Tonyeh

Does anyone know if you can delete servers in the RECENT tab on the launcher?

Quick question... How do you know that a player is a hacker? I've been playing DayZ since 2014. Took a two year break and I'm back. But I honestly cannot say that I have ever encountered "hackers" on the public servers. The only servers I play on.

Press TAB to see what's in the vicinity of something. You'll know an object in in something or someone because there will be a little + beside their info when you hover the mouse of them/it.

You'll learn. Dayz is ridiculously punishing on new players, because you start with a practically empty stomach. But you do get better. I came back to it after two years away and I too "sucked". But after a little while you figure things out and this place is good for tips as well. Get a knife ASAP, this will allow you to cut bark and long and short sticks. This means that any wildlife you kill you can cook if you make a fire using a bit of the rags you start with and a short stick. When you eat cooked food, you're on the pigs back...so to speak and you can last for hours. Head inland, don't stay on the coast. Don't drink from rivers or ponds and pour out any water you find in bottles. I don't use any online maps, but in most towns and cities, there are water fountains. Drink from them. If I had my way, I'd change a number of things about the game. I'd start each player on a full stomach, to give them a fighting chance at the start and not make the early part of the game JUST a desperate race for food and water. That gets dull real fast. I would make sources of food much rarer. In other words, less canned food (although there is a LOT less than there used to be) and less wildlife (to make room for more zombies). Trust me, in a while you'll get to know the ropes and realise that 5 hours is nothing. I've hundreds of hours in the game and I've only just started farming and hunting. LOL. You'll get to understand that it's not hunger or zombies that will kill you mostly, it'll be other players, cos they're mostly arseholes who can't think of any other play style but shooting. In a few weeks, THAT is what you'll be most pissed off about.

I've been one shotting everything with it so far.

Cheers LA. I've been looking in the cabins, but haven't seen one. Just unlucky I spose. Pity, I am using the mosin for the first time, but it's no fun without a scope.

Anyone know if the PU Scope is spawning? I swear I've been up and down the map for the last couple of days and not seen a single one.

I verified the cache. Seems to have done the trick so far.

^ I dunno. I think fires should radiate more heat than they currently do. Too often I've sat beside a fire in the open and lost heat. Whereas I fell I should be able to get warm sitting by the fire/stove. I've never got a red temp unless I've got waaay to close and I'm burning myself on the fireplace. But that happens because I am trying to get close enough to regenerate my heat level. A campfire, stove, house fire should make you temp go up from a foot away. I shouldn't have to sit on top of one like a firebug. The Hypothermia thing I've never seen. But isn't Chernorus supposed to be set during Autumn/winter months? Unless you're talking about Livonia, which I don't have.

