Stable - 0.48 Discussion

[DeWynterX 0]

Happy with the pace of updates, keep up the good work!  To those that are playing and bitching about losing their stuff, FFS that's part of the game, and especially in an Alpha.  Hell you even lose things in a Beta sometimes when balancing happens.  I will say, it never ceases to amaze me how many people bitch about a game, after signing up to literally be test subjects for the process of building a game ie: Alpha.

[R3DY246 3]

Where does the "Smersh Vest" spawn, I've heard people say they spawn at Hi8 crash sites (the permanent crash sites)

 

but I am yet to find one ?

[Otis.Driftwood 204]

Where does the "Smersh Vest" spawn, I've heard people say they spawn at Hi8 crash sites (the permanent crash sites)

 

but I am yet to find one ?

 

Police station, military tents, barracks

[R3DY246 3]

Police station, military tents, barracks

Is this confirmed ?

Has anyone actually found one there, and got picture proof ?

On Reddit people are saying they are not spawning

[bauertschi 254]

I think desync is currently a bigger problem. The symptoms I connect with it:

- my buddy did not see me when I ran down the stairs in a prison while he was guarding the stairs from above. He almost shot me as he saw me downstairs.

- Ppl run and you talk to them and they say they stopped, but on my client they continue running.

- zed hit you quite a while after you axed them a question.

 

The last one is expecially annoying, because your top wear is often ruined and closing zeds into houses did not work well for me tonight. They ran out of houses that (if I remember correctly) worked well as zed prisons in experimental.

 

Concerning the general performance, I get more and more the impression that the servers are not all on the same (or comparable) hardware. Does anyone know anything about specs?

Edited August 14, 2014 by bautschi

[paisius77 36]

How did they supposedly make this "clear" posting it on a forum where only a minority of people check? 

 

Seems to me if alpha testers don't check the official forum that's their problem. 

[raistlin400 0]

Hello all,
at first I'm not a native english speaker. Please don't cry for my bad english.
It is very difficult for me to read all the notes from this forum.
I'm realy sorry for double post, should this be one!

 

I have following problem...
I combine a gas canister with a portable gas stove (both pristine) and a frying pan and/or cooking pot (all in prestine too).
Now i turn on the portable gas stove (fire lit) and I insert my deer meat into the frying pan and/or cooking pot.
After a few minutes the meat turns from raw to burned. Everytime.
Is this a known problem?
I haven't try this some time before... So maybe this is an old problem...

 

At last...

This patch was a realy good work from the dev team!!

Great job! Keep it that way!

I love it!

[bauertschi 254]

...

I combine a gas canister with a portable gas stove (both pristine) and a frying pan and/or cooking pot (all in prestine too).

Now i turn on the portable gas stove (fire lit) and I insert my deer meat into the frying pan and/or cooking pot.

After a few minutes the meat turns from raw to burned. Everytime.

Is this a known problem?

...

 

Yes, it is a known problem. You can make a fireplace with sticks + rags/paper. Add firewood, light it with matches and add the meat directly. That works.

Edited August 15, 2014 by bautschi

[just_sauce 4]

Well,I know that zombies are OP and difficult to hit with the new update.And ,yes sometimes a player can freeze when spawning,and yes there are desync problems but I can't f***ing stop playing this game! Even in it's current state DayZ rocks.It's all about freedom of choice and fear of not knowing what will happen in the next step.

The only *big* issue is desync.If the devs manage ever to eliminate that,it will be awesome.

Oh,and I have noticed fewer zombies entering *locked* buildings(I mean entering through closed doors)

 

The devs are in good shape at the moment.I dont really care for persistency because loot respawn system seems a bit broken,I joined an official server and no real loot was to be found anywhere.Can't they maybe cancel loot respawn and enable persistent items? Server restart would still spawn the loot but storages(tents etc) would be like player backpacks.Forever where they should be and holding the stuff.

 

And then we have the artists/designers.These guys are awesome as well,maybe a little bit more.So many clothes,weapons etc.What made me go crazy was the burlap/grass wrap.It ain't important but it 's nice thought.Like a ghillie suit for mosin...

 

All I have to say is...Good work guys..

BETA is coming...

[nextdayair 1]

Please fix the 7.62x51mm spawn rates. I've been playing so much on so many different servers and I've only found 3 individual rounds.

[tommisalama 0]

To many of you who got their characters wiped when logged out and back in: This happened to me like four or five times now. I logged in as a fresh spawn, but I immediately logged out and back in again, and got in as my old character. Don't know how it's possible, but haven't actually lost a single character.

[Exorade 214]

In our community we lost 2 characters today:

 

We were playing, when the server restarted (lost connection, and the timer going up). Upon login in back in the same server, my character and a friend's character were gone. A fresh spawn. Tried login in in different servers, but the new characters were loaded, and the old ones gone.

 

This is quite a gamebreaker bug.

 

It's not a bug. As far as I know, if you only join the official servers you should be fine. It happens because some times the unofficial servers can't connect to the central hive and they load a new character. You play enough with that character and it replaces the one you used to use on the central hive, as in the official servers.

 

 

at first I'm not a native english speaker. Please don't cry for my bad english.

Welcome to the club, dare I assume that majority of the users on this forum are not native English speakers.

So, that really isn't a valid excuse for bad grammar.

[kuronja 6]

Is the tent spawn still broken? Any new location added for tents to spawn, or they still spawn only in devil castle?

