Exp Update: 0.60.+++

[popeandy 13]

2 hours ago, Tatanko said:

 

Instantly "crashed" from in game back to the main menu the moment I logged in. GG

[☣BioHaze☣ 7337]

30 minutes ago, Thurman Merman said:

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TL;DR - lots of Infected milling around is great!

 

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Bad ass story made better because you did not KoS (IMO).

Good on you.

[Thurman Merman 726]

23 minutes ago, ☣BioHaze☣ said:

Bad ass story made better because you did not KoS (IMO).

Good on you.

Thank you.  Despite our initial argument on these boards (where I murdered two guys from about 350m the first time I found a hunting scope), I almost never KoS.  Even in Stable.  I used to spend a lot of time murdering duper crews back in the .4*s, but I always feel bad when I kill a solo - especially out West.  But, sometimes, you're in a position where you just have to pull the trigger.  I'm still not sure if the guy I killed was the 3rd man of that crew, or just some unlucky SOB on a different server.

On the flip side, I have surprised several people when I had the drop on them by only scaring them rather than shooting.  Still occasionally play with 3 of them.  Plenty of good reasons not to KoS, almost never a reason to do so. 

P.S., also, as for the 9mm is underpowered argument that pops up from time to time.  I put down 2 of those three guys with a single shot.  The 9mm works just fine.  And, if anyone was referring to RL, I find modern 9mm ammo is very effective.  It may not have the force of a .45 ACP, but it penetrates barriers much better - which certainly has it's uses.

Edited June 14, 2016 by Thurman Merman

[odin_lowe 3686]

1 hour ago, Thurman Merman said:

Quonset  (was afraid he'd just shoot thru the walls - are they bulletproof?).  

 

 

Yes, you can shoot through those walls. 

Great story btw. 

[Tatanko 5591]

Sigh. Just logged in for the first time in days, and within 5 minutes I get KOS'd by someone that I'm giving rags to in Pustoshka. I'll come back to this in a few hours maybe...

[IMT 3190]

So I killed a fresh spawn earlier, after I gave him two soda's... sounds very bandit-like right?

Full story: we crossed paths and I talked to him (people are blind as bats, I tell you). I asked if he needed anything so he said water and gave him 2 soda's and he went his way. I continued to loot the train carts. Suddenly he came back and asked if I could kill him because he wanted to go to Elektro. As the friendly person I am, I took out my magnum and popped one between his eyes.

[Thurman Merman 726]

24 minutes ago, IMT said:

Full story: we crossed paths and I talked to him (people are blind as bats, I tell you).

So, I pretty much took all of .59 off.  Played a little bit on one server (farming the ground next to the Cherno PD and trying not to get murdered), but overall, just sat out for a few months.  Boy, did I get rusty.  Twice in .60 someone has seen me and made contact when I NEVER saw them.  Really unsettled me.  I have to get my chops back, or I'm in for some trips to the coast.  

[Thurman Merman 726]

Also, on a strictly .60 note:  What is the deal with having to click the weapon in your hands, then click again to "remove weapon from hands"?  How long should it really take me to drop something?  What was wrong with the nice little "X" in the old UI.  Similarly, why the confirm button on swapping items?  The new UI is still pretty clunky - hope improving that is a priority as it is very annoying.

[-Gews- 7443]

26 minutes ago, IMT said:

Suddenly he came back and asked if I could kill him because he wanted to go to Elektro. As the friendly person I am, I took out my magnum and popped one between his eyes.

 

When they ask this, put one in their leg and apply bandages. Tell them "it's a survival game!"

(if they need to ask someone else, they probably don't know the rags trick and can have fun crawling for a while)

[Intactus 128]

Is it just me or were the characters on 1st person and 3rd person merged for everyone?

Lost my 1st person char and it now seems it's the same character for both. 
Shuffling things or changing location carries over between 1st and 3rd persons after the latest patch.

