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The servers will be up 2-13 minutes from when this post is posted. Those guys are brilliant, sitting in their offices, tired out of their minds trying to get the game working for us. Fucking brilliant If I do say so myself.. RAISE THOSE MEN'S PAYROLL!!

your good, the servers aren't connected to the central hive. just log out and when this is resolved your player will be back. if you are playing dayz while it reconnects to the central hive your geared character will be overwritten with the fresh spawn one that was originally created because the server could find your geared character because it wasn't connected to the central hive. So don't play dayz till its up and running again.

I'm just kind of curious, I've been through many barracks and airfields and stuff and I have yet to find a black tactical shirt, My character is going "black primary with maybe a little green". I have: -Black Combat Boots -Black Cargo Pants -Black Baseball Cap -Black Bandana Facemask (with a small white design) -Grey Tactical Shirt (because I have yet to find black) -UK Tactical Assault Vest Khaki (I would prefer black but whatevs) and an akm with food, blah blah blah. I died an hour ago, but if I find a black tactical shirt, I can head down south and help out a friend who has broken legs. Any places that might have a Black Tactical Shirt if you could let me know in the comments I would appreciate it, tactical shirts are pretty common but the black ones are pretty rare, can they be found in barns, fire stations, railroad stations?

Well put whip cream in my ass and call me Santa. So can openers are tools of sustenance AND death. How interesting..

This is EVERYTHING you can do with the suicide animation: -You can commit suicide with ALL handguns -You can commit suicide with ALL shotguns -You can commit suicide with ALL assault rifles -You can commit suicide with ALL rifles -You can commit suicide with grenades (duh) -You can commit suicide with ALL submachine-guns -You can commit suicide with ALL generic blades/knifes. (machete, kitchen knife, hunting knife, bayonet, etc.) anything that you could slit or cut open your throat with. -You can pretend to commit suicide with your hand. (called a faux suicide) where your character pretends his hand is a gun and 'pretends to shoot himself'. Any questions? And NO you cant commit suicide with can openers, teddy bears, hoes, wrenches, hammers, a can of beans, etc.

could you share a link to this "breaking news" thing you speak of? till this is fixed im going to watch the law abiding citizen! :D

In DayZ there are quite a few different play styles. Unless you are a crazy good woodsman who can just live off animal meat and snipe zombies as targets, you are the type of survivor that sooner or later HAS to step food into a town. I think I player should be able to go in the woods with nothing but maybe a improvised courier bag, and after an hour or two have an entire camp set up. How would this be accomplished? Easy. Here are a few things to start with: -The ability to make improvised tents. If you could go in the woods, after making a few tools and stuff you could use a BUNCH of long sticks, leaves and brush and you could make an improvised tent. It would be used for keeping you warm in the cold DayZ nights, and maybe even their could be a little door that you have to crawl out of. -Start fires without needing an axe or matches- It would be quite hard but you could get sticks from bushes and mix them with maybe rags or a type of leave to make the fireplace kit, and you could use to flint stones to "spark a fire" but it would take from 1 to 20 hits to get it started. -Killer Sticks. You could use a sharp rock (that you would have to find) and you would sit there and sharpen a stick and eventually have a stick equivalent to a sharp-shanking baseball bat. could be used to hunt animal. -I am one with tha bush. If you go in the woods with a tee shirt and pants, you would have to modify your clothes for camo and stuff. You could put grass over you, have a makeshift camo, you could cut off the bottom leggings part from your pants and put them on your knees for support. (irrelevant suggestion) To make the tents actually keep you warm, nighttime in DayZ should be SUPER COLD. Because, c'mon, its Russia for Christ sakes. It gets cold. (Adding onto the last suggestion) If you made nighttime super cold in DayZ, then what about those people who aren't in super cozy invisible awesome safety tents? well it'll tell you! they should be able to wear layered clothing.... ._. You could have a green T-Shirt, with a "red checked shirt" that could kind of be a flannel, and then you could wear a Down Jacket! Now you tell me that wouldn't be warm! Because in DayZ, if you have two t shirts and a down jacket and you are freezing your ASS off at night with only the down jacket, it would only make sense to put on the two extra T-Shirts you have with you! .51 was recently released, .52 is ways away. Things like this could easily be in the game. Well... all of the suggestions except for the last two will take awhile before they are ever added in, but the layered clothes and the cold nights should be added in the next stable. (.52)

you my friend, are right.

if you want to keep your character I would advise not playing dayz for a few hours. Your player could be gone like that, and I don't think you want that

I changed it.

