Exp Update: 0.60.+++

[IMT 3190]

Some information about the overheating problem: if you are overheating, get drenched, make a courier bag and unequip most of your items as possible in the bag. When I did that I didn't cool of but I didn't warm up anymore either. My guess is that if you jog at that point you will actually cool off. Now is there actually a problem with body temperature? I guess it is a good discussion to bring up. In my opinion, there isn't. Why? Put on a motorbike helmet, a jacket like the hunting jacket, a warm pants and sprint the distance you sprint in DayZ. Come back to me with the results, I think you will put your clothes off very quickly. However, when sweating and getting wet from a pond or what ever and staying in the wind like that naked should cool you off very quickly. So I guess the warming up part isn't really bugged but the cooling off part is.

15 hours ago, BCBasher said:

Does anyone know what the scheduled restart time is?

I have a protective case I could spare to test persistence in debug if it's soon.

The scheduled restart is at 01:00 AM CEST but I noticed the scheduled restart doesn't necessarily restart the server. Twice now it said it would restart but actually didn't restart. Maybe because of a server crash or what ever reason.

14 hours ago, barnabus said:

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, guns are a tool.

You're damn right on that one mate. I actually wonder why people kill so much in DayZ because it's totally unneccessary. For gear? Hell, if you ask me if I have something you need and I don't need it, I will most certainly give it to the person. Food, ammo, guns, name it because otherwise I will drop it anyway at some point. I usually pick up almost all ammo and drop it at some point because I don't need it. I don't have a lot of food on me usually but if I have some and someone needs it I give it anyway unless I'm not light green energized and/or hydrated. Heck, I even gave people food sometimes while I wasn't light green energized and/or hydrated just because I know I'm not having any trouble what so ever to get those statuses back up.

14 hours ago, barnabus said:

I think we are getting the same weather they are getting in Central Europe.

Yep, it's been shitty here in the west of Europe last days. Rain, thunderstorms, even some cities got flooded here in The Netherlands because of the rain which surprised me because that almost never happens over here.

14 hours ago, cage53 said:

Yesterday I was looting a house when I heard voices outside. Someone outside announced "I see you" in a 'feminine' voice and 'she' immediately came into the building and quickly moved towards me. I put 'she' in quotes because I am not sure the player was female. She had a rifle on her shoulder and no weapons in her hands but the quickness of her actions spooked me and I shot her. I could hear footsteps outside, a lot of them, with people chattering about their friend and if he/she was dead and what had happened. I told them I was friendly but that their friend's actions had scared me and I don't take chances anymore. They seemed to think I was a KOS guy. I'm not....just cautious. They started running around and hitting the outside walls of the building I was crouched in. I could see pitchforks clipping through the wall at times. i kept on trying to explain and was making some headway when I got the 'you are dead' message. Must have been a ptichfork through the wall. What do you guys think? Did I over react or did my victim bring this on her/himself?

When someone noticed me before I noticed him or her and rushes in like that I would probably react the same way. Unless I know their intentions, their gear, etc. I try to keep them at a distance and every sudden movement or action will get repayed by a bullet. It's just a safety precaution to stay alive. So in my rulebook your actions were justified.

 

10 hours ago, barnabus said:

On the topic of persistence.

 

My barrel, that I placed yesterday, was still where I left it yesterday.  It still had everything I downloaded to it too.  I don't go much for storage on experimental because it seems like every update is, if not a character reset, then it is almost always a persistence reset.  This kind of makes storage pretty much a useless headache. 

How many gigabytes of items are in the barrel? Sorry, just couldn't resist it.

8 hours ago, -Gews- said:

Nice to see arrows are visible in bow once again: https://feedback.bistudio.com/T116724 with the projectile model back it's very nice. Didn't have time to find many people on which to try it out this time (4, tried it on 2).

 

 

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We should battle each other sometimes. But to make it interesting and hard, only by killing each other with ricochet. :)

5 hours ago, Espa said:

Funny this talk of whether to KOS or not, philosophy and such. .

Honestly, I listen to people's voices if they speak. - Generally, it's a good indicator if they're a bastard just trying to make you stand still or really want no trouble - Otherwise they may have not announced themselves.

*snip*

 

That's the thing. If someone starts talking to me when I didn't see them then they will mostly be friendly. Announcing yourself to someone means you gave away your element of surprise and it shows you want to have a sort of a social encounter.

