drewsta

Traveling through the northern towns and entered Novo. I knew zombies were far and few between at the moment so I wasn't phased at all when I saw one crossing the road. I took aim with the Blaze, I fired and she dropped. Then all hell broke loose! One from behind I didn't see came at me from the river, 3 more screaming and running at me from the front ...and they were running FAST. I ran up the road to my left with 4 on my ass when I saw another join from the right buildings and they were just meters behind me keeping pace. For the first time since I can't remember, my heart was in my teeth as I now had a total of 7 chasing me down and were not giving up no matter where I ran or tried to lose them. I managed to hide inside a bank of garages and close the door. In they came by 2's and singles and I shot them in turn as best I could with reloading in between. Whilst I managed to drop them without too much trouble, THAT is the Dayz experience I hope will be prominent at final release. Imagine that type of hysteria all over the map and increasingly worse in the cities or larger towns. Mix that with crazed, confused, scared trigger happy survivors. I know the devs are working towards that goal while keeping the frames smooth but we are not there yet. It was just a great feeling to see what Dayz can be even if it was for a brief moment. Cheers

I have been finding more loot in the last few hours than before, but still finding I'm getting left overs because all the doors are still open on a lot of buildings which tells me either the doors don't reset or someone is not far in front doing what I'm doing.

Hi all, I'm noticing on a lot of "persistence" servers that there is persistently nothing left of real value to loot anymore on the servers I play. I kind of like it in a way because it does feel like everybody has scavenged almost everything that was once available and we have to really look hard and get lucky to find anything at all, like a real apocalypse would be. Water is still easy to come by as is the occasional animal or tinned food etc but walk into a supermarket or other buildings and there is nothing at all when there at least used to be a part of a map or maybe some rope or even an apple that I didn't need anyway. Is it possible that survivors are now looting up everything and stashing it somewhere? I have been to military bases before and straight after restarts countless times and have found most doors open and the rooms empty except for maybe some basic ammo rounds 9mm or badly damaged jacket etc. Moving around towns in the middle of nowhere and a lot of the doors are opened and houses empty too now. Are persistent servers exactly that, persistent, meaning that what ever happens before server restart carries on after restart? That would explain the lack of nice loot in the military areas and towns etc if so. If that is indeed the case, that means I should now perhaps keep a an extra eye out for camps or stashes of loot. It also begs the question, new spawns will have one heck of a time now getting hold of more precious loot as other survivors are more than likely hoarding it forcing friendships and working together eventually if they want any more than the basic items.

Hey mate, I posted about this a couple of days ago as it happened to me. That message has come up quite a few times for me in the past week but as others have stated as soon as I see that message (on the first black screen) I hit esc and get out. It did it again 2 days ago but when I logged back in, all my clothes and gear were gone but my character was still there with all his health and in the exact same position. My character is still alive which is what the game is about for me, I can always go find more gear. Note: The server I was on restarted, so when I clicked out I tried to go into another server I stopped that and decided to return to the original server which wasn't up yet. Apart from the count down waiting to get into the server again I noticed that is when the issues started with the resetting to default character started. Don't quote me on this part but I think if you try and change servers too quickly or too much the game might try and reset your character because of that (I don't know the mechanics behind that though). If that happens to me I shut the game down and come back a few hours later and my character will always be there as it was when I left him. Stay alive.

I have managed to keep my character alive since about week 2 of the alpha release and have become somewhat attached to him, we have been through quite the adventure. Knowing how "old" my character is helps apply the challenge to keep him that way as for me it's all about survival. I'm fully aware I shouldn't get attached to a character at this stage of the development but after 6 months it's hard not to. I've avoided death through careful gameplay but there is always a chance that someone else may get the upper hand or the game will get you with a glitch. Sadly the game got me today with a server issue and relieved me of absolutely everything except my character who scraped through and was not reset! So I now enjoy the hunt for new gear and supplies before I get sick or worse and my character lives on for now. The day he does die for whatever reason will be a sad day with a memorial service haha, then I'll do it all again with a fresh one. This is only the second glitch I've experienced since the beginning so I consider myself extremely lucky. I posted this as I've read lately a lot of characters old and new are being wiped and reset completely due to server connection issues and thought It was blind luck to only lose my gear. Stay alive.

I'm just giving a shout out for the app Izurvive aswell for ipad/iphone or most smartphones.. It has a variety of maps and a pretty up to date standalone map in normal or satellite mode. You can never get lost with that at your disposal, it shows everything you need to navigate Chernarus. I get that having a real map next to you may feel more realistic and fun but you can't beat the Izurvive app for an easy instant HD map. Depending on how long you have been playing Arma2/Dayz you may already know the map like the back of your hand but there will come a time when it's invaluable. Stay alive.

I do believe that the crash sites may have problems not showing for some reason. I have searched endlessly and I am confident I would have come across at least 1 out of 3 sites before a server restart even if I was to just spot it from a distance. I did search for hours over several server restarts as I'm aware the area to cover is a lot bigger now. I'm happy to wait if indeed the sites are broken, I'm still alive on the same character since the very beginning of dayz, I'm in no hurry. Just my thoughts anyways.

Thanks for the info fellas, I can now see that the crash sites are likely to be more dispersed over a wider area than first researched. I today looked in what used to be the most popular 9 areas and didn't come across any crash sites. I'm actually glad that they are even more random now and could be where you least expect them.

My apologies, I can't seem to find 5.56 ammunition at present and just realised about the addition of helicopter crash sites, so disregard thanks. Drewsta

Hi all, since the last update .46 I have been searching high and low for some stanags or similar for the M4 but I simply cannot find a trace of them anymore. I have searched everywhere that they used to be and can find plenty of side arm ammo and .22 etc but no m4 clips. I have tried a few different servers too. I'm guessing I missed a post on this somewhere perhaps? I can happily use my side arm for ever but thought it was strange that the M4 ammo loot doesn't appear to be spawning at present. Cheers Drewsta

I've managed to stay alive from just after day1 and still on the one character. Never killed or been killed and luckily avoided death by glitch. I'm not talking about just sitting under a tree in the forest for 100 hours either and considering that a survival milestone. I move around a lot in the 30 + servers but I'm ridiculously careful how I do that. So it's possible to survive without "KOS" but maybe just too boring for the majority perhaps.

I got smashed by a zed the other day and it came up with "my leg hurts"... then something like "I feel pain in my leg", so I took a morphine injection and all was fixed.

I agree with you on a few counts Op. I would have liked to see a new map too but truth is people are complaining enough about the current alpha. The time taken to implement a new detailed map could have been way more than we imagined plus at least the current map is a good one. I think players will eventually find that clothes such as fur coats may be your best friend at some stage when the health/sick system is in full swing. Imagine your boots are ruined, your trying to evade someone or something and you character is groaning and moaning loudly, giving away your position plus possibly slow or limping etc. I've never really understood the rotten fruit either, to break morale when your hungry, who knows but probably not real necessary either, unless it does start out pristine and the longer it sits the worse it gets perhaps? Not sure what the infatuation with guns guns and more guns is, each to their own I guess. They are a part of the game and some variety is exciting and I'm sure given time they will implement other types. Focusing on getting the zombies to follow correct paths and not stray through buildings would be a more positive step forward I think, right now that is.

I personally think people shooting first at others out of fear will soon reduce considerably as interacting longer will be seen as more fun and rewarding. How you interact may not be the friendliest either but the initial "bang bang your dead" for fun will die out somewhat.