Loot in military camps.

[Grimey Rick 3417]

I read in the patch notes that loot spawns for certain items/weapons has been lowered. With that being said, the last two sweeps I did after a server restart in the military base near the southern airfield yielded absolutely nothing. This base is usually full of items/ammunition.

 

I'm just wondering if this is due to the lowering of loot spawns, or if it's something else entirely, perhaps a bug/glitch of some sort.

 

P.S: Also, the tents with the wooden pallet floors in the military camps used to have items in them, but since the LAST patch I haven't found one single item in any of those tents. I've only found loot on the tents with dirt floors.

 

Thanks all.

Edited January 23, 2014 by Grimey Rick

[gungza 29]

the loot has always been in the tents with dirt floors, the plank floor tents with one entrance never spawned anything

[Cworesepty 3]

Went 4-5 servers looked a few tents and detected no military items. Breeds only in two-story observation points

[Window Licker 504]

Expect it to lower as more other guns and weapons enter the game, It appears the ultimate goal is to have M4's and the like as extremely rare weapons, based on the AmA Rocket did on reddit.

[hatesauce 99]

Expect it to lower as more other guns and weapons enter the game, It appears the ultimate goal is to have M4's and the like as extremely rare weapons, based on the AmA Rocket did on reddit.

Can you cite this specifically? Cheers.

[Gandalf the White (DayZ) 72]

It makes finding/having a weapon all the more of a precious commodity.

 

I like it :thumbsup:

[xRuneXero 18]

It's bugged. The loot was not reduced (M4, backpacks and magnum were), the loot is just not spawning at all, ever, not even after a restart. People need to stop saying "I like these changes!" or "Read the patch notes". This is simply broken, houses are lacking most of the loot, there are completely empty towns (with no signs of being looted by players), and military tents don't spawn loot either. Not even bottles or clothes, much less attachments.

 

Call me a whiner or say I'm complaining too much, I don't care. I love this game, but loot is broken.

Edited January 23, 2014 by xRuneXero

[exogravis 13]

It's bugged. The loot was not reduced (M4, backpacks and magnum were), the loot is just not spawning at all, ever, not even after a restart. People need to stop saying "I like these changes!" or "Read the patch notes". This is simply broken, houses are lacking most of the loot, there are completely empty towns (with no signs of being looted by players), and military tents don't spawn loot either. Not even bottles or clothes, much less attachments.

 

Call me a whiner or say I'm complaining too much, I don't care. I love this game, but loot is broken.

 

 

agreed.

[beani5003 28]

It's bugged. The loot was not reduced (M4, backpacks and magnum were), the loot is just not spawning at all, ever, not even after a restart. People need to stop saying "I like these changes!" or "Read the patch notes". This is simply broken, houses are lacking most of the loot, there are completely empty towns (with no signs of being looted by players), and military tents don't spawn loot either. Not even bottles or clothes, much less attachments.

 

Call me a whiner or say I'm complaining too much, I don't care. I love this game, but loot is broken.

 

seconded, its just not their at all.

[Advent1 126]

The loot in the tents were either removed for tweaking for more items in the upcoming patches, or bugged. I'm leaning towards removed since the attachments now spawn in other military areas. Check out the Hangars at the airfields for most attachments, at least that's where I found/saw them at. I've also seen attachments spawn in the jailhouse buildings which I haven't seen before.

[xRuneXero 18]

The loot in the tents were either removed for tweaking for more items in the upcoming patches, or bugged. I'm leaning towards removed since the attachments now spawn in other military areas. Check out the Hangars at the airfields for most attachments, at least that's where I found/saw them at. I've also seen attachments spawn in the jailhouse buildings which I haven't seen before.

 

If that's really the case, a mention in the patch notes would've been helpful, because it really seems broken at the moment. It's also houses too. Places that always have something, are now empty (Note I don't mean ALL houses, but there's quite a few). There's even ghost towns at some point. This after a server restart.

Edited January 23, 2014 by xRuneXero

[errl 0]

Can you cite this specifically? Cheers.

"Once improvised weapons, bow and arrow, throwing items is in - we will dramatically turn down military style weapons spawn rate. They will be incredibly rare."

From Reddits AMA with Rocket; http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1vwby6/recap_of_rockets_ama_filtered_for_only_dayz/

[Advent1 126]

I have yet to experience this myself on a spread of 10 different servers, every place I go into has something. I'll check around though and try to confirm for myself.

Also keep in mind spawn rates were probably extremely high during recent patches for testing and lowered now that most have been tested.

[xRuneXero 18]

I have yet to experience this myself on a spread of 10 different servers, every place I go into has something. I'll check around though and try to confirm for myself.

Also keep in mind spawn rates were probably extremely high during recent patches for testing and lowered now that most have been tested.

 

They should mention that in the patch notes then, stealth changes are never appreciated. Also, I've only played on Hardcore servers, not sure if that's the case with the other people having the same issues, or you.

[beani5003 28]

"Once improvised weapons, bow and arrow, throwing items is in - we will dramatically turn down military style weapons spawn rate. They will be incredibly rare."

