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You're welcome. I would like to add that other than some pants, boots, and hats, I saw little other clothing. One blue check shirt, and one random t-shirt found, not a single coat. Playing First person on North Eastern US servers. I sometimes wonder if it's possible if the more PvP minded players switch to the 1st person only servers for loot purposes and then the loot all ends up on the 1st + 3rd person servers where they die. :rolleyes:

Hicks said we are now playing in September conditions and the last patch was December conditions and I do not believe there was any adjustment to the underlying factors. I've played through 2 spawns now. My first I found food, and a backpack pretty quick, and I was fighting zeds with a shovel and hammer, which was working well. I felt like there have been more zeds in general but they may not be respawning much. Soon though, he began to starve and I ended up being 3 hit killed by an invisible zombie. My 2nd spawn would have led me to believe that loot respawn might be working as I went through an area that seemed clearly looted before I got there but still I found a double rifle and the ammo for it in an adjacent building. I was really doing fairly well but died of starvation even after eating a can of food, 3 pieces of fruit, and 2 potatoes. I do hope hunger gets scaled back a bit in coming builds.

While a fitting might offer some insight, I don't think my bikes fit is holding me back in any big way. I am not a conventional cyclist by any means and I require a hybrid for most of my rides. I don't ride road bikes, use clips, or traps, or wear aero clothing. I out climb most wanna be Lance Armstrongs over the large bridges in the city (crossed the Triboro 2x today), and out sprint fixie riders, on a bike 2x the weight, weighing 230+ lbs myself. I'm a beast on my bike and ride in many postures, foot positions, and with a variety of form depending on conditions, often engaging my core and arms for climbing. About a year ago I woke up one day with the ability to trackstand almost indefinitely too; I'm pretty proud of that. I just put this sticker on my helmet (notice non-aero helmet) so the fair weather cyclists know why I just passed them like they were standing still. Congratualtions, we have completely derailed this thread!

Wow, good eye! That is indeed my 2011 Gary Fisher Mendota (yes, disc brakes), and I love hybrid bikes as well! :)

No CTD for me. The LMB bug is back but instead of switching to another hotbar item spamming the LMB will make you switch to bare fists at times. I was being halfway stealthy and having half success in getting around zeds without aggroing them. I had fully circled one zed and entered a building passing it from behind a couple of times without caring much. As I'm leaving the same way I came in the zed finally aggroed which just seemed random at the time. Shovel opened peaches and spaghetti but not sardines. As stated above, blue vans have loot now and many places that were barren of loot now spawn stuff. It's possible that the last round of stress testing and optimizations may have freed up some performance for more zeds and loot! :D

Ok, so silly me didn't realize the game had updated when I wasn't looking. No harm, no foul, as I just got a chance to sit down with it now. BadAsh Are you sure the shotgun just didn't spawn with bullets loaded in? This is a feature they had planned to implement. (The possibility of a gun to be found loaded.) I for one hope this might be the case....

After 4+ years of all weather riding, 90lbs of fat loss, 1 century a year minimum (Ride to Montauk, Ride the Hudson Valley, The Farm Ride), and a completely self sufficient solo cyclotouring trip, I can assure that the angle of that seat is perfect for me. Why would I lie about such a thing? EDIT: WAIT, did you realize that the bike is at an angle on the wall there?? You may be perceiving a more severe angle due to the bike leaning.

That angle is perfect for me on that frame and I ride 400-500 miles a month that way, thanks though!

Steam isn't grabbing this update for me yet. :/ I need to step out for a bit and just wanted to have it ready when I returned.... Loading the game brings up .50 and verifying cache did nothing. Oommmm, oommmm, oommmm. *sigh*

My roommates cat was head rubbing my hand as I tried to point with the mouse while playing the other day. I found a safe spot to crouch in a building and proceeded to pet teh kittah. I did not die. Here she is with my bike. If you like cats, she's a good 'un.

Yet again (in this thread), this is the depth of your contribution, effectively a non-contribution. *slow clap*

It is difficult to respond to you based purely on the fact that you're unable to comprehend what I wrote prior. You need to slow down and go back over what I wrote. Your responses do not match what I wrote and you are certainly twisting things I've said in both your posts. 1: Yes. I was talking passionately, about a video game. DayZ holds 0 sway over my life and I have spent months away from the game when it was not to my liking. I am a creative person and I consider games to be Art. I very rarely find a band, movie director, or game developer that gives me much faith in the creative world at large and DayZ is a rare instance where I believe in the developers vision and have supported it nearly from it's inception. Most games are not innovative and offer little in the way of new experiences. DayZ breathed life back into online PC gaming for me. 2: "I hope you're aware people who kill other players not necessarily server hop or, generally, exploit game flaws. If I were a malicious person I'd start thinking this was a clumsy attempt at gaining the moral high ground...you know, arbitrarly linking a legitimate in-game behaviour to cheating and all that stuff." ^^^Here's where you put words in my mouth and it's obvious my clear and concise point was completely twisted (or you're trolling). I mentioned exploits and server hopping as being in the game, and things people do which I don't care for either. I NEVER said people who KoS also hop/exploit. 3: "I never said KoS was the reason people leave. I said KoS players seem to get bored with DayZ faster. NONE of the people I had this conversation with 2 years ago while playing the mod are here now having this conversation. They have either only left the forum (for a different forum or none at all) or left DayZ, the latter being more likely than the former." ^^^This is a well written, perfectly cogent sentence. 4: Yes, using 30+ year old D&D slang is relevant to gaming. Yes, I am speaking of my mod experience because it was relevant to my point prior. Please show me where that is forbidden. I also believe the terms we use to describe play styles is important as I believe language and being understood is important too, something you do not seem to value. 5: Your last paragraph is a perfect example of you twisting what I said and clearly not comprehending the core of my statements. If you cannot take the time to try to understand what I wrote, I have no reason to respond further. In fact, I will not even justify your last paragraph with a point by point reply and if you went back and read what I wrote in both of my posts you would find you completely ignored what I wrote.

