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If I remember right, drinking anything puts you through the handcuff animation (water bottles, etc)

Are you saying that suiciding until you get a favorable spawn, abusing the games mechanics, isn't cheating? I bet you don't think the 300000 round magazine glitch is cheating either then, do you?

Keep hitting suicide until you respawn at the NWAF. Works for most cheaters players.

It's the nature of the playerbase. Working together isn't fun, unless you're working together to go kill other players. It's not like real ArmA, where you have BlUFOR vs OPFOR vs Independent vs Civilians; it's Everyone vs Everyone vs Zombies. DayZ is popular with children/adolescents. The only way for a survival game like this to actually be a survival game and not a sandbox PvP with zombies is if it wasn't mainstream. The only 2 options are, really, kill-or-be-killed or play on a private server that banhammers any kind of PvP. Both options are stupid. There can be no reward to helping other players that the game explicitly gives you, the same way that there's no reward the game explicitly gives you for killing other players. If you help someone, they may give you gear and watch your back, or they may shoot you and run away. It's a balance of fun, risk, and reward. Shooting other players is the least risky and you can have anything from their inventory you don't destroy in the process, but (for normal people) it's not as fun. If you help other players, it's fun and high-risk for little reward. That's the balance the game strikes; the more fun you want to have, the harder you have to try. It sucks; sometimes it's like squeezing blood from a rock, it really is. Between glitches and hackers, it seems like you should save the effort and just off every player you see; you gear up faster and you get shot less. KoSr's aren't bad people (usually); it's how they decided to play. It is bullshit to argue that if you help other players, the game should reward you with something. No. That's unfair. I'm not happy about it, but it's unfair to make the game give you something for not being an asshole.

From one of the spawns heading north, there's an inland town with a hospital and a lot of non-Cherno apartments. Not far from it is an under-construction building, great for gear, and few bits of food/drink will let you hit NWAF or the wrecked ship and its town and be back before sundown. Good play to hang out if you want an easy time killing players (there's not much to loot coming from any direction but NWAF, and there's zero cover in the north. A scope and enough ammo can lock down the hospital for a long time).

Good.

...have you ever had hit a human in the head with a wood-handled iron-headed hatchet you found in some poor farmer dude's shed before? It'd be amazing if the head of the axe was still on the stick after a week.

I didn't say it's wrong because it's wrong; it is wrong because it isn't right. If you're going to defend your cheating by calling circular logic incorrect, what's the point in even defining right and wrong? While it's an entirely subjective concept, I assume your caretakers were bright enough instill in you some form of ethics that marks cheating (in any form, even as "harmless" as getting an unfair advantage against legitimate players) as wrong, a code of ethics you are blatantly disregarding. Out of respect for decency, don't cheat.

There I fixed it for you, again.

Hardcore = yay! Daylight = disappointing

Or if the icon of the item made it more apparent how much room it took up? A combination of the two would be great.

3rd party applications are the cancer of survival games like DayZ. It has radios/walkie-talkies, you just don't start with them. If that's too difficulty, you're playing the wrong game.

It seems like performance and quality goes down with every update (shadows are sharper and laggier, clouds are flatter and laggier, stars are pointy and laggy...)

Fixed that for you

They already do. But it doesn't matter because 99% of the players in this game are assholes using TeamCheat or Skype anyway.

You and I? We're best friends now. You see the 4 inappropriate behavior points below my avatar? At least one of the, is from replying to every bullshit private hive advertisement on the forums. There used to be 20 a day... I actually kind of miss textually screaming noob at all of those 999999999999+ helicopter, start-with-whatever-gun-you-want, donator-privilege-giving, admin-hacking server owners.

If you don't mind 5FPS on all low settings, I fought off 2 people as a fresh spawn. Here I haven't recorded anything as funny as killing the hand cuffer.

I don't mean to derail your thread, but that reminds me of a funny story. I've only played DZ once in the last month, and that was to test the new weapon throwing mechanics. I had an FN45 and my melee weapon. I was sneaking through one of the towns I haven't learned the name of yet when some asshole shot at me. I ducked around a corner and mic'd, "C'mon man, all I've got is this axe. I'll drop it if you promise not to shoot me." He (lying, I assume) agreed, so I threw my axe around the corner into the street, where he picked it up. "I'm unarmed now. Can I please leave?" "Sure, but stay there for a second." I saw him pull out handcuffs. As soon as he turned the corner, I gave him two in the chest and took my fire axe back. It was fun. And then I got killed by a sliding zombie that was in its "Death" animation.

Your avatar + your post are a good combination. What happened to our previous resident Russian-native? The one that used emoticons after every sentence? He always had a textual bitch-slap response to stupid posts. I miss him :( His name is KoS. I was off the forums for like 2 months, but I still feel bad forgetting his username.

SKS vs MP5? As long as you didn't miss, sucks to be the other guy. Good thing you didn't desync during the fight!

When Survive the Nights beta starts, I'm going to get a generator as quickly as possible and fill it up just so I can turn the lights on/off for a few hours.

1. What did you "Smoke" him with without your MP5? 2. Probably a desync issue. A documented problem with the server-client architecture of ArmA's engine is that the client and the server often argue over what's happening. The server says something, and the client says something (with a few milliseconds of delay) and the server either says, "I agree" (if both messages are the same) or "I disagree, and I'm the server, fuck you" and, after a few more milliseconds, the client gets the message that it's wrong and has to do whatever the server said. This leads to rubber banding and actions being undone; the server "Wins" the argument but not until sometime after the argument starts.

Zombies/melee weapons don't work anymore. Read some of the recent changelogs/patch notes. A lot of players have stopped until the bug fixes speed up.

Is your keyboard broken? You seem to have trouble typing that correctly.

Fixed that for you. :)