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US153 Oct. 7, 2012 00:01 PST (roughly) I spawned in Elektro, scanned the surrounding terrain for ~10minutes. Suddenly, without warning, I was apparently teleported about 1km North of Devil's Castle. In front of me was a standard cardboard medical box similar to what you would find in a hospital. Under me was a Backpack (Coyote). At this point I immediately disconnected from the server. [The elapsed time between teleport, me figuring out what just happened, and disconnecting was ~15seconds] 'NO MOMMY' was an actively connected player at the time of this incident, but I have no evidence to suggest anything. 'YOURLOSS' was also an actively connected player at the time of this incident. I admit that it is possible that 'NO MOMMY' and 'YOURLOSS' don't know eachother, aren't working together, aren't both using scripts, but the names aren't exactly subtle.

I like to think of the "hacked" weapons as being turbo-rare lewt. It's not like any weapon (read: literally any weapon you can name) is over-powered or gives the user some insane advantage, that user still is just as easy to be killed. And because I know some jerkoff is gonna be like "WHAT NO, AS50 TWS/L85 AWS ARE OP, THERMALS ARE OP, THEY JUST BREAK THE GAME, THEY MAKE WHOEVER IS USING IT A WALKING GOD". First, you're wrong, second, if you can't figure out how to adapt and overcome you're just bad. Thermal sights catch a lot of shit on these forums for being "OP", yeah ok, so they aid in the rapid acquisition of targets in high contrast to the terrain, big deal. Thermal sights have their cons as well and the cons greatly out-weigh the single pro.

Can you confirm it's a M4 Holo SD? Not a M4 Holo M203? If it really is a M4 Holo SD does it have the M203 launcher? I have a mk48 with 1xbelt(~50rds) 1xbelt(~70rds) 1xbelt(90rds) and 2xbelt(100rds), I might be interested in trading it for that M4 Holo SD if it really is SD lol. How many STANAG SD mags would you be including? Can I talk you out of some additional M9 SD mags? Edit: For clarification, no I don't care that it's hacked in, I wont get banned for using it.

Disconnecting to avoid death is an exploit regardless of how you try to rationalize it. In DayZ you have a single objective which is to survive. If you disconnect to avoid dying you are breaking the game. "but but, haxxorszz!" Just stop. If you're afraid to loose your gear you should just stop playing now.

hahahaha I giggled IRL.

Well, yeah. I mean, what else am I supposed to do? I desperately want to know how my weener stacks up to OP's.

My, what a fine dick measuring contest we have here! I've been sniping in Cherno/Elektro on my current life for weeks. I've yet to even take fire, let alone actually get tagged. Come find me, bro.

I'm sorry, but I absolutely must disagree with your rankings. You're grouping together three different categories of weapons. Anti-materiel rifles: 1. AS50 2. M107 Sniper rifles: 1. M24 2. CZ 550 [Note: Can use NVG while scoped in] Designated marksman rifles: (The ranking for these weapons are not set in stone, they very much depend on user preference) 1. SVD Dragunov 2. M21 (AKA the DMR) [Note: Can use NVG while scoped in] An anti-materiel rifle is NOT a sniper rifle. A DMR is NOT a sniper rifle. They are designed to fill distinctly different roles. I'm not saying you can't use an AS50 in place of a M24, but it still doesn't make the AS50 a sniper rifle, it's an anti-materiel rifle that is masquerading as a sniper rifle. There is a difference, and it is of paramount importance that that difference be respected. Ignore "effective range", it doesn't translate well in videogames. Use the weapon yourself, put rounds down-range, you'll figure out what targets you can effectively engage much better than just "well this weapon's 'effective range' is only 150m, guess that means it can't hit shit past 200m" which is a total load of shit. Also, DayZ doesn't seem to take into account projectile velocity when it does its damage calculations, so putting rounds on a target past the cartridges standard engagement range doesn't seem to make any difference. [Please! If I'm wrong about this I would love to know!]

A threat is a threat regardless of that particular threat's role or status. Obviously acquiring and neutralizing hostile snipers is the priority, but when there are no snipers to deal with I switch to engaging threats that are in proximity to my ground team.

It's not necessarily a waste of ammo, even if they don't have a weapon there is still the potential for them having something else that is useful. The only times I don't shoot an unarmed survivor (or, anyone really) is when I am also unarmed or if shooting them could give away my position to a larger threat. Weapons are exceedingly common and easy to find, just because they aren't a threat right now doesn't mean they still wont be in the next 30-60 seconds when they do find a weapon, as such I neutralize all contacts regardless of if they're armed or not because that is my job as overwatch/sniper support.