#1: So glad I'm not calm. The torpid, jaded mind of the average person is a fate worse than death. Passion inspires the things you may like most.... Art, Love, DayZ. #2: I want to be one of the few voices AGAINST KoS. You are free to KoS, server hop, and exploit game mechanics all you like. #3: KoS is for murderers, murdering thieves, and griefers. These people are part of the game and the first 2 are "ok" to me as they play a part in the DayZ experience, a griefer is just that, and could playing any game to get their rocks off. #4: I never said KoS was the reason people leave. I said KoS players seem to get bored with DayZ faster. NONE of the people I had this conversation with 2 years ago while playing the mod are here now having this conversation. They have either only left the forum (for a different forum or none at all) or left DayZ, the latter being more likely than the former. #5: Throughout most of your response you seem to think I am telling people how to play. I am telling people how I play and how that does not include KoS for any reason. PLEASE do not call yourself a survivor or a bandit if all you do is KoS. There are A LOT of people who all they do is KoS. I commend you for playing in a variety of styles and I have done so as well in the past, though I have never had an interest to play as bandit/murderer. I played as a lone wolf and had 30+ day characters with motorcycles and pickup trucks I built myself and 1,000+ zeds, 0 murders. Do you not think that was a challenge?? Admittedly, I became bored with playing alone (after 3 or 4 months) and tried to find random friendlies, with mixed results. Around this period I dabbled in bambi assistance and some random medic work. Also, don't mistake chaotic neutral for good. If I can avoid a conflict by fleeing, I usually will. I will happily surrender a prime loot location to preserve my character. If you manage to corner me or do not respond to repeated voice and text questions I may kill you for self preservation. I hope they bring over a touch of the hunger, loot, and temperature tweaks from the latest experimental build. A LOT of people will not like starving and freezing before they can run to NWA.

If you see someone and do not try to communicate with them before you fire upon them that is the definition of KoS. Perceived threat or not. You made your choice. I role play what I consider a true survivor and I have a firm grip on reality when I do so. I just have enough of a developed imagination that I stick to my characters principals regardless of situation. Most people who KoS get bored of this game faster than those of us who don't. I have seen countless players of just this type leave in a few months of play time and I'm happy to see them go.

It is not "acceptable" for me to KoS anywhere in this game. I really wish the people who played this way would stop making excuses, patting each other on the back, and encouraging/supporting others in picking up this practice. KoS is KoS is KoS. You're MURDERERS. Not survivors, not bandits. Edit to say: Maybe after a year or 2 of reading repetitive threads you'll stop putting up shields of text for new members who don't search the forum and contribute to a "master thread" o nthe same topic.

If this means I can play as lefty, I'm all for it. IMMERSION

Being left handed, I would like the option. Us lefties are only 10%, so it's not something devs usually put much time into. And in all, I could see the only real difference being in the arc of melee weapons.

If this is in reference to my post above with a South Park quote, you missed the point entirely. I welcome constructive, informed input from all players new and old. Repetitive, self serving, ill informed/uninformed, "this game is broken", "fix my bug before everything else" posts, only clutter this board. Maybe your tolerance for ignorance is higher than mine.

Dear uninformed: Release numbers like .50 are meaningless, if you followed the devs you would know that. It does not mean we are halfway to anything. Experimental never gets changelogs, ever. Unofficial ones are on reddit. There are a lot of people who jump into DayZ without reading nearly enough about the game and the state that it is in before they come on here and try to "contribute". I just remind myself what South Park hammered home, "half of everyone is retarded". Have a nice day.

I play as if there is humanity as a gameplay element. I keep score within. I RP this way as purist survivor. I don't play many shooter games but I was hooked on Resident Evil from the beginning. This feels like it has the potential to be some sort of open world Resident Evil with even more health factors and random evil players who try to kill me! Imagine a 20yr S*T*A*R*S* veteran (see: Biohazrd JPN on PS1) washed up on a beach after a world wide rage zombie infection. I'm basically "chaotic good", I guess. I was zombie hunting, with a side of bambi assist/hero in the mod a lot. As a lone wolf in the mod I had month long characters with multiple vehicles, camps, and over 1,000 zeds dead, Fred. With broken and less zombies in the game, I haven't really been able to continue my mission of cleansing the Earth of the unholy hordes. One day, when the sun shines a little brighter on dusty ol' Chernarus, I'll have me lots and lots o' smelly flesh ripping zeds to lobotomize.

I wish someone else would field this. Combat logging is INDEFENSIBLE. Closing the application to evade mortal peril was not put in as a gameplay mechanic, it's an exploit of the personal computer platform. If this was on a console you would have to kill your internet or unplug the console mid game to combat log. ;) ?

I thought you were going to have screen shots of your character with gangrene or sepsis. :(

I commend you on an unusually well written and well thought out OP. However, I could not read the rest of your beautiful post due your first point. I have had friendly encounters at military sites. I am "friendly" at military sites. I am not running away from you to get a better vantage point to shoot you from. I've been murdered countless times over the last 2 years (mod + SA) and nothing has ever made me change my mind about any form of KoS. Period.

*Royale One day in the future when this game is close to complete, I imagine we will see more visible organized events.

Hey, guess what? Combat logging is an exploit. Thanks for playing.