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I don't think the main reason for someone shooting someone else is to take their gear; that is merely a side-effect, a secondary outcome of two people running into each other. The main reason(s) is either 1) fear of being shot by the other player first or 2) for the hell of it, because the game has devolved into some pvp deathmatch festival rather than a zombie survival game. I think that in addition to item degradation (which probably won't be much of a deterrent) there needs to be a positive incentive (other than you both being able to survive the encounter) for 2 people to not immediately start shooting at one another. Perhaps gear being so hard to get and life being more valuable could act as that positive incentive, or perhaps something greater should be considered. Its a tough design decision for sure. Either way, clearly Rocket et al are not happy with the predominance of KoS in the mod, and are taking steps to make it less of attractive option. This should be an indication that its not how the game is "supposed" to be played by the majority of people.

I'm keeping a few of them for future use. Let's hope they're cool.

The only things I have crafted were the 2 types of baseball bats, nailed and barbed wire. I found them both underwhelming and not as effective as the hatchet so I dropped them. Found what I think were the comfrey leaves, but didn't get any options to collect them.

No. Since it also opens the journal, you should be able to use it without any crafting materials in your inventory. For what it's worth, I set mine to "end". I have not tried to craft the "bandage" but it seems kind of silly to have to have to find 2 gauze, string, and a rag to make a simple bandage when they still spawn all over the place.

Of course, and simply pressing G to get into your inventory does the same. Neither is preferable when a zombie is in the process of hitting you, so I was just mentioning that there is sometimes a glitch with the new method used to add ammo to the hatchet. Also, the click click click out of ammo only lasts for a second or two, so it really takes care of itself before you'd be able to manually reset your ammo.

I noticed last night, the stash (it was the small one) gets placed with the fireplace mechanism where it is instantly placed in front of you. Can it be changed to the new style of placement like tents and barbed wire etc where you have the ability to rotate and slide it around till you find that just-right location?

Playing last night, me and the fellas ran into a couple of situations where our hatchets ran out of ammo for just a few seconds, click click click. I noticed that when you open gear, your ammo goes down to 0, then back up to 10,000 when you close it. So it seems like some kind of glitch that is very short where you're getting your 10,000 shots back, like perhaps a slight lag in that. What about resetting it to 10,000 when you open a menu, and again to 10,000 when you close it?

Please add the zipper sound effect (which has provided hours and hours of great penis-whipping-out humor in my group) to when someone opens your backpack via the scroll menu, if it is possible.

Gah, you're right! I guess I never noticed.

I think I maybe seen 2 of them the other night. I had been wondering where I could find them and what they looked like. I spotted them from afar where the grass wasn't rendering. When I got to them, I wasnt able to find any way to pick them, so I figured maybe they weren't comfrey leaves. I'll have to keep looking. When you craft a bandage, is it just like one of those green packaged bandages? Finding 2 rags, gauze, and string seems like a whole lot of work when the standard bandages are pretty plentiful, no?

Now that we have a few melee weapons in the game, what is you preferred choice? Yesterday I managed to craft a baseball bat into the barbed wire variant (1 bat + 1 nails + 1 barbed wire) and was pretty disappointed in it. It seemed to have less reach and less accuracy than the trusty hatchet, though it looked really cool. I was also able to score a machete, which I haven't tried yet. Have you sampled the various melee weapons in 1.8? What are your thoughts on them, which do you prefer?

Map takes up a weapon slot on the PBX, not sure about other boats or vehicles. Edit: same on "small boat".

I never ever approach Elektro from the north, always from the east side. There is a hill that lets you look toward sniper hill to make sure it's clear, then as you look to your left you can a great view of the city to make sure there is no one running around there. Takes some practice to realize which zombies running around are yours and which belong to others. Also, watch for them agroing off in the distance, a sure sign someone is running around.

DayZ Commander You can still use auto-run overlay if you have ArmaOA via steam and click the use steam checkboxes in Commander.

Have you tried with the baseball bat? I rarely miss too, you're talking to me like I'm some kind of noob that doesn't know how to melee in this game. I was shocked at how inaccurate the bat was, and simply wondering if the machete is the same. Sounds like it isn't.

Well thats what I meant about accuracy. For instance, you can be standing and aiming perfectly at a zombie's head with the baseball bat, swing it, and see the hit poof on the floor to the left. There is an amount of dispersion on these melee weapons such that an actual headshot is a diceroll. Its very much reduced with the hatchet allowing headshots to be common, and I find it to be too much (in tandem with the lack of range) with the baseball bat to make it worth using. I was wondering more about how the dispersion of the machete was, such that if it makes a would-be headshot into a body shot, would that still kill them in one hit. Not having opened the files to look at the settings, no I can't be sure. But it definitely feels shorter and the range at which I know I could get them with the hatchet seems to miss when you swing with the baseball bat. I'm able to hit them outside of their ability to hit me when using the hatchet, but it feels like they have to be just slightly closer to hit them with the bat, close enough that they are now in range of hitting me. Give the two a shot sometime and compare for yourself.

"Pick up baseball bat (drop M4A3CCO)" That's the message I see. What happens? You pick up the baseball bat and your weapon vanishes and all the ammo for it too I've found duct tape several times, and just one roll of string. Seems like it is very much easier to find a bandage than to through all the hassles of crafting one. multiple rags, string etc are far more rare than a simple bandage, which seems to spawn much more frequently. Lastly, I spoke to the admin on the server I play on, which is now 24/7 daylight, and apparently this needs to be fixed by the mod, not the servers themselves.

Interesting. I wonder if the machete one-hits viral zeds from a body shot? Indeed, keeping them off of you is the key in a melee situation, and I found myself needing to be too close (and sometimes even missing repeatedly) with the barbed wire bat. My next jaunt into the city, I will bring the machete and see what its like, though I do thing range is the key here, and secondarily accuracy as either zed type dies in one hit to the face. Perhaps since the hatchet is the probably the best melee weapon, and it also allows you to collect wood, it should be made more rare. Finding one should be awesome and you perhaps should come across crowbars, and baseball bats more.

Word.

I like that one too, with one exception: Nametags. On more than one occasion I have spotted people I couldn't see from great distances simply because I had the dumb luck of moving my crosshairs over them. That pretty much kills the experience for me on that otherwise great and well-populated server. :unsure:

"landing".... in quotes.

Hello, This evening I had the opportunity to run into a bandit in Elektro. He died by my hand. I lost humanity for this kill. I thought bandit kills did not effect your humanity. Is this new? Thanks!

I think its the old wiki? dayzwiki.com seems to be gone, so perhaps they ported it over to there? I am almost certain it actually was like that at some point in the way back. Obviously not now.

What is stupid? You got a bandit skin by shooting bandits I presume? Your post is lacking in information.

Pretty much. And destroying gear inside a clothing item that receives a hit might have some deterrent, based on how hard it is to find gear. That being said, I am willing to bet people will just roll the dice and go for the kill robbing your pants if they shoot you in the chest.