Patrickollo

Can we still expect to see bandit skins removed today, or did the past few hotfixes put a delay on it?

Highly Intelligent Virtual Entity

I love how no one reads. Rocket already knows the problem with spawns. I can't speak for FPS problems though.

Guys, please. I think Rocket has enough evidence here to know that there is an issue with FPS drops and weird respawn bugs. Just let him do his work. You don't want him to go into a rage state again.

You silence a dead player so they can't talk after they die. Then what after they respawn? They'll just eventually say where they died anyway. From what I understand, after this mod reaches a certain point, Rocket will remove Side/Global/Group chat (hopefully). Before this mod exploded and went public, Rocket actually had those server-wide chats disabled. I'm all for this, but you know there will be a large outcry "waaah I can't find my friend/can't met up with other people." Last time I checked, in real life (hehe) you can't shout to the world and tell them where you are.

I don't really understand what the difference is between today, and two Fridays ago. Did the user count really jump that high in a little over a week? Is rocket worried that the main HIVE database will crash, or that every individual server will crash? If it's the individual servers, I don't see what the deal is... they restart all the time to fix the "waiting for server response issue". If it's the HIVE database, then I can understand.

Maybe if you bandits don't want to stay bandits forever, you shouldn't go on a killing spree and get -50,000 humanity and complain later, "wah I wanna be the good guy now". You only need to kill 1 or 2 survivors to become a bandit and another 1 or 2 kills won't take long to recover from. People are going to tell me, "But I have to defend myself!" Well, yes, you do. But ask yourself how often are you in hot spot cities? Do you constantly go in Cherno or Elektro and come out with 3 or 4 new self defense kills? Well I can offer a solution to that problem: DON'T GO THERE. There's more places to get loot other than Cherno/Elektro/Airfields. If you remove the bandit system, it's only going to add to the paranoia and there will be NO consequence to just outright killing someone unless you're on a server with name plates enabled, and even then you can just create a new profile and no one will be the wiser. Paranoia sounds good at first, but think about it... you can't visually identify if someone may backstab you (arguably yes, there would be people like this in real life), but there are no CUES at all to tell if someone has malevolent intentions, such as tells like eye twitching or something, you know what I mean? If you kill another survivor, they're going to shout out, "DON'T TRUST THE SURVIVOR IN (city or whatever else) HE SHOT ME IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD!" What will happen next? You guessed it, survivors will just start shooting each other on sight. I, for one, would just shoot everyone on sight if bandit skins were removed. At the moment, there is a higher probability that if you see a survivor, they will be friendly. You can still accomplish your goal of gaining the trust of someone only to backstab them later. Here's how: Step 1: Find Survivor and form a bond. Step 2: Kill Survivor whenever you see fit. Step 3: Wait for humanity to increase to the point where another kill won't transform you into a bandit. Step 4: Repeat step 1. In before, "I shouldn't have to wait for humanity!" I think waiting for your humanity is a good compromise for this play style.

No problem man, I understand things happen. Gave you some rep because you seem like a cool server admin. :) It looks like only US Hardcore 3 has those settings, but I couldn't get in hardcore 2 or 4 because of the waiting for server response issue. Just want to say again I appreciate your servers.

Not sure if the admins control this or the server owners, but US Hardcore servers need to have everything disabled again. Right now they have Recruit settings.

Before I head to bed, just wanted to say I love this update. The zombie sounds are HORRIFYING. I thought you added in a new ambient frog sound at first, only to look to my right and see a gurgling zombie rushing at me head on. Now that I can't hear them from a mile away (which makes it sound like they're right on top of you), it makes it just that much scarier. I also love the panicking sounds. I agree with some others that they may occur a little bit too often, but earlier me and a friend were running from a group of zombies and I could hear my friend's character behind me packing for his life, breathing heavily. Just that little something added a lot more immersion for me. I saw someone suggest in-game that maybe with the more zombie kills you have, the less chance you have of panicking? Either way, keep up the good work Rocket. Some people like to bitch because they don't like change. Not all changes are permanent, but I for one would like to see the increased zombie count stay. Edit: Tents/vehicles/fences/etc seem to have disappeared this update. Was this intentional like it was for two previous updates? Also wanted to let you know that sometimes tents will get duplicated on server crashes although you probably already know this.

I said to myself, "Why not?" I proceeded to go on a spree with my CZ in Cherno and haven't looked back.

Are the crashed helicopters supposed to have loot - the grey burning ones? If they are, we've come across at least 4 wreckages and none of them had loot, only the options to 'Save' or 'Get in as gunner'.

Can we get these servers restarted please? They're lagging horribly. I just died because someone shot my lagging avatar as it ran in a straight line through a city even though I was back a few blocks. I love your servers by the way. Been waiting for a true hardcore US server. Thanks for hosting.

