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not sure why you say Terrible? It is part of the game, if I was geared up I would have probably done the same thing unless you were just coming off the coast line. We like to hold up our enemies instead and take what we need and leave you to find more.... but if you are armed with "anything" that could kill me and I am playing solo without friends, I am not taking the time to see if you are friendly just to lose my gear when I turn around. If I don't have a gun, I will usually just leave them alone or maybe even follow with them for a bit... because as stated before I really don't have anything to lose if they do attempt to kill me. Being geared up is completely different, most are not willing to risk losing what they have found. Best advice, trust no one if you have something to lose.

Loot spawns seem fine to me, you just need to go North and get away from the coast where everyone seems to frequent. Soon as we headed north we were geared very quickly.... I hope waypoints stay gone Food/Water burn does seem to go a bit quick though, I am sure that will change in time.

oh yes... forgot to add the review from another community member that is not a FANBOY by any means. He dispised Dayz/Warz and the lot. Cthru's review below: Cthru2k’s unfanboish review. Disclaimer I have never been a fan of Arma’s clunky gameplay and inventory system. I also never really got into WarZ as much as some of you. Frankly I thought WarZ was fucken bad. But I will try to be as fair as I can. Considering I played from 7PM to 11PM PST a good 4 hours and played nothing else that night should be your first indication that the game has potential. I will follow Erocean’s format throughout my this review. DO I THINK YOU SHOULD BUY IT? Yes. Do you have $30 to spare right now? If yes, then buy it if you want to save $20 in the long run. Final price for this product will be $50. Realize this is Alpha and that you may not enjoy it till beta or maybe to it’s final release. Understand that my YES on buy is meant for FANS of the genre. State of the Game I agree at 6.5 on a technical level. General Things: Controls: Controls are fine, actually they did not bother me much at all. The tab system works well for items near you so you can pick up without having to actually try to focus and click them into your inventory. Opening Doors: Interacting with anything in general is easy, middle mouse button works for everything. I climbed up ladders, I climbed up into a train cart, I opened doors, all done by hitting the middle mouse button. Likes that stood out: Day/Night: Didn’t play at night time, it was my first time playing this game and I haven’t played Arma since Arma III’s Alpha, so I did not want to add anymore difficulty to my playing experience. Inventory system: It was fine. It could use some improvement but with the scope of items that will be available this may be the best way to handle this sort of thing. Hitting TAB for inventory or hitting "I" (MMOs) all the same to me. The layout is reminiscent of Diablo II’s in a way. New Game Feeling: Having never really played, this map or any other map would all be new to me. Looting: From picking up various loot around the towns I noticed a lot of stuff is meant for a type of crafting system which I find myself excited for when it is implemented. For now it is just trash loot. Graphics: Look good, I am very satisfied. Note that I despised WarZ’s shitty graphics but find DayZ’s graphics appealing. I do suggest that you do this though, TURN OFF Bloom, Motion Blur and Post Processing. It makes the game blurry. FPS: Didn’t check, but everything felt smooth as butter. Interaction: I heard a guy yelling for help near me apparently he was being chased by a zombie, I was sitting quietly in a Church praying for forgiveness. As he comes charging in screaming for help I did as any man of god would do and smash the zombies brains out with my trusty baseball bat, I then I proceeded to smash his brains out for interrupting my prayer. PvP: Combat is clunky, but I assume it will get better. I never fired a gun so I don't know what its like to aim down sight and shoot anything. Dislikes Ditto to everything Ero said. In closing. If you are a fan of the genre I feel this game will be on your list of games you will enjoy. If you are looking to try this out do so at your own risk. It is Alpha and this genre is unforgiving, but I love a good sandbox.

make sure to SHARE THAT! I will have a camp fire ready

More than likely low health/blood. This is one thing I would however like to see changed, a blood meter on the side or in your inventory would be much better imo. I would much rather not loose color in this beautiful game.. and yes I understand they are trying to make it more difficult to see/play when you have blood loss, but after awhile if you cannot get healed it just gives me a headache. Maybe when I can manage to gather up more supplies I won't have to worry about it as much as I can just eat up and replenish my health, but I would just prefer my game colors to stay. Give us another way to detech our health :D other than that, good work so far. Enjoying my time!

CAN YOU JUST TAKE MY MONEY NOW???!?!?!?!

