TwistedMonk

I just had to chime in on this, I hear so many people complain, while every time I play I am impressed with the story I walk away with and get to tell other people. Even the stupid things, like walking off a building, or having 4 zombies go right through a barracks door to trap me in a room. I think the new survival aspects (which seem to be one of their main focus points) is AWESOME!!!!!!. I think making melee more accurate and useful is AWESOME!!!! I have a hell of a lot of fun, even when I die, because I get to start a new story and see where it will go. It looks like they are making some good decisions with changing engines, so they can direct the game the way they want it to go, working on 64 bit servers to increase the performance and player counts. Do they have a crap ton of work to do? of course, but I still am having a hella fun time while they add and experiment new things. (minus random leg breaking a while ago) :) just my two cents, quit bitching and have fun

ok, first post , so don't shoot OK? I have been playing a while now, and I just kind of wanted to make sure I understand how the hive servers work. From what I can tell when I play on one hosted by gameserver, it looks like if I connect to any server not hosted by gameserver I start fresh (no gear) on that server. if that is the case, and I play on a another server hosted by vilayer or what ever, and I go back to a gameserver hosted server, do I go back to the char I had on that? I'm trying to understand how the characters roll over, and if there is any benefit to playing on servers hosted by a specific company vs another. Any information or suggestions are great. I did search for this but could not seem to find this.

what would be cool is to be able to reserve slots in that case , so you dont have to kick someone whos playing and doing well, but you could say "reserve" 10 logins for you crew.

I almost wish that servers were randomized with persistence across all. so that people could re-log, but not how populated that server is until they are in it. would make it interesting if they were just load balanced.

Yeah, I have noticed those also. This is all just from observation though. I thought that characters were supposed to be spread across all hive servers (within first or third person of course) it just didnt seem like that was happening. Maybe it is and I just have been unlucky and joined a server with an issue for some reason when I noticed it. I havent bambie spawned and have it be perm for a long time. usually a simple re-log until I have my gear back.

its not really a char wipe btw, its just on the said server. when I exit and rejoin the hosted by same company servers, everything is back.

No worries, I wasn't offended :)

no, this is not about today, I have been playing for a couple hundred hours over the past couple months. not a complete newbie, but not a pro by any means.

interesting, I knew about the first and third person (hardcore/regular) It just really seemed like when I play on a specifically hosted server, every time I try a server not hosted by the same company I get a character wipe on that server. Perhaps its just me, but I have had that happen many different times. so much so that I only join ones hosted by a specific company to avoid starting over.