1 hour ago, Espa said:

I've survived for 3 days so far. . So I'm happy about that xD I've killed maybe around 10 players, spoken to about 5 others in friendly fashion. I'm not great at PvP to be honest, but I've gotten really lucky in my combat situations. I basically am being super cautious and just starkly friendly to people that get the drop on me hehe. I don't KOS, but I do shoot to kill in places where I feel threatened as hell. If I'm inside a house and I hear footsteps around the house, I get ready to murder whoever is coming through the door. No questions there.

Also, I never go to Military areas. I stick to towns and the wilderness. If I really want a machine gun, I'll move a few clicks from a Military area and get into a killing position for when people exit the area in a panic.

Good to know that you won't kill me then. If I hear someone running inside an house I always greet them. If I get no reaction I greet them with the name of the house they're in and I can hear them. If they didn't respond by then their hostile meter goes way up for me. But true, if one comes running in your house is a tight situation, pun intended. But you can announce yourself in an house as well to show that you have no bad intentions of course.

[BCBasher 2465]

11 minutes ago, IMT said:

*snip*

That's the thing. If someone starts talking to me when I didn't see them then they will mostly be friendly. Announcing yourself to someone means you gave away your element of surprise and it shows you want to have a sort of a social encounter.

*snip*

Yeah, don't be that guy.

I would have taken him with me to jimmie jack nearby a truck, and if it was his truck I woulda' given him his other one back.

That guy

[mammut0815 111]

So the summary of the game right now seems to be: Apples, Chicken and cardio .... :-)

[mammut0815 111]

On ‎02‎.‎06‎.‎2016 at 5:01 AM, Rammit (DayZ) 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

Thought the same yesterday, it was pouring the hole time i played. Glad i found a cowboy hat and an blue rain coat. On the other way, after a while doing cardio through the rain i got overheated, so i had to jump into a lake. So much for my repellent clothes ... and beeing soaked did not not help anyway.

[nl 986]

8 hours ago, barnabus said:

The 4x may be out of gas

Yeah or maybe the gas tank got damaged. Happened to me 0.59. Thought I was out of gas and did a refuel with a jerrycan but nothing happened. After a server restart it was fine again.

[IMT 3190]

12 minutes ago, BCBasher said:

Yeah, don't be that guy.

I would have taken him with me to jimmie jack nearby a truck, and if it was his truck I woulda' given him his other one back.

That guy

That's the thing, if it was me I would've seen the guy and he wouldn't seen me. In your situation I wouldn't even just tried to take that shot. If someone shoots at me I get the fuck out of there and flank around the bastard. If he's following me I would lose him eventually and get the drop on him. Most people are a terrible shot in DayZ and killing a sprinting person is nearly impossible for most of the players. And I haven't even started about people's tactics and situational awareness. My biggest problem is when someone has bad intentions towards me, I need to kill them rather than play it safe and run away. That is something which gets me killed most of the times, other than that I survive my encounters. So yeah either play out situations by playing smarter than them or play it safe and run and loose them somewhere.

But the most important thing: how did your encounter end? It doesn't show in the video.

[S3V3N 1402]

10 hours ago, barnabus said:

The 4x may be out of gas

I checked that, of course ^^ It seems they can only take limited damage now. The only collision I had was with a treestump. Possibly at 60-80 km/h. That would ruin suspension pretty much. I guess in the future you can hammer or wrench parts back into shape and go on. As it is now the car just despawned after a restart.

[Girth Brooks 570]

http://imgur.com/a/rrVaQ

[mammut0815 111]

delete .. never mind

Edited June 3, 2016 by mammut (DayZ)

[BCBasher 2465]

5 hours ago, IMT said:

*snip*

But the most important thing: how did your encounter end? It doesn't show in the video.

That's an older video and I'm wiser now, I would have still started the same but handled my egress differently and sooner rather than thinking he was hiding in the bushes to respond with words.

I accidentally cut the clip a second short, he hits me one more time and there was enough blood loss and shock to kill me.

[Tatanko 5591]

I'm seeing 56 servers up for Experimental right now, and in the last two days I've had a consistently good experience any time I've been playing it. We may not quite be ready for a Stable release, but the build out right now is pretty darn good, and the servers seem to be doing okay with it.

