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I’ll retool my response. I don’t know... frankly.

You used to be able to lick the battery as an action item when you hold it in your hand to verify the charge. Not sure if you can still do that.

This. Found one in a double red staircase recently... found them on top of one of those kiosks with the ladder on the side. Found a bunch of them in a tent camp we stumbled into north of svet... Just need to be patient and it helps to have an extra few sets of eyes looking with ya. Talk soon!

I can’t unsee the ball gag appearance of the skull mask with assault / gorka helmet.

No.

When zobs are running at you let them get to about 15 feet away and start backpedaling with your weapon of choice in hand. Hold the LMB key to block in a defensive stance. The zob will generally take 2 initial swipes at you. At that point stop backing up and start mashing your LMB while keeping your view generally up so you are striking around the head / neck. Don’t stop until they are dead. Be mindful of drift since you will clip into the zombie and won’t be able to strike effectively. You’ll take the odd shot but overall I’ve found this is the best way to address a single zob. Mobs of zobs are a bit of a different story and occurrences of trying to melee with a group of zobs should be avoided. Better to seek shelter. Get out of their line of sight once you’re in the building and don’t move... they’ll gradually de-Agro and go about their business in a couple minutes time.

Nails for sale! NE general area official public hive... Not sure if anyone is building bases on public but if you are and need a wad of nails let me know. Will take a trade for water bottles / canteens... 2 boxes of nails for each. We like to hand out water bottles to freshies we help out.

In a game where it takes me 10 minutes to heal after practically getting my head chopped off? Yup.

Hey mark we’d take you under our wing depending on what your overall disposition in the game is... What’s your play style? PM me if you want. As for the ammo you’re right about the 7.62 x 39 and it sounds like you’re the most unlucky player that in the game if you haven’t found any of it. You’ll be able to find that ammo in both civilian and military locations- keep looking. If your character is up in the NE of the map near svetlojarsk then let’s meet up and I’ll help square you away.

Communication is a thing. Some people are going to kill themselves if a truckload of money is dumped on their driveway because now their garage is blocked... Other people will quietly move on no matter what you say. But for the solid 80% of people who just want to be kept in the loop- communication is key. They might not like what you have to share at first but as reality sets in with some transparency you will get some buy in and then some vocal support. Storming, norming, performing. Right now you guys are pulling a Jussey Smollet... everyone called you on your bullshit and now you’re doubling down- insisting on your truth and dismissing the obvious. Let us know when you’re ready. A couple months ago there was some grandstanding happening at a reasonably high level about how communication was going to be improved. Want a quote from your last update? Let me know or go look for yourselves . Whatever changes have been implemented on that front have been shitty at best. As mentioned by another game developer in a recent video- this isn’t just your title anymore. This title also belongs to the loyal players who invest their time, money and energy into it and they deserve to be included in the journey. Players who bug tested this fucking game until their fingers bled have been tossed aside like garbage and their loyalty has been eradicated- anyone still loyal to the title who even knows their names are sitting back, willing to play the game but not willing to help for fear of the same thing happening to them. People who are new to the title are heavily influenced by what they read- people who are on the fence between buying or not buying even more so. The community is a 4 ball juggler and you just handed us a 5th ball. One of them is going to be dropped, and you don’t get to pick which one it is. DayZ development is a story and if someone doesn’t tell us what it is we’ll go ahead and make one up- and the one we tell won’t be becoming of the title. So how about you go ahead and fill in the blanks so we don’t have to.

People are complaining because of all the esoteric bullshit few gave a fuck about that was probably at the top of the list.

Eh doc- tough to say but I’d say organize your servers by ping and find something low... just click on the ping column. If all your servers are 180 there is an issue. The glitchy AF zombies are more prevalent on busy servers. Any server with more than 1 person will tend to drag and skip a little. Zombies will be looking one way and striking another. You sound like you’re probably my age... send me a pm if you want a little help figuring things out. See ya.

