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Yeah they were like candy in the experimental build. I found them everywhere, landmines, too. Haven't seen one in stable, but the servers are picked pretty clean now. Hope they respawn and I can set some up. Do the traps also work on zombies?

Alright, so you are a bit undecided aren't you? I thought you were complaining about the desync in Dayz, but no - you are really complaining about a "complacent community" - checked. I must have been wrong about the people here, because I thought this is a very critical and yet supportive community. And then there are people like you, who just make pointless posts that show they haven't the slightest clue about the technology or game development itself. So you don't need to understand the reason why there is desync?! Fine, you just want to consume and complain. You cannot judge why there is desync - you just want it gone!? Then my mentioning Overwatch has everything to do with your post, as it is the game you want to play! Lots of weapons, kill on sight, no shakes, no desync. We are not a complacent community, I have been very critical of Dayz, but I give credit when its due.

How about a Darth Vader mask, while we're at it? I think something like what you propose there could be added, like mascots for a local sportsteam. Could be you find them at the soon-to-be school buildings. Or at a theme park; god, I really want an abandoned theme park in Dayz ^^ They would most likely consist out of pants, jacket and mask, so if you got all pieces you can run around as big bird or some kind of beaver with a shirt (the Ottawa style). The thing is though, this might slightly take away the grim and dark survival feeling Dayz is supposed to ooze. It would also most likely get you shot in 10 seconds. Living in a big city, I find Dayz' environment more romantic than disturbing, really. I don't know if I can deal with big birds and beavers flocking the streets of Elektro. However, I got used to the zombies, too ;)

What I never got is why we spawn with a battery and a flashlight. I often take the cattle prod as a first weapon, as most people don't seem to pick them up. But I still don't see why we would get that as starter equipment and not something useful. Like you said WhyHerro, a waterbottle and a small knife would help. I also think some bandages wouldn't hurt, as you get cold very fast now anyway and faster even when you tear your shirt into rags. It's a choice the devs added to either keep warm or have rags. But with the current zombies, you have to have rags; can't take any chance on that. You can make a flint knife, of course and you can chase and kill chicken with it. I tried it and it worked. The hardest part is finding the chicken, though. You hear them when walking through tall gras on the outskirts of forests. With the knife and something like a duck or chicken you can get pretty far. I think some more wildlife on the coast would be in order. Nothin big and fancy, just a few chicken and domestic pigs, something you can catch up with and kill with a knife or an axe. Of course, then you need a way to make a fire and to roast meat on a stick (which is going to be added soon). Take all of this into account and you will see a silver lining. Things are going to change, but they need to be worked on. Parts of this update were maybe premature and the bugs aren't helping, but I think the purpose was to show the games potential and we are now either painfully aware of it or blissfully happy. I am the latter ;)

I think the whole point of the game is to feel like you are on the move, actually going somewhere. I think it will be satisfying when certain areas are more likely to spawn a specific loot item more than others. There will probably be a few "exclusive" zones, where you have a chance to find rare loot (like the helicopter crashes, but on a bigger scale). Of course it is disappointing now, but we've just seen the first iteration of the new system and it can only get better. As for firearm spawns. I think we should find more sidearms than rifles. I like pistols a lot, but lately haven't found one (only magazines), and I didn't find pistol silencers either. They are probably there, but have been looted already. The AKS and AK SU spawning mostly together in the UAZ wrecks is nice, but most people take both weapons and leave non. It would be smarter to spawn the same weapon twice. In my mind, I build a mental image of the map and the locations I have already been to. It surely is slower than before, but I feel like I am more attached to the map and loot situation now. Every server is a bit different now. I like sticking to mine and exploring every corner. I've actually been to a couple of places for the first time now, after playing the game for months. I also enjoy the zombie situation, as they are making the game more interesting without forcing you to camp militarybases or run around in Elektro looking for PvP. It also means that serverhoppers have a harder time, because they can't just log off around the best lootplace and hop on the next server. That means "normal" people can roam around the airfields now too. And by chance you might get lucky and find something good. If you do, you will be 10x happier than looting a regular barracks with 5 rifles next to each other. It makes rare items feel more special and perhaps makes you want to cling on to your weapon, instead of rushing head first into every fight.

I really think you should try some different servers. I play on a 30 person server now and although food may be sparce I do still find some. You might also wanna check deerstands (the ones you have to climb a ladder up to). If you find no loot, switch servers. Also, I don't think police cars are the greatest weapon spawns, because 95% are all already looted. Try looking for UAZ wrecks. That's the smaller, more cubelike kind of jeep ^^ Honestly, this update takes things a long way in the right direction. But I don't understand why the devs decided to make the player starving and unhealthy in the beginning. They already decided to give us no starter loot (in any situation like this and with the health as it is when you spawn, I'd expect the survivor to have some gear). At least health and thirst should be kept up when you spawn. It is truly easy for all of us who are at full health to say you are doing something wrong. But I have experienced empty servers like this and almost died myself. At the moment it is too easy for those that are equipped and too hard for those that spawn fresh.

