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The last place I found one was the house that has nothing but a cabinet inside the door to the right and then stairs up to a small living room and 2 doors with small rooms, the first door on the right has a desk and a cabinet and the scope was inside the cabinet on the shelf. I couldn't believe my eyes because I have never seen anything in that room but a pair of shorts on the floor. it was pristine and I was very happy.

I've been meaning to try the sporter and see if I can clear out a city of zombies without getting ambushed by a horde of them. The axe gets your gear smashed, other rifles get you ambushed. The mosin from a distance seems to call more zombies onto the street and by the time I circle the town picking off what I can see from the hill tops, there are more spawned and if I have to fire a single shot downtown, I get trained.

On the private server I am on, there is nothing, mostly everywhere. After running the entire map over the weekend, finding only junk and food, I decided to jump on my public character and the first server I stopped in at had lootsplosion in the barracks south of NW airfield. There were ak74's everywhere, 1 akm and a couple mags and a pristine pso-1 scope on the top bunk. I have never seen a scope under the beds. The only thing good I have found under there was 75 round mag. The loot for the crashed helicopters is usually not near the helicopters at this time. Last crash site I was at the loot was a good 100 feet away from the crash. I think it might be that the loot is in the same place and the crash is moving around. ??

So last night was an update or whatever and I'm wondering if my army tent will be gone when I get home tonight? I only had food/drink and repair kits and some cartridges in the tent, but still, I love that tent. (crosses fingers)

Oh, maybe you hit the invisible zombie! I saw a zombie in a field and I was going full speed by the time I got to him and I was giggling and splat I hit him and heard glass break and the truck rolled onto it's side, then rolled over completely twice and came back up on it's wheels and I was unharmed. The whole time I was crashing I was thinking "That's it, my gear is toast, I'm toast, how could a zombie flip my big heavy truck going straight into him?" No damage that I could see to my gear, luckily. If a visible zombie can do that, maybe you hit the invisible one. :-D Stop, stop! Can't you see me, give me some brains, I mean a ride! Splat!

I tried to cook last night and the logs would not stack and the fire went out in about 30 seconds with 2 logs, not long enough to cook a mouse.

From all the zombie movies I've watched, if your not too important to the movie, you can be killed in 1 hit. If your a main character, then you have a hidden bite that turns you into a zombie without anyone knowing and they find out when the hot girl gets into the truck alone with you and say's "I think we are finally safe". %^}

So far when I have the jump on someone and say "how's it going?" and I have my machine gun pointed in their direction, it shows I am not going to kill them unless they give me a reason too. Things usually work out pretty well at that point if they are friendly. Sadly I have heard people say "How's it going?" and shot me the moment I stopped, cause I'm an easier target stopped. I have had people shoot at me when I kept running while I said "hiya" back to them. I have had people who acted friendly for a few minutes until we were saying goodbye and they got the drop on me and blam! Sadly I don't trust anyone anymore, unless they are my friend and in the game with me and even then they sometimes accidentally shoot me "LOL" cause this game is tense. If I see someone I usually hide and watch and follow them and see what they are up too, cause it is like playing the game with someone, only they don't know it. :-D But they usually vanish because it's hard to follow off to the side and stay hidden and stay up with them. I'm on a private server now and we chat in team speak and they all know each other and no one shoots anyone unless someone they don't know well comes on.

We should be good, but always watch the notes from the dev's on updates, because they might suddenly say differently. FYI that big tent can't be held in hands. I was very very glad to see it Wednesday night when I got home from work. :-O

Hmm landmine maybe?

This is really following along with my current thinking. I went thru a town and left all the garbage, I came by later and even the garbage was gone, everything was gone. Someone picked up and dropped every item to tag it for despawn. I'm just not sure if they are doing it to try to ruin the game for others or they are horders that have brought their disorder to the game? Who would take 14 hard hats? Who would take 13 beanies and 12 pipes and 7 wrenches and 10 hammers? Why am I finding food, guns, ammo, clothes, vests, magazines over against the walls of military bases in the bushes? If you don't pick up the can of food it will stay there till someone takes it or if someone picks it up and drops it, it will despawn after an unknown to me amount of time.

Well I finally got to not see an Invisible Zombie in the military camp south of NW Airfield. I think it's a zombie that has fallen underground. I kicked myself for not trying to run upstairs and see if I could pull it out of the ground where I could dispatch it. Has anyone tried the up the stairs with that irritating wretch?

Hehehe great story! Unless your no where near the coast when you start, go search the ground at the waters edge where it is gravel looking, it says search for stones, once ya find one, put it in your hand and click on the same type of ground where it says craft a stone knife. That can be used for lots of things, one of which is opening cans. If you are not near the coast when you start, I recommend that you head to the coast at some point and make a knife. It takes up 1 spot instead of the 2 spots. Better luck next spawn! My worst spawning was when I was dropping my stuff in a house I recognized before I died of zombie attack, then I got to that house again after a long run and dumped the stuff I had into that same backpack before I froze to death. Third spawn I was in pretty good shape when I made it to that backpack and scooped up that loot. I found that the pipe works great at opening cans in a pinch.

