Exp Update: 0.60.+++

[Espa 711]

Hm. So, does anyone see any glaring bugs so far? My play time has been exceedingly fun and bugless. . Literally nothing wrong has happened, everything is working as intended in my playtime. Had to finagle with grabbing a gun off a corpse, but I figured it out eventually.

I'm ready for this to hit stable. Then I can go back to a RP server and have lots of fun haha

[Rammit (DayZ) 153]

On 5/31/2016 at 11:35 AM, popeandy said:

I think you guys must have pissed Eugen off :) It's been raining all day and night on the exp servers today. Every single server... constant downpour. On the bright side, first time I've seen the "cold" notification.

Also, noticed wet status is a little weird. If you move a wet item to a dry container, it instantly becomes dry. If you move it back, it becomes wet again. Also, if you put dry clothes on when you are wet, (it seems) they will become wet as well... Seems the only way to dry off at this point is to... wait

Edited June 2, 2016 by Rammit (DayZ)

[Tatanko 5591]

28 minutes ago, Espa said:

Hm. So, does anyone see any glaring bugs so far? My play time has been exceedingly fun and bugless. . Literally nothing wrong has happened, everything is working as intended in my playtime. Had to finagle with grabbing a gun off a corpse, but I figured it out eventually.

I played for ~2.5 hours tonight, and even on a high ping server (~250 to 300 at times) my experience was nothing but enjoyable. I had a tough time finding any loot, but I also intentionally stuck to the coast, and I'm definitely okay with the result. I can always pick apples, right?

 

14 minutes ago, Rammit (DayZ) said:

It's been raining all day and night on the exp servers today. Every single server... constant downpour

Tell me about it! The server I started in was nice and sunny, but after a restart it became a downpour as well. Eventually it gave way to fog after sunset, which was great.

 

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Edited June 2, 2016 by Tatanko

[Espa 711]

Nothing I've found in game has been anything but pleasant. I mean, I've got shot and killed many people as is per normal in DayZ, but literally everything has been a joy and bugfree. No weird deaths, no items locking up, seems like tons of car parts. . And combat has never been more fun. Also, I played earlier today and it was sunny for 2 days, then the third day was hella rain so I just sat in a tower away from the rain and fired at players and zombies hehe.

I'm not sure if anyone else is having issues, but my time has been amazing. Let's get to .61! Audio changes and Dynamic Zombie Spawning here we come! (Really curious if they'll change the Zed noises to be scarier, or if it's limited to gunfire. . Which is also amazing.)

[-Gews- 7443]

2 hours ago, Tatanko said:

Doooooood! Major props for getting this shot.

Props go to Shadowplay, hehe.

[IMT 3190]

5 hours ago, ParaB said:

Military bases and airfields are KoS zones. I rarely fire 1st when meeting another survivor, but in such high danger zones I take no chances, too.

 

 

 

3 hours ago, barnabus said:

Mil bases, tent cities, airfields, police stations and fire houses are pretty much places to get KOS no matter what version of DayZ.  I have been KoSed elsewhere too but in those places much, much more often and likely.  They warrant much caution and a get in/get the fuck out as quickly as possible mindset.  Here's a short, nontraditional 17 syllable Haiku just for you.

 

If you linger,

you get the finger,

the trigger finger of fate.

BioHaze once said that those places are not KOS places but that the people choose to KOS there. And he's right because you aren't forced to KOS there, it's a choice. What's the difference between anyother place? There is better gear sure, but guns are everywhere and every gun is deadly. Against someone like me, having an AK doesn't mean anything. I'm usually the person who sees other people first so even if they have that AK with 20 mags that doesn't matter if I kill them first. But sure, I do KOS at those locations as well mostly because for me that's surviving. I have to be honest though, I don't visit a lot of those places on full servers, I try to stay in the low populated area's. Mostly when I go there it with more people and if I go in alone it's really quick.

[Excanto 336]

Ok been real busy but got some time tonight. Spawned and was shot at almost instantly and disappeared into the woods. Got some binocular's and could see people in tent city. Found some pumpkin seeds and a shovel and it rained and I was red starving when the pumpkins were 1 change away from ripe and wow did I carve those up fast. Now I am stuffed and hungry and the screens white hehehe. I get to this nice house in the middle of no where and find 8 shotguns and a model 70 in a pile in the corner. Very smooth, very nice!

[☣BioHaze☣ 7337]

Another long day of play sessions, maybe 10+ hours total? Same folks as yesterday but no Gary and StarvingArt joined us.