Thanks god for that ^^ I found an M4 at one of those overlooked loot spawns. Choppers are not worth the bother. As soon as our server restarts at least two clans come raiding the chopper sites within minutes. And then they log off and hop to the next server. It makes it terribly easy for them, because the 3 choppers all spawn at the same location. I yet have to check if that was fixed, but I doubt it.

It's been kinda empty today. Since the servers' been up for more than a week and not a lot has respawned. I do think the devs are currently putting us in an extreme situation, so they can tweak the loottables based on all the complaints ^^ Personally, I can still get along quite well, but we play with three people, have camps and trucks. Makes things a lot easier. I believe some loot will respawn faster in the future. I do see the point in trying to push people inland and away from the coast, but I actually think things should be the other way around: on the coast food should spawn plenty, but not so much inland. So if people go looting for food, they will go to the coastal cities. However, we will soon see things change completely again anyway, since items will be more region bound and not spawn all over the map. Patience.

Yes I've seen it and it doesn't happen to me, because I don't snipe people often. I do see myself rubberbanding occasionally; yes, it's annoying to me too :( Seriously with Overwatch out and all its features it may be the better game for you. Arma 2 has had this issue and it got worse in Dayz, because houses are dynamic objects there; which is insane, really. The new renderer will cull these objects correctly, instead of calculating things you don't even see. You complain about the community that supports their favorite game, really. I might as well tell you I want to punch a baby everytime someone complains about technical problems they don't understand. Arma 3 has a much smaller map than Dayz. And the Chernarus map they have in the mod is the old one (not Chernarusplus - no dynamic houses). So yes, you can complain, I do it too. Sometimes Dayz makes me wanna vent. But in the end this is the game I want to play more than Arma and any of its mods.

Give it a few more minutes. The stable servers should be up within the next half hour or so.

It's kind of a known issue in Arma games that the lagg and desync warps enemies and players around occasionally. Tracking AI and player positions has always been problematic. The question to me is if it just happens when the server is under high load or if it is a general flaw of the RV engines netcode. The thing about Dayz is you have to learn to live with the flaws, just like in Arma. It's not going to change, or otherwise Bohemia would have managed to do so in their Arma games. I guess it is the payoff for having the largest and most detailed map in a competitive multiplayer game that I have ever seen. I expect the netcode to be improved, but I don't expect this to get fixed completely. It's difficult for an engine to display the action in real time, when 40 people on a server all have a different ping and different locations. I play on mid-population servers and rarely see someone glitching around like that. It does happen, the trucks are a good example of how player position and position on the map are not matched in realtime. Hopefully the new render will alleviate the problem a bit.

You need to play this with a friend or two. We always have a truck at our base and call each other to "get the fuck over here and pick me up" :) Trucks, yes. Had bad luck with all the southern spawns during this update. The most trucks I found are in the western area between Lopatino and Vavilovo. I also often find a truck in Kabanino (between the barns). The problem is that most trucks will have moved by now and people ran out of gas somewhere. I just drove from Svetlojarsk to Berezino and saw three trucks idle on the road. Hope you get there and are able to pickup the tent. I didn't understand that your tent is full of loot, before. Yeah that would suck if it despawned. Best of luck!

I just wonder what we can expect from tomorrows server update? Will it still wipe the tents? I see no reason why it would, now that everything is stored in its right place. I really hope it doesn't get wiped, because we are just having a proper camp for the first time now ^^ If 0.55 doesn't keep tents with the wednesday update, which version will? Is there any rough estimate when we don't have to pack up everything any more, once a week? I'm not complaining about the packing itself, but we have a military tent and two of us have to carry all the gear of the one guy who's carrying it.

I prefer the solution I suggested in this thread: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/221795-honeycombs-food-and-beeswax/ The reason I prefer this method over finding a spray are obvious (to me). There are already beehive models in the game and honey (or rather bee products) have many useful qualities. You can waterproof cotton with the wax, eat the honey or use it as crafting component. Propolis is used against infection, Gelee Royal as a nutrient and so on. Lots of uses from a single resource. Spraying clothes could be an alternative to make them waterproof. But either way, you'd have to renew the coating after some time. But I think harvesting the hives will be fun and perhaps even educational ^^ You need a smoke pot and possibly a beekeeper's veil, both of which could be easily crafted from existing materials/models.