This made me laugh, you realize that said "zombies" are infected humans with a virus eating away at their bodies... meaning there brains are being eaten away with a virus. Makes them twitch, walk funny and etc etc, I would think something eating away at their brain would make them "retarded". Thanks, that was me that posted that. I was pretty happy with the .7 patch some things needed fixed and honestly think that there would have been alot less bitching if tents worked correctly and you could sleep off infection in any tent you find "Not just your own" or anti's were a little more viable to find.. is that more realistic? no but this is a game. If your running with a 2-4 man group its impossible to have enough to keep all of you healthy. Don't matter to me though I had been alive for multiple days with infection, running with friends or just solo play and eating animals, do people not realize steaks/food will keep you alive? But back to why I replied to you, I agree paying attention to the guys that have been around for awhile but don't discount someone's post just because they have "less than 20 posts", some could have very good intel but are new to posting on here. Most don't take the time to sign into a website if they are having fun with the game, I would rather just be playing. I watched every single video from E3 as well....How can you state that in the "demos" it reflected that... when half the time they didn't even have the damage mod on so they weren't taking any damage and he was running right at zombies to make sure you got to see this tackle mode they wanted to show off. They will only be a problem/nuisance if people are not playing correctly. Hell even .7 wasn't that difficult if you are running with friends or actually playing the game the way its made to be played, not saying there wasn't still some problems, there was and they have stated it. Now this is something that should be implemented.... If I am wearing a ghillie or camo clothing I think it would be GREAT if it affected their aggro!

Is it gay to say I love you? The reason it looks like everyone is complaining 90% of the time in ANY game is because the people that enjoy the game are playing it and not setting on the website bitching lol. I agree with you... Fuckem, make the game the way you want to and if they don't like it they can find another game to play, Its not like they bought Dayz mod anyways... it was FREE.

Eh, that is what wasteland is for... lots of players, no zombies and lots of fights. If I only got an hour or so to play I don't even load up Dayz (no point really) so I load up wasteland and kill some guys. *** In Reply to oompah sorry forgot to quote it lol ***

Something I mentioned long long ago after playing wasteland was the camouflage netting that we could use to hide things under. Why hasn't something like this been brought into dayz so we can use it to hide a vehicle under or a tent under inside the tree line. It worked great in wasteland for hiding certain things and would be awesome to have that or some kind of a vehicle tarp/cover to hide your stuff. Especially since those white cars stick out like a sore thumb :( Making this or even a camouflage netting lean to or something would be nice, something you can lean up against a tree or house and then put your tent or vehicle underneath. This would help hide certain items and do away with people trying to glitch their tents or vehicles into trees to hide them. ***** Something I think would be awesome to add would be bike crafting ***** being able to take 2 tires, hull, engine and fuel parts and creating a peddle bike (not a car or anything fancy) just a peddle bike :D

I see, thanks but not interested in playing others really. Just would like to see it in the mod and eventually in the standalone @ joikd That was really just an example, heli sites, hospitals, apartments, firestations and military barracks all fall into that example. Dangerous to just sit around for 15 mins to wait, while it just too me so long to get to them in the first place.

I would rather see the infection rate higher and the tents more reliable than decreasing infection rate... that is just my opinion though. Really, can you tell me which ones because I play in all vinalla servers so NONE of them I have ever seen have this ability of course unless you happen to find one of them then you can park under it but they are normally inside large cities so pointless. Moving them would be EPIC!

Nothing would be more cool than using one of those Camo netting things to place in the forest and then putting your tent underneath it to help cover from behind spotted from above. Making them like a "lean to" would be even more badass... angling them in a certain direction so that blocked from the sky and ground walkers then putting your tent/vehicle underneath. Also would get people away from trying to glitch their tents into trees or glitching their car into the tree the best they can... although effective its lame lol

