[QUOTE=69105;50546945]i have played this game all day and have no found a single item
i've died already due to starvation and my new character is on the verge of death because the houses drop absolutely nothing. i guess you can farm apples or berries but i haven't found any wild plants either
i punched a chicken to death but had no way to harvest the meat or cook it
dayz was fun before but if there's broken item spawning (or generally just really, really low chances) it's not very helpful to new players at all[/QUOTE]
Sounds like you're playing on a bad server. I was playing for quite a while just today on an emptyish server and found a shitload of stuff. By the time the server went down I had a fully kitted AKS74U, ammo, food, drink, etc.
i have tried on a couple servers. maybe i just have bad luck
i remember when i last played, which was over a year ago, I had no problem whatsoever finding loot. It seems like it's just bad connectivity over all though because I loaded the game up again and my character got completely reset. I'm back on the coast with a brand new starting loadout. weird and frustrating
[QUOTE=69105;50546969]i have tried on a couple servers. maybe i just have bad luck
i remember when i last played, which was over a year ago, I had no problem whatsoever finding loot. It seems like it's just bad connectivity over all though because I loaded the game up again and my character got completely reset. I'm back on the coast with a brand new starting loadout. weird and frustrating[/QUOTE]
You tend to want to go north to find anything worth anything now. If you play on decently populated servers that's ditto because chances are people will have cleared out absolutely everything close to the coast.
Also harvesting and cooking chicken meat is the easiest thing in the game. Here's a guide:
-As soon as you soawn on the coast, go to the beach (alternative: find any place with a gravel/stony ground texture)
-search for stones until you find one and then promptly craft a stone knife
-find chicken and kill it, skin/quarter it
-cut bark from a tree and sticks from a bush with your new stone knife
-craft fireplace
-cut more bark and more sticks to create hand drill kit
-cut branch from tree to get long wooden stick
-start fire with hand drill kit, attach chicken filet to stick and do "hold over fire" when given the option
-wait until chicken cooks, est 2 minutes or so
there is no reason you have to starve to death in DayZ as long as you're around something that can be consumed as food. If you're resourceful and crafty there's no need to use looted items to survive - the most important tool for self sufficiency and general crafting can be made minute one of your life.
Also has anybody checked out the military base by tisy? Me and my buddy went there and the loot was decent. So far only encountered one lone person out of maybe 6-7 runs and we unfortunately had to shoot him to death. Place has a full on firing range and other cool stuff yet to be finished.
Stone knife is love.
Stone knife is life.
[QUOTE=69105;50546945]i have played this game all day and have no found a single item
i've died already due to starvation and my new character is on the verge of death because the houses drop absolutely nothing. i guess you can farm apples or berries but i haven't found any wild plants either
i punched a chicken to death but had no way to harvest the meat or cook it
dayz was fun before but if there's broken item spawning (or generally just really, really low chances) it's not very helpful to new players at all[/QUOTE]
try to play on servers that reset frequently.
the guard house spawns are so fucked, regularly spawning 2-3 weapons like skorpions, derringers, other pistols, MP5K's, etc
[QUOTE=Beacon;50548539]the guard house spawns are so fucked, regularly spawning 2-3 weapons like skorpions, derringers, other pistols, MP5K's, etc[/QUOTE]
Haven't found anything yet other than goddamn flares/lightsticks. On the other hand, hunting towers seem to be my lucky place, there's almost 100% of the time a weapon, ammo, and a random clothing piece waiting for me, they are my "to go" place as soon as I spawn.
There's also a couple of residential buildings that spawn weapons like crazy, the [URL="https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dayz.gamepedia.com/a/ab/SmallGreenHouse_2a.jpg"]small green house[/URL] and the [URL="https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dayz.gamepedia.com/7/71/SmallGreenRedHouse_3a.jpg"]small red/green house[/URL], in my experience there's a pretty good chance for them to spawn a weapon (or a glitched pile of them) laying on top of the bed, most of the times it's either a CZ 527, an Izh 43 or a crossbow, with a mosin every now and then. Just make sure you check the bed with your inventory screen open, because sometimes the item glitches and spawns inside of the bed or something like that, thus being invisible to the naked eye.
Found like loads of weapons. My favourite has to be the magnum. I just wish I had big groups of zombies to shoot them with. Like shit the most I've seen is like 6 zombies in a city.
Is it me, or do the big green military buildings just have no loot in them anymore? The ones with the jail and the bunks upstairs? I've been through many of them, and all of them have been empty. Not a single piece of loot.
[QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;50549178]Is it me, or do the big green military buildings just have no loot in them anymore? The ones with the jail and the bunks upstairs? I've been through many of them, and all of them have been empty. Not a single piece of loot.[/QUOTE]
loot in that building has been prevented from spawning since a few versions ago (around 0.58, I believe) because so many players used exploits to glitch themselves into the walls of that building.
it's like with the fact that you're restricted from looking up further than you currently can - before this restriction, (IIRC) you could effectively stand on one side of a wall and have your character's head look through the wall.
[QUOTE=cynaraos;50549198]loot in that building has been prevented from spawning since a few versions ago (around 0.58, I believe) because so many players used exploits to glitch themselves into the walls of that building.
it's like with the fact that you're restricted from looking up further than you currently can - before this restriction, (IIRC) you could effectively stand on one side of a wall and have your character's head look through the wall.[/QUOTE]
But loot is spawning in that building.
[QUOTE=Tidusete;50548644]Haven't found anything yet other than goddamn flares/lightsticks. On the other hand, hunting towers seem to be my lucky place, there's almost 100% of the time a weapon, ammo, and a random clothing piece waiting for me, they are my "to go" place as soon as I spawn.
There's also a couple of residential buildings that spawn weapons like crazy, the [URL="https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dayz.gamepedia.com/a/ab/SmallGreenHouse_2a.jpg"]small green house[/URL] and the [URL="https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dayz.gamepedia.com/7/71/SmallGreenRedHouse_3a.jpg"]small red/green house[/URL], in my experience there's a pretty good chance for them to spawn a weapon (or a glitched pile of them) laying on top of the bed, most of the times it's either a CZ 527, an Izh 43 or a crossbow, with a mosin every now and then. Just make sure you check the bed with your inventory screen open, because sometimes the item glitches and spawns inside of the bed or something like that, thus being invisible to the naked eye.[/QUOTE]
Small red/green houses annoy me because they always thrust me into a dilemma of what gun to carry. In my last 2 play sessions I regularly came across these houses containing both a mosin and an IZH 43.
I've had no problems finding guns. Ammo is still rare but 've found 90% stuffed in those wee dresses you find. Also, boonie hats have a single inventory slot now for some reason. The character I shared above was geared to that level in only about 2-3 hours of playing.
[editline]19th June 2016[/editline]
Also is persistency a thing now? I don't want to try set up a base of sorts if the servers just going to wipe it all every 2-4 hours.
[editline]19th June 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=69105;50546945]i have played this game all day and have no found a single item
i've died already due to starvation and my new character is on the verge of death because the houses drop absolutely nothing. i guess you can farm apples or berries but i haven't found any wild plants either
i punched a chicken to death but had no way to harvest the meat or cook it
dayz was fun before but if there's broken item spawning (or generally just really, really low chances) it's not very helpful to new players at all[/QUOTE]
You can eat worms if you're really stuck for food, but beware, they make you ill. I know from experience.
I also know from experience that using a defibrillator on yourself will kill you in one go.
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;50551028]Small red/green houses annoy me because they always thrust me into a dilemma of what gun to carry. In my last 2 play sessions I regularly came across these houses containing both a mosin and an IZH 43.[/QUOTE]
Shotguns all the way. They used to be useless some patches ago, but I found out recently that's not the case anymore.
After trying with a friend to convince 3 guys to give us their backpacks peacefully, two of them rushed me while one ran away. One shell for each guy, first two dropped dead instantly before reaching me, the other one got his legs crippled with a lucky shot from a good 50+ meters away, and was finished afterwards by my friend with a .357 point blank. There's one downside to its awesomeness though - It ruined every single item they had.
Pretty silly that you can't make yourself vomit very easily. Chemical poisoning is pretty much a death sentence.
Anyone know any good servers to play on for Standalone?
[QUOTE=kimr120;50549063]Found like loads of weapons. My favourite has to be the magnum. I just wish I had big groups of zombies to shoot them with. Like shit the most I've seen is like 6 zombies in a city.[/QUOTE]
i have a 357 magnum right now that i use for cleaning house. it one hit kills pretty much every zombie i've found but i'm running out of ammo which sucks. still got a splitting axe as a backup melee but it's definitely no fire axe
kind of glad my luck got better today. been finding equipment left and right like i should be. got kitted out at svetlojarsk and i'm making my way inward to severograd. from there to the international airport i guess
gonna laugh if i die though because my inventory literally consists of nothing but apples
[QUOTE=DeEz;50551495]Pretty silly that you can't make yourself vomit very easily. Chemical poisoning is pretty much a death sentence.[/QUOTE]
I drank two swigs of gasoline a few days ago, and got chem poisoning. I was at full healthy/energized/hydrated/stuffed, and with one saline bag I had just enough blood and health to last me through the first and second stage. In the third stage, I was actually so energized that I started to see color again, regaining blood, while my health still dropped. I found a V3S on the way to the second hospital, fixed it up, and drove to the second hospital where I found two more saline bags and took them both, even though after the first one my sick status went away and was replaced by healthy.
