Belphegor (DayZ)

those 3 story buildings, always in rows in the bigger cities. the ones with the big open top floor. i found 2 the other day on shelves located in the narrow corridor near the back door on the ground floor. pre-0.53 i remember finding them on the top floor and sometimes in the rooms in the middle floor as well

that's it.. in your picture. so it was probably the northern border then, i went left there so the town i saw must be Nagornoe. thanks a lot :)

i logged in inside a house at the outskirts of cherno, geared and ready to visit prison island. i was opening the dayz map in the steam overlay and.. *are those footsteps?*... i closed the steam overlay and was promptly greeted with an axe to the face. well.. after venting the anger on some zombies (pic related) i let the new character die because i was wounded and out of rags, and then respawned in a place i'm not familiar with.. a fairly large town, with an industrial site next to a cliff? i got geared up fairly quickly, civilian clothing, a repeater with 40 rounds, 60 mosin rounds should i run into one and the basic survival gear. with no ocean in sight i picked up a compass and headed south-west hoping to find a place i recognized but after 15 minutes or so i found myself at the western edge of te map.. that or the compass was broken. a long hike later i found a small town and logged off, still not sure where i am exactly..

my first run on 0.53, the first character died quickly of hypothermia and starvation after i foolishly decided to check out prison island without gearing up first. after respawning the plan was to gear up, get well fed and try again so i stuck to the coast and headed to elektro. when i was looting some houses in kamy i ran into a freshie drinking from the well.. there was no real conversation since he spoke german and i don't but he seemed friendly so i moved on, only a few houses further i found an axe and i went back to the well to give the axe to the guy since i already had one, but before i got there i see him running across the street with a fountain of blood shooting from his body and 3 other players chasing him with melee weapons. (seriously i don't get it, what's the point of grouping up and bashing a bambi to death with lead pipes..) i shot a few warning shots at them with a flare gun i found earlier but they didn't even seem to notice.. so i rushed in with the axe and started swinging. i didn't get to kill any of them but i managed to create some distance between us, enough for me to bandage the german guy while the group watched from 50m down the street. there were 3 of them and could have easily killed us, yet they just stood there.. i guess none of them wanted to risk dieing now that our side had melee weapons too.. cowards.. the german guy and i went our own way after that, and i continued towards elektro, once i got there it wasn't long until i heard gunfire not far from my position. i hid and watched some guys running between the buildings and occasionally open fire on something.. not sure if zombies or an other player. after getting away from there i found a mosin,LRS and a compensator and i decided to push onwards to cherno, hoping to find some rounds for that mosin. eventually i got some at the construction site. next time, prison island :)

i've had the same problem the day after the 0.53 update. i was hoping it would have been fixed by now but i still can't launch the game, after the 'preparing to launch' window i get this windows error message. 'can't access the device, path or file, it' possible that you don't have permission for the item' (yes, i'm logged in as administrator) any news on this issue? EDIT: i opened the .exe in windows explorer and it seems to be working now.. this is weird

ENO, i might have a fix for your direct chat problem, if you haven't tried it already.. first, open windows audio device manager and check if your headset is selected in the 'recording' tab, if no devices show up right click ther blank space and select 'show disabled devices' or something like that. even if your headset is enabled, make sure it's set as the standard recording device. for text chat, verify the steam files (right click dayz in steam menu > local files > verify) this fixed my text chat when i first got the game, i hope it works for you.

i'm not sure but i think there is a hack that allows them to shoot and possibly see through walls. about 3 months ago i was playing on a low pop server with just a handfull of people in it. i was looting a building in the middle of nowhere, a single house surrounded with large open fields on most sides when i heard mosin shots in the distance (i'd say at least 200-300m) and bullets impacting near me. being unarmed i waited in the hallway with the stairs with my axe out, wondering why someone is shooting at the building instead of waiting for me to come out. meanwhile the guy was still shooting and i heard more bullet impact noises. then i got hit in the leg, followed by a headshot while i was standing on the stairway with no windows and a closed door. i got killed a few times after that, to much coincidence for a low pop server so i think it was the same hacker teleporting around since you were on a roof i'm also tempted to say the shot must have come from somewhere else, but as you can see it's possible

so.. yesterday i visited the military tent camp on the western edge of the map. i've only been there once a while ago and back then someone already looted the place dry. this time was different tho.. i've never seen so much ammo. ever. every tent had at least 3 boxes and a bunch of loose rounds in it, makarovs with magazines, some other rare handgun mags, sks rifles.. everything really apart from an assault rifle. i left the place with an sks and 100 rounds for it, a makarov with 4 mags and some ammo, about 200 assault rifle rounds and a mag in case i stumbled upon the rifle later. it felt surreal walking away from that place knowing i just left hundreds if not thousands of rounds behind while usually whenever i need ammo i never find some of the right caliber. from there i made my way to green mountain where, much to my suprise, nothing eventfull happened. i had to go so i logged out in the bushes across the road from the gate.. with a wipe incoming i think i'll head to cherno next time to spend some of this ammo on pvp.. if i survive logging in at the cursed mountain that is

apart from the usual rare stuff, 7.62x39 ammo seems incredibly hard to find for me.. at least compared to the amount of weapons i find of this caliber. in 85 hours i found 1 box of it in buildings and 1 10 round clip on a body. maybe i'm just not lucky i see people shooting the sks all the time.. can anyone relate to this or maybe give me some pointers where these rounds are most commonly found?