[Jo0Lz 4]

I agree with some of the people stating that you should not be complaining when your character gets reset. Imho, sometimes it might be required for balancing, and I expect it on experimental branch. How can it be that this is still an issue so far in development? 

 

I mean, losing your character several times during a playing session (3-4 hours?), that's just unacceptable. How are you supposed to make progress or find bugs to enter into the feedback tracker, if you can't even normally acquire some gear? 

 

I'll stay on official servers for the moment, I expect them to release some hotfix coming Wednesday to fix some issues.

Edited August 15, 2014 by Jo0Lz

[Otis.Driftwood 204]

Is this confirmed ?

Has anyone actually found one there, and got picture proof ?

On Reddit people are saying they are not spawning

 

I have found it, a bunch of them, all in one server

[Exorade 214]

How can it be that this is still an issue so far in development? 

 

Because it's not a game problem per se.

 

 

I mean, losing your character several times during a playing session (3-4 hours?), that's just unacceptable. How are you supposed to make progress or find bugs to enter into the feedback tracker, if you can't even normally acquire some gear? 

 

Sounds exaggerated. The problem is caused by a server being unable to load the player character from the central hive, therefore if this happens 3 to 4 times to you or anyone else, it's because you're constantly trying to join an unofficial server with issues. It's a risk that you take when you don't play on the official servers.

 

Majority of the people playing this game might disagree with this, but you and I are not supposed to find bugs and report them.

The people who are paid to do that, are supposed to do it. We're just given an option to do so while we get to play the game during it's development.

 

 

I'll stay on official servers for the moment, I expect them to release some hotfix coming Wednesday to fix some issues.

 

 

 

Good choice. I doubt there's going to be a hotfix for this issue. As mentioned previously, it's a problem with the server and its provider.

Not the game itself.

Edited August 15, 2014 by Exorade

[lucianpin 80]

Known issue "Player is unable to attack with any weapon under certain circumstances"

 

This is hapening very often especially when shooting zombies. Bullet hits are not registered. I would say this is happening in almost any circumstances.

[Karakoz 141]

where can I find the smersh vest and bag?

I don't think you can find the smersh vest. It's said to spawn on soviet heli crash sites, but they don't spawn loot on this update.

[Jo0Lz 4]

 

Because it's not a game problem per se.

 

 

 

Sounds exaggerated. The problem is caused by a server being unable to load the player character from the central hive, therefore if this happens 3 to 4 times to you or anyone else, it's because you're constantly trying to join an unofficial server with issues. It's a risk that you take when you don't play on the official servers.

 

Majority of the people playing this game might disagree with this, but you and I are not supposed to find bugs and report them.

The people who are paid to do that, are supposed to do it. We're just given an option to do so while we get to play the game during it's development.

 

 

 

 

Good choice. I doubt there's going to be a hotfix for this issue. As mentioned previously, it's a problem with the server and its provider.

Not the game itself.

 

Well, seems they have confirmed it is an issue, I'm sure it was somewhere in release notes or developer tweets, but can't find it back now. A clanmate of mine recited this from somewhere when it first happened. Stated we should log off and wait some time to reconnect. 

 

And just to state the obvious, when we encounter bugs, we of course have to post them to the feedback tracker. At least, I know I do, especially when playing experimental (it even states so in the battlesomething red messages). 

 

Lot's of players have been hit by this, and even though it is probably because of the loot changes and such, it could have been revealed during experimental, before they pushed to stable. I've seen several complaints of this happening even on official servers, so it seems the issue is big, and we don't get messages stating that there was a problem during loading of your character. And several wipes in a session (reconnects, session lost, etc) tells us there are problems with saving character states in general. 

 

I'm glad the problem is as big as it is now, as they can easily obtain data in order to get to the root cause, and more importantly, a solution. :)

[Exorade 214]

 it could have been revealed during experimental, before they pushed to stable. I've seen several complaints of this happening even on official servers, so it seems the issue is big, and we don't get messages stating that there was a problem during loading of your character. And several wipes in a session (reconnects, session lost, etc) tells us there are problems with saving character states in general. 

 

 

But that's probably the core of the problem. I played the experimental since 48 was released to it and nor I or anyone I know ran into this problem. I didn't run into it on stable either. The only times I've had this happen was when I got the "problem connecting to the hive" message.

[robophant 102]

In what way?

 

rubber banding even tho i have no desync and a ping below 20

zombies are hellish

my mouse is bugged, whenever i use RMB to aim down sight the crosshair jumps for an inch or two. Also the general weapon sway when holding breath and being prone is way to high

Can't punch or shoot after a while of playing. That happens when i use melee to often.

^this and many other reasons

[quantum2k6 348]

anyone found a flashbang? or frag? and why the amphibia is spawning on helicrashs? wasnt it civil!

Edited August 15, 2014 by quantum2k6

[James Hawke 114]

@quantum2k6: I found a flashbang yesterday at a heli crashsite

[quantum2k6 348]

@quantum2k6: I found a flashbang yesterday at a heli crashsite

well then we had just bad luck

 

we found now 5 nonlootet crashsites but found no frags or flashs. just mags m4s and weaponparts

[evidica 16]

Please fix the 7.62x51mm spawn rates. I've been playing so much on so many different servers and I've only found 3 individual rounds.

They're out there, I can confirm as I have 60 rounds.  Just keep looking around areas you'd expect them to be in real life Russia.