Back on the old UN Clan servers around .55 or so, I had 18 barrels hidden in the woods near Tulga. No one ever found them. Hiding barrels used to be great when you could put them in trees. Everyone is gambling: some that people won't take the time to break in, some that people won't stand in just the right spot. I like your odds better.

Ah, still releasing game breaking updates into stable. Crack work, knuckleheads.

I hadn't played much since the "1.0" bs left a real bad tatse in my mouth. But, I recently jumped back in and am certainly having fun. As other have mentioned, many good mods out there - but I'm a vanilla guy at heart. The biggest problems on vanilla for me are related to base building and the inability to fortify a base in any meaningful way (so if you just want to hide a camo'd tent and barrel in the woods, that shouldn't be an issue). Cars are still junk in many ways. Stamina and weight are still a bit too punitive. The survival aspects need to be dialed up a notch, but over all, it is showing me promise for the first time in a long time.

Every time I think about reinstalling this game, that I once loved, I check here and see it is a total cluster.

Does any of the old group still play, other than you and Art? I uninstalled it, again. Makes me sad.

Apparently adding stuff that doesn't work is easier than fixing things that are already broken.

I was being pissy and sarcastic. Ballistics, like much of current DayZ, has been ruined.

Why should ballistics be any different than the rest of the game features?

I have thousands of hours in DayZ. That browser is easily the most infuriating thing I've encountered in DayZ. It's the first thing a player sees and it barely works. It takes 3-5 minutes to populate; and trying to click any button while it's populating is nearly impossible - thus my need to CTRL-ALT-DEL. It's garbage; and Bohemia should know better than to have a barely functioning feature as the fist thing one sees on 1.0. I've been an evangelist for DayZ for a long time, but this 1.0 nonsense, and especially this garbage browser, have eliminated any remaining faith I had in BI.

I guess I'm the only one who thinks fixing the sever browser is priority #1. Every time I fire the game up to give it a look, I do a hard shut down at the browser because I'm so disappointed.

Started up DayZ. New Server Browser - great, maybe they've fixed the garbage old one. Nope. After ten minutes of spam clicking buttons, I still can't actually join a server - hell, I can barely manipulate filters. Do you guys think, maybe, that the first thing with which players have to interact in your game should work? I cannot imagine why a brand new player would spend the time necessary to actually get on a server. This should be completely unacceptable to anyone with a bit of pride in their work.

Fighting infected in Stress Test #6 confirmed my feelings on the above.

I believe door smashing is still in the works. Right now, they continue to mill around outside the window allowing you to pick them off one by one.

Maybe I misunderstand you, but Zeds are in the Standalone. I had 17 near where I spawned a few days ago. After I killed those, though, I didn't see more except at military spots.