Mookie (original)

Nope, not as far as I can tell. No landmines either?

I have two and found them in the same place - someone else's tent.

Happens to me if they're moving or not... I suggest animals and hunting need some fixing before the packaged food is dialled down any further, or there are going to be a lot of people at the apple trees...

I understand your frustration at some of the current loot mechanics. But if you have a different char on every server, you'll lose track of them pretty fast. Plus in practice the size of the game's overall database would be...large, no?

Yes, that makes sense - and is cheering in a way - they're respawning as intended within the longer server restart cycle.

They seem to like the pond between there and Sosnovka. Whenever I shoot them for their tasty meat, however, they just vanish. I don't mean they run away, they literally vanish in the blink of an eye.

Irony.

To answer some of these: 1. I'm pretty sure pooping is nothing more than a server admin MotD thing at the moment. Or is it? 2. Yes you can, but there's some skill to it. The stick in question is not one of the sticks you pick up from the ground, it's one of the branches you can cut from a tree. You move your steak on to it (don't actually have to sharpen it), sit in front of the fire, and the 'F' key should give you a 'pose stick towards fire' message. Try to get it directly over the fire, without melting your own face. It takes a minute or two to cook and will turn a deeper shade of brown when it does. You will not get any other indication than this. 3. Barrels have a pretty long persistence life - certainly more than a week or so. But it's a good idea to use and interact with them, rather than simply leaving them. 4. You can find herds of cows or deer either at ponds and watering holes, or at some point between them. but they are easily spooked and run fast, so use stealth. The whole thing's a bit buggy IME.

...Or a first person server. In my experience, even though I once wrote an entire guide to avoiding this somewhere, it still happens to me occasionally. The point that the chances are increased the more you hop is a good one though.

0.58 is still pretty buggy (I nearly lost an SVD last night when I gingerly put it down in order to drink at a pond and it glitched into the ground). For me the two main issues are: 1. The sheer loot farming at the officer tents. It's obvious from the piles of low-level gear outside those locations, and the lootsplosions within them, that loot farming is happening. Sure, finding those servers if you're a lone wolf is nice, but it comes with a tang of guilt. 2. Incredible, slide-show lag on many servers (possibly caused by stashes and/or trucks). That said, for me this is far and away the best patch for ages. It's reintroduced playstyles like crash-, or stash-hunting, trading is picking back up, and I'm beginning to detect a greater degree of challenge in terms of finding food, such that I'm having to expand into rabbit snares and hunting. This is a Good Thing.

I doubt that it's deliberate. But confess to being all at sea when it comes to server restarts. Many (most?) seem to advertise that, thanks to CLE, they restart every 12 hours. Does that mean that the crash sites disappear and respawn within that cycle every four hours?

No, he understands you pretty well. You just can't put a bipod or a flashlight on a rail-equipped AK at the moment (I've tried with both 101s and 74s). You definitely can put a bipod on an M4 with an RIS though (will try the flashlight later but suspect it will work)

The AUG's been out quite a bit longer, and you still can't paint it. In the scheme of things, this is not high on my personal priority list...

I think food spawns are definitely becoming rarer - even inland. I'm in the far, far northwest and I'm lucky to find a single item of food in a whole town like SInistok or Vavilovo. I'd really like to get into hunting, but animals seem buggy as hell - the last two herds I shot at just vanished. Not ran away but literally vanished as soon as I fired...

Yeah, there is a little bit of an exploit going on with that I think. When I had the same prob about a week ago, I tried about eight times to swap them, relogged and had, um, eight handguards in my inventory. Will report!

I bet your English is 1000x better than my attempts to speak your language :)

Well that's progress on the last two or three patches then - when they were either at the same place for ever on every server, or not spawning at all, or spawning at random places with broken loot. Seems like progress to me...

What type of gun is it? Once I'd figured out how to get the guard off an AK, had no problems getting the one I wanted on. M4s are a bit different and have had handguard issues in previous patches. That said, again they seem to go on ok. Bear in mind you have two options (even when there isn't a handguard on at all) - 'swap' and 'replace'. Always select 'replace'.

Ah, so they don't reposition every four hours? Whatever the case, they seem to be working pretty well to me, and the problem of reconciling them to persistence has largely been solved - so thumbs up for the devs here.

I'm pretty tacticool, and I'm not really a hopper. I just traded my way to it, and got lucky by finding some farmed officer tents (lootsplosions inside, scattered empty mags, etc outside). I agree with your final point. At the moment, well organised groups are obviously farming the three officer tent locations, to the disadvantage of the lone wolves.

Wait, are you playing 0.59? Is it on exp now then? If not, thread title is a little confusing... I have no immediate plans to get into a truck, as it seems something is a bit broken there (many anecdotes of completely random truck deaths). That said, every patch has its bugs, and 0.58 is far from the buggiest we've seen (at least in my experience). In fact it seems like a pretty good patch - persistence back, crash sites back, new items, etc. I like it.

You don't find ghillies - you make them out of netting (at the dynamic boat spawns on the coast) + burlap strips (usually in sheds or feedshacks).... Have: CQB stock (P) x2 Magpul stock (P) Magpul handguard W) RIS handguard (P) RV1 sight (P) ACOG (P) x2 M68 sight (P) x2 Seeking: UMP mags Pistol suppressor .308 ammo Thanks.

Ballistics do, at range, especially from subsonic rounds.

You referred to DayZ as an 'FPS' game. It's not. He had a point. Oh, and my real name is Tim - so abuse it all you like.

Erm, is it just me, or is there already a detectable lessening in food spawns? I don't necessarily have a quarrel with that, but I'd really like to see more/better animals in .59 such that hunting becomes a more viable option and we don't end up in a big queue at the nearest apple tree.