Mookie (original)

M4 silencers (suppressors, strictly speaking) don't exist in game. They were taken out in (?) 0.48 along with all the other silencers/suppressors, because they had no effect. Am pretty sure MP5 buttstocks don't exist either, but could be wrong on that. I have a pristine Combat Knife. What are you offering for it? Thanks.

Correct. I play with consistently very low ping (often less than 20). While my lag/fps was initially much better in 0.50, it's now collapsed to as bad as it's ever been. Often I'm lucky to get 10 fps in the countryside, let alone in towns. It's very depressing, and no, I'm not using a potato.

I could swear the devs (Hicks?) acknowledged it, said it was a bug, not a feature, etc.

Don't go upstairs, especially in fire stations, ATC tower, jails, red roof barns and building sites. 75% of all my deaths since 0.45 have involved falling through floors. The only buildings I think are relatively safe in this respect are the generic office buildings and police stations (though not 100% on the latter). Once you're decently geared up, there's really no need to anyway.

Gas station (one just to north of Zeleno) blew up, or re-blew as someone else joined the server. Have seen this a few times, and yes, it's confusing as there's a spawn quite near it.

No, I mean out of whack with 0.49, in the sense that this is much worse than 0.49... I seem to remember some backtracking on the situation in 0.47, but could be wrong.

Something has definitely changed. I'm aware of the gambler's fallacy, but I'm also aware of the law of averages, and right now the latter is waaaay out of whack with 0.49. The more runs I/we do, the less the effect of randomness. And I've done a lot of runs. I'm trying to engage Hicks in conversation about it. BTW, not 100% sure that previous changes to heli spawns were always in changelogs.

I think we're well on the way there already.

Certainly for a civilian Z, possibly for a military one, for a player depends on clothing, etc. These days I'd bank on 'no'...

My experience of tents is that they are deleted on server restart, so can't really get too worked up about this <_<

It's surprisingly accurate (though I haven't used one since sway). If you're going to use it, you need to be pretty sure that you have the drop on someone or something though. And don't attempt to use it as a sidearm, as the RoF is obviously terrible.

Thanks for that Mr Hicks. We think you've amended the probabilities though, as the spawns seem even more infrequent than 0.49, which itself was a dramatic reduction on 0.48. I have a sinking feeling that they're being counted with police car spawns again, as was briefly supposed to be the case around 0.47. Say it ain't so! (This is not a whinge btw, would just be really helpful to know.) Thanks again.

The various maps are not that good at showing where ponds etc are in game, unless they're fairly big. A lot of them are in dips in forested areas. I'm sometimes tempted to pick up purification tabs in preparation for the great dirty water introduction. If the pumps aren't working by then, there will be a lot of sick and dying people. :P

Do you mean you're rejoining the same server? In which case, the accepted wisdom is that you should let it run for a few minutes before rejoining it. Even if you rejoin and you're a freshie, the odds are reasonable that if you immediately log out and join a different server (assuming it isn't a private hive, or can't connect to the public hive for some reason), you should get your original character back.

FWIW, absolutely agree with this hypothesis. My experience is the same. Framerate seems to have become progressively worse since 0.50, but rain is a killer. It's like a slideshow much of the time.

I've been thinking on this. It's hard to see anything other than a seriously reduced probability of finding a UH60 crash - even compared to 0.49. They're still there, but the probabilities are much, much lower. In 0.48 I'd find a crash site on almost every run. In 0.49 I'd find one in every three or four runs. In 0.50 I think I'd be lucky to find one in every 20 runs. So either (a) they've moved the spawns or ( B) *shudders* they've done what we thought they did in 0.47 - mixed in the three spawns per restart with police car spawns. Back OT: HAVE: Rangefinder (P) Longhorn (P) Derringer (P) M133 pump shotgun (P) LRS (P) Mosin comp (P) Hicap vest (black) (P) WANT: Protector cases (must be P) Thanks.

I'll hang out there for a bit and report back.

Usual route, just north of GM. Only one I've found since 0.50. Either I've been very unlucky, or the odds are even worse than 0.49 somehow.

Just found a UH60 spawn. So they're still out there....somewhere.

Oh, now I see. This is so-called "bug" is actually...a feature! :D

The northwest (from Zeleno/GM/NWAF/Lopatino) is already heavily populated by potential heli spawn locations. Or do you mean moving them away from the northwest? I've been doing my best to do long crash runs (although the dehydration mechanic makes that a bit more of a challenge), and have yet to find a single spawn There is a report in the Trading thread of someone finding two UH60s since 0.50, but that's all I've heard. I definitely think something has changed and it would be very helpful if someone official could say what that thing is.

Did you get his Steam name?

Are UH60 crash sites still spawning in 0.50? Or not? Thanks.

Are you being sarcastic? You've always been able to put a PU on an SKS... The bugs are not gamebreaking, but they are irritating.

I have a growing suspicion that UH60 crash sites (the smoking, NATO, M4 variety) are not spawning in 0.50. But at least we have bags of lime and welding masks, so that's ok. :o