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Heh. I live close to the armory in Cottage Grove. Before it was an armory, it was a school for young children. There's no rule stating that military bases must spawn gear. Or specifically, end game weapons. Additionally, you have to assume that loot spawn will be balanced at the time of release whether there are six bases or one hundred.

There IS a search function. You're probably better off doing the work yourself and looking for the answers you seek instead of using this thread to ask questions about stuff that has been talked about, at length, for some time. Maybe check out the changelogs? It's not hard.

"Survivor Gamez" is really, quite misleading. They should rename it "Survivor (it's not a game, it's a dev buildz)". I think these gamez events are a good idea. Good promotion. I hope they approach the idea in the future, but with some alterations.

Please explain in detail why clueless streamers with large fan bases are needed to support an alpha product. (they're not needed) I stopped watching the survivor games because of how mishandled it was. You want players who know what they're doing. Not below average gamers. In the same vein, I don't want to see famous musicians in a NASCAR race because they have no skill. Who cares if they're famous. I want to watch people at the top of their game compete. Not noobs who ruin the experience. Real gamers, the real Dayz fanatics, want to watch people play who know at least as much as they do. Watching a streamer make dumb decisions because it's obvious he has little experience/knowledge of the game is painful. It's why I turned it off. Yea. And after watching him in the games, it probably cut the viewer base by two-thirds. This isn't really a bash on Lirik (honestly never heard of him before this debacle) moreso.. a plea to get players who the audience can possibly enjoy watching and learn something from. Get players who naturally promote the game. Not disinterested and unexperienced 'celebrities'.

This is Dayz. This is his story. In his story, you die.

The interesting thing about this update is that we have the same new zombies, and the old loot system. So, it's still a fresh environment. Many forum posters have complained about the difficulty in finding loot, and others, OP infected. When really, the combination of both made the game harder. So now, with the legacy system, it's just the zeds. Should be interesting.

Got my leg broke by a bear trap, in a cafe, in cherno this morning. It felt good. real good.

It's my understanding that these scopes will spawn with the weapon, but are still attachments that can be switched out. Right? (so you can still use ironsights)

deadliest thing in this game is getting attached to your loot.

Spinal Fracture. Your back was Ruined.

Two steps forward, one step back. It happens. I would've been surprised if persistence worked perfectly straight off.

Sounds like a lot of work for something to *maybe* happen. Plus, you'll never be able to know if what you did killed someone or not. You have to be a special kind of sociopath to set up this type of murder.

Found one in a toilet, in Nagornoe, yesterday,

Now, let me start off this post by saying that I absolutely love the new .55 update. I've geared several new fresh spawns over multiple private shards in the last few days. It's been great. But I don't understand what the devs are trying to do. Now, I understand that they're in a unique position to have a playable product during the alpha stage of production, which may or may not be the most effective line of play. That topic we'll save for another day. Today, I'd like to address whether or not the "balancing of .55" was a good idea. See, the devs have really taken a leap of faith with the new patch. They've added multiple new systems, changed item loot drops drastically and taken a new stance on alpha balancing all at the same time. I'll preface an argument with the fact that devs (hicks) has said that we, as alpha testers, 'are not playing a game. We simply have access to developer builds.' This is an important declaration. This says to me; "Dayz is set up to simply function, it's not balanced in any way." And this makes sense! It's Alpha right? Not everything is implemented, we shouldn't expect game balancing until Beta production. .55 update introduced two major systems. Mandatory persistence and overhauled zombies. These are both game changers. If the latest update only had one of those new things, it would be big news. No. TWO major upgrades. And to top it off, devs take a new approach on game state balancing. This is where my issue comes in. (note: not so much an issue, mostly confusion. I love the new dayz!) While I'm all for making the game hard, it's really not productive to alpha testing. You can't really introduce content during alpha to make the game harder when all the systems are not in place. It's folly to make the zombies too challenging right now. I don't understand why they don't under-tune zombies during alpha and then actually make them hard during beta. Zombies are more difficult now. You're way more likely to take damage from them now. At the same time, the whole loot system just changed. We have mandatory persistence and the incoming, unforseen bugs that naturally accompany it. On top of that, what is spawning has also been changed. The combination of buggy alpha, new OP zeds, and buggy loot can be potentially overwhelming. So, zombies are more difficult now because of other unpolished alpha systems, not because they're hard to fight. I've geared several fresh spawns in .55. I've yet to find matches, a cooking pot or a frying pan. I've found only one flare. This really sucks because they've drastically altered the food spawn by changing drops AND implementing forced persistence. The hard part about surviving zombies is actually getting to healthy status, and keeping it, so that you regenerate blood. I have a number of toons right now on private shards who have a backpack full of raw cow steaks. I need to be able to cook these and eat them properly so that my next zombie encounter doesn't make my screen grayer, basically. Maybe I'm just really unlucky lately with finding needed loot, but I doubt it. So, the point of this thread, I guess, is to warn the devs not to make content in alpha too difficult because we have bugs and unfinished programming working against us as well. I'm all for a difficult experience, but tune the game during beta, not alpha, please. What do you think?

You just learned that lesson the hard way. Prepare to die when you go on that ship.

So, now that .55 is upon us, and everyone has had a chance to do some looting, has anyone found bear traps? I've searched deer stands, feed shacks, barn sheds, places that you'd think they'd spawn at. I've never even seen one. Anywhere? Where the bear traps at on stable??

nice vid. Credit was given where due. Entertaining kills, whether it was sniping or not.

All I'm saying is that the intention is to make DayZ authentic. The game isn't finished, so natually it doesn't feel as authentic as it will at launch. Realistic is a terrible goal for a video game. You're in pretty minimal danger sitting in a chair, pressing on a keyboard.

Authentic and realistic is not the same thing. Dayz is not designed to be realistic.

I don't think the change will decrease kill on sight mentality at all. Honestly, once people realize how easy it is to avoid zombies, adapt to the persistence bugs, and keep themselves fed, they'll return to old habits. Learn to suicide in solnichniy to get a better respawn point. If it doesn't work out, run back to your corpse and eat it. Shoot your friend and eat him. A survivor can't live on just apples, amirite? The only dangerous zombies are the fast moving ones. Two shot them with your bare fists. Every other zombie you can easily lose via line of sight tactics. Set traps for tonight's dinner by kiting slow moving zombie friends into a police station. Close the doors. Run down the coast in a pink raincoat and fire extinguisher. Hunt for your food. See how long you can survive without leaving the coast. The tools are all there. It's not that bad, really. So, I predict extra bonus KOS frequency.

5 days ago called. They want their hot topic back. The complaints were legitimate. Some servers were bugged pretty bad. Additionally, there was a serious decrease in quantity of food while matches, cooking pot, tripod, and whatnot weren't spawning at all. It would have been shocking if there was no backlash at all. The game isn't hard. Thanks for the public service tips. First world problems, wtf.

There should be an option to steal a person's beans on these forums. Or at least the ability to force feed them rotten tomatoes.

Yes. All servers are broken. There was a meeting. As a result of all the backlash regarding persistence Brohemia decided to just go into super-alpha mode. Experimental is the new Stable. And the new experimental is actually a half eaten potato.

The information you've provided is lacking. Hold down the power button until your PC shuts off, I suppose?? Perhaps your hardware/software is old/not updated/infected?