well, for your dissapearing character problem, first you must understand that you have a different character on public 3rd person view and 1st person view servers, and a seperate character for every private shard/hive. so check what type of server you are joining if you want to continue your previous game. after a server reset wait for the server to reboot before trying to join it again or you will lose the character, so join when server time sais 'xx:01' or higher, not 'xx:00' navigation is the same as irl. look for the north star or find a compass, find landmarks around you or look at village names on roadsigns and try to pinpoint your location on the map the getting killed for no reason.. yeah.. that happens way too much. moving from cover to cover helps a lot.. not travelling in the open etc. avoiding the biggest points of interest like cities along the coast and the airfields/mil bases helps too

well, i'm in Belgium but i game at weird hours bc of my job. if no-one is there i'll also leave behind a bag of loot :)

thanks! i have no idea about the burlap sacks.. google doesn't come up with any answers either. but i'll keep my eyes open for bags and sacks when i hop onto your server

I7-2600 @ 3.4 GHz Nvidia gt 630 8GB ram windows 7 x64 i'm running on a weak gpu and originally had 15-20 fps on low-med settings with occasional drops, after overclocking and a lot of tweaking the in-game settings i now have a pretty stable 30 fps and the graphics still look half-decent.

i had another good game yesterday. started fresh on a private hive, a full 50 slot server and somehow made it all the way to the northwest corner of the map without bumping into anyone.. and i wasn't even stealthy. i had a blaze with 40 rounds and a sporter with 150 rounds in my hands, i spent all of them doing target practice on cows, pigs, zeds and even trees along the way. i also made multiple fires in high traffic areas to warm up and chucked flares all around. no-one ever came. i was dissapoint. i never tried catching a fish before so i made a fish trap and a fishing rod. sadly the fishing trap dissapeared on server restart (persistance was disabled i guess..) and the fishing rod took ages and i had to log off before before i managed to catch anything. ENO, looks like you got a good thing going there. do you mind passing me the server info and location? i might drop by some time

are you talking about dayzrp? i feel you bro. i didn't get whitelisted as well although i couldn't see anything seriously wrong with my story, those guys whitelisting procedure is a bit rediculous imo. luckily there are many other private shards that do whitelisting like max planck said, i reccomend checking those out. pic related

"I hate everyone equally You can't tear that out of me No segregation -separation Just me in my world of enemies" -Tom Araya

i had a pretty good session last night. i spawned as a fresh spawn and feeling a bit bold i took the risky route towards vybor military base, hitting up elektro, dubky and 3 more towns between there and vybor. in about 3 hours i got geared up, nothing special but more than enough to get around. loot was a bit scarse but i ended up with some basic survival gear, a long range scope, hunting backpack, high capacity vest and a derringer + shotgun with about 30 shells. most of the good stuff i found in the military base tho, until then i relied solely on my trusty axe despite having found several rifles along the way, i just wasn't very lucky with ammo this time. special thanks to ENO and kirov for pointing out that you can use sticks as firewood instead of logs, you guys saved my ass from a freezing death last night some of the highlights and interesting encounters - i was looting a piano house on the outskirts of a town when suddenly there was a player standing in the doorway with an AK. i ran out of his line of sight and saw another player running past the other side door. they saw me but didn't make contact and had their guns out so i assume they didn't have good intentions. i was still wielding a crowbar so i took my chances and ran straight out the front door and went prone behind a small stone wall across the road, luck was on my side this time as they didn't spot me. the next 10 minutes i observed 3 well geared players searching the house and the area around it until they finally continued their journey - while following a tree line heading north from dubky i spotted someone following me from a distance, i kept running to get some distance and thought i lost him but i needed something to drink badly so i stopped to refill my water bottle at the first well i came across, and sure enough while i was doing so bullets started flying in my direction. still unarmed i kept running north and while he lost sight of me i threw a flare towards the other side of the road and i ran in the opposite direction and took cover under a pine tree. this payed off, the guy went towards the flare giving me some time to get away - at the end of my gaming session weirdness happened. i admit i was less than sober by the time i reached the military base and i checked the surroundings very well before moving in, all the doors were closed. after hitting up the first barracks i walked around some buildings and spotted a barrack with an open door. pretty sure that was closed before, so i went into a total state of paranoia, spent some time sneaking around from cover to cover with my heart racing and pretty much jumped at every sound. turns out i got dissoriented and it was actually just the barrack i looted just before and i left the door open. after looting the other buildings and finding the shotgun and high capacity vest i ran a short distance from the base and logged off inside a bush, still laughing at my little screw-up i think i'll do some hunting tonight and head back to the shore to pass around free food for newspawns. probably won't be long until i die but whatever

there is no real endgame. it's pretty much gear up, die, repeat. this may sound boring but with every character the experience can be totally different depending on the loot you find and the people you meet

mm, bacon :) all of my beans for some bacon

i should read the damn patch notes after not playing for a while... don't worry about it ENO, it's hard to keep track of these things with the constant changes of an alpha game. i've been reading and apparently in current experimental, 0.53, you can upgrade a fire into an oven with stones and sticks and actually use a cooking pot and the tripod to prepare food. nice.

