Patient Zer0

Graphics glitches persist. Zombie kills and headshots are being reset with each login. Humanity resets with each login. Ammo levels in magazines reset with each login. Survivor 'hero' costume is cool, but I hate the white shirt.

I just died too. I was flashing red on food and thought I would risk a run into Cherno for some beans. Before going in I stopped at my usual place to scout it out before going down into the city. Ghillie suit, DMR, m4 camo sd, you name it, I had it. All I wanted was some beans. Then some random guy I don't even know starts screaming at me, calling me a 'motherfucker' and killed me. What did I ever do to him?

I'm experiencing this. It's probably due to a lot of people all trying to download the files. I'm curious where the US mirror went though. EDIT: I went through my browser history and found the US mirror. It's much faster: http://us2.dayz.nu/latest/

I have a career total of six Mountain Dews drank. I will cheerfully meet you for a secure trade wherein I shoot you in the face and take your Dew. I would like to have a total of seven consumed. I am positive the HIVE tracks this and will give me rare weaponz when I hit 50.

For what it's worth, morphine can be found anywhere, not just the hospitals. Make it a priority to get a couple right away (while you're still on the coast), then replenish yourself as needed so that you always have at least two. They can be found rarely in deer stands, barns, apartment blocks... If you need to evade a zombie, follow Zer0's handy three step process. Sprint into a pine tree. The low kind with branches at the ground. Stop. Do nothing else. Wait for the zombies to wander back to town.

Hax?

It's a million installs with less than 20% still playing on a daily basis. That's a fairly telling statistic.

Thank god someone finally made a thread about this. It's high time that it was brought to the community's attention!

Especially on vet servers with no crosshairs. 6x zoom when you're 10 feet away from your target is a liability, not an asset - no matter how many colors it can display.

What are the coords for the freeway overpass in Chernarus?

For some people, hoarding stuff is the only meaningful activity they can come up with. Do you want to take that away from them?

The zombies first spawn in the center of whatever structure is spawning them. Then they randomly teleport out some little distance away to start wandering in the fields. If you're there at the structure, you just see them pop up one after the other and might not see them reappear again out in the field.

No, that would be whatever weapon you currently are holding and have ammo for.

The whole secret to the DayZ experience boils down to this: It's not about the gear. It's about the situations. Too many people spend hours and days racing from the coast to the NW Airfield, hopping from server to server (only the ones with 0 players) and duping the shit out of their AS50 and ghillie suit so they can... what? Sit in a bush and shoot people until they die and repeat the whole process? You were in a golden situation in the game. You were finally experiencing the emotional charge that DayZ was designed to deliver. You were in danger, you didn't know how to get out and you didn't know what you were going to do. Instead of embracing that, you Alt-F4'ed. You cheated yourself out of the greatest moments this game can offer - because you didn't want to lose a gun. I kill people with a Makarov. A hatchet. An Ak-74. You don't need nightvision and a thermographic scope "for spotting" just to survive. It's a myth, one generated by wimps who are afraid to experience the uncertainty and thrill of victory against all odds that DayZ is built around. They're the wimps who load in with some mutated conception that this mod is somehow "winnable", and that having the biggest gun and most tools is how you win. That having 5 tents filled with crap they'll never actually use is going to give them an advantage. You, sir, are playing like a wimp. Man up and accept everything DayZ offers. Live or die, you will have more fun that way.

Don't put anything inside, or it might get lost at server restart.

Can I have your stuff?

Personally, I think it's the most fun when you only own what you can carry and have to constantly make choices about what to pick up and what to leave behind. When the AS50 becomes a boat anchor because you need the space in your pack for food and flares, you hit an entirely different level of DayZ play.

On every server I play on, I now take a few minutes to make lots of little map markers all around Green Mountain that say 'stay away', 'stay away' 'stay away' 'stay away'. Then right in the middle, right on the tower, I make one more. "COME HERE".

Fact: Helis only spawn loot once at server restart. It does not create fresh new piles of sniper rifles for every person who happens to come walking past. Fact: It wasn't the intent for the servers to be restarted every 4 or 6 hours. The heli crashes are freshly created each time a server starts, and the more-frequent-than-intended restart schedule of most servers (done for other, legitimate reasons) are making the heli loot less rare than maybe it should be. Fact: It wasn't the intent for "heli hunters" to be able to skip around across 6 different servers in a night. If a server randomly generates 1-5 heli crashes at restart, and a player hops between 6 servers each night looking for them, that gives a player potentially 30 helicopters to loot... which is retarded. There are a lot of problems in the game. Duplicating is rampant, and even people who don't intent to dupe end up doing it once in a while (oops, I forgot to save tent after taking the DMR out... now I have two!). Server hopping - and the entire structure of multiple servers - gives players a much much larger loot pool to draw from. That 0.87% chance to find a rifle is a big deal when you're talking about 6 possible spawn points. It's less of an obstacle when you're sweeping through 600. Until these issues are addressed at the core level, there's nothing anyone can do about it. Does the AS50 really ruin your play experience? Does it matter if every other player out there has one? Each person has to make their own choice how they play this game. Decide to dupe or not dupe. Decide to server hop or not server hop. Decide to live in the woods west of Zelenogorsk or camp on Sniper Hill. Choices choices choices. Make yours and play the game the way you want.

That's a funny story. You should leave the Huey up there as a monument to hubris.

I only scout if I have a weird feeling. If I were thirsty I wouldn't run for the nearest grocery store - I head for a pond in the middle of nowhere and fill up my water bottle. Same thing when I'm hungry - I find a pig in the forest and knock it on the head with my hatchet. All of the guns are more or less the same to me. AKS-74 Kobra or M4A1 CCO, it really doesn't matter. They both go bang. I see no reason to risk the airfields when I already have one. And if I don't have one, I just run in because I have nothing to lose. Either someone's going to kill me or they're not. No amount of scouting will change that.

Fixed. If they were less common, people would be more willing to use, lose and play around with their vehicles rather than just pack them full of AS50s and hide them in the wilderness like buried treasure.

I don't shoot people anymore, I just avoid them. It's a compromise because I'm not quite willing yet to go announcing myself as friendly and set myself up for disappointment.

So extracting a pbo and then packing it back into a pbo without altering anything inside will fix this problem? Seems unlikely. Can you explain in detail how or why this works?

Doing math is fun.