Mookie (original)

I, for one, think it's marvellous that the cooking mechanic is now 10 times more complicated, while anything you put down disappears, and Zs can merrily run though walls... :|

They're certainly more consistent on non-persistent servers. The current theory is that they do spawn on persistent ones after either Wednesday maintenance (when the servers are obviously reset), or in this case after the new patch. So while they will have very recently been found on persistent servers, it's hard to confirm that this means they've been fixed vis-a-vis persistence in the longer term.

Are these on persistent or non-persistent servers Dan?

First day post-wipe and Christ I hate going through all this again. Spawn somewhere far north east, gear up pretty well, two zombies on me, close piano house doors, zombies walk straight through them, etc. Respawn near Cherno. Ahhh, that's a bit better. Make my way to Balota where I find enough food to not actually die of starvation, some Gorka clothing, and an SKS with some ammo. Make my way north west to GM, find truck, fully fuelled, woot!, Head for the Myshkino tents to have a serious meal. Clearly the truck just is not going to make it back up that steep little hill on the way back to GM, even with the turbo on. So I get out. There's only me and one other player on this server. You know what's coming. As I get out of the truck, player with blue mountain backpack runs straight past me out of nowhere and stops. I spin round, beginning to assume I might have thrown away the past two hours of gearing and travelling. But wait, what's this? He has no gun, and instead brandishes what I think is a...sickle at me. He runs around a bit. I grab my mic and tell him I'm friendly, and he's welcome to use the truck. But instead he runs off towards Myshkino... I did, briefly, contemplate shooting him - but doubt he would have had anything I really needed, so it would have been sadism pure and simple. Hope he found the single SKS in the Myshkino tents on that server.

I did several long crash site runs last night and didn't see a single crash... It always seems to be like this at the beginning of a new patch. My theory is that all the servers default to p:on, admins haven't got round to changing them, or their descriptions... :( Perhaps others have had better luck - a combat knife, at least, has been found.

Well, yeah this is clearly going nowhere. But you seem to be asking for loot not to spawn at specific locations. I think I'm allowed to disagree with that aren't I? I'm a pretty experienced crash site hunter (about 1500 hours) - I'm also allowed to disagree with the idea that the spawns should have random locations. Sorry you find that difficult. If you'd like to add value, perhaps you could engage more with the objections I'm making. If there's a better argument, why don't you try to make it?

Already? :o

OK, flame away, but I'm still unclear as to whether there's been a wipe or not (I'm at work...). Some of the traders say Hicks had tweeted that there wasn't one - confusion with Exp builds?

So there might be quite a lot of (dead) grumpy players around for a week or so then... Just a shame I dumped all my trade stuff. :huh: We should share experiences about whether or not crash sites have been fixed in relation to persistence...but my expectations are not high.

Has he? Can you steer me as to where he's said that please, as everywhere else seems to confirm the wipe. Good job I didn't shoot myself in the face with a 5.56 round last night then...

Uh huh. Also, shouldn't that be "Zoetrope"? Or are you more sophisticated than I can possibly imagine? Just wondering, as your English seems a bit sub-par. I've helped many here with crash site running. You're not first on the list.

Any word on whether 0.53/The Wipe is being rolled out to stable in about 14 hours' time? Thanks.

Hi nillie. Apologies, but it's already promised to someone who was slightly ahead of you. If that falls through this evening, I'll be in touch. Thanks

Can't help but wonder if 0.53 will sort out this troubled relationship between heli/car spawns and persistence... Preferably without a return to that build where crashes just didn't exist (0.46?). Of course understand that it's not a priority, but would be nice.

Failing to notice that words have meanings will lose you one. Looking for loot in particular places and what goes with that (eg having to travel to find stuff and running into risks and other people when you do) is one of the facets of the game. If that's too hard for you, Dean with it.

Perhaps the phrase "fundamental flaw in the game" presupposes that it is a fundamental issue. You know, words having defined meanings, and the like? Pursuing the logic of your argument, loot should just randomly spawn anywhere all over the map? Uh huh. You guys need to grow a pair, get up in the west and quit whining.

A "fundamental flaw in the game" huh? More than persistence, hacking, server abuse, randomly dying from the floor bug, etc? Total balls. Christ, look at me, I'm turning into Caboose here.

That 'overrunning' bug is really irritating. It's not quite as irritating as falling through the floor to you insta-death though...

If anyone wants it, in these dying days of 0.52, I've picked up a spare M4 and put some of my spare parts (MP stock, RIS guard) on it...

Everyone does have a chance to find them - assuming you can play the game well enough to get off the coast and away from high pop areas... And then, only if you have enough personal stamina to keep looking when everything in the game is seemingly out to prevent you from doing so. Oh, and that "same region" covers the entire western half of the map. And it's a bit more than 10 servers - well over 100 in my part of the world. I detect some "can't find crashsites so butthurt" in you. Keep trying.

There was a whole thread for this somewhere else wasn't there?

OK, I'm about to dump all this stuff prior to my suicide run...

Jesus H Corbett, please no. Finding them is tough enough as it is. And they're based on data about where people consistently find them.

Updating. All 3rd person, stable: Have: M4 MP stock (P) M4 RIS handguard (W) M4 M9A1 bayonet (P) M4 BUIS (P) NATO suppressor (P) FNX MRDS sight (P) Steyr AUG (W) Would like: Protector cases (P/W) 60rnd M4 mags FNX mags Olive Hicap vest (P/W) Thanks

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