LOL, makes me think about some poor officer in a heated gun battle in LA that got hit in the hand and he couldn't reload his pistol because some of his hand was jammed in the slide of his pistol. I can mostly tell when I see screwed up boots, but lately I have seen some gear that looked damaged and says pristine. Also when I repair something it still says damaged even though it is now pristine. I drop it and pick it up and it says pristine.

Last night I was running from an invisible zombie at the military base south of NW Airfield and I ran over a 75 round drum magazine. After a big loop, I got back and found that there was a lot of stuff in the bushes. I server hopped a couple times and found that was the case on 8 servers. I had posted before about despawning gear and that players are moving it or picking it up and dropping it to make it so no one else can get it because it will be hidden and despawn or it will soon despawn after dropping it and that seems to be the case. It's also possible that they are hiding them in the bushes on multiple servers so they can run to there tent and dropoff a bunch of gear and then run back and bounce the servers for a big load of mags etc. On another note I checked the helicopter near that base and about 300 feet from the helicopter, I found a bunch of helicopter spawn loot. Way away from the helicopter, not sure if it was moved or if that is the screwed up spawn distance thing that is happening right now, I have never seen it that far away.

I always wear military boots for the slim chance I will find a combat knife which fits into a holder in the boots. Boyaah!

When the patch first came out .55 tents were everywhere. They are probably back in the old .54 location now, rare and in the apartments. Axes seem to be in the fire station still, but ya all I find is damaged ones.

It looks like the standard green rectangle tent package like they have at K-Mart. It sits on the ground and looks about 3 feet long and 12 inches high and wide rectangle. The player tent stands end up in a very abnormal balancing act, the army tent sits on the ground normal and I have only seen it in the half dome building with the rows of cots in the military tent clusters like the one way out west and the one at nw airfield. The tent is big like a family tent that you can walk into, it has windows and a door you can open and close. It has a crap load of room, but I'm told it has more then it currently shows because the slider doesn't work to go down further. It is tree green so it really hides well, even though it is huge. :-D Luck! Oh also it says it protects you from the elements while inside. :-D Oh lol, the most important thing is that it takes the place of your backpack, so you really have to want it! Since you have to go hide your backpack somewhere, put on the tent and run way off somewhere in the middle of nowhere, where you can find easily again, setup the tent and run back and get your backpack. :-)

I would love to do some testing in that tent some time, close the windows and door and let people shoot at me. :-D See if I can shoot out the windows at people.

It was quite awhile ago that the testing was done. I'm not sure the devs have changed it. I'm not sure if anyone has tested it lately. The pristine anything did well, damaged etc did not do well in the protecting the player. There were tests with hand gun shots to the head with ballistic helmets etc. Check out the old videos and the guy explains all the types of tests and the results. Damaged bad ..pristine anything good. Now it is more important than ever, since it seems there is going to be a lot more getting hit and those kits are going to be extremely helpful to keep you in tip top shape. Example: Got clobbered, healed up, repaired gear. Move on, got clobbered, healed up, repaired gear. Everything was beautiful. No more repair kits or food or drink, got clobbered several times and some of my gear was damaged and got jumped again on my way to camp and my pants went from damaged to ruined after a couple lucky hits and ruined them and everything inside them. Why is pristine important, because it means protection.

I get a headache looking for stuff, because you usually can't see anything and searches discover ammo. The stuff that falls thru the ground or floor and is not visible, but still pops up on a ground search is tedious to say the least. Mosin ammo always brings a smile to my face and it can be just about anywhere it seems. The trick seems to be meticulous meticulous meticulous searches.

So I run through this town and there are no zombies, which is odd. I'm relaxed and alone on the server and hit every house. I grab all the stuff I can use and leave the rest untouched and leave town. About an hour later, there is 20 people on the server and a couple hours later it settles down to about 3 people and I am on my way back to my water pump and then to my camp and I decided to check the zombie population at the same town and still there are no zombies. I decide to hit every house again and see if some awesome item has spawned or maybe something was dropped. The town is spotless as if someone vacuumed the town. I believe that players are picking up every item and then dropping them to trigger despawn. For what reason I am not sure. If you leave the item untouched it will stay there forever, pick it up and drop it and it will vanish in some unknown to me amount of time. All the hard hats, welding hats, stun rods, sweaters, down jackets etc were gone. Everything was gone. There wasn't even a wrench left. Did the Grinch steal Christmas?

Hmm looks like you only read one line in my post. Tons of stuff, a couple hours later, absolutely nothing in the same place.

I have noticed that when I had my settings on all low it seemed jerky. The real end result of my fiddling with the settings is being able to shoot zombies from a distance and looking into buildings far off to see if I see any players roaming around. Another issue I had was that bushes would not display and only showed a black shadow, which was hard to determine if it was a bush or a player in black. At this point I have objects and terrain on highest setting. It used to be that you could not see at night unless you had HDR on low, I'm not sure on that one anymore, but it's still on low. Texture detail is on normal and everything else is disabled. Now at that point you can adjust the resolution to make it playable if it is not at those settings. I have 1680 x 1050 monitor and have it set a bit lower then that resolution to smooth it out. FYI the real test of the smoothness is downtown in a big city and try to run around the block a few times and make some u turns. :-O