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I feel I must of been lucky with my first spawn near a shed and utility tower on a hill just north of what I guess people are calling Novo. I entered the town and in short order had rags and axe. Running up stairs broke my legs twice but I was able to splint up each time. Applying the splint removed the pain status as well as the fracture status, no morphine needed (certainly a bug I would think). Apparently, someone had just looted the area pretty thoroughly but I was still able to get healthy within 10 minutes. I find 100's of rounds of 4 different kinds but no guns. Server restarts. I log into another low ping server. This Novo is untouched. I proceed to clear most of the town. The police station now seemed to have more appropriate loot at reasonable amounts. I climbed the large government building ground floor had the Walther and found the top floors were filled with a wide range of good stuff. So far I've settled on an SKS & CR527, 8 rounds only for the SKS and a box of 9mm with no magazine. Scouring the rural and government hospitals I was able to fill a medkit and then some without too much trouble (to my surprise) with antibiotics, pain pills, morphine, charcoal, IV start, water purification tabs.... I only found kids backpacks until I entered the big blue warehouse buildings which 3 out of 4 had Green Taloon backpacks. The new model industrial office buildings also feature a nice grouping of weapons, ammo, and medical supplies. Both servers were day time, no rain. I wore a beanie hat, hoodie, cargo pants, gloves, and never saw a single temp related status message. I'm sad to hear that the firemens axe is not working properly, makes me wish i had not traded my splitting axe. I can confirm the bugged item damage display and that moving the item in any way will show it's true status. I feel almost guilty having had it so easy right off the bat.... The build seems to run smoother for me in general. I will log on soon and run South hoping to tangle with some zombies and see how that feels. No one has mentioned if instant zombie respawn is still in and I'm tempted to guinea pig.... P.S.: Please don't KoS and then give an excuse, you gutless panty waste. You're not a survivor, you're a murderer. If I bother to type that I'm friendly during a zombie attack that I help repel and I stop to bandage and you're axing me while you're apologizing because I took too long to say friendly?? People are morons....

Really excited to see whats in this update!

He WAS shot in the back first though I believe.... alone, vs 3? OP could have been a little cooler about it maybe but it seems like a legit revenge clip.

Listening to people brag about their gear is HILARIOUS. I swear you can tell who played the mod and who didn't from how they post.

The announcements regarding hack fixes really don't matter either way. Every update has potential hack fixes in them so by your logic every update cycle would see a ramping up of hacking just prior to release. In fact, one of the benefits to open testing is EARLY exposure of security weaknesses in the game that can be fixed so that when they do release a complete version it will be better protected from the beginning.

Hi! No offense meant at all but have you read any of the development news or followed the forum for very long? The work involving the zombies in game has been laid out for us in detail and has been prioritized. Read status reports and devtracker! This game is going to break many times before it's complete. If you have trouble accepting that you should come back when Beta is done. Thanks.

You can't spell shovel without love.

you are a survivor with hero tendencies. your horoscope calls for repeated KoS peppered with occasional brushes with humanity.

Yes. I found red berries after searching the same bush multiple times. Funny enough, they resembled the berries I was told not to eat as a kid, so I ate them.

You're welcome. I will enjoy the crying about BEING wiped more than the crying before the wipe. :murder:

Ok. You first. No hanging, sitting, or otherwise lowering yourself. Just your most brisk walk, straight off.

It's mentioned in status report. "It is our intent once we have addressed the core issues with abuse of item duping, as well as resolved issues with the protection of player storage and opened game server providers rental of private shards, to wipe the stable branch clean. This will allow us to ensure a clean start on player storage and camps, as well as remove issues such as: Bugged ammo quantity magazinesCorrupt charactersDuplicated items and ammunition" http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/208484-devblog-status-report-week-of-18-august-14/ Devtracker and status reports are 2 of the top sections SA players who want to be informed, should follow.

It would make sense to read about a games strengths and weaknesses before you purchase it, wouldn't it? A 5 foot jump might not kill (but could still seriously injure you, especially if you are carrying 50lbs of gear on your back) but anything over 4 stories is fatal in most cases.

That would be an exploit which is against game policy. I expect this thread to be locked and yarded. Seriously man. Wiping the database is for the good of the hive. Go feed your character to a neverending stream of zombies like a man.

