Stable Branch: 0.44 Discussion

[Aj90lfc 58]

So i got geared up again, die. Respawn and the server starts rubber banding so i change server as a fresh spawn, wait the 200 seconds "we were unable to load your data so you have been reset" a fresh spawn, just got reset, what's going on with the servers in the past 2 days this is happening to a pathetic amount now, what if that was a geared up character that got reset again? Fix it.

Edited May 3, 2014 by Aj90lfc

[PugBlue 35]

Hit a zombie in the head with an axe several times, still kept chasing me. Please stop making the zombies more dangerous and aggressive until you actually fix the things. Had one chasing me yesterday about 20 feet behind me and it was still hitting me. Alpha or no alpha, this is the same kind of problems we had with the mod, so not much has changed.

I posted this early on in the thread and the response was I obviously hadn't read the patch notes. LOL Of course I had and since then have read that others have the same issues. I'd really like to know if they take these comments seriously enough to look into them instead of snarky replies. Oh and to those of you who aren't experiencing this then good for you. Still a great game and am enjoying it. 

[UltimateGentleman 355]

So i got geared up again, die. Respawn and the server starts rubber banding so i change server as a fresh spawn, wait the 200 seconds "we were unable to load your data so you have been reset" a fresh spawn, just got reset, what's going on with the servers in the past 2 days this is happening to a pathetic amount now, what if that was a geared up character that got reset again? Fix it.

 

I think this is something the server owners/admins can do to you. At least I see a lot of servers that say things like "if you join you'll be banned and lose your stuff"

It's like admins can click on your name and press the "be a douchebag" option to reset your character.

 

Sometimes if you die real quick your character can come back I find, not always though it's really weird hopefully your character will just be saved and only reset if you die in future.

[DropBearChick 1216]

What makes you think it is?.

The fact that whenever my internet is slower than 500kb/s i experience things like this, and when above that i get better internet speed than before the patch.

[frozenjaws 69]

Man! I thought i was going to play a little Dayz today with my friends but they bailed on me and i didnt want to play alone, turns out that was probably for the best! haha seems people are losing characters all over the place because of steam,. :/ Wouldn't want to loose my 1911 engraved, crossbow with 25 bolts and improvised backpack! Man i am literally going to cry when i die lol 

[UltimateGentleman 355]

Man! I thought i was going to play a little Dayz today with my friends but they bailed on me and i didnt want to play alone, turns out that was probably for the best! haha seems people are losing characters all over the place because of steam,. :/ Wouldn't want to loose my 1911 engraved, crossbow with 25 bolts and improvised backpack! Man i am literally going to cry when i die lol 

 

That shit happened to me the other day I found my first engraved 1911 didn't even know they were in the game...

Luckily my character came back though, no idea why but thank the lord since then I found a clip for the gun too.

 

Have they ever said why your character just gets deleted sometimes? I'm all for "we're fixing it" but I'd like to know how such a thing happens in the first place, surely it should just work like a save file in your DayZ folder that gets deleted upon your death?

[frozenjaws 69]

That shit happened to me the other day I found my first engraved 1911 didn't even know they were in the game...

Luckily my character came back though, no idea why but thank the lord since then I found a clip for the gun too.

 

Have they ever said why your character just gets deleted sometimes? I'm all for "we're fixing it" but I'd like to know how such a thing happens in the first place, surely it should just work like a save file in your DayZ folder that gets deleted upon your death?

Well they've said its commonly because the server has problems reaching they're character saving server or whatever you want to call it, they have a huge list of servers that people have reported to have the problem, but i mostly play on servers called "hosted by multiplaygameservers" and ive never had a character get deleted by that glitch, i think.. 

Having your character saved in a local file would be very bad, people would just find a way to edit it outside of game and spawn things in.. If you thought berezino was crowded before, now imagine everyone being able to spawn full gear seconds after respawning and going in for revenge the 5th time hahahah 

[UltimateGentleman 355]

Well they've said its commonly because the server has problems reaching they're character saving server or whatever you want to call it, they have a huge list of servers that people have reported to have the problem, but i mostly play on servers called "hosted by multiplaygameservers" and ive never had a character get deleted by that glitch, i think.. 