Hopefully the team is getting good data from the extended uptime :)

[BCBasher 2465]

4 hours ago, S3V3N said:

I checked that, of course ^^ It seems they can only take limited damage now. The only collision I had was with a treestump. Possibly at 60-80 km/h. That would ruin suspension pretty much. I guess in the future you can hammer or wrench parts back into shape and go on. As it is now the car just despawned after a restart.

Was waiting for that to come back, did the texture change when it was completely wrecked?

Back before parts were introduced for vehicles and you could put spray cans in fires if you did it right beside a truck you could destroy it, it's texture would change and it would despawn. Later builds when explosions weren't available it seemed they would only do it if they were stuck in the map and wouldn't show a damaged texture or despawn while you were watching, only at resets I think. 

[BCBasher 2465]

14 minutes ago, Tatanko said:

I'm seeing 56 servers up for Experimental right now, and in the last two days I've had a consistently good experience any time I've been playing it. We may not quite be ready for a Stable release, but the build out right now is pretty darn good, and the servers seem to be doing okay with it.

Hopefully the team is getting good data from the extended uptime :)

Yeah I had a super smooth experience most of yesterday as the server load died down a little. 

I bet they're rushing to get out a borked patch for the weekend before quitting time today, lol.

Edited June 3, 2016 by BCBasher

[ShallowTech 196]

Finally got in and spent some time playing with my cousin. This update to the game is looking good so far. I did notice some issues with chemlights lighting and colors seemed off but I am sure this has been reported. At one point the game completely hung up my system and I had to reboot but this could have been because I did not reboot for some time prior. After the reboot I did not experience this problem again. I did fall through the second floor of the bar while coming down the stairs... instant death. Additionally noticed some sound issues, etc. But nothing that probably is not being worked on.

After some time my cousin and I finally met up with my cousin south of Svet. We geared up and moved to BNN, it seems that there is not much there anymore, no ATC or hangers. Are these permanent changes? Anyway we continued on to Kranostav, we were in the police station looking for gear and were talking about how people used to server hop at the police stations and how freaking stupid it is... As we were leaving, low and behold, server hopper appeared on the top of the police station ;-) He came down and my cousin took a shot missing him, so we chased him down. He came at my cousin with something in his had, frying pan maybe. My cousin took another shot, hitting him in the gut! He fell to the ground and I beat him with my brass knuckles! So much for that server hopping trash!

Can someone post a link to any post that has information on debug logs, posting issues, etc. I assume there is one out there.

[BCBasher 2465]

So the AUS 1pp server got it's shit together overnight sometime.

I wandered off my island late last night to check Kami for a red9 or anything cool and made my way around to the little camp fire circle at west side of new Tulga on another server. Ran down the valley I'm used to using to get up and down the hill to find it untouched, thought it'd be where they put the ski lift when I first heard about the planned changes.

Got back to my little science corner to find...

Barrel still there untouched, bear trap gone presumably despawned after half an hour? 

 

**edit**

Anybody seen anything spawn or despawn?

I think I have seen something spawn but never seen anything other than a campfire disappear. I'm using my second computer to test time until unconscious treading water as a freshie, I'll try and put an object in view when I (try to) do a control test on land.

Edited June 3, 2016 by BCBasher

[S3V3N 1402]

1 hour ago, BCBasher said:

Was waiting for that to come back, did the texture change when it was completely wrecked?

Back before parts were introduced for vehicles and you could put spray cans in fires if you did it right beside a truck you could destroy it, it's texture would change and it would despawn. Later builds when explosions weren't available it seemed they would only do it if they were stuck in the map and wouldn't show a damaged texture or despawn while you were watching, only at resets I think. 

You wish! It still looked exactly as before the crash. We could still do everything and replace parts, but it wasn't showing damage. The only things that can get (pretty much instant) damage are the doors and hoods. That's a bit of a bummer when you don't know if the car is broken and if you should spend time finding parts. It led to an interesting trip through Cherno and we were there for the netting anyway. I think it's the first time I ever roamed Cherno with an M4. I'm not that kind of guy, but there was netting there, so I had to go ^^

I think honestly the one thing they need to add to the vehicles is more (visual) feedback. I totally love that you can determine which wheel is damaged by comparing their pressurized status. The same could be done with the engine. If it is losing oil the pistons could be hammering in the engine. If it is pysically damaged the cooling system could hiss and expel steam. I'm sure there is more planned for the vehicles like that. I'm also not sure to what extend a car should be repairable. At some point it should probably be only useful as scrap for another car. So if you pass a certain threshold the car shoud become recognizable as a wreck. But even then I think there are various stages before that. A salvagable wreck would be pretty cool, imho. Perhaps it could even spawn car parts before it disappears. 

