next server hopper shows up right next to me and runs past, doesn't even see me. Unfortunately I only hit him twice but not lethally. He runs past a rock into cover and I lose him. This place is the best when it comes to getting the hoppers. I bagged three and injured another in only three days and killed a no-pants-guy on top of that (I don't trust people with no pants)

Superflous probability adverb is superflous.

Fully agree with that. But before cars and trucks I place horses and motorbikes since these will be pretty common and have that post-SHTF feel to them. Of course you could debate whether it would be a simple thing to catch and tame a horse to the point of riding it right away. But I like the idea of riding a horse in a world gone to crap far better than fixing a car. Besides that, a few years after the collapse of society, ordinary gas would be useless. I don't know about diesel though. Diesel is said to last for years by some people.

Sounds like the end of DayZ to me if they keep it like it is.

I don't know what defines a hacker I don't think I've ever met one. Used to think I did though, when people suddenly showed up from out of nowhere and started shooting me in Third Person and I didn't even see them coming. After playing around with the FOV slider while next to a wall one day, I realised how ridiculously easy it is to wall hack in Third Person. Never got ambushed in First Person for exactly that reason.

Well, you see, there's people that have something called "friends" that they like to play with. And they might not have the time to walk three hours before meeting up with their friends a few miles across the map before playing with them. Survival game tells it exactly how it is - DayZ is stil a game. They don't need to go over the top with everything to make it unplayable.

This is likely going to be one of the more annoying phases of the Alpha. Running through the rain for three minutes getting soaked, then another two minutes until your character starts sneezing. Then putting on fresh clothes and getting annoyed because you're still soaking despite having put on dry clothes. Then getting "sick". Running to a hospital to pack in a few tablets of tetracycline and realising it takes up as much space as half a set of World War II binoculars in your inventory. Almost dying of exhaustion while running there. Deciding to camp somewhere waiting for somebody to shoot before you die. Bah, who cares, what new weapons are coming out with the next update???

I wouldn't exclude the possibility that there was an issue with the axe, but just generally that there was an item you collided with. I once had a guy who spawned on me in the barricaded room in a police station because we were trying to find a way out and it broke my legs.

I can't tell you how to stop server hopping. But I can tell you a great place to hunt server hoppers. The new army prison building / barracks west of Svetlo. This nifty little location that you should definitely check out when nearby as a fresh-spawn has also been discovered by the hoppers because it is rather unfrequented and in my experience is often not looted even despite the server having been running for thirty minutes. So wait for a server to restart then hang out on the hill behind the building keeping an eye on the upper level. Because they actually have the audacity to log in and out right in the upper room. Just bagged me two hoppers today, one pretty fresh and one fully geared... and people coming while passing through in usually don't check out the windows to see if somebody is out there ;o) Happy hunting.