From Reddits AMA with Rocket; http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1vwby6/recap_of_rockets_ama_filtered_for_only_dayz/

 

but throwable items, bows and arrows andimprovised weapons AREN'T in yet, so why turn them down?

[Advent1 126]

but throwable items, bows and arrows andimprovised weapons AREN'T in yet, so why turn them down?

To get people prepared/used to the change I suppose. I myself got used to the abundance of loot, now with everything turned down I tend to ration things out a little more.

[StonedProphet 16]

I experienced much the same thing as well. I did find loot in the barracks though on a couple different severs. There much be a conflict somewhere where loot is not spawning in specic places. I can understand how lower loot drops for weapons would be a positive thing (as is was said, making having weapons a more rare thing) but there seems to be something a little wrong. I mean, there is a lot wrong in terms of basic functionality (character wipes or old characters coming back in some sort of weird time travel).

And I noticed that basically EVERYONE was waiting for servers to reset (now that the actual time is shown in server browser) and is basically server hopping to find all the new stuff. That may have had something to do with recent issues.

I am also noticing the majority of the servers are now set to night time. I am guessing that should be an opprobrium for the server admin, so I am unsire if this is another conflict program wise or if everyone love to run around with their game all the way up.

I'm sure the Dev team has been made aware of these issues. I also saw that Dean made a point to let me or whomever know about which severs are having connection issues and name them by ip or name. Again, the more we can help by giving information needed, the faster these issues will be fixed.

[cptgriffiths@hotmail.com 21]

I was on 30 minutes ago and found an M4 and a Mosin practically touching eachother at green mountain. Was plenty more loot around too. I never seem to have trouble with finding loot, some building's don't have anything at all but you cant expect to find something in every house, the whole point is to go look for it. But yeah I don't know if its broke or not because I haven't had problems.

On a side note the new beret's are pretty cool.

[BadAsh (DayZ) 1513]

It makes finding/having a weapon all the more of a precious commodity.

 

I like it :thumbsup:

 

Me too it is going to be interesting. Now we just need the database not to screw around and reload all those old m4-wielding characters back into the game. I wouldn't mind a complete wipe of the database, so everyone had to start over now without any spillage from the loot-filled previous build.

[BrainlessZombie 190]

It's bugged. The loot was not reduced (M4, backpacks and magnum were), the loot is just not spawning at all, ever, not even after a restart. People need to stop saying "I like these changes!" or "Read the patch notes". This is simply broken, houses are lacking most of the loot, there are completely empty towns (with no signs of being looted by players), and military tents don't spawn loot either. Not even bottles or clothes, much less attachments.

 

Call me a whiner or say I'm complaining too much, I don't care. I love this game, but loot is broken.

 

Couldn't agree more, beans for you.

[ThisParticularIndividual 0]

It depends on which base you're looting... I didn't have any luck at the NE airfield last night. But this morning I was looting at one of those "mini-bases," and I found far more weaponry and ammo than I could carry. Within 15 minutes I'd found THREE M4s... along with Magnums and ACP45s (and ACP magazines!)

 

I had my best luck looting the barracks (i.e., the long "military residential" buildings with the showers in the first door to the left).

 

Make sure you look under the bottom bunk in the "dorm rooms"... that's where I found the first M4, totally by accident. After that, it seemed like they were everywhere.

Edited January 23, 2014 by ThisParticularIndividual

[Grimey Rick 3417]

Update:

 

I've since hit up the north-western military camp and didn't find anything at all. Same with the military camp on the south-western coast. The north-western airfield had the same saturation of loot as always. As does the south-western airfield. The jails/barracks seem to be spawning loot at a normal rate. At this point, the issue just seems to be with the military camps.

 

EDIT: I could've sworn items used to spawn on the floors of the wooden pallet tents. Ah well, I guess old age is finally kicking in.

Edited January 23, 2014 by Grimey Rick

[africanhungergames 192]

"Once improvised weapons, bow and arrow, throwing items is in - we will dramatically turn down military style weapons spawn rate. They will be incredibly rare."

From Reddits AMA with Rocket; http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1vwby6/recap_of_rockets_ama_filtered_for_only_dayz/

And there not in yet so the point of your post was what ?

[baloted 5]

I'm really angry that I ran all the way from Balota to the NWAF and discovered that the tents there had no loot at all, either. This is obviously a bug or massive design flaw, because it essentially means that many areas of the game the development team worked hard on are not worth visiting AT ALL. So I think it will be fixed inevitably.

 

Rocket should personally give a blow job to every person who runs all the way to the NWAF.

[xRuneXero 18]

I'm really angry that I ran all the way from Balota to the NWAF and discovered that the tents there had no loot at all, either. This is obviously a bug or massive design flaw, because it essentially means that many areas of the game the development team worked hard on are not worth visiting AT ALL. So I think it will be fixed inevitably.

 

Rocket should personally give a blow job to every person who runs all the way to the NWAF.

 

Poor Rocket =(