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Characters do not get wiped after every update (except on Experimental), there are wipes now and then on stable in order to give a clean sheet for testing and in this last case in order to remove masses of hacked items from the game. Anyway even if they did wipe after every update so be it, its a testing phase. There will be more wipes in the future, its all part of the Alpha, but they won't be coming every update.

Great news about the fires and not needing an axe any more, would be nice to see the ability to burn baseball bats and maybe use the handles of the wooden implements as fuel. Managed quite a while on the new build and noticed as time goes on there is less and less useful loot about, though there is clearly respawning of loot it is not that useful. If I wanted to start a DayZ library it would be great, as books are by far the most common item about, followed by hats and boots. I have yet to find any military barracks or jail house that has re-spawned any military loot, though the barracks do seem to be spawning boots and taloon backpacks. I have noticed that if carrying two primary weapons then on a fairly regular basis when you drop the one in your hands to do something then that weapon just disappears, whether in a building or stood outside, I have kept the MP133 on my back and so far have lost 3 repeaters, an SKS and a mosin from my hands after putting it down to eat / use an axe to kill a Z. Overall though loving the update, definitely going in the right direction.

Exactly, why should it be difficult to survive as a new spawn in a survival zombie game. I want all the challenge taken away please and fit an 'I Win' button for good measure.

Managed a couple of hours on exp today, generally very good, had first spawn die of cold as he was wet and no way to get fire wood, next has done well, tough on food to start but heading inland soon solved that. Server's crashed 3 times in the 2 hours i was on, luckily nothing too bad happened. I do notice that there are now even more books than there have been, i checked three houses together, nothing but book, one had 14, one 12 and one 9, no other loot just a ton of books.

unfortunately only 3 working servers out of 20 with less than 300 ping here (uk) and they are 1st/3rd was really looking forward to some testing :)

Never demand, when they are ready to be tested then put them in Alpha to be tested, until then no rush.

It is possible, however Very Very restrictive, I have done this when helping an injured friend down off of a mountain, i had my backpack on my back and his to my front. It was hard work, slow and all your hands could do was hold the front backpack to stop it slipping. So yes it is possible but at the expense of being able to do any other action without first removing it, so defending yourself should take at least 5 - 10 seconds before you even have a weapon in your hands. Which in this game is fatal. To carry more you should be able to tie things to the outside of your backpack to increase the storage space, say 4 slots per rope added, up to a maximum of 4 ropes.

Almost certainly, especially while trying to get persistance to work correctly.

Anyone else getting kicked with Battleye stating Unknown Game Version?, my client and the version on the server list is 49.124959

CTD opening a can of peaches with a kitchen knife

Ok we needed more zombies I know but this is taking the '#'#'# went to zelengorsk from went down main street from top to bottom of the town and had well over 100 zombies attack, used all of my AKM ammo and had to resort to a pistol in the end. Switched to make a new hardcore char, zombies spawn on top of each other while fighting, I found a creeper, attacked him and pulled him back a bit from where he was stood then mid fight two more pop on the point where he had been and attack also. It is sooo hard to do anything with a new character as melee is so broken atm. Forget persistent loot, get the basics working first, forget adding more weapons, get melee fixed, get zombie behaviour fixed then add the polish.

In police station in north Berezino, appeared to slip down 2 / 3 steps to the ground floor, ruined my trousers and most of contents.