Mookie (original)

For God's sake BI, give people some notice of updates. Your customer care has gone to crap. Now all the server owners and mod players are thrashing around. I'd say it's "unbelievable", but no, it's perfectly believable. There has been at least one thread here in the past 48 hrs asking when the update was due and your mods didn't even bother replying. Does anyone from BI even read this forum any more?

"Countering unnecessary bitching"? BI is a commercial enterprise, with a responsibility to its customers, who have paid for its product. No one, with the possible exception of those who work for PR firms it pays to reply to forum posts, can actually make its product work right now. Apart from your rune-reading, suggestion in one post that PC owners read another forum, and then admission in the next that they should have been reading this forum, why do you think it is so difficult for BI just to...tell its customers (be they players, server owners, or both) when it plans to release an update? Why is that so difficult?

This is the PC forum. "Vague aims" and "count on Wednesdays" don't really cut it I'm afraid. As it is, the ten people I regularly play with, and I, can't even get into vanilla. Stop defending it pls. This is a cock-up.

Where is the notification on BI's forum about the update release? "Signs" may be good for rune-readers such as yourself, but sadly fail the rest of us.

I can't get into any of my favorites. There was a DZSA update about three hours ago, and now all has gone to crap.

In the good 'ol days when heli hunting and trading were a serious playstyle, there was more than one occasion where I'd see two or even three smokers together around GM or the Lopatino Loop. sighs with nostalgia

Well, yeah, this tbh. The greatest revolution in the game for me in the past 18 months or so was modded servers (and DZSA launcher). Either there is a server out there somewhere catering for most variations of the game, or you can create one yourself. It's true that vanilla is much less my cup of tea these days (although I still play it occasionally). But as others have said, and despite the enormous potential for variation, perhaps this just isn't for you.

Further to my necro'd post, some thoughts on sickness in 1.05 below: 1. It's possibly randomly assigned. I threw away the canteen I thought I was getting sick from, after healing with tetra. In the meantime I wasn't in any Z strikes, or even encounters. I did not get cold or wet. And then I got sick, again. Took more tetra. Cleared again. Then sick again. These bouts are about 20 minutes apart. Nothing happens in between that common sense would indicate are a cause of infection. 2. The quicker you hit it with tetra, the faster it clears. 3. I understand that taking vitamins helps to safeguard you against infection, but I can't find any evidence in recent experience to back this up. 4. It's possible that there is more than one type of infection. But (pace point 2 above), it's not easy to tell. 5. All this can be seriously unfair on new players. I have 12k hours ingame, and I've died more than once to sickness in this patch. I suggest it needs some thought from the devs.

I'm pretty sure Z hits can make you sick too - especially if they draw blood. In any case, while there may be only two or three means of acquisition, there may be more than one type of infection (eg cholera, as we used to have, 'flu, all kinds of different bacteria, etc) which may have differing symptoms and differing treatments. I think the point is that the in the later .5x patches there were a slightly wider variety of types of sickness and especially of symptoms.

I can't get into any of my favourite modded servers because of PBO error with your product. Have restarted, deleted your mod, updated your mod via DZSA, etc. What gives?

It would be great if we had a Wobo-like figure to explain the mechanics of this to us poor plebs. Or, y'know, the devs...

Wearing gloves at all times. Also seems to happen to me on all servers - modded and vanilla.

Precisely. Why any non-masochist would want to play DayZ is a mystery.

I'm blushing slightly at the honour of having my four year old thread necro'd... Part of the problem with what causes sickness in 1.05 is that I'm not sure what the incubation period is. So, was it that Z strike ten minutes ago, or the dodgy bottle I found and drank from five minutes ago? The blurred vision thing is a nice addition, but sickness seems a little less complex. It's just a lot more prevalent. Whatever the case, tetracycline is pretty much an essential piece of equipment in 1.05.

For the past couple of days I've been getting 'I feel worn out', 'I am tired' messages and a yellow sickness indicator. Now it's red. For the first time in my 2,500 hours in game, I'm also getting red 'I feel a rumbling in my bowels' message. :blush: I don't think it's food poisoning (no funny taste in my mouth or nausea). It can't be an infected wound (no zombies, obvs). Charcoal doesn't seem to help, nor (so far) do antibiotics. Before this set in, I was bright green healthy, energised and hydrated. The only unusual thing I did before it began was light a gas cooker, which I'd never done before. Any suggestions? I'm running out of charcoal and antibiotics, but I am pretty near the Svet hospital. edit: so cholera probably. What are my chances?

My day is fine, thanks. I hope you improve your server.

Genius.

The others I had the misfortune to play on this trainwreck of this server with laughed with me about how bad it was. Some suggestions: 1. Try telling players where your "KOS zones" are. There is nothing ingame, in the map, or in the MOTD to say so. 2. Pay some attention to your traders and how they are set up. Expensive guns which match the description in the trader cannot be bought by the trader. 3. Pay some more money to rent hardware which will do the job. The whole experience was a stuttering nightmare. 4. Finally, don't patronise people who have had a bad experience on your server - especially those with over 12,000 hours ingame.

Your "PvP zones" are literally about 10 meters outside your trader zones - which themselves are incredibly badly set up (most guns not sell-able, the usual badly administered modded server). Corners have clearly been cut because the experience is very stuttering. Not recommended.

This is not, repeat not a non-KOS server. And its traders are really badly set up. Not recommended.

Not much point you being a non-KOS server tbh. I was just KOS'd. What do you do to enforce that rule?

I hate to be that guy (again), but we had working moonlight pre-.63, and (as far as I could tell) it was lunar-cycle (and weather) dependent, etc. It was certainly bright enough to get around, with none of that personal nightlight stuff that still seems so depressing.

Fair enough. FWIW, they have significantly screwed up my game, to the extent that I can't really get on with servers that don't have them. Don't get me going on stamina...

Most of the modded servers I (used to) play on have either vanished, or have (for example) no working traders etc.

A bit like every single modded server has been caught short by today's update, so that no one can play. BI's lack of customer insight plumbs predictable depths.