Humanity question

[smashval@gmail.com 0]

Hello, this may sound stupid but, is it normal that my humanity always changes when I relog? I am currenty a bandit and I am trying to become a survivor/hero/whatever. Sometimes when I log in I have around -50 000 humanity, sometimes it's 0, i don't know why. But anyways the last few times I played my humanity was up at like... 1500 and I disconnected, decided to play again and now my humanity is back at 0. Excuse me if that's how it's supposed to be, just wondering.

Oh and also everytime I change server I get my bandit skin, then after some time randomly I become a survivor even though my humanity hasn't even changed and I lose my bag, why?

Thanks!

[MattTheMont 46]

humanity system=broken right now. sorry :/

[smashval@gmail.com 0]

Damn.. :(

[SmashT 10907]

Usually your humanity is still being tracked in the background, the debug monitor just resets for some reason.

[deathstrike616 32]

Yes, it's just another bug- remember the "Alpha" designation :D . Oh, the humanity.

[omgwtfbbq (DayZ) 1069]

Your humanity is still -50,000. Even if it says 0, you're still at -50,000. The readout is very glitchy, but the humanity level is always the same. It's going to take a while to recover from that humanity...makes you regret becoming a "bandit", doesn't it?

[Kraorr 6]

@omgwtfbbq

Nah it can be something else than that, I have seen my humanity glitch out on me a lot lately. One of them that I nailed was related to wearing a camo suit.

Last week's been my baby steps in DayZ, being very cautious before going into anywhere that had loot to lower player contact as much as possible. Should it happen, I'd either die not even knowing where he is (very close, loud shots btw with zombies around me not reacting... shrug), or just dodge the hell out w/out even retaliating and let the z's get to the shot's sound and keep the guy busy while I'm breaking sight and retreating from the area. My humanity slowly went up as I played and stood as it was whenever I died, capped at 2500.

Then something odd happened; I had one of those "broken leg struggles" of 4+ hours, away from any spot likely to have a reliable spawn chance of morphine. Thinking "screw this I'll just crawl until I die, will learn the map slowly on the meantime", I eventually find a camo suit in a residence (!), the ones with a single door with a small dining room with two windows facing the same direction of the door you get in it (the blackish houses). The moment I put it on, my humanity dropped suddenly to 0. I went "dafuq" and put back the civilian clothes on. Slowly put surely again, my humanity was going back up. But now things get even more weird.

Instead of having this steady tick of humanity raising back up, it started accelerating and in but 10 minutes, my humanity went all the way up to 5000. Oo Even more weird after wiggling prone through a door I saw my character briefly in a ladder climb animation and went back to standing position except that this time, I was able to move standing as if I no longer had broken legs, despite still having on the interface the "broken legs" status. Befuzzled by the spoil of this masochistic challenge of crawling 24/7, I disconnect and wonder what will happen.

I am logged back in, with 5000 humanity, wearing the standard survivor skin instead of the hero's, run as fast as a hero, still have broken leg on the interface but still being able to move w/out its restrictions.

Later on I die to some dmr guy with a russian name, which was the only guy on the server I was in, the moment I discovered a castle far away. The shot sounds were very loud, it felt like he was very close behind and on the right side of me, had the time to only peak, so no one, no flash nothing just bang's and I died. (First biggest anger from me "who the f*** would KoS someone with just a crossbow in hand and not even knowing you're there!") Took him 6 spammed shots though lol; maybe he had the m14 version bleh I'm way drifting out...

So here I am respawning for the next week everytime with a seemingly humanity capped at 5k, stuck with survivor skin.

Then yesterday, I found a camo suit again. I put it on... aaaaand tadaaaaaaaa, my humanity resets to 0 and I noticed immediately that I was running less faster than I got used to. Later on I die to an interesting mechanic I was unaware of: pellets in the benelli shotgun have a much less noise range for the z's than the slugs... Got used to shoot some z's with the pellets and when I swapped to slugs I had a very nasty surprise ^^

Since this death, I have been spawning now with the hero skin. With ALWAYS a humanity reset to 0 and back to my first conclusion of my earlier time played that humanity would climb up to 2500 and then be capped, probably raising by then only with "good" actions. Oh and yeah. I do not have the runspeed of the hero skin.

So wall of text short for the TL;DR

If you decide to put on a camo suit you find, consider that *anything* can happen to your humanity score, including its mechanic for your next adventures even in your next respawns. I see camo suit now as the symbol of chaos ^^

Edit: I did find a gullie suit during my first find of camo suit during that life before getting dmr'ed/m14'ed, but it did not influence my humanity in any way at all. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some bug to squash or some coding slip up to do with the skins. I'm thinking twice about putting a camo suit on next time... One last thing, yesterday when I reconnected on a server with broken legs, I spawned in a different spot (It looked like the left end of the map while I was actually in Guglovo with this "hero skin with starting humanity at 0, capped at 2500" kind of state I am in right now. Guess what? Yeah the broken legs was on the interface, but I was not limited to its restrictions. Logged back out, relogged on a different server again, this time broken legs were not on the interface anymore and I could move cripple-free.

Camo suit is Chaos.

[DrunkPunk 159]

Clothing resets your debug monitor and what it displays for humanity. Relogging will fix this. Not wearing something like camo or a ghillie, however, will cause it to glitch out over a small period of time, and this can reset your backpack.

The other day, I finally died again. Bandit skin armed, I went around until I found an alice pack. Put it on, minutes later my bandit skin goes to the regular skin. Alice pack disappeared. Okay, whatever, I say. Later on, find me a coyote pack and a ghillie suit. KNowing fully well I could lose the coyote pack putting on the ghillie, I wait until after. But first, I took off an alice pack I ended up looting later on. After I put on the ghillie, it magically placed an alice pack on me.

So yeah, humanity is very bugged right now, and can have some pretty dire consequences.

[Kraorr 6]

Clothing resets your debug monitor and what it displays for humanity. Relogging will fix this. Not wearing something like camo or a ghillie, however, will cause it to glitch out over a small period of time, and this can reset your backpack.

The other day, I finally died again. Bandit skin armed, I went around until I found an alice pack. Put it on, minutes later my bandit skin goes to the regular skin. Alice pack disappeared. Okay, whatever, I say. Later on, find me a coyote pack and a ghillie suit. KNowing fully well I could lose the coyote pack putting on the ghillie, I wait until after. But first, I took off an alice pack I ended up looting later on. After I put on the ghillie, it magically placed an alice pack on me.

So yeah, humanity is very bugged right now, and can have some pretty dire consequences.

Relogging didn't fix my current issue. I don't know if I ended up self convincing myself that I have a hero skin w/out the runspeed because every game I join I start with 0 humanity and tonight I traveled long enough to get it to 2500, was capped (at least THAT part is working properly.) but as usual, the moment I leave the server with that new humanity value, I hit the 0 humanity next game I joined. Dying, then respawning in the same server still resets it to 0; dying, disconnecting from the server and joining a new server still resets it 0. I guess I yet have to try dying, logging off completely from the game and see what happens next spawn...

I've also considered doing the integrity check of steam to get the usual 2 files detected as something wrong (the AO beta installed + battleye I believe), reinstalling the last beta currently used in conjunction of DayZ and let battleye self update once logging on a server to see if that does anything positive...