SalamanderAnder (DayZ)

I have also experienced this bug, multiple times. I've found going through the player list and muting each one until I find the culprit seems to be a good short term solution.

Hacking is a problem with every game. Rocket even said that hacking would probably still be possible. It's just a matter of systematically shutting down vulnerabilities. It's not like they let a bunch of hackers into the closed alpha to let them purposefully exploit the engine. Nobody is saying it's a "non-issue." We're simply saying, it will be improved. Quit being so reactionary. You can still play the mod.

See, I went from Cherno to the NWAF. I'm completely militrafied, I have pristine gear, an m4 all decked out with attachments, medicine, food, water, ect. These things are not hard to find. Mostly I got my gear from houses or sheds, TEC buildings, hospitals. I did all of this at night. (granted, my weapon attachments came from the airfield, but I had an m4 long before I got there. I found it on the roof of some kind of convenience store kiosk type thing) Servers are not synced to a player's time zone, and this is apparent because I have switched between other countries and found time of day to be exactly the same. On servers in my time zone, it turns daytime at about 2 or 3 in the morning. What I'm really annoyed about is the lack of crafting configurations. Over a year with all these items and nobody on the team was assigned to configure item combinations? Really? I even saw in one of the very early alpha videos, rocket attached a gas canister and a can of beans to a gas heater. This no longer works, apparently. I'd like to see those functions, along with animals and hunting, and player condition balance all take top priority for the next update. It's just... boring. There isn't much to actually do, once you get past the new curve of keeping yourself alive. To keep from going unconscious, you need to watch what you eat and drink very carefully. I mainly drink water only, and I purify it whenever possible. Never eat rotten fruit (obviously) and I also stay away from those damaged or badly damaged food items. Also, I carry around disinfectant and disinfect things like sodas or cans that I'm about to eat. I got mildly sick one time but after a couple uses of antibiotics, I seem to have made a full recovery.

Yeah Wright, prove it.

Not doing too bad for my first try.

What's with all this whining? I'm already past Green Mountain. I have an m4 with a magpull stock, bipod, several mags. I have all pristine clothing, including a large backpack, tactical vest, hiking boots, cargo pants, raincoat, ballistic helmet, and a carnival mask. I have a pristine firefighters axe, a FN pistol, plenty of pristine cans of food, 2 canteens, 1 water bottle a cooking pot, a gas canister, duct tape, rope, a can opener, a fresh kiwi, tactical light, extra battery, antibiotics... The list goes on. I already killed a man in Cherno with my axe, and survived a very long unconscious state. Why is this so hard for some people?

You didn't think to pick up some food you could eat without a tool? There's lots of canned tuna, rice, cereal, and even fresh fruit around in some places.

So I'm unconscious, and it turns out you can read books while unconscious, if they are on your quick bar. I'm reading Heritage of the Sioux to pass the time. Unfortunately it doesn't save your place when you close the book. Judging from this unconscious state, I'm going to be making good use of these books. I'd like to see some way of adding a bookmark to a page, or even written notes, similar to the way the map system worked in DayZ mod. Then, when a player takes your book, they could read all the notes you left in it. Also, the book needs cleaning up. A character seems to be replaced by question marks, making weird sentences like "Applehead was not so easily beguiled?especially when she proceeded to form a violent attachment to the little black dog..." Other books may have other specific ebook format issues, but I figure nobody else is going to take the time to point this out. I've been unconscious for almost an hour now. Seriously, the unconscious state needs some kind of maximum. I'm all for hardcore games, but this is a bit much.

Well I was eating and drinking just fine. I think I might be a little sick from some kiwi I ate. I thought it might give me super-natural powers or something.

Haha, I was carrying three books when I went unconscious. One was french, the other was War and Peace. I wish that one had been in my hot-bar. It's been on my list for a while. :P And yes wolf. They are full books. You have to put them on the quick bar and press the number to read them.

Excuse me, but Krutoy Cap has always been a few minutes from Elektro. I don't think the map is smaller. Aside from the fact that Prigorodky has fewer buildings, I think what your probably experiencing is the fact there are actually more structures and therefore each town is "closer" to one another because there are more buildings between them. I don't think the map is smaller, but I will experiment.

Where?

1 year. It's been 1 year of development. While I agree that the system seems bugged/unbalanced, you need to remember this is a fucking alpha build and you should find a better way to express yourself about it.

Some kind of visual/audio indicator would be nice. Maybe in conjunction with less frequent, more important messages like "You feel nauseous" and the like. I don't need to know how dry my mouth is every second...

Wanna know my first player interaction? I approach fire station in Cherno. I see dead body. I enter fire station. Man walks in behind me and strike me with an axe, at which point I'm like, "no way bro" and I quickly side stepped his attack, dealing massive damage to the back of his head with my pristine worn firefighters axe. Then, two more people came inside, at which point I ran for my life. So the answer is no. KoS is still completely the norm. Taste my steel, douchebags.

I fell off of one of those bugged ladders in the top of the Cherno apartments. As soon as your character dismounts he/she falls down. Now I have a broken leg.

I used some rags and put on new shoes and it seems to have fixed itself. lol

Was DayZ ever fluid in the first place? lol.

I'll just leave this here.

It's still around, but everyone downloads it with commander. There never was a time when the norm was to download the mod from steam, so it doesn't make sense to have "DayZ mod" and "DayZ Standalone" right next to each other. It's probably just to avoid confusion.

You make a very good point Katana. I used to think that a shared hive was the only way DayZ could work but since I've actually put some time into Epoch (for the first time ever, I should add) I can see where you are coming from. How could a base work across multiple hives? Owning property would mean jack squat if someone can just portal into your structure by switching between servers. Moreover, how do you handle item movement across servers? Say further down the road in SA when we have construction mechanics, what's to stop someone from making a base in a very lucrative spot, on one server, then switching to empty servers and farming loot back into the original server? All very interesting obstacles. Perhaps it would be better to simply carry stats and clothing from one server to another, but not items or location. It seems like a reasonable compromise.

Man, I always miss the twitch streams. Epoch had me totally preoccupied. Will it be uploaded at some point you think?

Deep Digger Dan is so great. COME ON. GET IN! btw you guys saw the testing? http://steamdb.info/graph/221100/ 50 players on the 3rd! that's basically a full server. Very promising.

Has anyone noticed that the bottom of the steam store goes to upside down pages? What's that about? Never mind, I get it now. It's spring in the southern hemisphere. Durrr.

I knew being logged out was no accident. 24 player test is definitely promising. My body is ready. I'll be patiently waiting in Epoch.