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My character keeps getting reset. It was going fine all day but now I'm not even able to peacefully go fetch a drink without losing everything or risking to get punched in the face by some ragefilled freshspawn :( Sincerely hope they will revise the character sync-to-hive coding in the future, it's so far away from stable at the moment.

Inspiration comes from both beauty and destruction. Some of the worlds greatest art is based on, or satirising horrible events/persons. I don't see games as an exception to art, personally. Edit; Also to stay on topic, would like to see some of those objects/clothing indeed. Riot shields get me inspirated for some melee zombie action.

Real people died in <insert random war here>, yet it didn't stop Game Publishers/Developers creating thousands of different games based on real wars ;) Haven't you played BF1942 for example?

Yeah I'm also gonna be getting my money back because my character keeps resetting, loot is only respawned on server restart and vehicles aren't even in the game omgwtfbbq. ... Seriously amazed by this thread, it's an alpha and it's heavily subject to change. You can't honestly expect this to be permanent? And in the not-so-probable case it does stay permanent, it's a survival simulator that's (apart from zombies) gonna be pretty realistic, you have to survive nights too. Also I don't know if it's just me, or some moon cycle shit that's temporary, but night time has become more clear then pre-patch, so it's even more doable without exposing yourself with a flashlight.

Can't save my characters trough hardcore servers, even when rejoining the same server I spawn fresh on the coast. Regular servers seem to load the same freshspawn every time on each server, but can't seem to get my character from last week back :( So not even rollback, just character wipe for me. Had no problems with downloading the patch though, and I'm already enjoying the new stuff that's in the game as a fresh character :).

I think I read somewhere a while ago they then 'recently' hired new audio personel and were reworking the entire audio system, so I'm expecting a huge fix including many sound improvements for this somewhere down the line. But that's just my silly prediction.

People you can't truly believe starting as a fresh spawn each server is intended? Just having some issues connecting to the main hive I guess, I myself am getting some sleep and see if the dev's fixed character issues tomorrow. I've experienced when something like this happens (previous patches/DDoS attacks) the best way to save your character from getting reset is not playing untill issues get resolved. I played trough the (presumed) DDoS attacks and my new character got synced in the database. While a friend logged out right before the lag attacks and invisible zombies (we just got back from NWAF), logged in a few days later and his character was returned while I was stuck with the Bambi who endured the constant lags and zombie noises :(.

Deserved beans, would definitely read story again for giggles.

Personally can't see any real downsides to vehicles, a big yes to vehicles for me!

Vehicles :) Gonna be so much fun again. I figure it'll take a while yet until they get pushed into standalone but don't care, I expect it's gonna be worth the wait. Also fireplaces and cooking/hunting wild animals, generally living off the wild, the berries update is a nice addition in that area though.

Solnichny has a great round silo you can climb upon and jump off if you spawn around there :)

Because I can't choose I carry one on my back and the other in my hands. Sometimes it's risky leaving a gun on the bottom of ladders but those things are dangerous anyway. I always scope towns out with my Mosin + long range, whenever I feel it's safe I go in with the M4.

For now it's only the difference between first person perspective and third. I can imagine it will affect Zombie damage/spawnrate and other things in the future. We'll see :) Really glad they split the hives though.

Seeing some awesome new stuff that wasn't even in the changelog :D This patch was more then worth the few weeks waiting.

Aren't you trying to join a server that's meant for a non-vanilla instance of the game? For example servers that run on the Epoch mod while you don't have those game-files? Try joining a vanilla server. edit; haven't played the mod myself for ages now so can't be sure if I'm even talking sense here, just trying to help. Also I'd like to point out this forum has an entire subforum dedicated to the mod (this is the Standalone section): http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum/6-dayz-mod/ . Maybe you'll find more help there.

You're not still bleeding I presume? Check inventory (TAB) for a status message at the top-right corner above your character. Have you tried another server / relogging?

I've also looked to no avail :( Either there were some really hungry players eating ALL the berries at server launch, or they haven't been implemented correctly yet. Could be we're just looking in all the wrong places ofcourse.

Really? Must've been an update, stopped playing the Mod a long time before it got in a semi-finished state. I think I quit when the first tidal wave of hackers came flowing in. Also, then he was really accurate for a person without a light source hitting a moving character in the pitch black dark...... :rolleyes: I don't know about the video settings in experimental servers but you can also just crank up your monitors' gamma/brightness level ;)

This. Would also be cool to leave a faint black smoke trail in the air seeable from short-medium distance - so multiple people actually go after it fast; would make for some great PvP action. I personally was a fan of the heli crashes in the mod, I liked the randomness of it and the fact that it is a fairly realistic event. Gonna call it a night for the experimental servers, can't find any food and just got axe'd by a guy obviously using the gamma-crank-up-trick :(

Ahh yes I've seem to have misread the patch notes, I thought private servers were incoming but the update just provides a sharded database for creating sub-hives to split Hardcore/Regular characters. So hold your horses wannabe-private-server-owners, it will probably take a while. I don't care so much for private servers anyhow.

Was based on personal experience and comments from people on this forum. Obviously, if you've succeeded, I'm not certain :P Also wondering why Rocket would put it in the changelog if it already worked...

Yes there are a few ladders on that boat that don't work yet, probably just missing and will be implemented later.

Doesn't work in the stable servers yet, it has (as can be found in the changelog) been fixed in the experimental branch, so expect it to work in the stable servers by the end of this week.

I've had this happen a lot but since I found out if you exit the server you spawn in as a fresh Bambi without moving (immediately hitting ESC + exit) and re-visit the server you last had your geared character I've managed to get my character back 3 times already. This does have the downside of me having to note each server I go into on a piece of paper, but it's not that big of a deal.

Thanks for that option man! My home screen is kind of bugged so this is the only solution for me :)