no problem bro. well that's dayz for you.. some good experiences, some bad. it just wasn't my day. i was impressed with the new loot tho.. only had a few hours on 0.52 before this and there were a lot of items i've never seen before. i also got the impression that guns and ammo are a bit more common now but still pretty rare. overall the game feels more balanced now than how i remember it Kirov, thanks, that's some useful information

are you kidding me? doesn't the campfire require firewood anymore? ah well.. later i wondered why i didn't just hop to a server with a warmer climate, i guess i just didn't think about it. better luck next time

after about a month of not playing i decided to venture into the virtual land of chernarus once again.. To my surprise my character was still where i left him last time with a bit of gear, a CR525 (no ammo), a derringer (no ammo), a splitting axe, some casual clothing with an improvised backpack and a bunch of mosin ammo, .22 and .357 rounds. i had no idea where i was tho, i spawned in the middle of some woods so i decided to explore the surrounding area and quickly found a road with some houses visible in the distance. with no food or water in my pack i decided to check it out and stock up on supplies, maybe find another gun or matching ammo for my guns. little did i know my priorities were about to change.. 'you are cold' on top of that it started raining and my clothes quickly became soaked. i was now close to the buildings, there were 3 of them and a shed i think but they were packed with loot. lots of cans, some warmer clothing, boots and a repeater which made me a happy man since i already had ammo for it. now it was time to get a fire going.. unfortunatly i failed to notice that my axe was ruined! i took shelter from the rain and as soon as it stopped bolted out in search of a new axe. not knowing where i was i decided to follow the road from the treeline to the next town. 'you are freezing' well shit. and the next town wasn't even in sight. i think i knew where i was tho.. i remembered certain landmarks and tried to take a shortcut that i thought would bring me close to Stary Sobor. but it didn't and i ended up in a small town i didn't recognize. i searched every shed, every building and got some matches and a heat pack but no axe.. again i started following the road now getting legitimately concerned. but hey, at least i had the heat pack.. first time i ever had to use one. too bad it didn't do shit. 'you are hypothermic' by the time i reached the next settlement the screen was all blurry and i could not see a thing. not so long after, 'you are dead' ah well.. i respawn not far from elektro, normally i avoid elektro and cherno but since i wanted to find some gear fast and had nothing to lose i went in that direction anyways. just before Kamyshovo, that town just east of elektro, a fire catches my attention and i decide to carefully check it out.. there was one lit fire, one unlit right next to it, no gunfire.. no signs of people.. i sneak closer hoping that some good soul left a bit of food. i was almost sure i'd get shot when approaching the fire but no.. all peace and quiet apart from my little shriek when i opened the inventory and saw 5 burned human steaks in one fire and 5 raw ones in the other fire. nope. time to get out, after cooking one of the steaks offcourse because hunger was playing up. with no weapons and a bandit around i just went around the town and straight for elektro where i found some food and clothing, an axe and some other small gear. i was just sneaking my way across the city when i heard zombie noises, i expected them to jump from behind a corner at any time but then i heard a call for help through direct chat. sure enough, 2 poorly geared players were fighting off some zombies with shovels i think in the middle of a street. i saw 2 other zombies rushing in towards the fight so i helped those guys out and intercepted the zombies and finished them off before they reached the road. by then those 2 guys still didn't knew i was there so i watched them for a minute or so and saw one taking cover inside a building and the other just ran off. that's when i decided to make contact for some stupid reason. i stood right across the street for a few more minutes trying to make contact but my mic was obviously not working.. the guy must have been blind he didn't even see me.. i moved a bit closer with my hand raised and that's when he finally spotted me. "HEY, A PLAYER" *you are dead* god dammit. so i respawned pretty close to elektro and to be honest i was pretty pissed off at those guys and at myself for thinking there was actually a friendly non KOS player in dayz. i wanted revenge and by sheer luck i found a shotgun and ammo in the first buildings i searched. unfortunatly i died of hypothermia again just before reaching elektro because i couldn't find matches anywhere. that evening i was reminded why i quit dayz last month. maybe i'll try again in another month or so. sorry for the spelling mistakes

ah, this explains a lot.. on the current stable version i get 13-20 FPS with an I7.. idk why but on the previous build i got 20-25 FPS and when 0.51 was experimental even a bit more on that. i'm playing A3 breaking point for a while until dayz it's a bit more optimized because the lag is just a bit too much during pvp

http://steamcommunity.com/app/221100/discussions/0/619569608746132515/ apparently so edit:nvm i just realized this doesn't answer your question at all