Tonyeh

^ This type of answer to the question being posed is never helpful.

Is it 4 hours for some things and 8 for others? Or is it somewhere between 4 and 8 hours for each object?

AFAIK, it's 48 hrs that items last at the moment. This is getting drastically reduced in the next patch.

"In Cherno..." "I moved to Berezino..." There's your problem right there. Get off the coast as soon as you can and move inland. You're wasting your time farting around in those areas.

Nobody has ever said this.

Well, players aren't going to have the option of mortal combat with zeds anymore, cos as I understand it, player hands are going end up bleeding if they get into too many fights with their bare hands. Things are going to be a little tougher starting off, especially when you spawn with a load of badly damaged clothes. My current toon ended up with a cold cos he spawned with a torn up T Shirt and a pair of nearly ruined shorts. As far as fruit spawning in concerned, it takes a bit of getting used to. You basically have to run up and down orchards to make the fruit spawn as trees only put out if a player is near. So, getting to a big area where a lot of fruit spawning trees are is a big advantage and you can stuff yourself enough to get to somewhere that will yield some decent loot. But I was the same, I didn't understand the mechanic either and used to just search a tree's vicinity, find bugger all, and then run off in a panic.

Don't bury your crates. Hide them under a bush as best you can. Any crate I've buried has been found. The ones I leave above ground don't.

"the non-naive players" 🙄 Fuckin hell.

It's more than possible to starve to death as a newspawn. I lost a geared toon a few days ago and went through two newspawns before I got a third up and running properly. I think your starting pos has a lot to do on whether you find food easy or not. The third toon started north of Cherno and there were enough trees to give him fruit enough to head up to Zelno, where there's a huge orchard, and he gorged himself on more fruit. Then he found a knife and all was well. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Spawning in parts of the west coast, it isn't so easy.

"Naive"...LOL. I've been playing the game for 6 years, and I play ONLY on official servers from New York, to Holland to Germany, etc, and I have seen no hard evidence of cheaters. I know that cheating exists, because I've seen YouTube vids showing such things and sites selling ESP and aimbot crap. But I have never seen them in the actual game itself. Report numbers are nonsense, because they are only allegations mostly, and completely free of any actual evidence.

I'd question most reports to be honest. I've been playing this game since 2014 and I can say that I have absolutely no hard evidence of hacking, despite losing characters in some dubious circumstances. I lost a character a couple of weeks ago. I logged in, in the middle of a field, in the middle of nowhere, on a low pop server, and as soon as I was in I heard three distanced shots and my guy was hit in the chest and the head. Now, I could scream "aimbot" and rant about cheaters. But I have ZERO evidence to back that up. I reckon a lot of these reports are down to people getting killed by unseen players and immediately getting salty and crying foul, but with nothing tangible to back up the claim. So report numbers are pretty meaningless.

I've yet to actually bother building a base. To all intents and purposes they're kinda useless, so I've heard. It's basically advertising your gear to people who'll happily spend a couple of hours knocking the shit out of your walls to get to the goods inside. And if you're a lone wolf, like I am, the chances of you being around to protect the base at all times is nil. So far, I've had success just leaving my stuff on the ground.

Cheers. I thought there was going to be a second lot zapped. I'm on one at the moment and I don't want my toon to vanish. 😄

Which temp servers are getting removed and on what date?

I've been there on occasion. I rarely travel to coastal areas TBH. But I tend not to find that many dry bags. Most probably the servers I was on. For the time being, I'm happy with the crates. They can be almost invisible under a bush or a tree, whereas the bags are brightly coloured beacons. Haven't tried building a base yet. Had a tent for a wee while, which was fun. But that got nicked as well, so there's not much point in doing that again.

I seem to find more nails than dry sacks. 🤨 Didn't know the sacks had greater capacity than a crate though. I do know this, however. The stash I am using presently is still intact and I never bothered burying it. Whereas any stash I've buried before was nicked fairly quickly. Even one that was, literally, in the middle of nowhere on a low pop server. The odds on anyone walking by it, seeing the mound of dirt, AND having a shovel in their hands would have been ridiculous. I've heard that there are exploits and cheats that allow players to "see" dirt mounds and therefore dig up stashes. So, for the time being, I'm just leaving the crates above ground.