Can you spawn on the other server? If it puts you there in your own gear (and not fresh respawn/alt char) and you can interchange between the two servers you should be able to get the tent! It's just a guess, but as long as it is the same character that spawns on both servers, you can take the tent with you. You might wanna wait for confirmation, but logically it has to work. Though logic is not one of Dayz's strongpoints at the moment ^^ Yeah, I lose gear to the game, too. However, I think of lately I actually die less to glitches than to pvp. Tents are not that hard to find, I just look at car wrecks, e.g. around Cherno. Might depend on your server though. We have 6 small tents and a miltary one. 2 of those and the military we found today. And not in crazy, outlandish places, the military tent just spawned in a house, according to my friend who found it.

You have to aim where he is going to be, not where he is at ;)

It doesn't say "pack your tent if you wanna keep it any more". That's an indication tents stay up! Cool. Thx devs ^^

Ive been told (in the 0.55 feedback thread) that they spawn around tanks and BRDM wrecks, as well as in some military installations. I have yet to confirm this, as I have found tons of AK 74 and AKM ammo, but not a single magazine for 101. A friend found a 101 somewhere, I remember he said so, but I forgot where. So I guess they still do exist! I found a drum magazine next to one of the UZA wrecks today. My other friend still has his AKM, so he's happy now. I was lucky enough to get to one of those choppersites where the loot spawns a bit off to one side. There had been someone looting there before me, but he either missed an M4 or already had one. Before a glitch killed me while driving the truck, I used to at least find enough ammo for the 101 at the chopper crashsites. Now that I have my first M4 in the game (!ever!), the priority has changed. It's bizarre how little recoil this M4 has. It's much nicer to aim and shoot than the Ak. And currently there is a lot of ammo for the M4 at crashsites.

I think it would be great to give the dogs certain abilities that fight game abusers. For example, imagine yourself on prison island with your dog, when it suddenly starts barking. This announces that another player spawned near you. It could be made so the dog is only audible for you, or it could be audible to both (if they are close enough). In any case, the dog will give a warning - perhaps it could be trained to give you a silent warning later - and you will know someone is spawning on you. I'd also like to train the dog for hunting, so it can be used to go hunting geese flocks, or something similar. Hawks and other bird companions seem interesting, but pretty difficult to observe and handle. Imagine someone put their settings to low and distance to 400 meters. They might lose sight of their own bird. And if the bird just circles over your head (or nearby) it will be much more of an advantage to other players than yourself. After all, what can you do with a few small rodents, etc. when alternatively you can club a chicken to death or kill some cows, easily. Also, the bird does a lot of the things that dog is supposed to do, except the dog is more versatile. We should go with the stuff that is the most useful now and that would be mules and dogs to me. Horses, I don't really know. Too big, too fragile. Better give us some donkeys or mules, instead :)

As far as I know cutting out seeds isn't working in 0.55, but it did work in 0.54. I guess it will be fixed along with the other current cooking glitches. If anyone finds pots or matches, they might have been dropped by other players. I have sunk more time into this update than into any other and virtually looked into every house on the map without finding matches or pots. Just to put this in perspective: I found 4 swords in the same time. If there are pots, matches, etc. they must be from another player. About cooking on the fire: you can't without a pot and water! The devs stated they are looking for a way to cook over a fire using a stick, which is a sorta mingame in which you have to twist that stick. If you can eat the raw meat without sickness that's just as well, if not better. I used to enjoy the cooking, as our group is sometimes split up over the map, but we often used to get together at campfires to get ourselves healthy and share some goods before logging off. Dayz is really nice for lonewolfing, but I do think this game is best played with a small group.

Follow up question: have you been to any military base ;) They always have other buildings beside the baracks. Unique about Prison Island is just that you can find military and police gear in one place.

Have you not been there? There is a barracks in the backyard and a barrack like room (lootwise) in the back building. There is a military prison building and the main house is full with both, military but mostly police gear. I guess prison island is unique in that way that you can find military and police gear in the same place there. I just haven't been since the patch, so I can't say if the loot there is still good. It used to be decent, but I had no reason to go over there again, yet.

Warning: Zombies in the rear compartment may appear bigger than they are.

I made a post about this in the 0.55 discussion too. It seems persistence is working on all private shards. Public servers get mixed reviews as some seem to work, some don't. I'm unfortunately on one that doesn't work. However, loot is quite plentyfull on this server. I mean it's definitely in weird places (outhouses, busstops), but there is a lot. I found the sword in a loghouse today ;) I'd really like some clarity about persistance. The only way for me to test it is to get on a server, find a tent and wait for the next restart...

Somehow this link goes to this thread for me, even though it says Youtube. I use a weight on the arrow key and a folded sheet of paper between shift + ctrl, if I wanna sprint ^^ autorun...psha