[IMT 3190]

So my 3rd person character just died thanks to two filthy bandits. I posed no threat what so ever but still they shot me. I wore a black cap, joeyx sun glasses, blue check shirt, gun holster with a magnum in it, blue jeans, leather shoes, an improvised backpack and had B95 with the hunting scope on my back. Still they shot at me.

Now to be honest, they didn't stay untouched and they learned their lesson I guess. I went unconscious and when I woke up they were looting my body (probably thought I was dead). I immediately stood up and popped two .308 in one of them with my B95. He fell like down like the sack of shit he is. While I was switching to my Magnum behind a bush the other one got me unfortunately.

To be honest, this was my best encounter ever. The big mistake they made by not checking my pulse or double tapping was so fortunate. I laughed out loud after I died because I took a fully geared player down by their own mistake.

Spawned in Elektro and was about to loot the train carts and there I see a player, go into crouch position and starts aiming, pathetic. Ran away and flanked him but didn't see him after that and he didn't see me either.

Edited June 14, 2016 by IMT

[odin_lowe 3686]

BOOM!

Yesterday I played for a little while without any issues. Today, I didn't have much time for gaming, but my system was on and I was listening to music while doing some chores. Then, I thought I would check up on DayZ to see what's up. Logged into Steam, and notice there was an update. After the update, I logged in and in the menu, the graphics started making artifacts, then boom... no more video card... 

Thank you DayZ. Have a nice day.

We'll see each other someday again, maybe.

Edit: Tried with another old card I had, system works fine. Of course, no DayZ as it's DX11 and the card isn't. Tested my card, dead. Yesterday was a good day. Today, not so much. Oh, and 7DTD or GTA5 worked great too. The only thing that was different was today's DayZ patch. Never been so disappointed as now. 

 

Edited June 14, 2016 by odin_lowe

[Gannaf 8]

If DayZ new patch actually was the cause for this the devs would definitely want to know about this, before even more graphics card frying occurs.

But then again it may not have been DayZ specific at all, but just your launching one demanding 3D application at the wrong time. Any logs about the event?

[-Gews- 7443]

What card?

[odin_lowe 3686]

26 minutes ago, -Gews- said:

What card?

An old Nvidia GTX670 

It was due to die eventually anyway. Just bad timing. Can still use the system with the inboard and access internet at least.

[emuthreat 2837]

7 hours ago, Thurman Merman said:

P.S.  Is it just me or are Brass Knuckles severely OP?

Brass knuckles are definitely not OP.  IRL, brass knuckles will almost always break facial bones, because of the force being concentrated within an 8 cm² area; the impact is also not dissipated in waves through the large area of flesh that a bare fist normally contacts.  Using brass knuckles in a fist fight=Attempted Murder; damn-near every time.

See also:  Slungshot.  This would make an interesting craftable melee weapon from a rope, a bit of tanned leather, and a small stone.

Cool story though.  I'm always happy to hear about people gambling on the login after a reset.

[emuthreat 2837]

2 hours ago, odin_lowe said:

 Logged into Steam, and notice there was an update. After the update, I logged in and in the menu, the graphics started making artifacts, then boom... no more video card... 
 

Did you set your .cfg to Read-only?  I noticed that the render resolution was getting set to double that of my screen resolution, after any update.  It was causing CTD issues for me.  Might wanna check on that...

[odin_lowe 3686]

12 minutes ago, emuthreat said:

Did you set your .cfg to Read-only?  I noticed that the render resolution was getting set to double that of my screen resolution, after any update.  It was causing CTD issues for me.  Might wanna check on that...

No. Config was deleted when I moved to 0.60 a while ago, and wasn't read only. But the card died at the same time. It could have happened in another game. I tested the card with another system, and it can't boot up if it tries to use the gpu, so going into safe mode using the on-board gpu let me check the card, and the mem is dead/corrupted. It's a physical problem and not a software. I'm just gonna change the card, though it happens at a bad time.

[emuthreat 2837]

Whenever it happens, it's time.  Condolences.

