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A summation of issues I'd like to bring forward. PMs responding to me would be appreciated.
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1: The game name for my character is my IRL real name. Is there a way to change this? I would prefer it not to be this way. I do not recall being asked for a 'Username'. I assumed it was all paying information windows, so I kept my real name so I could actually buy the game. (First time using steam.) Is this a steam issue?
I would prefer to keep my current character and hero/survivor ranks, as I don't murder or bandit or anything, and I'd like to keep my reputation as someone who don't do that.

2: Will an i3 2.1 GHZ, 4GB ram and economy intel graphics card on a Toshiba Laptop be enough to run the game at it's lowest settings? (Detailed card number can follow.) On low, it runs pretty well on an i5 2.4 GHZ 4GB and Nvidia 3100M laptop. Same OS and everything. I'm trying to get another person in my household to play for tactical merit.

Just my general thoughts on the game as follows below, not really needed. It's probably things you've heard before.

When in fire stations- (Tried in both electro fire stations, as well as the north-eastern spawn map fire station) as you're climbing the staircase from the second to the third floor, you can climb the outside ladder through the wall. I will admit to having used this in the past, as it puts you on the ladder outside of the building to climb to the upper roof area.

Zombies never have any loot after I kill them. Ever. I've killed many, and they never have items on them. Either make them unlootable, or make it so they occasionally spawn stuff. Maybe it's a bug? Possibly.
Another point on this topic, when I kill a zed, often the body slides very far downhill, and the body becomes unlootable. This makes the data that I'm claiming, (Zeds NEVER have loot) invalid for them. Hopefully you could fix this?

It seems that too often a really good item spawns, but I cannot reach it. For example, in the Electro fire station in the shelving area at the base of the tower, some 7.62mm rounds spawned underneath a wrench, and both of them were claimable.
Another time, a gun spawned underneath a decorative burlap sack of grain (On the lowest shelf) in a police station. I forget the town. But I could not reach it, and had to give up.
Maybe making it so you only need to get within 1 meter in any direction, with the only barriers being walls and floors? I don't know.

Details

Legacy ID
113002561
Severity
None
Resolution
Fixed
Reproducibility
Have Not Tried
Category
Other
Steps To Reproduce

1: Climb staircase at any fire station.
2: Press to climb ladder at any prompt through the wall.
3: You shouldn't need more prompting. :P

Event Timeline

mobius1 edited Steps To Reproduce. (Show Details)Oct 7 2014, 12:42 AM
mobius1 set Category to Other.
mobius1 set Reproducibility to Have Not Tried.
mobius1 set Severity to None.
mobius1 set Resolution to Fixed.
mobius1 set Legacy ID to 113002561.May 8 2016, 8:14 PM
  1. Just click on the name when you are in the main menu, you can edit it
  2. no idea, but when you already have that noteboock, just install steam and dayz to test it
  1. was already possible in arma2, doors had simmilar issues but got fixed, so i think it will be fixed before beta ends
  1. zombies don't have loot, and i'm not sure if they will ever have, so don't bother looting them

4.b new ragdoll physics are not perfect yet, so stuff glides down hills

  1. you can reach most items, by looking at them, or from your inventory when you are close, some still are unlootable, but i haven't had that for a while now

just make sure your hands are empty or you have suficcient inventory space

also since you are new to this:
go here and use search to make sure stuff isn't reported already: http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view_all_bug_page.php

mobius1 added a subscriber: mobius1.May 8 2016, 8:14 PM

+HaseDesTodes

Thanks for reading my entire post and having the attention span to do so. It's a quality lost on today's youth, so it seems.

The suggestions are both helpful and I will do them. I never considered doing the second thing... I suppose I should have considered Steam and it's games similar to Minecraft.

I've read DayZ articles where they mentioned loot from Zeds, specifically differences between Military and Civie zeds. And the fact that you can search their bodies is kind of evidence that this is what they wanted to do... but it's confusing. There's info out there saying Zeds have loot, but I've never seen any. What you're saying must be correct then.

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it. I take it: If a piece of clothing is 'ruined' and you carry something in it, the stuff in it becomes 'ruined' also?
It appears to have happened to a stack of 40x .45 ACP rounds, and also 15 12 gauge buckshots... and then the handgun that the ACPs were supposed to go into... whoops...
I guess this is just the game being unforgiving as advertised.

andy added a comment.Oct 7 2014, 9:04 AM

Hi mobius1,

  1. The name is taken from the name of your Windows account and can be changed in the bottom right corner of the Main Menu, simply click on the name there, remove it with Backspace and type anything you'd like in. There are no ranks in DayZ Standalone
  2. I am afraid the laptop would not be able to handle DayZ SA, please see the minimum HW requirements at http://store.steampowered.com/app/221100/.
    • Zombies do not carry any loot in the current state (they do in the Mod, but not DayZ Standalone)
    • we are aware of the issues you have mentioned (unlootable bodies, looting icon present on dead Zeds, ladders, unreachable loot) and they have all been scheduled for an eventual fix
    • items will not get damaged when put into a damaged container, but if the container gets e.g. ruined, items in it might take damage too

Regards,
Andy

moeb1us added a subscriber: moeb1us.May 8 2016, 8:14 PM

plus be advised that ruined clothing does not protect you from weather effects and damage.

also consider checking these:
reddit beginner guides
http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/search?q=beginner&sort=new&restrict_sr=on&t=all

youtuber with great tip videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/WOBOchannel/videos