Having your character saved in a local file would be very bad, people would just find a way to edit it outside of game and spawn things in.. If you thought berezino was crowded before, now imagine everyone being able to spawn full gear seconds after respawning and going in for revenge the 5th time hahahah 

 

Well they could just make it an encrypted file and a file dedicated to your computer so you couldn't just download sets of specific gear.

How many people would go to the effort of decrypting them really? And there's probably some way they could detect if it's been tampered with and just keep deleting their character.

 

I still think a handful of people spawning gear sets even if they could would be better than joining a server basically being like a lottery of doom, it is just a game sure but you could put days worth of work in to gathering stuff and then it's just all gone >.>

[frozenjaws 69]

Well they could just make it an encrypted file and a file dedicated to your computer so you couldn't just download sets of specific gear.

How many people would go to the effort of decrypting them really? And there's probably some way they could detect if it's been tampered with and just keep deleting their character.

 

I still think a handful of people spawning gear sets even if they could would be better than joining a server basically being like a lottery of doom, it is just a game sure but you could put days worth of work in to gathering stuff and then it's just all gone >.>

I am confident many many people would spend the time and find a way to cheat, and i am just as confident that it would be as easy as watching a youtube video and hey presto, you too can spawn stuff in. :( 

But the point is that the servers unable to get the authentication for your character, has nothing to do with where the character is saved, but the server you are joining, so it has nothing to do with BIS. 

I suppose what they could do is make hosting a server more robust, which is in fact one of the items on they're roadmap and is being taken care of. For now tho i reccommend you playing on the servers i suggested, i really never have any problem with them, except for when the server restarts it has a rollback, so they last 2-5 minutes on the server wont get saved, meaning you can loose items if your unlucky enough. So when its dark never ever drop any of your stuff.

[Aj90lfc 58]

Is anyone else having an issue where if a Zed hits you in an area where you have ruined clothing in insta die? It's happened to me twice today

[7alon 4]

I'm having an issue with finding servers. One second it was fine, then when the server restarted, all servers are missing. No matter what I try (restarting etc), nothing works. I've also been experiencing a lot of rubber banding since this new patch, which I never experienced previously.

 

EDIT: It appears that it takes a while for the servers to all re-appear for me, as they are there now. This only happens when a server restarts while I'm in it.

Edited May 4, 2014 by 7alon

[DropBearChick 1216]

Man! I thought i was going to play a little Dayz today with my friends but they bailed on me and i didnt want to play alone, turns out that was probably for the best! haha seems people are losing characters all over the place because of steam,. :/ Wouldn't want to loose my 1911 engraved, crossbow with 25 bolts and improvised backpack! Man i am literally going to cry when i die lol

Thats like literraly what i have!

[danieltsss 6]

ok so i played a lot of this update and i can only say that there are a lot of people with glitched ammo of M4 same mosin same with food and sodas (sodas are super common) a lot of people glitch thru buildings like berezino apartments those apartmentes are the death too many people glitching thru the whole building, sometimes massive drops fps on berezino it happen me twice like 10 fps or less (usually 30 or 20+) near the pubs same to all people close to me, in the factory a lot of snipers ran off just because they jumped off the building and they lived. sometimes you cant punch or eat and you need to relog to do it. so thats like kinda of things that usually see in this patch. 

[joe_mcentire 2074]

quick question: are you able/we supposed to use the quiver other than putting it into a backpack and filling with bolts? i thought we were able to wear it on the body.

[frozenjaws 69]

quick question: are you able/we supposed to use the quiver other than putting it into a backpack and filling with bolts? i thought we were able to wear it on the body.

It works as a speedloader/magazine at the moment, so you load the crossbow with the quiver and if you have another you can "reload" to the other quiver by pressing R. 

I personally think it would be cool if having a quiver in your vest spot, would increase the ammo capacity to 10 and/or decrease the reload time, so that you gain a lot of effectiveness, but also trades a lot of inventory space and defense for it.

[UltimateGentleman 355]

Ok the whole crashing to the desktop thing is really starting to piss me off.

 

I was just stalking 3 dudes in a town who I think were set up to kill just anyone, one was on the roof of the hospital so I went up there to look.

Think he left by the time I got there but I turned the corner on the roof, it freezes and then it goes to the desktop game still running.