Playing last night reminded me of why I returned to this game. I had my character for a few days and was in the process of gearing up nicely. This character was going to concentrate on hunting and survival, but I needed more gear to be able to do that comfortably. It's also the first character that I've set up a camp for and I am going to be stashing loot for as long as I can last. I was up around the north of the map heading west and I foolishly wandered off the trail I was on. It was the evening and getting close to nightfall and I heard in the distance wolves howling. I thought "Cool, I've never seen or heard wolves in DayZ before". I wander on a bit further and heard the howls again, only this time it was louder and I got a bit worried. After another few minutes of heading west, I was suddenly attacked by a pack of at least 10 wolves. They were all circling and growling. Part of me thought that it was great and part of me though Oh crap. A few more attacks and I was losing blood rapidly. I had gotten out my Mosin rifle, the only firing weapon I'd found so far and tried to pick off the wolves. I'm a bloody awful shot and was also panicking about the rapid blood loss. I killed one wolf and then I noticed a barn structure so I ran to that and went inside. The wolves followed me, but I managed to kill 4 of them with the rifle and my axe. The rest ran off. I was barely able to bandage my wounds, before I blacked out from the blood loss. When I came to, I sat there for a while, going in and out of consciousness. I couldn't stay where I was, because I had no way of sealing myself off from another attack. So I looked outside for somewhere to go. Luckily enough there was one of those static caravan trailers beside the building, so I ran in there. I was going in and out of consciousness, when I head the sound of footsteps. I thought it was a person, but then heard panting and figured it was another pack (or the same one) of wolves. They couldn't get into me in the trailer, so I took a quick peek to confirm. There were 5 wolves hanging around the outside. By this time I had regenerated enough blood to stop blacking out, so I decided to shoot the wolves from the trailer. You can't shoot out of the window of the trailer, so I had to I open the door to fire. I popped one of them, but not before another one jumped at me and got me good again. I bandaged the wound with my last bandage. Another blood letting and I was dead. But I had to get rid of the wolves before I could move off. I opened the door again, and killed another, then quickly closed it before the rest could attack. I repeated this one more time and eventually had three dead wolves outside. The others fled. I skinned the wolves outside the trailer and in the barn building and the headed west for a few more kilometres, where I found a remote farmhouse. I would settle there for the night and regenerate my blood levels. I chopped some wood and put it in the stove. I then cooked the wolf meat that I gathered earlier and sat out the night, nice and warm, and well fed and watered. All in all, the whole encounter lasted about 45 minutes to an hour and it was one of the most tense experiences I've had in any game I've played. DayZ has a lot of problems still (which is remarkable after 7 years of development), but it still retains the ability to provide these kind of tense moments that no other game can provide.

Drivers are up to date. I'll see if verifying the files will do something.

Anyone want to tell me what this is, cos I'm getting all the time on 1.08

I think the heating mechanics of the fires aren't up to much either. They don't seem to make you very warm, unless you're sitting on top of them and then you risk burning yourself.

Hand drill kit isn't working. Cannot start a fire with one. edit: You have to be outside it seems.

^ So, the above may have been a bit of an over-reaction. 😬 I've been back playing DayZ for about 5 days now and getting more and more used to it...again...after 2.5 years of not playing it. I think the last version I played was 0.60 or 0.61? So there have been a lot of changes made. I am playing this time around without using izurvive or any maps and also I'm staying away from the DayZ wiki too. So, it's been a pretty big learning curve. But, also quite enjoyable...once I figured out how how to kill game, skin it, make a fire and cook it. LOL. I still think the player should start with a full stomach though. But, I'd make food sources scarcer, if that makes sense. But as things stand, the first hour or two can be just far too punishing on new players. A few points about what I do like though: The new stamina mechanic is great. If only for stopping players from tear assing around the map like a load of maniacs. Getting from here to there now requires some time and patience. The new interface is nice as well and let's me know at a quick glance what my stats are. Playing this game without the use of a map has been a real journey of discovery. I'd totally forgotten all of the locations, except for Cherno in the South and the NWAF. Imagine my surprise when I finally got to the NWAF and saw just how much that had changed. It's MASSIVE now. Christ almighty, that viagra shotgun (or whatever it's called) is a doozy! Took down two cows with one blast! I'd also forgotten just how tense this game can be and remembered that DayZ was one of the few games that could get my stomach tightened and my heart racing. I've only met 5 people in 5 days, but every encounter has been extremely exciting. Except for one KoS, but that happened because I got too complacent, after hours of jogging about the map, apparently by myself. Duh. Never think you're alone. The added animal life is great. I love killing chickens 🤪 I had a completely random encounter with a wolf too that was really weird. It just kept looking at me and sort of running away a bit and then back to me. I almost felt like I could have tamed it as a companion! But I killed it instead and cut up the meat. I understand that there have been more animals added too. Don't tell me, but I swear that I can hear stags grunting. I like the fact that P no longer brings up the names and number of people on the server. There's probably another way to do it, but I don't want to know what it is. It just means that you really have to be careful where you go on every server you play. Diseases are great. No more filling bottles from still bodies of water, or just drinking them where I find them, cos you might end up with cholera or whatever. Also, one of my toons caught a cold and was sneezing all over the place...🤣 The new zombies are great. I really like the priest. Nice touch. A few bad points: More knives are needed in the game. I spent about 7 hours yesterday looking for any kind of knife and found none. Yeh, I know it's possible to make a temp knife, but I haven't found any rocks yet to do that. But seriously, steak knives and kitchen knives need to be more readily available in civvie areas. The lack of AK47's is just odd. It's Russia we're playing in. 🤔 What's the story here? Combat with zombies is still a bit of an issue. Hit detection can be a little "off", shall we say. This has been a problem since day 1. There should be waaaay more zombies in the game. Although I did see about 10-15 all gathered outside a police station in some town, which I thought was great. But I reckon someone was either inside or had been just recently to attract them there, It still looked good though and I had to abandon my plans to check out the cop shop and go somewhere else instead, which should be a feature of the game. Duct tape is silly. It's the cure all for everything. I really shouldn't be able to repair a gun with it. Footwear wears out far too quickly. The length of life on shoes and boots needs to be looked at. I really shouldn't have to change boots every session.