I'm trying really hard not to play Call of Duty but apparently Experimental is the new Stable and nearly every encounter is an exchange of gunfire or some kind of fight. I'm also spending too much time trying to keep my character from overheating (except when driving around, then you start getting cold) and look forward to the changes in the thermodynamic properties of the clothing and the way hyper/hypothermia is handled.

Emu has had a bad string of luck (including a friendly fire incident where I sniped him with a Repeater) and only with the help of Luc did I manage to survive the night with the same character.

We had encountered a squeaker and as we questioned him and tried to herd him out of town he babbled stupid shit (including his desire for a spark plug to take the off road we wanted) and ran the opposite direction from where Luc was trying to get him to run. Just when we had reached our limit of patience for this guy Luc spotted his friend aiming at us from a hill above the town.

We grouped up on the opposite side of the church from where we saw the sniper and formed a strategy. Emu and I thought we had a good vantage point in a 2 story green house (with the brown entry). Luc decided to stay against the church. Emu takes a position in the room upstairs scanning the treeline and in short order gets sniped through the window. I take a position covering the door from the top of the stairs and someone comes to open the door, I spray through the opening with my Scorpion, not sure if I hit him and Luc opens up from behind him, killing him near the entrance. I then I got sniped as I tried to close the door in a crouched position (actually not through the keyhole window, Emu).

Luc had the balls to rush my position, get inside, and fought through bugged hands to bandage me. Once I was up he gave me saline but my world was still very very gray. We waited contemplating our options and after maybe 10 minutes ran from the area altogether. Most of Emu's gear was ruined but I did manage to get his rifle back to him and a few odds and ends.

^This was just one of the extremely dicey encounters we had and I don't quite have the wherewithal to pen them all out for you here tonight folks....

I spent a lot of time running a small route up North looting for tires and finally got a tire to fix a Lada. I then proceeded to wreck the car at high speed on a road sign before ever really putting it to good use. I found tires to replace those I ruined, but eventually left the car just needing a spark plug before we all logged out.

 

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^Strange bug where all items in the tent looked highlighted all at once.

 

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^Healing Luc after our first run in of the day.... I can hardly remember what went down.

 

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^Luc offers a prayer to ward off KoS, to no avail. (*2 pics artificially brightened with GIMP)

Edited June 2, 2016 by ☣BioHaze☣

[Luc1fer 53]

11 hours ago, Luc1fer said:

Bcb google upgrade windows 10, it's free until 27 July, at least here in uk it is. My craptop boots a lot better now plus if u got old TiVo box the 500g hd out of it is sweet in a PC build

A friend of mine installed it then googled key *cough* *cough* 

[Etherious 907]

12 hours ago, IMT said:

Had some nice hours in yesterday but I died twice so far due to desync or what ever. First time was in Elektro, I was in an house with multiple stories and my character just died. I'm sure I wasn't sniped or what ever because I somehow respawned again at Elektro and ran to my body, ruined shoes and pants. After that I killed myself to get a more northern spawn to meet up with the rest and spawned near Berezino. Met some few people there and while chatting some random shit I saw a bus driving on the main road. We ran up to it and got in. It was hilarious because we were just talking some random shit. We stopped near Kamyshovo where there was a sedan and my game crashed. When I got back in all hell broke loose. Which started as a fun encounter ended up in a bloody massacre. The two which had the bus started killing everyone and I just stayed with them to fuck around. When a guy came back from Kamy with a tire I was telling him all the time "they killed everyone man, watch out they are going to kill you". One of them said "stop saying that or I will kill you". Of course I was fucking around so I kept saying it and ran a bit off to find a gun with ammo to get some revenge. One of them followed me and started shooting me with a Trumpet. I managed to hit him a few times with an hatchet and he shot me twice. Suddenly he was stuck in this tree and kept doing the running animation. At first I thought it was the server but it was actually him which got disconnected and I hit him about 15 times with the hatchet, probably killed him. Didn't see the other two after that but I was bleeding and couldn't find rags. I found some rags luckily in Kamyshovo and started to get energized and hydrated and starting to head up north again. When I was near Mogilevka coming out of a shed I suddenly heared "Aaah!", the character hit the ground and went unconscious due to low blood. So yeah, that is kinda annoying and needs to get fixed. I recorded the bus shenanigans and might post it.

They already said that it will be fixed automatically when the new character controller is in.

That's basically how I manage to survive. Lately I run up to players or speak to them and haven't really had bad encounters yet but all of them didn't have a gun or ammo.

Yea, well, I guess I will need to get used to hip firing it from now on until next year (unless I get a RDS). lol

[S3V3N 1402]

7 hours ago, Espa said:

Hm. So, does anyone see any glaring bugs so far?