If you are worrying how long it will take, what are the aftermath effects, blah blah blah, just listen closely: -Tell ALL FRIENDS to not play DayZ: Two reasons, first reason is that if you have been playing DayZ and your character has been 'swiped', well that's not true. Most if not all of the servers are not connected to the Central Hive currently, so the servers have 'no character save to grab' for you to play, if you are playing DayZ in your 'temporary new character' then get off immediately, if the server you are playing on reconnects to the central hive WHILE YOU ARE PLAYING then your geared load out will be overwritten with what was supposed to be the 'temporary glitched new spawn character'. So till this all blows off, DO NOT play DayZ and tell all friends to NOT play DayZ either. -What in the world to do till this attack ends?: I have friends who are eager to play, but I had told them if they play, our characters could easily go POOF out the window. So until this attack has been confirmed to be over (the warning on this webpage should be gone, or a Standalone Developer on twitter has said that its over) what you can do in the meantime is go watch a movie or two. Relax its not the end of the world.. Share the link to this post on reddit and places like that so people have a feeling of serenity and comfort that they will be able to play soon enough. Ooooh! This is also fun to look at: http://map.ipviking.com/

what do you mean?

Makes sense. This is what I needed to know; if DayZ was safe to play right now. I'm not going to play it for awhile or at least till they are connected to the central hive.

I'm sometimes a extremely dumb person. So if I play dayz right now, there is a chance that something will happen? like character swipes/high ping/lagging?

so its for the dayz game?

I'm a better safe than sorry person. Please do point out the obvious.

+1 This is brilliant

Before we head into cities. If we are going in together then we scout out the area on the hills. I check the firefighter stations, the hospital, the jailhouse, the streets. Ive seen many people like this and got the jump on them. If only one of us is going in the city, the other one is with a mosin keeping the one in the city cover from anyone who would try to get a jump on them. We have never died like your friend has, but we've came damn close to it.

Tell that to my friend. I sure as hell didn't want to log out. I wanted to go outside, find a high point and kill tha bitch! This was the first time I have technically combat logged. And I regret it.. Wonder what goodies the other guy had above us..

So I think guitars or some sort of acoustic instrument should be implemented. Here are some reasons: -Scary encounters: you see a guy walking in the street with a mask stringing three different cords walking towards you. Pretty scary, especially when he starts running -LETS SING A CAMPFIRE SONG!: Lets say you have a little group, you guys could play the guitar, and.. well.. sing! how fun! -Loneliness sustained: You could be in an abandoned hospital playing the guitar and getting emotional because the world has ended and all. #apocalypse -Don't DO THIS TO ME!: A group of laughable bandits could of kidnapped you and started playing you guitar songs for whatever reason whilst swaying back and forth. Sounds pretty fun don't ya think!? This is how you would use it: You would equip your guitar and click F or your "use" button, then select "play guitar". When you are "playing guitar, a curtain row of keys would be used for stringing, and your mouse or something would be used to "put your fingers" on the handle string part for high/low pitch. Or some other way of using it.. Doesn't really matter..

beans are similar to 'likes' the more beans you have, the better! and that little label above your name changes and on your profile it shows the number of beans you have accumulated over time.

Good o' Alpha :)

My friend had already healed himself, so that's fine. I have given up looking for a Black Tactical Shirt up north, so I am going to head down south to electro to meet my friend then we are heading to the tents by Balota. Thanks!

Whenever you eat human meat, every few minutes your player either laughs or cries. If you eat human meat there is a 50/50 chance you wont get the disease. Anyways when you heard the laughter its either because someone near you had it or if it sounded REALLY close then you had it, either because you ate human meat, were force fed human meat, or the game desyncs and it just "gives you the kuru"

These servers that you are hopping to and from, are persistent. This is how persistent works from their birth: When a persistent server is FIRST created, there is normal loot, but as time goes by, and people go through cities like Cherno and electro and berinzino, those places upon restart do not get new loot. The places with ALL the loot (usually CRAMMED TOGETHER LIKE A BI**H) are the places that people RARELY go to. So this is how these servers think, "ok so these towns are always looted and there is no loot, ill just place this loot in this forgotten bunker/barn" the server rethinks this every restart, and since these areas are forgotten or not looted, the loot stays every restart and new loot is added. So virtually these 'heavenly places' just gather more and more loot as time goes by. So if you want servers with loot they cant be persistent, unless you want to hunt down these mythic temples.