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Nope.

Only because the chances are you're going to shoot him because you're a bandit, or at the very least someone who has adopted the kill on sight mentality because of the bandits (imo, the weak further perpetuating banditry).

Even if you can't be banned for it, it's just all round a douchey thing to do. In my opinion, if you find a hacked weapon you should dispose of it in some way or another. If you use it, you're utilizing a cheat whether you like it or not, which gives you an unfair advantage and completely defeats the purpose of alpha testing anyway (which is what you're doing, not playing a game). Though in this case, since a gold revolver is the exact same as a normal revolver but super shiny and gold (ie way easier to see), you'd just have to be stupid to use it. Unless you have god mode on.

I really, really wish that 12,000 hackers had banned his ass. But yeah, up until today I hadn't directly experience one instance of hacking personally (been playing for months and months, on the Australian servers). And then in one fell swoop, I've seen a ridiculous amount just today. Got killed by a bandit faced guy who, as we unloaded into him, begged friendly and ran around a corner. He then called out saying he'd been knocked unconscious and could we please help him. We felt pretty bad, so I went around. As I got right next to his supposedly unconscious body he completely disappeared and was replaced with a satchel charge which blew me right to hell. Then, later in the day, I hatcheted 2 guys to death on the hills over Elektro, both of whom had thermal AS-50s and PDW SDs. The best part was I did it while playing the Pokemon battle music over direct chat and yelling "Hatchet, use cut!". But I wouldn't be surprised if 12k hackers had been banned. In those 2 servers today, I saw at least 5 people be banned (including the guy that satchelled us). So if that's in the few hours I played, over thousands of servers, it could easily be 12k.

For a minute there I thought you were whining about them reintroducing a feature you don't like. But then I realised that your opinion is always correct, so people with other opinions are the only whiners. Phew. I'll have to fix my hypocrisy detector, it was going mad when I read your post for some reason. Also, I'm not 100% sure that is a Hero skin. My friend just upgraded, and while he's not a bandit, he's most certainly not a hero. His humanity was definitely lower than mine, but he had this skin for one of his lives. I'm on 3010 humanity and have the standard one, while he had 0 after the upgrade.

I lolled. But you're still a loser for utilising hacks.

This is the exact reason I never let myself be tempted into a life of murder. I knew it would come back in some form sooner or later.

I had a similar experience not too long ago. Was on the far side of Balota airfield, in the treeline looking at the medical tents. I watched a few people go in and out without issue, then saw an unarmed survivor get knocked out by a zombie. I shot a few rounds at it with my M9SD (all I had). I killed it, but the guy on the ground bled out soon after. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I hear crashing footsteps. I whirl around, still prone, to see a guy with a M1014 sprinting straight at me. Assuming he'd heard my shots and was coming for my juicy pistol, I unloaded a whole clip in his direction (I don't know why, but I can't aim for shit in this game, especially under pressure). I got him in the leg and he went down hard, just over a rise so I couldn't see him. Silence for a few seconds, and suddenly: "Now why the fuck would you do that!?" Silence for a few more seconds, and I reply "Shit... I'm sorry! Are you ok?" "Well, my leg's broken, but I think I'll make it." "I've got some morphine, hold on." I stand up and he's in clear view, his shotgun aimed right at my chest. I was about to open up from my fresh mag, but then realised he didn't shoot me as I slowly made my way to my feet. So I slowly stepped over and gave him morphine and bandaged him, apologising profusely for trying to murder him moments before. We spent the next hour or so together, gathering equipment to help us survive. Then he decided to head north while I stayed around waiting for a friend. He ran off into the forest, and I never saw him again. It gave me warm fuzzies.

The best.

Obviously this is only a suggestion for when melee weapons are better introduced, but I still think it's a fairly reasonable one. Basically as the title says, make melee weapons the 'main' group of weapons, those most commonly found and used. Not only would this add to the realism of the game (since when do you walk into a fire station and find assault rifles lying about, or climb onto the top of your local town hall to find a pistol), but it would also have an interesting effect on banditry and kill on sight. Making guns harder to find will make it a hell of a lot less likely to be up and shot while sneaking through the streets of a city. It's a lot more difficult to murder someone for the hell of it when you have to run up to them and get in range of their own melee weapon than it is to sit on a hill with an old bolt-action rifle. I don't mean get rid of firearms by any means, as they are a core part of the game (including the military weapons), it would just be interesting to shift the focus to melee--make guns a lot rarer, especially down south, and let people use wooden planks, knives etc. as their main defence against the infected and the living.

But... the beta signup thing is still going? Or do they just not give them out anymore. I lied through my teeth in the form (only ever played LoL, played Dota maybe once) and got a 'Congratulations!' email a few days later.

So am I to take this to mean that these 2 Dota 2 invites I have sitting in my Steam account are worth $30? Somehow I doubt something I filled out a form for and got for free a day or two later could be worth actual money.

He's not exactly making himself super clear Anton, but he says he wants to extend his camp-finding outside the border. As in, he wants to know if it's possible for other people to horde them out there, to know whether he should bother looking out there to find horded vehicles and camps.

Just gauging interest. Let me know if you'd like to be an actor for a Day Z film - was thinking of doing something fairly large for an early 'battle' with the infected in Chernogorsk or something, so would need a few more people than I have friends who play Day Z. This is completely tentative, nothing planned yet, just wanted to see if anybody would be interested. I live in Sydney, Australia, so my timezone is +10 GMT, but I'm fairly flexible with times and stuff. We'd just need everybody together at least once. Thanks guys!

