Mookie (original)

One theory is don't leave anything on the ground near it (discarded items etc). Jury's still out on that workaround though.

I'd be pretty interested in the answer to this as well. The devs can (and have) put enormous amounts of work into making persistence work (especially over the .50 patches). The players spend hours, days, weeks investing time in the game. Only for all it all to amount to precisely nothing when servers are wiped or disappear.

It's completely possible that I'm cocking up my server section and searches. But, if I'm not, there used to be a helluva lot more 'public/official' servers than there are now. Even with the ping set to a near-unplayable 400, there are only 47 available. And all the ones I can find are GameServers. No more Gaming Deluxe, Fragnet, etc. Have they all just gone? Oh, and all the servers I find are now apparently set to the same day/night cycle, which in the UK at least, means they are completely off the one outside my window. The upshot is that there are, as of noon in the UK, only three official servers in daylight.

Agree with you there. Over time (say, a few weeks) they do tend to change so that things get a little more mixed up. Perhaps something to do with Wednesday maintenance. The sheer drop in the number of servers is a bit concerning though. I wonder if it's related to the relative popularity of the game.

Wait, you can repair axes with duct tape? Now, this is why it's good to have a community!

Please, please, please, no music. If you want it, put Aphex Twin's "Ambient Volume 2" on in the background.... Being largely a solo player, because they can glitch through walls and seem to spawn in right on top of you, as a fully geared player I've died to zeds twice in this patch (which is a bit embarrassing tbh). "Trivial", they're not.

I'm talking about something different - the sharpening stones that (now) occupy four inventory spaces... Perhaps I've got the name wrong, in which case sorry for the confusion.

I've seen a few. And yes, industrial loot IIRC.

I don't disagree, but sharpening stones have been re-introduced. I'm guessing they would restore a bladed item from damaged to worn, as was the intention a few patches back, but haven't had a chance to try that myself.

The environment window (on the left) is very hit and miss in my recent experience. Often it's just not there, or won't 'see' what's there in front of you. Seems to be quite server dependent.

It's a serious shame that this kind of argument should break out on the forums once again, but I'm sorry Guy, can't agree there. This patch, and what's been going on in a belated attempt to fix it (which has only made it much worse), is pretty much a disaster. And this is not a point where the old 'be patient/you don't how development works' arguments are really going to stick any more. These are decisions, made by BI, who have released them to 'stable', at a point where we were told Beta would be 'ready'. Instead we have a game which, at least in my experience over the past 48 hours, is now close to unplayable.

OrLok, this is really, really bad. Long time in-game friends of mine are just walking away. It's becoming a little difficult to keep the faith.

Considering that persistence is largely non-functional at the moment, (a) yes, and (b) it won't matter anyway.

Be very careful about putting improvised suppressors on your M4. In my case I have two separate guns from which I now cannot remove the improvised suppressor. Standardised ones don't seem to suffer from this. They spawn in barracks, but are rare.

Our three, fully stocked, and two barrels have also gone. Just as I decided I didn't like my character's face, killed myself and ran back... Persistence needs to work please.

I coul really go for a 'nightvision' dynamic where things become more visible the more your eyes acclimatise to the dark. But as it stands, and without fixes, night is essentially unplayable.

My M4s so far have been fine. But see the thread nearby on bugs with mag loaded guns in general. I've had to dump three AKMs because, when I take the mag out to reload it, the game thinks it's still in the gun.

As far as I can make out 0.63 has come to stable. On one level, praise the Lord. On another, yes we stable laggards can wave goodbye to the stashes and characters we've nurtured over these many, many months. Unless server wipes took them away in any case of course...

I do appreciate that I'm a bit of an anachronism for continuing to play 0.62/stable. Nonetheless, the "stable" part of the equation looks increasingly shaky. Four times over the past six weeks, one of my main stashes has been wiped. Not found (stashes split by location, both vanished), not unmaintained (I'm pretty anal about checking in on them, etc), but wiped. The Gamesevers WA servers have almost disappeared, UK 2-1 was wiped, and now it seems the IL servers are going the same way. We've discussed this before, but it seems a real shame, given what the devs and the game went through to make persistence work, that server owners can just reset persistence in this way (deliberately? accidentally?). If the situation remains the same when beta comes around, what's the point of persistence?

I'm still playing .62 more than I play any other game. High pop servers are still around, and the game is running pretty smoothly at the moment. My only gripe is that many of the public servers (Gameservers WA, FL, etc) are breaking down or the providers are moving them to .63 - which plays hell with persistence.

They still spawned loot after the gun exploit was fixed - just not guns. Last time I looked (about a fortnight ago) they were still spawning mags, clothes and attachments. But it degrades over time.

I know Red it's deathly... I'm looking for green spraypaint (black everywhere...), and a pair of beige military boots (any condition other than ruined). Lots of stuff for trade, just tell me what you need (short of an M4 or a FAL obvs)

Merry Xmas all. Now that Smersh vests and plate carriers are appearing in gift boxes, I have to ask; are the Smersh backpacks and plate carrier pouches now also spawning? Looks like they're too big to fit in the gift boxes. Thanks

No that I've seen. And believe me, I've looked...

New to your content Rob, but enjoying it - thanks.