billyangstadt

This is my toon as of now. Not hungry or dying. I consider myself an amateur player with 100 total hours played and I still manage to survive in this "no loot" environment as people call it. I think what helps me is that I'm not bound to loot routes. I'm still discovering where loot spawns, so I check everywhere. I found Mosin ammo next to a light pole running down the road. If I can not starve to death, anyone can if they're patient. Picking apples and drinking from ponds suck, but it will save your life.

There's no ammo, guns, or food anywhere. I spawned in Berezino and can't find a gun. I looked for 20 minutes. This game is stupid. I'm going to H1Z1. In all seriousness, I love the game right now. I love starving to death. I think games this brutal in nature should only have a small survival rate upon respawn. If you're patient, you will find food. Get off of the coast and explore. This game is still the industry leader, no game has even come close to the depth and realism. That's what I want to play, a sim. Even if a walking or eating sim. There are too many Run N Gun zombie "survival" games out there with 0 PVE threat. I love the indepthness of the medical, diseases. There should be 1000 other things that would kill you other than a bullet or a zed. Keep up the great work. I've just reinstalled and I'm having a blast. I don't mind dying to starvation, how it should be. -Billy

Yet, you're the still only checking military bases for weapons. Guess what, shit spawns anywhere, now. Doesn't matter if it's low pop or not. The days of loot being new when the server restarts are over. Again, you're trying to follow your old looting routes. Forget anything you ever knew and move from there. All you seem to mention are ammo and guns. Is that all this game is? What about the other items that spawn? Tunnel vision looting is why people think the loot sucks. The game is what you make of it. If you're just looking to gear up and have clan wars, you're gunna have a bad time. For food focus more on farming, fishing, etc. Before you fly off of the handle there, I found a shovel, lime, and seeds within a half hour of looting. Crafting is your friend for fishing gear too. Canned food should be non-existant, or as rare as it is now. That's why they're perishables.

Yea, I don't get it either. He claims to be ok with being in the alpha stage and testing, but complains that features and updates are forced onto his server. If people had the option, most servers would revert to the patches where M4's rained like boonies. Nothing would ever get tested.

Why should it not be forced? It's their vision. Do you think they want people to have the luxury of which features and patches to allow onto their private servers? We'd have overwatch servers again.

Welcome to the end of the world. You're not going to survive for a longtime everytime you respawn. So, you're telling me that you search inside and outside of every house and building? Even non enterable ones? I've found more loot on the ground near poles, busstops, around houses than anywhere. People run into the door, look around, "wahh loot sucks" and leave.

I actually had seeds on me. I found a long white barn with 3 seed packs, but could only carry one. I'm cold because I drank pond water and am wet. Food is meant to be scarce. I found a can of beans in the very first house I checked under a table, FYI. Again, it was on a spawn node that wasn't ever used. People get tunnel vision and get impatient searching houses. How much food do they walk by?

I understand that, but the threads I'm reading are different than what you're point out. We're dealing with the people who sprint to the closest large town from their spawn, then flip out when everything is already looted, and run here complaining that there is no loot. I play on very high pop servers and don't even stop to loot without running atleast 15 minutes inland, because I know people are already been there. Once I get near the small towns toward the center of the map, most doors are closed or loot was missed by the spot looter. Watching various streamers whom display the behavior above are what bother me. They have a large influence on what happens, and they complain when they don't have a gun and ammo within 20 minutes for entertainment. Loot isn't bad, it's just scarce. Just as you'd expect.

LOL, yea, I can almost see you cocked and loaded ready to let me have it. I'm tired of the whining. Quit trying to ruin our damn game. If it's too hard, find another. We need at least one truly hardcore game. Everyone wants a game like "The Walking Dead", but don't think past the glitz and glam of what the show puts in the episodes. They don't add the days of walking and looting..and more walking and looting. They only show them armed after months of looting.

Play hardcore, loot is much harder to get.