He's using an L85A2 AWS, this is a legit weapon. The L85's scope can be toggled between nightvision and thermal by pressing 'N' while scoped in.

DayZ is not a game. DayZ is not a simulation. DayZ is a social experiment, the sooner you realize this the sooner the rest of us can move on with our lives.

In DayZ you have a single objective and that objective is to survive. Regardless of how you try to rationalize disconnecting to avoid death you are exploiting and breaking the game. What's the point of playing if any chance you might die you just 'lolno' and hit the abort button? "But I had good shit!" That's nice. Death is frequent and quick in DayZ. Loot is equally easy to come by. I don't care when I die, I might be momentarily saddened at losing a nice weapon, but I get over it because I know I'm going to get all my shit back eventually. Sure, I'll be bummed for a few minutes when I finally get killed and lose my M107, NVG, GPS, and ghillie, but I make enough trips to the NWAF that I'm guaranteed to get everything back at some point. Also the M107 is pretty underwhelming. I mean, it's fun to shoot, but as a dedicated sniper support/OW weapon it severely lacks.

Note: I'm posting this for my friend because he has yet to receive his activation email. An outline of events as recanted to me by my friend: He respawned near Elektro and found a 1911 with a single magazine. As he's moving towards the outer-city firestation from the center of town he spotted zed aggro and then a guy in a ghillie engaging the zeds with a suppressed weapon. My friend killed the guy in the ghillie with his only mag of 1911 ammo. When he went to loot his kill he discovered the following: 2xNVG, 2xRangefinder, Backpack (coyote), 1xL85A2 AWS, 1xMK17 CCO SD. It is my understanding that the L85A2 AWS is legitimate, despite not being listed on the loot cheat sheet. Is the MK17 CCO SD a hacked weapon? It has an icon in-game, which I guess means it's legit, but we're still not sure.

Hot damn, thanks Ander! You wouldn't by chance have a coarse approximation of when we might see a release, would you? :)

Even without a heatmap it isn't hard to approximate player densities and movement patterns, the heatmap isn't going to change anything. We already know where the largest hot-spots are, Cherno/Elektro, Stary, and NW AF, those places are already crawling with 'pvpers' and a heatmap isn't going to change that. If 'everyone else' decides to avoid those places like the plague then so be it; their updated movement patterns/behaviors will change the player density map, as such the 'pvpers' will change their movement patterns/behaviors to respond in kind. That being said, if you're avoiding a suspected hotzone because of the chance you could get shot you might as well stop playing now.

INDIFFERENT I enjoy the gameplay that this change allows immediately after spawning. It's not impossible to survive, in fact it's very much the opposite. Yes, it does change player behavior and movement, I like this. But, at the same time I liked spawning with the Makarov. I could go either way, but I will say this, please make it so we don't spawn with the useless flashlight. I hate the flashlight so much I immediately drop my backpack when I respawn.

NO Louder heartbeats because you murdered people makes no sense. Subtle visual cues could work. ----------- Expanded feedback: DayZ has no rules, you have been adamant about that fact. Penalizing players for their actions (aside from exploiting or cheating) is absolutely silly, the proposed heartbeat indicator of low humanity is a penalty. I see no reason in the slightest that there needs to be any external indicators for discerning a players humanity. I also feel that it would be damaging to a players immersion, personally this doesn't bother me but other people might not like random heartbeat sounds in their "realistic" zombie shooter. I understand that this is a game and that certain creative liberties must be taken, but I do not feel this proposal has any place in DayZ. That all being said, if this does get implemented it really wont bother me, I'm certainly not going to stop playing this incredible game just because people will have a deafeningly loud heartbeat sound when they look at me, it's a silly change but I'll nut up and get over it.

This was done by two people, "Fuckthis" and "hdn". "Fuckthis" piloted the chopper(s) while "hdn" gunned. They killed the entire server simultaneously through the use of mortars. They then proceeded to spawn AH-64 attack choppers, they blew up the church and hospital in Elektro, they also made passes in Cherno but as I was in Elektro I do not know what they did while outside of my vision. Attached are multiple screenshots. These screenshots were taken by my friend who was in/around Cherno, I was unable to snatch any myself due to technical issues. Note: the screenshot in which "Fuckthis" and "hdn" were killed in, they died because they crashed into the destroyed church. It is possible that I shot them down with my Le Enfield. Additional screenshots be here

Server: US 78 Time: ~0115 PDT What: I died, there was no sound, I lost no blood. My bones broke and the next frame I was dead. My friend reported an explosion as being what killed me. Minutes later as I made my way back to my body the entire server was killed. Attached is a screenshot taken just after the server was killed.