Alcohol doesn't cure colds. 😉 It only offers a very brief relief. As far as food is concerned, I'd actually make animal food sources harder to find in the game. I can't go ten minutes on the map without hearing a chicken, goat, cow or deer. + Boars are around in 1.09. Saw one yesterday. Shot it point blank in the head with a 7.62/39 round and it ran off. That's just silly. Lastly, I don't know what the timer is for food rot. But it should happen over a number of game days. In other words, if I kill and skin an animal for its meat and find that 30 minutes later it was rotten, that would simply be dumb. Rotting food is a great idea, but it needs to happen over quite an extended period.

The mod was good fun, but it was bloody stupid too. Everyone was geared to the teeth in minutes, got helicopters, and had ridiculous bases built in a matter of hours/days. They get raided, you get killed...rinse/repeat. It got tedious and there was no atmosphere at all. It ended up being just another death match online game, where dying meant nothing. You just geared up again and went on another killing spree. DayZ standalone is and always was supposed to be a different kettle of fish entirely. It's not meant to be the mod, but a post apocalyptic survival game and, frankly, it's MUCH better than the mod ever was, flaws and all. I have my complaints about DayZ, as much as the other fella. But I have also had some of the best gaming experiences I've ever had with it too and I've been playing computer games since the 80's. If people want to play the mod so much, go and play it. There are still hives open, as far as I know. There are certainly issues that need looking at in the current DayZ game for sure. I will bang on about the terrible effects of "count_in_hoarder" all day long for particular loot items and how bad it's been for the CLE. There are also a number of other game mechanics I'd change in a heartbeat and there's various glitchy things that could be fixed as well. But I absolutely don't want to see the game turn into the joke that the mod became, which was essentially ARMA 2 with zombies.

EXP is usually for people to check stuff out, though. It's not the "real" game as it were. So, there's nothing riding on saying Hello to another player and getting killed. Your EXP toon is going to be wiped anyway when experimental gets released, so there really is nothing to lose. On official servers, Hello will get you a bullet in the face usually. But yeh, the rule is simple. Avoid others if you're not 100% sure. Otherwise all that lovely loot is gone down the Swanny.

In a word...yes. Been playing for 6 years and I can count the number of friendly interactions on one hand. It's even worse now, because the loot economy is so fucked. People have tons of loot buried or kept in bases, that the good stuff won't spawn, or at least spawn in readily findable numbers. So, the instances of KOS increases. Of all the things that the devs need to look into, this is the most important IMO. But, get it out of your head that DayZ is some sort of friendly game where people talk to each other and swap stuff. The most likely encounter you'll have is getting shot in the back by someone you never even saw, because players want to steal what you have... ...and then there's the wanker snipers who sit there all day trying to shoot new players running on the coast looking for food. But that's a whole different level of shithead. 😆 DayZ is an unforgiving survival game, where the point is simply to live as long as you can, and can be a source of great frustration and disappointment at times. But you'll never play another game like it.

DayZ is supposed to be taking place in an apocalypse where everything has broken down and the world's been thrown backwards. Why do people want loads of cars, planes, helicopters and now a functioning rail network? That all kinda defeats the idea of the game.

Well ATM, I'm using the 101. Aside for the rarity of ammo, I can't see that much of a difference yet. Haven't used it on full auto though, so the recoil hasn't been an issue.

After, literally, months of searching, today I stumbled across 3 AK weapons. A KA-M and 2 KA-101's and believe it or not they were all in the same location! I didn't know what to do with myself. LOL. Thing is, I have never used a KA-101. Only the baby AK and a KA-M. So...the age old debate...which one is the better weapon? Leaving aside the availability of gunsights, mags and ammo. Cos the KA-M stuff is far easier to find. But gun wise, is the 101 better than the M, or vice versa? Their bullet damage is the same, if I'm correct.

You've only been playing for a week, relax. You'll get better.

The rain is great. Spent 10 minutes in my tent yesterday, while it was lashing outside and planned my next helicopter route.