Joyrider (DayZ)

I agree with OP, this would be a much better test environment if characters were wiped more often and the overall gameplay mechanics were more dramatic.

This is old. Best way to do it is to drop your pack, pick up the new pack, and then pick up the contents of your old pack.

Killing "infected" does not increase your murder count. Your argument is invalid.

Oh god I'm vomiting all over myself.

So I was shooting some zombies with my freshly procured Double-Barrel shotgun...and some random noob runs up and is like "SUP LOL" So I was like okay, hey what's up. Then I put my cursor over him and I can hear his heart beating...and I heard that that meant he was a bandit, right? Even though he's just some scrawny noob, if he's a bandit I'm not gonna help him so I shot him a few times and he keeled over. But here's the weird part. He wasn't a bandit! I got a "murder" (my first one) and I'm sure I lost humanity. :( So is this just a broken feature or what? I haven't seen many posts about the heartbeat feature, and this is the first time I've heard a heartbeat since 1.7.1 patch (and I've been playing like nonstop since then.) Oh, this was on Seattle 22, so bro if you're reading this I'm sorry I thought you were a bum bandit. :(

I found one in a barn today as well. It's neat at first, but it's completely useless. I'd rather be shooting an Enfield in the middle of Elektro.

That would be pretty sweet. Not to mention, I'd love a Mechanic outfit.

You can't be completely silent unless you're a trained military sniper, or some sort of assassin or something. Do you think everyone that survives a zombie apocalypse will be a trained military sniper? Probably not.

I think that Rocket needs to test some of his patches before he releases them instead. Shouldn't he have a team of 5 or 10 people that he knows that would be able to test these patches for him? I mean, it honestly took me about 5 minutes before I realized that there were no food or water spawns in 1.7.1

Subsonic ammunition eliminates the sonic boom. If you shoot regular ammo through a silenced weapon there will still be a loud "CRACK" whenever you fire.

I noticed during 1.7.1.1 patch that people were relatively friendly. It's pretty hard to kill someone you meet with a flashlight. And once you have been together for a while swapping stories and sneaking around together you probably won't turn around and shoot your new mate. But that didn't keep me from watching as zombies chase him (it was pretty hilarious, but I didn't have a pistol and we were at the Elektro Firestation. Not like I'm gonna shoot my DMR out there.) At least now I know not to venture back near the cities, I don't want to lose my Makarov and my Enfield. XD

If he was a bandit I wouldn't have gotten a murder. It sucks even worse because I was making an effort to not kill people...he was literally the first person I've shot at since I got the mod on Thursday.

No. This feature is bugged, and gives a heartbeat for everyone (causing confusion in new players.) Not to mention some can hear heartbeats through walls, as well as other issues.

They didn't specify in the patch notes. Well hopefully my humanity hasn't dropped too far, I don't want to be a bum bandit. :(

Strange. I wonder if anyone has reported this? Maybe this thread should be moved to the bug section...

I'm a relatively new player, so I've gotten used to the new beginning loadout pretty easily. The number one problem I have right now is finding drinks. With the old loadout you could easily find a lake and fill your bottle. Now you don't start with one, so you're screwed unless you find some random pepsi. So here is my suggestion: A. Give players an empty canteen when they spawn. B. Give players the ability to drink directly from lakes and wells. The second option would be useful but would also make it harder to survive until you find a canteen. Oh and if anyone wants to bring me a pepsi, I'm stranded outside of Rog. <3

I think it's nice to not have canteen when you start. It makes it much more exciting to actually find one. Drinking directly from sources is a nice idea' date=' suggested already here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=15270 [/quote'] The problem is, I've played the last few days and not found any food or water (until the latest hotfix 1.7.1.2) because drops were bugged. So now I'm stuck in Rog with no water (I finally found some frank'n'beans luckily) and no canteen and I'm probably going to die.

"Essential Starter Gear."

So here's a story about how a noob (I had two lives before 1.7.1 came out) successfully evaded zombies and found a rifle...and then died to server glitches. So I somehow, I'm not really sure, it was pretty hard, ran all the way through Electro on my first life without a weapon without attracting any zombies on the 1.7.1 patch (PRE 1.7.1.1 GUYS!) and made my way north, found a DMR, made my way back south and succeeded in logging out without dying around 6am yesterday. Today I met a friend, he had a bit of a zombie problem north of electro though so he ended up either dying or running away, I'm not sure...anyways so I ran off north, saw a nice looking babe on a sign, saw another sign with some sunflowers etc...found a barn, was travelling towards the northeast and ended up having my server crash. No big deal right, just rejoin another server? SO I log in, and guess what? I'm back where i was when I had logged out the previous day, at 6am. I had lost 6 hours of gameplay. But to top it off I was knocked out and bleeding profusely for no reason. Long story short I died, respawned, and now I have a flashlight and some bandages and I hate my life. Oh yeah, and even better, when I did respawn I was close to my body so I figure I'll run over there right? I run over there and the server I'm on crashes. How freaking great. SO yeah guys, even though 1.7.1 was impossible to play I managed to have a pretty decent life (couldn't find any food though) and died with a DMR 5 mags a makarov I found in a fire station (no ammo) and about 8 steaks on my body....which were claimed by server glitches. What a joke.

Easy for you to say, I spent a good 8 hours running around near cherno with 6 steaks in my backpack and a hatchet but no matches. :(

BRILLIANT!