Where have all the experimental servers gone?

[rickyriot 1009]

I've not had a chance to play DayZ in what seems like months (but is probably only a few weeks) and after downloading several patches my experimental version number is sitting at: .45.123905 yet the highest version number of a server I can find is .44.123800. Are there any experimental servers anywhere or am I forced to drop down to stable and play there?

[tiadashi 262]

they are all down atm

[rickyriot 1009]

So just a delay? Sorry for being so out of the loop. If it's just a downtime I'll wait for them to return - just wanted to check they were still "a thing" and not somehow knocked on the head.

[liquidsnake 275]

Yeah, just came back from the server list after finding no servers at all. Another update? AKM? Maybe they're just fixing the extreme rubberbanding.

Edited April 27, 2014 by The End.

[GrandHeron 21]

So just a delay? Sorry for being so out of the loop. If it's just a downtime I'll wait for them to return - just wanted to check they were still "a thing" and not somehow knocked on the head.

 

The experimental servers will be back up when there will be new features to test out. So most likely sooner rather than later.

[Gugolas 228]

It is Sunday afternoon in central Europe - nobody is working at BIS.

Experimental servers have been down since wednesday (if I recall correctly, if not the day after).

Hicks stated they'll come up again only with a new update, and they have some things to test this week.

It can be tomorrow, or it can be friday. Who knows.

[rickyriot 1009]

You see the way I see it, if you set yourself up with an experimental build in Steam you shouldn't have to keep switching between stable and experimental based on what the devs need to test out. IMO, and it's only that so perhaps I am not correct, the experimental servers should always be active with the latest build. If that's broken, so be it, that's the nature of both alpha and experimental, but they shouldn't be taken down whenever the devs no longer have something worthy of testing. Least of all they could still be benefiting from feedback on a test branch that hasn't gone to stable.

Edited April 27, 2014 by ricp

[rickyriot 1009]

* bump *

 

Still waiting for some to come online.

 

Was there anything said when they "disappeared"? Was it some sort of irrevocable bug that had kiboshed things or have they just fallen over and nobody has got round to rebooting them?

[brumey 116]

the lack of Information on this concerns me!

 

why no Information that they were taken down?!  why no information when they plan to bring them back?

 

 

there is nothing in the "announcements and Information"

there is nothing in the "dev tracker" section

there is nothing on reddit

there is nothing on twitter

there is nothing on http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/

 

 

WHERE ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT THIS  ?!!?!?!

[rickyriot 1009]

the lack of Information on this concerns me!

 

why no Information that they were taken down?!  why no information when they plan to bring them back?

 

 

Ultimately I suppose I (we) can drop to the stable build and have a playable game, just a bit odd that the experimental servers have vanished. I had assumed, as I had been away for a while, that the downtime was due to a rebuild and they would be back up within a few hours but from reading this thread it seems they have been gone for quite few days.

[brumey 116]

i want to Play on 100/100 Servers again!   This 1 EU Server was hilarious! berezino a deathtrap!

 

the most fun experience ever!!!!  playing dayz never felt so true!    there were corpses everywhere!

 

dayz sure felt different on the 100/100 Server!  and i am missing that experience for 1 week now   :(

[SniperwolfMR 153]

i want to Play on 100/100 Servers again!   This 1 EU Server was hilarious! berezino a deathtrap!

 

the most fun experience ever!!!!  playing dayz never felt so true!    there were corpses everywhere!

 

dayz sure felt different on the 100/100 Server!  and i am missing that experience for 1 week now   :(

I literally cannot play this game anymore on 40 man servers after experiencing the 80-100 slot ones. I mean think about the magnitude of the map. 40 people? May have been fun at first...but its getting old running for hours and not seeing a single person. These servers need to come out ASAP! 

[brumey 116]

YES

 

 

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

 

 

but there is no word from devs whether we are getting them back or not!    i think i read somewhere that they want to test loot respawns on 40/40 Servers!   i hope i am wrong and we get atleast 1 100/100 Server here in EU!