Here are the main points I had trouble with:

- attachments still hovering on the Mp5 (all the parts move independently)

- rifle disappearing while eating/weapon not getting picked up again (a reconnect solves this)

- can't see what's inside barrels. It's either that or they have been emptied (but there are tents next to them which still are full) -> yesterday my friend said he could still see what's inside them/I could not.

- cars literally stop working when they are close together. (sometimes you can shoot them away from each other with arrows)

I guess the latest problem is temporarily. I noticed the inventory is often lagging. The last two times I connected, I got stuck on the inventory screen moving items. Only a cold restart of my PC worked. But I guess those are some serverside settings they are trying out. It didn't happen before. 

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Apart from those issues my playtime was great. I did have some framerate issues while driving the car. But only in a few areas. The cars drive better now, but they feel a bit like a train in high gears. I barely made some corners, but then again, I just learned to shift more. You can still drive in highest gear most of the time. Also on the top left there is some indicator we will see a gearshift visualisation, it's just not working yet. I also got knocked around quite a bit by the infected and had to bandage several times. One funny moment was when we shot one infected and he ran backwards away from us and into town. At mad speed, too. 

The map has more changes than I thought. I saw the new places (radio station, Cherno, Elektro, Tisy, Tulga), but I also found it interesting how the road to Gorka changed and how Krasnostav has been expanded. I feel in Krasnos location there could be a really interesting larger town. I'd rather have them take some more away from Svetlojarsk (boring town anyway) and add more to Krasno. It's next to an airfield. I feel like it should have a lot of storage and office buildings. 

Finding ammo is my biggest problem. Which isn't terrible, because I am actually conserving my ammo. If you have an M4 and 4 bullets, you'll still be using that Red9, which doesn't make you more powerful than a beginner player. But you have a goal, because at least you already found an M4. And for emergencies you can still use it. I'm kinda liking this take on picking up guns now. It feels more rewarding to scavenge now, because of the odd chance of finding silenced handguns and such. Before, there wasn't that sensation of finding usefull stuff. I'd often have thrown away a weapon, only to find its magazine 2 hours later. That still happends, but with attachments and a few bullets, I hang on to my stuff a lot longer. Once this is stable and there are camps, looting will be a pleasure.   

 

Edited June 2, 2016 by S3V3N

[nl 986]

After not playing for a week or 2 today I played about 2 hours without servers crashing or any other problem encountered. Love the heavy rain!

0.60 seems to have come a long way!

Edited June 2, 2016 by nl
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[GaryWalnuts 1680]

I had a good run on Tuesday after I met up with with Biohaze and Dudester up in the north.  

The servers seemed very stable and I think we played enough hours to see an actual scheduled restart!  

Performance in game has been excellent for me.

I did notice one thing that I think has changed:  Chickens can now climb trees. 

Now I originally saw this fella on the ground, clucking away minding his own bird business.

Then, he went to the base of the tree and seemed to scroll right up!

 

and here he is gloating over his superior vantage point.

 

In the next pic, his corpse defies gravity.

Denying me those delicious cutlets

but his reign aloft was short-lived, after a strange phenomena of what I can only describe as "gravity vs rubberbanding" he deliciously came to rest upon the ground. 

 

[mammut0815 111]

6 hours ago, IMT said:

 

BioHaze once said that those places are not KOS places but that the people choose to KOS there. And he's right because you aren't forced to KOS there, it's a choice. What's the difference between anyother place? There is better gear sure, but guns are everywhere and every gun is deadly. Against someone like me, having an AK doesn't mean anything. I'm usually the person who sees other people first so even if they have that AK with 20 mags that doesn't matter if I kill them first. But sure, I do KOS at those locations as well mostly because for me that's surviving. I have to be honest though, I don't visit a lot of those places on full servers, I try to stay in the low populated area's. Mostly when I go there it with more people and if I go in alone it's really quick.

No offence but I don't get your point here? What do you want to explain, beside the obvious like people are free to decide against you, be dumb, act stupid, guns are deadly, if you shoot first you shoot first and last but not least you may enter KoS Zones quick and Ninja style??

 

Edited June 2, 2016 by mammut (DayZ)

[emuthreat 2837]

8 hours ago, Rammit (DayZ) said:

IAlso, noticed wet status is a little weird. If you move a wet item to a dry container, it instantly becomes dry. If you move it back, it becomes wet again. Also, if you put dry clothes on when you are wet, (it seems) they will become wet as well... Seems the only way to dry off at this point is to... wait

I learned a couple things about wetness in .59.  If you put a wet item in a dry piece of clothing, it will wet that clothing and everything in it, to some degree.  If you put dry clothes on a wet body, they will become damp from absorbing the water on your body.  The container thing is likely a bug, but it is completely normal to have to sit naked in front of a fire with wrung-out dry clothes on the ground, but you must still wait by the fire until your body is fully dry, before putting the clothes back on.