Possibly one of the most frustrating experiences in my time in Day Z. Spawn in at my Skalisty Island camp (which has been thouroughly raided--thanks for putting something useful out here rocket, now it's swarming :( ), and then decide I may as well go check the chopper spawn. Miraculously, there's a Huey sitting there. Even more miraculously, everything is in the green except for fuel and instruments. I sit and wait for my friend to bring the scrap, a few jerry cans and a panel of windscreen glass. I kill two people defending my find (probably the kind gentlemen that repaired it in the first place), making their friends disappear. Just as my friend finishes the long swim to the island, the server goes down for an automatic restart. We wait, and jump back in the server. Run up to the helicopter--everything in the red, all the windows smashed, no fuel. GG Day Z, just as I thought I'd finally found something super exciting. 1:30am here, so fuck going to find all the stuff. At least I wasn't the one who repaired it in the first place.

Great guys, thanks. It's not gonna be very soon by any means, I've just gone back to uni and there'd be a lot of preliminary work. It would be on a private server running the straight Chernarus map (with zombies added in, which works if you revert to 1.7.2.3), so you wouldn't have to worry about dying. Won't go anywhere near the real Day Z simply because you can't zoom around without a HUD, and as such can't get any remotely reasonable shots for a proper film. I'll write your names down and PM you all if this ever happens! Thanks again.

If they were gonna have restarts in order to refresh spawns, you'd think they would do it a little bit more often than 4 hours.

Unless something has changed in recent patches (haven't played on night servers in a while, all the Aus ones seem to nearly be perma-day whenever I'm playing), shining a light onto someone has no effect on their visibility to zombies. Obviously it does for players, but the visibility indicators definitely do not go up when someone shines a torch (or car headlights) at you.

Zombies definitely don't see flashlights. Im guessing it's just something that's difficult to code. Having them be attracted to a separate object that is thrown must have been relatively easy.

Skalisty Island was to be the capital of my new Chernorussian Soiet Socialist Republic. Alas, a single helicopter spawn has ruined everything - my camp (not the one in this thread) of 6 tents with bunches of armaments stores for my future army have been looted 3 times in the last few days, and our entire naval fleet stolen. May not be surprising, but it lasted 3 weeks untouched before the heli spawn appeared.

Yeah Snaiper, I'd saved it a bunch of times prior to the restart. And I would assume the guys repairing it before me had saved it at some point during the repair too. No, it was ANZ4 (which makes the find even more special, since all of the Day Z players in Australia have 8 servers, ie 8 helicopters, to go around). But perhaps it's not so special if it just reappears there broken after each restart, which seems to be the case. I think he more meant that it's even worse when the admin did it on purpose. Which it totally is, at least I know there wasn't some guy sitting at a computer watching me fly away, guffawing as he presses his big red "server restart" button. On a side note, I usually never, ever kill people unless I absolutely have to. But I felt only a slight pang of guilt as I gunned the lightly armed guys down to defend 'my' chopper. I said "I'm really sorry" over direct as I fired my G17 into their cute little chests. I guess everybody has a price. Then I felt better as their friends Alt-F4d into oblivion so as not to face the wrath of one of the weakest pistols in the game.

I completely agree that bandits must exist, an it really does add to the tension of the game which is necessary. What I don't like is that, for all intents and purposes, literally everybody is a bandit, largely because everybody thinks everybody else is a bandit. Even one of my friends is inadvertently becoming one-he guns down everybody he sees more or less (unless I can convince him otherwise), convinced they're probably bandits. But as he does so he's also convinced he is definitely not a bandit. Only way to combat this is, if you dont consider yourself a bandit, don't shoot people. And somehow make all your friends do the same. Then the relatively few die hard bandits will still be a threat, but you don't have to be terrified of every person you see, whether they talk to you or not. Also, there's literally tonnes of things to do at 'end game'. Unfortunately the permanency is still buggy at the moment (tents vehicles etc.) which means long term goals are a little difficult to realise. Once they get this stuff sorted, prepare for the rise of the Chernorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, the first state in the New Soviet Union.

I was skirting around Stary heading north to meet a friend near Prud. Had stuck to the trees mostly, but there was a stretch of open ground that needed crossing. I was about 500m or so from Stary now so thought I had a pretty reasonable chance - I started running. Seconds later the air around me exploded into supersonic cracks as someone on the hill to my right opened up with what I assume was a LMG of some kind (God knows why, I had an AKM and a Czech backpack, not exactly leet loot, and was running away from the guy). I went for the trees, but halfway there he clipped my leg and I went down. Knowing I was gone I fired two mags wildly at the hill, waiting to die. It didn't happen. I didn't get any kills, so no idea what happened, but I managed to jab myself with some morphine and make it to the tree line. Kept running for the next few kilometres to be sure, but nothing. I'm still alive almost a week later, now about to starve to death because the game glitched my meat out of my backpack and suddenly the fields are empty of game. Ah well.

The AKM is basically an AK47. It's just the 'modern' version of the same weapon. And yeah, I wouldn't be worried, especially if those weapons already exist in the game. If you come across an AA-12 that would be a different story.

It's not an exploit by any means, but it is completely against the 'spirit' of the game (i.e. that it's not a game at all but a simulator). But in saying that, if it were 'real life', I'm not sure everybody would suddenly find themselves on the beach either. +1 for Mountain Dew not being a myth--one time I was in the red for drink during whichever patch it was that stopped food a drink spawning, and it was flashing away for a good ten minutes. Was convinced I was going to die. Suddenly, I come across a guy who takes a few shots at me but misses. I kill him, and all he had other than his weapon and ammo was a single can of Mountain Dew. God knows how long he'd been carrying that around, since the no food/drink patch had been out for a few days.