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Here is my new Experimental Starvation Simulator (patch 0.50) video showing a couple of battles and some interaction with people. Patch 0.50 can be brutal on the coast. With little food around, people must resort to desperate measures to survive. This can turn a normally friendly player (me) into a murdering bandit who kills for food. Please note that most of this fotage was filmed after my 6th or 7th starvation death. I eventually moved off the coast and now surviving. The first dude handcuffed a player while he was disconnecting which resulted in the player dying. I took the gun quickly to stop him potentially killing me and I tried to leave but was blocked by the dead zombie.

Defensive to comments like yours, yes. Perhaps you could have phrased it in a less dickish way?

Thanks for the sarcastic comment. I dont "ignore" zombies. I kill one in the first 10 seconds. I kill the one that followed the dude through the door at 2:30. At 6:32 I get hit from behind when trying to shoot the dude - I didnt see that zombie as I was hunting the player. I shoot the Zed at 7:02 when it attacked me again. I 'ignore' them as I am trying to kill the guy and messing about with zombies is a stupid thing to do when you're in a firefight, as your attention is on the zombie and not the far more dangerous player. I try to bandage at 7:53 and flap my controls when trying to get my axe out and kill them - I never said I was an amazing DayZ player. At 9:30 one pops out a bush 10 feet from me and I dont have time to get out the way. Seriously though, if your insinuating I should spent my time shooting zombies when not in cover in the middle of a battle, then your mad. I axe them when I have cover and is safe to do so. Shooting zombies is pointless as they respawn, perhaps you didn't know that. It also blows your cover and lets your enemy know where you are. At around 15 mins when the Russian guy was hunting me, I specifically didnt kill the zombie as the Russian would know that I was behind him. Must be wonderful to be you since you have never been hit by a zombie while playing DayZ or aggroed any when shooting in a fight. You are aware that they have significantly increased the zombie spawns in 0.50?

Some statistics would be good, but I dont know what kind of database they have or what information they record. Would be good to see how many kills you have had on current and all lives, how many times you have been shot or hit by zombies etc

Would you like to see the continuing adventures of 5 or 6 bumbling DayZ Scottish idiots? This week we headed down to Elektro for some action...it didn't end well for most of us. My own team mate ended up killing me at point blank range.

Keep them coming. Enjoying the reads. You should consider starting a DayZ blog.

Yesterday I killed a guy in a military base who was logging out in plane view (probably a server hopper) when there was only me and him on the server. He probably thought he lost his character to a bug. I also was hunting 2 guys in a town when there were only 3 guys on the server. Lost them unfortunately. If you were spotted, and being hunted by a dude, you might have been killed while you logged off. Your character lasts for 30 seconds after you press "quit". If you were running then stopped and instantly logged out, a zombie might have spotted you and killed you while your character logged out. Always wait about 30 seconds in a pine tree or in a shed or other structure to make sure no Zeds arrive before you log out, I take this time for a little inventory management. The other scenario is that the new server you logged on to wasn't connected to the central hive and couldn't load your character, so spawned you as a fresh Bambi. This can happen if you join it too quickly after the server just restarted and hasn't connected to the hive yet, It can also occur randomly for no reason, but the majority of the time its due to joining servers who just restarted. Make sure you wait until a server says 08:03 or 09:03 etc at least. I lost about 3 characters before I started waiting to join restarted servers, havent lost one in a good while now, although a few of my friends recently lost theirs for no good reason. They really need to implement a 5 minute block on people joining servers after it restarts. This should cut down on a good few character wipes.

This luxury you paid for is the luxury of being able to enter the DayZ world and identify and report bugs as you come across them during the development cycle. That is all you paid for at the moment. There is no game, it doesn't exist yet. It is a game in development. If you thought you were buying a 'game', you didn't read much of the information presented to you before you paid the cash. The money you gave them was to aid in game development and allow them to hire loads more staff to develop it, not buying a game.

If you cant find your way back, take off all your clothes and leave DayZ running for a few hours while you do something else and you should be dead. If you have picked up something that would kill you faster (Disinfectant, Alcohol Tincture) eat that.

Plenty of servers available in EU for 1PP. Do you live on the moon?

Dont know about a tent specifically, but secondary guns will either still be in your hand on at your feet on the ground when you log in again. I'm assuming its the same for anything in your hands

Ah right. I think you need to work on your comedy posts.

Love your stuff Mike. Poor Lottie

Sounds like a adrenalin fueled moment there. If you do spot someone, don't approach instantly. Follow him and see if he has a friend. I personally wouldn't approach 2 players unless both unarmed, even then its still risky. Before you make contact, make sure you have the upper hand, i.e. the dude is looting and standing still.

I'm sure your correct, but with optimisation, they should be able to direct some of the processing traffic to the GPU.

Rangefinders work by sending out a laser to the target. The light will bounce off the target and back to the rangefinder. The time it takes for the light to reach the target and back to the rangefinder allows you to calculate distance as we know the speed of light and time. distance=speed/time

What has the game being in alpha got to do with forum stickying a handy bit of information about the current login issues which could lead to a character wipe?

1. Running/Walking doesn't affect hunger. I'm not 100% sure that running affects temperature, but I did see in a devblog that they had implemented it, but not clear if it was on experimental or stable servers or still in development. 2. On the bottom right on your windows desktop you should see a small speaker icon next to the date/time. Right click that and select "Recording Devices". There are options in there to tweak your mic. Once you have set it up, I test it by launching Sound Recorder (Start Button> All Programs>Accessories>Sound Recorder) and recording some audio and play it back to see what it sounds like. 3. Both Exp and Stable are DayZ Standalone. There is no access to the mod in this game. Experimental (0.50) is usually 1 patch ahead of the stable version (0.49). The devs use experimental to test out new things before they get rolled out to the stable servers. Google a guide on how to play the Experimental as you cannot join them without activating Beta-Content in Steam and downloading the patch. 4. Servers are buggy at the moment and restarting and crashing as random times. Some servers get stuck when restarting, so althoguh it looks like players are on the server, its actually crashed and you get the "Waiting for host" for a long time and nothing happens. 5. DayZ SA is a very processor heavy game and not so much GPU. Im sure this will change once the game is optimised. There are guides everywhere to get an extra few FPS out of your system. There are lots of options you can turn off which take up a lot of processing power which you dont really need.

Try taking them off and putting back on - fixes the glitched status

Hey folks. Part 3 of my solo journeys is now on Youtube. Showing my death, respawn, murdered again, and I needed revenge. My Guilty Kill

Yeah you can eat and drink until it says you are full/stuffed. I recommend always having the "Healthy" icon on you at all times as if you get shot and go unconscious, you can be regenerating when you are out cold.

Make sure your hydrated and energised icons are bright green. If they are, you should either see "Healing" or "Healthy" below them.

Not really. There are 2 types of server just now. Ones with persistence enabled and ones with it disabled. The ones with persistence enabled seem to have a problem with items respawning. If I go onto one of these servers you can travel from town to town and only find things like chemlights, hats, hammers (i.e. useless things). This happens even after the server restarts. Servers with persistence disabled will respawn fresh loot all over the map at each server restart. If you join a server with lots of people on it you are more likely to not find much, especially on the coast, as people will die and loot everything on the coast. If you join a server with just a few people on it you will have a greater chance of finding stuff.

Check out my video here at 3:30 to see how BOSS goats can be :)

Its tough, but if you get the right server with a little bit of lag, you can axe them to death :) Killed a few pigs that way