[barnabus 1708]

HMM, seems the great ammo shortage of '16 is at an end.  Don't quite know how I feel about that yet.  I am somewhat concerned with the frequency with which I am finding heli crash sites.  I must be on a streak or something.  It's easier now to get an M4 than it has been in a very long time. Jeez, seems I can't swing a dead bambi without running into one.  I am all M-ford back up again.  Hope that's just an exp phenom.  I was lugging 2x full AKM and 1x full A74 mags but I just emptied them and chucked 'em into the wood line.  Seemed like a waste of space to lug them around.

Emptied my tent and tried to pack it in anticipation of an update but it would not pack.  There was nothing in it and I made sure that everything I took out was moved well away.  I packed all the extra crap in a spare hunters ruck I had handy.  I put the ruck under a tree and two hours later, it was still there.  Still couldn't pack my tent though.  Oh well, I am off for the night,

PS seems Mishkino tents is a really bad place to be, earlier I was in the wood line watching as a guy looted it.  A few min after he left 3 guys showed up, they were just about to leave when a guy in a sedan drove up.  I could see the 3 guys setting up an ambush so I popped some suppressive fire down that way.  Hope the sedan guy punched it and got the hell out, I have no idea since I had pretty much given away my hide site and bailed.  I could hear shooting but didn't hear any angry bees fly by.  I go back a little later, scope it out and head in, find a mine in a tent so I activate it, just for fun, three tents later I get back shot and killed.  I didn't even die right away but the shitheal let me bleed out.  I really hope that guy "found" the mine I left set up.  Wish I could have seen that.

Edited June 15, 2016 by barnabus

[Thurman Merman 726]

9 hours ago, emuthreat said:

Brass knuckles are definitely not OP.  IRL, brass knuckles will almost always break facial bones, because of the force being concentrated within an 8 cm² area; the impact is also not dissipated in waves through the large area of flesh that a bare fist normally contacts.  Using brass knuckles in a fist fight=Attempted Murder; damn-near every time.

See also:  Slungshot.  This would make an interesting craftable melee weapon from a rope, a bit of tanned leather, and a small stone.

Cool story though.  I'm always happy to hear about people gambling on the login after a reset.

But, in the game, it seems a pick axe to the head isn't as effective as knuckles; certainly they're better than a lead pipe, baseball bat, pipe wrench, etc.  That's all I'm joking about.

[emuthreat 2837]

Wall glitching people on 3pp sure do love Zelenogorsk military.  Saw people getting glitched into three different buildings tonight, for two hours straight.  

Please fix this shit.  It's unseemly.

Edit: @Thurman Merman  Maybe the pickaxe is just underpowered?  Knuckles definitely better than a pipe wrench; those things are best for throwing and causing bone damage  : P

Edited June 15, 2016 by emuthreat

[Nebulae3 422]

Yeah I agree, there are some issues with that building and some are exploiting it, unfortunately.  And in my opinion it`s easier is to remove the building from the map completely and add some green tents in the location instead - so the tower at green mountain get some loot as well. :)

Edited June 15, 2016 by ori42

[serelaw 17]

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When this changes I will be happy..

[Tatanko 5591]

16 hours ago, Tatanko said:

Sigh. Just logged in for the first time in days, and within 5 minutes I get KOS'd by someone that I'm giving rags to in Pustoshka. I'll come back to this in a few hours maybe...

Ha... ha... Just kidding. Went back and played for 2 more hours last night almost immediately. Didn't run into anyone this time despite being in a nearly-full server the whole time and running through towns that typically see a lot of traffic on Experimental as people move off the coast (Staroye, Vyshnoye, Kozlovka, etc.).

11 hours ago, odin_lowe said:

An old Nvidia GTX670 

It was due to die eventually anyway. Just bad timing. Can still use the system with the inboard and access internet at least.

Sorry to see you get cut down just as things are getting good :(

Dead serious: PM me your address and I'll ship you my 1GB GTX 750Ti. It's not great, but it's better than nothing (and barely used!), and it's free :)