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Barrels are hard to find because you can stash them so easily. You either got to be lucky to run into one like me a few days ago when I ran into a green barrel or they're not hidden well. Remember, you can stash them basically anywhere as long as they are hidden well.

Some things that need to be mentioned: even if you're healthy, that doesn't mean your shock is at 0. Healthy means that your blood is at 5000 as well as your health. Fact is that infected do more blood damage than shock damage. You're most likely to pass out when your blood is low by hits from infected rather than pass out because of high shock and high blood. That's also the most common cause of death, blood loss. You will very likely die because your health hit 0. Of course it can be a combination of blood loss and increase of shock. If you get shot by an high powerful round you will take a lot of blood damage but also shock which will render you unconscious immediately. If you're bleeding and it's serious you will bleed out. Once I got shot but what I believe was a FAL, right before I passed out I was at 2500 blood. When I woke up not long later (maybe 1 minute or so) I was at 600 blood and went unconscious right before my bandaging finished. Eventually I died because of the blood loss. Also, if you get hit by an infected and it's hitting you for example in the door of the quonset hut doesn't mean your animation went on. Your clientside position is at that point different than the server one. And the serverside position is leading so the infected will hit you where the server thinks you are. I believe that vaulting (pressing V) will synchronize your position. Punching an object will synchronize your position as well I believe.

Guess those are holy infected, their touch is magical. Had it happen once as well. Really? Even when you were in a firefight? I don't get it that frequently but sometimes when I get shot my screen will flash red and my character will scream.

That's not entirely true. When one of your bones gets a significant amount of damage your screen will flash red and/or your character will cry out in pain for a second.

I do agree, it has been fun. Still, I don't like the fact that we're playing on a 1st/3rd person server but hey, sometimes you need change your habits in order to come to terms with the rest. To those glitchers: better pack up your tents because we will find them and we will get in and will let your camp disappear in the void. If I catch you there, I'm going to report your ass. We found 2 already in a short time span, in the end we will find your camp as well. It seemed one of the 2 camps was from a group, they had quite some stuff. Pook mentioned that he saw a lot of PvP around that area as well which isn't normally the case. Sadly enough it dawned on us recently that tents are nowhere safe on the map, literally nowhere. So don't be a douchebag and hide your camps in area's where people can't go or shouldn't go. I'm also making a private report on the feedback tracker about this, hopefully they will fix it soon.

Wait, what? Can you please explain this?

I have had this happen in 0.60 as well. I click on tan leather pelts and then the server crashed or restarted, resulting in an unusable barrel. After poking holes in it, it despawned because they weren't persistent at that point. It was on a private hive by the way and there were no barrels spawning anymore which left me pretty salty.

No, they are definitely in the game but they are kind of rare. I found one yesterday or the day before in Tisy I believe.

That looks awesome, good job!

What the function is of the inventory of the fireplace beats me. I always use it as a trash can so I can despawn trash like paper, etc. easier. I wouldn't put food in there either because it will get ruined as well.

Yes because you would have at least one log or stick. If you don't the fireplace will be destroyed/disassembled. No problem, still it could be changed or bugged so let us know the outcome.

You're putting them in the wrong spot. Hover over the fireplace and choose "Add as attachment" or drop them in the dashed bordered box. Are you sure as well that you did everything right? It wouldn't make sense if they would burn so fast.

You must make a lot of friends in-game with your attitude and probably shooting everything what moves. Yeah, I walked into a lot of guys like you. In the end they kissed my boots, either dead or with a grey screen and left humiliated by me with no weapon and ammo to continue their life and live with the shame. That's actually my favorite thing to do. I rather shoot someone unconscious, tie them up, take their ammo and guns which can make them dangerous to me and give them a speech. After that I let them live and have to carry that with the rest of their character's life. The fact that they tried to take me or my group on, failed miserably and got humiliated by me afterwards. Not to toot my own horn but my aim is way above the average player and I'm not the only one in our group with a good aim. Keep that in mind when trying to look for our camp. See you in Chernarus! :)

God why are players such wussies. Logout when shit hits the fan, third-person someone in an house and shoot an unarmed player. Probably to make up for his shitty aim and the fact that he got rekt and is taking his frustration out on you. Gotta love the DayZ players. *sigh*

Are you sure you are talking about big logs and not about sticks? Wooden sticks don't lost long which makes sense but firewood does burn a lot longer. Of course I'm not ruling out that there might be a bug with fireplaces at the moment since I haven't lit one in a while. The two different items: Wooden stick: http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Wooden_Stick Firewood: http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Firewood

I do agree in some way. Although, it might not be the problem of the CLE. Maybe someone just looted the houses right before you and you just missed the guy. That´s why you might find in some parts of the map no (usable) loot and in other parts you'll find a lot. I do have to say that I hate it when I hit a town and there is a shit ton of guns, sometimes even multiple in one house.

