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Found one in Stary Sobor yesterday, drove around the airfield for a while. It's not a nice vehicle, difficult to turn. Is it supposed to have inventory space, by the way? I thought I saw a view contents option when I first got in, but couldn't find it afterwards.

That's badass!

IRL your eyes adjust to darkness. Yes, you can't see as well, but you can make out shapes of trees and bushes. It's not completely black most of the time. When the Moon is out it's really easy to see.

I guess it would be cool if your stuff moved with you, but then when you logged off it couldn't be found or raided. Also, sharing things would be difficult. So they could either have servers that function like private hives: tents/bases persist on the server, separate character. Or they could have half-persistent servers like the vanilla mod: public character, but tents/bases tied to the server. The way sharding works in most MMOs, is the first option, isn't it?

Wow, that would really make the containers even more valuable than they are now. Now they just extend your carrying capacity because they take up 4 spaces and hold 6.

Has anyone else noticed the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant figure in the field NE of the NE airfield http://dayzdb.com/map#7.126.022? They've removed his penis though. :D

The 1.8 update is great, keep the changes coming. The new inventory system is my favourite, makes it a lot easier to switch weapons.

This is happening to me as well. So damn annoying! Sometimes it goes down when I join, sometimes in the middle of the game. Never happens when playing other online games.

I just want to express my sadness about my dear friend, the tent, which has now apparently disappeared. It was carefully hidden in some fir trees, full of cow steaks and ammo, and when I logged in last night, it was gone. Don't know how; maybe the server ate it, maybe some hackers destroyed it, maybe bandits ran over it with a tractor. So my point is, don't trust tents, they will betray you. Good thing I took my CCO SD out of it and put it in my backpack together with all my SD ammo just in case. I'm also hungry now because the tent had all my food.

Having your chopper leak fuel because of a cracked windscreen is really silly. How the hell are you supposed to find and move 6 windscreens?

I have a toggle enabled on W on one of my G13 macro keys. Press to run forever.

Now we just need something that detects teleportation and hands out a few more bans for that.

Why so many vehicles?

Someone finding or duping a bunch of satchel charges and then blowing up the fire station is plausible. But all the bodies being there means it was either a hacker who spawned them there before blowing everything up or some sort of mass cult suicide.

So you're out with a group of guys, kicking ass and taking names, nameplates are off, you're raiding the airfield or a town... How do you avoid friendly fire? Everyone's in a ghillie so if a hostile player with a ghillie shows up, people will either miss him or spot him and then shoot a friendly who's in a ghillie as well. I know some people do prone checks and ask on TS before opening fire, but is there a better way to make sure the guy you're about to shoot is actually a hostile and not a friendly? Salute check maybe? In the real world (and ArmA) soldiers have uniforms so that they can be better identified as FOF, but that's not really possible if everyone has the same clothes.

It's kind of possible to do that with NVGs and the L85 which has a laser. So you could toggle the laser to say that you're friendly. Problem is, it reveals your position to any hostiles that have NVGs as well.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try using the leaning method with my group. Can't really see face skins at a distance. You wouldn't be able to see squad insignia on uniforms either even if they had them.

It's a feature not a bug. It's for making decoys. :P

Don't know why, but it seems to happen more often on certain servers. UK7 does it all the time, I've yet to see it happen on UK249.

I don't think this would make a good DayZ map. There's not enough vegetation. Can't hide in a desert.

What's your preferred outfit? I was wondering which one provides better concealment. I suppose the ghillie would be better when you're standing still or lying down, but what about when you're moving around? Would it still be better than the camo clothing? Also, I think the L85 should not be in the game. It nullifies all efforts of being sneaky and camouflaging yourself.

And that's the thing, you scan an area, spot someone, pull our your DMR if you feel like it and you're good. And for close quarters town exploring you have an M9 SD. I know the L85 sucks for close quarters, but as long as soon as you've spotted someone you can switch the scope to normal NV and shoot them more easily without switching the weapon. It's really accurate if you have the zeroing right. Anyway, thanks for the replies. I'll keep some camo clothing in my bag for when I'm entering towns.

I already had Arma II, so didn't have to make this choice. I'd say wait for standalone. At least there will be more support for it.

Thanks, I'll try this evening. I feel your pain, bro. But I guess it's to be expected until they release it for real.

Yes, DayZ reminds me a lot of STALKER. It's like a multiplayer version of the STALKER world. As for the inventory, it's just a script on top of the engine. Someone just has to write a better script to handle moving of items from one place to another.