artisan661

I dont always hit military areas, but when i do i prey for a bugged out spawn with tons of loot...... when i randomly stumbled on a bugged loot area in a military place the other day. I finally found a Pso-1 scope and 120 rounds of ak101 ammo, AK hand guard rail. and some different stocks. ak74,ak101, aks 74u, standard ak mag, vests,backpacks ect so like all barrack loot x10. The scope i really didnt see for months, the rail for a long time, and the ammo was hard to find, i only had 40 extra rounds, before i found the bugged stuff and got 120 more rounds. SO until i got lucky and found that. Before loot was hit and miss for me. But when you find areas like that it makes up for the few weeks of not finding stuff. So after seeing that place i figure loot is still messed up. I havent tried to farm heli crashes. Lately, Thats what i want to start doing. im looking for an amphibia s pistol now, Smersh vest and backpack. The rare part for me was finding the magazine for the amphibia s. rare to me = weapon magazines(pistols mainly, havent seen a 45mag, i seen fnx,amphibia,makarov mags, 1 ak 101 mag, 1 standard ak mag, 1 cz mag ) , pso-1 scope(should be rare tbh) certain ammo.. i havent seen much sks ammo and 5.56 ....grenades dont care for.

Im cool with people. Use your mic and talk. For me the talking part is the major part. Youll get a good judge from that. Just have to get into more crappy situations to learn from them. IF they dont talk back or respond, that is a red flag for me. or if they sound 12 or russian. Personality plays a huge part in my decision making, the hard part is trying to figure that all out in 1-2 secs lol if they are going to be cool or not. You dont need to start kosing people but you can stop helping every person you see, and especially watch out at military places, those are hotspots, If you see someone and you respond and they dont or you dont say anything, then expect that shit is about to go down. Also if your looting pay attention to sounds, SO many times when im in a city, i hear someone walking near by. That has saved me a ton.

when im inside and get zombie aggro ill just run out the door and kill it. I know what your talking about. Till its fixed. i just deal with them asap. then keep on keeping on.

i think they made it more "rare" with the new loot economy, along with other things.

ya ive noticed that happening lately

you can use something like http://dayzdb.com/map/chernarusplus and depending on where you are, figure out loot routes that way. I just plan a route before i log in and ill have an idea of where im going initially, So when im playing it makes things easier. But after playing for a while youll learn the towns and loot locations. But id study the map, if your still new and learn where things are, get more familiar with it. make sure your in a safe place if your in game to alt tab to look at the map

Get arma 3 when it goes on sale. if your reluctant to get the SA atm. SA is good but you need to realize the game isnt finished and youll experience bugs ect, if your not a patient person then id wait on the SA and go play arma 3 when it goes on sale. I like the SA so id say to just get it. but i also dont care that we dont have certain features in the game atm, i just like to go farm loot lol and survive. Also be aware that things get changed and messed around with, so one example is loot being funky, so you might not find food or any good loot, that can be frustrating or really enjoyable. but be aware things arent 100%,,,if you dont want to deal with that then wait, Start watching some SA videos of patch 0.50(thats on stable now) so you can see where the game is currently and also look into the new exp patches 0.51 to see what they are working on next. For my shoot em up game i usually play arma 3 for my survival/loot farm game i play dayz. Both BI games

wait for modding to come to the community. till then man the fk up kid :) try arma 2 wasteland that is really fun

Im really liking the new towns up north. A town like this near the mining area would be really epic. Just in general the north area is coming along nicely. The new 0.50 towns are a nice addition to the north . I think the north will be really epic once done. Looking forward to the dayz to come.

Im pretty sure vehicles will be squishy and easily take damage from rounds. Like something in arma 2 /wasteland, you can disable vehicles by shooting tires or the engine block. or spray the driver with automatic gunfire.( shit was fun) but i can see the SA vehicles being a complete pain in the ass to maintain and i can also see them taking damage pretty easily(or certain parts always needing to be replaced). If you run into something or get lit up. I think most of the physics are getting worked out since its seems like a new thingy they have been working on(like throwing ect), so id expect it to be awhile before it gets polished. They got a lot on their plate so we just need to be patient with things. I dont see them being bullet proof unless you can add armor plates to them, but im thinking that might be more of a mod thing eventually(with armor). Idk if they had talked about being able to add armor plates to cars, if so then that should stop bullets. But i think either way in a car your more at risk to getting pwnt, since you can hear them coming from a distance and cars will and always will be bullet magnets

you realize loot is funky and that is the issue. Maybe read around more before flaming that food system is messed up because your died twice from not finding loot.

I havent really looked for any tents tbh. I dont trust if they will be there on restart. With the persistence servers is it there always on restarts or do you get boned time to time with it not being there(not by a player taking it but from a restart) It would be cool to go out and find them but im just curious about the current state of them being there when i log in(not to a player taking it) but with restarts ect.

When i was on the exp 0.50. I was able to lock zombies inside buildings and also be inside, close the doors and they stayed out. Most of the time it worked. Seemed like some buildings didnt work at times, or if the zombies were to close to the door when I closed it the zombie will path through it(its getting worked out im sure), But it was something i noticed on the new patch. So it will get better in time. it was fun locking 3-4 zombies into a house for the next guy lol. \when i went back to 0.49 they go through doors and i couldnt lock them in. So in 0.50 it was better. Didnt have an issue with zombies coming in houses unless a door was still open, they will still get in, but not so much of an issue with them running through doors. It was a lot better. just one thing ive noticed.

Good work. Ya they need to add improvised tents. Since you can craft backpacks now. It would be ideal to create improvised tents/shelters at some point in the future.