1: Balance for everything including food will be dealt with in detail once we enter Beta. 2: I would imagine that aggressive animals are not a priority for immediate implementation. 3: Non-lethal weapons have been discussed at length and from what I gather in the OP they are now beginning the process of making the graphical models for these items. 4: No mention of weapon throwing bug does not mean it hasn't been addressed or at least not looked into. I would look for mention of this in the final 0.49 changelog. 5: Hacking is always being addressed.... eh, was that even a real question? 6: Weather will effect your character for sure. You will get sick and die from exposure if you do not have rain gear or seek, dry, warm shelter when the weather turns ugly. We may see wet weather ruining items if you get soaked through. ***I for one would like to suggest RAINCOVERS for backpacks and improvised raincovers/rain coats that would come from garbage bags or tarps (I keep forgetting to post this). I use one for all weather cycling (a raincover) and the worn one I have still repels A LOT of water. Last night I crashed my new bike and got blood on my raincover, I'm hoping it stains as a reminder. Looks like a zombie took a swipe at me while I was riding my bike!

Expect this Alpha release to be wiped multiple times and possibly with little to no warning (though this time we were warned). Expect your own data to be wiped every time you log in and you will be better prepared. Expect every "game breaking bug" at any moment. Thank you.

Frankly, it's still Alpher. Why is the DayZ SA dev team supposed to perform faster than industry standard? The game may break to different degrees, at different times. I have experienced crash bugs, wipe bugs, poor zombie interactions, hackers, and then some for 2+ years. If nothing in the above sentence sounds tolerable to you, this may not be the Alpha project for you. Back to the SUBJECT, which is positivity.... I have a great sense that Rocket and Co have little interest in pandering to the masses. If you combine all of the character specific factors and environmental factors that will come to bear on this game over the next months/year/years, you can start to see how this will not be the deathmatch FPS game that some people insist on trying to make it. Survival for all types of players (good/neutral/evil) will take painstaking strategy and often end in failure not due to being KoS'd. The way you explained zombie aggro made it sound like less of the "never ending zombie bug" than a legit short term tactic to ramp up zombies (glitched or otherwise). "When in doubt, add more zombies." - Rocket I think if there was a finite amount that they could spawn in this fashion it would make a little more sense to me. I lost a well geared, well worn character to this basically because I didn't really understand the mechanic at play. I guess I would never have been able to shoot my way to safety....

i loved the mod and i love the SA. Rockets vision has grown and matured along with our help and support. Lately I feel like we are on the cusp of having a real idea of what this game will be like when nearing completion. I like that they added a lot of sway and inaccuracy to long range shooting. It really is more realistic than a perfectly static barrel, even if currently it's a bit exaggerated. I think this mechanic has discouraged some sniping, which I'm ok with.

In the mod we had a generic toolbox that was used to repair cars, trucks, and helicopters. I have a feeling we may see a toolbox that might fit these seemingly useless tools for just such purposes and many more crafting purposes as well.

Did you expect that your character would last forever? It was stated many times that there would be data wipes throughout development, no maybes about it. If you've played that much DayZ (similar to myself), you should have by now embraced perma-death and embraced the re-gearing process. I've been a gamer 30+ years and I honestly can't remember another game online or off where people acted so entitled while being wholly ignorant of the nature of the game they are playing. I for one CANNOT WAIT for the wipe and ALLLLLLL your tears that will flood this board. MMMmmmm yummy yummy QQ's.

I'm so tired of new players with old ideas and no willingness to use the search function to see if their idea is out there already. So let's just fill the forum with repeat topics, over, and over, and over again. If you are a newer player, please realize that DayZ mod is now over 2 years old and most ideas have been discussed. Search/find topic, add idea to preexisting topic. Voila, your idea is neatly archived along with the rest on the same subject! Weeeeee!

The people who think this game is anywhere near finished have extremely poor reading comprehension. The constant crying of the idiotic, immature, short sighted players, can make reading threads here tedious at best. If you came here to curse the developers and rage adding 0 constructive ideas regarding the game you should log out of here, uninstall DayZ, and maybe consider returning after beta, when you find out that the full game is being released.

I experienced similar on a stable branch server. Many people were complaining about neverending zombies but I managed to avoid it for awhile up until recently. It seemed like no matter how much ground I put between myself and a zed in aggro that it never lost me and for every zed I killed another came running almost instantly until I was overwhelmed. I for one hope they do something to correct this in the next update.

I do believe the current stable includes more types of ammo in civilian locations, which I think is good. Some people are gun enthusiasts, some love hunting by bow, some people collect knives, others hoard food. Make stuff sparse in general but finding caches and stashes should be a thing too.