3 Deaths, 3 Bugs, 1 Tired Player: A Story of 0.59

[DickCheney 74]

I gotta say I wasn't hyped for this patch, I was enjoying the infinite mags I kept finding and the duped gear I got off people I killed every single day. It was a different world, a different play style, but all good things must come to an end and like always I will adapt and overcome. Living off the land, exploring the far north to see if anything has changed, getting in the occasional gunfight, these are all things I expected of 0.59, instead I find myself constantly starting over due to bugs.

 

Chapter One: Way Too Fuckin Chill.

Some of you may have seen me post about this, my character was about 3 days old, roughly 12 hours of time in game had been spent on him and I gotta say, he was well set. An M4 with all the trimmings, a UMP with my preferred red-dot, a very nice all spring camo outfit and a cargo truck to call my own. Things were going quite well for me until I decided to test fire my UMP with an ACOG on it to see what kind of accuracy one could squeeze out of it (its actually very accurate, I could hit man sized targets at about 150 yards) I lined up my shot and pulled the trigger, seconds later I noticed my screen fill up with red letter messages:

I am hypothermic

I am hypothermic

I am hypothermic

I am hypothermic

I am hypothermic

What the hot hell is this? I mean I had been getting cold from time to time, and I was drenched most of the time, but I didn't even get a freezing warning? Not to worry, I thought, I always come prepared, out came the matches and a fire was blazing in no time. Only one problem, this wasn't your average cold, this was an EXTREME cold.

 

Despite having a nice fire next to me I was not warming up, in fact, I was quickly on my way to death. I became desperate, I stood in the fire, I ate, I had my friend inject me with saline, I shot up with epipens, morphine, and threw back some anti-biotics for the hell of it, no help, I died moments later.

 

Oh well, its DayZ, bugs will happen. I spawned in electro and made my way back to my body where my friend had stripped it clean in preparation for my return, the run took about 15 minutes and I nearly starved to death twice but with a decent knowledge of the map and some lucky breaks on food spawns I managed to get there and get all my gear back. Onward we march into oblivion.

 

 

Chapter Two: Can't Stop Won't Stop.

Myself and my two friends were somewhere between Stary and Kabanino when my rather observant friend noticed two players setting an ambush for us about 75 yards ahead. They were holed up in a large shed waiting for us to pass, likely so they could come in from behind and light us up. Unfortunately for them this would not be the way things went down. While two of my friends ran to the left of the shed I cut behind a hill to come up directly behind it, our would-be killers were non the wiser to this deception. I ran straight up to the wall of the shed and announced that they were surrounded. Some words were had about whether we were friendly and if we were going to kill them (we would likely have just stolen their gear and tied them up, maybe poisoned them and broken their legs for funsies but probably not execute them) I was discussing the terms of their surrender when suddenly my friend shouted "ONE MORE ON YOUR RIGHT" and began firing, aha, what a ruse! Fortunately he only manged to fire at me twice with some form of shotgun before my friend lit him up and sent him running into town for cover. With my legs broken and a great deal of color gone I was a little upset at my situation and the loss of my pretty hunter pants so I enlightened my two would be hostages in the barn on something I'd known all along: most walls can now be fired through. With one mag dump from my UMP they were no more. I then proceeded to go unconscious from blood loss and my friends ran to my rescue, unfortunately, my unconscious body was on autopilot and crawling away from the scene. They tried many tactics to save me, from laying down in front of my determined body while one tried to patch me up to hitting me in the head a few times. Nothing worked, my body pushed onward into the forest where I eventually bled to death. Another death, another bug, only this time we still had one hostile unaccounted for, they couldn't strip my body and wait for me, too risky, they instead decided to salvage what they could and hide my body.

 

 

Chapter Three: Highway to Hell

With what was left of my gear back in my possession and a new found joy of stealing trucks from bases people set up around the tent city we were back in business with a fleet of V3S trucks and a love of placing green barrels in fluffy pine trees all over the map, what joy! While on our way out of Novaya Petrovka we encountered one more fun bug, the funnest of them all. Myself and my friend had been out riding in our V3S, on our way back to one of our outlying bases with a truck full of farming supplies and clothing, all was well, all was quiet, and then it happened. While traveling west on the highway we made a right turn at Toploniki and suddenly we both cut to black, You are Dead. No sound, no shots fired, no crunch, just the sound of the truck slowing to a stop but continuing to idle, until our sound cut out completely. We had a friend nearby, about 15 minutes away, he headed to the scene to see what went down but only found one of our backpacks and a great deal of gear laying around. Whoever had found our two bodies obviously didn't take the truck as they left a UMP, an AUG, and a rather nice M4 there as well as about 1000 rounds of 5.56 and 600 rounds of .45 in ammo cans. What happened to us? What happened to the truck? I don't know, I never saw that truck again but a new one spawned at the quarry outside Severograd, a white V3S just like ours, in an area we had already checked for a truck. Now I know from previous patches with persistent trucks that when a truck was destroyed it respawned in a random V3S spawn point, I can only assume that is what happened here, did our truck fall through the earth leaving only our bodies? Did the truck just vanish? Or did someone manage to kill us without a sound and inexplicably decide to leave the truck's inventory filled with garden lime and clothes instead of taking the vast amount of ammo and guns left at the scene? I'll never know.

