1.5.7 Issues & Observations

[resident emil 1]

Hi,

In this message I will try to give objective feedback on issues and observations I made in the latest patch. Then I will give a short and more subjective summary of my impression of the current state of the mod. I played approximately 5 hours yesterday, all the time on Swedish server (I'm Swedish) SE1-6. I was playing with three friends who I communicated with on skype.

Issues and observations:

* Last time I left a 1.5.6 server I was badly wounded (bleeding with ~3000 blood left, unconscious with hourglass slowly running out) after my friend accidentaly shot me in the face. Apparently his gun fired when he clicked the disconnect button.

* Logging in first time to 1.5.7 game I respawn on beach at elektro. I am now completely healed and have all my loot from last session. I am gratefull for this but this is probably not how it should be :)

* At the beach there were approximately eight Zambies fairly close (within 50 meters). I study their movements and sneak between two. I draw no attention from them,. Later I am sneaking past a single Zambie who is even further, this time however I draw his attention. Both times I am sneaking through high grass. Is the Zambies sensitivty possibly "erratic" by design?

* Lying on top of the Poweplant I can see approximately 35 Zambies in the field bewteen plant and elektro. This is about the same on all servers I play on. The Zambies movements are all smooth and seems to be working well. However, yesterday I experienced a lot more player lag, that is when the position of other players are not correctly synced between clients. Example: "-Friend one, why are you continually running into a tree 50 meters ion front of me?", Friend One says "-I am not, I am standing right beside you". I experienced this on 1.5.6 servers as well just not as frequent. Yesterday this seemd to happen every 4-5 minutes. My friends experienced the same. This issue was not apparent when it came to Zambies.

* For the first ~2 hours all servers we played on (SE1-6) gave the "No message recived for XX seconds" message after approximately 10-15 minutes, and then seemed to be restarted. I'd say this stopped when we had changed servers 8-10 times (I believe we finaly ended up on SE2). This might have coincided with us moving inland away from Powerplant. However all players seemed to be affected so was probably not due to our behaviour.

* My client crashed for me three times yesterday (Arma completly freezing, error message in windows something like "The Arma II application has stopped working"). Before it has only crashed once (during approximately the same playtime). Restaring Arma II and continuing playing worked well.

* Since 1.5.7 the inventory GUI seemes to have changed behaviour. When I click my backpack and select open bag, the GUI no longer graphically shows the contents of my backpack. My backpack contents are only seen as numbers in the left item column.

* One of my friends claims that he could not fire his weapon (Makarov) while standing in water. He was at beach with his feet just barely in the water. Moving away from the water he could then fire his gun again.

* I am aware that this is a known bug, but for the sake of completenes I mention that the Zambie spawn is to frequent. Clearing all Zambies surrounding a barn and then finding new ones spawned when exiting ~5 minutes later is a bit much :)

Personal experience and comments:

Yesterday I read quite much on the forums about the Zambie increase before I had a chance to play. Honestly, I was expecting even more Zambies :). I find the increased number of Zambie's to be fantastic for the game. Now it really takes some serious consideration and planning before approaching potential loot. Moving towards Pusta we (four of us) then spent quite some time scouting it out and deciding on an approach. We looted one barn and decided it was good enough, left the other houses untouched and moved out. A really amazing experience in every way. We also had the opportunity to help a fellow survivor (Shad I believe) who was running around outside powerplant followed by ~20-25 Zambies. We shouted "Shad! Run for powerplant" and began popping Zambies from the roof. It felt like lifted directly from a Romero movie (one of the older ones :) ). People generally seemed more friendly and scared yesterday. The opportunities and incentive for forming teams seemed greatly increased. I read in a post where you summarized that: too few Zambies = PVP, too many Zambies = PVP. However, with many Zambies, then at least the risk of PVP'ing is greatly increased. Just firing a single shot might draw hordes of Zambies from a nearby hunting tower, village or whatever.

To the people who "just can't move anywhere because all the Zambies"; Yesterday two of my friends walked (sneaked, walked, ran) from Komarovo to the Power Plant just north of Elektro. They followed the powerlines that start between Balota and Vysota. Except for some fighting on the beach, they managed to sneak past all Zambies. They encountered one other player who was invited to join. He friendly declined and they parted ways. Together we then (four of us) moved to Pusta, where we looted the barn. During the five hours we were playing, one of us was killed. He was sniped by someone on the roof of the building across the street from the hospital in Elektro, while he was crouched on the powerplant roof. Such is the game. He respawned and managed to walk (sneak, walk & run) from east of elektro to Pusta without drawing neither Zambie nor survivor attention.

Rocket, I hope the objective issue descriptions and my subjective experience is useful to you.

Thanks for the best gaming experience in a very long time!

/Resident Emil (Ingame: Emil)

[Boss (DayZ) 1]

* Since 1.5.7 the inventory GUI seemes to have changed behaviour. When I click my backpack and select open bag, the GUI no longer graphically shows the contents of my backpack. My backpack contents are only seen as numbers in the left item column.

It has always been like that.

To see graphically what is in your backpack, you need to be looting something and then hit open bag.

You can't just go to gear and press open bag and see it.

[resident emil 1]

It has always been like that.

I see. Thanks. Never realized that before :)