Chem sickness is death sentence if youre alone and hungry, but if you keep hydrated, energized, and have a buddy to give you IVs, its pretty survivable.
[editline]19th June 2016[/editline]
and I dont thing puking actually helps. It should though.
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Why does this happen to me?
I seen while ago that the devs were going to make a singleplayer mode for testing modifications and whatnot. Has it been implemented yet?
i'd be happy with singleplayer since i just got instakilled twice by people who i'm pretty sure were cheating. i was laying prone in a house out in the middle of nowhere in a server that had like three people and I was eating my dinner and a guy showed up, leaned in the doorway and gunned me down even though there was absolutely no way he could have known where i was since i was there for about fifteen minutes
second time was at the airstrip and i got gunned down through a wall. i find it pretty hard to believe someone could land a perfect shot on someone through a wall knowing how absolutely awful arma's aiming system is
i see all of these passworded public servers and it's odd because i thought those weren't supposed to be a thing. with how unfriendly the community is it's baffling how after two years they still haven't implemented a single player system
[QUOTE=Birdman101;50551831]I drank two swigs of gasoline a few days ago, and got chem poisoning. I was at full healthy/energized/hydrated/stuffed, and with one saline bag I had just enough blood and health to last me through the first and second stage. In the third stage, I was actually so energized that I started to see color again, regaining blood, while my health still dropped. I found a V3S on the way to the second hospital, fixed it up, and drove to the second hospital where I found two more saline bags and took them both, even though after the first one my sick status went away and was replaced by healthy.
Chem sickness is death sentence if youre alone and hungry, but if you keep hydrated, energized, and have a buddy to give you IVs, its pretty survivable.
[editline]19th June 2016[/editline]
and I dont thing puking actually helps. It should though.[/QUOTE]
Alright thanks, I'll remember that.
Sucks that you can't give yourself IVs though.
Where is everyone this patch? Ive been playin on 50/50 for like 5 hours and only ran into two people. Is everyone just up north hiding?
Randomly got sick from nothing and died. Nice.
[QUOTE=billibobc;50556040]Where is everyone this patch? Ive been playin on 50/50 for like 5 hours and only ran into two people. Is everyone just up north hiding?[/QUOTE]
you get the groups of 2-3 guys who enjoy nothing but the sweet taste of death
or you get the lone wolf who will camp a popular spot and gun down any single thing that walks by
Yesss! This game is actually somewhat playable now. I'm enjoying it so far...
Found an offroad in the middle of berezino and it was missing a wheel, found it and then it was missing fuel. I go up to the barns and had to kill someone since he was attacking me, I find the jerrycan and then while I was running to the car, a russian assfuck took the battery and since I was pretty low on blood he knocked me unconcious when I was 10m away from the offroad with a jerrycan. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
[editline]21st June 2016[/editline]
I've also setup a discord facepunch dayz channel so we can play together. [url]https://discord.gg/015RSd1YCa6pwyrXr[/url]
remember there are public Discords:
for DayZ chat [URL]https://discord.gg/0j1yVwJEtTnbAlWn[/URL] ,
for Arma chat [URL]https://discord.gg/0aWSevYPq5TDcIVl[/URL]
A trip from three valleys to stary gave me a pretty nice loadout. I'll try to work on the OP in the next few days, finishing finals tommorow.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/rTVUQnv.png[/t]
Weapons lost to engine bugs the last 8 hours: 10
Aside from the performance increase, this is the same game I played 4 years ago. Sigh.
[QUOTE=DeEz;50561621]Weapons lost to engine bugs the last 8 hours: 10
Aside from the performance increase, this is the same game I played 4 years ago. Sigh.[/QUOTE]
Very unfair to say. To some it's still not in a praise-worthy state, but it's just objectively wrong and disingenuous to ignore some very real improvements other than performance increase.
[QUOTE=DeEz;50561621]Weapons lost to engine bugs the last 8 hours: 10
Aside from the performance increase, this is the same game I played 4 years ago. Sigh.[/QUOTE]
Game has not even been out for 4 years lol.
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