Broken Flashlight

[MrChambers 0]

so I spawn, put flashlight to equip slot, everything is dandy, press L flashlight turns on, press L it turns off.

Grand, great, wonderful.

I explore, find a knife, a watch. Then some flares a few wire fences, dodging zombies all the while.

Challenge! Intrege! Excitement!

Suddenly I see someone elses flashlight in the village ahead, press L, flashlight off, press Z, go prone.

Did he see me? are there zombies around? am I gonna have to respawn? D:

No, the other flashlight heads north, I slowly start south, mind you it's the middle of the night, darkness as far as you can see (seewutIdidthar?), pull out flashlight, press L...

Nothing. press L again, still nothing. Did my batteries die? how I wish this was one of the shakeable copper coil flashlights so I wouldn't have dead D cells D:

Breaking my L key it finally turns on! Huzzah! I can see! I can see zombies all around me!! Evade Evade Evade...

and I pressed L again, which turned off the light I so needed, and it won't come back on, Why? WHY? this is going to kill me!! D:

TL;DR Pressing L doesn't turn on the flashlight, I've done everything I can think of to turn it on, de-equiping, dropping, logging out, nothing turns the light back on... do I really need to find more batteries??

[Doctor Disfigure 29]

There are no batteries. I've had it randomly stop working on me but it seems to fix itself.

[JoneKone DayZwtf 2]

They should have batteries in them.. As should NV goggles, as well..

[mr_seacucumber 81]

You should be care full whether it is actually equiped the right way as in its pointing forward because sometimes when you go prone it goes all funny, my surgestion is to just tap the crouch key then stand up again then try to turn on the torch.

[thisisbleep 32]

Put it back in the toolbelt when it stops working and then re-equip. That is the best way that I have found to get it working again.

[Old Snake 0]

Once the mouse button 2 is pressed quickly, then comes the light again ;)

[pandadragonthing 11]

Aim at the ground and press L

[MrChambers 0]

Aim at the ground and press L

I've aimed everywhere and pressed L multiple times, sometimes rapidly sometimes with a 5 second gap, doesn't turn on...

Once the mouse button 2 is pressed quickly, then comes the light again ;)

tried that too in first and third person, didn't work :(

Put it back in the toolbelt when it stops working and then re-equip. That is the best way that I have found to get it working again.

Put it back, took it out, put it back, drop it on the ground, put it in a box, put that box inside another box, HIT IT WITH MAH HATCHET, still didn't turn on :(

You should be care full whether it is actually equiped the right way as in its pointing forward because sometimes when you go prone it goes all funny, my surgestion is to just tap the crouch key then stand up again then try to turn on the torch.

made sure of that too, still didn't turn on. I swear it was the server I spent more time playing on. I disconnected, got some munchies, connected to a different one, had NO issues, Press L, light turns on :D

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now to adress the fact that I got chased from one side of the map to the other in the pitch back (no bars in the eye marker) and ONE bar in the ear marker, yet 4 zombies didn't break aggro? I wasn't bleeding, I was at 12000 blood, I didn't have anything on me, but I couldn't shake those 4 zombies, they chased and chased and chased and chased, just to see what happened (since I started in a wooded area, near a house, hence the zombies) I ran from Kamenka through Komarovom Balota and into Chernogorsk and had the same 4 Military "zombies" on my arse. :( ((I used quotes over zombies because an infected person could chase me like that, but a zombie and I mean a animated corpse brought back to life by mystical, or medical means, i.e. rotting flesh, couldn't keep up with someone with unending endurance like that))