Blackheart 5.56

I died from hypothermia for the first time in ages yesterday. Luckily had a barrel with me so stopped and filled it up, then dropped my hunter backpack and tried to make a fire, fell unconscious just as I was trying to light it. Waited to see if I would wake up but died about 5 min later. Got a good respawn and was back to my stuff in about 15 minutes. Funny thing is it was not raining before hand. Think I put on some damp clothes but was running around at the time so should have warmed up. Noticed later back at camp that it was "raining" while the sun was out (not unusual irl) but there was no sound of rain, nor visual rain falling, but if I looked closely at a truck or my backpack I could see rain sheeting off of it. Filled up a couple of canteens in this condition, figured it was a bug of some sort, and combined with not having on rain gear or a gorka earlier, was what contributed to the hypothermia.

I found a single infected in the usual place (at the beginning of Novo, near the Humvee) yesterday night. Slowed down to admire the sight, and he glitched through the truck front to back. Once at the back of the truck he got up in the cargo area. I tried to drive off with him, thinking it would be cool to drive him around with me, but he kept falling out the back. He eventually ended up standing on top of the cab of the truck. Took some screen shots and then left him there. No graphics issues but then I didn't get out of the truck.

I had a fireplace the other day with rocks around it, a cooking tripod and cooking pot. Broke it all down later, including the tripod.

That would work but let's get some Javelin missile systems spawning at NATO heli crashes. Add a little pizzazz to the game! While we're at it, once base building and barricading is in let's have some AT4-CS in game as well. Heck I'd even settle for RPG's.

I see model 70 rifles all over the place. Mostly I imagine, because I am not looking for them and don't want one. I mostly see them in houses... pretty much all types. Have also seen .308 ammo to a much lesser extent in two story houses.

Sometimes you just need to take a break and relax a little bit. :P

I've found a few AKM's but not a single AK-101 anywhere, even after server restarts. AK-101 mags I have seen, along with 5.56 ammo.

I would like to see more AKM's in the game. I would argue that as a post Soviet state, it should be swimming in AKM's. Although in all fairness many would have been replaced with the AK-74 and AK101. Lot's of SKS's all over the place, seems pretty realistic as well as I'm sure many were relegated to the home guard and ceremonial duty. Agree an AKM would be very popular during an apocalypse. Hell they are popular right now. I have 9 AK variants and 2 RPK's, all in 7.62x39. Had a Khyber Pass AK-74 build and also a Bulgarian Krink but sold those off.

I would like to see an ATV in the game. 800cc variety that will take 2 up and pillion rider can shoot while mounted. Maybe a rack in front and back that can hold gear or a gas can or two.

Since I discovered crawling zombies I've mostly only been trying to make them crawlers, not kill them. Success ratio has not been spectacular but the ones that do crawl I leave alive. Kind of like a zombie bread crumb trail.

Having mods will be great. I think I played vanilla Skyrim for 2-3 days before I started modding the ever loving bejesus out of it. Hard to imagine playing vanilla again. DayZ may well be the same in the future.

I concur with everything you said. Awesome that they are going to include single player, and that we will be able to host our own servers at some point. And mod support. Can't wait!

Same here. I was actually wondering when I was gonna need to start carry water purification tablets. Guess I've been lucky so far. Wells are plentiful enough that I'll probably just start planning my routes around them. In case of Cholera I like the stash your stuff, suicide and run back idea. No persistence though so better hope there's no server reset before you get back to your stuff!

Also found one in a shed but near Zelenogorsk. Someone mentioned hunting sheds and I've been checking them religiously but no joy in those locations.

I think they did modify the fall damage. I took about a 5 foot fall dicking around in a rock quarry and only chipped a bone and ruined my boots. A shot of morphine (found at a police station) took care of the chipped bone and found some new boots on a guard building porch. FYI crashing a truck into stuff also ruins your boots. And maybe pants too I think.

Just found an AKM, swapped the AK74 for it, dumped all my 5.45x39 ammo and mags, picked up one 30rd AKM mag and was looking at a 75rd drum stuck in vest when the server restarted. New loot, no drum when I got back on. Checked a few of my new favorite porches and found a drum and another 30rd mag. Although now that you can reliably two hit kill zombies with a fire axe I doubt I'll be shooting much.