7 hours ago, -Gews- said:

Props go to Shadowplay, hehe.

Did you dress the photo heavily, or have you found out how shadow play will record normally again?

[S3V3N 1402]

The biggest danger to cars is more cars. I am stuck up, up north. I took an extremely enjoyable busride up there. I found the bus pretty far north, so I didn't pick up passengers. Unfortunately there was a Lada Niva spawn in the north and now the bus is stuck and so is the 4x4. I can't go anywhere from here. Hopefully there will be a hotfix that lets at least one of the cars drive. I'm waiting for a restart now, as I think it's possible the lock-up is just temporarily.  We'll see.

Meanwhile the bus is heading for the sky:

 

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I have to say the bus drives much better than in earlier versions. I had a blast with it. I wish we could repair double wheels and assemble double wheels from single ones. That worked at some point in the past, so it's probably happening in the future. All in all, I'm pretty happy with the update. Everything is a bit accelerated without feeling forced or dragging on forever. It's still a good grind, but results are a bit quicker now. 

 

Edited June 2, 2016 by S3V3N

[Tatanko 5591]

9 hours ago, -Gews- said:

Props go to Shadowplay, hehe.

Cheater ;)

[nl 986]

Played a little more and in this latest patch I noticed, in about 4 hours play I never saw:

-compasses

-water bottles

-canteens

-sewing kits

And experienced some rubber banding.

[wasnu 301]

found all these things...

but no hacksaw to cutt of my doublebarrel shotgun

[GuyRandomMan 54]

 why does my computer do this to me....

Edited June 2, 2016 by GuyRandomMan

[GuyRandomMan 54]

4 minutes ago, nl said:

Played a little more and in this latest patch I noticed, in about 4 hours play I never saw:

-compasses

-water bottles

-canteens

-sewing kits

And experienced some rubber banding.

 

 

I saw tons of compasses, at least three within the period of half an hour. I didn't get any rubber banding, as for canteens and water bottles I didn't find any. I found plenty of leather sewing kits but no regular ones.

[Killawife 599]

14 minutes ago, wasnu said:

found all these things...

but no hacksaw to cutt of my doublebarrel shotgun

Hacksaws spawn in Hunting towers. Found a bunch.

 

Noticed y-day that the leg-break when going on second floor of buildings is still a thing. At least I didnt die. From that.

 

[nl 986]

1 hour ago, GuyRandomMan said:

I saw tons of compasses, at least three within the period of half an hour. I didn't get any rubber banding, as for canteens and water bottles I didn't find any. I found plenty of leather sewing kits but no regular ones.

ok, guess I just didn't have luck in that case. Also saw plenty of leather repair kits. Oh and found 2 hacksaws, both in a a shed.

[BCBasher 2465]

22 minutes ago, nl said:

ok, guess I just didn't have luck in that case. Also saw plenty of leather repair kits. Oh and found 2 hacksaws, both in a a shed.

I got a little more than a few hours in, done almost 3/4 of the map's edge checking out of the way barns, sheds and houses and seen everything on your list except water bottles and canteens.

 

[S3V3N 1402]

Addicting as ever. Just better. The rain adds a lot to the atmosphere. I have a few more observations:

- when cars "bump" into each other and get stuck they respawn after server restart (in one of the usual spawn locations)

- it seems to rain in buildings sometimes

- status update wasn't working reliably (on one session I got wet in bright daylight. After drying from the rain inside a house with fire; I could go back to the house an be dry again, but everytime I went outside I was getting drenched - in sunshine) -> it's raining most of the time anyway, but this issue means I need fire quite a lot now. If I catch a cold, I'm unsure if I can heal at all). I could also not wring out anything. 

- in the north you see an occasionally floating tree (solo pine ~ 200 m above ground)

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Idk - are there more cars, or am I just running into them by chance? I always thought there should be more cars in the north. Seems someone else thought so, too. I did not have the luck to find a battery high up north and returned to my camp while still searching. Then I found a V3S, which only needs a double wheel and the plug (which I have), back near my camp I saw a bus again...it takes a lot of running around, but occasionally there will be a car on the way. 

I found that the lake near Tisy has been filled up (before, there was just a huge hole). I also saw deer at the lake. To the east of Tisy there are a couple of new houses and minute changes to the road. It's nice, because there are a few lootable spots now, even though they are civilian. There is also a nice altar/chapel build there now with stairs leading up to it.

 

Edited June 2, 2016 by S3V3N