JohnnyDerp

Just put your tent in some trees in an "out of the way" place. Fortifications just make it that much easier to spot.

Irony.

I like carrying a DMR and an M14. DMR mags are pretty common and both weapons use them. The .50's have range you rarely need, though they do have the guaranteed 1 shot kill.

M14 AIM. It's like the Enfield 2.0.

You sound as retarded as the people you're complaining about. In a knee-jerk, foaming at the mouth kind of way. Relax, no one is gonna judge you for eating duped beans, or dying with a AS50 thermal.

If you're unarmed, don't run towards me. Better yet, don't even run in my general direction, especially if you see me. I don't go out of my way to kill new spawns, but I have killed more than a couple. And it only takes an hour or so of playing to find out Cherno and Electro are sort of dangerous. There are a lot of other places to get gear, that are far less dangerous. Besides, if you're repeatedly dying before getting a weapon, you're doing it wrong. If you see corpses all over, that may be an indication of something. Or you can be lazy/impatient, die a lot, make a thread.

Just watch obvious sniper spots on busy/decently populated servers. Find a spot outside/behind the normal sight lines and eventually you'll see movement of some kind. Sniper hill in electro usually produces good loot, that's where I get my nvg's/rangefinders most often. And I got my L85 off a guy that was sniping from Drakon Island into Electro. Not sure how common that is, but I have found a tent or two on that island too.

I killed a guy that had one too. I know you can use it if you find it, but after carrying it around for a bit, I dropped it. Just didn't want to have issues with any server admins etc, plus there are plenty of legit weapons in game. Enough people freak out about hacked weapons, so to me it wasn't worth the potential sperge-storm.

I was under the impression that shooting zombies was pve. Go play some themepark if you want to farm shiny gear and have a glorified chat room. 99% of the fun is wondering if someone is in that treeline as you attempt to cross that field, hearing gunfire in the distance, finding loaded tents, etc. Finding that downed chopper and wondering who's watching you through a scope. The risk is what makes this game interesting.

Usually whoever spots whom first, wins. I know I have killed some people who had no clue where it came from, and vice versa. Random running through the woods/deerstands etc.

Running it, sometimes restarting my router > faster/better than the alternatives.

The 249 has a magazine well. Doesn't feed fast enough, but works in a pinch.

I kill everything I see and vice versa.

If you have a bunch of gear that it took you hours and hours to get, you're lying if you're just gonna sit and die if you have the option of not dying and keeping all your stuff. E-honor is a unicorn, learn to shoot.

Same weapon, different optics.

I've always been under the impression that DayZ takes place following the events in Arma 2, so everything that's in game, makes sense to me. Until someone ie: a Dev (or a quoted Dev) tells me otherwise, I'll continue to think that. If you have never played Arma 2 at all, just bought this for DayZ, that's awesome, but this is an Arma Mod and therefore military weapons will be in it. It's not some stand alone zombie game with baseball bats and meat cleavers. Besides, who doesn't want military weaponry, especially when there's no one around to tell you that you can't have it? You bought a military simulator first and foremost, with a free zombie apocalypse mod in alpha testing. I for one would be disappointed if it didn't retain some of the aspects of the former.

Give me a reason to survive.

There is no end game. You get nice gear, get bored, go to a highly populated area and kill people with bad/no gear. You eventually die, rinse and repeat til you don't bother logging in. Yeah you can survive indefinitely, but what's the point? Running around in the middle of nowhere shooting pigs and refilling your canteen, never seeing anyone, sounds like fun. You have to be borderline autistic to enjoy that, not to mention why are you doing it on a multi-player server. Playing with a few people is no different, it just lasts a little bit longer. If you like playing Arma 2 with friends vs. AI, you may stick around for the glorified chatroom, the vast majority won't.

So very nice not having to carry firewood whilst running around the forest. It saved my life. Got lucky in a store and found a hatchet. Couple hours later I'm out of food, have no firewood, and very low blood. I finally see a cow while in the middle of nowhere, shoot and gut it. Run to the forest, harvest wood, start fire, cook meat, eat meat. I'm alive and healthy. Great addition.

Really no use for the crossbow, due to the ammo taking up space. It's barely better than nothing.

I'll opportunistically kill anyone. If they are going in a direction I don't want to go, and/or in a busy area where I may draw too much attention to myself, I generally won't bother.

The non-black and white nature of DayZ is nice. I think trying to set labels and limitations on things would be overall detrimental. If someone wants to play it like CoD, that's perfectly fine. If instant gratification is really what you are here for, you either won't last long, or you won't go far from the coastal towns. If you want a little more depth, you'll get away from the coast, team up with people you know (ie: get on out of game voice coms with them), or be patient/careful and lonewolf it. People that complain about "deathmatch" aspects I think are those that just run in and attempt to get gear at the nearest, easiest place, or are naive enough to think that you're not getting baited by most in-game chat conversations. Nothing in this game is "risk free", and for me and a lot of people, that's the best part. Fastest way to get good gear(survive), is to kill someone with it. I'm far more scared of other people than I am zombies. The unknown human factor is what makes this game interesting. It's not a pve game nor glorified chatroom. It's pvp with zombies.

Date/Time: 27MAY12 2:00pm AZ TZ What happened: When I logged off, I had an M16/203 equipped, with a CZ 550 in my ALICE pack. Upon logging back in, the CZ 550 in my pack had become another M16/203. The 2 CZ 550 mags I was carrying also swapped to 30rd STANAG. So now I have 2 M16/203 and no CZ 550. Where you were: Hills north of Chernogorsk. What you were doing: Laying prone behind a wall. *Current installed version: 1.6.0.1 Dayz *Server(s) you were on: Dallas 8 *Timeline of events before/after error: 1-Logged into a server 2-Played for a bit 3-Logged out 4-Logged back in a few hours later 5-CZ 550 and ammo in my ALICE pack had become an M16/203 and ammo, no other changes.

In all honesty, I didn't read your post. I just responded to the thread title and the general tone. Once again, 200+ square kilometers with 50 dudes. How is this a traditional deathmatch?

It get's cold at night. And since this is sorta a "survival" game, temperature sorta makes sense. Yeah it's all condensed time-wise, but most people aren't gonna live logged in, so I can see the point. Adds another variable and makes it more interesting.