Another issue I've noticed. Car doors won't open. The game gives you the option to open/close the car doors, boots and bonnets, but they don't actually do it on screen. It's no biggie, but it looks weird. You can still get what ever goodies are inside, which often aren't much use anyway. Also, as I mentioned earlier, the energy from food and drink seem to be getting used at a much slower rate. Is anyone else seeing this? A couple of nights ago, I was starving in a matter of a couple of hours. Last night I got rid of all the food in my backpack so I could have space.

When I first loaded up 1.08, my character from the night before was gone on the menu page. It was just one of the default males. But I just hit the "play" button and jumped into the last server I was on and my character was there. When I quit out of that server, I could see my character back on the menu page.

Ah right. I only had the one guy.

That's what threw me off. When you start a session, the character appears though.

Is anybody else's food and drink levels not going down?

So player characters are still getting wiped with every update? 😕 Correction...they're not. 🙂

I'm either walking or jogging everywhere. Not sprinting. That's actually one of the new mechanics that I like about the release version. Everyone sprinting around the map like a maniac was ridiculous. Plus now you have to be careful about how you tackle zombies too because you can't just run away like before. Although I still think there should be far more of them. Anyway, back to the food thing. The scarcity of food is ok. But starting off with a half empty stomach is my problem. It forces the player to have to immediately scrap around for food every single time and it's a chore that becomes really tiresome, really fast. As for the type of foodstuff, I'm limiting my searches to anything really. Apples will do just fine. However, so far, I have died before I could get hold of everything needed to make a fire to actually cook the chickens I've slaughtered. Plus, looting infected is proving to be not that great with yielding goods, I've found. I'm on my, I'd say, 10th restart in a couple of days, since I jumped back in...and every time I've starved to death with a couple of hours playtime. With my most recent toon, I have about 4 pieces of raw chicken flesh, but no way to cook them and I've eaten all the apples and pears that I scavenged, plus a can of spaghetti. So, unless I can find another apple tree, or matches (or whatever) to start a fire, I'm looking at another starvee real soon.

Any chance that players can spawn on a full stomach? You know, so we can at least have a chance of lasting long enough to find a bit of food? I haven't played in a couple of years and decided to jump back in, but each time I've starved to death within an hour or two of playing. It's getting kinda silly. I'm not saying that the world should be choc-a-bloc with goodies, but dying after about an hour after spawning is killing any kind of entertainment the game might have,

I've jumped back in after a couple of years away. I'd love to be able to say the same things as you OP, but I can't. I've tried changing my key bindings so I can use the arrow keys (my preferred layout), but they won't change. Plus the up arrow is locked as a volume control for the mike. I've tried to change my gender a number of times and I couldn't. Eventually had to throw myself off of a building and then respawn as a man. I mean seriously. This game has been in development for YEARS. On the plus side, the game seems harder than it was the last time I left it. Maybe that's just down to me being a re-noob.

Yep. Played for the last 6 hours. Found a hoodie and a kids schoolbag. Got shot. That's me done.