It only started since the last update and it's really annoying those dudes could have destroyed me if they were there.

 

There's that and then you have the risk of your character being reset when you start the game again it's so inconvenient.

 

Been looking for people to fight for literally about 3 hours and then that happens suddenly >:(

[cejota14 130]

I just realized there are 2 kinds of M1911 lol

[trev186 389]

Hi

Anyone know if it is intentional to do the following things :

1. Place a med kit or ammo box inside of a yellow protector case

2. Place a pistol inside of a holster and then not equip it but still be able to fast draw pistol as if holster is equipped.

I am sure number 2 is not intended...my concern is more with # 1 I am afraid of a patch coming out with bugfixes and and then losing the contents of said cases...

[Shockpuppet 35]

Really enjoying the 1:1 mouse movement in this update.

Hi

Anyone know if it is intentional to do the following things :

1. Place a med kit or ammo box inside of a yellow protector case

2. Place a pistol inside of a holster and then not equip it but still be able to fast draw pistol as if holster is equipped.

I am sure number 2 is not intended...my concern is more with # 1 I am afraid of a patch coming out with bugfixes and and then losing the contents of said cases...

 

Yes, the yellow protector cases... Oh I am a bit worried about that too, but you know, live and learn...

 

I may have developed an addiction...

Edited May 5, 2014 by SniperVillan

[bauertschi 254]

Guess plenty of people had that problem, but I don't remember it being mentioned here. I can't use weapons from others without logging of and logging on again. Annoying when there are hostiles around.

[Wilberfoss 6]

That shit happened to me the other day I found my first engraved 1911 didn't even know they were in the game...

Luckily my character came back though, no idea why but thank the lord since then I found a clip for the gun too.

 

Have they ever said why your character just gets deleted sometimes? I'm all for "we're fixing it" but I'd like to know how such a thing happens in the first place, surely it should just work like a save file in your DayZ folder that gets deleted upon your death?

If you see the message "Server wasn´t able to connect..." or you notice being a fresh spawn just don`t move. Don`t press any button except escape, leave the server and go for another. That works allways. The only issue is this senseless penalty for server hopping.

[Scott61 93]

Yes,I have even quit playing DayZ do to not liking being punished for what others do!

I rather put up with server hoppers than be punished for what...they do!

 

 The only issue is this senseless penalty for server hopping.

 

Oh well,been having a great time on Altis life for now

Too bad DayZ SA could not be ported over onto Arma III Engine ,Arma III and especially Altis life runs good on my Pc at high settings compared to having to run low settings and getting poor Fps with DayZ SA

 

They don't pay attension to whats happening with there followers.....this game may just start lagging way behind....so far in fact it may never get finished before everyone moves on to other games!

[UltimateGentleman 355]

If you see the message "Server wasn´t able to connect..." or you notice being a fresh spawn just don`t move. Don`t press any button except escape, leave the server and go for another. That works allways. The only issue is this senseless penalty for server hopping.

 

Thanks for the tip I'll try that next time, since surely it will happen again D:

 

Yeah the timer is ridiculous, what if you're just wanting to meet up with your buddies on a server then they get in a fight "HOLD ON GUYS I'LL BE THERE...in 500 seconds..NICE KNOWING YOU"

 

It's not enough to make me not play the game but it really needs sorted.

Maybe it could depend on how close you are to something like an airfield? So if you're in a hangar, obviously you're most likely trying to server hop for loot or to camp and shoot players, 500 seconds. 500 metres away, you're trying to avoid the timer so you can just run and spam loot drops, 200 seconds maybe 250.

As well as that maybe a timer for if you try to spawn in to cities/towns if you have a lot of gear, since you have no real reason to be there other than to kill fresh spawns or other players in general.

And if you're not doing that then you have no reason to be mad at waiting 2 or 300 seconds as your playing legit not being an ass.

 

That would work if they explained it, maybe at the startup screen they could have a Patch Notes thing so people would know why it sometimes takes them 500 seconds to spawn.

[zanith 7]

Arma 3 had a patch notes/news box in the main menu in apha and beta why is it not in dayz? It would solve alot of confused noobs tbh!

Edited May 5, 2014 by Zanith

[Rebdy 2]

Hasn't the timer been reduced to 200secs? I always get tht awhen server hopping.