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I thought this too, and now I'm so confused. I also swear you used to be able to shoot through certain walls (e.g. wood) with high-calibre rounds.

A well-prepared team can have a pre-arranged meeting place should they ever become separated. We deal with this all the time in our real lives: families will instruct their children to go to a certain location and wait should they become lost. If families can make such pre-arrangements in real life, why can't DayZ squads do the same and avoid the need to exploit a 3rd party aid to coordinate their movements? I don't buy the argument that since everyone has access to 3rd party chat that it is not cheating. Athletes are busted all the time for using performance-enhancing substances that all of their competitors also have access to. I defy anyone to make a convincing argument that they are not cheating. Justifying one's ways on account that everyone else can also do it is a dangerous path that I prefer not to tread on. It "feels" wrong to me, and that is enough for me. Some on here have astutely noted that this debate has at it's heart the different mind-sets of the "immersive" gamers versus the rest, who happen to form the majority of the DayZ community. I agree with this completely. This schism has spawned a number of other discussions that all seemingly have no resolution other than no acknowledge that there are different ways to approach this game. The fact that the divide is so deep, and seemingly so irreconcilable is troubling however, I do not think that it is a strength of the game concept that the community is so deeply divided. I will likely be branded a heretic by the Dean-is-god Kool Aid drinkers for this statement. Great discussion though. Excellent points have been made by posters from both sides of the debate.

People here crawl so far up his ass I'm sure it makes him sick. He's not John Lennon for Heaven's sakes :)

No, I'm talking about exploiting a 3rd party chat program to gain an unfair advantage in a video game. It is a subtle difference, I can see why it trips you up. I don't give a rat's ass what Dean thinks or likes. Friends should not be able to communicate silently in the presence of outsiders. It makes no sense, and is exploitative.

Exploit = to make use of unfairly for one's own advantage. :huh:

I voted yes. If not cheating then it is certainly exploitative. What's wrong with it is that you don't all spawn with radios. If radios were added as loot so you had the earn the ability to communicate with allies it would be fine in most instances. If 2 friends on a 3rd party chat are in the presence of a third player who is not, then they have a huge and unrealistic advantage in their ability to coordinate actions while the odd man out is oblivious. All should be required to use direct chat only in such an instance.

I'm with Applejaxc on the 3rd party chat software. We do not spawn with radios, you should not be able to communicate with allies kilometres away, or silently with allies in the presence of other players. There are other games to play to satisfy your desire for fire-team / squad based manoeuvre, play those. It is an exploit to use them in DayZ.

LOL, the butt hurt on this thread is off the charts.

The SA will never be released. It will join the list of those much awaited but never completed projects that litter the battlefield of game development. LOL, the joke's on us. I sure hope Rocket enjoys his life-changing vacation.

There was probably all sorts of morphine at the NEAF. ;) DayZ is like that.

Nice story! I crawled from Bor to Berezhino with a broken leg once. There is a thread here somewhere about that crawl too. I had the exact same dread about getting shot as you once I got my morphine. It took me days (literally) to complete the journey, I was shaking for quite some time after healing myself. I actually forgot what it was like to walk and run, and getting used to being upright again took a while too. :) This character broke his leg on day 1 of his life, and lived for over 60 days. I was glad I made the effort rather than giving up, and beans to you too. This is what DayZ is all about: surviving. Oh, and morphine (an opiate) and crack (i.e. cocaine, a monoamine reuptake inhibitor) are structurally unrelated, you can not convert one into the other. Morphine and heroin, that is another story....

Oh man, I gotta give 1.7.5 a shot. I didn't see this in the changelog, but it is an awesome enhancement.

I enjoy 2017 the most. It is not perfect (you get sick of empty tin cans fast), but I find that stripping the mil-spec weapons out of the game makes for a more "realistic"* experience. I have found that the desperate need for survival reduces the douchbaggery. You still get people killing others on sight, but it is for the sake of precious resources rather than just because they are pricks who enjoy trying to ruin another's day. I typically play as a medic / king carebear, and this mod generates ample opportunities to help others out. * I use "realistic" cautiously here becuause I acknowedge that there are some who hold to the position that military weaponry would be common in a post-apocalyptic militarized Eastern European country such as Chernarus. I see this point, but I still find that NVGs and LMGs are a bit of a stretch for me.

Try DayZ 2017, most of the players looking for the type of experience that you seem to appreciate have moved to that mod.

To clarify, the bullet trajectory is above the aim-point, you need to aim low. At some range I would expect the SD round to drop back down to where you are aiming, but this range is very great.

Holy crap! Sorry for your loss, but anyone who has time to wait for you to run a half-marathon to give them blood has time to hunt for meat. Alarm bells should have been going off all over the place. There are some techniques you can employ when approaching a patient that will help mitigate the risk of being shot.

Not being argumentative here, just bragging that I found a Dew once in 2017, at a crashed truck. :thumbsup:

I hear that when using my laptop speakers for sound, but when wearing my headphones I realize that it is the sound of a bird's wings beating as it takes off.

Clan bullshit is so f***ing juvenile.

I'm pretty sure the door/gate in the church in Progorevka is on the north side of the building, with the altar to the south.

I can almost always be found along the Zeleno - Novy Sobor - Gorka - Berezino axis. I rarely stray NW to the air base, or SE to the big cities. I choose life.

Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain....

I shoot left in real life, and am always leaning out the wrong way from behind obstacles (the in-game character shoots right handed). I wish there was a way to change this in-game, it is much more natural for me to lean left from behind cover. In every other aspect of my life, I am right handed, only shooting rifles and bows do I go to the sinister side.

Or...Kamenka -> 4 deer stands -> Zelenogorsk -> 3 deer stands -> Balota Kamenka is my favourite spawn.

I think I found your problem.