wtf Lost Weapons Randomly and Random Player Lag

[Nubbiestn00b 0]

My friend, Dominic, and I haven't really played DayZ, so we decided to start playing today. Unfortunately for us noobs, it was around five o'clock in the afternoon and the sun was already beginning to set both in real life and in Arma. We were in completely different parts of the map, according to local road signs and careful usage of dayzmap.info. I was in Electro, and Dominic was in some random village to the west.

Still adjusting to the controls, we searched around for wikis and guides to learn how to play. We eventually gathered enough supplies to sustain ourselves, and tried to meet up at Cherno. On the way, I had some nifty adventures and met a couple survivors. I even came across a massive pile of dead survivors with a survivor, armed with a rifle, patrolling nearby. I heard about these kinds of people who killed people on sight, so I stalked him for a while before I got the guts to walk up to him and have a small conversation. He told me the way to Cherno, I gave him a couple sodas, and I went on my way.

By the time we arrived, it was already pitch black. Fumbling around with the lanky and totally not intuitive controls, we flicked on our flashlights and continued on through the ruined city. In front of us was a big building lined with red flares.

Dominic spotted a man's figure flashing by a window, and told me on Skype to get in position to kill him. We didn't want t We leaned in through the windows, and aimed down the sights for the kill. The guy in the building ran outside with a shotgun, blasting it frantically in an attempt to clip one of us. Unfortunately for him, we had the numbers advantage and he could only fire two shots before having to reload. In the illumination of the red flares, my friend and I blasted him down.

Suddenly, half of his body went into the floor and only his torso was visible. I asked my friend, "Is he dead?"

Moments later, the torso began shooting at us with its shotgun, barely clipping my friend. We unloaded a bunch of ammunition on the torso, hoping that it would die. It was still reloading, even though it was stuck in the ground and full of our bullets. What the heck? Can someone explain how this happens? Is there a reason that people would vanish halfway through the ground, but are still able to blast us with a shotgun? Also, when we visibly shot him in the head several times, he was still alive and shooting us.

After a minute of shooting the torso, he finally died. We quickly looted the body and ran inside the building to share loot. However, I saw the head of a hatchet popping out of the bottom of the staircase of the building. The guy had an accomplice! I rushed him and blasted him with his friend's shotgun. He was still alive, so I dragged him outside to his friend's corpse and ended his life with a headshot.

The guy had a bunch of blood packs and assorted medical supplies, which was really helpful since we were quite wounded.

Continuing on in Cherno, we came across a Church. We found a crowbar, so Dominic took it. He equipped it, but it screwed up his whole inventory so he tried to reorganize it. In the midst of swapping the crowbar for his AK-47, his AK disappeared. What the heck? Why does this happen? Is there a logical reason for this? We combed the entire Church for the AK, but to no avail.

I decided to move around my items too, but my pistol disappeared when I tried to move my flashlight around. It appeared a couple meters away from me under a table. What the heck?

Afterwards, I gave my shotgun to my friend since he was now unarmed. I transferred my shotgun to his coyote pack, but it also disappeared when I placed it in there. What the heck? Is there a reason to this? Why? Why you do this?

Then, since only I had a pistol, we had to venture out for more weapons. Then, a random girl popped out of nowhere, armed with an AK, and blasted my friend to bits. I took cover and looted an epipen from my friend's body. I shot the girl five times in the chest so she ran away. Then, as I was trying to revive my friend, she ran out of nowhere and teleported to kill me.

TLDR; why do weapons disappear and people teleport

[reibenreve 1]

I would say I have encountered that missing inventory bug more than often.

1) Always ensure you have more than enough space for the weapons that you are gonna put inside your bag otherwise your weapons will not drop, it will just *POOF* disappear. Common bug in my playing journey. Always check how much space your friend has if you want to transfer something to his bag. If there is 0 available slots, anything that you transfer = disappear. So do a double tally, check it on your side and then have him check it again before any attempts to transfer stuff to bag.

1b) Many times ITEM will sink beneath the ground/surface, you can try to point your mouse around until you see the "GEAR" icon and try to pick the items back up. Yea one of the buggy moments again.

2) The teleporting scene you just witness could be someone that ALT-F4 ( very common if you read the forum enough ) to escape being seriously wounded by you, join another server and move back on his/her location so they could heal up, position themselves behind you and then take you on by surprise.

I hope I have simplified it enough for you.

PS: If it wasn't bad enough, I have lost a full character numerous time for no reason. I merely restarted the game when memory starts to leak so badly that fps climbs to a halt to come back to a "Please choose your gender". Lost quite a few good stuff, Nvg, Gps, Coyote Backpack, L85A2 AWS but hey I am not gonna flood you with " Hey It's Alpha " but lets be honest, IT IS really alpha and there's quite a few bugs that I am really hoping the dev would fix in the coming future but meanwhile lets play the game with a casual mindset, hey we die we restart, no hard feelings even if it's bugged hard at times.

Have a good day :)

Edited July 23, 2012 by reiben