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Wow, you must be starving! //T'was great playing with you lot again. I'll be honest and say I had no idea where I was most of the time, but thanks to you lot I'm now pretty well decked out and even combat ready, should it come to that. I hope Dean expands on the game a bit more. We really need the ability to build a base, even if it's just tents. Vehicles would be great, as would hunting, but a base gets priority for me. I love the spray cans everywhere. It's be awesome if you could actually tag stuff so others know you were there, although this would probably add quite a bit of strain to the server/client comms. Still gotta say that Dean and Co have done an excellent job on this. It's not perfect, but it certainly blows any other alpha I've ever played right out the water.

So with a wired connection it's still shit? Or is that more reliable?

David is my IGN. I'm dead so will be respawning shortly, fuck knows where.

Online now. I'm on TS so hop on.

If she's paranoid she probably isn't using her browser as a relay, in which case you've got nothing to worry about. If she's stupid, she might be unknowingly, but I doubt it. I could run a billion TOR clients and still play a hundred different game with no lag. This isn't her, it's your shitty connection. What router have you got? And what's the exact problem? Disconnects? Lag? Slow? What's your browsing like, is that also slow or just gaming? Run a speedtest.net a few times for me. Different times of day, different days, etc etc. Note how many people are using the connection at the time. Also run a pingest.net and let me know what your jitter and packet loss is. Run this one too: http://freeola.com/line-test/

Guys, I've moved that topic. It's in the PPR section now, take a look there. That's hidden away from Joe Public so it's still a bit confidential. I'll reply there.

Cheers Jordie, I'll give it a proper go next time I'm near a lake / pond. A few more observations: I was hungry and thirsty, and I found a can of "spite" (lulz). Cured my hunger, not my thirst. Dean could get rich off that. Zeds are a bastard to lose. I had a few tracking me for ages, lost them eventually but bloody hell, they're like sniffer dogs! The inventory system is very clever, and that alone is worth upgrading from the mod. I love that different garments have different amounts of pockets and whatnot, very good. The combat... oh dear. If you've ever fought a zed, you'll know exactly what I mean. The game at present feels like a case of wait for server restart, rush rush rush to get stuff, then... erm... nothing. no vehicles, no tents, nothing to try and achieve. Once you're all gunned up and have decent kit, the only form of entertainment I can think of is hunting players, which might explain some of the KOS mentality some of you guys are experiencing (and I'll no doubt experience at some point too). The game feels like the basis of something very good, something excellent, and a game which will probably suck me in for hours and hours on end, but as it is now, it's lacking content. I maintain my opinion that Dean needs to focus on getting stuff to respawn inbetween restarts. Once that's sorted I'd start looking in to storage, the lack of ability to hoard stuff is brilliant for a lone wolf like myself, but I still think it's an awesome goal to work towards. And vehicles. We need vehicles, badly. Excellent game, needs improvement. Yes, it's an Alpha, I know this, but I felt like blabbering so meh.

I was at a lake, I assume I need a canteen to drink the water? Couldn't figure out how to drink from it.

Mkay, server got dark and I got hungry so I left the game to chow. Killed myself 'cos I was nowhere useful and logged back in on a server which must've just restarted and it was daytime. I literally spawned in looking at a dude with a motorcycle helmet on and an M4 in his hands. I did the usual left-right sway to indicate friendly, he did the same, and buggered off. That's my first player encounter, and he didn't even try to kill me, despite having the means (unless he was ammoless, but I'm having faith). Went on my way, and later on bumped in to another two fresh spawns, who also seemed to want to do their thing without any bloodshed. Wthin 5 minutes I bumped into a chap named Ben from Denmark, nice enough fellow and we went hunting for an elusive drink. Seriously, how hard is it to find sustenance? Eventually I found a bottle of sterilizing fluid and drank it (I'd be fucking shit in a real zombie apocalypse, drinking stuff to ease boredom). Queezy, feeling shit, etc etc. I'm now hiding in a toilet shed and about to log in again. I might just kill myself and try again, I can't see myself getting fixed up any time soon, what with food and drink made of unicorn's horn dust.

Wow, this is pretty damn good! Running with everything maxed out, it looks really sweet. I love that many buildings are enterable, and the atmosphere really takes the DayZ franchise to a whole new level. I find the scarcity of food and supplies a bit concerning, I'd say a priority for Rocket is to get resources to respawn without the need of a server restart. Some ambient sounds freaked me the fuck out at first. There's a sound which sounds like a rusty gate which had me cowering behind a bar for a few minutes until it repeated itself enough times for me to establish that it was in fact an ambient sound and not a player. Zombies are rarer than hen's teeth, yet to see one. I also miss the location announcement when I log in, so I literally have no clue where I am, and I can't find a sign to give me an indicator (it's also been a while since I've been in Chernarus so fuck knows). I'm currently sitting in a block of flats somewhere overlooking a small town, in the dark, dying of thirst and unable to find anything. I have a pink beanie and a working flashlight, that's it. Time will tell where this adventure takes me...

Deter - try have a bit more decorum please. Dustin - Deter isn't trying to be a dick, he's just very to the point. I hope this clears up any confusion. If we can get back to the topic at hand, that'd be great.

Played the mod for a while, watched a couple of Frankie's first vids. Apparently the loot table is quite small still and there are no vehicles. Do these still apply? Anything else you guys can tell me?

Downloading Thanks Phil! Gonna try hop on tonight, depending on what Kyla wants to do and how knackered I am.

Result! Welcome to teh forumlolz.

BAHAHAHA^^^ That's epic!

Holy shit? That's nothing.

Might need a load of beer for this. It's been a long, long time since I've been excited to play a game, I think this is exactly what I need to reignite that flame.

Can't log in to Steam at the moment, on nights :/ I'm off tomorrow and Friday, working days on Sat & Sun, then on mon-thurs days, then off for a whopping 6 days. Can't fucking wait. Phil, if you've done what I think you've done, I'm going to really have to meet up and buy you a beer or ten I'll try get on for Saturday night. Make some space for FRAPS and get my gashnizzle on. I'm shit though, bring a stretcher.

Someone buy me the game and I'll record it

Sweet baby jebus

Hahaha, excellent! Of course I wouldn't be me if I didn't turn any mention of Taylor Swift into a spaff fest though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlpBO3L6UJo

Send him to Cape Town. If he survives, he'll be a very respectable citizen. His arsehole will go "poof" when he farts though.

Of course Lee, I'd appreciate if you could post as much as you want.

Sam, provided the plugs all plugged in without forcing them, it'll be fine. It won't go bang, it won't go pop, fizz or catch fire. You'll be looking for a screen that tells you you have no operating system installed. If you don't see that, report back and we'll take it from there.

Might buy this next payday, still licking my wounds from Xmas. I fucking hate being broke.