**** Something I mentioned long long ago after playing wasteland was the camouflage netting that we could use to hide things under. Why hasn't something like this been brought into dayz so we can use it to hide a vehicle under or a tent under inside the tree line. It worked great in wasteland for hiding certain things and would be awesome to have that or some kind of a vehicle tarp/cover to hide your stuff. Espically since those white cars stick out like a sore thumb :( ***** I liked the zombie damage and infection rate so hopefully that will get bumped back up to what it was so zombie still stay a real threat. However in doing that, antibotics should become a little more spawn worthy. Few nights ago, a group of 4 of us looted 3 hospitals, 2 medical tent stashes and then went back through the hospitals and only found 1 anti in that 6 hour session. It the first 14 hours of looting between days I never found more than 2 total. Zombies and infection should be tough but also need a reliable way of getting ride of the disease... either upping the ANTI spawn OR fixing tents "rest" to actually be usuable in any tent you come across no matter whose it is. I am glad we cannot spam the "rest" but tents are nearly worthless right now... You cannot rest in someone's tent unless its yours, and if you happen to die you cannot sleep in the tent you placed on your last life. The only way to do it is by carrying a tent in your backpack and keeping it with you (Takes up 3 spots I believe) Also this 15 minute spawn rule is slightly crazy... can or will this be reduced to something less time consuming? 5-7 mins sounds like a good time.... but waiting around a Heli Crash site for 15 minutes just to see what spawns feels like a huge waste of time after I just spend 45 minutes traveling there and dangerous none the less. I don't like just being able to sprint in grab loot and go... but I also don't like having to find a tree close enough to hide in, go afk for 15 mins while I wait for something to appear. Needs a good balance and 5 mins sounds fair. ***** Something I think would be awesome to add would be bike crafting ***** being able to take 2 tires, hull, engine and fuel parts and creating a peddle bike (not a car or anything fancy) just a peddle bike :D

I wish the patch would have fixed some of the zombie glitches and such better than it did but whatever its a game and I understand they have those problems. I really hope they can fix it in the standalone... one can hope! I actually love almost everything about the new patch except for 2 things. #1 - Need to either have more antibiotics or be allowed to sleep in any tent you find even after you DIE. As it is right now if I happen to die (example last night I glitched into the side of a building and then fell to my death :( lol), after respawning and getting my stuff about 1 hour later I ended up getting infected off 1 hit from a zombie... it happens all good. Went to the hospital in Cherno no antibotics, went to the second then made my way to electro and still nothing so I decided I would make a break for my tents and try "sleeping it off". I forgot I couldn't sleep/rest in my tent after dying! I would be able to sleep in my tent or ANYONES tent for that matter at anytime. Then #2 shouldn't be 15 mins before loot spawn... maybe 5-7 mins or so, 15 mins seems like an aweful long time to be hanging out near a heli crash site or hospital to get some loot. Those are just my thoughts though, I love that this patch finally made zombies dangerous and a real threat. EDIT *** Oh ya, can we get some more peddle bikes too? There should be like 1 of these or more for every city there is in the game. I love them, or give us the ability to "construct" a bike out of parts. 2 tires, fuel tanks, engine parts and 2 things of scrap metal make a bike. Or add something like peddles & handle bars so instead of fuel tank parts and engine parts you would use those to create a bike, now that would be bitching!

Billy Mays server for the win!

Played a ton last night, Zombies are now much more present of a threat. We used to just run through town looking for loot and players, getting hit by zombies while fighting/shooting or looting. Now with the chance of being knocked down, infected and in general just a "Shit ton" more zombies you cannot do this without them screwing with you. I think the increased difficulty will add some much need depth to the game, since release zombies where just a "pain" while trying to loot or pvp, now they are actually a threat to you and your group. Some bad things I did notice though are: - Hit regristry seems off since patch, I shot a few zombies in the head and they didn't go down - For the first hour I went through 30+ buildings and found 1 pop and 1 can of food and about 50 empty cans. It seemed to get better over time so maybe it was just due to the restart? - Antibotics... A TON of people were complaining about the infection but I like that its that damaging, however I didn't like that between 4 of us looting 6 different cities (Including all 3 hospitals) throughout last night and we never once found ANY antibotics. The chances of them spawning need to be higher and lower epi pen spawns. - Spawns are screwed up, unless it was just the server we were in :/ we kept ending up in the debug or wilderness area All in all if they get a few of the bugs worked out it will be a great addition to the game!

Is this for everyone? I am not running a server but I get this error as well everytime I try to open the Dayz Mod through Steam???

