So I just got the standalone

[PinguAlmighty 15]

And so far I'm liking it. I have a couple hundred hours in the mod so I'm no dayz noob.

Here's what happened. Spawned somewhere north-east of elektro, couldn't find any food, probably because it was a fresh spawn area, ran to elektro checking the area around me for goods as I went. Found a backpack, splitting axe and pair of handcuffs in the elektro fire station, hauled ass out of there because I did not want to run into any hoppers.

Ran to cherno and decided against going in because of the lack of loot and likelyhood of being shot, so I skirted around to the north and discovered the new high rise area. Couldn't be bothered looting that so I ran to balota. It was surprisingly empty and all the loot was untouched, I picked up an M4, couple mags, and continued on my way.
I had heard a lot about the Kamyshovo Water Pump Massacres, so I avoided it like the plague, ran to kamenka to stock up on food and water and decided to make a run to the base north of kamenka, which i had heard about from a youtuber who you all seem to hate, you know who. 

Got there, still no player interactions at this point, both pleased and disappointed, no bonding time with my fellow survivors.
At the base I found some basic military gear, starting to look operator as hell, decided to log off for a bit.
Come back a few hours later and my stuff has reset, so I figured that it was an alpha bug and came to the forums again to find out any information I could and I found out via a thread that the character server was down, so I decided to write this while I waited.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to what the future brings, and fingers crossed I don't get shot by some hopper. :D

Edited February 4, 2014 by PinguAlmighty

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And so far I'm liking it. I have a couple hundred hours in the mod so I'm no dayz noob.

Here's what happened. Spawned somewhere north-east of elektro, couldn't find any food, probably because it was a fresh spawn area, ran to elektro checking the area around me for goods as I went. Found a backpack, splitting axe and pair of handcuffs in the elektro fire station, hauled ass out of there because I did not want to run into any hoppers.

Ran to cherno and decided against going in because of the lack of loot and likelyhood of being shot, so I skirted around to the north and discovered the new high rise area. Couldn't be bothered looting that so I ran to balota. It was surprisingly empty and all the loot was untouched, I picked up an M4, couple mags, and continued on my way.

I had heard a lot about the Kamyshovo Water Pump Massacres, so I avoided it like the plague, ran to kamenka to stock up on food and water and decided to make a run to the base north of kamenka, which i had heard about from a youtuber who you all seem to hate, you know who. 

Got there, still no player interactions at this point, both pleased and disappointed, no bonding time with my fellow survivors.

At the base I found some basic military gear, starting to look operator as hell, decided to log off for a bit.

Come back a few hours later and my stuff has reset, so I figured that it was an alpha bug and came to the forums again to find out any information I could and I found out via a thread that the character server was down, so I decided to write this while I waited.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to what the future brings, and fingers crossed I don't get shot by some hopper. :D

 

Did you change to a different server when you logged back in?

 

Regular and Hardcore servers are different hives, so there is a chance you switched between the two hence losing your stuff. 

 

Then again it could just be alpha whatnot...

[Kengion 0]

If you started on a Normal server, and logged back onto a hardcore server then that might be a reason why.