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Thanks, good to know. My group's going to keep waiting it out until tents get fixed. Can't loot with full inventories of essentials y'know. EDIT: Thank you to the mod that moved these posts.

I recently logged in to find that my tent properly saved my items for once. However, this has happened once before when the tents were still bugged and losing everything. Can anyone confirm tents are working 100% again? Of course, I'm aware of disappearances due to the server, those I have to come to accept as part of the Alpha stage. Since the announcement of a standalone DayZ, was it a waste of money buying Arma 2: Combined Operations? Would it have been smarter to wait for Arma3 or the standalone? Should I even bother playing now that I know this whole thing based on Arma 2 might get shut down in a couple months? Opinions please.

My friend and I have discussed this as well. I think it makes SOME sense that you're able to punch if you have no weapon equipped. Essentially, you do very little damage, and have less range than even a crowbar. MAYBE implement a way to learn some martial arts later in the game to help out newbies, but a punching option would probably be the solution for newbies crying about no weapons AND it's kind of unlikely you'll kill anyone by punching them, since they could run far, far away from you before you could inflict serious damage.

Here's what happened starting from 4 days ago: Day 1/4 > Log on a server while my friend and I are near Stary Sobor > Find a vast multitude of other players' tents hidden along a treeline with bushes at the edges. > Loot their tents, and find 3 camping tents packed and ready in this one tent. > Takes FN FAL and M107s from them. > Friend has to log out > I venture to a lake, connect to a different server because these players set up camp near the lakes in question as well, and set up the 3 tents including a random one I found in one of the military tents at Stary Sobor in between any evergreen trees I find. I even managed to glitch a couple INTO the tree trunk accidentally. > I save all the tents and store some random useless stuff I found on the way, save again several times, on all the tents. > Log out Day 2/4... > Friend logs in > Players' tents glitched/bugged out and still have M107s and FN FALs. He takes all of it including the camping tents that are somehow still there despite my setting them up the night prior. > Goes to lake and sets them up on other evergreen trees with my assistance over a Skype call. I told him to switch to another server and set up a tent there, in case this server eats all our tents. > Saves all tents accordingly > I am busy, so I can't login, I tell him to store useless stuff in there, and log out with the FN FAL and M107 in his person, because of the MANY MANY times tents have deleted all our stuff. > He logs out for the day. Day 3/4 > Friend logs in to check on tents, everything is intact. > Logs out > I am attending a summer program, so I couldn't log in. Day 4/4 > We both log in > WHOOP-DE-FUCKING-DO, All our tents are COMPLETELY GONE! ALL. SEVEN. OF. THEM. ACROSS. TWO. SERVERS. > We both ragequit for the day, seeing as we have business to attend to tomorrow, and cbf dealing with our stuff being deleted for the 5th time. Here I am, on the verge of quitting, because of all the bugs. At the very least, I am taking a hiatus until the tents are fixed. We don't even want the tents to save properly, we just want them to stay on the server so that we can use them after their save feature gets fixed, but no, the tent issue somehow seems to get worse with every patch. I bid you all a good day, and good luck with your tent mishap/fortune.

I've noticed other people on this forum talking about "slow saving servers", where stuff you do right before you log off might not be saved for the next server to receive. I'm wondering if there are certain servers that are better with saving. Are servers closer to where you live the best bet for fast saves? Do these faster saving servers have a lower chance of disappearing tents?

Does anyone know what are the "go faster" stripes? Is there a way to tell when was the last time a server has been rebooted?

Sorry, newb here, where are these stripes located? Is it in-game? On DayZ commander/any launcher? Or maybe you're just screwing with me....

Thanks, I'll try again later. :/ Excuse my melodrama, my emotions got the better of me when I posted. :| I'm definitely limiting my playtime when the game has gotten to the point where you can't do much once you have a full inventory.

Separate your video into two parts: Effectiveness against zombies and the second part for humans. If needed, have a third part for stopping vehicles, if that weapon is particularly well-known for blowing up cars. Stuff you should talk about in the vid: Gun's range(as in when damage or bullet's accuracy starts to decrease, and when the bullet disappears altogether) # of hits needed to kill a zombie and human How much blood is lost per bullet shot Zeroing capabilities if applicable Accuracy Recoil, and thus, recoil controlling methods(tap fire, burst fire how many shots and how frequently to burst, full auto, etc.), which includes a lot more than just going prone or crouching. Scope zoom(x1.5? x4? x8?) Aesthetics(i.e. Iron sight, how sexy the gun looks, etc.) Rate of fire(RPM, or time it takes to empty a mag is also acceptable, since you can calculate time needed to shoot each bullet after the last from that number) Loudness/Stealthiness Ammo synergy(i.e. Ak rounds can be shared with other teammates that use an Ak that isn't the AKM), combination(Double Barrel), splitting(R870, M1014), or versatility(Think PDW's ability to use 6 different mag types) Crosshair spread, crosshair recovery time(How long it takes for crosshairs to settle back into the original position) Usefulness/plausability, when is it proper to use this gun, and how versatile is it in different situations.

I only wish I had the gear/supplies to do what you do. :/ If it weren't for the damned tent bugs, I'd be well equipped enough to do what you do. Good to see people like you in this game. :)

So try these out: US 665 US 1436 LU195 Seattle 37 If you don't live in the U.S., you might have some trouble connecting to these though. >.<

Are you sure you're joining servers with green ping and close to where you live? Otherwise, it's just the server being sluggish. If you'd like I can give you a short list of servers I've found that load fast(for me at least). Always favorite a good server.

I understand that any tent's contents will disappear during a server restart because of a bug in a previous patch. I'm not looking for a solution at all, I'm just looking for a bit more info about server restarts you guys can hopefully answer. I want to go on "naked loot runs" by dropping everything I have in the tent and looting areas of interest. This doesn't work with the current bugs in place, but perhaps I can manage my time so that I loot right after a server restart, or long before the next one? I'll start off with a general question: When I join a server, and it tells me server restarts happen at 12:00 a.m., 6:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m., does that mean it restarts ACCORDING to the server's time? Would checking my watch while connected to the server in-game allow me to accurately figure out how much time I have before the next restart? If my watch says 5:30 in-game, does that mean I have 30 minutes before the next server restart, thus 30 minutes to take everything I have in my tent back into my person? Please and thank you for those who answer.

I hear you. My group lost M4s, CZ550s, lots of ammo, food, and tools because of this bug. :/

Thanks. That's a little unsettling. :/ When you're at the multiplayer screen in-game, it says "x minutes until mission ends". Is that the time servers restart? I assume not, because every server says the same thing...

Play with a group. It's one of the few ways to survive while maintaining player interaction in this game.

My group has lost EVERYTHING in our tent TWICE within 2 days. There is no way someone took our stuff, because our tent had over 50 items, which requires more slots than a single person can hold. The server we placed our tent on only had 5-10 people on it at most, and very few people pass by the forest we placed our tent in. We frequently saved our tents as well, so that certainly wasn't what caused the problem. We live in the U.S. however, could this be the reason why a server located in LU(Luxemburg?) won't save our tent properly? I've set up tents by myself before, and I've never had a problem on the U.S. servers. Is our best bet to choose a server close to home?

Thanks, baron. Will start checking forums more often now. ._.