Sooo any ideas when this will be fixed, tested it out again a few days ago and still things are being wiped from the tent when a server is reset/restarted w/e you want to call it. I just started pretty much PVP in the large cities until these are fixed, no point in working for 2 hours if everything is gone after a restart? Also would like to see either more vehicles or more bikes... along with a car/vehicle cover (to hide them better) BUT MOST importantly please fix the tents or find a better solution to storing equipment, these things are way to glitchy.

Highly rare - vehicle camo tarp loot so we can cover up and hide the vehicle in trees so they don't stick out like sore thumbs? More 10 speed bikes, or let us loot material to make our own! Also please fix tents, every time a server restarts it completely wipes everything out that you have saved in them. I have given up on trying to store stuff and just strickly kill people for their gear anymore. No point in working for 6 hours if everything goes away when the server gets reset.

We can already hunt animals, why don't we have fishing poles, tackle boxes and stringers for loot so we can fish for food as well? Would be something really cool! More Mountain/10 speed bikes (maybe add loot so we can build our own?) using scrap metal and adding tools for players to fortify warehouses and buildings? But also give items out as well for others to break in (people trying to steal my stuff. This would give us a place (other than just tents) to put our stuff but make it also to where we have to guard it from intruders trying to break in and steal our stuff. (Ever seen the TV series The Colony)? This would make it a ton of fun, trying to break into peoples buildings while they are guarding them or AFK. It shouldn't be made easy though, the loot to fortify or to break in should be very hard to find. Let us put tents up inside buildings/warehouses. (This would also go hand in hand with the previous message, so if we take over a warehouse we can set tents up inside for gear and then protect them by fortifying and guarding it). Get ride of server hopping, if you logoff from one server and decided to log right back on (different server this time) you should have some kind of time limit on logoff and logon to another server that should be added. This would keep the from logging on/off immidetaly from one server to another. If you however chose to log right back on to the same server then no (time penality) would occur. This wouldn't completely eliminate it because they could just wait out the time limit but if you made it 1 hour or something it would completely slow them down if not make it not worth their time to mess with. I have had instances where we starting a gun fight and they log off, run up the stairs on another server, log back in to our server and come down the stairs and shoot me or my friend in the back. Its a little aggrevating! Loot item needing added - Rare - Blood injection Needle. Maybe not give them 100% health back but if I can bandage and give myself 6k blood back it would be nice so I can see to make my way to a friend for a transfusion. Bugged dropped items fixed, I have lost many many guns while trying to put them on the ground to rearrange my backpack or shuffle items Would like to be able to use my axe on a window or zombie without having to put it in my main weapon slot. Maybe move this to your secondary/sidearm slot. any feedback?

blood injections would be very rare items and would only be able to be used once (same as blood bag) but does not fully heal you, like I said maybe 6k health back maybe or atleast enough that if you get under 2k you can shoot yourself up so you can see again (and not pass out) every few minutes this way you can meet up with your buddy and then get your blood transfusion. This will still make transfusions very much needed but they would help in a pinch. It should take away to do it though that way you are vunerable while doing so. Why in the world would you not want to be able to fish? That makes no sense... you can hunt, why not fish? If you don't want it then don't do it lol. It would essentially be the same as hunting, would need a pole, fillet knife (or just use the hunting knife), then you could have a tackle box (in your toolbelt area, same as toolbox). Could even make a few bobbers and jigs that have a higher % to catch fish and put them in Looting spawn areas. I see your point about hatchet, so then they need to make the crowbar or a smaller tool that can be used as a side arm to break glass in windows without having to shoot in the middle of town/or try moving your gun to backpack, then arming axe, then switching it all back afterwards. On the fortifying buildings, I love the idea but they would have to make it only "certain" buildings you can do it to and they would need to be none spawning areas so people cannot fortify themselves into the barracks or supermarkets. They would need to be like the farm houses or large factory/warehouse buildings.

Easy, if you logoff from one server and decided to log right back on (different server this time) you start fresh. Some kind of time limit on logoff and logon to another server should be added. This would keep the from logging on/off immidetaly from one server to another. If you however chose to log right back on to the same server then no (time penality) would occur. This wouldn't completely eliminate it because they could just wait out the time limit but if you made it 1 hour or something it would completely slow them down. I have had instances where we starting a gun fight and they log off, run up the stairs on another server, log back in to our server and come down the stairs and shoot me or my friend in the back. Its a little aggrevating!