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Like others have said, there are different teams assigned to different things. It's not like the "Devs" focus on weapons, then put out weapons in a patch, then focus on items, etc. To my understanding, it's more like this; Let's say they have 20 people, 5 for clothing, 5 for weapons, 5 for items, 5 for zombies. When the clothing/weapon/item team is done with their current focus, they release their finished work onto the next build for testing,etc. And while this is happening, the Zombie team is probably still having trouble getting zombies just right, or improving on them, Just because they aren't putting out zombie updates doesn't mean they aren't working hard on them, I'm sure they are. But stopping everything else FOR zombies would be silly, why would someone who has no experience on coding A.I help the zombie A.I team? I can see where your frustration is coming from, just be patient! There is still so much more to be accomplished and we need as many testers as we can, which a lot of people don't seem to realize. (DayZ being an alpha and all)

I would argue that mosin's are incredibly accurate even at 800 meters. I killed a good amount of people who were camping in the cherno tower from that distance. And the bullet/flight time and such, I would say those wouldn't -really- matter since at any distance over 300m you should only take the shot if you are 100% sure the bullet will hit. All your points are good though, although the one hit kill rate is iffy, I've had several instances where my targets survived the first shot, but that may have been due to decreased damage over distance. There has been a time where a guy shot me in the legs 2 meters away and I survived, so there's that.

Animal hunting has no been implemented yet. As for avoiding large cities, I would advise otherwise, especially on servers that are below 20 people, most large towns are not looted entirely. Personally, I would suggest going INTO large towns and finding clothes, food, water,etc. THEN looking for weapons, but that's just me. If you want to have a larger server list, set all ping numbers to 0 which in turn show you every single server available.

I'm always extremely wary of people who are dressed up in mainly military fatigues, I myself try to look as civilian as possible and it's worked out quite well so far.

I remember on the initial release and first patch it worked fine. I heard different things, some say it's either bugged, or that users were writing "vulgar" messages which made the devs disable it.

All luck my friend! There have been times when I searched a fresh server and checked in every M4 spawn I could find, and I found 1.

There is a problem with a lot of servers not retrieving information from the central hive. To know if you server is properly working, join a server, run to a spot, near a tree, anything. Log out and go into a another server, if you spawn in the same spot, that servers is working correctly, if you spawn somewhere else, it is now working. Take a look at this thread also; http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/167343-servers-with-connection-issues-to-central-hive/

I'm slightly confused, do you mean that when you play on your server you have no gear and you are a fresh spawn? This might help also; http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/167343-servers-with-connection-issues-to-central-hive/

Barns, Pubs (2 story building), cars, schools, TEC building (Office building), Red/Orange brick houses. These are places I have found my mosins in. Allegedly they also spawn in hospitals, but it is unlikely.

Hello there my good man, weapon attachment spawn rates have drastically been lowered, they DO spawn though. Try checkout Air control towers and Hangars. The most amount of hangars can be found at the North West Airfield. Keep in mind there is a huge risk going up there. Happy hunting.

There is an issue with servers not retrieving information from the main hive. To figure out if the server you are on IS working, join a server and move into a house or something, when you go on another server, if you are NOT in a house, or you are in a new spawn point, that server does not work. Also; http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/167343-servers-with-connection-issues-to-central-hive/

I have yet to experience this but will post if it does occur when I play. I'd say another thing to keep in mind is that there are a lot of new loot spots around the map, such as Red-roofed barns. And servers do spawn a finite number or items which can't be placed in EVERY building so the loot might be varied and spread out.

Do what the previous posters have mentioned. If none of this works, get next to a wall, and relog. While the server is loading you in, mash your W key to run move while the building is still loading in. You should be able to walk/run out no problem, at least this is what I do when I get stuck in a building.

This is incorrect, TENTS do not spawn loot anymore either purposely to scatter loot around and make things more rare, or for tweaking the spawns for future items. Also, from what -I- think to be true, before, Items were everywhere so we can test them, now that those items have been tested, their spawn rates have been lowered and new items spawn rates have been raised so we can test those. You can STILL find weapon attachments and such in new spawn places such as hangars, jailhouse building, ATC towers, etc. Rocket has also stated that military gear will and is meant to be rare/very rare. I think the issue here, atleast in my opinion, is that others (myself included) were spoiled to having an abundance of loot everywhere, and now that the rates have been lowered, or lowered to how the devs want it, people are having a lot of trouble adjusting.

To get people prepared/used to the change I suppose. I myself got used to the abundance of loot, now with everything turned down I tend to ration things out a little more.

I never understood the "run for an hour" thing. It takes 20 minutes (I've timed it) from the coast, to reach the NWAF or any Western area of the map without stopping. Now, OF COURSE it will take an hour if you're just going through every building, but it seems pointless to me to server hop UNLESS you've actually checked every city, etc. I've played on 50/50 servers and have noticed that there is no one on the western end of the map, atleast in my experiences I have gone hours without seeing anyone on full servers and I was well suited to survive loot wise.

Seems like it. The Mod also showed the time, but in game time would be different, so there might be an issue with the interface pulling wrong information or an error occurring?

I have yet to experience this myself on a spread of 10 different servers, every place I go into has something. I'll check around though and try to confirm for myself. Also keep in mind spawn rates were probably extremely high during recent patches for testing and lowered now that most have been tested.

A LOT of servers are experiencing connecting issues with the central hive. A few servers can still connect to the central hive but most of the working ones are full.

Some say it's a bug but I'm not sure. On the time indicator on the server list, what does it say? (It is in 24h format)

The loot in the tents were either removed for tweaking for more items in the upcoming patches, or bugged. I'm leaning towards removed since the attachments now spawn in other military areas. Check out the Hangars at the airfields for most attachments, at least that's where I found/saw them at. I've also seen attachments spawn in the jailhouse buildings which I haven't seen before.

I believe there are no private hives as of yet. However there are hardcore and public hives. Hardcore servers are indeed labeled on the server list. But there is a problem with about 90% or a high number of servers not connecting to the central hive which result as a new character everything you log in, even on the same server. Keep in mind these servers do not delete your character from the central hive. There are a small amount of servers still working, I can confirm that the midnightgaming(should be the one that says DAY when you filter midnightgaming) server works and your character should be there. And from my understanding, Vilayer, Gameservers, and MPGS are simply hosting companies, they should all be connected to the main hive unless the server is running on the hardcore hive.

I've noticed weapons spawning in new places, I saw a double barrel shotgun in the TEC buildings (office buildings) and a Mosin in a new spot also.

No need to uninstall, I was getting an error while updating myself also. First, make sure you are NOT opted into any beta (experimental build). Now, if that doesnt update your game, right click on dayz, go to local files -> hit verify game integrity. If THAT doesn't work, exit steam, and verify integrity again, that made it update for me. If none of the above work, reset your computer and try verifying one last time. If this all fails, re-install like the others have suggested.

Are you joining servers that DON'T have a red 'X' next to them? If so, please post a screen shot so I/we can help further.