Draw distance has definitely been lowered. Before "dynamic weather", I used to be able to lay up in the treeline on the hill north of Cherno (west of that little town along the road) and clearly see the lettering on that tall building as well as players camping up there (I love sniping bandits who think they're safe there). Anyways, since the dynamic weather patch, I have to get so close to Cherno just to see that tower that I can't actually see if anyone's up there because I don't have a good view of it. I haven't once been able to see on top of the tower since that patch and I've put in 116 hours in the past two weeks.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Mosin_Nagant_series_of_rifles.jpg/300px-Mosin_Nagant_series_of_rifles.jpg Don't get me wrong, but the Mosin Nagant seems too similar to the 1822 or Lee Enfield. If one or the other of these two weapons weren't in game, then maybe I'd consider adding the Mosin; however, if it has a substantially different feel than either of the two current weapons, then I'd be for it.

We definitely need more US veteran servers. One of them has really bad ping and the other two are almost never up.

NY5 has no zombies or loot spawning. No lag issues I can tell, just spawn related. NY6 is missing from the list. It was there last night, ended up lagging really bad, and finally going down but it never came back up.

Date/Time: May 2, 2012 What happened: Pitched a tent. An hour later server crashed and restarted. Went back to tent (about 15 minutes after I reconnected). Everything in tent gone and there was a second tent pitched next to mine. Where you were: A little north of the southern part of Balota Airfield. What you were doing: Looting and storing items. *Current installed version: 1.5.3 *Server(s) you were on: EU2 *Your system specs: *Timeline of events before/after error: Server went down around 11:45 or 12 p.m. (EST). Prior to that, I had stored 3 different guns, two dozen medical supplies, at least 10 - 12 different stacks of ammo, 10 cans of food, and some other miscellaneous things. After I reconnected to the server, I went and looted the military tents and the airfield again - which took about 15 - 20 minutes - then hiked back to my tent. I came to find a second tent pitched next to mine with both tents empty. I find it hard to believe that someone looted all the items I had in my tent within 20 minutes and transferred it to another tent. I searched the area and couldn't find any other tents except for mine and the other one directly next to it.

Just wanted to add that Curry's possible fix from page 1 doesn't work. I saw that same theory last week and tried it myself, didn't work. I do have something else to add though. A friend and I joined the EU2 server last night after the 1.5.3 update and I decided to try Direct Comm for fun to see if it worked. Low and behold, he could hear me, but then he was forced to rejoin the server because his game froze or something. After he rejoined, I tried talking to him again and he didn't respond so I asked him if he could still hear me and he said no.

I'm posting in this thread because i think I know what your problem may be [related to], plus for some reason neither one of my two threads were approved last night... but anyways: Date/Time: 4/29/2012 at around 10:30 p.m. What happened: Me and Friend 2 couldn't see Friend 1's flashlight beam. Friend 1 figured out that if you have, for example, a throwable selected while you have the sidearm flashlight out, it renders the beam invisible to other players (Friend 1 could still see the beam himself). Where you were: North of the northwest airfield. What you were doing: Surviving in the dark. *Current installed version: 1.5.2 *Server(s) you were on: EU2 *Your system specs: Laptop on low settings (Friend 1 and Friend 2's computer were at least normal settings). *Timeline of events before/after error: Just logged in about 5 minutes before it happened.

Zombies are not supposed to be smart and they are not threatening AT ALL if you make smart choices. That is how the game is intended to be played. HUMANS on the other hand are volatile variables and there is no way to predict what they're going to do. It is YOUR choice if you want to risk trusting a stranger, or travel into a large city [notorious for bandits] and have the chance of being gunned down while scavenging. Bandits are part of the game, and they would be part of real life, too, if this scenario presented itself. I'd love to hear all of you rolling over in your grave cursing the person who killed you, knowing that shouting obscenities or complaining would get you nowhere. It is not hard at all to acquire new gear in this game. If you think the only places to go are Cherno, Elektro, that B place on the east coast, and the airfields, maybe you should take a second to re-evaluate what the real problem is (hint: it's not the bandits). TL;DR - Maybe this game isn't for you if you don't like PvP. It's part of the game and you'll have to deal with it. P.S. - I'm not a bandit, but I still love having the risk that at any time I could lose my life in the blink of an eye. If there was no PvP in this game and only zombies (in the current state they're in), it would be very boring.

Can we get the latest download? I'm stuck on 1.4.20 because that was the only option on mediafire, and now ALL the downloads are taken off mediafire. I'm from east coast US and my only option is to play on a 2500 ping RU server (already tried to play and got kicked for high ping).