Edited June 3, 2016 by S3V3N

[BCBasher 2465]

8 minutes ago, S3V3N said:

You wish! It still looked exactly as before the crash. We could still do everything and replace parts, but it wasn't showing damage. The only things that can get (pretty much instant) damage are the doors and hoods. That's a bit of a bummer when you don't know if the car is broken and you should spend time finding parts. It led to an interesting trip through Cherno and we were there for the netting anyway. I think it's the first time I ever roamed Cherno with an M4. I'm not that kind of guy, but there was netting there, so I had to go ^^

I think honestly the one thing they need to add to the vehicles is more (visual) feedback. I totally love that you can determine which wheel is damaged by comparing their pressurized status. The same could be with the engine. If it is losing oil the pistons could be hammering in the engine. If it is pysically damaged the cooling system could hiss and expel steam. I'm sure there is more planned for the vehicles like that. I'm also not sure to what extend a car should be repairable. At some point it should probably be only useful as scrap for another car. So if you pass a certain threshold the car shoud become recognizable as a wreck. But even then I think there are various stages before that. A salvagable wreck would be pretty cool, imho. Perhaps it could even spawn car parts before it disappears. 

A smoking wreck or something for a couple hours so you or others could strip it for parts before the base vehicle respawns or it just drops it's attachable parts to be dealt with by item cleanup whenever.

 

 

Edited June 3, 2016 by BCBasher

[IMT 3190]

"WARNING: Server stopping, you will be kicked", possible update?

2 hours ago, BCBasher said:

That's an older video and I'm wiser now, I would have still started the same but handled my egress differently and sooner rather than thinking he was hiding in the bushes to respond with words.

I accidentally cut the clip a second short, he hits me one more time and there was enough blood loss and shock to kill me.

If someone cuts off like that they either try to hide you or try to get you by surprise or to get a drop on you.

[BleedoutBill 1636]

1 minute ago, IMT said:

"WARNING: Server stopping, you will be kicked", possible update?

There's no SteamDB activity for Experimental. It looks like we'll have a smooth weekend!

[BCBasher 2465]

6 minutes ago, IMT said:

"WARNING: Server stopping, you will be kicked", possible update?

If someone cuts off like that they either try to hide you or try to get you by surprise or to get a drop on you.

I review every encounter since I started recording and learn all kinds of stuff now

3 minutes ago, BleedoutBill said:

There's no SteamDB activity for Experimental. It looks like we'll have a smooth weekend!

Damn I was hoping they'd give us a bugqed unplayable patch right before they ride off into the sunset in their Lambos again.    

[wasnu 301]

all exp. servers are down, only the test is online

[BCBasher 2465]

6 minutes ago, wasnu said:

all exp. servers are down, only the test is online

*sad trombone*

Wa,wa,waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

**edit** On a newer build number no less.

Edited June 3, 2016 by BCBasher

[GuyRandomMan 54]

5 minutes ago, BCBasher said:

I review every encounter since I started recording and learn all kinds of stuff now

Damn I was hoping they'd give us a bugqed unplayable patch right before they ride off into the sunset in their Lambos again.    

 

ahhh those devs and their lambos

[cage53 56]

19 hours ago, barnabus said:

Did you check the pulse of the person you shot?  Always check the pulse.  If their buddies were acting all Lord of the Fliesy then you should have just shot them all.  You broke the primary rule, you told people "you don't take chances", sorry but that is taking a chance.   When it's time to shoot....

 

No, i didn't check her pulse, didn't even think of it with all the commotion going on. Coming into the building after me would not have been a good idea for them. I felt safe enough hunkering down and I can be patient. I was hoping they'd get bored and move on, just didn't  count on the clipping.

[wasnu 301]

hope no revenge from eugene for our complaining last weekend :)