I really want to play, but I keep hearing that there will be a wipe tomorrow. Some say it happened today. I have no idea. I just really want to know before I invest the time tonight as it's limited.

Maybe, just maybe, I'm a fresh spawn. Gasp.

I've recently fallen in love with the hardcore servers, but it seems like every time a server restarts on me my character is reset. Recently, I was just randomly walking around and "testing...testing" popped up and we were all teleported to a lake with no gear. The whole server. Now, I've heard if you join a server over and over it will eventually give you your character back, but I've been trying for an hour going between servers and game modes...and nothing. Anything work yet? I know it's something being fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmqkv2vzYkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itkF9ZxHkRs

I have to agree. Hiding tents and camps was already near impossible, with more and more possible foot traffic, it will be near impossible.

I've always had a passion for 3d graphic modeling, but it's hard to do something without an objective. I'm self taught and am still very amateur, but with the right amount of practice I learn quickly. These are a few mockups I did for a DayZ mod that never came to fruition: Now, I'm obviously not good enough yet to have publishable items, but it would be nice to have a small part in something that I enjoy. Thanks.

8/10 people I talk to or come across in this game only care about the military loot. There can be an entire changelog filled with awesome survival additions, but the only threads will be those regarding the new shiny weapons. I know that this game is PVP focused, nothing you can do with ever fix that..all you can do is hope to make it harder to get this gear. Server hopping for military gear right now is a huge problem, and "rare" military gear is everywhere due the the hundreds of possible drop nodes per server. That, and dupers. Want to limit the amount of M4's, AK's, Grenades, etc? Want to stop server hoppers? Move all military weaponry/attachments exclusively to heli crash sites. I'd like to see someone server hop a crash site. Yes, it's possible, but extremely improbable to actually find one in the exact same spot that hasn't been touched. Barracks should only spawn military apparel. Hats, Vests, backpacks, etc. Police stations should at max spawn a sidearm. Spotting a player with a kitted out M4 should be a "holy S*it, I haven't seen one in weeks" moment. Not a "Oh, look..another one" Limiting the availability of these weapons will no doubt increase the duping issue, but we should focus more on fixing that issue. I see this mod turning softer and softer each update, especially with only edible food now spawning.

I know this topic has been discussed, but you can't tell me you wouldn't have fun trolling geared players by shooting them with an "infected" arrow you poisoned by poking a dead zed. Yes, they'll probably kill you..but their scramble for meds after that would be so worth it.

Having all of that high end gear gives you an insane advantage to the needs above, though. My point is, all of that shit should be super rare and very, very limited on where you can find it.

The problem I'm talking about is the amount of potential spawn nodes the for high end gear. Right now there are thousands, if not more. That means that the rarest item will spawn a few time on the restart..and even more once loot re spawn is added and stable. Making military spawns static just screams for server hopping. Move them to heli crashes and random survivor sites..you'll see that number go way down.

Grab an SKS or Mosin, head over to Vybor military base. Find a nice spot in a low pop server. and wait. Some of these server hoppers are wayyy too attached to their gear. LOL, most fun I've had in a minute.

I spent the entire night last night searching for heli crashes (took a month off), luckily someone I ran into told me that they were taken out. I spent the next 3-4 hours running across the map to the various weapons drops looking for an M4, only to find out they've been taken out too! So, can we please have some sort of list of the items that were and are no longer in game so I can stop chasing ghosts?

First off, I have searched..and I have found answers. These questions are to those questions I have no found answers to. 1. When can we expect to see suppressors working? I can't wait until I can use a pistol w/ silencer. 2. Excrement. I see the files and screenshots...when will these be added? 3. Will there ever be smaller tents? I've seen one tent in game..and spotted it from probably 600-800 meters out. They're way too big to be effective or even useful. Thank you for taking your time to help me out.

LOL, I presume pooping will only be used to defile the deceased fresh spawns. I can see a freshly killed body with 4 coils of feces stacked ontop of him.