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^Whoa.... This sounds like a good solution except it's not really that simple. Maybe have this tied to a clock at about 15 minutes long. Ghosting is game breaking and should never be done. Here's to hoping there is a perfect solution in the future.

When I was playing the mod food was less plentiful and fresh meat gave you more health/blood than canned/packaged food products. It was much more advantageous and efficient to hunt and cook and stock your pack with meat instead of cans. I imagine in future builds things will lean back to this sort of balance.

DevTracker says: Dean Hall @rocket2guns Also, 0.45 is released on experimental for testing. If success, it will go to stable Wednesday. Great job to the team! #dayz View on Twitter

This game will be greater (look, feel, content) than any of us ever imagined. Including Rocket himself. (*I also believe character movement should be kept with a "measured" feel. Not clunky, but paced and deliberate. It's bad enough we were all marathon runners before the apocalypse; we all don't have to be acrobats too.) Due to the amount of money thrown at monitors since Alpher, I believe DayZ Beta & 1.0 are a mere matter of time.

I'm curious to try this build. I was away from the game for awhile. The only thing I really wanted was more zombies really.... If the zombies are reasonable everything else can get piled on after.

I had the pleasure of running into him on one of my bike rides the other day.

My medic friend introduced me to some new friendlies. Always nice to raid in a group once in a while.

I was just given Magnum ammo by a friendly random guy I met. That's a first on a couple of levels. He offered it to me straight away saying that even if he found the gun he would not want it. I gave him ammo for his m4. I found a whole variety of scopes the night before and I believe I've had them all in at least worn/pristine condition once. I found my 2nd walkie talkie as well. I'm not sure what to do with it yet.... I need to explore the updated areas of the map more and stop hovering around the old haunts.

Not at all. I won't give up a ballistic helmet for such nonsense. Here I am in full military gear and was not KoS'd by this fellow who then teamed up with me to loot NWAF. He had held up in a small town for 3 days on his own and was happy to meet a friendly.

You are completely ignorant if you think the mod "is irrelevant" to any discussion regarding DayZ. The degree to which that statement is wrong requires a 400 word essay to begin to elucidate. No, I'm not a moderator but a long time internet forum user who knows that it's best to lurk somewhere and get the tone of a place before starting threads and acting high and mighty. :rolleyes:

:facepalm: We only want to keep things as tidy as possible in this cluster fuck reborn of a forum. Yes your post is a unique and beautiful snowflake but we don't need an entire original topic, especially on a subject as old as the mod itself.

i havent had the entire map yet. no magnum or shotgun. if they are in the game now, I'm not looking in the right places. people having trouble finding the vests i don't understand, i see them all the time. the server i play on just restarted when i was at NWAF. Maybe some good stuff awaits me....

A lot of the OP has a grain of truth, which can be said for many stereo types. At this stage of the SA I am basically trusting no one and if I can altogether avoid you I probably will. I was cornered by 3 guys last night (picture in screenshot thread) at the jail in NWAF and they restrained me, gave me the food I needed in exchange for a scope i didn't even need, took some blood, but replaced it with saline and left me fed and unharmed. They said they usually KoS but he said he decided to trust me because I reached out over direct chat when they came inside instead of trying to run or fight. The younger player in the group said, "What are you doing out here ALONE!" I explained that I have played solo for most of my time since I started playing the mod June 2012. I'm happy when people just don't try to kill me. Some guy ran up to me with a kitchen knife and I had a shovel screaming, "You better have water on you when you die!" I knocked him out with the shovel and told him, "I would have let you drink from my bottle, asshole." I will interact a lot more as the SA progresses. I'm sure new game mechanics and overall boredom will force me to find company sooner or later..... maybe. :ph34r:

If you're new to DayZ and have just experienced something in game and are considering posting about it ask yourself this question, "Is it possible that what I am thinking or what I have just experienced was experienced or thought of by another player either in the mod or in the standalone prior to my thinking of it?" Just considering the mod is over 18months old should answer that question every time as "Yes, most likely someone else has thought of this and probably made a thread about it." Then search the topic with keywords. Find the most popular thread on the subject.... it might even be a sticky thread! Add your wonderful story and thoughts about the topic, read other peoples long eloquent well thought out posts on same. http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=search&fromMainBar=1 *A simple log out timer will solve a large part of this and will likely be implemented. You will of course be able to quit the game but your character will remain on map to be killed/looted/whatever'd for a set amount of minutes upon disconnect.

I think having stats that change based on humanity is more interesting and important than identifying bandits. The steadier hand of the bandit but slightly slower run. The long time lone wolf survivor should maybe have slightly lower visibility profile for zombies or more sprint stamina. Heroes run faster and can perform medical tasks a little faster perhaps. Not terribly important but cool to think about.

I found myself cornered by novx, Sod, and another player earlier when I was looting the top floor of the police station at NWAF. They were very apprehensive about how they handled me but did not KoS. "I'm feeling Canadian tonight." I believe they tested and drew some blood. I begged for some food which they gave me and force fed me. One guy asked for a scope I was carrying in my backpack which I gave him. They replaced my blood with saline and I thanked them for not murdering me. They thanked me for not being an asshole.

Lag is common. It seems like the "hiccups" described above are common. Sometimes it's worse than others.... There has been little/no client side optimization to date. I'm hoping that some of those coming changes improve performance overall. Currently I find the game enjoyable enough.... Watch some youtube videos and you're bound to see lag. Regarding hacks. They began maybe 48hrs into release. I personally have not encountered any yet but this may be because I avoid higher population servers that might be more of a target.

I've found one so far as well. NWAF firestation. I tend to find the gun quite often though.....

Unless i'm mistaken, you need to eat and drink enough for the word "healthy" to appear next to your character in the inventory before you start to auto regen blood. Eat until you get he message, "your stomach is full" and the healthy icon should be lit. Also don't get KoS'd like I just did. <_<

But, but, I like my matches. :(

You're welcome. We are all noob again it seems...

#1 there is a separate testing branch hive where you will spawn on the beach if you don't already have a character on that hive. always glance the server version number. #2 at the top of the server selection screen there are tabs, one is marked history and will show the servers you have logged into. #3 I don't know why some servers are much darker than others *some servers actually say 24/7 daylight or something to that effect in the name and you can try to filter for that.

I haven't quite seen this teleporting glitch (thankfully) and as stated above it sounds like possible desynch.... I ran halfway across the map last night almost non-stop without a real issue.

Nice post. Good to know I should be looking out for those MP buttstocks in particular (until something changes). Thanks.