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Looks promising.

The game feels very clunky right now; possibly worse than at any time since .60, although I don't think this has been helped at all by a recent Windows 10 update (thanks Bill!) that has shagged much of the rest of my puter. In particular, logging in to a server takes a significant amount of time, during which death (even to zombies) is a significant risk.

Thanks emu. That's what I suspected.

I'm gonna take that as a 'we don't know/we don't care' then. This forum is, to say the least, a bit dormant.

Is that it? Seriously? Poking a guy with a stick on the coast? Dayz videos have gone significantly downhill.

My stashes are on very low pop public servers. When I'm servicing them I consistently run into people. Three weeks ago, somewhere near Sinistok, heard footsteps, there's a well geared guy virtually running next to me. Good job we were both friendly - he gave me an FNX. Two weeks ago shooting up some Z's in Tisy town from a distance on a two person server, I accidentally clipped the other player behind them (who was cool about it). Then I popped into the base only to find a player logging in at one of the barracks right in front of me. He started shooting, we killtraded. Last week at my extremely well hidden stash in the far north, complete darkness, login to hear the only other player on the server run past me - he/she must have been 5m from me. Guess I'm just lucky/unlucky.

Have to admit I'm a bit confused as to why Steam is now forcing a reinstall. Thought for a second it might be .63, but assume there would be a LOT more noise here if it was....

Oh, a Danny video. I WONDER WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END?

Yes, three per server, randomly allocated across 64 possible sites on the map. You may just have been unlucky. Crash site hunting takes serious stamina though, and is probably not worth it given the state of the loot. In fact I think it's getting worse - the attachments and ammo that used to spawn inside Mi8 sites (Russian ones), for example, don't seem to appear any more. And guns have been removed because of a concern that people could farm them somehow IIRC. I think there is also a new dynamic where crash site loot disappears over time - I see a lot of sites with no loot at all. Gone are the glory days of the late 40s patches, when M4 fetishists like myself would relentlessly site-hunt.

I agree, and for me it was one of the immersive things abut .62. It is a bit OTT at the map edges though.

Twice in the past 24 hours I've opened up the game via Steam and then pootled around on YouTube or whatever while it loads up. Then I've alt-tabbed into the game and I'm already on a server. Thankfully I'm a sensible logger-outter and am not standing in the middle of Tisy or anything, but still... Is this an undocumented 'feature' of a recent patch?

You know me too well Bio.

Evidence here:

Well....yes it was. I kind of regret it now (just as I regret not posting it in off-topic). Sorry all.

I've fallen into the ground a couple of times, and fallen through floors many, many times. I think the coding is a lot better than it was in (eg) the .4X patches, but even now I'll still only go upstairs if I have to. The ground bug is pretty rare, and in both cases for me I was standing next to a structure and logging in when it happened. All fun of the game if you ask me. I always stash stuff in case the gods of DayZ decide to do something unpredictable to me.

I would have chopped him up into little pieces the moment the potty talk started. Clearly Danny is a man of great patience.

Could be a graphics glitch, but everything else looks normal. My in-game hair has suddenly gone grey, and I'm looking a little pasty and wrinkled. Are the gods of DayZ trying to tell me something?

Having done some pretty serious crash site running this patch, I'm not convinced smoke grenades are in - at least the NATO smoke grenades. I have seen a couple of the Russian versions though. Haven't seen a single explosive grenade yet either. Flashbangs are around but not sure if they're working...

I always play through Steam library. Game crashes at least 25% of any attempt to log into, or out of servers. I am not alone in this.

This patch has been...well, let me diplomatically say not the best. The crashing is worse than it's ever been, but now appears to be caused not by inventory, but on attempting to join or leave servers.

Well, it's certainly changed my game, because now I crash every other time I try to get into a server.

Having read the notes, it's mainly fixes. So not really sure why 'game changing'...?

Got the gloves thanks Red. Seems a bit pointless now, but grateful anyway!

Had to dump the SVD, much as it pained me.

I've been playing this patch pretty intensively, including a lot of crash site running, military bases (particularly Tisy) and general looting. I've yet to see any: Gloves. None. Not in the tan-coloured sheds, barns, anywhere. Shame really, as they're usually a part of my outfit. Explosive or NATO smoke grenades. Flashbangs and RDGs are around though. Plate vests, pouches, holsters SMERSH vests and bags VSS Vintorez or its ammo. FN FAL or mags It would be helpful to compare notes and see if I just haven't done enough to see any of these things yet, or alternatively whether some of them have yet to find a place in the 0.62 loot table.