Nope

Yeah my concern with that is that guys burned out soooooooooooooooo hard trying to make early access as much as they could and the devs turned around and shit all over everything they did by hitting the reset button with the new engine. Nothing any of those guys mattered and nobody seems to give a fuck about earning the trust back of those guys... so now we're left with a few enthusiasts who would rather just make their own game out of it and some hit and run transients who are happy to just call the game a disaster and move on to the next one.

Yes, because what the game desperately needs now is another glitchy AF vehicle.

@schwaBAM

Agreed on all counts. And to think of the bullshit we all waded through during early access just to have the content we were all playtesting change so much with the new engine that we’d have to literally test it again...

Arguably they aren’t but they’re a few steps extra a person needs to take before getting in... also a nice distraction if a person wants to stay still for 30 minutes trying to tick through the dials I can probably find a clean shot. At the same time base building is as much of a waste of time as anything in the game for all the same reasons... at least In vanilla. How any self respecting organization could think that something that takes so much time to complete should be so completely valueless is an offense to common sense.

Where are the pouches and holster for the plate carrier? What type of spawn location?

There isn't a heck of a lot of action in this thread unfortunately... I'll keep my eye open for you.

there was a script floating around but I can't remember who posted it... it was from the original patch. I'm sort of scrolling through the car related threads looking for it but if you do the same you might find it before I do. Unfortunately there are so fucking many threads on sinking cars it's tough to check them all.

We'd attached a new lock after cutting- but it was new from our inventory. Not new new. Guys had no trouble putting the lock on. They said it "worked" whatever that means. I came in and tried it- code worked, however the lock stayed on the post. I fiddle fucked with it for awhile since even in the last patch you had to be standing about 2 feet away and in the middle of the fence looking down at the ground to attach the lock... figured maybe it was something easy. Maybe the lock became a "gate" item... and could be retrieved from that. Nope. Went about my business... logged off then came back and the lock was on the ground. Tried to use it again- no joy as I already described. All of your findings are consistent with what we've seen so far at least as far as our steps are concerned- we never tried rebuilding the whole gate because fuck that 10 times. You have the patience of a saint @matiman and we're lucky to have you.

Yeah... I'm scrolling through the forums for the thread that starts something like "I don't like being able to hover my mouse over a clothing item in the inventory screen and seeing its condition. Change immediately or I am uninstalling!" followed by a post by the development team or Impulz saying they're working on it and it will be fixed in the next patch. This lock nonsense is a putrid reminder of how futile progress is in this title... is every loot item in the game that gets tweaked going to become useless? Is THAT the hidden endgame agenda is trying to keep players busy collecting all the shit they already collected in the last patch? YAY now we can hear a lock noise but every lock that was in the game a week ago is useless. Don't get attached to your gear... sure- except what's left to do in the game? Kill people... and take their stuff? And then what? Have a fire that you don't need to cook meat that you could eat raw? Build a modified fireplace that will despawn in a couple hours? Set up a camp that anyone can ghost or break into in 3 minutes? Why- oh yeah. To take their stuff. Then what? Kill more people and take their stuff? Then lose all the stuff and repeat with 1.03?

I thought they had that fixed for about a patch... maybe I imagined you it or just got lucky for awhile. In particular this is an issue with the combat knife in the assault boots when you’re carrying weapons internally... you’ll draw the knife from your boot, switch to a pistol or long gun and of course the game puts it back in a slot previously taken up by the new weapon. Go to switch that weapon and you either can’t because the knife is in the way or you wear it externally... if it’s an option. Then you need to fiddle fuck with the DayZ Tetris to get everything squared away again. This isn’t what I had in mind when I bought into the whole “gritty” survival experience. If DayZ was a real life survival experience I’d be morbidly obese from all the food, immaculately dressed from all the suits as well as completely paranoid since even things on my back are never quite the way I left them.