I was at Balota and had checked out the loot around the eastern jail building and a short while later after a server restart all the loot was different. Similar for the most part, but different. Could be that some servers are behaving differently, like the ones that weren't connected to the hive for whatever reason and were not resetting properly?

Prison Island has all the TTsKO pants and jackets you could ever want. Some Gorka gear and cargo pants as well but much more TTsKO.

Somewhat related I have found lots of 75rd drums and some 30rd AK mags but have not seen a single AKM anywhere. Have found lots of AK74's and a few Krinkovs. Are the AKM's spawning in really random places now or have I just been unlucky?

I had something happen for the first time last night, not sure what it was. I was running and all of a sudden started moving in another direction and had no control whatsoever. Had to re-log, it happened again, re-logged again and it went away. Is that the rubber banding thing or what was that? It wasn't like regular desync where you at least still have control.

You can tell who's never jumped out of a plane before. 10ft falls won't kill you if you do a decent plf, hell even if you don't. I've stopped bothering to pick up morphine when I see it because I've yet to actually break something and not just outright die (from a fall). Might as well add brain aneurysms to the mix while we're at it. Just be walking along energized and hydrated and then BAM out of the blue "you are dead". Wtf was that you think? Oh you had a brain aneurysm and died. It happens in real life so it must make for good game play right?

I have not found anything in .mil barracks other than the odd gas stove. This was at Zelenogorsk, south of Vybor and also at NWAF. Jail buildings basically empty as well, even after server restarts. Also nothing in the tents just above NWAF, nor the refugee tent city west of Myshkino.

I entered the jail building at Zelenogorsk a couple of hours ago. Shut the doors and two zombies came right on in anyways, like fuck doors we're magic zombies. Thanks devs!

I've been playing DayZ for 2 days now, only have 12 hours logged and I have found it pretty hard bordering on impossible to not starve to death on many of the servers I have been on. I don't have a problem with not finding canned food all over the place, but in some areas there just doesn't appear to be anything. This is on servers with 1-2 other players. I have tried searching apple trees, never once found a single apple. I can live with that. I found a fishing hook once, not sure what else the game requires to make a fishing pole (probably rope and a stick or pole?). Nothing really seems to matter because I start off hungry in the middle of bum fuck coastal nowhere and if I don't luck out and find food I quickly progress to starving to death, sometimes in as little as 30 minutes. Now, the lack of food issue as I said I can deal with. I don't mind having to search my ass off, or even hunt or farm. The issue is starving to death in 30 minutes. What in the world is that all about? Have the developers never heard of the rule of 3? It's a guideline obviously but it goes like this: you can survive for 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. The starving mechanism of the screen desaturating and things getting fuzzy is not a bad idea... if you haven't had any water or other fluids in a couple of days, or if you haven't eaten anything in a week or two. But 30 minutes? Come on now that's about as unrealistic as it can get. I kept hearing to move inland away from the coast, and to go north, so I tried that and by the time I got to some cabins, or a town I was already starving. Tried running south to see if I could find anything down there and by the time I got to any civilization same thing, starving to death. Also, can't farm when you starve before you can find everything you need. Has anyone here actually grown things in a garden? It takes a long time! If you plant something today you sure as heck won't be able to harvest it within 30 minutes, or even 30 days. I did find at different times a hoe, pumpkin seeds, some other seeds I don't remember what they were and never were any of them close enough to each other to actually be useful before I starved to death. I have gotten a little better at surviving since my first couple of lives. I finally said fuck it and hopped on a server with 49 players and that was the one server where I actually got geared, except for a firearm. Actually found enough food, a canteen and water bottle, sodas, a nice backpack, some decent clothes, a splitting axe, a crossbow, hunting knife, a compass and a bunch of other stuff. Couldn't freaking believe it. Then I started hearing gunshots close by so I figured I better skedaddle. Got out of town without being shot, and then promptly started starving again, until starving to death. FML. If they would adjust the starvation parameters to a realistic amount of time that would make a huge difference. I mean even a newborn baby won't starve to death in 30 minutes. Probably not even a day or two. Yet an adult in this game will. What in the world is that all about?