Howdy All,

Haven't had a chance to jump into 0.53 yet.
Any good?

The only thing I know about it is that it comes with a complete char wipe

Cheers,
Slug

Haven't had a chance yet but looking forward to giving it a try. To be honest haven't played DayZ much in recent months due to the development being sorta stagnant, its not that they're not doing anything but that they haven't done anything significant enough for me to play more.

Tried a little yesterday, not a happy survivor.
Public server admins are totally misbehaving themselves, kicking me within a minute of joining in with no reason whatsoever.
My nickname is not offensive, my ping is decent and I am not a cheater.


grrrrrr
Slug

If its a private hive server they can do it (right or wrong) if its a public dayz server I think you can report that to the DayZ team....

damn, then I'm going to be a real busy survivor reporting...
I would say 3/4 of Asia-based public servers are kicking, especially the mainland China ones.They are shameless.

Cheers,
Slug

Played yesterday for 2 hours. Still very bad performance in the new cities, still barely any Zs on the map. FAR fewer weapons and ammo than in previous versions, which I liked. Still FAR too easy to find food.

The map additions are great, both islands are very well done and the mass of houses and farms added to the north look and feel very authentic with many burnt out houses and cars.

Big towns still suck up frames and RAM , zeds are better but can be a handfull mixed with electro framerates . Private hives run better for me than the main hives, try one if your on the fence for performance.

The hunting and farming are a work in progress but food is not hard to find and the weapons have been moved all over for spawning. You must check every building to gather what you need and i spend the first hour going with the biggest pack and picking up everything ! LOL

They have adjusted jackets and shirt sizes in packs so you can carry extras , better grab a raincoat !


By the end of 2015 i think it will be server renting quality for me and while my game time is spotty i do enjoy the look and space of the map.

Thx for the report. Keep meaning to go back, ironically the character wipe might be challenge enough because I had a 3rd person and hardcore characters fully loaded with nothing to do but hunt bandits which gets tedious (I am not into farming or fishing in a sim). If I spawn clean at least I have something to do and a bit of risk.

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That's about me as well. Logged in a few weeks ago, got raped by desync on low ping servers and just didn't have any fun with full kit and loads of gear in no time at all. In waiting mode.

the last time I played, there were clans camping the Military Base and hording anything that spawned on multiple servers.

the NE Airfield is no longer a viable 2nd option, it's basically just a concrete slab.

I liked the NE being a military base as it provided a 2nd option if the main one was over run with campers and rifles.

Games getting there on interesting towns and spawn points but the performance is crap ! LOL

NWAF is always a hot spot to loot and easy to get sniped while hitting the good spots but for me its why i go there, to try my luck and counter sniping.
NEAF now is civil with a few broken mil units about to get some better loot from. Very rare to run into peeps there and you can gear a toon well between krastnov and the neaf including weapons and ammo.

berizino is a hot zone again as well as electro, prison island the fire station area of cherno. The best chance of meeting crazy peeps is vybor area both the town and mil base.

I was watching/camping the police station on a full 50/50 server at novy sobor sunday and the server reset, log back in and just down the hill is a gray truck with sideboards has spawned......
What the heck, i drive through vybor on my way west and a guy dressed like a girl tries to get a ride, shots are taken and general mayhem resulting in no riders and me fleeing the scene.

I decide to make the loop and drive through lapitino, pick up the great north road by the nw bus and train station and head back east through the new big towns. Major lag spikes and a crap driving truck make for a hard time but many of the towns had zeds standing about so i would slow down looking for players .
NOVO had a team camping the police and fire station area, and a couple other towns had players in them but no shots fired.

Game performance is spotty and they need some major fixes in areas but wow what a map, still have towns i have not fully explored but cherno is looking good :}

I second that a performance boost is sorely needed. That should have been an early priority but the game is progressing nicely and I think at some point the big issues will be solved, if not it will never go anywhere. Until then I'm in orbit mode in the game just waiting and playing every once in a while to see where things are.

What, theres vehicles now?

Last time i played was after they stripped the NE airfield.

Yeah trucks right now and lots of new locations including the prison at Skalisty Island (haven't had a chance to check that out yet). Definitely worth checking out if you haven't in a while.

Well, I'm exploring the NE section, and I'm getting headaches from the Low FPS and washed out colors...

(yes I constantly do the Options, Configure, Video to reset the blur), but it's always like grey, like I'm color blind.

If you took a hit and lost some blood, it takes much longer to renew now (unless you do a transfusion), so until you have fully restored your health, you will get the greyed out effect. Might be that?

I think that was it... after a few hours color started coming back. (Between yesterday and today)

Ventured from Electro to the NE Towns N or Rify (after being attacked by 4 -5 zeds, and having to punch my way out of the building and make a run for it, darn near bled to death.)

Found about 400 rounds for my .22, which I dis-assembled and stored in bag when I got a Mosin.

Got a tom of MP5 accessories, but no MP5 to be found, no trucks or chopper sites...

If only the FPS was decent.... I cant play more than 30 minutes now because the low FPS gives me a headache, and the blurring getting stuck is annoying (ESC, Config, Video to reset all the time).