 

What I do know is that I am tired of this patch already. I am tired of bugs, I am tired of unfinished games. Early access is one of the worst things to happen to PC gaming and I hope someday we will realize that, in the meantime I think, after 1190 hours in this game, I will place it back on the shelf until it is a bit more mature or until the devs abandon it entirely and a competent modding community provides what it has so desperately needed for the past year.

 

Wake me up when 0.59 comes out.

[DickCheney 74]

Tl;DR:

 

Death 1: Hypothermia bug, could not warm up no matter what I did.

Death 2: Moving while unconscious bug, body crawled away and bled to death while my friends watched helplessly.

Death 3: Random instant death bug, just driving alone and both mine and my friends screens cut to black, no crunch, no shots, no sounds at all, just dead.

[edwin3 74]

if i could, i'd hand you a tissue.

poor guy, really sad story.

 

thanks for sharing! i didnt know that bugs can occur.

[IgnobleBasterd 161]

Ok, well you are choosing to play an unfinished game. I am wondering if early access should be forbidden because people can't handle it.

[Mookie (original) 799]

 these are all things I expected of 0.59, instead I find myself constantly starting over due to bugs.

 

 

Wait, are you playing 0.59? Is it on exp now then? If not, thread title is a little confusing...

 

I have no immediate plans to get into a truck, as it seems something is a bit broken there (many anecdotes of completely random truck deaths). That said, every patch has its bugs, and 0.58 is far from the buggiest we've seen (at least in my experience). In fact it seems like a pretty good patch - persistence back, crash sites back, new items, etc. I like it.

[gannon46 788]

The bug i keep getting and i'm not sure whats causing it. i log out my status will be green bright green at that. I log back in to both hunger and thirst at starvation levels color fading fast death in a matter of minutes. I don't get it i logged in yesterday same thing happened i survived barely and once i got energized and hydrated green i logged out just to see, i logged back in to the same damn thing both red and dying again. I don't get it. I havn't encountered the cold bug myself i like this update but this is getting a little nuts hopefully a hotfix or a workaround will happen.

[odin_lowe 3686]

Some servers don't update your status as it should. When you notice this, leave the server and join another. Problem fixed.

 

I had this happen to me. Not able to get warmer. Changed the server, made another fire, and got the status updates.

[BCBasher 2465]

Some servers don't update your status as it should. When you notice this, leave the server and join another. Problem fixed.

 

I had this happen to me. Not able to get warmer. Changed the server, made another fire, and got the status updates.

 

For the private server crowd if I notice my stats seem wonky I take my boots off and hurt my feet. Had it with my second account where the guy just wouldn't recover from having blood taken, figured I'd been energized/hydrated long enough, took off boots, boom healing for five seconds, healthy.

[odin_lowe 3686]

For the private server crowd if I notice my stats seem wonky I take my boots off and hurt my feet. Had it with my second account where the guy just wouldn't recover from having blood taken, figured I'd been energized/hydrated long enough, took off boots, boom healing for five seconds, healthy.

Yes, I do this too. But on one server, nothing was helping. (Even getting damaged... All the status updated on the next one I joined. This was on public hive.)

[sausagekingofchicago 4711]

One day we'll finally throw off the shackles of the overlord that forces us to buy early access titles.  Until then, we must learn to fight them off and resist while they try to input our credit card details into our computers.  We must also resist when they want us to play these games while in development or hide from their watchful eyes until the game is complete and it is safe to purchase.

 

One day brothers, one day.

[jefc_uk 26]

Not only using an alpha build, but using the experimental branch. You're just like my boss!

[Grimey Rick 3417]

TL;DR.

[mercules 1290]

Tl;DR:

 

Death 1: Hypothermia bug, could not warm up no matter what I did.

Death 2: Moving while unconscious bug, body crawled away and bled to death while my friends watched helplessly.

Death 3: Random instant death bug, just driving alone and both mine and my friends screens cut to black, no crunch, no shots, no sounds at all, just dead.

 

Um... Experimental.