Mookie (original)

"Countering unnecessary bitching"? BI is a commercial enterprise, with a responsibility to its customers, who have paid for its product. No one, with the possible exception of those who work for PR firms it pays to reply to forum posts, can actually make its product work right now. Apart from your rune-reading, suggestion in one post that PC owners read another forum, and then admission in the next that they should have been reading this forum, why do you think it is so difficult for BI just to...tell its customers (be they players, server owners, or both) when it plans to release an update? Why is that so difficult?

This is the PC forum. "Vague aims" and "count on Wednesdays" don't really cut it I'm afraid. As it is, the ten people I regularly play with, and I, can't even get into vanilla. Stop defending it pls. This is a cock-up.

Where is the notification on BI's forum about the update release? "Signs" may be good for rune-readers such as yourself, but sadly fail the rest of us.

For God's sake BI, give people some notice of updates. Your customer care has gone to crap. Now all the server owners and mod players are thrashing around. I'd say it's "unbelievable", but no, it's perfectly believable. There has been at least one thread here in the past 48 hrs asking when the update was due and your mods didn't even bother replying. Does anyone from BI even read this forum any more?

I can't get into any of my favorites. There was a DZSA update about three hours ago, and now all has gone to crap.

In the good 'ol days when heli hunting and trading were a serious playstyle, there was more than one occasion where I'd see two or even three smokers together around GM or the Lopatino Loop. sighs with nostalgia

Well, yeah, this tbh. The greatest revolution in the game for me in the past 18 months or so was modded servers (and DZSA launcher). Either there is a server out there somewhere catering for most variations of the game, or you can create one yourself. It's true that vanilla is much less my cup of tea these days (although I still play it occasionally). But as others have said, and despite the enormous potential for variation, perhaps this just isn't for you.

I'm pretty sure Z hits can make you sick too - especially if they draw blood. In any case, while there may be only two or three means of acquisition, there may be more than one type of infection (eg cholera, as we used to have, 'flu, all kinds of different bacteria, etc) which may have differing symptoms and differing treatments. I think the point is that the in the later .5x patches there were a slightly wider variety of types of sickness and especially of symptoms.

I can't get into any of my favourite modded servers because of PBO error with your product. Have restarted, deleted your mod, updated your mod via DZSA, etc. What gives?

It would be great if we had a Wobo-like figure to explain the mechanics of this to us poor plebs. Or, y'know, the devs...

Wearing gloves at all times. Also seems to happen to me on all servers - modded and vanilla.

Further to my necro'd post, some thoughts on sickness in 1.05 below: 1. It's possibly randomly assigned. I threw away the canteen I thought I was getting sick from, after healing with tetra. In the meantime I wasn't in any Z strikes, or even encounters. I did not get cold or wet. And then I got sick, again. Took more tetra. Cleared again. Then sick again. These bouts are about 20 minutes apart. Nothing happens in between that common sense would indicate are a cause of infection. 2. The quicker you hit it with tetra, the faster it clears. 3. I understand that taking vitamins helps to safeguard you against infection, but I can't find any evidence in recent experience to back this up. 4. It's possible that there is more than one type of infection. But (pace point 2 above), it's not easy to tell. 5. All this can be seriously unfair on new players. I have 12k hours ingame, and I've died more than once to sickness in this patch. I suggest it needs some thought from the devs.

Precisely. Why any non-masochist would want to play DayZ is a mystery.

I'm blushing slightly at the honour of having my four year old thread necro'd... Part of the problem with what causes sickness in 1.05 is that I'm not sure what the incubation period is. So, was it that Z strike ten minutes ago, or the dodgy bottle I found and drank from five minutes ago? The blurred vision thing is a nice addition, but sickness seems a little less complex. It's just a lot more prevalent. Whatever the case, tetracycline is pretty much an essential piece of equipment in 1.05.

My day is fine, thanks. I hope you improve your server.