Thank you for avenging my death! The guy caught me by complete surprise. Not sure if I did that or the game did that but for some reason I put my gun on my back. Might've been because of the broken leg animation or me pressing the hotkey it in a reflex reaction. If that didn't happen I would've hit him one or two times. To be fair, his aim was not that great, his first shots missed. Plus he stopped shooting for some reason when I broke my legs, probably thought I was dead.

Is that a challenge? Don't let me catch you in the act though. :)

Too rare? You mean too common!

I'd say add one to Gorka as well or maybe Stary Sobor. It's really frustrating that you need to go all the way up north, to the coast or all the way to the west to get a firefighter axe once you're inland.

As the most people already stated, these things will hit DayZ eventually which is a thing I'm really looking forward to. Although I need to warn you, the intention of the developers is to make bases in such a way that no base is safe. What they mean with this is that there will always be ways to get in someone's base. Hiding a camp is almost impossible, it will get found at some point. Just to give you an idea, this weekend we found a massive barrel camp which was probably there from the beginning but was found in the end. It was well hidden but was stumbled upon by luck. I tend to disagree here. I love to share my knowledge about the game with other people unless they are bashing the game or the developers. We're a community, we are here to help each other.

To be honest, I rarely see any hackers and can not even remember when I was killed last time by an hacker. I was left with an odd flavor about a death a few days ago though, but of course I'm not sure if it was an hacker. Obvious hackers are hard to find (those who teleport (to) people, kill everyone by "carpet bombing", etc.) these days. I'm certain there will be people who can hide their hacks very well and dying by their hand will not ring any bells. Your best choice would be to play on a private hive server by the way because these servers are next to the anti-cheat also monitored by the active server admins and the community which play there. In my opinion, Bohemia has successfully made hacking harder and is also trying to fix all duping methods as soon as possible. They're certainly trying to keep the game as clean as possible. :)

Ha, rape field. On-topic: I guess we will have to wait and see what the visual overhaul will bring us. I know that there will be much more variance in tree's, might be the same with grass. Although it might be a good idea, maybe we're already getting things like you mentioned. :)

Just like Cold, I'm 6 days shy for my second year of DayZ and have played it approximately 1900 hours and still rising almost every day. In my opinion, despite it's still in alpha, the bugs, frustrating moments here and there, I got my money's worth plenty of times. DayZ is my favorite game and the game which is spent most hours in compared to the time I own the game. Because of DayZ I started to like survival games and realistic shooters. I personally would advice you to buy it, before you will get bored you will already have your money's worth unless it's not your type of game. But keep in mind, the game is still in development. The game will be more expensive at some point so if you decide to buy it, I would do it now. To reflect on your post, I see you own Arma 3. If you like Arma 3, you will probably like DayZ as well and in my opinion the controls and character interaction feel much more fluent. Not to mention the new upcoming character controller and animation system. The game gets a lot of negativity, that's true. However, most of this negativity is just frustation, trolling or lack of knowledge about game development which is critical for this game. You need to understand that the build you are currently playing might be totally different in the future and that a lot of things you know or have learned may be due to change in the (near) future. About your specific examples: vehicles are currently in but still need some work but people really wanted them and the developers needed more data so they pushed them to Stable. So people who are negative about vehicles don't have a point anyway because they wanted them so badly, even if their current state would be bad. Base building is currently in-game in a very basic concept in the form of building a camp with tents and/or barrels. But the end-product of base building looks very promising. There is some information about it here and there and if you want I can post some links about that subject. If you need more information, do let us know. The rest is up to you. Maybe see you in Chernarus!

Part of this problem is because of desync on high populated servers. Our group has migrated to high populated private hive servers and you can clearly see the impact on AI in general when the server is full. This is a known and acknowledged problem by the developers and they are working on it. However, I do believe that sometimes you might encounter very few infected because the maximum amount has been hit. Those are my observations which of course I can not fully confirm. I would say that 8 out of the 10 infected I fight, I can kill them without them even hitting me. And I'm talking about infected which have aggro on me, it's just a case of learning to time and dodge their attacks. Learn their aggro distance and how they work and you can successfully loot an entire town with only getting hit a few times. Basically what you need to do is when they're about to start their attack animation, strafe to the right, turn towards the left and swing your melee (I prefer the Firefighter Axe or Splitting Axe). This will "stun" them, giving you the opportunity for your next attack and killing them quickly. I also play agressive towards them. If I know I can't avoid aggro, I will run up to them and start attacking them before they aggro. Most of the times I don't even use my pistol and specially not my main weapon but rather melee them.