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It was actually more running over people with a truck than shooting. In all fairness, I did win a Ural joust with some Chewie-suit wearing goon. Spare me your post-apocalyptic morality! Don't you think I want to skip through Cherno, hand in hand with every player I meet killing zombies and singing Cumbaya? I'd also like to not get shot at while picking groceries. Still...I would like to find a channel to combine my love of helping people with my love of hurting people.

So I'm driving down the coastal road in a Ural truck I found in Berenzino. All of a sudden I see a motorcycle and a UAZ jeep driving straight towards me. I'm unarmed, so not wanting to take any chances I give a blast on the air horn and drive straight at them. I clip the motorcycle as it speeds past, but smash head on into the UAZ. I was less than impressed with the results. Instead of shattering the UAZ into a fireball of twisted metal, the Ural just sort of rolled over it. In fact, all it did was slow me down enough for the driver to step out of the car, unharmed, and shoot me.

I was on a private server and had something similar. Like I was out in, maybe not a hurricane, but a strong gale. The flash bang thing sounds like something I heard on the Namasca (sp?) map where you get hit by some sort of EMP Lost hatch explosion like blast every hour or so.

I'm searching a gas station just outside of Cherno for loot. All of a sudden, some bandit drives up in a black SUV and honks the horn like he wants me to wipe down the windows or something. So I pull out my AK and fill him up...leaded.

Amen brother. I play Dayz in 3rd person for the same reason I play Grand Theft Auto and don't play Battlefield or Bioshock in 3rd person. It's simply more comfortible to do so.

I'm replacing my 6 year old PC in a few days. I'm killing every motherfucker I see.

You know...if the signs were in English and with a few architectural changes, Chernarus would look a lot like Eastern Pennsylvania or upstate New York.

Sure you could fix it. Just make everything uniformly black unless there is light on it. The only reason the gamma thing works is because it jacks up the contrast between objects that are black and those that are a slightly darker shade of black. I'd like to see more flashlight / flare / chemlight use. It's really freakin creepy. We don't like each other that much. Why do you think we have more guns than any other country?

My advice? You need to play as if you are playing against real people because you are. It's not Fallout 3 where you automatically initiate contact with computer controlled characters following a script. These are real players and every person you meet is different. Some are jerks just looking to PvP. Some are friendly. Some are scared or clueless. Some are fuck-ups. I've met plenty of other players who didn't immediately KOS. I've even teamed up with bandits and hackers. But you really need a mike so you can communicate quickly. That's what makes it different from COD or Battlefield. Plus you don't need to interact with other players if you don't want to. Avoid the major cities and airstrips and scavange in the deep woods avoiding human contact if you like.

I call it the "5 Cs" of gunfighting. When you start taking incomming: Calm Cover aCquire Counter-attack Collect loot! Be mindful of your movement as well: Try to have a safe or cleared area to your back. For example, no one is going to shoot you from the sea. Or from that wall of buildings with no openings. Keep objects between you and possible sniper positions. Like if you're running through Cherno or Electro, you want to have a wall between you and sniper hill, firehouse towers or any other hot spots. Check those corners! If you can't do stealth, go for speed. Everyone can see you crawling through that field! You are better off just running through quickly. You'l be harder to hit and anyone chasing you can't fire their weapon on a full run.

The problem is some people are just jerks. They will go out of their way to kill other players for absolutly no reason. Which means even if you aren't a PvP KOS douche, you have to assume the other guy is. Why take the chance of you killing me and taking my awesome rifle and GPS when I can just kill you? That's why I like the bandit/hero skins, ghillie suits and other visual cues showing how the other guy has been playing.

Why do people constantly bitch about bandits and snipers? You are in a lawless post apocalyptic former soviet republic with guns everywhere and zombies. Why wouldn't you expect it to be full of bandits, jerks and psychopaths? You have to act like everyone you meet could be an enemy and that every tower or hilltop has a sniper. Making zombies more dangerous wont change anything. Lurching drunken hobos without guns and are hardly a threat to people who have them.

Yeah...for a battleship.

They should put a train in the game. Technically a locomotive and a couple of cars. You'd fix it up like any other vehicle. Then you could just drive it back and forth along the tracks from Berezino to Kamenka. It should be hard as hell to stop - only a bunch of AS50 or M107 rounds would damage the engine and nothing less than a satchel charge or rocket launcher would destroy it. But then again, you could only go where tracks are. Why not?

Bullshit. Most are hackers or Accuracy International has a factory outlet north of Starry that I just haven't looted yet. And it doesn't take much "skill" to shoot at dots a half mile away using a 12x scope. But I don't think they should be removed and neither should ghillie suits.

This guy on the server I was playing called himself ARNOLD_SCHWARZENEGGER (or some variation thereof). Not particularly funny in and of itself but he stayed on open chat the whole time screaming in Ahnold's accent stuff like GET TO DA CHOPPA! COME ON! I'M HERE! KILL ME NOW!! GHAAAAA!!

The other thing, IRL, you can't recover from a major bullet wound by eating a bunch of steaks. That's why they take you to a hospital when you get shot and not a Ruths Chris.

Yeah...I don't plan on losing that much blood.

Yeah, I got disconnected while on a motorcycle and when I logged in I was glitched up to my head in a field outside of Starry.

Should definitely have women zombies and other male zombie skins besides "soldier", "priest" and "drunken Chechyen hobo". Laws or not, little zombie children would be creepy as fuck

I suspect mostly my pants.

You are wandering around post-Hurricane Sandy Hoboken,NJ wearing a baseball hat, sunglasses, jeans and fleece vest and your wife says "you look like one of those people from that stupid zombie game you play!" Then you sell her for a can of beans for her insolence!

Yeah, I had the same problem when I first started. It's difficult to grasp how big the map actually is if you are used to games like Battlefield or COD. It's more similar to GTA San Andreas or FarCry 2 where there are just vast stretches of empty wilderness. Without any sort of map or compass or GPS you can litterally get lost in the woods. Try following roads and powerlines as you head up north, away from the riffraff in Cherno or Electro. Just don't forget there is probably someone with a gun watching you every minute!

He may hack to set up his videos by giving himself equipment and vehicles or teleporting around the map. I don't really have a problem with that since it's sort of "behind the scenes". He's not going around insta-killing everyone. As for "bambis", there is a bit of cluelessness that goes beyond simply not having good gear. They run around out in the open or down the middle of the coastal road. They lack tactical situational awareness. They agro zombies alerting the entire world to their whereabouts. They have tunnel vision, staring through their sniper scopes not realizing that danger can come up right behind them with an ax. They think "FRIENDLY" means "don't shoot me!" instead of "Hi! I happened to notice you not noticing me and in the next 4 seconds you are about to make an important life-altering decision!"

Everyone is a tough guy on a message board. They are the same guys I hear screaming "please pick me up!" and "I need blood in Cherno!" on side chat.