Thurman Merman

Wish they'd make tents harder to spot. Right now, the're pretty worthless on anything but low pop/stash servers.

Yep. Currently 2x 4GB 970s. Previously was Nvidia, but I don't recall which model.

That's been happening to me since the early .40s. Never been able to figure out a common cause.

As glad as I am that they fixed this bug, pushed through as is (i.e., packs and guns on the ground despawn quickly), they're really just saying that people can't build camps on high pop private hives (tents stick out like a sore thumb). Might as well play public and put camp on a low pop server - then hop over to a high pop to PvP?

So when I saw that on EXP guns and pack were despawning. I spent hours yesterday getting tents and moving fings and my camp (which was just guns and packs under trees) into tents. It's on a private hive, so you just have to deal with the server pop that is. And on Saturday night, it's full. Woke up this morning - camp robbed. SVD, AUG, Many other rifles and pistols, scopes, mags, UMP, MP5, vests galore, food, barrels, 4 glowplugs, batteries, a truck, SPOSN, etc. All gone. :( Then I got the immediate hypothermia bug - stripped naked, died, spawned a million miles away. Suicide, better spawn, ran back - just my pack and gun. Rainspourswords. :(

When you wreck a truck, it leaks all the fuel out - as you try to refuel, it continues leaking (i.e., you can't restart it). Fuel guages are currently bugged and always show empty. BUT, after server restarts, trucks are all good to go (topped off with fuel, in working condition, etc.). ETA: If you just pop the 2 front tires, you can replace them with the 2 middle tires and the truck performs fine.

I know I saw a twitter response regarding this, but it was probably buried int he comments somewhere. Fing's and my camp is about 2 dozen backpacks on the ground and a dozen or more guns. So unless I spend all weekend getting tents and moving them to that area and restoring stuff, our loot is gonna go bye-bye. :D

I know I saw it somewhere, been looking at Hicks and Eugen's twitter and can't find it, but will the hotfix come with a character or persistence wipe? I thought I definitely saw a negative answer on the former.

Well, I have 2 full trucks and 2 full ammo boxes - with as much layering as I can manage. Will try and add to it over the weekend if I have time. However, backpacks and guns on the ground now despawn pretty quickly. Ammo boxes seem persistent. Haven't checked tents yet. Pretty sure a medkit despawned on me, too. Saw some guns go within less than an hour. Packs seem to take 2+ hours. Also, the Quonset hut at Myshinko is bugged on SC02 - you can farm it. Loot respawns almost instantly - sometimes in front of your eyes. I bet I pulled 4-5 M4s, 3 AUGs, 7-8 UMPs, 2 101s, countless mags, ammo, vests, shovels, hats, scopes, and knives out of it in about 25 minutes. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=516414811

Is the lag/camp bug what this build is supposed to fix? I already have a full truck and a full SPOSN on the ground. Next to the SPOSN is an ammo box containing a medkit containing a plate carrier containing an FNX. No lag yet. Have a second truck I'm gonna fill and take to camp. Then add some tents and see what happens.

I was under the impression that police cars always spawned with the trunk closed. Found hundreds in my life. Found a newly spawned one last night, but the trunk was open. The only other person on the server said they weren't nearby. Did a hopper sneak in when I wasn't looking? Or, can police cars spawn with the trunk open?

Well, I spent most of the morning trying not to freeze to death (success), not to melt my face off (unsuccessful), stay fed since I was constantly soaking wet (success), and find a truck (9th spawn point I checked -finally). When the sun is up on the server, I'm gonna drive around to the spots I think are likely. Already crossed my first 2 guesses off my list.

DAMMIT!#@ I ran around for 3 hours looking for it today, but kept finding helicrashes (I logged in in the SE). Every time I head west, I find a helicrash and then head back to my camp (which is central) to drop off the loot. I'm never gonna find it!! :(

So that was the server with the camp? Right on. Looking for your camp will give me something to do . . . I'm not in it to lag it up or steal anything. But, I do have some nice photo ideas in mind.

'Im on the same server as ColdAtrophy right now. Wonder if it's the one with his camp. If so, I swear I'm gonna scour the map and take a picture of myself in front of his camp. :D

Completely agree. You want to save something? Find a barrel or tent to put it in. Fing and I must have 15-20 long guns at our camp - all just laying on the ground. Probably why I can't find any on the map anymore.

I ran into camp this morning with 3 protector cases on me - all full of stuff. Lag. Once I got rid of that, no lag.

Although, fing told me that when he was having a lot of lag at our camp; when he took containers out of containers, it cleared it up - even with the same amount of loot. So it does appear to be a culprit form his testing.

Fighting chance? I'll take a Blaze with a scope over a maxed out AKM any day. I've murdered far more people at a distance than in mid-range full-auto shootouts. Similarly, if I know I'm gonna be shot at, I'd almost always rather the shooter have a full auto assault rifle - that typically means he has to close in on me - and if he can do that without getting shot, he deserves my loot. But, to your point, I generally agree. The world should be full of pistols and hunting rifles. Far fewer of the military style guns. However, I also wish they'd make shooting from a distance (over 300m) substantially harder - right now, get your distance right, and you very often make the shot.

One of my stashes has a full barrel containing a full medkit, SMG with attachments, and boots with a knife attached and a few tents, but no lag. Another has a similar setup (barrel with ammo cans with junk inside). I can't tell that items within items is making a difference.

On the Un Clan server, I went from Sinistock E thru all the northern towns down through Severo and Grishino to Kabanino, the Starys, down through Rog and Nadez, to Cherno and over to Elektro. I'm pretty sure I did not see a single long gun. On /r/DayZUndergound, I went Elektro, Cherno (and burbs), Balota, Kamarovo, Kamenka, Pavlo (and base), and ALL of Zelno - I saw a single doubel barrel, a single izh, and a single CROSSBOW. Do not mistake the limits of your vision for the limits of the world.

I play almost exclusively on high pop privates (UN Clan, /r/DayZUnderground, The Civ, etc.). All of them have serious loot issues - as in nada. My guys that started early are well kitted (fing and I have several camps on the UN Server), but guys who started late - happy to have ANY gun with ammo. And it's not that "it's a hardcore survival sim." It's not. Staying alive is easy - sodas in sheds respawn well; no zeds to hurt you; environment not a serious threat, other players easily avoided. It's just that there's nothing to do - can't form a camp; can't even really test crafting as wildlife seems bugged (just runs around in circles) and even finding seeds and lime is a trick; could go take my double barrel to a military camp and kill someone for gear, but then what? - that's why I got bored of .57. Loot is undeniably jacked on every private serve I've been to.

I fresh spawned on her /r/DayZUnderground server this morning. Usually a full server at the right time of day. Ran from Elektro to Cherno (and all burbs), along the S coastal towns, Prison Island, and over to Kamenka. Did not see a single long gun and only saw three boxes/piles of ammo (other than police cars). Yeah, I know, it's the coast, but that's ridiculous. Something is definitely wrong with the CLE/private hives.

I spawned one of my private guys there. Luckily, the deerstand had a hunting scope and hunters pants. One of the sheds had 2 sodas. Talon in the lighthouse. More food, ammo, shirts (for rags) and a knife in the houses. Found a mace in the ruins. I left there fairly well fed with high carrying capacity.

Yeah, I just logged into a typically high pop public server. Ran from Grishino to Kabanino : saw more loot in the 30 buildings I checked than I saw on my entire run through the private server. Totally borked. That's a shame - I usually avoid public because I can't stand the idea of server hopping. ETA: Guess I can just go back to Myshinko and murder hoppers looting the Quonset on a low pop until they get this sorted out.