Bororm

You need to give it time in each place. Berezino is going to be your best bet still, but even then you can't just show up, not see anyone and then server hop or whatever, stick around for like 20-30 mins. Kraz/neaf isn't bad, svet is alright. The further you get from the east, the less consistently you're going to encounter people. I recommend not going to elektro if your goal is to encounter people. DayZ is a game where you have a lot of lulls in the action/encounters.

I'm fairly confident the servers that went down and weren't coming back up were broken due to tents/persistence. I think to fix it, it involved wiping said servers.

Anyone complaining about a wipe is sorta missing one of the major themes of the game. I can't wait for the wipe, it's about time.

lol

There were talks by rocket early on of making it so you can shoot them, perhaps they're reworking the model etc to make that possible.

Stop trolling, you're bad at it.

There's a difference between a private "shard" or server, and a private hive which sounds more like what you want Carnivore. It sounds to me like private shards will still be connected to the central loot server. I think it's actually quite likely it won't even be a separate character, from the sound of the rules that were posted. I believe they plan to eventually open the game up to allow for private hives, but I think that's a ways off.

It's fucking pointless to shoot 5.56 at those distances any ways unless you're trying to tickle some one. It's like this. The AKM has more damage but more recoil, the AK101 has less dmg and less recoil. Use which ever one you prefer.

I wish I ran into more people like the majority of this thread, because 9/10 people I run into in game are just wearing boring old camo looking like everyone else.

Probably my favorite outfit too, I like the bright blue check but I'll use any I can get. I don't ever wear any shoes though =P The other day I was thinking about how there really aren't a lot of just shirts in the game, it's almost all jackets. Would like to see more variety on civilian shirts that aren't jackets.

So majestic, you did a good thing.

The devs have always been awful at getting their information out in a professional way, it's scattered across multiple sources and always requires digging. It sucks, and I think they should change, but it's been this way forever so I doubt it will. At least there's the weekly updates now I guess, maybe this will be mentioned in that. Any ways, thanks for exploiting and fucking up the server you were on, intentional or not =P This is why if something seems shady, just don't do it to begin with.

I think you may be better off finding placed ones and stealing them.

Or maybe it's because there's food every where so it's hardly a starving survival situation =P Why am I going to eat off the floor, when there's another perfectly good can of food in the next house.

I don't find first person to help me at all, and zombies are bullshit. I preferred the last patch to this one in terms of melee, and the ones before that over it obviously. One zombie, ok, multiple zombies, especially hopping/crouching fuck them, they're broken.

DayZ doesn't have perma death. They should have never called it that from the start, it's stupid. Do you even have to recreate your character when you die? no. You respawn. Hell it literally says "respawn." How is that different from any other FPS? If there were skills or player attributes and you had to make a new character each time, then yes. As it stands, the game doesn't have that. It's a pvp game with full loot is what they should have said. Any ways, even if it had permadeath I don't see the issue with persistence. The world continues with or without your character, it makes sense. You can't accurately represent a loss of memory, no matter what crazy gimicks you come up with, so there's really no difference from me having a stash and me knowing I can go find a gun in a piano house. Other players can loot/destroy my stash, so there's no guarantee it will remain. I don't see the issue at all.

This brings up a good point that the animals don't even have sounds currently, do they? That alone would give a lot more "life" to them imo.

That's part of third person. If you don't like it, there's first person. He's not exploiting/cheating at all. But that's not a topic for this thread. That's disappointing that the stripping items hack is back. Looks like he was forced to drink too which is really fucked up. As for the OP, teleporting existed before, and I'm not sure they ever actually solved it. I had some one teleport to me the other night because I was twanging an empty bow (it makes a global sound, that's directional, so everyone on the map can hear it). He showed up as a fresh spawn in one of the new northern towns, way out of the way. He then proceeded to leave sight of me and my friends for all of 10 seconds before showing up again with a bunch of crap he'd loot magnetted from around the town. When we asked how he got the stuff so quick, he acted shady and then said it was off a body, in a place we'd been moments before. It was some little kid, we ended up killing him.

Yeah the bow doesn't seem very good, the sway on it is really bad and without chickens getting enough arrows to be effective is a bit of a pain. I haven't found a chicken yet but I was happy to see that at least you seem to get about 20 feathers off a single one. Either a quiver should be implemented (maybe it could take the vest/chest holster slot?) or arrows should stack higher though. I'm looking forward to bears, I hope they're sorta rare but really brutal. Bear mask would be so badass too.

The backpacks were a nice addition. I find myself hunting to make the pack, then the meat being a byproduct that I may as well cook. If they can add even more use out of animals, like maybe something with the bones/antlers or whatever, or even just trophies to put in your base once that's a thing then I think making hunting harder will be a good idea. It would be sweet to be able to make some masks/cloaks or something, although maybe that's getting too cavemanish for DayZ's setting. Wish fishing too, I'd like to see different sizes of fish and types (I'm sure types are coming for certain). Would be cool to be able to catch really big fish to show off, and also give you more meat. Again, with barricading/base building I just think it would be pretty awesome to have some trophies and decorative items and hunting/fishing would be a nice place to start.

I don't see a reason to make them harder until they become more useful.

Maybe a knife and sewing kit would be good.

Why didn't you use your akm?

Servers are taking forever to restart now. The first server I chose never did come back up, and is dead, though still shows in the list.

The numbers I saw were containers last 9 restarts, or around 36 hours. Normal items last 2 restarts. Tents are unknown but longer. Interacting with said items, including containers, resets the timer. I'd imagine you have to pick them up and drop them again, or alter their state (paint, split, whatever).