[zeroy 240]

I literally cannot play this game anymore on 40 man servers after experiencing the 80-100 slot ones. I mean think about the magnitude of the map. 40 people? May have been fun at first...but its getting old running for hours and not seeing a single person. These servers need to come out ASAP! 

 

Stay in Berezino / Svelto for a bit and you wont be long on your own!

[Judopunch 523]

the lack of Information on this concerns me!

 

why no Information that they were taken down?!  why no information when they plan to bring them back?

 

 

there is nothing in the "announcements and Information"

there is nothing in the "dev tracker" section

there is nothing on reddit

there is nothing on twitter

there is nothing on http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/

 

 

WHERE ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT THIS  ?!!?!?!

This is probably my only large complaint with how the dev team is handling development. They need a PR person to keep notes on exp server status, upcoming changlogs, features announcements, community interaction....

[Iowa23 12]

hicks posted something about this, they got allot of info from the loot spawning and said its working out well but need to change something (something about 64 bit). It was said that they should be up sometime early this week.

[brumey 116]

This is probably my only large complaint with how the dev team is handling development. They need a PR person to keep notes on exp server status, upcoming changlogs, features announcements, community interaction....

yeah.

its only bits and pieces here and there sporadically vomited out!

[SniperwolfMR 153]

Stay in Berezino / Svelto for a bit and you wont be long on your own!

This is what I currently can't STAND about this game. We are supposed to be venturing inland and exploring, not just death matching in Berezino. I'm so tired of gearing up then running into Berezino, right into the scope of a sniper who's only joy in the game is shooting at anything that moves. 

 

40 people is just simply not enough. The 80 man servers were running fine when they were on experimental, at least much better than the 100 man ones from my personal experience. 

 

Lets have them already! 

[rickyriot 1009]

hicks posted something about this, they got allot of info from the loot spawning and said its working out well but need to change something (something about 64 bit). It was said that they should be up sometime early this week.

 

Thanks. Let's hope so.

[hombrecz 832]

i want to Play on 100/100 Servers again!   This 1 EU Server was hilarious! berezino a deathtrap!

 

the most fun experience ever!!!!  playing dayz never felt so true!    there were corpses everywhere!

 

dayz sure felt different on the 100/100 Server!  and i am missing that experience for 1 week now   :(

 

Was it really that good? From what I've seen, 100 ppl servers were looted dry and there were freshies punching to death each other everywhere.

 

Not what I would call fun when talking about survival zombie apocalypse game.

[over9000nukez 199]

the experimentals have gone... hunting

[brumey 116]

Was it really that good? From what I've seen, 100 ppl servers were looted dry and there were freshies punching to death each other everywhere.

 

Not what I would call fun when talking about survival zombie apocalypse game.

 

survival ---  yes. loot must be scarce

 

zombie ---  yes. 1 headshot kills them

 

apocalypse --- yes.  look at berezino on the 100/100  server. thats apocalypse

[bodybagger2430 59]

Was it really that good? From what I've seen, 100 ppl servers were looted dry and there were freshies punching to death each other everywhere.

 

Not what I would call fun when talking about survival zombie apocalypse game.

I think you hit the nerve as to why they aren't being released yet. It NEEDS loot respawn. The only possible way to make such servers viable right now is on low restart servers, everything else will be looted so bad that you can hear the cockroaches stomach's rumbling in elektro from Berezino

[Iowa23 12]

it wasnt a post i was wrong, info on the experimental is in the latest devblog

[hombrecz 832]

survival ---  yes. loot must be scarce

 

zombie ---  yes. 1 headshot kills them

 

apocalypse --- yes.  look at berezino on the 100/100  server. thats apocalypse

 

Berezino on 100/100 is pure madness, that is what it is.

Nothing I would want to see in final version of DayZ. Then again it's up to people, how they play.

 

I think you hit the nerve as to why they aren't being released yet. It NEEDS loot respawn. The only possible way to make such servers viable right now is on low restart servers, everything else will be looted so bad that you can hear the cockroaches stomach's rumbling in elektro from Berezino

 

Yeah loot respawn is needed badly, Im glad they are experimenting with it. I hope it is a sign, that it wount take that ultra long to have it.